Articles
Fishing The Bottle Neck: Bonneville Dam Biologists And Fishermen Clash Over Dealing With A Pack Of Nuisance Sea Lions
10/30/2009 09:17
The Columbia River appears lazy, placid in the eerie pre-dawn. A foggy, vaporous sheet hangs over the river. It reaches the shore, ensnares the Doug firs and cedars, and slides over the mountains. The sun stalls below the...
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The Envy of Men: The Rooted Absurdity of Facial Hair
10/30/2009 00:47
I won’t lie. I have a glorious beard. I call it, The Envy of Men. It’s motor oil-black, thick as an Irish accent, and rough like sandpaper. When I wake in the morning, I don’t have bed head––I have bed face. Obviously,...
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The Many Annes: A Step Into The Life Of A Multiple
10/30/2009 11:48
A turntable-mixed voice screeches between beat-boxed drumming, reverberating through stage speakers, “Eh, eh, eh, every. Eh, every. Everybody. Everybody is Annnnnne.” Anne Gregory––a 26-year-old self-diagnosed case...
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A Personal Journey: Lauren Visconte Has Been Nominated As Woman Of The Year
10/31/2009 11:25
A poem penned in blue is scrawled on Lauren Visconte's forearm. When asked about it, she doesn't want to explain it because she's guarded and suspicious about most everything, and she balks at sensitive...
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Breeding Out The Dog
10/30/2009 12:20
Staring down, there was only blood––hands covered in blood––dripping from a ragged gash. I had been standing on my neighbor’s stoop. Their door had opened and a black and white-spotted blur lunged. I will never know why that...
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A Man Of Unfine Art
10/31/2009 10:48
Feinstein’s Museum of Unfine Art and Record Store is a hangout, tobacco and music store, and an art gallery. The Museum was named after Arthur Feinstein, whose legend was passed to storeowner Shawn Mediaclast through oral...
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Aronofsky’s “The Fountain” Breaths Life
10/30/2009 11:45
One of the most painful parts of a reviewer’s job is hearing that the general movie-going public shuns the movie he or she highly recommends––it’s simply heartbreaking. This reviewer highly suspects this will be the...
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Octoberman At Luckey's
10/31/2009 10:28
The crack of pool balls striking each other resonates through Luckey’s Club Cigar Store, the oldest bar in Eugene. Chattering patrons drown the sound of the University of Oregon basketball game playing on a wall- mounted TV....
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Slap Bracelet Rerevolution
10/30/2009 17:17
Wasted Saturdays at the local videogame arcade ruled my childhood. Fastened around my waist, a neon-blue fanny pack bursting with quarters jostled and jiggled as I emphatically thrust black joysticks and tapped big red buttons,...
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Designing Hasbeen
10/30/2009 16:44
A Sharpie-drawn octopus tentacle holding an ice cream cone snakes up an art gallery wall. Tiny gnomish characters wearing pointy hats stick to its suction cups. The tentacle wraps around a three-by-three square of colorful...
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Skateboarders Find Fall Refuge at West Eugene Shelter
10/30/2009 12:48
Springfield Middle School student Tyler Cobb rests with one foot on his skateboard at the top of a 15-foot ramp. He pulls up the bottom of his Bone Swiss t-shirt and wipes the sweat from his brow. His cheeks are flushed and...
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A Road To A Speedy Recovery
10/30/2009 12:50
Nothing nixes a running season better than drinking boxed wine at the beach, deciding to play soccer afterward and receiving a swollen, purple sprained ankle from an Australian rugby-player wannabe’s execution of a flying...
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On The Road To A New Future
10/30/2009 12:54
Tammy Jordan was 12 the first time she snorted cocaine. She tried it again three years later while cleaning house for a friend of her mother's boyfriend, finding it in a plastic zippered bag stowed under a refrigerator. Now,...
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Man arrested after removing cans from bin
10/30/2009 14:29
On campus Friday at 3 p.m., Eugene police arrested a man who arrived near the EMU amphitheater on bike and began taking cans from a nearby recycle...
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UO Professor Argues Against Paleontologist's Human Evolution Theory
10/31/2009 11:37
Digging in the dirt of East Africa for ancient monkey remains, University assistant professor Stephen R. Frost discovered that famed South African paleontologist Elisabeth Vrba's controversial theories about human evolution may...
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Stereotypes Should Not Define 'Cultural Essence,' Lecturer Says
04/13/2006 00:00
Stanford Law School professor Richard Thompson Ford expressed concerns about the theory of racial culture, which assumes that cultural discrimination should be treated the same as racial discrimination, during a...
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