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E-clips provide a snapshot of media coverage of the University of Oregon. Each day’s edition (Monday-Friday) is compiled by the Media Relations office using a variety of search engines of online news sources or other reports. Our daily edition of E-clips, including full stories, is distributed by email to members of the UO community who subscribe to the service. (See below for how to subscribe to your campus address.)
Below you will find a brief summary of the day's top story or stories chosen from the each day's full E-clips.The summaries do not include the full stories because of the often short life of media URLs and copyright considerations. (Monday's E-clips each week includes stories from the weekend.)
UO E-clips, Feb. 13
Top stories for February 13, 2009: KATU-Portland picks up via the Associated Press version of the Register-Guard's feature on a UO course on Yakama Sahaptin, a native course taught by Virginia Beavert of the UO's Northwest Indian Language Institute; state union proposes furloughs, some raises, for state employees it covers, including UO classified staff, reports the Register-Guard and KVAL.com; UO's Vin Lananna says shorter Olympic Trials no problem, reports the Register-Guard; the Sacramento Bee quotes the UO's Paul Swangard in a story on the NBA's Kings coming new arena; Swangard also is quoted in a Reuter's story saying that Nike is likely to make cuts in its marketing efforts amid the recession; and Illinois county commissioner seeks energy solutions for his county's economy via renewable energy by attending a meeting in Oregon, where an approach by Oregon BEST (which includes the UO) was discussed, reports the Illinois Valley News
UO E-clips, Feb. 12
Top stories for February 12, 2009: UO business instructor Tim Berry, writing in U.S. News and World Report, says 'no thanks' to a stimulus for small business; UO's new baseball park is a go for 'play ball' later this month, reports the Register-Guard; UO author Kessler draws a crowd for reading, reports the Lake Oswego Review; Eugene Weekly reports on the call to tighten the strings on shoe companies and agents at the U.S. Olympic Trials in reference the drawn-out Eugene 08 on campus; PPOL News cites the UO's stats on bicycling in story about Clif Bar's encouraging bicycling to fight climate change; Oregon governor pushes ‘green’ expertise, including efforts at the UO, to lure greenbacks, reports the Register- Guard; and UO economist Tim Duy is quoted in an Oregonian story on how the state's exports soared in 2008 until year-end world economic woes took hold
UO E-clips, Feb. 11
Top stories for February 11, 2009: UO's journalism dean is quoted in an Oregonian story about a Web site reopened by Portland's mayor; UO law professor Ofer Raban is quoted by the Register-Guard in a story about peace activists trying to keep Oregon's National Guard at home; UO music professor Robert Kyr is mentioned in a Willamette Week story about home-grown music; UO President Dave Frohnmayer praises the late Randy Pape in the Register-Guard's coverage of the United Way bestowing top honor on Papé
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