Archive for January, 2009
Correction
In that last blog, I made the rather silly mistake of referring to Ted Niedermeyer as a former senator. I honestly cannot divine the source of that idea. Since, when one makes a mistake in the print edition of the ODE, one has to write a correction, I’m going to write one for this site. [...]
Bryant on radar for national softball player of the year
UO junior Neena Bryant’s offensive numbers the last two seasons have put her on the watch list for the USA Softball Preseason Player of the Year. She’s one of 50 players on that list.
Bryant led Oregon last season in an impressive five offensive categories: batting (.330), slugging (.536), hits (64), home runs (10) and multi-hit games [...]
"I have been fighting all year"
That’s the denoueument of the over-realized process begun by changes Dotters-Katz made to the Clark Document. The Spring Term I-fee is now $95, while it was $195.
Put in those terms, the $400 total that would save a current, out-of-state freshman by the time he or she graduated would appears minuscule next to the $107,916 it [...]
The important stuff
More on the last ASUO Sen. Meeting.
Comedy moment: I think we’ve been over that
Fashion watch: Sen. Liddy Soto (Seat 14, Social Studies) turned up in full rugby kit, complete with spandex pants and one of those leather helmets Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech gets so much stick for wearing. I was also pretty impressed with the [...]
Did you know Oregon’s connection with world-class tennis?
Yesterday the ODE’s Ben Schorzman took a good look at Oregon’s tennis teams, which are solid programs that are stuck in a conference where more than half the teams are ranked in the top 25. Last season Oregon’s men went winless (0-7) in the league. The women fared a little better, 3-5.
What Schorzman looked at [...]
Constitution Court
This story is best told by a series of emails. This one went from Derek Nix to the Constitution Court at around 5pm Tuesday.
Chief Justice and Justices of the Court,
It has come to the attention of the ASUO Student Senate that the ASUO Constitution Court is abusing their power in regards to various rullings. [...]
Thunder God
In lighter ASUO news, I found the article about Sam Dotters-Katz in this recent issue of the Comic Press very funny. The last couple paragraphs of this article in particular are a stroke of comic genius .
And the article’s not just funny either. The article uses hyperbole to explore Dotters-Katz’s persona and character in a [...]
Ciaramella appointment denied
CJ Ciaramella’s appointment to the ASUO Senate failed Wednesday after the Oregon Commentator editor responded to concerns he would not take the position seriously by trimming his facial hair in the style of Wilford Brimley and reciting Barack Obama’s inaugural address before the Senate.
Not one senator voted to appoint Ciaramella to the empty seat representing [...]
