EUGENE, Ore. - “I triple-dog dare you!”
From that point on, basketball point guard Casey Benson didn’t have much choice. His 8 year-old partner, Finley, had challenged Benson to write his name backward. When Benson hesitated, Finley jumped on him with one of the ultimate playground taunts, the sinister “triple-dog dare.”
But unlike the famous scene from the classic film, “A Christmas Story,” this didn’t take place around a frozen flagpole at Warren G. Harding Elementary. Rather Benson and Finley were part of a unique collaboration between the academic and athletic sides of the University, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.