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Gorillas with muskets, rip-off runs, football! Media digest Oct. 22, 2010

Public affairs:

  • Thrift news: The EMU post office is closing in December because it evidently wasn’t making money, although it will evidently continue paying the EMU to lease its space until April. (Emerald)
  • Event administration: Emerald reporter Mat Wolf looks for information about the hired goons detailed with grimacing testily as they drag naughty Autzen Stadium spectators away by the earlobe. He finds a shadowy security contractor that refuses to disclose financial information. “(CMS) is good at being able to work with a lot of the last-minute changes we request,” UO athletics suit Vicki Strand said, conjuring images of Phil Knight demanding ten minutes before kickoff that the guards at his luxury suite at Autzen be traded in for silverback gorillas trained to use Victorian-era flintlock muskets.
  • Traffic: Oregon Football is a menace to drivers. (Emerald)
  • Cougars: They are in Eugene! (Register-Guard)
  • Legal: Bad news for those hankering to have their quests for an education exploited for government subsidies: the state is suing the University of Phoenix, alleging that it lies to investors. (Emerald)
  • Exercise: The University wants students fun-running on a day many will undoubtedly be skipping class and sleeping well past 3 p.m. to deal with post-Oregon Football hangovers. (Emerald, Guard)
  • Conjugation: Do you think the Guard intend’s on running an article that detail’s it when any Tom, Dick or Harry endorse’s someone who run’s for office?* (Guard)
  • Fifth-graders: The Emerald even occasionally scoops the Guard on fluff pieces. (Register-Guard)

Opinion:

  • Letters: A UO graduate student tells Emerald readers common perceptions about domestic violence don’t fully grasp its scope. The Guard’s mailbag is again interesting, containing a defense of college students who receive food stamps and a letter-writer calling the paper’s endorsements hypocritical.
  • Emerald columnist JoAnna Wendel, taking on satirizing duties for the day, appears to criticize those who would try to inject off-field matters into discussion of FOOTBALL! FOOTBALL! FOOTBALL!
  • Ethos blogger Leah Olson paints a chilling picture of a Cambodian killing field. (Ethos)
  • Emerald columnist Mark Costigan provides us a retrospective of the Argentine economic crisis of the 1980s.
  • Editorials: The Guard praises an Oregonian who won the Nobel Prize for economics. It also praises the economics of the new Pac-12 arrangement.*
  • Entertainment: Ethos posts a video of a local band. Full disclosure: I regularly sell one of this band’s members coffee at my dayjob.

Sports:

  • Oregon Football 60-13 Hated Bruins. (Emerald, ESPN.com)
  • Despite injuries to important players, Oregon Football still beat the Hated Bruins. Remene Alston, Jr., in particular was important. “To see him come in there and play the way he did and rip off a couple runs like that, it was awesome to see,” Oregon Football’s coach said. (Emerald)
  • It’s possible that the Hated Bruins’ loss was caused by an inability to keep the ball until they got a touchdown more times than Oregon Football did. “(T)hree points wasn’t going to be the answer tonight,” the Hated Bruins’ coach said after the 60-13 Oregon Football win. (Emerald)
  • The Hated Bears, Hated Cardinal, Hated Women of Troy and Hated Bruins are opponents Oregon Volleyball may not beat. “There’s no tricks to doing this,” Oregon Volleyball’s coach says. (Emerald)
  • Oregon Soccer sunk by Hated Bruins, draws with Hated Women of Troy. Oregon Soccer players praise performance, despite disappointing results. Hated Women of Troy given two pens as they claw back from early deficit.  “Our record is really a tricky thing because we are so good,” Oregon Soccer defender says. (Emerald)
* The headline on the Guard’s RSS feed, and the article’s title were “Nobel laureate’s son back’s DeFazio,” when I wrote this.
** See what I did there?
  1. Steve Toyota says:

    Aggregation. He makes it easy for the rest of us to find news.

    Now get back in your hole, Student, before I take two sticks of dynamite and club yer ears with them.

  2. Student says:

    Why do you summarize everything other news organizations write about? Is it because you have no news to write about on your own and do your own work?

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