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 October 2
UO safety officers now ‘police’
The Register-Guard: The University of Oregon Department of Public Safety is no more. Effective Monday, the campus safety and law enforcement agency took a new name: the University of Oregon Police Department. The symbolic but planned change comes nine months after the state Legislature authorized the UO to build a full-fledged campus police department -- a process that could take as long as six years to complete. The new name represents “no change in services and no change in the equipment used” by officers, department spokesman Kelly McIver said. Campus officers carry batons, pepper spray and handcuffs, but are not authorized to carry firearms.
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Media mentions for October 1
How the University of Oregon became a #NationalBrand
The Daily Emerald: The fourth-longest home sellout streak in college football. Three consecutive conference titles. Two Rose Bowl appearances. One BCS National Championship game. A charismatic and much-loved mascot and dozens of YouTube clips. These are the stats for one of the country’s most successful and fastest-growing athletic programs. Over the past 15 or so years, the University of Oregon has transformed from Pacific Northwest pushover to pride of the West Coast, but how do you explain the speed with which the UO rose into the national spotlight? The answer lies in Oregon’s marketing team, and behind that you find Craig Pintens.
Gold says inflation, Bernanke says no
The Globe and Mail: Gold is having a good day on Monday, rising to $1,783 (U.S.) an ounce in New York, up about $9. It is interesting that the gain came after Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, spoke at the Economic Club of Indiana on Monday morning -- addressing, among other topics, the threat of inflation. However, Tim Duy, a blogger and an economics professor at the University of Oregon, pointed out that commodity prices were on the rise well before the Federal Reserve began to tinker with quantitative easing or QE -- the experimental policy of buying government bonds to hold down borrowing costs. “If anything, commodity prices have been moving generally sideways since the Fed began expanding its balance sheet,” he said on his blog.