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UO E-clips, Feb. 7
Top stories for February 7, 2008: student allocation committee looking at building project priorities, the Oregon Daily Emerald reports; climate change solutions aren't obvious, the UO's Bob Doppelt writes in a Register-Guard guest commentary; and PC World and ComputerWorld report on the eruption of a fight over RIAA efforts to nab music pirates (the UO's stand is noted)
Allocation committee to budget $4.1 million (Daily Emerald: Eight students and one University staff member will determine how to spend more than $4.1 million on building projects in the coming months as the Student Building Fee Allocation Committee prioritizes projects from around campus. The committee will meet for the first time in an orientation session Thursday morning. At least two more meetings are expected to hear 14 project proposals.
Climate change solutions aren't obvious (Register-Guard): Guest Column by Bob Doppelt, director of resource innovation and the Climate Leadership Initiative at the UO - this is the latest in his series of R-G columns on climate change (Last Thursday, local governments, utilities, and academic programs from throughout the Eugene-Springfield area described their efforts to address global warming at the first-ever Climate Summit at the University of Oregon. The list of activities was impressive.
Fight erupts over RIAA efforts to nab music pirates (ComputerWorld, PCWorld): The pending case involves Arista Records LLC and 17 students at the University of Oregon. That state's Attorney General in November filed an appeal in U.S. District Court in Oregon calling for an immediate probe of the evidence presented by the RIAA when it subpoenaed the identities of 17 students at the University of Oregon for allegedly infringing music copyrights. In a 15-page brief, Oregon's assistant attorney general, Katherine Von Ter Stegge, questioned the tactics used by the RIAA's investigators in gathering evidence against those suspected of illegal file-sharing.