UO E-clips, June 8-9

University of Oregon wrestlers sue to keep sport (Associated Press): University of Oregon wrestlers have gone to court to prevent the school from dropping the sport to make room for a baseball team. The suit filed last Friday in Marion County Circuit Court in Salem claims the plan to eliminate wrestling would violate state law and the Oregon Constitution. The complaint says the university was mistaken when it decided that federal requirements for gender equality in sports meant that it would have to drop wrestling if it wanted to add baseball, which is returning to the school after a 28-year absence. The wrestlers are seeking a preliminary injunction to keep the team in place until hearings can be held.

The end of hidden $1,500 fees (The Oregonian): Unless you're an 18-year-old honors student with a trust fund and a personal accountant, you may feel the deck for going to college is stacked against you. And you'd be right. This is why the overhaul of tuition and fees at Oregon's public universities, approved this month, is so important for the tens of thousands of people in Oregon now seeking a college degree. By eliminating some of the fine print, the new system is less risky for those who need to borrow money along the way. This is no small thing, given the lifelong consequences of racking up credit-card debt or defaulting on private loans.

Controversial holocaust speaker at UO tonight (Associated Press): Controversy is no stranger to British historian David Irving, who is scheduled to speak at University of Oregon tonight on the topic of "My Political Imprisonment in Modern Europe." Irving has become a symbol for freedom of speech in some quarters because of efforts to place limits on him in Canada, New Zealand and Austria, where he was imprisoned 14 months for making comments casting doubt on conventional historical accounts of the holocaust.

Oregon tuition to rise by modest amount (Associated Press, in the Argus Observer): Tuition at Oregon’s seven public universities will rise an average of 3.4 percent during the 2008-2009 school year, under rates approved Friday by the state Board of Higher Education. The state’s most expensive school will continue to be the University of Oregon in Eugene, where tuition and fees will come to $6,435. The cheapest will be Western Oregon University in Monmouth, where students have been guaranteed the same tuition for four years under a school wide initiative. Returning students at Western will pay $5,868, while new students will pay $5,982.

The Best and the Brightest (Oregonian, blog by Steve Duin): On Friday morning, I went to the senior awards assembly at Lake Oswego High School, where the school's top 16 academic students were honored. Three of the students -- Sam Peaslee, Galym Imanbayev and Dan Johnston -- are headed to Stanford. The two Presidential Scholars semifinalists, Max Ehrenfreund and Ashna Reddy, are both headed to Yale. Jeremy Rozansky is enlisting at the University of Chicago and Eun Jung Kim at Washington University in St. Louis. Becky Luetjen is going to Colorado College (on a full basketball ride) and Shailini Pandya to Scripps. Michael Lee is headed to Dartmouth, Jason Akahoshi to USC, Ingrid Ockert to Humboldt State and Shelley Chestler to Pomona. And of the three LO grads in the group who will continue their education in the Northwest, Alec White will enroll at Whitman, Gina Contolini at Gonzaga, Nick Stroud at Oregon State ... and despite that spanking new basketball arena, scheduled to open in the fall of their junior year, not a single one of the 16 at the University of Oregon. (Read it)