To the left, the sleek, overflowing (but shallow) fountain of the Jacqua Jock Box, symbolizing purity, excess, and athletics. To the right, the broken debris filled fountain in front of the Knight Library, symbolizing the corrupt, dissolute, and empty life of the mind.
Note that the jocks tricked Provost Bean into making the academic side pay for the maintenance of their fountain. I think those literature profs call that irony.
A reader sent me the idea for this visual metaphor a while ago. I’ve hesitated to post it out of fear our administration’s reaction will be to cut a few more RA positions and spend the savings prettying up the library fountain for the graduation ceremonies – which President Lariviere moved to a Monday, without consulting faculty or students, so as not to conflict with a track meet.
In other news:
http://eugenebicyclist.com/2011/05/30/oh-please-italy-my-foot/
Nice! Do you know where to get new 42-53 chain rings for a nuovo record crank?
Have you tried digging through the bins of old sprockets at the Center for Appropriate Transport ? It is located at first and Jefferson. Or ask Louie at Blue Heron Bikes on 13th…he might know where to look for that.
UO Matters needs a compact crankset — your knees will love you for it.
UO Matters’s current ride is a 1959 Frejus fixed gear, with sewups and a 1″ block chain. So I don’t ride much.
Oh my god. Not really, right? I had a Frejus in the 70s. It was a thing of beauty. Wish I still had it.
As for the N.R. chain rings … I’m sure you could find ’em on eBay, but that vintage stuff usually gets bid up outrageously high.
— eugene bicyclist
I have 2. Chrome, 56 cm. And I need some cash, for wood Ghisalllo rims. Let’s take this off line: [email protected].