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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
Obama captures Oregon, holds a majority of pledged delegates (Boston Globe): Senator Barack Obama last night passed a key, though symbolic, milestone in his historic quest for the White House - winning a majority of all pledged delegates at stake in primaries and caucuses - and declared himself "within reach" of the Democratic nomination. … The blue-collar vote "could be a real problem for him," said William Lunch, a senior political analyst at the University of Oregon. "We don't know fully how he'll respond to that. One answer to that may be encapsulated in the decisions he makes regarding the vice presidential nomination."
Biofuels vs. food crisis underscores need for new climate change strategy (Innovations Report, Germany, by Bob Doppelt): The EU wants biofuels to make up 10 percent of transport fuels by 2020, and whether or not this has caused the recent food crisis, it has already begun to reduce our capacity to prevent climate change. Rather than reducing greenhouse gas emissions, this approach is likely to make the problem worse, and the haste to grow the biofuels industry is merely the latest in a century long line of examples of the 'take-make-waste' thinking that produced global warming.
University taking steps to resolve housing issue (Oregon Daily Emerald): University Housing and the Office of Student Affairs are, through a combined effort, taking steps to accommodate the record number of students who have applied for on-campus housing next year - both within the residence halls and by reserving apartments for students that University Housing will not be able to accommodate in the residence halls in Stadium Park Apartments. Allen Gidley, Associate Director of University Housing, said that Housing will be able to accommodate all students who applied by the March 31 deadline and sent in their deposit and signed contract to University Housing by the May 15 deadline. The number of students who submitted paperwork by the priority deadlines, however, is still larger than in previous years, and Gidley suspects that the office will not be able to offer single rooms in the 2008-09 year.