5/20/2013: They are making UO parking operations pay nearly $1M a year towards the bonds for the underground Matt Court Arena parking garage – meaning the cost gets tacked on to the fees every UO parking pass holder must pay. And then they earn $370K a year, presumably from game parking, and spend it on themselves:
Everybody gets a car!
No subsidies here. Move it along, professor.
Isn’t “sustainability” part of our “brand”. Shouldn’t we all be biking and busing to work? Get them bikes and give faculty raises!
How do these people wake up in the morning, get in their publicly-funded cars and then say with a straight face how committed they are to our public mission, raising student tuition and paying faculty competitive wages.
I’d like to see one fucking administrator with a spine step up and make even a symbolic gesture of commitment to the these ideals by rejecting these subsidies and donating them to one of those causes.
Our brand: “Subsidies as Usual”.
I didn’t know that UO athletics was receiving over a million in lottery proceeds. That makes me sick.
Kitz wanted to end it, don’t know if that made it into legislation.
Gottfredson can do a work around and get money for merit or need based scholarships, if he has the stomach for it.
Give these sport porkers all the EMX coaches…..then LTD can quit terrorizing with new unwanted routes. The EMX stations can all converted to farmers market stands