“The legacy of mistrust is pretty deep”.
Brent Walth has the interview in the Fall 2010 Oregon Quarterly with Richard Lariviere, here:
“The legacy of mistrust is pretty deep”.
Brent Walth has the interview in the Fall 2010 Oregon Quarterly with Richard Lariviere, here:
Don’t look now, but since the onset of the “branding” avalanche and its associated obfuscations, such warts-and-all-perspectives as this excellent Brent Walth piece have essentially disappeared from OQ.
I edited Old Oregon/Oregon Quarterly for a decade in the 1980s and 1990s. The magazine I inherited from a string of strong editors was proud of its reputation for being more than your standard alumni PR rag. Instead we created a quarterly that explored current issues journalistically and encouraged discussion — a refreshing change from the sort of “happy news” fluff pieces that most universities shovel out the door. The Walth piece you quote, edited by my successor Guy Maynard, hewed to those standards. Since Guy’s retirement, in my view, both the content and quality of the piece have declined as a string of unimaginative administrations forego anything but the safest sort of pure PR.