According to a Daily Emerald story today by Emily Gillespie, OSPIRG is seeking to refund themselves for the upcoming 2010-11 school year. This should come as no surprise to students, as the group’s entire motives as of late have been to get themselves some sweet student funding (think little [...]
Well, “health care reform” is on its way to the Senate floor. When it passes (not if, but when), it will amount to little more than billions of dollars worth of wasted money and one big “WIN” check-mark in Team Blue’s column… and make no mistake, this isn’t about the [...]
Last issue of the term, full of holiday cheer.
Inside
Undercover at Powershift Thanksgiving with the O’Sullivans Elves behaving badly Holiday Drinking Game! Shameless Book Promotion What Happens when The OC goes to Texas [...]Former ASUO President Sam Dottters-Katz is up to something. What it is exactly I am not sure. But I bet it will be good. His opinion piece that was originally printed last Monday the 16th in the ole’ dirty, appears today in The Register-Guard.
[...]I’d like to extend our congratulations to OC Editor Emeritus and current editor of the excellent The Truth About Cars blog for getting an op-ed published in no lesser a venue than the New York Times. Anyone who said the OC was nothing but a bunch of drunken [...]
"Your iPhone, sir..."
“I don’t know about you but whenever I read a blog I do not let my eye drop below half the screen in case I accidentally hit the bit where the comments reside. Of all the stinking, sliding, scuttling, weird, entomological creatures [...]
Well the Ducks may get their chance at the Rose Bowl (or at least at Oregon State) after beating Arizona tonight in double overtime.
It looks like we also won our little challenge with the Arizona Desert Lamp, meaning they have to purchase 3 copies [...]
The student-produced “I Smell Roses” video has been getting a lot of publicity recently. Its nationwide attention has garnered positive reviews, however Disney and the UO Athletic Department are not happy.
The Athletic Department has asked the University of Oregon rap group “Supwitchugirl” to take down the video from Youtube. [...]
In rebuttal to yesterday’s trash-talkin’ courtesy of Evan from the Desert Lamp, Drew’s post has been put up on the Desert Lamp site.
Obviously Drew has won the fight. Now let’s watch the Ducks win the battle on Saturday.
[...]Sadly, late Wednesday the founder of my favorite restaurant in Eugene, Papa’s Soul Food Kitchen, died of a heart attack.
According to the Register-Guard Ted “Papa” Lee was a well-known musician who helped many local musicians get started here in Eugene. His band 100% Delta Blues Stomp was planning on a [...]
The following is an arranged cross-posting of trash talk between the Oregon Commentator and the Arizona Desert Lamp in preparation for Saturday’s football game vs. Arizona. Don’t like what’s being said? Feel free to trash talk back, and look for our rebuttal posting on the Desert Lamp website, www.desertlamp.com [...]
By setting a zero percent benchmark at its Wednesday night meeting, the ASUO Senate sent a message, loud and clear: “Go Ducks, but LTD can lick my sweaty, shaven nutsack.”
Or something like that. Probably not that exactly, considering that slightly more than half the Senate lacks nutsacks, sweaty and shaven [...]
The ole’ polects over at the Arizona Desert Lamp have offered up a friendly wager on the upcoming Oregon vs. Arizona football game. If the Ducks win they will buy three of our book, By the Barrel: 25 Years of the Oregon Commentator at full price, with a memo [...]
By the Barrel: 25 Years of the Oregon Commentator is now available for $10 in the UO Bookstore on 13th and Kincaid! The book is featured on a table as you walk up the [...]
Since we’re on the subject of Das Frohn, I thought I’d share a little something we received from the former University of Oregon President after asking him to contribute to By the Barrel: 25 Years of the Oregon Commentator. The following appears on the back cover of the book and [...]
I have been noticing our beloved Das Frohn around campus so I decided to start a watch. And where better to start it than when he is spotted at RENNIES! extra points to lyzi diamond and I for having lunch near him. Its almost like we ate together! Cool!
[...]
Below is an exerpt from Tyler Graf’s portion of By the Barrel: 25 Years of the Oregon Commentator. On the edge about buying a copy? You could do worse for $10.
I was told to maintain wall-eyed concentration on the video camera in front of me while my [...]
Since the next Commentator does not come out before this food drive I’ve decided to post the information here on the website. The Commentator strongly encourages you to go down and donate a can or two.
The Associated Students of the University of Oregon (ASUO) Senate will be conducting a canned [...]
250 copies of “By the Barrel: 25 Years of the Oregon Commentator” fresh off the press.
Well, my friends the day has finally come. 12 boxes of our book, By the Barrel: 25 years of the Oregon Commentator arrived this morning and god they look [...]
I fear I can’t write something that will do justice to that ASUO Senate meeting. It was “The Storm on the Sea of Galilee.” It was “Don Quijote.” It was “The Four Seasons.” And I? I am merely William Hung, tuneless, charmless, clueless.
Let’s plunge in anyway at a most unexpected [...]
Apparently LaGarrette Blount was reinstated today.
My opinion is, and always has been, that his suspension should have been a game, two at the most. Anthony Reddick, the player who used his helmet as a weapon and sparked a humongous brawl in 2006, was only [...]
Submitted by an anonymous donor.
Just thought I’d show you a few of the pictures we took.
1. At the Alamo
2. Inappropriate usage.
3. Sportin’ some fresh new gear.
4. Dinner at the riverwalk.
5. Tim [...]
Drew, Guy and I are all going to the Collegiate Network conference in San Antonio tomorrow. Anyone who wants updates on our trip should look at our twitter feed.
See you all when we get back.
[...]I’ve got a lot of ground to cover in this post, so I’m going to use the bulleted format that’s been so popular in the past. We had several rejections
Our top story (Things people who read the blog might actually care about edition): After discussions with ASUO President Emma Kallaway [...]
I drove up to Salem today and got my first five advance copies of the Oregon Commentator book By the Barrel: 25 Years of the Oregon Commentator.
I have to say, it looks absolutely gorgeous. Josh McCormick did an amazing job with the cover, David Frohnmayer’s [...]
Hi there. Tonight we’ve got another ASUO Senate meeting coming up that you can follow live below. Looking at the agenda for the meeting, it appears special requests are out and confirmations are in. ASUO President Emma Kallaway still has Xavier Aranda’s confirmation to the ASUO Senate pending, and [...]
Our newest issue can new be uploaded in the top right hand corner of this very blog. Go ahead do it, you won’t be dissapointed.
In the magazine you can find.
Carly Erickson’s Trend Spotting “Lurking in the Shadows” by T. Dane Carbaugh Scott Younker’s investigation into the ASUO’s spending on student conferences An Angry [...]Today we had our 19,000 comment ever on the blog. Thanks to a loyal fan base and liberal extremist who find our blog on Google.
According to our calculations we only need to put up 2 more blog posts on OSPRIG, one on the Comic Press, another on AHA and we [...]
First thing’s first: Congratulations Pete Carroll on a record-setting game!
Today the Ducks scored the most points ever on a Carroll-led USC team.
The concern now moves to the post game celebrations. With the increased amount of over-entitled DPS officers bicycling about the last few days, it’s only a matter of time [...]
Dating Doctor Dave Coleman appeared at the University on Tuesday
Last Tuesday, October 27th, the campus played host to David Coleman “The Dating Doctor,” who filled the EMU Ballroom to capacity for two, hour long, shows. A group of my friends, none of which are in fratorities, somehow [...]
The ASUO president may have appointed a student to the Student Senate ineligible to vote in the race for his own seat, although nobody I’ve yet talked to seems to know with certainty whether that’s the case.
The student is ethnic studies major Xavier Aranda, whom everyone on the Senate seemed [...]
As we approach Saturday let us take into account that Halloween has been a historically bad day for Eugene. Riots in the early 2000’s and late 90’s on Halloween night have been a catastrophe–just wait until you mix in a night game at Autzen coupled with the [...]
Something about the way the Athletic Department is distributing tickets this year has spawned more complaints than last year from students who want tickets but feel they can’t get them because of the new system.
That has the ASUO nervous. What does the ASUO have to do with it? Well, it [...]
The Ol’ Dirty is reporting that OSPIRG has finally been kicked out of the space in the EMU that they’ve been using since being sent packing last year. Not only that, but ASUO Executive Emma Kallaway pointed out that OSPIRG shouldn’t have been there in the first place, since [...]
Martell Webster finished with 14 pts, 3 rebs and a block.
Well opening night came and went for the Trailblazers and I have to say, they looked pretty good. After watching the new combination of Steve Blake/Andre Miller terrorize the Rockets, it may just be that the [...]
Power outage in the Knight Library, PLC, and Condon (others too that I may not know of) comes at the most perfect moment…while I am writing a paper due at 2pm. All students were evacuated from the Library until further notice.
Update: Library back open. Paper now due at 5pm. Jump [...]
I was walking past the amphitheatre today when I noticed a university employee cleaning up gutters and sidewalks with a leafblower. Now the University of Oregon recently received a “B” on a fake “sustainability report card” by a group no one cares about.
I’m just wondering where [...]
Over at the Ol’dirty our favorite Emerald staffer, CJ Ciaramella has a great blog post on UO President Richard Lariviere’s guest commentary piece in Sunday’s Register Guard. Lariviere’s commentary piece did not seem to make any mention of the ongoing problems he is facing with the UO’s faculty. [...]
The birthday cake, courtesy of 3 years of working at Baskin-Robbins in high school.
26 years ago today Richard Burr, Dane Claussen, Michael Rust and Robert Davis put out a newsmagazine on the campus of the University of Oregon. The first edition of the Oregon Commentator had [...]
Subject: EMU Board Question
From: “Elise Presicci” <epresicc@uoregon.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:55:20 -0700
Hello,
My name is Elise Presicci and I am the Chair of the House Committee for the EMU Board of Directors. I am sorry that it has taken me so long to respond to your question. I [...]
Last night’s senate meeting was like pulling a band-aid, quick and painful. The meeting started on a focus to keep up the ever falling ASUO senator retention rate. So far five senators have resigned, this leaves a lot of work for the senate to fill up those holes before [...]
The image found on a brochure given to us by OSPIRG
We were in the office yesterday, sifting through piles of random papers when out dropped a brochure from our recent trip to an OSPIRG meeting. On the front of this brochure was the image above, [...]
[Insert "Now that Hummer is owned by China" joke here]
According to an ABC news story brought to our attention by our own Josh McCormick, there has been a huge spike in electric golf car sales in the last year.
The article says that the sales [...]
1. The spit on the handrail on his way upstairs
2. Going to get the key only to find my door open upon return
3. We were listening to the Bloodhound Gang’s “Fire Water Burn”
4. Speaker wire wrapped around sprinklers
5. Duct Tape on door seams
6. 8+ plugs in one outlet
7. Broken Frisbee [...]
“Simpsons did it!”
It has recently come to our attention that the Comic Press, a “newspaper” at the University of Oregon, has been running a twitter feed titled “ASUO Spew” for quite some time. We have sat idly by while the Comic Press has made use of our [...]
The recent protests against the celebration of Columbus Day has been an interesting topic to watch develop, especially because it has been discussed by so many who have not a clue what they are talking about. Always an intelligent contributor to the conversation about race, Diego Hernandez decided to make [...]
Reedies have never exactly been renowned for anything at all except for being rich, pompous and insufferable. Sadly, they can now add to that list “have a worse student publication than the Comic Press.” For a long time, I was convinced that student-run publications couldn’t get any worse than [...]
Reversing the Bush Administration’s absurd policy of prosecuting users of medical marijana, regardless of individual state laws, the Obama Administration has announced that it
will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws…
Two Justice Department officials described the [...]
OSPIRG apparently made an appearance in a PPM 201 class last week and their claims about the organization were less than trustworthy.
When asked why they were defunded the OSPIRG representative replied, “A group of students said we shouldn’t be able to support things that were not entirely on campus, but [...]
Just distributed to our boxes at the Kincaid bus stop, the hot dog stand, Lillis, 13th and University, Mac Court, EMU steps, EMU elevator, Rec Center and the Living Learning Center.
Expect to see distribution boxes come in to Carson and Hamilton as well in the coming week.
[...]
The OSPIRG “Activist Toolkit”.
Yesterday Guy Simmons and I made an appearance at the OSPIRG meeting down in Suite 1. We introduced ourselves with our real names with no intention of hiding from who we are. We received a plethora of materials, including an “Activist Toolkit” that, [...]
During a Commentator meeting this past summer Guy, Dane and I were in the office working on the Summer Issue. The temperature reached a blistering 109, the humidity was at 97. Our 3rd floor office in the EMU became so hot the computers over heated. Our only item on the [...]
I was interested in reading the Emerald’s article about yesterday’s anti-Columbus Day protest held in the EMU Amphitheatre by the Native American Student Union (NASU). In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past fifteen or twenty years, there’s been a somewhat high-profile effort nationally to [...]
According to Tomcat down at the Ol’ Dirty, the grievance filed against Emma Kallaway for failure of her duties was dismissed.
I’ve remained unimpressed with the stated greivance against Kallaway since it was filed this summer. Really, I could care less if she turned in her stated goals on time. [...]
Apparently OSPIRG has been using the University of Oregon’s “O” symbol to help brand themselves among University of Oregon students.
The use of the symbol is undoubtedly an infringement upon the University of Oregon’s trademark, especially if OSPIRG is using it to solicit donations.
More importantly, the “O” [...]
(From left: Bryanna, Me, Drew, Ashton (CN Rep) and Tony Montana)
The Collegiate Network was nice enough to take us to dinner tonight. Our new CN rep, Ashton, treated us to delicious burgers and brews during trivia night at the Eugene City Brewery.
Guy Simmons proceeded to order [...]
“What you know about that, Obama?”
It was announced on Friday that Drew Cattermole, editor-in-chief of the Oregon Commentator, was awarded three Nobel prizes for his work in various fields ranging from the sciences to his work in humanitarian efforts.
“I pretty much expected this,” said Cattermole, [...]
OSPIRG tabling outside of the EMU
Just when you thought you’d never see the annoying succubus we call OSPIRG, here they are once again getting in the way of your path to lunch at the EMU.
Although last year’s executive succeeded in pushing the group off campus for the [...]
Yes Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Becoming one of a small number of Presidents who have won the award. Roosevelt and Wilson both won the award while in office and Jimmy Carter received twenty years after office. Obama becomes the first American to win the award since Al [...]
Kari Chisholm at Blue Oregon muses about the err… surprising news that President Obama has, only months into his Presidency and with no particular achievements to speak of, been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He comes to the conclusion that
… the Nobel committee sometimes awards the Peace Prize as [...]
There are two things I learned from last night’s five hour senate meeting. First, the UO is one big pair of pants and the student groups are all different pockets. Secondly, covering the ASUO senate is a marathon, not a sprint.
The senates first priority was to approve Carina Miller to [...]
The Oregon Daily Emerald’s multimedia site recently posted a video in which students from the University of Oregon campus were asked what they thought about the possibility of concealed weapons on campus. With a few exceptions, most students responded as expected:
“I think that it shouldn’t be allowed, partly because [...]
The Oregon Commentator is privy to the police feed from the EPD. This one seemed particularly worrisome. Stay safe out there. Man Set on Fire During Assault Case No. 09-17789 Eugene Police are looking for information regarding an incident early Saturday morning, in which a man was lit on [...]
In case you though that Blount was out of the picture after his apology letter today, you might be wrong.
I was looking at some Oregon Ducks sports news today when I came across an article on Foxsports that hinted at Blount’s possible return to actually playing for Oregon this [...]
That’s right. The first working rough draft of the book is ready to go, all laid out.
Time to get antsy in your pantsies.
[...]It’s official. This year’s “Back to the Booze” is out on newsstands all around campus.
Go out and get one–it’s colorful and packed full of helpful tips on how to survive as a freshman.
Cheers to the two girls I saw reading it and laughing at “OC Asks…”
“Robocop: A condom. Ha!”
[...]Well it’s 12am and I’m still here at the EMU. Luckily for you, it’s all for your benefit. The book is coming along nicely, and looks to be coming in at a fat 340 pages. It will include a hardback binding, dust jacket and 12-page glossy insert of selected art [...]
After months of playing with the idea of purchasing the iconic “Made in Portland” sign The University of Oregon has decided to back off. This week marked the end of a lease the UO purchased that gave it the rights to buy the sign. After a year that included one [...]
I was sitting in my “History of America in the 60’s” class and the professor posed a question that obviously blew a few fuses in the minds of nubile freshmen.
The question posed was: “You’re on your back porch, and you have train tracks that run across next to your land, [...]
Sudsy’s first appearance, Summer 2001, Vol. 18, Issue 15
Today is the birthday of our beloved mascot, Sudsy O’Sullivan. He was brewed one drunken night at Rennie’s–concocted from the clip art of a mug of beer, the arm from Baby Herman (of Who Shot Roger Rabbit? [...]
I’ve had trouble liking President Obama since before he was elected. I’ll admit to not voting for him, though writing in McCain without Palin on my ballot probably didn’t get my vote counted anywhere.
This article from Newsweek by Howard Fineman lays out the things about Obama that I find [...]
“Why don’t you say that to my face?”
Apparently University of Oregon President Richard “Dick” Lariviere had a kick-ass summer and wanted to start the school year off right by showing incoming freshmen that he was “down” by getting a few face tats.
In addition to his new [...]
We are happy to inform you all that our new issue is ready to hit the stands.
Inside
Gun control really about all civil liberties by T. Dane Carbaugh A letter to freshmen from Carly Erickson Survival guide Booze reviewCheers!
[...]The Register-Guard’s Rob Moseley writes today that “[a]ll indications are that Oregon will unveil a retro-style uniform” on Saturday. Speculation is rampant, but I think I speak for everyone when I say that the best-case scenario is that they resemble those worn during the 1995 run to the Rose [...]
What happens when an influential Senator dies and the law says that he can’t be replaced without holding a special election? Just get rid of the law, which your party put in place back in 2004 to prevent the rival party from potentially taking a vacated Senate seat, so [...]
The jury’s still out on how good of a head coach Chip Kelly is, but if there’s something we now know for sure it’s that he’s a pretty nice guy.
After the Ducks’ disastrous opening night loss to Boise St., Oregon alum and season ticket holder Tony Seminary emailed Kelly to [...]
Myles Brand, who preceded the now-retired Dave Frohnmayer as President of the University of Oregon has died after a battle with cancer.
(H/T: Blue Oregon)
[...]Via Reason, The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a great article about one of the Commentator’s favorite topics — intellectual diversity on campus. It starts by discussing the (somewhat eyebrow-raising) opening of a “Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements” at Berkeley, and eventually moves into a [...]
That pesky little document that seems to be continually thwarting the best laid plans of our political class, the Constitution of the United States of America, was signed 222 years ago today. Let’s hope it keeps pissing people off and frustrating their ambitions for another 222 years.
(H/T: Instapundit)
[...]“US President Barack Obama does not believe current criticism of his policies is based on the colour of his skin, the White House has said.” Prediction: angry letters in next week’s Eugene Weekly excoriating the President for being a racist.
But seriously, the guy just went up a few points [...]
Reason’s Jesse Walker discusses at length some of the ideas I’ve been trying to get at recently:
When mainstream commentators treat a small group of unconnected crimes as a grand, malevolent movement, they unwittingly echo the very conspiracy theories they denounce. Both brands of connect-the-dots fantasy reflect the [...]
Alexander Tomchak, Evan Lisull of the Arizona Desert Lamp, Dane, de lancie, Nicholas Ekblad, Drew Cattermole, Ekblad, Vincent, Kiefer VerSteegh, Scott Younker
