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Entertainment Editor:
Jeremy Lang
jlang@dailyemerald.com
‘Mood’ music for August nights
One man’s promo photo becomes a life
affirming experience he won’t forget. Page 8
Thursday, August 9,2001
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■ Four students are planning to revive the
Oregon Voice to fill what they see as the
need for a liberal publication on campus
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
Former staff members of the Oregon Com
mentator and Flux magazines have their
sights set on reviving the currently defunct
Oregon Voice magazine, which has lain
dormant since its last issue in November.
The group is currently talking with ASUO
Accounting Coordinator Jennifer Creighton
about the necessary steps to secure the Voice’s
budget and find some office space. Although
the quartet said they must tie up a number of
loose ends before “the paper is a go,” they have
a detailed vision for how the Voice can again fill
its role as an arts and leisure magazine with a
liberal view of campus and community events,
Eric Qualheim, who has worked as a copy
editor for the Commentator and the Emerald,
said he believes the campus needs a magazine
like the Voice that can provide detailed feature
stories and event listings for the entertainment
scene in Eugene.
“I’ve worked for the Commentator and the
Emerald, and neither one quite fills the niche
on campus the Voice can fill,” Qualheim said.
Brian Boone, who left the Commentator at
the end of this year, said his and his partners'
vision of the Voice includes four sections: news
features with a liberal viewpoint; an entertain
ment section including coverage of books,
movies, music and theater; a humor section;
and a section for student submissions of writ
ing, art and photos.
“It’s the Oregon Voice. It should represent
the community,” Boone said. “It would be a
nice niche to fill.”
Raechel Sims, who started at the Commenta
tor in January, said she found it strange the
campus didn’t have a liberal news magazine,
and as her views moved to the left and the
Commentator’s moved further to the right, the
idea of making the Voice the missing liberal pa
per became more enticing.
“It’s really ironic that, of all the universities,
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Hip hop hooray
for music news
Good morning patients, the good doctor is in. Be
sides soup, juice and “The Price is Right” at 10
every morning, nothing helps a person get well
like nice music. Maybe some “Pure Moods” with
some herbal tea to cure the sniffles? Or Dr. Lang’s personal
Jeremy
Lang
The Be-In
iavorue gei-weu crooner, binott
Smith, in the background as he rests?
Wrong! All completely wrong! Like a
sucker, you’ve been listening to
peaceful world music when the right
choices are hits such as “Bitch
Please,” “Under the Influence” and
“The Real Slim Shady.”
Dione Armstrong of Northumber
| land, U.K., claims Eminem, who once
I rapped about killing his girlfriend,
I has coaxed her 12-year-old daughter
I out of an 11-day, massive car acci
dent-induced coma.
“Eminem is helping to save her life,”
Armstrong told the Newcastle Evening
Lmromcte alter putting headphones
blasting the music around her daughter’s head. “The
Turn to Lang, page 6
Branch music store comino to EMU basement
■The new store will grace the EMU
in the fall in an effort to finance The
Break and bring more musical acts
to campus
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
Business managers at the EMU hope a
new CD store, scheduled to open at the
start of fall term, will help recover some
of the $30,000 The Break loses each year.
The EMU will house the CD store
where the arcade games are currently
placed in The Break, which is located
next to The Buzz coffee house in the
basement of the EMU, and move the ar
cade into the back room with the ping
pong and air hockey tables.
Although other EMU establishments
have lost money in the past, The Break
is the only one still in the red.
Instead of building its own CD store
from scratch, the EMU has solicited Port
land and Eugene area stores to bid to
open a “branch store.” A selection com
mittee will choose a bidder Aug. 17, and
the store is projected to open by the time
students return to campus at the end of
September.
EMU Business Manager Susan
Racette said no bids have come across
her desk yet, but bidders frequently
wait until the last minute, and she will
start calling stores Thursday.
A nine-member selectiddcommittee,
comprising staff and members of the
EMU Board, Cultural Forum and
ASUO, will make the decision. The
committee will examine each store’s va
riety of products — new and used CDs,
records, games, vidpos — and willing
ness to help bring more entertainment
to campus.
Racette added that she hopes
whichever store ends up in the EMU
will co-sponsor Cultural Forum con
certs and use its ties to album promot
ers to bring acts to the EMU.
The idea of a CD store has been in the
works even more since the EMU’s major
renovations three years ago, but this is
the first time space has existed for a mu
sic shop.
Although she hopes the store will
plug The Break’s monetary hole, Racette
said the idea also stuck this year be
cause a music shop can bring acts to the
Amphitheater and Ballroom and more
foot traffic into the EMU in general.
“The goal wasn’t to help The Break
break even,” she said.
So far, campus music stores don’t
seem to be biting at the EMU’s bid offer.
Face the Music has not made a definite
decision, and House of Records plans to
forgo placing a bid.
House of Records owner Gary Haller
said a number of factors led him to shy
away from expanding onto campus.
Haller said the price of rent wasn’t right
without more businesses in the EMU
basement attracting customers.
He added that a slowing record in
dustry kept him from pursuing the ven
ture, and he likes that at his current lo
cation, his store can carry a wide variety
of music styles, whereas in the EMU he
would stock only titles that appeal to
college students.
Racette said video-game enthusiasts
should expect the future arcade to be
smaller, but be updated with newer
games more often.