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 26
EPD giving college students cocoa, crime prevention tips
The Register-Guard: Eugene police will work this week to remind college students of ways to protect their property while they are away on winter break. In addition to distributing crime prevention information to students, police will also hand out hot cocoa. Today and tomorrow, police will visit the Chase and Stadium apartment complexes in the Commons/Kinsrow area. Wednesday and Thursday, police will talk to students in front of the Erb Memorial Union on the University of Oregon campus. Property crime typically spikes during the weeks of winter break, and police hope to make students aware of the risks and show them how to make their homes and vehicles less attractive to criminals. During the 2010 winter break, 30 student residents were reportedly burglarized in Eugene. That number was cut by about 50 percent last year, when police offered outreach programs in areas populated by students.
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Media mentions for November 25
Universities fear fiscal cliff
The Register-Guard: The stakes are high for the University of Oregon and Oregon State University if the impending automatic, across-the-board cuts to the federal budget are not averted by Congress and President Obama ... The federal government pays the biggest chunk of the research done at Oregon universities, and they stand to lose, together, upwards of $28 million in 2013 ... The University of Oregon stands to lose at least $11 million ... said Kimberly Espy, the UO’s vice president for research and innovation ... “You can imagine that, if that was cut instantly by 10 percent, we’d lose $2 million off the top,” she said. “That would be less money to fund students, fewer undergrads working in the lab next to faculty.”
The Next Treasury Secretary Could, Fingers Crossed, Totally Be a Woman
Jezebel: Could the next Treasury Secretary be a woman? Since soothsaying has largely fallen out of fashion since Nate Silver's arithmetic renaissance, it's impossible to know for sure if President Obama will opt to go against the grain of the Wall Street boys' club and appoint one of the many qualified female candidates to Gringotts goblin Timothy Geithner's post, but, according to the HuffPo's Dan Froomkin, a lady Treasury Secretary might ultimately be the best thing for America's financial future ... Since women have been largely shut out from upper echelon positions in the financial sector, a lady Treasurer, argues University of Oregon economist Mark Thoma, would bring "a different point of view than the typical Wall Street perspective, without sacrificing any intellectual capacity."
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Media mentions for November 24
UO students compete to see which campus can be the greenest
The Register-Guard: In the fierce contest to see which campus can out-green the others, the University of Oregon is 11th out of 28 participating universities, but that won’t be true for long, UO student contest leader Casey Ellingson said. “I would really like to be a contender. I would like to be top 10,” he said. “We still have a couple more weeks to pull this out.” The Small Steps Big Wins contest is sponsored by the San Fransicso nonprofit sustainability group Net Impact ... The Web-based contest allows students to take small actions for the good of the environment or social causes, and they document their action by immediately posting a photo on Facebook. The website logs and records points.
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Media mentions for November 23
Judge says professor has a case
The Register-Guard: The University of Oregon breached its employment contract with former physics professor Thomas Mossberg when it dismantled his laboratory at the UO in 2004, a Marion County Circuit Court judge has ruled. The equipment was calibrated precisely for “very sensitive work,” and when a group of faculty and graduate students took it apart without documenting where the pieces fit together, the value of the equipment was reduced substantially, Circuit Court Judge Courtland Geyer found. But the eight-year-old lawsuit, which has been the subject of two separate circuit court proceedings and a ruling by the Oregon Court of Appeals, is not likely to be over yet.
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Media mentions for November 22
In Oregon, Civil Rivalry but Quirky One
The New York Times: In the broadest, most stereotypical sense, one of the oldest rivalries in college football pits Ducks against Beavers, hippies against farmers, liberals against conservatives. It is defined by proximity and mediocrity, by civility and acrimony, by close games and foul weather and the last 0-0 tie in Division I. The Civil War, they call it ... This is a rivalry bound with a certain degree of Oregonian friendliness, an annual encounter that for the longest time, in some quarters, put the “civil” in Civil War ... Paul Swangard, managing director at the University of Oregon’s Warsaw Sports Marketing Center, lived through much of that futility. “That game was the only thing to really look forward to in most seasons,” he said. “It was for the right to live in the state of Oregon. It was the way in which we defined the rest of the year.”
Ducks' national goal to create UO 'brand'
KOIN: The University of Oregon has two Southeastern Conference-influenced movers-and-shakers at the top of the athletic department, and they have one big goal for the Ducks. “The amount of support we have nationally is comparable to any school in the country,” says Craig Pintens, senior associate athletic director for marketing and public relations, who joined Oregon from LSU. “That’s why our goal is to not only be a national brand, but be THE national brand.” Thanks to Nike, a self-sustaining $93 million budget this year and the sustained, high level of success by Oregon’s well-dressed football team, Pintens believes the Ducks are very close to being the most-recognized college athletic program in the country.