News  The U.S. Department of Agriculture has fined Oregon Health and Sciences University $11,679 for the deaths of five monkeys used in animal experiments at the school's Oregon National Primate Research Center in 2009.The USDA penalty also cites the Primate Center for the escape of nine macaques in 2009 after an employee failed to lock a door on their cage. All nine monkeys were safely captured within ...   More

News Reporters get used to dealing with difficult sources. Professional spokesmen paid to provide information to the public usually aren't among them. But we hit some turbulence today trying to report on Oregon Health & Science University's National Primate Research Center. The center, home to about 4,200 nonhuman primates, has been the subject of past coverage in this newspaper, including ...   More

News I doubt any of the audience members at Exquisite Corpse this past weekend had any clue what we were walking into as they made their way into the transformed Reed College gym. We were presented with a choice of seating in the round, but to make it to our seats, we first needed to negotiate our way through the performance space, littered with odd objects—a red dress here, a portrait of a monkey ...   More