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'Oh Girls' calendar is back;
this time it's Civil War style
Last years controversial calendar is back, now
featuring models from several Oregon universities
BY ANTHONY LUCERO
NEWS REPORTER
Last year, University graduate Zach
Patterson and five others made a
splash selling a calendar with Univer
sity-student models. The 2004 “Oh
Girls” calendar was marked with con
troversy from the beginning due to
the skimpy costumes of the female
University students who posed and
because it was quickly pulled from
the University Bookstore. This year,
“Oh Girls” is out with a Civil War
Edition that features models from all
of Oregon’s universities.
“I wanted to create a calendar that
would feature models that you would
see every day on campus,” said Patter
son. “1 choose girls who are fun and
outgoing — attitude is a big thing
because we want to see them having
fun at events and our charities. I want
girls who want to play. ”
To find these models, Patterson did
not simply walk up and make offers
to girls. His other job working at
ModeModels.com gave him the expe
rience to find a market, get distributed
and find advertisers. As a business
student, Patterson said he wanted to
combine his three loves in one job:
People, travel and business. In his first
year, Patterson created, distributed
and marketed' the calendar, which
featured 12 University models, and
sold all 1,200 copies produced. This
year, the calendar’s circulation has
grown considerably; 2,500 of the
4,000 copies have been sold.
The calendar received much more
publicity this year too. Though Patter
son had to scale down the calendar
from Pacific-10 Conference school
models to models at Oregon universi
ties, the reception of the project took
off immediately. Radio station 104.7
KDUK hosted auditions over the air
waves that brought in many more ap
plicants than last year. But Patterson
still wants to expand even more, and
said that he wants to get interns from
fields like multimedia, business and
journalism to help the venture grow.
The calendar had humble begin
nings in the 2003-4 school year,
though it quickly gained popularity
from word-of-mouth and news that
the University had blocked it from
its bookstore.
“It was sold at the Bookstore for an
hour and a half and we sold eight
copies before it was yanked,” Patter
son said. Patterson is still talking to the
University Bookstore in hopes that he
can sell the calendars there again.
Jim Williams, General Manager
of the University Bookstore, said the
calendar was pulled because it
featured the University “O” and
other likenesses that were not
licensed by the university.
“Part of the issue is that we get
asked to carry many products and
we can’t sell everything,” said
Williams. "Also, we do not want to
create any unwanted negative pub
licity for the Bookstore or for the
University. We are still talking with
Zach but make no promises about if
we would sell the calendar.”
Four places in the Eugene area sell
the calendars: The Red Rooster Bar
ber Shop and Taylor’s Bar and Grill
across from the University bookstore
on 13th, More of Everything located
in Valley River Center and the Calen
dar Club at both Valley River Center
and Gateway Mall.
The calendar is also available on
line at www.ohgirlscalendar.com for
$10 plus shipping. University and
Oregon State University students in
the residence halls can sign up to
have the calendar hand-delivered to
their dorm room.
Pete Peterson of the Red Rooster
Barber Shop said it is surprising how
well the calendar sells.
“We had one guy from all the way
over at Medford who wants to get this
calendar and is arranging to come by
Eugene and get a copy,” Peterson said.
“We leave a copy of the calendar on
our shelf and it gets a lot of attention
from customers.”
For Patterson, the calendar is a year
round business. He plans to use the
venture to raise funds every month
from January to next June through dif
ferent activities, such as food drives
and car washes. In addition, the mod
els choose a cause every year to do
nate 10 percent of calendar profits to
— this year they chose the Universi
ty’s Assault Prevention Shuttle. The
model that shows the most leadership
and exuberance toward the charity
events is rewarded a $1,000 scholar
ship, according to the Web site. Audi
tions for next year’s calendar are ex
pected to take place in early April and
Patterson says applicants can go to the
Web site to sign up.
anthonylucero@ daily emerald, com
IN BRIEF: OREGON
Portland ranks well on
study of cities and sprawl
PORTLAND — Oregon’s land-use
policies have been more successful
than most at protecting rural land and
limiting sprawl, according to a new
study.
New development in metropolitan
Portland consumed less than half as
much land as the average city in the
study by Northwest Environment
Watch, a Seattle-based research center.
The study examined 15 cities:
Austin, Texas; Boise; Charlotte, N.C.;
Denver; Las Vegas; Madison, Wis.;
Minneapolis-St. Paul; Nashville, Tenn.;
Orlando, Fla.; Phoenix; Portland; River
side-San Bernardino, Calif.; Sacramen
to; Salt Lake City; and Seattle.
From 1990 to 2000, if the greater
Portland area had sprawled like Char
lotte, N.C. — the city in the study with
the worst record — it would have lost
an additional 279 square miles of farm
land and open space, an area more
than twice as large as the city of Port
land itself, according to the study.
“The bottom line is that Oregon’s
land use laws have been highly effec
tive at protecting farmland and open
space in Portland, which suggests that
all Oregon cities are benefiting,” said
Clark Williams-Derry, research direc
tor of Northwest Environment Watch.
But Portland’s urban growth bound
ary, which was designed to protect
farmland, has been criticized by some
for forcing denser housing within it
and for driving up urban housing
prices as demand increases.
The Portland metropolitan area ana
lyzed went beyond the usual definition
and included seven counties in Oregon
— Multnomah, Washington, Clacka
mas, Marion, Polk, Yamhill, and Co
lumbia as well as Clark County in
Washington state.
— The Associated Press
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