A big, big thank you is due to the following people who chipped in money in order to give us two brand spankin’ new boxes: Bill Beutler, Ed Carson, Bret Jacobson, Owen Brennan Rounds, R.S.D. Wederquist, and, of course, Tim Dreier. Tim was instrumental in organizing and paying for the purchase of the boxes (not to mention this website, which he pays for out of pocket.) This magazine is what it is today thanks to our alumni- without them, we’d be just another characterless rag. Thanks a lot, fellas.

This doubles our total number of outdoor distribution points. You can find Commentator boxes across the street from the UO Bookstore, next to the PLC bus stop, on a kitty-corner from the EMU Amphitheatre, and on Agate St. across from Hamilton. You can find indoor racks in Lillis, Hamilton, Carson, and the EMU. We will be adding two more outdoor boxes soon enough, this time out of our fundraising account.

Worried that a political comic could attack you at any point? So are we.

The new issue is finally, finally, finally, done. Check it out, for the love of God.

The new issue’s out. There’s lots of good stuff in it, including Brian Bogart reportage, meal point plan changes, smoking ban nonsense, RRC delights, state constitutional craziness, and, of course, guns. Hooray for a non-gimmick issue!

And now, I sleep. Email all flames/corrections/naughtybits to [email protected].

Who: Current staffers, future staffers, ex-staffers, staffers-in-law, step-staffers, and you.
What: Oregon Commentator Staff Meeting
When: Wednesday, Oct. 19 at 7:00pm Pacific Time (Sod off, GMTers.)
Where: EMU Century Room D (On the top floor of the Skylight room.)
Why: Because meetings are the hip thing nowadays, and we’re all about the kids.
How: There is no how.

Okay, my last post on this topic was filled with inaccuracies. My apologies.

For those who are interested in joining the Oregon Commentator, we will be having a meeting on Wednesday, October 12, at 7:00pm in EMU Century Room D, which is underneath the Skylight. Bring a friend … a friend named Jack.

A crisp stack of staff applications have been placed in the box attached to our office door at 319 EMU, above the ODE. Take one. Seriously, take one.

We’re always looking for staff positions: Contributors, copie eduhters, business wunderkinds, photogs, precious artistes, astute pontificators, etc … or maybe you have your own idea of what you can offer the magazine.

Okay, so here’s the deal: The first Oregon Commentator meeting of the year will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 6 at 7:00 pm in the OC office, 319 EMU, above the Ol’ Dirty office. Ian will be sending an email to all of you who are currently OC staffers shortly. For those of you who are not yet affiliated with our fine publication but may harbor an interest in possibly joining in the future, you are urged to come by and check things out. Seriously. We’ll even buy you a drink at Rennie’s (and by “we” I mean Dan Atkinson Tyler Graf). Staff applications can be found in a box affixed to the door to our office.

To summarize:
What: OC staff meeting.
Where: EMU Century Room D (Near the skylight, on the upper floor.)
When: 7:00 pm, Wednesday, Oct. 6.
Who: You.
Afterwards: Drinking, naturally.

(post future-dated, courtesy of Dr. Brown)

Well, I guess posting when a new issue is done is all the rage nowadays, so here’s a post indicating that the issue’s off to the printers and available on the website. We were hoping to get it done a day earlier, but them’s the breaks.

Also, apologies to those alums whose content we couldn’t include. It’s obviously a jam-packed issue (laying out the thing was a damn nightmare,) and there simply wasn’t enough room for everything we wanted in. Originally, we were not going to include any articles by current staffers, but we felt Dan’s excellent wine guide was too good to pass up. Plus, Dan himself has been with the magazine longer than it takes most wines to ferment, so I think his article’s inclusion is more than fair.

Anyways, read and enjoy some of the best works from the Commentator’s past twenty-two years.

Also: Grape Ape is one of our nation’s least understood cartoon animals. Discuss.

…by about an hour and a half. It’s in WOWP’s hands now. Hopefully they’ll have it back to us by Thursday morning. It’s a hell of a pdf (over 6mb with the [Smallest File Size] profile,) so make sure you either have a ton of RAM or have closed all superfluous open applications.

My sincere apologies for any glaring errors. I’ve been up for 28 hours and have a shortage of proof readers along with an important deadline. In this case, the deadline won.

It’s finally done. Let the complaining commence!

Hack Attack ’05 is now available for your perusal. Enjoy!

Western Oregon Web Press… 48 hour turn around. Huzzah! Props to all the staff out there.

Issue 6/7 is in the office. Distribute when y’all can. I took some down to the EMU boxes.

Pop open those bottles of bubbly, y’all! The Collegiate Network (thank you, Steve Klugewicz) and the FIRE (thank you, David French!) are toasting our victories as we speak.

Excerpt from the FIRE press release:

President Frohnmayers refusal to correct the PFC was irresponsible, commented Greg Lukianoff, FIREs director of legal and public advocacy. The students needed guidance on the law from the administration, and from President Frohnmayers response it looks as though the students were never provided with the guidance they neededuntil FIRE decided to write the students directly.

We certainly hope that the ASUOand the UO administrationhas learned its lesson and that, from now on, student fees will not be used as a tool to favor or disfavor particular viewpoints. FIRE will continue to monitor the situation at UO to ensure that this attempt at censorship does not happen again, concluded FIREs French.

Hats off to the Collegiate Network and our supporters on campus for having faith in our ability to remain a strong presence at the University of Oregon.

Guys, I can’t believe that you still haven’t put a post up about this yet. It happened TWO DAYS AGO. Why wasn’t I informed? It’s because I’m involved with public broadcasting now, isn’t it? You’ve turned your backs on me, ya free-market-hugging bastards!

OC Budget Hearing
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST, 7:45 PM
EMU ROGUE ROOM

DEFEND THE FIRST AMENDMENT
SHOW UP EARLY, SHOW UP ROWDY