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.
and it was freaking awesome.
If you’re on facebook, check out the photos by clicking here:
Album #1
and here:
Album #2
Thanks to everyone who came out and supported the Oregon Voice at our fundraiser show last Friday. Also thanks to the Campbell Club for hosting, the Party Tigers, The Daveys, the Arithmetic Danger Club, Last Trains and the band formerly known as The Mood for playing, and every staff person who helped out that night for holding it all together. We managed to collect a good amount of cash, which will go toward printing two more fabulous issues this year.
It’s proof that a concert has motivated you to live up to your potential when you can go home and write the review immediately just because you know that the longer you wait, the less of the show you’ll remember and the more it will suck.
Firmly on the list of things that don’t suck, however, is Ani Difranco.
I arrived at the show shortly after she started and didn’t spend much time looking for the friends I knew were in the theater somewhere. It was a weeknight concert and I just wanted to chill out and listen before I went home to crash. And if you can’t listen to an Ani concert alone, with all her individual-empowering vibes, what is there left in this world to enjoy solo?
As I settled into listening mode, I was immediately glad I hadn’t skipped this one. Her guitar playing, captivating on record, was nothing short of impressive live. The band, especially the xylophone player with Einstein hair, also sounded good and were fun to watch. The combined effect had me grooving subtly with the packed McDonald audience, despite my tiredness. As I swayed in the back and brooded about schoolwork and various responsibilities, Ani slowly worked into my subconscious with her effervescent personality and poignant lyrics.
Eventually, her strategy worked and I decided such worry was useless if I was a Woman In Charge, not pretty and definitely not a fucking Napoleon. Instead, I zoned out while people watching for a while. Lots of girls high on estrogen and quite a few men, too, trying hard to look unthreatened. A couple of drunk, clingy chicks annoyed me for a while, but they eventually faded out into the audience. The overall mood was good and definitely more about the music than any sort of cause.
Ani brought my attention back to the stage with an, er, interesting song about the divinity of atoms (actually, it’s a good point – they are mighty powerful and inflict the burdensome punishment of nuclear waste when you try to destroy them). Then she said a few words to the effect of “patriarchy… damn it… nobody even says it enough, patriarchy!” I’m not really sure, I was starting at her boobs.
Just kidding! A highly recommended concert for people of any musical and political persuasion. It will get you back on your feet and leave you with catchy riffs in your head all week long.
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).
I’ve always done fairly well with the philosophy of, “Ignore it; it’ll go away.” It works for that crazy Jesus guy when he comes to campus and calls me a whore for having a hole in my jeans. It works for unwanted attentions on the Indigo District dance floor. It works for the mysterious bruises that appear on my knees after said fun-filled nights at Indigo. But it’s not working for the Oregon Commentator, the illustrious campus “Conservative Journal of Opinion”.
After their attack on the Oregon Voice in their issue late last year for not having come out with an issue of our own yet (to which I’ll just point out, since we’re on the subject, that we’re a 32-page, quarterly magazine, which means we come out four times a year) I chose to pretend the whole slip-up on their part never happened. But now, we’ve got a whole page and a half in the new OC issue (pdf here) dedicated us, so here I am.
First of all, let me just say the comic was cute. I liked the peeved-looking bird in the middle particularly. Nice play on the cover we used last year for a story on the Cascades Raptor Center.
Oh, wait, that wasn’t a clever spin on something that happened recently, was it, OC? Yes, now I see, the date on the bottom of that comic says 2004. As in, before anybody on our active editorial staff even thought about coming to school here (we would have been juniors in high school then, and the comic’s portrayal of us as academically casual semi-slackers wasn’t that far off).
It’s ok, as a fellow slave to an independent student magazine, I know how difficult it is to come up with fresh, interesting material. Which is why I also understand how easy it is to slip into petty criticisms of other students and people who are trying to do constructive things, rather than to do something positive yourselves. Writing humorously can be difficult; writing humorously for the higher purpose of encouraging other people to think or to facilitate a change in behavior is damned near impossible sometimes.
Luckily for us here at Voice, there are fine people like Janae Schiller on staff to strike that difficult balance between silly and thought-provoking. She managed to poke a little fun at Uncle Phil (Knight – see our issue with the gay flag on front to read the whole essay) while pointing out the fact that his racially profiling shoes are unacceptable to a good segment of Nike’s targeted market. The Oregon Commentator, on the other hand, seems to choose the subjects they rant about from a giant beachball with the words “ASUO”, “liberals”, “how we’d rather be drunk”, “ASUO”, “popular culture”, “something else (limit once per issue)” inscribed on the sides, which they toss up into the air with hateful glee to see which topic their fingers will land on.
Well, OC, sorry you chose us for your token non-ASUO, non-liberal, booze-sodden rant. In the next one, let’s see a little punctuation and something resembling a point. Cheers!
Hello OV fans one and all -
Here we are with an updated website. Infinite thanks to Scott Carver for dumbing down the process so even a three-year-old – or an editor-in-chief with the computer skills of a three-year-old – can update it. If you haven’t had a chance to check out our latest issue, do it now.
I said DO IT!
In other news, I am changing things up a bit by allowing all our contributors free access to the blog, thus allowing them to release their need for outside communication without actually unchaining them from the OV desk. So far it has resulted in some interesting posts and I hope to see the ranting and randomness continue.
Finally, look for Issue 2 on stands sometime in early February. In general, we’ll be taking a look at the state of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll in the great new year of 2008, with an interview with the Black Lips (who will be playing at the WOW Hall February 6), an all-new sex advice column, and an exposé on a popular, legal hallucinogen that is about to become the latest victim of the War on Drugs.
Thanks for reading and check back here for further updates (I promise).
Tuula
The much-anticipated first issue is here!
Thanks to everyone who helped out. It looks great and definitely reflects all the hard work you put into it.
Tell your friends and enjoy the issue, folks.
