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Treasure your trashby Mike O'BrienRight after spring term ends every June, Chris Horton of Eugene gets annoyed when he sees trash bins filled with items such as television sets, alarm clocks and furniture. "There aren't enough people who care about (recycling)," he said. "People throw things like that out just because they're leaving town when they can just as easily take it down to Goodwill or St. |
University offers GTFF health care compromiseThe Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation and the University made negotiation progress Mondayby Jessie HigginsContract negotiations between the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation and the University began to move toward a conclusion after Monday's bargaining session. After the three previous bargaining sessions where the two parties made little progress toward coming to an agreement, the GTFF approached Monday's meeting as a final attempt to meet halfway. |
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Researchers link biofuels to food price increaseOrganizations and scientific journals are questioning the environmental friendliness of ethanol productionby Edward OserA sign outside of the SeQuential Biofuels retail fueling station in south Eugene reads "fight global warming." But recent studies and media reports have increasingly questioned biofuel's side in that and another life-and-death planet-scale fight. As food riots erupt across the globe, researchers and analysts have been scrambling to explain why food prices have exploded in recent months, and the crosshairs are increasingly focused on corn-based ethanol biofuels. |
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International Week offers cultural samplingInternational Week, held this week at the EMU Amphitheater, offers a taste of several different culturesby Mike O'BrienBetween China Night, Japan Night and the Hawai'i Club's annual Luau, University student organizations put on several cultural events every term. If you haven't had a chance to go to any of them, you can sample all of them this week. Related Links"International Week, Night provide students unique cultural experiences" - 04. |
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