2008 Woodie Awards
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Questions remain for freshman surplusParents and students voice concern about excess students being housed at Stadium Park Apartmentsby Jessie HigginsJessie Higgins | News reporter Incoming freshmen who will live in University-contracted rooms at Stadium Park Apartments learned about their new living situation at orientation sessions, which run this summer from June 10 through August 4. Concerned students and parents questioned University and Stadium Park representatives about student safety, commuting, community building and rental payments at the informational meetings. |
University must wait to clear arena's alley hurdleEugene City Council delays ruling on whether to sell alley crucial to new arena's plansby Jessie HigginsThe Eugene City Council has postponed a decision on whether to sell the University a small publicly-owned alley near the proposed site of the new arena that the University must acquire before beginning construction. The struggle over the alley and adjoining street is the University's latest hurdle in building a new basketball arena on the corner of East 13th Avenue and Franklin Boulevard. |
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Debates between candidates for mayor, commissioner, SundayIncumbents and challengers will talk at Wayne Morse Ranchby Jason ReedOn what normally would be a lazy summer Sunday afternoon, at a house usually reserved for weddings, family reunions and day camps for kids, two sets of opponents will kick off what could be a long, dirty political race. Mayor Kitty Piercy will face off against former mayor Jim Torrey in the first mayoral debate of the general election season this Sunday. |
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Loved ones remember 'motivated' UO studentA memorial service for Rebecca Caitlyn Asla this Sunday will celebrate her accomplished lifeby Robert D'AndreaRebecca Caitlyn Asla's family had Ducks football season tickets for most of her life, and her father would tease her that no matter which college she chose to attend, her tuition would go to Oregon. Scott Asla's joking did not matter much. He said his daughter, who was to be a senior this fall, always wanted to be a Duck. |
