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guns, tobacco, and pot

10/15/2011: Dennis Richardson, probably the most conservative, balanced budget, family values representative in the state legislature, speaks out on federal meddling in Oregon’s largest agricultural success story: During a tour Thursday of a medical marijuana farm outside Jacksonville, Republican Rep. Dennis Richardson said some growers are abusing Oregon’s medical marijuana…

The last thing UO needs:

10/14/2011: De gustibus non est disputandum. Or so the Nobel Prize winning economists say. But the rest of  us might wonder why the UO development office didn’t try, or couldn’t succeed, at redirecting this generous couple’s tax deductible gift toward some purpose more important than a concert hall that will…

OSU loves Lariviere

10/14/2011: From an editorial in the Corvallis paper: Corvallis Gazette-Times, Oct. 11, on raises for university faculty: Say what you will about University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere – and the man has picked up something of a maverick label during his term at the Eugene campus – he might…

More Indian students?

10/14/2011: A New York Times article explains how competitive Indian universities have become, and how more students are coming to the US, instead of the UK. These are top students and it would be good networking for our Oregon students. Indian enrollment is still very low here. President Lariviere is…

EMU referendum

10/13/2011: VP Robin Holmes and the UO administration want to renovate the EMU. Great. But they want to do it to suit their own tastes, not those of the student’s. Well. OK, they are paying for it, they get to choose.  Except they are not – they want the students…