UO E-clips, Oct. 27-29

EPD must increase its campus presence (Daily Emerald): Thirty of Eugene's finest will soon be hitting the city's streets with a new tool at their disposal. The Lane County Board of Commissioners authorized a grant last Wednesday authorizing almost $190,000 to install cameras, known as Digital Patrollers, in 30 Lane County Police Officers' squad cars. Funding for the cameras, which will send live video feeds back to the Eugene Police Department, comes from a $2.5 million grant awarded by the Community Orientated Policing Services program. There are currently 106 Digital Patrollers in use throughout the state. Some officers who used the video recording devices reported feeling safer with the cameras because, when lawbreakers were informed they were being videotaped, many became less aggressive, knowing anything they do could be videotaped and presented in court later.

Sports are serious business for Olympic Committee chairman (Daily Emerald): Nearly 200 people gathered on campus Friday to get advice on how to succeed in business from a former Time magazine man of the year. Peter Ueberroth is a former Major League Baseball commissioner who now heads the United States Olympic Committee. His speech Friday was part of a lecture series presented by the James H. Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at the Lundquist College of Business. He spoke about the evolving nature of business in today's world. "In the United States, we are changing. We are changing the way we employ people, we are changing the way we educate and we're changing the way we raise our families," Ueberroth said. "We have to take advantage of the razor of change."

Three killed when plane crashes in British Columbia (AP): A father and son, along with a pilot, have been killed after the small plane they were flying in crashed in Canada's western province of British Columbia. A family spokesperson says 37-year-old David Wood, his father, William Wood, both from Calgary, and the pilot, 69-year-old Ronald Bullen, were returning to Alberta from Salem, Oregon. David Wood finished his final exam from the Board of Architecture at the University of Oregon. According to authorities, the single engine Piper Malibu went down around 7 p.m. after the pilot reported he had lost engine power. The pilot crashed about six miles east of Invermere. Satellite systems pinpointed the crash site, and a search and rescue helicopter arrived on the scene within 90 minutes of the accident. When rescuers reached the plane wreckage, all onboard were found dead.

UO starts work on $48 million Hedco building (Daily Journal of Commerce): Portland contractor Lease Crutcher Lewis broke ground Friday on the University of Oregon’s Hedco Education Building. The new facility is part of a $48.1 million project that will double space for the UO College of Education. Completion is expected in the summer of 2009. The new building is named for a California-based foundation whose president, Dody Jernstedt, is a UO alumnus. The foundation donated $10 million to the project. The building site will connect the college’s existing quad of historic brick building at Alder Street with its Clinical Services Building on East 18th Avenue. The building was designed by Thomas Hacker Architects Inc. of Portland.

Burrowing mammals dig for a living, but how do they do that? (Science Daily -- numerous Web news sites, including the UK's Earthtimes, United Press and Biology News Net, also have picked up the UO News Release): Next time you see a mole digging in tree-root-filled soil in search of supper, take a moment to ponder the mammal's humerus bones. When seen in the lab, they are nothing like the long upper arm bones of any other mammal, says Samantha Hopkins, a paleontologist at the University of Oregon. Hopkins, a professor of geology in the UO's Robert D. Clark Honors College, studies the evolutionary history of burrowers, in search of why and how they adapted a physique for digging in response to environmental influences or other forced changes in habitats.