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UO E-clips, Feb. 5

Top stories for February 5, 2008: UO among schools with offshore investments, reports the Oregon Daily Emerald; the student paper also notes that UO students to "chip in their two cents" this week at the Creating Change Conference on gay rights; and KVAL reports that entrepreneurs are launching businesses despite the economic downturn, quoting the UO's Dick Sloan

UO among schools with offshore investments (Daily Emerald): Another strong year of endowment investments by colleges across the nation caused federal legislators to take a closer look at how these non-profit institutions are making so much money. What they're finding is that many of these schools with huge endowments - such as the University of Oregon's more than $450 million - are making a portion of their investments in offshore fund structures. These offshore investments shelter the school from federal taxes that can be as high as 39 percent.

Students to chip in their two cents at gay rights conference (Daily Emerald): Activism on Facebook, arrest rates among transgender people and immigration may not have many things in common, except that all three will be discussed at the Creating Change Conference 2008 this week. Centered around building the grassroots power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, the National Lesbian and Gay Task Force organizes the annual conference - five days of workshops, lectures, networking and training sessions, and strategizing for taking action - for LGBT rights activists from all over the country. "(Creating Change is) a loose, general term for sparking change for a more progressive society, community and relationships, or anything to be more equal for LGBT individuals and their rights," said junior Jory Card, one of seven University students flying to Detroit Wednesday to participate.

Entrepreneurs launch businesses despite economic downturn (KVAL.com): Jane Kindberg left her teaching career behind--and opened her first business in November. Talk of a recession doesn't scare her. In fact, Kindger says it will help her store, Zida Fashion Acsessories, because every item they sell is $29.95 or less. … Dick Sloan, the Undergraduate Coordinator of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Oregon, says they're right not to worry.

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Campus Magazines:

Oregon Quarterly

Cascade (CAS)

Newspapers:
Daily Emerald (UO students)
Register-Guard
Eugene Weekly
The Oregonian

Campus Radio:
a) Eugene's Classical
KWAX (99.1 FM)
b) Student Run
KWVA (88.1 FM)

TV Stations:
KEZI, Channel 9 (ABC)
KVAL, Channel 13 (CBS)
KMTR, Channel 16 (NBC)
KPTV (FOX-12, Portland)
 
Public TV, Radio:
Oregon Public Broadcasting
NPR (LCC, 89.7 FM)
KOPB (1600 AM)

News/Talks Radio:
KUGN (590 AM): UO Sports
KPNW (1120 AM)

UO Alumni News

1) Keep up on alumni news with the official e-newsletter of the UO Alumni Association.

2) Alumni in Portland have their own newsletter: See PDX Ducks.

 
Projected Rogue River Basin climate impacts described in six UO videos

Bob Doppelt in 2008 Roger Hamilton in 2008

Bob Doppelt and Roger Hamilton of the UO Climate Leadership Initiative went on video to talk about the recently released report featuring climate-change projections for Oregon's Rogue River Basin. Visit our VIDEO PAGE where -- in six videos -- Doppelt talks separately about planning and policy implications, and Hamilton speaks on overall impacts facing the basin, how agriculture, particularly pinot noir production, may be threatened, what may happen to the region's vegetation, and how salmon may be affected.

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