University of Oregon

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University of Oregon
Image:Uoseal.gif
Latin: Universitas Oregonensis
Motto:	Mens agitat molem (Latin for "Mind moves the mass")
Established	1876
Type:	Public
Endowment:	US $454.87 million [1]
President:	David B. Frohnmayer
Staff:	1,666
Undergraduates:	16,475
Postgraduates:	3,919
Location	Eugene, Oregon, USA
Campus:	Urban
Mascot:	The Oregon Duck
Website:	www.uoregon.edu

The University of Oregon (UO) is a public, coeducational research university located in Eugene, Oregon, United States. The university was founded in 1876, and graduated its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. The Carnegie Foundation classifies the University of Oregon as a "high research activity" university. Former Oregon Attorney General David B. Frohnmayer is the president of the university. The UO receives much of its funding from the UO Foundation, an independent not-for-profit organization. In 2007, the school was ranked 112th (tie) in the national university category by U.S. News and World Report's annual college rankings.^[2] Another 2007 study, done by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranking the world's top 500 universities by academic merit, ranks UO in the 203-304th place in the world and among the 99-138th best in the United States.^[3]

Contents 1 Institution 1.1 Colleges and schools 1.1.1 School of Architecture and Allied Arts 1.1.2 College of Arts and Sciences 1.1.3 Charles H. Lundquist College of Business 1.1.4 College of Education 1.1.5 Robert D. Clark Honors College 1.1.6 School of Journalism and Communication 1.1.7 School of Law 1.1.8 School of Music and Dance 1.2 Library system 2 Campus 2.1 Old campus 2.2 Memorial quad 2.3 Central campus 2.4 Science complex 2.5 Other areas 3 University media 3.1 Student publications 3.2 University published media 3.3 Radio stations 3.4 Student media controversies 4 University of Oregon and Nike 5 Athletics 6 Academic co-curriculars 6.1 Forensics 7 Notable alumni 8 Trivia 9 References 10 See also 11 External links

[edit] Institution

[edit] Colleges and schools

The University of Oregon is organized into eight schools and colleges—six professional schools and colleges, an Arts and Sciences College and an Honors College.

[edit] School of Architecture and Allied Arts

The School of Architecture and Allied Arts (called "triple-A" or "AAA") was founded by Ellis F. Lawrence in 1914.^[4] The school offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture, art, including digital arts, arts and administration, art history, historic preservation, interior architecture, landscape architecture, and planning, public policy and management. A new undergraduate degree in material and product studies will begin in fall 2008. The school also offers an architectural program in Portland, Oregon, for students with a four-year pre-professional degree in architecture. Undergraduates and beginning graduate students enrolled in architecture can transfer to Portland after fulfilling the department's core curriculum in Eugene. In fall 2008, students may enroll in a one-year B.F.A. program in digital arts or product design in Portland.

The school offers the only accredited degree in architecture, landscape architecture, and interior architecture in Oregon. Other nationally accredited degrees include the planning and public administration programs. The National Architectural Accrediting Board accredits both the undergraduate bachelor of architecture five-year degree and the master of architecture. The department of art offers an array of fine arts including digital media, ceramics, fibers, metals and jewelry, photography, painting, and sculpture. Selected works by students are frequently placed on display in Lawrence Hall's Laverne Krause Gallery.

[edit] College of Arts and Sciences

The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) covers a large array of departments in the arts and sciences. The creative writing graduate program is nationally recognized as being among the best in the nation—fewer than four percent are admitted out of 400 applicants each year.^[5][6]

[edit] Charles H. Lundquist College of Business

The Charles H. Lundquist College of Business (LCB) was founded in 1884 and offers programs fields such as accounting, decision sciences, finance, management, and marketing. It is also home to the industry Warsaw Sports Marketing Center, the "premiere sports education and research program in the world."^[7] The College is housed in the Lillis Business Complex.

[edit] College of Education

The College of Education was established in 1896 as a branch of the Department of Philosophy and later merged with the Department of Science and Arts in 1900. It wasn't until 1910 that the School of Education was established as an independent college. In 1908, this college was accredited by the Northwest Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.^[8] According to the U.S. News & World Report 2006–7 edition of "America’s Best Graduate Schools," the College of Education ranked 15th overall and eighth among public universities. For the seventh consecutive year, the UO special education program ranked third in the nation.

[edit] Robert D. Clark Honors College

Main article: Robert D. Clark Honors College

The Clark Honors College is a small college intended to complement the existing majors already in place at the university by joining select students and faculty for a low student to teacher ratio (25:1 maximum).^[9] Admitted students in 2005 held a mean unweighted GPA of 3.93 and a mean SAT score of 1355 (out of 1600).^[10]

[edit] School of Journalism and Communication

The School of Journalism and Communication is one of the oldest journalism schools in the United States,^[11] beginning as a department in 1912 and later becoming a professional school 1916, receiving accreditation from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.^[12] It currently runs the Oregon Documentary Project and Flux magazine, a student-produced publication. Eight of the nine Pulitzer Prize winners from the University of Oregon graduated from the School of Journalism and Communication.^[13] It also awards the annual Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism.

[edit] School of Law

Main article: University of Oregon School of Law

The School of Law was formed in 1884 in Portland and relocated to Eugene in 1915.^[14] It was admitted into the Association of American Law Schools in 1919 and received accreditation from the American Bar Association in 1923.^[15]

[edit] School of Music and Dance

The School of Music and Dance was initially just the Department of Music in 1886, and developed into the School of Music in 1900. It was admitted to the National Association of Schools of Music in 1928. The school offers over 20 ensembles in vocal and instrumental music, giving approximately 200 public performances a year.^[16] Renamed in 2005, the MarAbel B. Frohnmayer Music Building is the physical home of the school, named after current University of Oregon President Frohnmayer's mother, a 1932 alumna of the School.^[17] Beall Concert Hall, the primary performance hall within the school, was designed by Ellis F. Lawrence.^[18]

[edit] Library system

The multi-branch University of Oregon Libraries serves the campus with library collections, instruction and reference, and a wide variety of educational technology and media services. The UO is Oregon's only member of the Association of Research Libraries. The main branch, Knight Library, houses humanities and social sciences, Learning Commons, Music Services, Government Publications, Maps and Aerial Photos, Special Collections & University Archives, Media Services, and the Center for Educational Technologies. Other branch locations are the Architecture and Allied Arts Library, the Portland Architecture Library, the John E. Jaqua Law Library, the Science Library, the Mathematics Library, and the Loyd & Dorothy Rippey Library at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology.

The UO Libraries hosts Scholars' Bank, an open access (OA) digital repository created to capture, distribute and preserve the intellectual output of the University of Oregon. Scholars' Bank uses the open-source DSpace software developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Hewlett-Packard.

The Libraries' Educational Video Group maintains the UO Channel, which uses streaming media to provide access to campus lectures, interviews, performances, symposia, and documentary productions.

The UO is the founding member and host of the Orbis-Cascade Alliance, a consortium of academic and research libraries in Oregon and Washington. The combined collections of the Alliance exceed 20 million volumes and can be searched via the Summit union catalog.

[edit] Campus

Main article: University of Oregon campus

The University of Oregon has approximately 80 buildings and facilities, including athletics sites such as Hayward Field, which is the site for the 2008 Olympic Track and Field Trials, and McArthur Court, and off-campus sites such as nearby Autzen Stadium and the Riverfront Research Park.

The university is known for being the site of a pioneering participatory planning experiment known as The Oregon Experiment (which is also the subject of a book of the same name). The two major principles of the project are that buildings should be designed, in part, by the people who will ultimately use them (usually with the help of an "architect facilitator"), and that construction should occur over many small projects (as opposed to a few large ones).

The University of Oregon's 280-acre (1.1 km²), campus is home to more than 500 varieties of trees.^[19] Campus legends state that a botanist, who was researching trees that could survive in the Willamette Valley, planted at least one of every kind of survivable tree on the campus.^{[citation needed]} Nearly all of the original trees have survived, though some have been destroyed by natural causes such as windstorms. Notable campus trees include the only trees on campus when classes began in 1876—two oak trees near Villard Hall called the Condon Oaks, a tree germinated on a lunar expedition, and a Dawn Redwood tree, which was once thought to be extinct.

[edit] Old campus

• Deady Hall, a simple Italianate design, is the university's oldest building. Opened on October 161876 when the University had an enrollment of 177 students, it was originally known as "the building" before being named after Judge Matthew Deady in 1893. Deady Hall is now home to many classrooms, offices of mathematics faculty and graduate students, and the mathematics undergraduate lounge. The hall used to be separated by gender; males would enter on one side of the building and females would enter on the other.

• Villard Hall is home to the Theater Arts Department. Completed in 1886, the hall was named after railroad magnate Henry Villard, who provided financial aid to the university in 1881. Before its naming, it was known as "the new building."

Both Deady and Villard Halls were designated a National Historic Landmark^[20] in 1977

• The Lillis Business Complex is home to the Lundquist College of Business. The 196,500-square-foot (18,000 m²) building has the largest array of architectural solar glass installed in the Pacific Northwest.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Memorial quad

• Chapman Hall houses the Robert D. Clark Honors College on its third floor, multiuse classrooms on the second (along with Honors College Faculty offices), and graduate school offices on the ground floor.

• Prince Lucien Campbell Hall (PLC) is the tallest building on campus. Its architecture led in part to the hiring of Christopher Alexander and the initiation of The Oregon Experiment in the late 1970s.^{[citation needed]} The building was bombed in 1970 in protest of the Vietnam War, causing $50,000 in damage.^{[citation needed]} PLC houses the offices of the political science, Judaic studies, religious studies and Medieval studies departments.

• Knight Library was originally erected in 1937. There were additions to the building in 1950, 1966, and a renovation in 1994. By the time of the third addition, the library had increased in size by 132,000 square feet (12,000 m²).

• The university's art museum, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, first opened its doors to the public in 1932. It was recently remodeled and had its grand reopening on January 23 2005.

• Condon Hall is home to the university's geography and anthropology departments. It is named after Thomas Condon, one of the first professors at the university and Oregon's first State Geologist. His extensive collection of fossils collected from Eastern Oregon is held at the Museum of Natural History on campus, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland, the Homer Museum at Oregon State University in Corvallis, and in the Condon Museum, which is maintained by the Geology department in Cascade Hall.^[21]

[edit] Central campus

• Johnson Hall is where offices for higher administration and trustee offices are found. The offices of the University President are housed in this building. Additionally, this was one of main buildings used in the movie National Lampoon's Animal House. An apocryphal story holds that the office of the president was used in shooting of the film (including the shooting of a horse); actually, the administration office filmed belongs to the current Vice President for Finance & Administration, and no animals were injured (or shot) during the filming.^{[citation needed]} Johnson Hall was bombed just before Prince Lucien Campbell Hall in 1970.

• Lawrence Hall, which houses the university's School of Architecture and Allied Arts, received that name in 1957 in honor of Ellis F. Lawrence, the school's first dean and for many years the campus architect and planner. Lawrence Hall is actually an aggregation of buildings constructed over several decades starting with Mechanical Hall in 1906. Substantial renovations and additions occurred in the 1920s, 1950s, 1970s, and 1990s.

• Allen Hall, which houses the School of Journalism and Communication, was opened in 1954, and is a largely renovated version of the earlier Journalism Building, which was completed in 1923. When Allen Hall opened, the journalism dean bragged that the building's construction came in under budget.^{[citation needed]} It showed: the building's entire interior was generic and bare bones, including only one men's room and only one women's room in the entire building.^{[citation needed]} The only exception was a replication of former Dean Eric W. Allen's home living room as the building's seminar or conference room. The building was further renovated in phases starting in the 1990s, particularly after University Printing moved out of the basement in 1999.

• The Pioneer statue, a likeness of a bearded, buckskin-clad pioneer cast in bronze by sculptor Alexander Phimister Proctor in 1919 is located between Fenton and Friendly halls. In 1932, Proctor's "Pioneer Mother" statue was dedicated in the Women's Memorial Quadrangle on the other side of Johnson Hall; the two statues are aligned so that they can "see" one another through the large windows of the hall's main floor.

• The Student Recreation Center is an exercise and recreation facility. It includes fitness equipment, rock climbing walls, a swimming pool, racquetball courts, an indoor elevated running track and basketball courts. Covered tennis courts and several turf fields, and outdoor tennis courts within a running track are located near the recreation center.

• The Erb Memorial Union (EMU) is the student union. It contains a food court, restaurants and cafes, student groups, meeting rooms and performance spaces, the campus radio station 88.1 KWVA, and offices for administration. The EMU was built in 1950; the firm Lawrence, Tucker, and Wallman designed the original structure. The food court—known as "The Fishbowl" for its semicircle of large windows facing the north and west sides of campus—was used as the filming location of the infamous "I'm a zit!" food fight scene in Animal House.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Science complex

• Deschutes Hall was completed in 1989 as part of the university's science complex. It currently houses the university's Computer and Information Science Department.
• Willamette Hall's Paul Olum atrium is the center of the university's hard sciences complex. The construction of the $45.3 million additions of Willamette, Cascade, and Streisinger Halls to the complex was completed in 1989. Additional science complex buildings include Columbia Hall, Klamath Hall, Onyx Bridge, Huestis Hall, and Volcanology.

[edit] Other areas

• Oregon Hall houses the university's main administrative offices. This building includes the Office of the Registrar and Office of Admissions, among others.

• The Riverfront Research Park is a small facility maintained by the university, located across Franklin Boulevard from the main campus, next to the Willamette River. The park is used for creating new technologies, such as research about artificial intelligence at the Computational Intelligence Research Lab and Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN), the zebrafish model organism database.

• The University of Oregon Bookstore was founded in 1920 as a cooperative and is now run as a not-for-profit organization owned by UO students and members of the faculty and classified staff.

[edit] University media

[edit] Student publications

In part because of the popularity of the University's journalism program,^{[citation needed]} the UO has a diverse array of student-run and student-created media.

The Oregon Daily Emerald, published Monday through Friday, primarily features news and commentary pertaining to the university community, and is considered the daily paper of record. A court case involving the Emerald's publication of several first-hand student accounts of drug use during the 1960s became the basis for the subsequent creation of the Oregon Shield Law. The paper became independent in the 1970s after editor Paul Brainerd, the founder of Aldus and creator of PageMaker, realized the potential conflict of interest between acting as a watchdog while simultaneously receiving direct funding and oversight from the university. Today the paper is supported by advertising revenue and is distributed free to students because of a subscription fee paid by the Associated Students of the University of Oregon (ASUO) with incidental fees.

The Oregon Voice, the Oregon Commentator, and the Insurgent are three separate student-run and student-funded magazines, each of which publishes several issues per school year on independently determined schedules. The three magazines represent a variety of perspectives, and each is funded by the ASUO's incidental fee. In 2000, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Southworth v. the University of Wisconsin that public universities may fund student publications through mandatory student incidental fees, but that university administrations may exert no editorial control over those publications and that fees must be distributed in a viewpoint-neutral manner.

The Oregon Voice primarily chronicles popular culture in a zine format. The Voice often profiles music acts as they tour through Eugene, and in 1998 the magazine published a widely read interview with Infinite Jest author David Foster Wallace.

The second-oldest publication on campus after the Emerald, the Oregon Commentator is a journal of political opinion and humor, modeled in equal parts after such publications as Harvard Lampoon and Reason Magazine. Often, but not always, the Commentator is known for a libertarian or conservative stance. In general, its aim is to serve as a contrarian outlet for students resistant to the prevailing trends on campus.^{[citation needed]} It was founded in fall 1983 primarily by Dane S. Claussen, now a journalism/mass communication professor, and Richard E. Burr, now with The Detroit News editorial pages.

The Insurgent is a journal of radical politics published by a collective of students and others who express solidarity with such groups as the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth First! organization. Among other causes, the Insurgent rallies for the release of such individuals as Mumia Abu-Jamal and convicted arsonist Jeffrey "Free" Leuers, on the grounds that they are wrongly held political prisoners.

Flux is an annual magazine written and edited by students at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.^[22] It contains in-depth features about a wide variety of topics, many of which are based in the Pacific Northwest but have national appeal and interest.

Other student publications on the University of Oregon campus include the multicultural magazine Korean Ducks, and the multilingual publication Global Talk.^[23] Global Talk,^[24] a student-created news publication, provides a place to bring language and culture together including one page each for Chinese, French, Dutch, Persian, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Scandinavian, Slavic, Swahili, Portuguese, Spanish, and other minor languages unrepresented by major departments. Global Talk is funded by several departments at the UO and was founded in November 2005. It is the first university of Oregon multilingual publication published within the university system and within the whole state of Oregon. Other publications include the ASUO Women's Center's newsletter The Siren, and the ASUO governmental newsletter NETMA (acronym for Nobody Ever Tells Me Anything).

[edit] University published media

The Oregon Quarterly is a university magazine that presents "the diversity of ideas and people associated with the University, Oregon, and the Northwest."^[25]

The University of Oregon Press^[26] publishes books, which since June 1 2005 have been distributed by the Oregon State University Press.

[edit] Radio stations

• KWVA
• KWAX

[edit] Student media controversies

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Controversy has occasionally surrounded the Commentator and the Insurgent. In 2001 the Insurgent gained national attention for publishing a primer on violent methods of ending scientific testing on lab animals, opposite a page detailing the names, phone numbers, and home addresses of science professors alleged to be involved in such practices.

In 2005, members of the Insurgent Collective led efforts to defund the Oregon Commentator on the grounds that it had violated its own Mission and Goals statement by ridiculing a prominent student senator. The ASUO's Programs Finance Committee (PFC) voted to defund the Commentator. Later, three members of the PFC resigned their positions under duress, including one whose criminal record was published in the Commentator. The free-speech advocacy and civil rights organization FIRE threatened legal action against the University, and the Commentator's funding was subsequently reinstated by a reconstituted PFC. In 2006 the Commentator republished the twelve Mohammed cartoons that had sparked riots across the Middle East after first appearing in the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten several months prior. The Insurgent followed by publishing twelve cartoons depicting Jesus[1], some of which featured the deity with a prominent erection. Several groups demanded a public apology or a defunding of the Insurgent, and news outlets including The O'Reilly Factor called for the firing of the University's President David B. Frohnmayer. Both the Emerald and the Commentator publicly defended the Insurgent's right to free speech and Frohnmayer's decision to uphold it, citing the 2001 Southworth decision by the Supreme Court.

The Emerald itself is not a stranger to controversy. In the 1970s and early 1980s, the student newspaper published an annual satire supplement called the Immorald. The 1981 Immorald featured the phrase "Give me a fucking break" in nearly all its stories, which led to an angry editorial in the Eugene Register-Guard, entitled "The Immorald is Not Funny". The phrase had been used earlier that year by Emerald political columnist (and former editor) Greg Wasson, which prompted Max Rijken, a member of the Oregon Legislature, to photocopy the article for fellow legislators and demand that the UO administration take action against the newspaper. The co-editor of that year's Immorald, Mike Rust, went on to co-found the Commentator a few years later.

The other 1981 Immorald co-editor, Mike Lee, had lightly sparred with the Emerald itself a few years earlier, in a mock controversy that had real consequences for the UO mascot, the Oregon Duck. In 1978, the Emerald sponsored a student referendum that would officially declare the cartoon character Mallard Drake as UO mascot. Drake, the creation of Emerald editorial cartoonist Steve Sandstrom, was a black-feathered duck, closer in spirit to Daffy Duck than the UO's Donald. Lee opposed the referendum through an organization called the "Retain Class in Your Bird" committee, itself a parody of a campus radical group, the Revolutionary Community Youth Brigade. Students ultimately voted for Donald over Mallard, in an election that drew more votes than the student-body president on the same ballot. UO officials later used that election as evidence that students "officially" voted for Donald Duck as campus mascot.

[edit] University of Oregon and Nike

UO track and field coach Bill Bowerman revolutionized the athletic shoe by pouring melted rubber into a waffle iron, creating a prototype rubber soled shoe famously known as the "Oregon waffle." Bowerman went on to co-found Nike corporation with UO alumnus Phil Knight. Nike has maintained a close relationship with UO ever since, manufacturing all university logo clothing and uniforms for the football team, including research prototypes for high-tech "smart clothes", such as jerseys with cooling systems.

Controversy surrounding Nike's labor practice precipitated protests in 2000 led by a group of students calling themselves The Human Rights Alliance. The protests included a 10-day tent city occupation of the lawns in front of Johnson Hall, the main administration building. Protesting students demanded and initially received independent oversight by the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) of Nike's overseas factories. The University of Oregon joined the WRC but was quickly admonished by Phil Knight in a scathing letter, resulting in the rescinding of a US$30 million dollar contribution to renovate Autzen Stadium, and a pledge for no more future donations should the University continue its membership in the WRC.^[27] The University eventually terminated the relationship with the WRC within a year of joining, citing "legal complications." Phil Knight later reinstated the donation and increased the money to over US$50 million dollars.^[28]

Further controversy ensued in March 2005 with the resignation of track coach Martin Smith. Smith was ousted by the “Lame Ducks”, a group of former Oregon track athletes employed at Nike that raises funds to support the Oregon track program, and by Phil Knight who stated that he would quit donating to the track team as long as Smith was coach. The primary point of contention was that Smith did not focus enough on long distance running events, which were a traditional strength for Oregon and Nike shoe sales. Smith was replaced by former Stanford coach Vin Lananna in July 2005.^{[citation needed]}

On August 202007, the University announced a $100 million pledge from Phil and Penny Knight to create the Oregon Athletics Legacy Fund. The donation will cover the majority of the $150 million goal to make the athletics program self sufficient.^[29]

[edit] Athletics

Main article: Oregon Ducks

The mascot of the University of Oregon is the duck; popular Disney character Donald Duck has been the mascot for decades, thanks to a handshake agreement made by The Walt Disney Company. UO is a member of the Pacific Ten Conference and Division I for athletics (Division I-A for football). Home football games are played in Autzen Stadium. The university intends to build a larger arena to replace McArthur Court, where basketball games are played.

The two primary rivals of the Oregon Ducks football team are the Washington Huskies and the Oregon State Beavers.^{[citation needed]} The University of Oregon competes in one of the nation's oldest football rivalries with Oregon State University, known as the "Civil War"; the two teams have faced each other nearly every year since 1894 (with five years not played). The Ducks achieved a Bowl Championship Series ranking of #2 during the 2007-2008 season, but lost momentum following an injury to star quarterback Dennis Dixon.^{[citation needed]}

Further information: Oregon Ducks bowl game history

The University of Oregon has produced many world-class track and field and cross country athletes, including Steve Prefontaine. The Ducks have won five men's NCAA outdoor track and field championships, five men's cross country championships (The latest being 2007), and one women's outdoor track and field championship and two women's cross country championships.^{[citation needed]} The university also maintains a relationship with shoe manufacturer Nike, which also provides uniforms and logo merchandise for the Ducks.^{[citation needed]} Former women’s track coach Sally Harmon sued the university with a US$1.1 million gender discrimination lawsuit which was settled in July 2005.^{[citation needed]}

The men's basketball team won the first-ever NCAA basketball tournament in 1939 (the team was then known as the Tall Firs.)^{[citation needed]} It plays in one of the most storied basketball arenas in the nation, McArthur Court: January 14, 2007 was the 80th anniversary of the first basketball game played there, making it the oldest on-campus basketball arena still in use in the country.^{[citation needed]} In 2002, the Ducks garnered a No. 2 seeding in the NCAA tournament and advanced to the Elite Eight, where they lost to the University of Kansas Jayhawks.^{[citation needed]}

The University of Oregon women's softball team finished the 2006 season 25-29 and ranked 28th in the NCAA RPI.^{[citation needed]} They were not eligible for the post-season NCAA tournament because of their record. A season highlight was the perfect game pitched by Alicia Cook against Stanford on April 28, 2006 at Howe Field.^{[citation needed]} The Ducks had appeared in the NCAA tournament for the previous three seasons.^{[citation needed]}

In 2006, the Oregon women's soccer team, despite finishing second in the Pac-10 and being ranked nationally in the top 20, were not selected for the NCAA tournament field of 64.^{[citation needed]}

Because of the University's Athletic's close relationship with Chambers Communications, the two parties hit a partnership in the early 1990's and began a producing a sports network (the OSN). This program would later strike a deal with ESPN's ESPN Plus and Full Court. Then in November of 2007 also strike a deal with CSN's Northwest programming block to televise more of the University's athletic events (Chambers Communications's owned ABC Affiliate: KEZI's sports programming time was taken up mostly by ESPN on ABC.

[edit] Academic co-curriculars

[edit] Forensics

In addition to its athletic teams, the university also has a competitive intercollegiate Speech and Debate team, directed by professor of rhetoric David Frank.^{[citation needed]} The University of Oregon Forensics program was founded in 1876, at the same time as the university. Initially the program consisted of two student-formed forensic societies, which developed into "doughnut league" inter-dorm competitions in the 1890s. In 1891, the UO began intercollegiate competition with a debate on the topic of labor against Willamette University in nearby Salem. Forensics continued to grow as a staple of the university's community and by 1911, the team was so successful that they could charge admission to debates.^{[citation needed]} Money raised during these events was often donated to the fledgling University of Oregon football program.

Parliamentary debate was integrated into UO Forensics in 1998-99 and the team has been competitive since. In 2001, the UO's Alan Tauber and Heidi Ford claimed a national title, winning the first ever National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence (NPTE). In 2003, Damon Martichuski and Kevin Stone finished in the country's top four, finally losing in the semi-finals at the formidable National Parliamentary Debate Association National Tournament. Most recently, in 2007, the team of Katherine Preston and Ben Dodds placed 6th in the nation at the NPTE.

As of 2007, the team is coached by Aaron Donaldson, who debated for Carroll College 1999-2003, and Luke Landry, who won the 2007 NPTE while debating for William Jewell College. In the 2006-2007 season, the team won first place in the Northwest Forensics Conference's overall sweepstakes, due to regularly strong showings in both individual events and parliamentary debate.

[edit] Notable alumni

Main article: List of University of Oregon people

[edit] Trivia

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- The film National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) was filmed on the university campus and the surrounding area. The building used as the exterior of the Delta House (which belonged to the University of Oregon Phi Sigma Kappa chapter) was demolished in 1986, but the interior scenes were shot in the Sigma Nu house, which still stands today. The Omega house belonged to the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and still stands today. The sorority house, where Bluto climbs the ladder to peek in on the coeds, was actually the exterior of the Sigma Nu fraternity.[2] Other buildings that were used during filming include Johnson Hall, Gerlinger Hall, Fenton Hall, Carson Hall, and the Erb Memorial Union, in which the Fishbowl was the site of the famous food-fight scene. The Knight Library and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art can also be seen in the movie. Other films shot at the university include Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), Five Easy Pieces (1971), Stand By Me (1986), and Without Limits (1998). ^[30]

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• List of United States business school rankings
• List of business schools in the United States

[edit] External links

• University of Oregon website
• Official Oregon athletics site
• College Overview at EducationUSA
• The Insurgent
• Oregon Commentator

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Coordinates: 44°02′37″N 123°04′25″W / 44.04361, -123.07361de:University of Oregon fa:دانشگاه اورگن id:Universitas Oregon la:Universitas Oregonensis ja:オレゴン大学 th:มหาวิทยาลัยออริกอน vi:Đại học Oregon