UO E-Clips is a daily report prepared by the Office of Communications (http://comm.uoregon.edu) summarizing current news coverage of the University of Oregon.
Media mentions for November 9
Beavers best the Ducks this time
The Register-Guard: In the Civil War to see which of Oregon’s two flagship universities can enroll the most students, it’s a blowout this fall in favor of steely Oregon State University ... “In the state of Oregon, high school graduates are going to decrease for the next 10 years,” said Roger Thompson, UO vice president for enrollment management. “This is the first year we saw that. We won’t see an increase in high school graduates until 2021” ... The UO will grow, too, although it needs to build more classrooms to accommodate additional students. “We’re interested in increasing our market share,” Thompson said.
The Register-Guard: There have been some influential women in comedy over the years, but men mostly decide the rules of funny. If you can accept that assumption, then you understand why it is more difficult for funny women to make it in the business, NW Women’s Comedy Festival founder Leigh Anne Jasheway said ... “(F)orever in this country, comedy has been defined by men,” said Jasheway, who teaches a class on comedy in the media at the University of Oregon. “It started off being defined by men when we were pioneers; that’s where prank comedy comes from.
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Media mentions for November 8
The uncertain value of economic forecasts
Oregon Business: In our data-saturated age, reporters, business owners, and policy makers are inundated with economic forecasts ... How to make sense of the different forecasts and how to decide which one is the best predictor of economic trends? “You use mine,” joked Tim Duy, the University of Oregon economist who compiles the monthly UO forecast ... The key to making sense of economic forecasts, he said, is understanding the context behind the numbers ... For example, Duy said the economic insecurity index measures impacts on lower income households. “How useful is that to a business person a firm owner -- I would think not particularly useful,” he said. On the other hand, policy makers trying to understand the needs of low income Oregonians would likely find that information meaningful.
UO enrollment rises less than 1 percent since last fall, OUS growing overall
The Daily Emerald: In a year of record-high enrollment for the Oregon University System, the University of Oregon’s enrollment has increased by 144 students since fall of 2011, an increase of 0.6 percent, OUS announced Thursday morning ... According to Bob Kieran, associate vice chancellor for institutional research and planning, the UO has experienced a 17.5 percent growth in the number of international students ... “A lot of people from out of the state and out of the country find the UO pretty appealing these days,” he said. “They get a lot of publicity and people see what they have to offer.”
Orchestra Next would develop musicians into professionals
The Register-Guard: The whole thing got started when Brian McWhorter found out that Eugene Ballet wasn’t using live musicians anymore for its Christmas performances of “The Nutcracker.” “To me that’s almost a cardinal sin,” said McWhorter, a professional trumpet player who teaches at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance. “When I was in New York playing Broadway, we had to protest the Broadway houses’ use of prerecorded music in shows. “I was on the picket lines. I get kind of pumped up about this.”
New UO research building delivers
Portland Business Journal: Many parts of the University of Oregon campus seem almost foreign to me these days. As a student in the 1980s, I was struck by the number of crumbling buildings, dilapidated lecture halls and a general malaise surrounding the need for capital improvement. Compared to those humble days, the campus now seems space age and high-tech. I’m certain I’ll have the same impression when I see the UO’s new Lewis Integrative Science Building, which just opened. The $65 million facility houses researchers including biologists, chemists and psychologists ... The new 103,000-square-foot building connects the university’s science and research facilities. A press release breathlessly proclaims that the building “marks the beginning of a new era of research excellence.”
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Late mentions for November 7
Annual campus safety walk set for Nov. 8
The Daily Emerald: Campus Operations, the Office of the Dean of Students, and the University of Oregon Police Department are inviting all members of the campus community to attend the annual campus night safety walk on Thursday. The safety walk is arranged for the campus community to point out areas in need of better lighting or landscaping that could make pathways safer at night for pedestrians. “It’s important for people to know that this is not a response to any increase in crime. There hasn’t been an increase. It’s just that we’re more dialed-in to crimes as they’re happening now than ever before,” said Kelly McIver UOPD spokesperson. “This is something that Campus Opperations holds each year to increase general safety on campus by taking suggestions and the UOPD is happy to play a roll in that,” he said. Starting at 5 p.m. in the Ben Linder Room at the EMU, the route for the night will be discussed. Then the group will leave for a walk around campus, finishing by 6:30 p.m.
Financial push from Voodoo Doughnut and others to help keep Ken Kesey collection at UO
The Daily Emerald: Voodoo Doughnut will be giving the University of Oregon Libraries a check on Nov. 16 as part of a fundraiser to purchase the Ken Kesey collection. The Kesey collection is not owned by the UO, but is part of the Kesey family estate. The collection will likely be up for sale and might leave Oregon. Keri Aronson, assistant director of library development, wants to avoid this sale. “Ken Kesey had stated that he wanted his work to be kept by the University, but unfortunately he never wrote a will,” she said. “That is why it is my hope that we will raise enough money to purchase the collection and ensure it will always stay in Oregon where it belongs.”
Nature: From the shade of an adobe house overlooking Peru's Santa River, Jimmy Melgarejo squints at the dual peaks of Mount Huascarán looming against a cloudless sky. “The snow keeps getting farther away,” says Melgarejo, a farmer worried about his livelihood ... Outburst floods and avalanches have killed more than 25,000 people in the Callejón de Huaylas since the 1940s, says Mark Carey, an environmental historian at the University of Oregon in Eugene who is one of the leaders of the glacier project ... If demands for water continue to grow, says Carey, then within a few years, it is possible that in the dry months no water from the Cordillera Blanca will reach the sea.
Tips for International Students Considering U.S. Public Colleges
Yahoo! News: Amelia Rivera-Barreto, a sophomore Guatemalan student studying anthropology and music at the University of Minnesota, said she had two choices when deciding where to attend college in the United States: “Go to a small liberal arts college if I get a scholarship, or go to a college I could afford” ... “Depending on their country of origin, students either perceive private schools or public schools as tops in their country,” says Robert Hardin, assistant director of admissions for international recruitment at the University of Oregon ... The University of Oregon offers cultural scholarships that could cover between $6,000 and $27,000 of college costs, Hardin says.
Eugene Chapter of UO “Gender Neutral Frarority” Sparked Suit
Willamette Week: Delta Lambda Phi, a gay fraternity suing Delta Lambda Psi, a “gender-neutral frarority” for copyright infringement, said Delta Lambda Psi’s decision to open a chapter at the University of Oregon was the last straw ... The Eugene chapter of Delta Lambda Psi opened this year. In a statement released to WW through its attorney, Josh Williamson of Portland-based Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, Delta Lambda Phi says it first tried to negotiate with the frarority ... The suit asks that Delta Lambda Psi stop using Delta Lambda Phi’s name and logo. Delta Lambda Phi is also requesting it “be awarded all gains, profits, and advantages derived by Defendant from its wrongful acts.”