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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
A sustainable Trials (Register-Guard, editorial): The “S” word has become common currency in Eugene. The word is so frequently used these days that a lot of folks can’t help but roll their eyes when they hear it. We’re talking about sustainability, of course -- the catch-all environmental term that refers, as Wikipedia so colorfully puts it, to “a characteristic of a process or state that can be maintained at a certain level indefinitely.” So it’s understandable that this week’s announcement by organizers of the upcoming U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials that they will attempt an unprecedented a level of sustainability for the Trials probably didn’t generate much excitement in some households.
Career Center searching for space, funds for move (Oregon Daily Emerald): The future of the Career Center, currently located in Hendricks Hall, remains uncertain as the University decides when it will be moved to a different location and where that location will be. Since last spring, the University planned to build new Career Center offices in the proposed Alumni Center, which is still in planning. But the scope of the Alumni Center project has grown too large, so the University decided to exclude the Career Center from the plans, said Robin Holmes, vice president of Student Affairs. University spokesman Phil Weiler said the University has been trying to find a way of incorporating the Career Center into the Alumni Center facility since they began creating it.
UO art museum to celebrate its 75th birthday (Register-Guard): The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art turns 75 this year. In people years, that would make the University of Oregon’s art museum a senior citizen. But in museum years, the Schnitzer is just reaching maturity. The last five years have marked a real coming of age for the museum, which opened on June 10, 1933, as a private study center to house the collection of art and other objects brought back from Asia by Gertrude Bass Warner. The museum reopened in 2005 after a four-year remodeling, which created new gallery space, updated its storage and modernized its climate control system.