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May 2008
Up one level- UO E-clips, May 1
- Top stories for May 1, 2008: UO president understands Oregonians' values, needs, writes Dick Hughes in a column in today's Statesman Journal; The Oregonian says Frohnmayer brought growth to UO athletics; and the UO is seeking permission from the state to build underground parking next to the proposed arena, reports the Register-Guard
- UO E-clips, May 2
- Top stories for May 2, 2008: Hey coach, put that Costner guy in centerfield -- the Register-Guard reports today that actor Kevin Costner is a friend of the UO baseball coach and may bring his band Modern West to town to promote baseball's return; the LTD will be the sole provider for Eugene 08, reports the R-G; oh Holy Cow at the EMU and "Dem Dry Bones" are part of an R-G guest viewpoint; Schnitzer art museum names new executive director, reports the Oregon Daily Emerald and Register-Guard; second review for International Affairs released, reports the Oregon Daily Emerald
- UO E-clips, May 3-5
- Top stories for May 3-5, 2008: Sunday’s Oregonian and Register-Guard gave extensive coverage to the relationship between the UO and Phil Knight; today’s Oregon Daily Emerald looked at the UO impacts of the Olympic trials; the Register-Guard quotes the UO’s Jonathan Richter in a story about having an alter ego in an Internet virtual world; the UO’s Jim Isenberg writes about recently deceased physicist John Wheeler in an R-G guest viewpoint; offsets have a place in carbon control efforts, writes Bob Doppelt in another guest viewpoint by the UO’s Bob Doppelt; and a UO museum gets $1 million for traveling shows, reports the Associated Press
- UO E-clips, May 6
- Top stories for May 6, 2008: the New York Post gets into the act, covering the philanthropy of Nike founder Phil Knight; academic reform in sports to be closely monitored, reports the Washington Post with comments from the UO's Nathan Tublitz; yes, Kevin Costner is coming, with his band, to boost the return of UO baseball, the Register-Guard reports; the Associated Press reports on UO President Dave Frohnmayer's call to release withheld funds for faculty/staff pay raises; and the numbers are mixed and don't yet cry 'recession' says the UO's Tim Duy in a Register-Guard story
- UO E-clips, May 7
- Top stories for May 7, 2008: ArtDaily.org reports on the hiring of Jill Hartz as executive director of the UO's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; Eugene 08 will mean "road closed" and "detour" signs, reports KEZI-TV; Portland's KGW reports on Kevin Costner and band coming to Eugene to promote Ducks baseball; and a guest commentary in the Oregon Daily Emerald says that current UO policies ignore what made the campus progressive
- UO E-clips, May 8
- Top stories for May 8, 2008: 'The green campus' is the topic as the Chronicle of Higher Education discusses work by the UO’s Karyn Kaplan; Costner to play UO baseball benefit, the AP reports; 33 years after his death, distance runner Steve Prefontaine is still an inspiration to kids, reports the Register-Guard
- UO E-clips, May 9
- Top stories for May 9, 2008: State changes arena bonds to taxable, boosting UO’s costs by millions, both the Register-Guard and Oregonian report; 14,000-year-old camp studied in Chile, and UO’s Jon Erlandson’s says the findings by Thomas Dillehay are convincing, reports the San Francisco Chronicle
- UO E-clips, May 10-12
- Top stories for May 10-12, 2008: a Sunday Register-Guard editorial says the state made the right call on the UO arena bonds; UO's hiring practices regarding non-minority faculty members is under Department of Justice investigation, the Daily Emerald reports; Frohnmayer's presidential compensation ranks high in national surveys, the Register-Guard reports; Obama’s 'winning smile and words make real crowd pleaser', according to the Register-Guard
- UO E-clips, May 13
- Top stories for May 13, 2008: Falling housing prices may spark higher rents, reports the Daily Journal of Commerce, with quotes from the UO's Tim Duy; new UO arena plus new UO baseball park means less parking space, according to The Oregonian; nothing missing but break-ins in UO labs raises question of why, according to the Daily Emerald
- UO E-clips, May 14
- Top stories for May 14, 2008: UO communications professor Stephen Ponder is quoted today in a Seattle Post-Intelligencer story that looks at how Barack Obama has lured young people into the presidential race; and the Daily Emerald reports on how the sounds of work at the new arena site is not falling on deaf ears
- UO E-clips, May 15
- Top stories for May 15, 2008: Obama doing well in the land of 'O' says the Associated Press; Obama's stroll at UO track event draws LA Times coverage; and, speaking of track: Eugene '08 has organizers thinking green, reports the Register-Guard
- UO E-clips, May 16
- Top stories for May 16, 2008: Olympic trials becoming an "S" word (sustainability), says a Register-Guard editorial; UO career center facing questions of where and when, reports the Daily Emerald; and the Register-Guard writes a happy birthday story about the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
- UO E-clips, May 17-19
- Top stories for May 17-19, 2008: Today's New York Times quotes UO political scientist Joseph Lowndes in a story titled ' A shift in voters, but Oregon still embraces the unconventional'; in 'Coming to a marketer near you: Brain Scanning,' the San Francisco Chronicle quotes UO historian Daniel Pope; Science Daily uses a National Science Foundation news release on the address by the UO's Paul Slovic at a genocide conference in Poland; the Louisville (Ken.) Courier-Journal uses an LA Times story about the DNA-in-poop findings by the UO's Dennis Jenkins; and the UO's Bob Doppelt continues his Register-Guard commentaries on climate change by discussing April's late snow storm; The Oregonian carries the Associated Press story on how UO President Dave Frohnmayer's salary ranks in a national survey; and the Register-Guard reports on the 100th birthday of the UO's first sorority, the Nu chapter of Gamma Phi Beta
- UO E-clips, May 20
- News stories for May 20, 2008: Plans for high-rise apartments near campus drop in size, reports the Register-Guard; the hunt is on for someone to replace the UO's president, reports the Oregon Daily Emerald; Discover Magazine features the UO's Jon Erlandson in a story titled 'Did humans colonize the world by boat?'; and the Register-Guard drums up good vibrations in a story about a new exercise program, quoting Jason Hand, a UO master’s candidate in human physiology
- Archaeologists “step in” an ancient discovery
- UO E-clips, May 21
- Top stories for May 21, 2008: The Boston Globe quotes UO political scientist William Lynch in its coverage of Obama's winning of the Oregon primary; the UO's Bob Doppelt writes about biofuels vs. food crisis in a column picked up by Germany's Innovations Report; and the UO taking steps to resolve housing issue that awaits fall's incoming record numbers, reports the Oregon Daily Emerald
- UO E-clips, May 22
- Top stories for May 22, 2008: 'No vacancies at UO dorms' is the headline on a Associated Press story appearing today in The Oregonian (KVAL-TV also covers the story); university faculty salaries lagging behind, reports the Oregon Daily Emerald; UO archaeologists dig at Springfield construction site, the Register-Guard reports; and Tim Gleason of the UO's School of Journalism and Communications writes in the Register-Guard about awards that recognize journalists who did the right thing