UO E-clips, Jan. 23

Civil War to conflict with Dead Week (Oregon Daily Emerald): The 2009 Civil War football game will take place Thursday of Dead Week fall term, marking the Ducks' first home Thursday night game since 1997. The game will bring the athletic department $1.5 million through a contract with ABC, President Dave Frohnmayer recently told the University Senate, and will air on ESPN. The game will "not only showcase our football program as well as an in-state rivalry that I feel is overlooked on the national scene, but will provide unprecedented exposure for the University of Oregon," Athletic Director Pat Kilkenny said in a statement.

Does stimulus stimulate? (Forbes.com): In a few weeks, Congress will likely enact the largest fiscal stimulus legislation in history.…Other reputable economists have criticized this position as being no different from the pre-Keynesian view that helped make the Great Depression so long and deep. Paul Krugman of Princeton, Brad DeLong of the University of California at Berkeley and Mark Thoma of the University of Oregon have been outspoken in their belief that theory and experience show that government spending can expand the economy under conditions such as we are experiencing today.

New center at Stanford to study brain's role in compassion, altruism (Medical News Today): A new Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education has been launched at the Stanford University School of Medicine, with the aim of doing scientific research on the neural underpinnings of these thoughts and feelings. … He also connected with University of Oregon neuroeconomist Bill Harbaugh, PhD, who examines altruistic giving using functional magnetic resonance imaging.