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UO E-clips, Dec. 29-Jan. 2

Top stories for December 29, 2007 - January 2, 2008: The Portland Business Journal is the first to report on the UO's PathwayOregon news release today about free education for poorer students; the Chicago Tribune quotes Paul Swangard of UO's Warsaw Sports Marketing in a story about Fox Television's big score with college football bowl coverage; UO building projects top '07 list, reported the Eugene Register-Guard on New Year's Day; a New York Times' columnist praises the UO in a Monday article titled 'In the fight over piracy, a rare stand for privacy'; and 'It's a fowl job, yes, but they love to do it,' reports Register-Guard in a story (quoting the UO's Dan Gleason, biologist) on the annual Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count

UO offers free education for poorer students (Portland Business Journal): Some lower-income Oregonians can attend the University of Oregon for free, beginning next fall. University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer on Wednesday announced details of PathwayOregon, which guarantees that qualified Oregonians from lower-income families can attend the university tuition- free by covering any remaining tuition costs not picked up by federal and state financial aid. PathwayOregon is the first pledge of its kind at a public university in Oregon.

Media rights a big score for Fox (Chicago Tribune): No matter that Florida breezed past Ohio State, 41-14, in last year's Bowl Championship Series title game. The number that mattered to Fox Sports and its national advertisers and bowl sponsors was 27.7 million -- the viewers who tuned in and gave Fox its strongest Monday night showing in years. … The BCS games provide what Paul Swangard, managing director of the University of Oregon's Warsaw Sports Marketing Institute, describes as "their own mini-Super Bowl platform. It's an overarching media platform that didn't exist before, and it has the potential to generate incremental dollars that people 10 years ago never could have dreamed would exist."

UO building projects top '07 list (Register-Guard): The University of Oregon was the big spender in terms of building permit applications in the city of Eugene during 2007, logging slightly more than $43 million in projects valued at $500,000 or more. That sum included the most expensive project undertaken in the city, a new complex for the UO’s college of education. The value of that building permit alone came to a shade under $23 million. The site work alone for that project, priced at an additional $6 million, ranked fourth in size of all building permits issued in the city last year.

In the fight over piracy, a rare stand for privacy (The New York Times): The record industry got a surprise when it subpoenaed the University of Oregon in September, asking it to identify 17 students who had made available songs from Journey, the Cars, Dire Straits, Sting and Madonna on a file-sharing network. The surprise was not that 20-year-olds listen to Sting. It was that the university fought back. Represented by the state’s attorney general, Hardy Myers, the university filed a blistering motion to quash the subpoena, accusing the industry of misleading the judge, violating student privacy laws and engaging in questionable investigative practices. Cary Sherman, the president of the Recording Industry Association of America, said the industry had seen “a lot of crazy stuff” filed in response to its lawsuits and subpoenas.

It's a fowl job, yes, but they love to do it (Register-Guard): This count really is for the birds. And the stout-of-heart. Braving brusque winds, sprinkling rain and a smattering of snow, about 200 birding enthusiasts fanned out Sunday for the Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count, tallying just how many black phoebes, widgeons and even crows call Eugene home for the holidays. The 107-year-old event stems from a previous holiday tradition where people would go out and try and shoot as many birds as they can, said Dan Gleason, a retired University of Oregon biology professor who has been part of the annual count since 1971.

Media Links

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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