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Take Back the Night
Events are happening all this week for Sexual Assault Awareness Week@@http://uodos.uoregon.edu/@@, put on by the University Men’s and Women’s Centers. They will culminate with a march Thursday evening called “Take Back the Night.” We give a huge thumbs up to student efforts to make campus more aware of sexual assault and its prevention.
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Sunday’s ASUO trial
A crowd of ASUO-involved people and observers filled the seats of the second-floor courtroom in the Knight Law Center on Sunday to watch the most public demonstration of ASUO Constitution Court’s authority in the last few years. University law student (and former ASUO president) Sam Dotters-Katz@@http://oregonsheen.org/@@ accused President Ben Eckstein’s @@http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/index.ssf/2012/04/at_uo_whats_a_lousy_132000_amo.html@@campaign for president of knowingly concealing the source of campaign contributions. The tense courtroom was a welcome change from the Con Court’s usual — decisions rendered through email without public hearings of the facts. But if the court decides to remove Eckstein, there is no Senate president to take his place as the constitution dictates, making this a tricky situation in general.
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Metta “World Peace”
Over the weekend, Los Angeles Lakers forward Ron Artest @@http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/story/2012-04-23/World-Peace-suspension-history-as-NBA-reviews-hit-on-Harden/54489454/1@@(as he should once again be known) did something incredibly Ron Artesty and gave Oklahoma City guard James Harden an elbow to the head, knocking Harden to the floor.@@http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/story/2012-04-23/World-Peace-suspension-history-as-NBA-reviews-hit-on-Harden/54489454/1@@ Harden wound up with a concussion that night and it is yet to be seen what level of punishment Artest will receive, though it is predicted he will be suspended for several games. This level of egregious violence is unacceptable and makes us Pacific Northwesterners glad we only have to deal with Raymond Felton’s@@http://www.nba.com/playerfile/raymond_felton/@@ overindulgence in Voodoo Doughnut.@@http://voodoodoughnut.com/index.php@@
ESPN’s 4/20 coverage
Last week, ESPN released an interesting story about the Oregon football team’s use of marijuana that set the Twitter world ablaze (we promise this will be the only pot pun in this paragraph). The problem is, the story that was released and linked to was just an Oregon-focused sidebar in the ESPN magazine’s cover story on marijuana use in sports but released alone online, it appeared to be calling out the Ducks alone. And as much as this concept has been joked about as a recruiting boon, the report leaves its reported 40 to 60 percent of athlete users on the hook for something that is still illegal in this country.