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Oregon "In the News"
Up one levelE-clips provide a snapshot of media coverage of the University of Oregon. Each day’s edition (Monday-Friday) is compiled by the Office of Public and Media Relations using a variety of search engines of online news sources or other reports. Our daily edition of E-clips, including full stories, is distributed by email to members of the UO community who subscribe to the service. (See below for how to subscribe to your campus address.)
Below you will find a brief summary of the day's top story or stories chosen from the each day's full E-clips.The summaries do not include the full stories because of the often short life of media URLs and copyright considerations. (Monday's E-clips each week includes stories from the weekend.)
UO E-clips, May 9
Top stories for May 9, 2008: State changes arena bonds to taxable, boosting UO’s costs by millions, both the Register-Guard and Oregonian report; 14,000-year-old camp studied in Chile, and UO’s Jon Erlandson’s says the findings by Thomas Dillehay are convincing, reports the San Francisco Chronicle
UO E-clips, May 8
Top stories for May 8, 2008: 'The green campus' is the topic as the Chronicle of Higher Education discusses work by the UO’s Karyn Kaplan; Costner to play UO baseball benefit, the AP reports; 33 years after his death, distance runner Steve Prefontaine is still an inspiration to kids, reports the Register-Guard
UO E-clips, May 7
Top stories for May 7, 2008: ArtDaily.org reports on the hiring of Jill Hartz as executive director of the UO's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; Eugene 08 will mean "road closed" and "detour" signs, reports KEZI-TV; Portland's KGW reports on Kevin Costner and band coming to Eugene to promote Ducks baseball; and a guest commentary in the Oregon Daily Emerald says that current UO policies ignore what made the campus progressive
UO E-clips, May 6
Top stories for May 6, 2008: the New York Post gets into the act, covering the philanthropy of Nike founder Phil Knight; academic reform in sports to be closely monitored, reports the Washington Post with comments from the UO's Nathan Tublitz; yes, Kevin Costner is coming, with his band, to boost the return of UO baseball, the Register-Guard reports; the Associated Press reports on UO President Dave Frohnmayer's call to release withheld funds for faculty/staff pay raises; and the numbers are mixed and don't yet cry 'recession' says the UO's Tim Duy in a Register-Guard story
UO E-clips, May 3-5
Top stories for May 3-5, 2008: Sunday’s Oregonian and Register-Guard gave extensive coverage to the relationship between the UO and Phil Knight; today’s Oregon Daily Emerald looked at the UO impacts of the Olympic trials; the Register-Guard quotes the UO’s Jonathan Richter in a story about having an alter ego in an Internet virtual world; the UO’s Jim Isenberg writes about recently deceased physicist John Wheeler in an R-G guest viewpoint; offsets have a place in carbon control efforts, writes Bob Doppelt in another guest viewpoint by the UO’s Bob Doppelt; and a UO museum gets $1 million for traveling shows, reports the Associated Press
UO E-clips, May 2
Top stories for May 2, 2008: Hey coach, put that Costner guy in centerfield -- the Register-Guard reports today that actor Kevin Costner is a friend of the UO baseball coach and may bring his band Modern West to town to promote baseball's return; the LTD will be the sole provider for Eugene 08, reports the R-G; oh Holy Cow at the EMU and "Dem Dry Bones" are part of an R-G guest viewpoint; Schnitzer art museum names new executive director, reports the Oregon Daily Emerald and Register-Guard; second review for International Affairs released, reports the Oregon Daily Emerald
UO E-clips, May 1
Top stories for May 1, 2008: UO president understands Oregonians' values, needs, writes Dick Hughes in a column in today's Statesman Journal; The Oregonian says Frohnmayer brought growth to UO athletics; and the UO is seeking permission from the state to build underground parking next to the proposed arena, reports the Register-Guard
UO E-clips, April 29-30
Top stories for April 29-30, 2008: Frohnmayer to retire, bow out, move on, etc., say the headlines of coverage of Tuesday's announcement by the UO president by the Associated Press, Oregonian, Register-Guard, Daily Emerald and multiple other media outlets; Holy Cow won't moo-ve on, says the Register-Guard; UO panel to offer ideas for reuse of Mac Court, reports the Register-Guard and the Portland Business Journal; with federal tax money returns to Americans, the government recommends a spending spree, according to the Register-Guard with comment from the UO's Tim Duy
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