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"It seems everybody but Bachelor isn't doing well right now." Near Portland is Mt. Hood Mead ows, accessible by taking 1-5 North to 1-84 East, then taking Exit 64 to High way 35. At Mt. Hood Meadows, guests can participate in skiing, snowboarding, and cross-country and Nordic skiing. Twelve miles away at its sister resort, Cooper Spur, tub ing and snowshoeing are available. The closest lodging to both resorts is Cooper Spur Mountain Resort, which offers cabins and rooms with hot tubs. Mt. Hood Meadows Director of Marketing and Sales Dave Tragethon described the mountain's terrain as "varied, unique and exciting." "It's interesting," he said. "Each run is unique and playful because of the volcanoes. That makes it more fun to ride or ski." The Mt. Hood resorts'tubing and Nordic ski centers are closed atthe moment due to a lack of snow, so their guests are focusing on skiing and snowboarding. Tragethon said although they've received less snow with low amounts of moisture than usual, the snow is cold enough for great skiing. While the cold snow did n't arrive until a week before Christ mas (a late startto the resorts' sea sons) the low temperature since then has produced "very good" business. "Our snow is below normal in quantity, but above normal in quali ty," Tragethon said. Mt. Hood Meadows carries the steepest ticket price out of thefour resorts—$50 for a full day on a weekend in January or February. Its lowest price is $22 for activities be ginning at3 p.m. on a weekday. Ski ing and snowboarding lessons, ranging from 90-minute coaching sessions to eight-week programs, are available atthe Epicenter. "We're well known for family and learning programs, and for in troducing kids to the sport," Tragethon said. natchilingerian@dailyemerald.com Movie: Cheap thrills don't redeem film Continued from page 6 the purpose of giving Keaton a place to ship the kid off to whenever he's not needed forthe advancement of the plot. What makes this movie recom mendable is its individual scenesthat actually work very well as pure horror filmmaking. These moments work be cause the filmmakers take the time to build up to them and don't deactivate them by adding such superfluous ele ments as rising symphonic music or slash 'n' dash editing. With these se quences the film almost redeems itself, but subsequently squanders this capi tal on unexplainable plot developments and cheap thrills. So while in the end the film comes outto nothing more than a cookie cutter thriller, what little worth remains makes it at least watchable for a sitting or two. Unfortunately, it's not possible to transport the good elements of a bad movie into a better film. ryannyburg@dailyemerald.com Murphey: Shows flaunt worst of American culture Continued from page 5 This may sound like elitist snobbery from a self-appointed authority on cul ture, and that's because it is, but that doesn't mean the opinion isn't valid. The fact is, there are gray areas in cul ture and entertainment, but gray isn't even visible from the place on the art versus garbage spectrum where “Love is in the Heir" and "Trading Spouses" reside. It's not beautiful; it's not clever; it's just bad taste, which is probably the reason why the reality television trend has spread faster than a grease fire in an oily rag factory. Af ter all, nobody appreciates bad taste more than the United States. Like some kind of creeping, predato ry ivy, the "reality" format has spread from trashy networks such as Fox to ca ble networks such as Animal Planet and the Discovery Channel, choking out re maining strongholds for diverse and semi-intellectual television. TLC, other wise known as The Learning Channel, now airs what seems like 24 hours of home improvement reality shows. What are viewers learning? That a part of an interior designer's job is to be so perky and hyperactive that it makes "Weird Al" Yankovic tired? There was a time when Music Tele vision, or MTV, actually had more to do with music than a bunch of stupid peo ple doing stupid things with stupid celebrities. Youngsters in need of a cul ture that would provoke their parents could turn to Downtown Julie Brown or JJ Jackson for music that was actually relevant. Since then, groups such as Public Enemy, Nirvana and Joan Jett were first traded in for the likes of P.Did dy, Puddle of Mudd and Avril Lavigne, and then even these flaccid and easily forgotten "artists" were traded in for "Room Raiders" and "Pimp My Ride." Along with the return of old fa vorites, this season brings us new and more morally apprehensible concepts such as celebrity fat camp and a girl trying to pick the father that she's nev er met in her life out of a group of men, "The Bachelor"-style. These shows basically take the worst of American society and flaunt it like it's something to be proud of. The worst part is that we watch it. It seems like the cancer of reality television is not going to stop until the democratic voting system is replaced by "Presi dential Survivor." ryanmurphey@dailyemerald.com Heads up Penny V I / Mead* / STUDENT SPECIAL 339 E. 11th Avenue Open late Friday & Saturday One Medium 1-item pizza Limited delivery area. Charges may apply. 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