Oregon Daily Emerald

Oregon mourns Virginia's loss

by Jill Aho

As the country mourns and attempts to comprehend the events at Virginia Tech on Monday, students at the University of Oregon are doing the same. A candlelight vigil that was organized in just five hours through Facebook and flyers around campus drew a crowd of about 50 supporters, including three uniformed Department of Public Safety officers, to the EMU Amphitheater Tuesday night.

Counseling center open for traumatized students

In brief

by Trevor Davis

The University Counseling Center is available free of charge for students suffering from stress or trauma related to Monday's Virginia Tech shooting in which a gunman killed 32 people and himself on the Blacksburg, Va., campus. The counseling center has drop-in hours and a crisis hotline to help University students.

Gay rights bills pass in House, move to Senate

by Jason N. Reed | News Reporter

The Oregon Family Fairness Act (HB 2007) passed with a 34-26 vote, and The Oregon Equality Act (SB 2) passed with a 35-25 vote in the Oregon House yesterday. "Freedom from discrimination enables people to learn, work, contribute and achieve," said State Representative David Edwards (D-Hillsboro) during the floor debate.

Volunteers against sexual violence Take Back the Night

by Tess McBride

Look around your classroom at the women sitting near you. By the time they graduate, between one in four and one in five women in college will be sexually assaulted, according to the National College Women Sexual Victimization Study. It doesn't matter if she's an 'A' student or sends text messages in class, because sexual violence affects everyone, an issue this year's Take Back the Night event is focusing on.

Meat eaters, not gas guzzlers, to blame for global warming, speaker claims

by Mark Noack | Freelance reporter

Adopting a vegetarian diet is better at preventing global warming than driving a fuel-efficient car, said San Jose State University sociology professor Dan Brook in a lecture Monday. Speaking as a guest invited by Students for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Brook stressed that the practices of the international meat and dairy industry are the leading cause of greenhouse gases, which consequently result in global warming.

Laura Powers will serve as next year's editor in chief

by Jill Kimball | Freelance Reporter

After long deliberation Tuesday night, the Oregon Daily Emerald's Board of Directors chose Laura Powers as next year's editor in chief. Powers, who currently serves as the senior copy chief for the Emerald, was one of three candidates for the position. The other two were News Editor Jill Aho and former news reporter and designer and current columnist Philip Ossie Bladine.

Activities acknowledge Earth Day

by Linda Gerstenberger | News reporter

Although it won't be celebrated with the kind of mass demonstrations that marked the first Earth Day 38 years ago, the ASUO and a coalition of the environmental groups on campus have planned activities to honor the day that kicked off the environmental movement so long ago.

Oregon bill addressing protection of student journalists gains more support

The bill would overturn current law that allows schools to censor student papers

by Jason N. Reed | News reporter

A proposed law that may set a new precedent for the freedom of press for student journalists is gaining steam as it has picked up co-sponsors, but critics are not censoring themselves in opposing the bill. House Bill 3279, sponsored by Oregon Representative Larry Galizio (D-Tigard), aims to protect such speech, and in the weeks since it was proposed it has collected the support of 11 other co-sponsors.