UO E-clips, April 9

Developments on Franklin will help create new 'gateway' to campus (Oregon Daily Emerald): The three-story glass building that will soon replace the athletic department's aging academic learning services center for student athletes will be a state of the art facility - brimming with at least two dozen committed staff and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of new computer equipment. And if you're not a varsity student athlete, you're not invited upstairs. Even though private academic services are already available to student athletes, the idea that a lavish new building is going up and only a handful of students have access to it is kicking up dust among some students and professors.

Adam and Eve were webfoots (The Oregonian): When 900 men, women and children wagoned their way west in 1843, pioneering what became known as the Oregon Trail, they were responding to a striking marketing campaign. Expansionist politicians -- most of whom had never set one foot west of the Alleghenies -- packaged Oregon as "The Land at Eden's Gate." This was not exactly the way Lewis and Clark had spoken of their rain-walloped, flea-infested, intestinally challenged Clatsop campsite. But the slogan may have been closer to the truth than anyone thought. Last week came word that Dennis Jenkins, an archaeologist at the University of Oregon, may have uncovered out there beyond the juniper belt south of Bend evidence of the oldest human presence in the Americas. (Read it)