Former University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer has been named as the newest member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences board of directors.

“I am honored to share the responsibility to be a steward of the great legacy of this distinguished academy and its heritage of cherishing knowledge,” Frohnmayer said in an Oct. 11 press release.

Members of the AAAS “contribute to academy publications and studies of science and technology policy, education, energy and global security, social policy and American institutions and the humanities,” according to the press release.

“I continue to be impressed by the distinction of the academy’s membership and significant projects that it undertakes for the common good,” Frohnmayer said.

Frohnmayer held a post as UO’s president from 1994 to 2009 and is currently a law professor at UO. He was named to the executive committee for an AAAS initiative called The Lincoln Project.

The appointment will be made official in an Oct. 12 ceremony at Cambridge, Mass.

After 10 months of negotiations, the UO administration and United Academics, the new union representing around 1,800 faculty members, have ratified their first collectively bargained contract.

“This first contract not only represents a historic agreement, it reflects our collective commitment to our mission of providing the highest quality education for our students,” University of Oregon President Michael Gottfredson said in an Oct. 9 press release.

The UO faculty were not represented by a union until April 2012. Bargaining began Nov. 2012 and a tentative agreement was reached Sept. 18. According to the press release, “The union represents tenured, tenure track, non-tenure track and adjunct faculty members, in addition to research assistants, librarians and other academic employees. The bargaining unit does not include law school faculty, faculty who are administrators and faculty who are supervisors.”

The contract includes a pay increase for tenure and tenure-track faculty, longer contracts for non-tenure track faculty and more protections for academic freedom.

“This is good for the university, for students and for Oregon,” said Scott Pratt, Professor of Philosophy and member of the United Academics Bargaining team, in the press release.

Every year, the school year is book-ended with a multi-day view of the culture of Eugene.

The ASUO Street Faire will take place in the heart of campus between Kincaid and University streets on 13th Avenue Oct. 9 through Oct. 11. There will also be vendors.

The event offers handmade goods from local vendors, and a multitude of food. According to the ASUO’s website for the event, “We invite artisans, vendors, non-profit organizations and student programs from all over to take part in this event.”

The fair attracts students as well as the outside community and is expected to have “thousands of individuals passing through daily,” according to the website.

Carts and vendors will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. A map of all booths and vendors and their locations can be found here.

On Oct. 4, the first Friday of fall term, 40 University of Oregon students were arrested, cited or warned by the Eugene Police Department, primarily for party related offenses. Most citations were given in the west and south of campus, according to the Eugene Police Department. The citations and charges were:

8 Open-container citations

15 Minor in possession of alcohol

1 Minor misrepresenting age

1 Allowing minors to consume alcohol

1 Unruly gathering

1 Prohibited noise

1 Urinating in public

1 Criminal mischief

Also, eleven UO students were given noise warnings.

David Tetukevich was arrested Oct. 1 in connection with a thefts in the School of Law, as well as other local businesses.

The Eugene Police Department arrested David Tetukevich on Oct 1. as a suspect in a series of thefts that involved the School of Law, as well as a number of local businesses.

The EPD made the arrests at Tetukevich’s home in Springfield where he was charged with  three counts of first-degree burglary, three counts of first-degree theft, three counts of possessing burglary tools, and three counts of second-degree criminal mischief, according to a post on the UOPD’s website.

The suspect was identified by a local business owner after security footage from the William K. Knight Law Center was released by the UOPD.

The investigation into whether stole property was sold online or otherwise is ongoing. More information can be found on the UOPD website.

A failure to pass a budget by midnight Monday resulted in a shutdown of the federal government, the first in 17 years.

While most students receiving Pell Grants or federal student loans will be unaffected, as those programs are funded by multi-year appropriations, most federal employees who process those will have to go on furlough.

Tens of thousands of federally employed workers will have to go on furlough, services such as food assistance will be stopped and national parks and monuments will be closed. President Barack Obama signed a measure late Monday that will ensure payment to members of the military.

The main areas of contention involved President Obama’s health care law. As the deadline grew closer, actions made were tense and deliberate. The quotes from below were taken from the negotiations in the moments leading up to the shutdown.

“We will not go to conference with a gun to our head,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said, referring to a move to create non-bipartisan committees from the House and Senate without enough time for parliamentary procedure.

“The fear shouldn’t be what’s going to happen at 12 o’clock tonight,” Representative Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., said Monday night. “The fear needs to be on the future, what’s going to happen with jobs, what’s going to happen with health insurance for the American people.”

Washington D.C. is tense with members of both parties showing frustration with the turmoil-ridden budget negotiations.

“It’s moronic to shut down the government over this,” Representative Devin Nunes, R-Calif. said, referring to the push to eliminate a law that would open insurance exchanges, which are set to be put in place soon.

Representative Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. said, “The scary thing about the period we’re in right now is there is no clear end.”

Bells at the First Christian Church rang with a cacophony of cheers and horn honks for the large throng of student and community members who rallied through downtown Eugene Thursday night.

The event was a protest against the decision in the George Zimmerman case, wherein he was “unjustly acquitted” of second degree murder and manslaughter of Trayvon Martin.

“The point is solidarity, and to bring attention to this issue,” said Olivia Manwarren, one of the organizers of the event and a co-director of the Black Student Union.

“This is our way of bringing awareness (of the Trayvon Martin case) to the Eugene community. Even though we’re all the way across the country, we are one community,” Manwarren said.

The event swelled to around 100 people over the course of the march from the UO campus to Wayne Morse Free Speech area outside the courthouse in downtown Eugene. Support for the cause came from inside and outside the throng, with onlookers throwing supporting cheers and honks in abundance.

Melanie Griffin, a graduate who just finished her last class at UO Thursday, heard about the rally in her Anthropology class. She felt that the event was good for people’s morale and will help make people more aware.

At the free speech area, Eric Richardson, president of the Eugene/Springfield chapter of the NAACP, gave a speech just after arriving in Eugene from the NAACP Annual Convention in Orlando, Fla.

“Trayvon is all of us, and we are all under attack,” Richardson said. He targeted the importance of the rally as showcasing the unity of the Eugene community. “In Eugene we have a proud tradition of diversity. We have to understand that what we have here is something we can export to the rest of the country,” he said.

Some joined the crowd off the street, but social media seemed to draw the initial gathering. Kaseja Wilder, a local graduate student attending Portland State with a distance option in Eugene, heard about the event from a friend on Facebook.

“Racism is a real problem in this country and any chance for people to show up to an event and make a difference is important,” Wilder said. “I would guess that some white people (in the crowd) feel that we have come along way but the reality is that we still have so far to go.”

Much of the event was driven by signs touting “The whole system’s guilty” and “this is a Tray-vesty” slogans, while others shouted “Rise up fight back,” throughout the march across the city.

Paul Shang, UO dean of students, decided to attend the event after receiving an email from the Black Student Union. According to Shang, the outcome of the Zimmerman case is an injustice and people are upset for many different reasons.

“I think it’s really important to be of assistance, making sure everyone is safe and making sure the students’ message is delivered effectively,” Shang said.

This being his first time volunteering for a rally, Tru Mallon, a sophomore, had no idea what to expect in terms of a turnout, but was happy to see the amount of people who showed up. Mallon helped hand out a chant script before the event, and candles after the rally arrived at it’s destination outside the courthouse.

According to Richardson, 1.5 million signatures have been collected for the #JusticeForTrayvon petition and an event is scheduled in Washington D.C. on Aug. 24, which is only days before the 50th year anniversary of the Walk on Washington rally.