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The ''Insurgent'' is a journal of radical politics published by a Collective of students and others who express solidarity with such groups as the [[Animal Liberation Front]] and the [[Earth First!]] organization. Among other causes, the ''Insurgent'' rallies for the release of such individuals as [[Mumia Abu-Jamal]] and convicted arsonist Jeffrey "Free" Leuers, on the grounds that they are wrongly held political prisoners.
The ''Insurgent'' is a journal of radical politics published by a Collective of students and others who express solidarity with such groups as the [[Animal Liberation Front]] and the [[Earth First!]] organization. Among other causes, the ''Insurgent'' rallies for the release of such individuals as [[Mumia Abu-Jamal]] and convicted arsonist Jeffrey "Free" Leuers, on the grounds that they are wrongly held political prisoners.

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Controversy has occasionally surrounded the ''Commentator'' and the ''Insurgent''. In 2001 the ''Insurgent'' gained national attention for publishing a primer on violent methods of ending scientific testing on lab animals, opposite a page detailing the names, phone numbers, and home addresses of science professors alleged to be involved in such practices. In 2005 members of the ''Insurgent'' Collective led efforts to defund the ''Oregon Commentator'' on the grounds that it had violated its own Mission and Goals statement by ridiculing a prominent student senator. The ASUO's Programs Finance Committee (PFC) voted to defund the ''Commentator''. Later, three members of the PFC resigned their positions under duress, including one whose criminal record was published in the ''Commentator''. The free-speech advocacy and civil rights organization [[FIRE]] threatened legal action against the University, and the ''Commentator's'' funding was subsequently reinstated by a reconstituted PFC. In 2006 the ''Commentator'' republished the twelve [[Mohammed cartoons]] that had sparked riots across the Middle East after first appearing in the Danish newspaper [[Jyllands Posten]] several months prior. The ''Insurgent'' followed by publishing twelve cartoons depicting Jesus, some of which featured the deity with a prominent erection. Several groups demanded a public apology or a defunding of the ''Insurgent'', and news outlets including [[The O'Reilly Factor]] called for the firing of the University's President [[David B. Frohnmayer]]. Both the ''Emerald'' and the ''Commentator'' publicly defended the ''Insurgent's'' right to free speech and Frohnmayer's decision to uphold it, citing the 2001 Southworth decision by the Supreme Court.


Other student publications on the University of Oregon campus include the multicultural magazine ''Korean Ducks'', the School of Journalism's yearly magazine project ''Flux'', the ASUO Women's Center's newsletter ''The Siren'', and the ASUO governmental newsletter ''NETMA'' (acronym for Nobody Ever Tells Me Anything). In early 1983, Dane S. Claussen also founded the ASUO Record, one of several student government publications preceding NETMA.
Other student publications on the University of Oregon campus include the multicultural magazine ''Korean Ducks'', the School of Journalism's yearly magazine project ''Flux'', the ASUO Women's Center's newsletter ''The Siren'', and the ASUO governmental newsletter ''NETMA'' (acronym for Nobody Ever Tells Me Anything). In early 1983, Dane S. Claussen also founded the ASUO Record, one of several student government publications preceding NETMA.

===Student media controversies===
Controversy has occasionally surrounded the ''Commentator'' and the ''Insurgent''. In 2001 the ''Insurgent'' gained national attention for publishing a primer on violent methods of ending scientific testing on lab animals, opposite a page detailing the names, phone numbers, and home addresses of science professors alleged to be involved in such practices.

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In 2005 members of the ''Insurgent'' Collective led efforts to defund the ''Oregon Commentator'' on the grounds that it had violated its own Mission and Goals statement by ridiculing a prominent student senator. The ASUO's Programs Finance Committee (PFC) voted to defund the ''Commentator''. Later, three members of the PFC resigned their positions under duress, including one whose criminal record was published in the ''Commentator''. The free-speech advocacy and civil rights organization [[FIRE]] threatened legal action against the University, and the ''Commentator's'' funding was subsequently reinstated by a reconstituted PFC. In 2006 the ''Commentator'' republished the twelve [[Mohammed cartoons]] that had sparked riots across the Middle East after first appearing in the Danish newspaper [[Jyllands Posten]] several months prior. The ''Insurgent'' followed by publishing twelve cartoons depicting Jesus, some of which featured the deity with a prominent erection. Several groups demanded a public apology or a defunding of the ''Insurgent'', and news outlets including [[The O'Reilly Factor]] called for the firing of the University's President [[David B. Frohnmayer]]. Both the ''Emerald'' and the ''Commentator'' publicly defended the ''Insurgent's'' right to free speech and Frohnmayer's decision to uphold it, citing the 2001 Southworth decision by the Supreme Court.


==University of Oregon and Nike==
==University of Oregon and Nike==

Revision as of 09:31, 12 June 2006

University of Oregon
University of Oregon Seal
MottoMens Agitat Molem
(Latin for "The Minds Move Mountains")
TypePublic
Established1876
EndowmentUS$304 million
PresidentDavid B. Frohnmayer
Undergraduates16,475
Postgraduates3,919
Location
Eugene
,
Oregon
,
USA
CampusUrban
MascotDonald Duck File:Oregonfightingducks.jpg
Websitewww.uoregon.edu

The University of Oregon (UO) is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class (five students) two years later.

The school colors are green and yellow, and its mascot is Donald Duck [1].

In 2005, U.S. News and World Report ranked the school highest in academics among national universities in the state of Oregon. Overall, the school is ranked 115 out of 248 national universities. The University is one of 60 elected members of the Association of American Universities.

Former Oregon Attorney General David B. Frohnmayer is the president of the university. UO receives much of its funding from the UO Foundation, an independent not-for-profit organization.

Campus

The University of Oregon has around 80 buildings and facilities, including athletics sites such as Hayward Field, which is the site for the 2007 Olympic Trials, and McArthur Court, and off-campus sites such as nearby Autzen Stadium, the Westmoreland Housing area and the Riverfront Research Park.

The university is known for being the site of a pioneering participatory planning experiment known as the Oregon Experiment (which is also the subject of a book of the same name). The two major principles of the project are that buildings should be designed, in part, by the people who will ultimately use them (usually with the help of an 'architect facilitator'), and that construction should occur over many small projects (as opposed to a few large ones).

Deady Hall is the university's oldest building. Completed on October 16, 1876, it was the only building on campus and had an enrollment of 177 students. Deady Hall is now home to many classrooms, offices of mathematics faculty and graduate students, and the mathematics undergraduate lounge. In 1977, Deady Hall was designated a National Historic Landmark.

Deschutes Hall was completed in 1989 as part of the university's science complex. It currently houses the university's Computer and Information Science department.

File:Oregon hall1.jpg
Oregon Hall

Willamette Hall is home to the university's hard sciences. The construction of the $45.3 million complex was completed in 1989.

Lillis Business Complex is home to the Lundquist College of Business. The complex has a capacity of 196,500 square feet (18,000 m²) and has the largest array of architectural solar glass installed in the Northwest. The Lillis Business Complex is the first university business building in the United States to achieve LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certification, and was certified LEED-Silver in May of 2005. The two attached building wings have been declared historic buildings, but they are scheduled to be internally renovated under LEED-EB (for Existing Building) standards in early 2007.

Oregon Hall is the university's main administrative heart. This building includes the Registrar's Office and Office of Admissions.

Villard Hall is home to Theatre Arts. Like its sister building Deady Hall, it was designated a National History Landmark in 1977.

Johnson Hall is where offices for higher administration and trustee offices are found. The offices of the President of the university are in this building, and was one of main buildings used in the movie "Animal House".

Lawrence Hall is the university's school of architecture. It is one of the last architecture schools remaining to follow the Bauhaus teaching style.

Allen Hall, which houses the School of Journalism and Communication, was opened in 1954, and is a largely renovated version of the earlier Journalism Building, which was completed in 1923. When Allen Hall opened, the journalism dean bragged that the building's construction came in under budget. It showed: the building's entire interior was generic and bare bones, including only one men's room and only one women's room in the entire building. The only exception was a replication of former Dean Eric W. Allen's home living room as the building's seminar or conference room. The building was further renovated in phases starting in the 1990s, particularly after University Printing moved out of the basement in 1999.

Knight Library was originally erected in 1937. There were additions to the building in 1950, 1966, and a renovation in 1994. By the time of the third addition, the library had increased in size by 132,000 square feet (12,000 m²).

Pioneer Statue was created by sculptor Alexander Proctor in 1919, and is located between Fenton and Friendly hall. It is rumored to have inspired the fictional statue of pioneer Jebediah Springfield in the television show The Simpsons. In 1932, the "Pioneer Mother" statue was dedicated in the Women's Memorial Quadrangle on the other side of Johnson Hall; the two statues are aligned so that they can 'see' one-another through the large windows of the hall's main floor.

The university maintains the Riverfront Research Park, a small facility located across Franklin Blvd. from the main campus, next to the Willamette River. The Park is used for creating new technologies, such as research about artificial intelligence at the Computational Intelligence Research Lab and ZFIN, the Zebrafish model organism database.

Prince Lucien Campbell Hall is an aberration on the campus, a persistent urban legend states that its lack of architectual harmony is because of a mix-up of plans with another university in California, but this is false. Students describe "PLC" as "a 9-level dungeon," or as "a monolith" and its distopian architecture led in part to the hiring of Christopher Alexander and the initiation of "The Oregon Experiment in the late 1970s. The building was also bombed in 1970, but for separate reasons.

Student Recreation Center is an exercise and recreation facility located on the corner of East 15th and University street. It includes fitness equipment, rock climbing, swimming pool, racquet ball and basketball courts. Covered tennis courts and several turf fields, and newly built outdoor tennis courts within a running track are located near the rec center.

Trivia

Campus trees.

The University of Oregon's 280 acre (1.1 km²), park-like campus is home to more than 500 varieties of trees. Campus legends state that a botanist, who was researching trees that could survive in the Willamette Valley, planted at least one of every kind of survivable tree on the campus. Nearly all of the original trees have survived, though some have been destroyed by natural causes such as windstorms.

Conflicts between students living in the West University neighborhood and the Eugene Police Department's so-called 'Party Patrol' have escalated into large confrontations where Eugene Police used tear gas on student crowds a number of times in the past few years.

The film Animal House was filmed on the University campus and the surrounding area, although the building used as the exterior of the Delta House (which belonged to the Phi Kappa Psi chapter at U of O) was demolished in the late 1980s. However, the house used for the Omega House is still used by the Phi Kappa Psi chapter at U of O. Other buildings that were used during filming include Johnson Hall, Gerlinger Hall, Fenton Hall, Carson Hall, and the Erb Memorial Union, in which the Fishbowl was the site of the famous food-fight scene. The Knight Library and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art can also be seen in the movie.

The University's Duck mascot is based on the famous Disney character, Donald Duck. Donald Duck is the only popular film and television cartoon character to appear as a mascot for the sports team of a major American university. In 2002, Oregon tried to phase out the Donald-looking Duck in favor of a new, futuristic mascot referred to as Roboduck or the Mandrake. This was done largely because the University has to pay royalty fees to Disney for all merchandise sold using Donald's image. Walt Disney himself gave Oregon free reign to use Donald. However, after Walt's death, Disney asked for the contract. Oregon was unable to produce because it was a handshake deal, and Disney started charging royalties. Roboduck was largely disliked by the Oregon fan base, and was phased out after one season.

Colleges and professional schools

College of Arts and Sciences (Departments and Programs)

College of Education (Departments and Programs)

    • Counseling Psychology and Human Services
      (Counseling Psychology, Family and Human Services, and Marriage and Family Therapy)
    • Educational Leadership
      (Educational Leadership, Administrator Licensure)
    • Special Education
      (Communication Disorders and Sciences, Early Intervention, Special Education, School Psychology)
    • Teacher Education
      (Educational Foundations, English for Speakers of Other Languages, Graduate Elementary Teaching, Integrated Teaching, Middle/Secondary Education)
  • Affiliated Research Units
    • Behavioral Research and Teaching (BRT)
    • Center for Educational Policy Research (CEPR)
    • Center for Electronic Studying (CES)
    • Center on Teaching and Learning (CTL)
    • Early Intervention Program (EIP)
    • Educational and Community Supports (ECS)
    • Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior (IVDB)
    • Secondary Special Education and Transition Programs
    • University of Oregon Center for Excellence (UCE) in Developmental Disabilities
  • Affiliated Outreach Units
    • Career Information System (CIS)
    • Early Childhood Coordination Agency for Referrals, Evaluations, and Services (EC CARES)
    • High School Equivalency Program (HEP)
    • IntoCareers (IC)
    • Oregon Writing Project (OWP)
    • Technical Assistance and Consulting Services Western Regional Resource Center (TACS/WRRC)
    • Youth Enrichment/Talented and Gifted (YE/TAG)

Charles H. Lundquist College of Business

School of Law

  • Centers and Programs
    • Appropriate Dispute Resolution Center
    • Family and Child Advocacy Law
    • Oregon Child Advocacy Project
    • Environmental and Natural Resources Law
    • Center for Law and Entrepreneurship
    • Legal Research and Writing
    • Ocean and Coastal Law Center
    • Public Interest-Public Service
    • Portland Program
    • Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics

School of Architecture and Allied Arts

School of Journalism and Communication

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School of Music and Dance

    • Dance UO Dance Department
    • Music: History/Literature
    • Music: Jazz Studies
    • Music: Music Compisition
    • Music: Music Education
    • Music: Music Performance
    • Music: Music Theory

Student Publications

The Oregon Daily Emerald, published Monday through Friday, primarily features news items and commentary pertaining to the University community, and is considered the daily paper of record. In addition to the print newspaper, the Emerald publishes its features on a website that is viewed daily by UO alumni around the world. The Emerald has been in publication for more than 100 years and has many distinguished alumni. A court case involving the Emerald's publication of several first-hand student accounts of drug use during the 1960s became the basis for the subsequent creation of the Oregon Shield Law. The paper became independent in the 1970s after editor Paul Brainerd, the founder of Aldus and creator of PageMaker, realized the potential conflict of interest between acting as a watchdog while simultaneously receiving direct funding and oversight from the university. Today the paper is supported by advertising revenue and is distributed free to students because of a subscription fee paid by the ASUO with incidental fees.

The Oregon Voice, the Oregon Commentator, and the Insurgent are three separate student-run and student-funded magazines, each of which publish several issues per school year on independently determined schedules. The three magazines represent a variety of perspectives, and each are funded by the Associated Students of the University of Oregon's (ASUO) incidental fee. In 2000, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Southworth v. the University of Wisconsin that public universities may fund student publications through mandatory student incidental fees, but that university administrations may exert no editorial control over those publications and that fees must be distributed in a viewpoint-neutral manner.

The Oregon Voice primarily chronicles popular culture in a zine format. The Voice often profiles music acts as they tour through Eugene, and in 1998 the magazine published a widely read interview with Infinite Jest author David Foster Wallace.

The second oldest publication on campus after the Emerald, the Oregon Commentator is a journal of political opinion and humor, modeled in equal parts after such publications as Harvard Lampoon and Reason Magazine. Often, but not always, the Commentator is known for a libertarian or conservative stance. In general its aim is to serve as a contrarian outlet for students resistant to the prevailing trends on campus. In addition to its print magazine, the Commentator publishes its content on its website, where it also maintains a group-run blog frequently linked to by national news outlets. It was founded in fall 1983 primarily by Dane S. Claussen, now a journalism/mass communication professor, and Richard E. Burr, now with The Detroit News' editorial pages.

The Insurgent is a journal of radical politics published by a Collective of students and others who express solidarity with such groups as the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth First! organization. Among other causes, the Insurgent rallies for the release of such individuals as Mumia Abu-Jamal and convicted arsonist Jeffrey "Free" Leuers, on the grounds that they are wrongly held political prisoners.

Other student publications on the University of Oregon campus include the multicultural magazine Korean Ducks, the School of Journalism's yearly magazine project Flux, the ASUO Women's Center's newsletter The Siren, and the ASUO governmental newsletter NETMA (acronym for Nobody Ever Tells Me Anything). In early 1983, Dane S. Claussen also founded the ASUO Record, one of several student government publications preceding NETMA.

Student media controversies

Controversy has occasionally surrounded the Commentator and the Insurgent. In 2001 the Insurgent gained national attention for publishing a primer on violent methods of ending scientific testing on lab animals, opposite a page detailing the names, phone numbers, and home addresses of science professors alleged to be involved in such practices.

In 2005 members of the Insurgent Collective led efforts to defund the Oregon Commentator on the grounds that it had violated its own Mission and Goals statement by ridiculing a prominent student senator. The ASUO's Programs Finance Committee (PFC) voted to defund the Commentator. Later, three members of the PFC resigned their positions under duress, including one whose criminal record was published in the Commentator. The free-speech advocacy and civil rights organization FIRE threatened legal action against the University, and the Commentator's funding was subsequently reinstated by a reconstituted PFC. In 2006 the Commentator republished the twelve Mohammed cartoons that had sparked riots across the Middle East after first appearing in the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten several months prior. The Insurgent followed by publishing twelve cartoons depicting Jesus, some of which featured the deity with a prominent erection. Several groups demanded a public apology or a defunding of the Insurgent, and news outlets including The O'Reilly Factor called for the firing of the University's President David B. Frohnmayer. Both the Emerald and the Commentator publicly defended the Insurgent's right to free speech and Frohnmayer's decision to uphold it, citing the 2001 Southworth decision by the Supreme Court.

University of Oregon and Nike

UO track and field coach Bill Bowerman revolutionized the athletic shoe by pouring melted rubber into a waffle iron, creating a prototype rubber sole. Bowerman went on to co-found Nike corporation with UO alumnus Phil Knight. Nike has maintained a close relationship with UO ever since, manufacturing all university logo clothing and uniforms for the football team, including research prototypes for high-tech "smart clothes", such as jerseys with cooling systems.

Controversy surrounding Nike's labor practice precipitated protests in 2000 led by a group of students calling themselves The Human Rights Alliance. The protests included a 10-day tent city occupation of the lawns in front of Johnson Hall, the main administration building. Protesting students demanded and initially received independent oversight by the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC) of Nike's overseas factories. The University of Oregon joined the WRC but was quickly admonished by Phil Knight in a scathing letter resulting in the rescindence of a US$30 million dollar contribution to renovate Autzen Stadium, and a pledge for no more future donations should the University continue its membership in the WRC. The University eventually terminated the relationship with the WRC within a year of joining, citing "legal complications." Phil Knight later reinstated the donation and increased the money to over US$50 million dollars. [2]

Further controversy ensued in March 2005 with the resignation of track coach Martin Smith. Smith was ousted by the “Lame Ducks”, a group of former Oregon track athletes employed at Nike that raises funds to support the Oregon track program, and by Phil Knight who stated that he would quit donating to the track team as long as Smith was coach. The primary point of contention was that Smith did not focus enough on long distance running events which was a traditional strength for Oregon and Nike shoe sales. Smith was replaced by former Stanford coach Vin Lananna in July 2005. Additionally, former women’s track coach, Sally Harmon sued the university with a US$1.1 million gender discrimination lawsuit which was settled in July 2005.

Athletics

Main article: Oregon Ducks
File:Nikeized logo.jpg
The "Nikeized" logo

The mascot of the University of Oregon is the duck; popular Disney character, Donald Duck has been the mascot for decades. UO is a member of the Pacific Ten Conference conference and Division I for athletics (Division I-A for football). Home football games are played in Autzen Stadium. The university intends to build a larger arena to replace McArthur Court, where basketball games are played.

The University of Oregon has produced many world-class track and field and cross country athletes, including Steve Prefontaine. The Ducks have won five men's NCAA outdoor track and field championships, four men's cross country championships, and one women's outdoor track and field championship and two women's cross country championships. The university also maintains a relationship with shoe manufacturer Nike, who also provides uniforms and logo merchandise for the Ducks.

The football team has enjoyed strong success over the past twenty years though the major turning point of the football program was a game in 1994 at Autzen Stadium against the perennial football power and border rival, the University of Washington Huskies. In that game, Oregon held on to a slim lead, but the favored Huskies looked to score late in the game resulting in yet another disappointing loss (Oregon had lost 17 of 20 and five straight to the Huskies prior to this game). Miraculously, freshman defensive back Kenny Wheaton intercepted the football and ran the ball back 97 yards for a touchdown to secure the upset victory. This play became affectionately known as "The Pick" among Duck fans. With this momentum, the team proceeded to win the rest of their conference games, won the Pac-10 title and played in the Rose Bowl Game and losing 38-20 to Penn State. In 1995, Mike Bellotti became the head football coach and took the football program to the next level. In 2001, under the leadership of Joey Harrington at quarterback, the team finished 11-1 including a 38-16 win over the University of Colorado in the Fiesta Bowl. The team finished #2 in the college rankings that year, behind only the University of Miami, who finished the season undefeated; Oregon was the nation's only one-loss team.

In 2005, Oregon had success behind senior quarterback Kellen Clemens and a new spread offense. Unfortunately, during a game at Arizona Clemens suffered a broken ankle. At that point Oregon was 8-1 (their only loss was to #2 ranked USC 13-45), and still in the hunt for a BCS game. Oregon won their final three games and their success led them into contention for a bid to the Fiesta Bowl. However, due to NCAA clauses, they were relegated to play in a second tier game, the Holiday Bowl, where they played an Oklahoma team with only seven wins and four losses. Oregon subsequently lost to Oklahoma 17-14 to finish the season 10-2, tied for second best in school history.

With the support of its boosters—most notably, Phil Knight—the Oregon football program has among the best facilities in the United States including a newly remodeled Autzen Stadium and a state of the art locker room replete with luxuries such as plasma displays and fingerprint biometric locks. The team has also benefited from the creative work of the University of Oregon's sports marketing department and Nike, with billboards promoting individual athletes, personalized comic books for prospective recruits, and high tech uniforms, logos and mascot.

Further information: [[:List of University of Oregon Bowl Game History]]

Notable alumni

See List of University of Oregon people

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