UO to be sort of non-smoking

10/12/2010: From Lyzi Diamond in the Oregon Commentator:

At tonight’s ASUO Senate meeting, President Rousseau announced that the ASUO is moving forward with a smoke-free campus policy. The Executive received an $800,000 grant to be spent over a number of years from PacificSource Health Plans as part of their Healthy Campus Initiative. The plan would be implemented over two years, starting with a “Great American Smoke Out” in November. The money from PacificSource will go to the hiring of three staff members, … The idea is to educate new students that UO is a tobacco-free campus, so that is their expectation when they become students. …

It’s going to be tough on our foreign grad students. Nice that this is externally funded though!