Oregon Daily Emerald

Frohnmayer announces retirement

by Ryan Knutson

University President Dave Frohnmayer announced this morning that he will retire at the end of the 2008-09 school year. Frohnmayer made his announcement in a letter to Oregon University System Chancellor George Pernsteiner and Gov. Ted Kulongoski. Pernsteiner said a search for the next president will begin immediately with the intent that one will be selected before Frohnmayer formally hangs up his hat in the summer of 2009.

Economy crisis: student impact

Students and the community in general are adapting to continual increases in gas and food prices

by Edward Oser

Snake Harrington mostly takes the bus now and drives only when he can't avoid it. Simone Coker rides her bike instead of driving her Jeep Liberty, and Peter Dixon hunts for the cheapest gas station. Theirs are the local faces of the global energy and food crises.

Laughing Planet out, Holy Cow stays in EMU

The EMU and Laughing Planet did not reach an agreement, but Holy Cow's lease was renewed for five years

by Robert D'Andrea

The University announced Monday evening it reached an agreement to allow Holy Cow Cafe to remain in the EMU for another five years.

Campus Crusade for Christ reaches out

CCC is sponsoring a three-day event that will focus on the discrepancy between Christ and Christianity

by Mike O'Brien

Before Paul Frazier started attending the University, he went to high school in Beaverton. When he was a senior, his school screened "The Laramie Project," a film about the aftermath of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard's 1998 murder. But before Frazier's school had the screening, it had visitors: Fred Phelps and other members of Westboro Baptist Church, who journeyed to Oregon from Kansas to wave signs reading things like "Matt Shepard rots in Hell" and "God Hates Fags.

Ambassador campaigns for Clinton, opposes war

Joe Wilson's speech focused on the faults of the Bush Administration

by Meredith LaFrance and Anastasia Strgar | Freelance reporters

Ambassador Joe Wilson says it is the duty of American citizens to confront and prosecute the government officials who insist on telling lies. "When you catch them in a lie, you have to call them on it," he said. Wilson campaigned on behalf of Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton at the University on Sunday night, although his talk focused much more on the Bush administration than the potential Clinton one.

Budget meeting on federal cuts involves resident input

In brief

by Jason Reed

Lane County residents will get their first chance tonight to offer input in the first of a series of budget committee meetings concerning the dreary, if not catastrophic, 2008-09 county budget. Federal lawmakers have not been able to renew a federal payment program that reimburses counties that have been adversely affected by slumping timber sales.