The Weekly Fix

[November 19th, 2008]

BUSY BEAVERS: The Oregon State University men’s basketball team toured Barack Obama’s D.C. Senate office last Thursday—thanks to Craig Robinson, the president-elect’s brother-in-law. And OSU’s football team is two wins away from the Rose Bowl.

“If you want, you can bring me some chocolate chip cookies.” —University of Oregon student Jasmine Zimmer-Stucky, in a YouTube video (on WWire) explaining why she would spend four days last week in a tree outside the governor’s office in Salem to protest increased logging on public lands.

86,546: The number of students enrolled in Oregon universities this year, a record.

Swing free: Judge Jerome LaBarre cleared Portlander Michael Hammond of an indecent exposure charge for his bare-assed naked bike ride along Northeast Alberta Street in June, despite Deputy District Attorney Ryan Lufkin’s assertion that the penis-baring pedaler was, “by every definition of the word, streaking.”

SKIP TO MY LOO:  The first Portland Loo, a $140,000 stand-alone public toilet championed by Randy Leonard, will soon be installed at Northwest Glisan Street and 5th Avenue.