Media digest, Jan. 19, 2011; Now featuring a classic Orson Welles feature
It feels like it’s been a slow news day for whatever reason. That reason is probably that, for the first time in what feels like ages, coverage of UO sports is pretty thin on the ground and, as someone with little interest in American sports, I always have the least fun with that part of the digest. What there was was either good or painless. I’d recommend the Malee column in the Emerald. I don’t care one way or the other about what it says, but it flows better than anything I’ve read in the Emerald in a while.
Also, my weekly bete noir, the Matt Tellam Emerald column, is pretty reasonable today. Usually, Tellam’s columns work me into a frenzy of rage, but not this week.
Ummm … … … Yeah, I’ve got nothing else to add. The rest of the media digest is below the fold. Here’s a classic film noir that has entered into the public domain!
Public affairs:
- Resistance: The Oregon Student Association board has decided to fight UO cheese Richard Lariviere’s restructuring proposal. Its members say they trust politicians more than Lariviere not to hike tuition. Instead, OSA will support rival plans from the Oregon University System (Emerald).
- Research: UO scientists have decided middle school is important (Emerald).
- Vapidity: The ASUO is trying to sex up one of its funds with a new name, as if that will change anything (Oregon Commentator)
- Events: There was a poetry reading celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Multicultural Center Tuesday (Emerald).
- Revelations: Elon University has just come to the hellish realization that it gave an award to ex-UO lecturer Bill Hillar (The Pendulum).
Opinion:
- Satirically, the Emerald’s Shallot appears to suggest that the opening ceremony at the Matthew Knight Arena may have been a little extravagant (Emerald).
- UO Matters thinks a new circuit court decision about the Lane County Commission could invalidate the Oregon University System’s attempts to promote its own restructuring proposal.
- Tunisian Mohammed Jemmali tells the Emerald he’s not against the overthrow of the brutal Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in his native land.
- The Emerald’s Matt Tellam calls for a political realignment. I kept on reading his column, waiting for the part that would nauseate me, but it’s pretty OK.
- The Insurgent criticizes the British government’s infiltration of environmental activism groups. It wants you to support two activists facing trial on perjury charges.
- The Emerald’s JoAnna Wendel thinks a masked Seattle vigilante is “a symbol. For what exactly? I’m not sure” (Emerald blogs)
- Reasons the UO thinks you should give it money today: So hard has she studied that Korrin B. no longer has friends or the capacity to make them, and got mired in depression by Oregon Football’s loss in the “Natty” (someone should reach out to this girl); The “Natty” loss deflated Brianna G., who likes the Matthew Knight arena’s floor; It’s possible Antonia D. will go to Buenos Aires, and has been inspired to help others with disabilities do the same; David R. is a fan of Matthew Knight Arena; This week, Katie D. will attend a national conference on prison education, and this semester she will take a mediation class; The “Natty” loss saddened Tori M., who commemorated the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., with a trip to Whistler, Canada (UO’s online begging bowl).
- Reasons the UO thinks you should give its law school money today: This Christmas Kira O. (Sister of one of my good friends. What a small world) was in Hawai’i (UO Law School’s online begging bowl).
Sports:
- The Emerald’s Patrick Malee thinks Oregon sports have been shorn of some personality by the new basketball edifice.
- The Matthew Knight Arena floor is unpopular because of glare from an electronic board (Athletic Business).
- Oregon Football: has so many alumni in the pros (Emerald)!
More thoughts: if you have any requests for films in the public domain, I can try and find them for you.
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