Public affairs:

• Democracy: We now have someone we can call the “once-and-future governor,” and there are deadlock-like situations in both houses of the state legislature. The Emerald has ambiguously confrontational language. The Guard has racing metaphors, the Oregonian is not stingy.
• Democracy (II): Relatively few students vote, probably, a case somewhat overstated here. (Weekly)
• Equality: Despite some promising indicators, mostly women get a pretty raw deal when it comes to getting and keeping jobs. (Emerald)
• Escaping the gutter: The Emerald features a program by St. Vincent de Paul that tries to get homeless ‘Nam vets back on their feet. (Emerald)
• Verdigris: The Emerald’s Franklin Bains is introduced to some people who like the new position the ASUO has created. (Emerald)
• ASUO: There was a Senate meeting. Some people got the titles they were looking for, others were denied. Some groups got money. Everyone, at one point or another, got miffed, probably at its root because of the futility of the exercise. (OC, Emerald)

Opinion:

• Emerald opinion honcho Tyree Harris tells another tale of woe, this one the first in a two-parter about a young woman who was once addicted to amphetemines. (Emerald)
• Letters: Weekly readers call for an end to National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the reinstatement of the draft, etc. The Guard’s bag is full of people questioning various aspects of the paper’s journalistic taste.
• A Eugene activist wants us to make her gay daughter’s life better. (Register-Guard)
• Migrant fruit-picker turned activist Juan Carlos Valle’s seemingly inspiring and compelling personal story is silenced by his limp diction and generic talking points as he attempts to make a case for the DREAM Act. (Weekly)
• Editorials: The Weekly thinks growing UO enrollment is good, and has some opaque things to say about football. The Guard calls Oregon voters spendthrifts for voting for Measure 73, but applauds them on their other votes; wonders how Barack Obama and the new Republicans will get on; believes there is a parallel between the County Commission election results and the national ones.
• A burst of admirable self-deprecation from the Weekly.

Scene:

• The Weekly has published its annual best-of list. Civil Rights litigant/geriatric farting hippie Frog is named the best local celebrity and KWVA DJ Rev. Marc Time is called the “non-politician doing the most for Eugene.” Cinema studies GTF DJ Foodstamp is called the best DJ, but campus bars are almost entirely absent from the nightlife section. Adjunct instructor Jennifer Burns Levin is called its best blogger. Jeremiah Masoli is third in the sports personality stakes, with LaMichael James first.
• On an organic food program: “The food has to look good, taste good and be of feasible labor.” On “Love’s Labour’s Lost”: “it[‘]s really like middle[-]schoolers in a camp” On a band made up of UO professors: “It’s often the music you don’t want to listen to.” On tubas: “Epic. Awesome.” (Emerald)

Sports:

• Seattle Times columnist Bud Withers has a pretty uproarious column about what a broke-ass team Oregon Football spent decades being before The Pick. (Seattle Times)
• Oregon Basketball (W) tonked the Hated Bearcats and OB(W) honcho Paul Westhead got jazzy. (Emerald, Register-Guard)
• A Seattle radio personality describes Oregon Football as “Freakin’ Star Trek,” en route to emphasizing that the Hated Huskies, especially without their precious throwing numen Jake Locker, are not that good. (Register-Guard)
• OF crusher Kenjon Barner is OK now and Kenny Wheaton will be at the Hated Huskies game. (Register-Guard)
• The Pacific 12 conference will make for more competitive running-for-long-distances. (Emerald)
• Emerald sports-honcho Lucas Clark writes out his NBA predictions.

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