Oregon Voice requests cheese with that whine
Apparently, the folks over at the Oregon Voice are all flustered about our making fun of them in the latest issue. (Apparently, the Oregon Voice also has a blog). Here’s Editor-in-Chief of the OV, Tuula Rebhahn:
I’ve always done fairly well with the philosophy of, “Ignore it; it’ll go away.” […] It works for unwanted attentions on the Indigo District dance floor. It works for the mysterious bruises that appear on my knees after said fun-filled nights at Indigo. But it’s not working for the Oregon Commentator, the illustrious campus “Conservative Journal of Opinion” […] [N]ow, we’ve got a whole page and a half in the new OC issue dedicated us, so here I am.
First, the Indigo District? Lame. Second, they just realized this? C’mon, we’ve been making fun of the OV for, like, fifteen years. Third, we make fun of the Daily Emerald on an almost daily basis; in fact, we make fun of everyone, including ourselves. No need to get butthurt, guys.
The rest of the post criticizes us for being petty, lazy and unoriginal. (Hey, fair enough, but it can be tough sometimes when you decide to put out an issue more than, say, once a term). The final paragraph is pretty funny, though:
The Oregon Commentator […] seems to choose the subjects they rant about from a giant beachball with the words “ASUO”, “liberals”, “how we’d rather be drunk”, “ASUO”, “popular culture”, “something else (limit once per issue)” inscribed on the sides, which they toss up into the air with hateful glee to see which topic their fingers will land on.
Wait, has someone from the OV been spying on our staff meetings?
However, most of the real juicy stuff is locked away in the horrid realms of Facebook. I’m currently in the midst of, as former Ed-in-Chief Ted Niedermeyer described it, an “alcohol/rugby/capitalism/
I don’t understand how you people could possibly believe the OV is any way undeserving of more money. I mean, come on, with the quality, can’t-put-’em-down articles they produce, they deserve to have their budget quadrupled at least. I don’t know how I ever survived the past couple of decades without having read such gems as “When Appliances Attack: True tales of survival” or “Kidney Stones: a cautionary tale.” I feel my life has been enriched far more than their oh-so-deserving “editors” and “writers” have been enriched by the allocation of additional student fees. I await the inevitable announcement of numerous Pulitzers for the incomparable Oregon Voice. Truly, this is what the founding fathers had in mind when they conceived the idea of freedom of the press (which freedom, by the way, is a terrible thing that will soon be eliminated when capitalism is eradicated, thanks in large part to the persuasive writings of the OV).
Sadly the OV now receives even more stipend money. They just received a second stipend from PFC this year and now have two paid positions.
Disgusting. I hope you enjoy that stolen money Tuula.
/You’re really earning it.
Watch out. The Voice might challenge y’all to a Caring Competition. Only it wouldn’t be a competition because competition implies conflict.
So maybe a Caring Convocation?
The Oregon Voice would be at The Indigo District. Also, I can’t wait to smash on those voice nerds in some pigskin.
On another note, how about an Oregon Voice–Oregon Commentator drinking competition?
the OV used to actually look good.
This must’ve been sometime in the 80s. 🙂 OOOHHH BURN!
All this reminded me that I forgot to include something in the latest issue. The OC staff challenges the staff of the OV to a game of schoolyard football. (This challenge will be formally announced in our next issue, which will come out next week on Friday, hopefully.) Rules:
– 5 Mississippi blitz
– First down is midfield
– 1 blitz per set of downs.
– no crying
The time and place can be arranged if the challenge is accepted – I was thinking the lawn next to Gerlinger. And no, we will not change the challenge to Ultimate Frisbee.
One note on the OV blog post. Tuula Rebhahn refers to herself “as a fellow slave to an independent student magazine.” Last time I checked, the OV receives $1,575 for stipend expenses. I thought slave work was doing work and not being reimbursed.
Luckily for us at the OC, the rewards of our work are intangible – like a laughter of a newborn babe.
Also, for God’s sake, OV: you are an (increasingly) liberal mag on a liberal campus and yet you cast yourselves as the poor victim of the high-and-mighty conservatives? Maybe you all don’t get it that a large number of OC staffers are not so much “conservatives” in the stereotyped terms you think of, as much as they are “interested in writing humor/opinion for a magazine that doesn’t blow.” I know that’s why I joined up, anyway… and when I was Editor, I was constantly accused of “turning the OC into the OV.” I always considered this a compliment because *gasp* the OV used to actually look good. Seriously, do you know how hard it is to get artists to work for the OC? As the “artsy” mag with decades between publishing dates, shouldn’t you guys be filling every issue with art which is… um…. good? Since the content is… so… y’know…
Then again, maybe I’m just jealous because I’m gonna have to pick up the next issue of the OV (projected print date AD 2030) because y’all scored an exclusive with Gunther.
I love how the 32 page issues somehow justifies only putting an issue out four times per year… if that’s even the way it works. A quick glance at their “Archives” page shows that volume 17 has six issues, volume 18 has four, and volume 19 has one, as does volume 20. In other words, it’s taken a brief two years for the OV to go from printing six times per (school year) volume to printing one issue per volume at a rate which defies any kind of explanation at all. Now don’t get me wrong, the OC righteously affirms the god-given right to laziness and apathy per our mission statement, but what does rile me up is how skewed the funding is for our respective magazines. Now, I don’t have the numbers in front of me, nor have I even looked at them in about a year, but maybe someone wants to run down to the controllers office and look them up. Do some quick math to figure out the dollars per printed page and blog post for the OV vs. the OC and you’ll see what I’m talking about.
I can’t believe the phrase “mysterious bruises that appear on my knees” went unremarked upon.
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