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UO E-clips, Sept. 11
Top stories for September 11, 2008: Register-Guard columnist Bob Welch takes on the Ducks -- football fans, that is -- questioning some recent student behavior; KVAL-13's Molly Blancett goes swinging in a nifty report about the UO's role, featuring physicist Graham Kribs, in the Large Hadron Collider; and the University of Oklahoma vows to be 100-percent wind powered by 2013, with the institution's president citing our UO as a national leader in the use of renewable energy, the Associated Press reports
No justifying UO fans' spirit of rudeness (Register-Guard, Bob Welch column): Maybe it was the f-bombs aimed at the Huskies. Or, against Utah State, hearing the boos ring out to welcome a University of Oregon quarterback in his second game at Autzen Stadium, a kid who'd done practically everything right until he fumbled. Or seeing a fan taking a leak in a homeowner's shrubs just off Garden Way and a neighbor swearing at the guy, threatening to call the cops, and the leaker acting as if the homeowner was infringing on his constitutional right to keep and bare -- well, you get the idea. All I know is that after two UO football games, I'm already tired of fans who think what they need is another beer when what they really need is a life.
UO physicists involved in Big Bang project (KVAL 13 News, video available): http://www.kval.com/news/local/28217519.html) The border of Switzerland and France still exists. That's where scientists got the Large Hadron Collider up and running early on Wednesday. University of Oregon physicist Graham Kribs has been working on the project that hopes to find the answer to where matter comes from. Why should you care? Kribs said the results will change the face of science. "It involves thousands of scientists all for the purpose of getting to the earliest moment that we can in the history of the universe," said Kribs.
Oklahoma: OU to be powered completely by wind by 2013 (Associated Press): The University of Oklahoma's Norman campus will be completely powered by wind by 2013, OU President David Boren said Wednesday, calling the plan one of the largest renewable energy commitments ever made by a public university in the U.S. ... Boren cited the University of Oregon and New York University, a private institution, as among the national leaders in using power generated by renewable sources on their campus.