Public affairs:

• Face-egg: Developing on the Riverfront may be more difficult for the UO after the University Senate unanimously censured the development, since the UO violated an ancient agreement that it would consult people and develop in a certain way (Emerald). Evidently UO cheese Richard Lariviere performed the time-tested leave-early maneuver at the Senate meeting, while the UO has already begun running red excavators on the site (KEZI). Or maybe it won’t make a difference. The UO and city seem to believe the agreement is no longer valid (Register-Guard). A UO Matters reader makes dark suggestions about why this was only discovered now, when it’s arguably too late, and an old newspaper clipping UO Matters unearths suggests the same concerns existed in 1986. The Eugene Weekly also chimes in.
• ASUO Police: There’s a lot of the usual dross in descriptions of the ASUO Senate meeting, but at one point, DPS’ police force expansion is discussed. ASUO Sen. Erin Altman questions the financial aspects of a larger DPS. In response: “The DPS officers attending the meeting said they were not out to create a large police force and they would return the money they didn’t need.” What? Is this a thing that works? What does this mean? (Emerald)
• OSPIRG: The Oregon Voice’s Noah DeWitt has hard questions for Kitty Piercy at an OSPIRG junket. (Oregon Voice)
• What do numbers mean? The ones describing OSU’s enrollment are now higher than the ones describing UO’s (Register-Guard).
• Racism: A guy came to town to talk about environmental racism. (Emerald)
• Scheduling oops: There’s a parade set to take place during the Civil War football game. (KMTR)

Some very interesting opinion articles are below the fold, and so is sports.

Opinion:

• UO Matters does some dot-connecting in the Washington A.D. situation: The UW’s president is on the Nike corporation’s board. Also, the UO has filed a few affirmative action plans late and nobody seems to be saying why. It’s making me wonder (the old journalistic itch). UO Matters has a post on it.
• Letters: For people who love letters to the editor, Christmas comes every week on Thursday with Eugene’s best letters section, in the Eugene Weekly. This time around, a woman with breast cancer beats the living rhetorical shit out of someone from last week, and there are plenty of accusations that the Guard is with the Establishment. Also, this zinger at the beginning of a letter that ran otherwise intact in yesterday’s Guard: “Should we call it moneyocracy?” Meanwhile, at the Guard, a local activist says she wonders whether the Guard might not be a little homophobic, while a guy spits on Kevin Mannix in print form.
• Editorials: The Guard hopes the whole clean water-regulations debacle with EWEB won’t sour us on trying to clean our water, and calls on the lame-duck Congress to repeal Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell before it’s too late.
• Emerald opinion-honcho Tyree Harris vents the angst of his own identity as a black man with scholastic aspirations and has harsh words for Rick Ross: “Standing in front of that camera, flashing that gold, that woman or that car, he is the modern day Uncle Tom. Bought like livestock, his millions make record labels billions. He loves his record label like the house slave loved his master.” (Emerald).
• In a move that truly does honor to our veterans, the Guard’s Bob Welch pours his immense talents into a column celebrating two veterans that is, for once, not the least bit smarmy. (Register-Guard)
• The head of the state vets’ affairs department tells us to be thankful. (Register-Guard)
• The Emerald’s Meghan Hodge fake-profiles a fake bouncer for the Shallot. Takeaway: fixies are evidently cooler than mountain bikes.

Sports:

• Oregon Football: is saying nice things about shrink-wrapped gridiron fetus Bryan Bennett, who is now the deputy to sly-handed whippet Darron Thomas (Register-Guard); will continue to be telecast in 3D (KVAL); can be dangerous to your health (Weekly); has a greatness illustrated by the following numbers (Emerald).
• Oregon Basketball (W): scooped four recruits, while Oregon Volleyball’s scooped three (Register-Guard).
• Oregon Basketball (M): has been taking prospective recruits to OF games, and it’s paid off (Register-Guard).
• Oregon Cross-Country (W): will chase redemption in an upcoming regional tournament. (Register-Guard)
• Oregon Golf (M): Finished sixth (Emerald).
• Oregon Club Soccer (M): Can’t make nationals but is on course for the league win. (Emerald)
• Emerald sports-honcho Lucas Clark gets all gooey at the prospect of watching his favorite team, Duke, play OB(M).
• Guard sports-muzzle George Schroeder catches up with a UO fan who lost a leg and lets us know Chip Kelly’s not just a full-scrotumed gridiron guru, but also may play the (***SPOILER ALERT***) Will Farrell role from Wedding Crashers at military services (***SPOILER FINISHED***), or possibly just be really patriotic. “He slipped into the service honoring the life of Marine Lance Cpl. Joe Rodewald, sat quietly in the crowd, then slipped back out.” (Guard)
• Oregon sports tidbits with the Guard!

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