This University of Oregon student newspaper article analyzed the extent many businesses in Eugene, OR depended on an unpredictable campus population for survival. My graphic personified the article's conclusion as a small skinny business person barely clinging to the rocks along a narrow ledge of a rocky alpine climb, tethered to a rather large, heavy and overconfident university Sherpa unaware of the crumbling trail.

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Role: Graphics Editor

Setting: Oregon Daily Emerald, University of Oregon

Location: Eugene, Oregon

Year: 1981

Media: India ink on Clearprint drafting vellum