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UO E-clips, Dec. 27
Top stories for December 27, 2007: The UO's Garrett Epps is prominently quoted in a Washington Post story titled 'Wisdom from the founding rationalists'; and there is continuing coverage, today by the Associated Press, on the arrest and indictment of a violinist (and UO grad student) wire and mail fraud charges
Wisdom from the founding rationalists (Washington Post): A bracing text for this Christmas week is the famous correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Their letters are a reminder that the Founders were men of the Enlightenment -- supreme rationalists who would have found the religiosity of much of our modern political life quite abhorrent. … Many of the Founders liked to speak of the "God of Nature," notes Garrett Epps, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Oregon.
Violinist arrested after allegedly bilking instrument dealers (Associated Press): A violinist accused of bilking instrument collectors was arrested after performing Beethoven's Symphony Number 5 in a Eugene concert hall. Joseph Tang is charged in U.S. District Court in San Francisco with two counts of wire fraud and eight counts of mail fraud. The arrest was made last month, but only recently made public. The 28-year-old suspect was enrolled as a graduate student at the University of Oregon. Authorities say he sold merchandise without paying the owner, lied about receiving instruments shipped to him, and sold different instruments than promised.