UO E-clips, June 13

The Other Side of the Tracks, the Other Side of the Story (Oregonian, online blog by Steve Duin): In several recent blog entries, I've focused on some of the students who AREN'T going to the University of Oregon. Now, here are a few words from a young woman who did, and whose life was forever changed as a result. Her name is Candee Mottweiler, and she is graduating Friday night from UO with a degree in psychology. (Read Steve Duin's blog)

Stagnation and inflation box in Fed: Public expectations can make inflation hard to contain (Christian Science Monitor): The global threat called stagflation has grown in recent weeks and is putting the Federal Reserve in a box. Ordinarily, America's central bank likes to set interest rates based on conditions at home. But conditions "at home" -- including the Fed's own monetary policy -- are increasingly tied to global trends. ... "The important thing to recognize is that we are more interconnected financially with the rest of the world," says Tim Duy, an economist at the University of Oregon in Eugene. "The expectation ... was that oil prices were going to go down" as the US economy slowed, but that didn't happen, he says.

UO provost to depart (The Oregonian): Linda Brady, the No. 2 leader at the University of Oregon, is leaving this summer to become chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. James Bean, dean of the university's Lundquist College of Business since 2004, was immediately tapped by President Dave Frohnmayer to serve as interim provost for the next two years, UO officials said. (Similar stories were reported in the Register-Guard, numerous news outlets in North Carolina and in higher education publications.)