I don’t really have it in me to write anything over or under that, but the media digest is below the fold, back for the foreseeable future.

Public affairs:

• Restructuring: UO cheese Richard Lariviere isn’t the only one looking to strengthen his university through greater autonomy from the political processes of his state. Inside Higher Ed’s article doesn’t contain any great revelations about the UO’s proposal — IHE seems to have lifted Lariviere’s snappiest quotes and Paul Kelly’s weirdest — but does offer some national perspective, which is always either completely lacking or insufficient in Oregon media when discussing such issues (Inside Higher Ed).
• Japan Night: Yeah, it happened (Ethos).
• Interior design: USING YOUR OWN GENETIC CODE (Ethos).

Opinion:

• UO Matters supposes the push to make the Department of Public Safety a police force is all about getting state pensions. The site also dredges up a Guard article from the 1930s decrying the UO’s emphasis on sports.
• Letters: The Guard’s readers use these phrases: “culture of violence,” “small kindness,” “educational attainment neighborhood.” Also, there is a disorganized rant about something or other.
• Editorials: The Student Insurgent claps at the overthrow of Zine El-Abine Ben Ali and mourns the prison sentence of a man convicted of building explosives for green terrorism. The Guard: boo chromium-6! Rah-rah rarity of executions!
• A R-G reader says black people have it good.
• Reasons the UO thinks you should give it money today: After his most gruelling week two ever, Trafton B. unwound with board games and hazardous sledding (The UO’s online begging bowl).

Sports:

• The LA Times’ Bill Dwyre believes the UO has the Pac-10 by the balls (oops, sorry President Lariviere).
• Oregon Basketball (M): Is licking its wounds (Register-Guard).
• Oregon Football: Promising whelp Boseko Lokombo likes to speak French and ride escalators (Ethos);
• High school teams too might enjoy the UO’s new basketball shrine (Oregonian). Some people don’t like its floor, though (KEZI).

Here are some unattached observations about non-UO stories this week:

• The fallacy of the “Twitter revolution” in Iran is incredibly vacuous and annoying, and to see people throwing that vulgar epithet at what just happened in Tunisia is disgusting.
• Eisenhower’s farewell address, whose anniversary was Sunday, is so frank and heartfelt that I still can’t believe my ears when I hear it.
• There’s no Emerald today, presumably because there’s not school either.
• Embarrassing admission: Ever since the deaths of the nine-year-old girl and the old man taking a bullet for his wife in Tucson, I’ve been incapable of reading the news in any state other than the verge of tears, even when it’s nothing to do with them. Hopefully that stops.

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