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Nobody Asked Us...

That's WRCredible!

According to the Oregon Daily Emerald on May 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, the University of Oregon is still a member of the Worker Rights Consortium, Nike founder Phil Knight is still withdrawing all future donations, and President Frohnmayer is still not going to pull out of the WRC. Thanks to the ODE's redundant - er, that is - persistent coverage, none of these important new developments have escaped our ken. We'll keep you updated for all breaking events.

EPD (Almost) Shoots OC!

The safety of the community was threatened on a recent Saturday afternoon when an OC editor and Haiku Poet menaced passersby in front of their house in the southwest University neighborhood - or so it seemed to an elderly gentleman who identified himself as "Visitor." The policeman who came to his assistance by sneaking around the bushes to the rear of the house, gun cocked and ready, gave a good scare to all, as well as a searing lecture on the liability of owning an unloaded BB gun within city limits and, worse, playing air guitar on a baseball bat.

OSPIRG vs. OSPIRG

A spectre is haunting the University of Oregon campus... the spectre of the Oregon Student Private Interest Research Group.

In the next few weeks, be on the lookout for a new publication at the University of Oregon: the OSPIRG Impakt. Sort of like the OSPIRG Impact, the occasional PR mouthpiece of the Oregon

Student Public Interest Research group, except diametrically opposed to the group whose on-campus headquarters is in Suite One of the EMU. OSPIRG, whose chief purpose is to oppose OSPIRG, is not a student group, and will not collect any student fees... this year.

Says founder William Beutler, who recently filed paperwork with the state of Oregon to register the non-profit entity, "At first there will probably be some confusion, but it won't last. There isn't enough room on this campus for the both of us."

Things to do:

1. Go to http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~ocomment and rack up a few more hits on our counter.

2. Find something to hate. Hate it night and day. Hate.

3. Call OSPIRG at 346-4377 and ask where their money is going to, and why they are using publicly collected fees for political interests. Just in case you're curious.

4. Visit Dave Frohnmayer: Head south on Agate. Turn left on 19th. Right on Moss. Right again on Fairmount. Left on McMorran. Look for 2315 - it's the big house. He'll have lemonade waiting.

5. Just do it. No one will care.