Some business, first and foremost: a post on the new Voice and Ethos is on its way, but there is a lot to read yet on that score.

With that down, I’d like to draw our attention to the words of Eugene resident Leslie Graham, who gives the following pointer to Guard columnist Bob Welch: “I love my Ducks! That’s what Welch should have said, over and over again.” Also, who here wouldn’t like to see Eugene’s Bob Welch perform a set of Fleetwood Mac covers, or possibly turn out for the Oakland Athletics?

Public affairs:

• Legislature: OUS is gearing up to push changes to its governance there (OPB).
• Sports!: Visiting Glendale, Ariz., won’t, it seems, bring the UO down in flames. Many at the school believe it will, in fact, be a good thing for them instead (Oregonian). UO Matters is skeptical of this.
• Liberty: Not much new information about the Portland politician who left his council post to run the UO’s Sustainable Cities Initiative in the Guard’s brief, except that he used to be ASUO president, which I’m kicking myself for not knowing (Register-Guard). The Portland Business Journal doesn’t have much either (Portland Business Journal).
• ASUO: Has hired a new green czar (Emerald).
• Matthew Knight Arena: The Guard’s Bolt takes its story from the top. It’s only the second most expensive college basketball venue ever, and will rely financially, in part, on Phil Knight’s money paying the state back for building it, especially if it doesn’t make a ton itself. Designers are nervous about whether people will like it. Oregon Basketball(M) doesn’t hate it, but Oregon Basketball(W) and Oregon Volleyball wonder whether it will still have the kind of “intimacy” McArthur did. Phil Knight still thinks about its namesake, his late son. It will sell a more extensive array of refreshments. It will host non-sporting events too. The Knight will attempt not to destroy the environment just to run. (Register-Guard’s supplemental section)
• Recognition: for three UO physicists (Emerald).
• Gongs: for Flux and Ethos.
• Pittances: the UO and Auburn University will be holding a food drive in Phoenix (Super Talk News).
• Phil Knight: here’s what he’s up to (Oregonian, Portland Business Journal)
• Frohnmayer watch: Ex-UO cheese Dave Frohnmayer is now lobbing accusations at the attorney general’s office on behalf of a client, as evinced by this leaked letter (Willamette Week). UO Matters says “everyone involved look[s] like total idiots” (and thanks to him for the link).

Opinion:

• Letters: A Guard reader throttles Bob Welch’s portrayal of Oregon Football fans and another, very possibly the proprietor of the Red Rooster, thanks an electronics store owner. A Colorado grad student savages the Emerald for its most recent editorial and Zach Vishanoff calls millionaire funeral-crasher Chipper Kelly a cheapskate.
• The Emerald’s JoAnna Wendel read a National Geographic on New Year’s Eve and decided to stop reading Cosmopolitan.
• Editorials: The Guard‘s lower lip quivers as the paper remembers Mac Court and pats Lane County commissioners on the head for their cheerful acceptance of their own Machiavellian maneuvers.
• Two ShelterCare higher-ups sigh about Lane County’s decision to withdraw funding for, among others, ShelterCare.
• Reasons the UO thinks you should give it money today: Antonia D. and David R. have returned to Eugene. Brianna G.‘s class schedule includes dance-fitness and lab work. Katie D. spent New Year’s Eve bar-hopping in Portland, having had her wisdom teeth removed ten days earlier. and now it’s time for her to begin teaching a class to prisoners. She also likes the newest On The Rocks video (UO’s online begging bowl).

Sports:

• The grass at the national championship will be from Oregon too, although its groundskeeper is a Hated Beavs alumnus (Register-Guard). For me, this is easily the most interesting sports story of the day.
• Emerald mist-eye Kenny Ocker gets nostalgic about Mac Court (Emerald); while lizard Robert Husseman surmises the experience of Oregon Football’s coaches may be important (Emerald)
• Oregon Football: are its coaches closing their practices in the interest of being tricky (Register-Guard)?; is not favored by bookies (Ron Raymond’s Sports Betting Blog); will be inspired by a retired boxer from a new-ish movie (Register-Guard); will be celebrated during its ruck in Glendale in McArthur Court (Emerald, KVAL, KEZI, KCBY); a local dealership will drive a car to Glendale (KEZI); fan of the day (Oregonian)
• A man who turned out for Oregon Wrestling, fought Anderson Silva, and became a Republican nominee for the State House has taken a plea bargain in connection with a real estate swindle (Oregonian, KMTR).

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