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At approximately 2 p.m. Monday, the University of Oregon's central power station was alerted to a failure of a temporary chilled water line supplying cooling to a nearby UO laboratory facility. When the line gave way, it released several hundred gallons of chemically treated chilled water into a utility tunnel. That water was pumped into the Millrace in accordance with the UO’s standard tunnel flood control process.

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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON - The University of Oregon is taking a green approach to graduation this year. Students will don dark green caps and gowns made of natural wood fibers. The entire ensemble is biodegradable. Even the packaging for the caps and gowns can be recycled.

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Some University of Oregon students held a rally on campus Friday afternoon in opposition to the controversial Pacifica Forum.

When I got there around 2:30, there were about two dozen people with more arriving over the next half hour.

Co-organizer Cims Gillespie told me they want to send a message to Johnson Hall.  They're asking university administrators to make a statement to Pacifica Forum, expressing their intolerance of hate speech.

Gillespie went on to say, "The other thing we want to do is send a message to Pacifica Forum that we are students, this is our campus.  We're going to the administration building here very much making an appeal to authorities.

The students are marching from Johnson Hall to the Pacifica Forum.

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Faculty Artist Series: Dean Kramer, piano
Thursday, Feb. 11 – 7:30 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$10 general admission; $5 students and seniors
Pianist Dean Kramer will give the second part of his recital series presenting the complete cycle of preludes and fugues known as “The Well-Tempered Keyboard” by Johann Sebastian Bach. (The first part of the two-recital series was given on Jan. 7.) Each of the two volumes of “The Well-Tempered Keyboard” contains a prelude and fugue in every major and minor key of the chromatic scale. Kramer notes that this is the first time that this monumental work has been performed in its entirety at the University of Oregon. He will perform on the world-class German Steinway that he and Professor Claire Wachter selected in Hamburg several years ago.

The Jazz Café
Friday, Feb. 12 – 7:30 p.m.
Room 190 Music (Aasen-Hull Hall)
$5 admission
Student jazz combos perform music in a cabaret setting, including works by Miles Davis, Horace Silver, John Coltrane, Freddie Hubbard, Christian McBride and original student creations.