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 April 19
Register-Guard: One day in 1978, a 16-year-old foreign student arrived at the University of Oregon carrying a camera. Russel Wong's father had given it to him, a simple Topcon 35mm reflex with a single 50mm lens, so he could send photos back to his family in Singapore while he was working toward a degree in finance. A lively and outgoing young man, Wong wasn't much interested in photography. But he loved athletics, especially track, and soon began sneaking into the UO's Hayward Field -- he found a fence to hop near the steeplechase pit -- and photographing the runners as they competed. You can see an exhibit of photos drawn from Wong's lifetime of work in a show that opens Friday at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
ESPN: Pot use widespread on UO football team
Register-Guard: A report on marijuana use by college football players published Wednesday by ESPN suggested that about half of the University of Oregon football team uses the drug, which under athletic department policy can lead to dismissal from the team after four failed tests ... Citing "19 current or former Oregon players and officials," ESPN reported that perhaps 40 to 60 percent of the current team uses marijuana.)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Media mentions for April 18
Court Could Determine Fate Of Legal Notices In Newspapers
OPB: There's a court case playing out in Deschutes County right now that Oregon's major newspapers are watching closely. That's because the case is shaping up as a potential fight between traditional papers - those that have subscribers and free alt-weeklys - those that don't. "Probably as long as there's been a functioning government in the United States there's been a requirement of public notice of some kind or another," says Tim Gleason, the dean of the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Late mentions for April 17
Accounting 101 in the Valley of the Duck
Oregonian: The accounting majors at the Associated Students of the University of Oregon (ASUO) recently caught their UO overlords in an assessment overcharge that returned more than $130,000 to student services. As the Daily Emerald's Becky Metrick wrote last week, the administration hit ASUO with a 6-percent assessment rate last year, rather than the 5-percent rate negotiated between students and the UO bean counters.
ASUO Approves Bike Share Program
KEZI: University of Oregon students, if you can't afford the cost of owning a bike but think one would help to get around campus, you're in luck. A new bike share program's getting started. Students in the UO Bike Program say it's something they've been doing already on a small scale. But now they will have the actual technology to really make it happen. The ASUO approved nearly $200,000 to launch the system.
Vote makes Richard Lariviere's appointment as Field Museum head official
Chicago Tribune: Richard Lariviere, a university administrator and Sanskrit scholar, will take over the presidency of the Field Museum, a vote Tuesday by the museum's Board of Trustees confirmed.