Oregon Daily Emerald

April 28th, 2008

Proposed seven-story building near University reduced to four stories in new plans

By Jason Reed on April 28th, 2008

What was once seen as a seven-story eye sore by local neighbors has been chopped down to a four-story apartment building.

Lauren Hulse, a member of the South University Neighborhood Association, said in an e-mail that she has had contact with the builder of an apartment complex on the corner of 19th Ave. and Alder St. The building was originally planned to be seven-story high rise, but Hulse said in her e-mail that Dean Pickett, the developer, has created new plans for the building that will now be four stories high.

Pickett has been working with the SUNA neighbors to find a middle ground so that both sides would be happy. Apparently he has decided to reduce the building height, but unitl building permits are filed then nothing is definite.
Here is a part of the e-mail from Hulse:

Hi Folks,

I’d like to first thank everyone who donated money, attended City Council Meetings and Work Sessions, Planning Commission Meetings and who went door-to-door passing out signs, giving out information and collecting e-mail addresses.

I talked with Dean Pickett today and he is planning a 4-story (yes, that’s four!) building with a total of 18-20 dwelling units with 3, 4 or 5 bedrooms per unit at 19th and Alder. The parking will be ground level with one parking spot per dwelling unit.

I can’t give any more details at the moment because Dean is still working out the total design with the architect but he said I could send out a message saying it would be 4-stories.

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April 25th, 2008

OMFG: New “Dark Knight” movie poster!

By Matt Sevits on April 25th, 2008

There are no words necessary. Feast your eyes on the amazingness below:

click the picture for full high-res version

[source: firstshowing.net]

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April 22nd, 2008

How A Graphic Is Born (warning younger readers!)

By Ryan Heidt on April 22nd, 2008

Hey dudes and dudettes, sorry about the blogiatus (blog + hiatus [clever I know!]) but school always seems to get in the way of my blogging yo. Anyways, a whole lot has happened since we last spoke, but I’m not allowed to talk about most of it! So just be secure in the knowledge that I would never abandon you.

Well let’s get going shall we? Let me tell you a little bit about what it took to get the Earth Day graphic done last night. I came to the office at 5 and my boss told me that she and the photo editor were thinking about turning cell phones into a globe, but they didn’t really know how so they just took a bunch of pictures of cell phones. So I went about cutting out all the cell phones of people in the office and changing them either blue or green and then slowing layering them all over the globe in the right places. Then the managing editor and the editor-in-chief came out and said that the story wasn’t just about cell phone recycling. They wanted a recycling symbol, but maybe with electronics in it? So we went around and took pictures of computers and such around the office. I cut all those out and placed them inside a recycle symbol but it looked horribly boring. So I proposed that I continue making the globe but with more electronics than just cell phones and that we can have the recycling symbol hugging the earth. That is just about the time that I accidentally unplugged my computer and had to start from scratch all over again. I left after midnight putting in a solid seven hours of work for that graphic.

Luckily it isn’t always this bad, usually it is just a locater map that takes five minutes. Alright bye readers, hopefully we’ll see each other sooner rather than later.

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April 22nd, 2008

Don’t you value your music?

By Matt Sevits on April 22nd, 2008

You know what I don’t understand? People who have thousands of songs on their computers/iPods and haven’t even listened to half of them or don’t even realize they have them.

I used to have a friend who bought a 60-gig iPod and just about filled the thing, and whenever we’d drive around in her car with the iPod on shuffle, we’d come across songs she didn’t even realize she had. WTF? She had to somehow put these songs on her computer, so I don’t know how she could be unaware that she had them. It turns out she would just download songs at pretty much at random on Limewire. If she heard a song once and liked it, she would download it and forget about it.

I really don’t understand this sentiment, which seems to be pretty popular. I value my music very much, and every time I download a song, I make sure to play it as soon as possible. In fact, I recently made a “Never Played” smart playlist on iTunes so I could play all the songs I’d never played before. I’m kinda obsessive about my iTunes, so I felt better after I did that. How can people stand to have hundreds or thousands of songs they’ve never played?

Maybe I’m just a special case because I have such a small library in comparison to a lot of people. I have 1300 songs, and as it is I’m starting to feel like I neglect a lot of my library. I don’t want to become one of those people who’s completely oblivious of their music library.
That said, I am a little guilty. Every once in a while I’ll download a shitty dance song only to discover that I don’t like it — but I keep it anyway. I don’t know why, I just don’t want to download it in case I somehow end up liking it at some point down the road. This means that I forget about some of these songs every once in a while, but I go through my music library from time to time and get rid of the songs I really don’t have any need for. Also, I never put my iPod on shuffle only to discover new songs. I’ve heard all of my songs AT LEAST once, so none of my music will ever be new or surprising to me.

If you’re downloading music and not even listening to it afterward, maybe you should stop. You obviously don’t value your music enough. Hell, if most of your music is illegally downloaded, you don’t value your music enough. Start paying for your music and you’ll learn not to take those sweet tunes for granted.

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April 20th, 2008

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By Ryan Knutson on April 20th, 2008

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