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UO E-clips, Jan. 26-28

Top stories for January 26-28, 2008: The Oregon Daily Emerald, in an opinion piece, says the "Pit Crew" at at McArthur Court needs to clean up its act after its verbal attack against UCLA's Kevin Love; also, in an editorial, the Register-Guard responds the UO's plan to build a new baseball stadium and possibly forego playing ball at Civic Stadium; war veterans perform in story of their lives, reports the Register-Guard about an original play the veterans are preparing in a class at the UO

Pit Crew needs to clean up its in-game act (Oregon Daily Emerald): I had such high hopes for this past basketball week. The L.A. schools were visiting, including the much-anticipated return of Kevin Love, and I was sure I'd see something new and clever from the Pit Crew that would put a smile on my face. I couldn't have been more wrong. What transpired Thursday night at McArthur Court was an embarrassment for anyone associated with the University of Oregon. To think that our liberal arts, progressively minded (at least some of us are) school would start chanting that homophobic, hate-inspired sexual slur, well, it proves that our esteemed University just took a back seat to sports-fueled machismo in order to - what exactly?

Civic's winter (Register-Guard editorial): In the midst of a cold snap that has Eugene residents fishing in closets for stocking caps and gloves, it’s hard to remember the warm, timeless pleasures of a summer night at Civic Stadium. … Earlier this month, the University of Oregon filed paperwork with the city for a plan to build a 5,000-seat stadium in the parking lot at Autzen Stadium. While the UO has not yet made a firm commitment to the site, the move, along with earlier comments by UO Athletic Director Pat Kilkenny, make it clear that the Ducks’ rejuvenated baseball program will not be playing at Civic.

Veterans perform in story of their lives (Register-Guard): It started several months ago as a group of military veterans getting together to tell tales and bare their souls. It has evolved into … well, a group of military veterans getting together to tell tales and bare their souls. They call it “Telling,” and it is part stage performance, part group therapy. “Their faculty adviser began to listen to their stories and said, ‘There’s something here, these guys hanging out and telling their stories,’ ” director John Schmor said Saturday, following a third live rehearsal of the play that is based on those stories, confessions and insights. The cast is 10 members of the Veterans and Family Student Association at the University of Oregon. Eight are students. Eight are military veterans. Three have served in Iraq. One is former Air Force, one Army and three each Navy and Marine.

UO physicist Dave Soper to share a top 2009 APS prize

UO physics professor Dave Soper is a 2009 winner of the J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Physics. He will share the prize with John Collins (Penn State) and Keith Ellis (Fermilab) when presented formally in May during the American Physical Society's annual meeting in Denver. Soper was cited for his "work in perturbative quantum chromodynamics, including applications to problems pivotal to the interpretation of high-energy particle collisions." Quantum chromodynamics is a theory of strong nuclear interactions among quarks -- fundamental constituents of matter.

The prize honors J.J. Sakarai, a Japanese-American particle physicist who authored leading textbooks on quantum mechanics and the principles of elementary particles during a career at the University of Chicago and UCLA. This year's winners bring the total number of honorees to 36, including three who later won the Nobel Prize.

3 UO faculty are finalists for Oregon Book Awards

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From left to right, UO professors Lauren Kessler (journalism), Steven Bender (law) and Ehud Havazelet (creative writing) are finalists for the 2008 Oregon Book Awards. Winners will be announced on Sunday, Nov. 9, at the Portland Art Museum.

Media Links

Campus Magazines:

Oregon Quarterly

Cascade (CAS)

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

Campus Radio:
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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)
 
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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.

 
Investors worried, tuned into news reports, UO psychologists tell Wall Street Journal writer

Paul Slovic mug shot    Two with University of Oregon ties named to new FDA risk advisory panel

Since 2001, investors’ comfort zone with their stocks has nose-dived from little worry about negative returns to growing worry about their stocks going nowhere for maybe a decade, reports UO psychologist Paul Slovic in an interview with Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig about today’s economy. In same article, UO psychologist Ellen Peters notes that American investors are spending a lot of time following, especially on TV news, the economic turmoil. Zweig’s column, however, carries the message that those who have some cash and can conquer their stock-phobia may be a good position, likening their potential investments to a venture in emerging markets. (Read story – may require paid subscription)

Sense of entitlement? Not in faces at military base, writes UO's Tom Bivins

Tom Bivins UO journalism professor Tom Bivins, sipping coffee and watching youthful faces at San Antonio's Fort Sam Houston, says the often-discussed "sense of entitlement" thought to exist in today's college-aged students was absent among like-aged faces wearing U.S. Army uniforms. His comments appear in a commentary in The Oregonian. (Read it)

UO spinoff MitoSciences collects 2008 Emerald Award for Innovation

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The biotechnology company MitoSciences Inc., a technological spinoff founded in 2003 by University of Oregon scientists Roderick Capaldi and Michael Marusich, captured the Eugene Chamber of Commerce's 2008 Emerald Award for Innovation on Sept. 24. The company was among four winners of Emerald Awards.

For full details of the chamber's fifth-annual event, read the story in the Register-Guard.

UO ranks high in two national college guides

Princeton Review logoThe University of Oregon is one of 11 colleges that received a Green Rating of 99 (the highest score) in The Princeton Review’s “Green Honor Roll.” The news received national attention from the CBS Early Show, ABC World News with Charles Gibson, and other national and local media.

Fiske Guide 2009 The UO is also included in the 2009 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges as a Best Buy school. From the guide: "UO may be the best deal in public higher education on the West Coast."

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