Public affairs news:

• Non-terrorism: Two late-breaking, not-terribly-descriptive articles about a ‘suspicious,’ but innocuous, package. (Daily Emerald, Register-Guard)
• Financial wheels a-movin’: Willamette Week reported yesterday that Gov. Ted Kulongoski and his minders have been studiously taking the measure of UO Pres. Richard Lariviere’s index finger with a view to finding just the right length of ribbon to tie around it. Lariviere’s name, it seems, has gotten connected to a few turkeys found at the Cratchit household this Christmas, or at least that’s the angle UO Matters takes on it. That is, he’s allowed UO employees to take overtime to compensate for state-mandated furlough days, in effect paying them more for less work. Probably not a tremendously favorable development for Lariviere’s restructuring plans.
• Musical chairs: UO Matters with a retrospective on Randy Geller’s career at UO to date.
• Drugs: Measure 74 supporters praise it for creating regulations. Opponents want you to think of the poor district attorneys. The Emerald’s Ian Geronimo wants you to know more. But you, internet reader, are deemed unworthy of the story’s impressive graphic element and man-on-the-street box.
• ASUO: The Emerald skims over the last ASUO Senate meeting. The Commentator slogs through it.
• Gongs: UO handed out three to community members today.
• Pulpits: A NASA official is coming to the UO to talk about global warming.
• Color news: The Emerald casts doubt on the verdure of other consumer products? (Emerald)
• Dept. of Catching a Falcon With a Teaspoon: The Oregonian decides that Oregon’s relatively high unemployment rate probably is David Wu’s fault to the extent he is a member of Congress, but there’s not really anything he could have done.
• Federal Politics and Bizarre Exchanges With Baristi: You see, Barack Obama, when you are a “woman or African American,” and  therefore seem to certain people as though you will take away their guns, this is what happens. (Oregonian)

Opinion:

• Eugene City Councilor-elect Pat Farr seems to believe people sitting around a school cafeteria is as exciting as “AND BEARD WITH AN ONSIDE KICK!!!! DID IT GO TEN YARDS? IT DID! THEY GOT IT! ON THE 46-YARD LINE, SO TRAILING 21-10 CHIP KELLY REACHES INTO HIS BAG OF TRICKS! I THINK THE KICKER ACTUALLY ENDED UP GETTING ON THE FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOOKIT! WHAAAAA!!!!”
• The Emerald’s Tyree Harris opines that he just released an autobiographical hip-hop album, and wants you to know it’s real.
• Editorials: The Emerald wonders if perhaps we might not like to try not voting along party lines. The Guard’s editors want us voting for Bruce Hanna and talking to bigots. The Eugene Weekly has a spate of endorsements.
• Letters: The usual suspiciously effusive praise for public officials in the Register-Guard’s mailbag, while the Weekly’s has a lot of that, but also some more entertaining fare.

Scene:

• Music: Band comes to town, suggests it may “keep on rocking.”
• Cuisine: If there is to be a most vegan-friendly college in anglophone North America, then PETA’s hip, trendy younger sister organization declares that school will either be the University of Oregon or one of 79 other schools.
• Lifestyle: Ever wonder what an Emerald reporter thinks of local pumpkin patches? Ever wonder how an Emerald reporter thinks you should dress? Now’s your chance to find out.

Sports:

• Former Oregon Running player went to jail.
• One Oregon Volleyball player can serve the ball very hard, and is more important now that other notable Oregon Volleyball players have graduated. (Emerald)
• The Emerald’s Robert Husseman describes national polls as “the most arbitrary method of measurement possible” in ranking football teams. I would argue that the players’ median nipple diameter would be slightly more arbitrary. (For the record, the South Carolina Gamecocks would be No. 1. Don’t ask me how I know. Let’s just say it was traumatic.)
• The Emerald’s Lucas Clark argues that he doesn’t know what is going to happen to Oregon Basketball this season and runs the rule over a couple of new players. The first game against the Hated Beacons is coming up.

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