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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
Computer rail reading: 'The green campus' (Chronicle of Higher Education): The Green Campus: Meeting the Challenge of Environmental Sustainability opens on a light note, despite the throwing-down-the-gauntlet subtitle of the book. What you encounter first is a cartoon by Tom Toles, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist from The Buffalo News and The Washington Post, and it depicts a billboard that reads "Honk if you love the environment." It sits next to a jammed highway, full of honking cars. ... Karyn Kaplan writes about her work as the recycling coordinator at the University of Oregon.
Costner to play UO baseball benefit (Associated Press, on KPIC News, Roseburg): The Hult Center says Kevin Costner and his band Modern West will do benefit shows for the University of Oregon's baseball program May 30-31. Costner has done such baseball films as ``For Love of the Game,'' ``Field of Dreams'' and ``Bull Durham.'' He is a friend of the university's new baseball coach, George Horton. Proceeds are to go toward a university Baseball Equity Fund and a new baseball stadium. The family-friendly concerts are scheduled at the Hult Center's Silva Concert Hall, with tickets starting at $25 and ranging to $70.
Kids stuff (Register-Guard): Distance runner Steve Prefontaine, who inspired so many people in life, continues to inspire 33 years after his death. High school runners, whose parents were Pre's contemporaries and even younger, watch the two movies about the bold, brash former University of Oregon star, again and again, often with the same strange hope that this time he'll medal in the 5,000 meters in the Olympic Games in Munich. And with the same tears.)