The first issue of this year is now available for viewing! Check around campus in the coming days for a hard copy. If you have a hard time finding the issue we understand since a majority of our distribution boxes have been stolen but fear not! Simply send a message and we’ll make sure you get your warm hands on a copy asap. Happy reading.
Thanks everyone who came out and rented puppies yesterday! Check out the ol’ Dirty coverage, pie-chart free:
http://media.www.dailyemerald.com/media/storage/paper859/news/2008/05/22/News/Puppy.Love-3374724.shtml
Credit for this great event goes to Stephen the dog lover (in a non-sexual way, of course) and Greenhill Humane Society.
Other people who are awesome: Max the puppy chaser; Iris the pooch wrangler; Justin, Shane, Cori and Leah doggie paparazzi; Natalie, Libby, Scot guardians of the puppies; and whoever else I forgot. Also Greenhill Humane society for providing 10 dogs and volunteers aplenty. Thanks as well to the scheduling office for helping us coordinate this.
We’re hoping to do a second event like this soon so keep an eye out for that, and shoot us an email if you want us to let you know personally.
Rent-a-Pooch
Wednesday May 21 at 11:30 am to 4:30 pm
Memorial Quad (in front of the library)
Come rent a dog from the Greenhill Human Society.
Seeking one dedicated, creative and flexible Editor-in-Chief who is willing to work hard for minimal pay (but there is pay…). Position starts Fall 2008 but we will begin training this term.
We prioritize applicants with good writing and editing skills who have had previous experience with the magazine but encourage all students to apply.
APPLICATIONS: Click the “Staff” tab in the black area above. The first link on that page is “Staff Application.”
Deadline is April 30th.
Bring them to one of our weekly meetings: Wednesdays, 6 pm, EMU Century Room E.
Or send an email to ovoice@uoregon.edu to make other arrangements.
As always, we welcome new staff contributors (writers, artists, designers, those with unspecified creative talents) at any time. Benefits include press passes to local shows and events as well as access to a diverse, supportive community of students dedicated to the creative arts and quality journalism.
Just an update on the next OV issue: it will be out finals week.
Gunther has sadly opted not to grace us with his presence until April, so look for an interview with him in issue 4. The upcoming magazine, however, does have an interview with Lloyd Kaufman, who is arguably cooler than Gunther, though not quite as sexy.
Today we gathered some random opinions and thoughts from UO students, which will of course be in the next issue. Also look forward to a hula hoop DIY guide, comics galore and dream interpretations by yours truly.
Don’t forget to check out our poll at right. Stay cool, Eugene (and world).
As I watched the Academy Awards post show, where common people get to ask the great directors and writers about their works I really got inspired by Diablo Cody. She is pretty punk rock for Hollywood and has some sweet bangs. A questioned was asked by a USC film student, how to become successful? Her answer was to spread your work everyone as many eyes that can see it, show it to them. She emphasized if you write a zine make everyone read it and I think we here at the Oregon Voice should seriously make it happen. We may be a little magazine, but I think we have a lot of heart in us. lets go team!
D-girl out.
Once again, we have born witness to one of the more heinous aspects of the human condition. A young man has taken away the lives of several college students with an action of utmost selfishness. There is nothing that can justify this kind of killing. Murder is barbaric even with motive, and it is all the more deplorable when the victims have committed no wrongs.
This tragedy brought several things to mind. Firstly, helplessness. There are wackos out there like this man, and guns readily available, and there is simply no way to police all of them. Things like this can happen, even as you are about to fall asleep from boredom in lecture.
Second, wonder. Wonder at the brink on which we find ourselves. As incidents like this increase in number, I think, how long until we become like the Middle East? How long until we must fear for our lives not only on campuses, but at markets, at shopping malls? The waves of extremism has long been lapping up against the shores of North America — how long until the tsunami comes? There was a bombing in Mexico City on Friday near their police headquarters; no group has yet claimed responsibility, but it is indicative of the kind of fanaticism that plagues places like Iraq today.
Third, distress. I cringed when I read this quote: “Run, he’s reloading the gun.” Run. Certainly, a fight-or-flight survival mechanism is innate within us, urging us to flee danger when we feel that our lives are in jeopardy. But where are the heroes? This gunman was a “skinny man” — why did nobody attempt to take him down, if not at the beginning, then while he was reloading? It is estimated that he fired 20 or more shots. There had to have been a pause.
I don’t know how I would react under such conditions. I might have hidden behind chairs and fled for the exit like everyone else. But I would like to think that I would try to stop a man like this. It is hard to be the hero, and sometimes foolish, but we have seen what heroism can accomplish. This is what those aboard flight United 93 taught us: a brave few can sacrifice themselves to save the many.
Look at the numbers: five have died so far from this shooting, and 16 others are wounded, many critically. It takes a lot of courage to stand up to somebody with a gun, but if somebody had, or if two or three people had, perhaps a few other families would have been spared the grief they are now experiencing.
We cannot prevent every manic depressive from invading our lives with their violence. But we can stand up to them, saving lives and depriving them of the ultimate cowardly exit of suicide. Death is too good for them. Let us have them face justice.
Hey Voices.
Cori Here the unofficially appointed D-Girl of Staff. I like to develop ideas and brainstorm. I’m thinking this issue looks fab and for the next I was thinking about instead of Best of…we could do Most’s like Most Wanted Material Good and Most Appealing Feature of the Voice.
Pick up the new issuse, on new stands NOW!
D-Girl OUT!
