UO E-clips, July 12-14

UO football player dies after plunge into river (Register-Guard, with similar stories appears in numerous other publications): A University of Oregon football player, 19-year-old Todd Lamar Doxey, died Sunday after a swimming accident at Hayden Bridge. Doxey, a San Diego native, jumped into the McKenzie River from the Marcola Road bridge around 3:20 p.m. and began swimming across the current toward a boat ramp. However, witnesses said he began struggling and had difficulty keeping his head above water, according to the Lane County Sheriff's Office.

University responds to tragedy (KVAL.com): Todd Lamar Doxey, a student at the University of Oregon, died Sunday following a swimming accident on the McKenzie River. Doxey was a red-shirt freshmen on the University of Oregon football team last year. He had joined several of his teammates on Sunday afternoon to float down the McKenzie River. Most of the participants had started down the river in inner-tubes when Doxey apparently decided to jump off a nearby bridge.

UO gets $3 million in donations to fund study abroad programs (The Associated Press, appearing on KTVZ.com): The University of Oregon has received more than $3 million in donations to pay for study abroad programs. The money will also allow more international students to study in Eugene. The money is from three California residents, and will cover: Scholarships for international students from China, as well as study abroad programs in the country. A fund to encourage U of O students to become interns in developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. A study abroad scholarship for UO students majoring in international studies. Last year, more than 1,000 University of Oregon students did a study abroad program. Meanwhile, nearly 1200 international students are studying at the university.

State board boosts pay of Oregon university heads (Associated Press): Oregon public university presidents are getting a bump in pay, most of them 5 percent. At the top of the list is Dave Frohnmayer, who will earn $444,960 for his final year as president of the University of Oregon. Not far behind is President Ed Ray of Oregon State University, who will get $425,700 next year. The State Board of Higher Education met at Portland State University on Friday and approved the recommendations of Chancellor George Pernsteiner.

Default: The view behind the numbers (Bend Bulletin): When the Deschutes County Clerk's Office closed June 30, an ominous milestone was reached. Through the first half of the year, 788 notices of default -- a document initiating foreclosure proceedings -- were filed with the county. ... That doesn't surprise Tim Duy, an economist with the University of Oregon. Duy said delinquent borrowers caught up in the frenzy either bought too much house or were stuck with unrealistic loan terms that became inescapable as the market declined.

At the intersection of 18th and 21st (centuries, that is): a map of Rome (Register-Guard): Three years after wowing Internet audiences with an interactive map of Rome based on the work of an 18th century cartographer, a group that includes three University of Oregon researchers is back with an even more ambitious project. It builds upon their previous undertaking by adding the illustrations of one of Rome's great cityscape artists, Giuseppe Vasi, to the maps of Giambattista Nolli. The project, known as Vasi's Grand Tour of Rome, took two years of research and was funded by a $200,000 grant from the Getty Research Institute.