Document Actions
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
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art names Jill Hartz as Executive Director -- ArtDaily.org (An art museum expert with more than 20 years of experience acquiring major collections, working collaboratively with faculty and students and increasing endowments has been selected as the new executive director at the University of Oregonʹs Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA).Jill Hartz brings extensive museum experience to JSMA, the largest museum between Portland and San Francisco. She assumes her new role in August.
Prepare for detours and closed roads for Eugene 08 (KEZI): Routes around the University of Oregon will look a lot different when the "Eugene 08" Olympic trials come to Eugene this summer. Those who have been working to organize parking and shuttle services are encouraging anyone who's going to the event not to drive there. Beginning about the first week of June the city will start putting up signs and closing roads. Here is what you can expect: Agate street from Franklin to 19th, will be closed to almost all cars and 18th from Agate to University to all "credentialed" vehicles. There will be detours at 19th and Villard. Shuttles will pick up spectators at South Eugene High School and Autzen stadium.
Kevin Costner pitches in to help UO Ducks baseball (KGW, Portland): The University of Oregon is getting some Hollywood help for its rejuvenated baseball program. Kevin Costner and his band Modern West will put on two benefit concerts to help build a new ballpark. Tickets go on sale Wednesday for the May 30 and 31 shows at Eugene's Hult Center. The school needs to raise $20 million for the program.
University's current policies ignoring what made it progressive (Oregon Daily Emerald, guest commentary): The University of Oregon has been found guilty of violating all the advances in education won from the 1960s. In the 1960s the Free University was founded. The idea behind it was that Universities do not have a monopoly on education. Education is ingrained in the very fabric of life. There are great lessons on unknown subjects, guiding principles, practical and constructive guidelines, and wisdom that can rescue your love life as well as your spiritual life. Unique ideas came out of it. Not only time honored subjects were taught, like ballet, but also practical considerations, like how to smoke tobacco without harm, how to swim and how to float (how to invent your own floats), martial arts, tai-chi, as well as new advances in religion, philosophy and the humanities.