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E-clips, Oct. 4
Top stories for October 4, 2007: UO builds new lab on a mountaintop, but underground, reports KVAL, Channel 13, in a report on the almost completed Integrative Science Complex; USA Today includes comment from the UO's Tom Hicks, who directs the law school's conflict and dispute resolution program, in its coverage of the "bad manners" of the Ashland, Ore., City Council; the Register-Guard reports on the works of six rising Northwest artists that are going on display tomorrow (Friday) at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; and, you can't say that, but the Daily Emerald did, in print, and the student paper's editorial board defends its right, in today's R-G, to use an expletive word in a headline above an opinion piece defending the First Amendment right of Colorado State University's student newspaper to print profanity.
UO builds new lab on a mountaintop, but underground (KVAL.com): It's one of the most exciting new frontiers in science -- nanotechnology -- and our state is at the forefront. Now, scientists at the University of Oregon have a new weapon in the battle to keep it that way. When folks take the campus tour at the U of O, the most interesting building is the one you can't see, but we got a look inside Wednesday morning. It's the newest addition to the University of Oregon campus...built with the best in green-friendly building materials ... filled with the highest of high-technology. A laboratory above all others -- but below the ground. "There's a mountain, essentially, underneath Eugene, that comes within ten feet of the surface here," explains John Donovan, the Director of the UO Microanalytical Facility. "By digging down that far, and then digging further down into the mountain, we're actually able to site this building on a very low-vibration foundation. And that gives us the ability to measure things at even finer scales than almost anyone else.
Ashland City Council pays for lessons in civility (USA Today): Owning up to its bad manners, the City Council in Ashland, Ore., has decided to throw itself on the civic version of a therapist's couch. The six-member council, plagued by bickering, sniping and profanity at its public meetings, agreed to spend $37,000 of taxpayer money for professional help to learn how to get along. … "Councils are under so much public scrutiny, so much pressure to make difficult decisions, often under financial and environmental constraints," says Tim Hicks, director of the University of Oregon law school's conflict and dispute resolution program. "It's not untypical."
Fresh from Northwest studios (Register-Guard): Works by six rising Northwest artists go on display Friday at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Curated by Larry Fong, the museum's associate director and curator of American and regional art, "NewArt Northwest" amounts to a mini-biennial of Oregon and Washington urban artists. The show, which doesn't have a tightly defined theme, grew out of Fong's visits to a number of artists' studios in recent years. "What struck me with each of these artists was how strongly they feel about material," Fong said. "This is not a philosophical application as much as it ends up being a fairly expressive display of these artists' ideas of beauty and elegance."
Daily Emerald defends decision to use expletive (The Register-Guard): Those naughty kids. Actually, they're all adults, the six members of the Oregon Daily Emerald's editorial board. And they're fine with the decision they made to run this big, bold, all-capital-letter headline Tuesday in the campus newspaper run by University of Oregon students: "F--- Censorship." The headline ran in a size normally reserved for big-news front-page items such as, well, declarations of war, terrorist attacks and the death of Elvis, above an opinion piece defending the First Amendment right of Colorado State University's student newspaper, the Rocky Mountain Collegian, to print profanity. The Emerald's headline has since generated feedback, especially on the paper's Web site, with a majority of it negative, but also comments in support.