Comments on: Oregon Voice requests cheese with that whine

By: Exquisite Dead Guy

Exquisite Dead Guy — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:30:35 +0000

I don’t understand how you people could possibly believe the OV is any way undeserving of more money. I mean, come on, with the quality, can’t-put-’em-down articles they produce, they deserve to have their budget quadrupled at least. I don’t know how I ever survived the past couple of decades without having read such gems as “When Appliances Attack: True tales of survival” or “Kidney Stones: a cautionary tale.” I feel my life has been enriched far more than their oh-so-deserving “editors” and “writers” have been enriched by the allocation of additional student fees. I await the inevitable announcement of numerous Pulitzers for the incomparable Oregon Voice. Truly, this is what the founding fathers had in mind when they conceived the idea of freedom of the press (which freedom, by the way, is a terrible thing that will soon be eliminated when capitalism is eradicated, thanks in large part to the persuasive writings of the OV).

By: Guy

Guy — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:21:29 +0000

Sadly the OV now receives even more stipend money. They just received a second stipend from PFC this year and now have two paid positions.

Disgusting. I hope you enjoy that stolen money Tuula.

/You’re really earning it.

By: Vincent.

Vincent. — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:15:56 +0000

Watch out. The Voice might challenge y’all to a Caring Competition. Only it wouldn’t be a competition because competition implies conflict.

So maybe a Caring Convocation?

By: Angelsman

Angelsman — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:47:43 +0000

The Oregon Voice would be at The Indigo District. Also, I can’t wait to smash on those voice nerds in some pigskin.

On another note, how about an Oregon Voice–Oregon Commentator drinking competition?

By: Timothy

Timothy — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:19:26 +0000

the OV used to actually look good.

This must’ve been sometime in the 80s. :-) OOOHHH BURN!

By: Ossie

Ossie — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:06:03 +0000

All this reminded me that I forgot to include something in the latest issue. The OC staff challenges the staff of the OV to a game of schoolyard football. (This challenge will be formally announced in our next issue, which will come out next week on Friday, hopefully.) Rules:
- 5 Mississippi blitz
- First down is midfield
- 1 blitz per set of downs.
- no crying
The time and place can be arranged if the challenge is accepted - I was thinking the lawn next to Gerlinger. And no, we will not change the challenge to Ultimate Frisbee.

One note on the OV blog post. Tuula Rebhahn refers to herself “as a fellow slave to an independent student magazine.” Last time I checked, the OV receives $1,575 for stipend expenses. I thought slave work was doing work and not being reimbursed.
Luckily for us at the OC, the rewards of our work are intangible - like a laughter of a newborn babe.

By: Niedermeyer

Niedermeyer — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:30:50 +0000

Also, for God’s sake, OV: you are an (increasingly) liberal mag on a liberal campus and yet you cast yourselves as the poor victim of the high-and-mighty conservatives? Maybe you all don’t get it that a large number of OC staffers are not so much “conservatives” in the stereotyped terms you think of, as much as they are “interested in writing humor/opinion for a magazine that doesn’t blow.” I know that’s why I joined up, anyway… and when I was Editor, I was constantly accused of “turning the OC into the OV.” I always considered this a compliment because *gasp* the OV used to actually look good. Seriously, do you know how hard it is to get artists to work for the OC? As the “artsy” mag with decades between publishing dates, shouldn’t you guys be filling every issue with art which is… um…. good? Since the content is… so… y’know…

Then again, maybe I’m just jealous because I’m gonna have to pick up the next issue of the OV (projected print date AD 2030) because y’all scored an exclusive with Gunther.

By: Niedermeyer

Niedermeyer — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:16:52 +0000

I love how the 32 page issues somehow justifies only putting an issue out four times per year… if that’s even the way it works. A quick glance at their “Archives” page shows that volume 17 has six issues, volume 18 has four, and volume 19 has one, as does volume 20. In other words, it’s taken a brief two years for the OV to go from printing six times per (school year) volume to printing one issue per volume at a rate which defies any kind of explanation at all. Now don’t get me wrong, the OC righteously affirms the god-given right to laziness and apathy per our mission statement, but what does rile me up is how skewed the funding is for our respective magazines. Now, I don’t have the numbers in front of me, nor have I even looked at them in about a year, but maybe someone wants to run down to the controllers office and look them up. Do some quick math to figure out the dollars per printed page and blog post for the OV vs. the OC and you’ll see what I’m talking about.

By: Flood

Flood — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:23:16 +0000

I can’t believe the phrase “mysterious bruises that appear on my knees” went unremarked upon.

By: Alana Kennedy

Alana Kennedy — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:36:35 +0000

OMG u r soooooooooooooo meen!!!!!!!!!1