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UO E-clips, Oct. 23

Top stories for October 23, 2007: UO students rally on behalf of Jena High School in Louisiana, where national reaction involving possible injustice and racial discrimination cloud the case against six black students accused of beating a white teen, as reported by the Daily Emerald; A UO sophomore is featured by the Register-Guard in a story about his online social networking, and whether such efforts are as effective as traditional techniques; and the cultures of giving, athletics vs. education, including the UO, are the focus of the Chronicle of Higher Education

Seeking justice for Jena (Oregon Daily Emerald): On a sunny, breezy Monday afternoon, hundreds of students formed a line outside the EMU to get football tickets for the highly anticipated USC game. Students sat on the sidewalk in clusters, discussing Oregon's new No. 5 ranking after Saturday's win against Washington. But little did they know, just around the corner, a protest against injustice and racial discrimination was making sparks. Approximately 150 students gathered in the EMU amphitheater Monday at noon to let their voices be heard. The protest, organized to speak out against the racial inequalities taking place in Jena, La., consisted of a rally with motivational speakers, including Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy. In December 2006, a group of six black students from Jena High School in Louisiana beat Justin Barker, a white teenager also from the school. The beating occurred after a black student asked a Jena High School official if he could sit under a tree known as "the white tree" in the schoolyard. The official replied that any student could sit wherever he or she likes. The next day, three white students hung nooses from that same tree.

Social networking sites like a virtual knock on the door (Register-Guard): When his parents were in college, campaigning meant getting outside to pound pavement and knock on doors. But University of Oregon sophomore Nick Schultz says he can create the same change without ever leaving his room. Armed with a laptop and a wireless signal, Schultz is part of a growing trend of pollsters who are abandoning lapel pins and lawn signs for online social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. … University of Oregon assistant political science professor Eric McGhee says the real question is whether online efforts are as effective as traditional techniques. “It’s probably not going to overcome any of that stuff anytime soon,” he says. “You’re not going to see print ads and television spots go away.”

Athletics and Education (Chronicle of Higher Education): (News article in its entirety) … Of the 40 fund raisers at the University of Oregon, nine work for the athletics department. But some faculty members sense that a recent increase in gifts to athletics is eating away at fund-raising priorities for academic programs. A series of articles in The Chronicle this week examines the growth of athletics fund raising at colleges and its impact on development priorities in higher education. The series includes input from major donors themselves about why they choose to give their donations to either sports programs or other areas of higher education. At Oregon, which has received a $100-million from the Nike co-founder Philip H. Knight and his wife, Penny, a “$160-million face lift has made ultramodern athletics facilities the envy of Oregon’s peers,” says the article. While the flow of private donations into the sports program has prompted faculty members to publicly challenge the university’s leaders, David B. Frohnmayer, the president, has said that “to argue that one must choose academic excellence or athletic excellence is an oversimplification.” Can both arms of college fund raising be successful at a single institution? How? What role do fund raisers play in ensuring that academic programs and athletics get equal play?

UO physicist Dave Soper to share a top 2009 APS prize

UO physics professor Dave Soper is a 2009 winner of the J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Physics. He will share the prize with John Collins (Penn State) and Keith Ellis (Fermilab) when presented formally in May during the American Physical Society's annual meeting in Denver. Soper was cited for his "work in perturbative quantum chromodynamics, including applications to problems pivotal to the interpretation of high-energy particle collisions." Quantum chromodynamics is a theory of strong nuclear interactions among quarks -- fundamental constituents of matter.

The prize honors J.J. Sakarai, a Japanese-American particle physicist who authored leading textbooks on quantum mechanics and the principles of elementary particles during a career at the University of Chicago and UCLA. This year's winners bring the total number of honorees to 36, including three who later won the Nobel Prize.

3 UO faculty are finalists for Oregon Book Awards

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From left to right, UO professors Lauren Kessler (journalism), Steven Bender (law) and Ehud Havazelet (creative writing) are finalists for the 2008 Oregon Book Awards. Winners will be announced on Sunday, Nov. 9, at the Portland Art Museum.

Media Links

Campus Magazines:

Oregon Quarterly

Cascade (CAS)

Newspapers:
Daily Emerald (UO students)
Register-Guard
Eugene Weekly
The Oregonian

Campus Radio:
a) Eugene's Classical
KWAX (99.1 FM)
b) Student Run
KWVA (88.1 FM)

TV Stations:
KEZI, Channel 9 (ABC)
KVAL, Channel 13 (CBS)
KMTR, Channel 16 (NBC)
KPTV (FOX-12, Portland)
 
Public TV, Radio:
Oregon Public Broadcasting
NPR (LCC, 89.7 FM)
KOPB (1600 AM)

News/Talks Radio:
KUGN (590 AM): UO Sports
KPNW (1120 AM)

UO Alumni News

1) Keep up on alumni news with the official e-newsletter of the UO Alumni Association.

2) Alumni in Portland have their own newsletter: See PDX Ducks.

 
Investors worried, tuned into news reports, UO psychologists tell Wall Street Journal writer

Paul Slovic mug shot    Two with University of Oregon ties named to new FDA risk advisory panel

Since 2001, investors’ comfort zone with their stocks has nose-dived from little worry about negative returns to growing worry about their stocks going nowhere for maybe a decade, reports UO psychologist Paul Slovic in an interview with Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig about today’s economy. In same article, UO psychologist Ellen Peters notes that American investors are spending a lot of time following, especially on TV news, the economic turmoil. Zweig’s column, however, carries the message that those who have some cash and can conquer their stock-phobia may be a good position, likening their potential investments to a venture in emerging markets. (Read story – may require paid subscription)

Sense of entitlement? Not in faces at military base, writes UO's Tom Bivins

Tom Bivins UO journalism professor Tom Bivins, sipping coffee and watching youthful faces at San Antonio's Fort Sam Houston, says the often-discussed "sense of entitlement" thought to exist in today's college-aged students was absent among like-aged faces wearing U.S. Army uniforms. His comments appear in a commentary in The Oregonian. (Read it)

UO spinoff MitoSciences collects 2008 Emerald Award for Innovation

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The biotechnology company MitoSciences Inc., a technological spinoff founded in 2003 by University of Oregon scientists Roderick Capaldi and Michael Marusich, captured the Eugene Chamber of Commerce's 2008 Emerald Award for Innovation on Sept. 24. The company was among four winners of Emerald Awards.

For full details of the chamber's fifth-annual event, read the story in the Register-Guard.

UO ranks high in two national college guides

Princeton Review logoThe University of Oregon is one of 11 colleges that received a Green Rating of 99 (the highest score) in The Princeton Review’s “Green Honor Roll.” The news received national attention from the CBS Early Show, ABC World News with Charles Gibson, and other national and local media.

Fiske Guide 2009 The UO is also included in the 2009 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges as a Best Buy school. From the guide: "UO may be the best deal in public higher education on the West Coast."

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