I’m going to miss the old building, though the poolside cabanas were getting a bit ratty. According to the blueprints the original Jim Bean Bar room and Lariviere Smoking Lounge will be faithfully recreated. Rumor has it that Bob Berdahl and Mike Gottfredson are willing to make a substantial donation to top off the fundraising campaign, conditional on the new Presidential Archives and Public Records Reading Room not being named after them.
How I miss those days of yesteryear! Perhaps Paul Olum, even Mylew Brand will be back. I am surprised how I miss Dave Is Aaron still as crusty and amusing as he used to be? Many others. It will be good to get together with all of them again..
Just what UO needs – a palace for all you deadwood faculty to loll around in. No wonder you keep raising tuition.
I don’t believe that any student tuition money is directly funding the faculty club.
I’ve heard a lot of exaggerations from our wine steward over the years, but Jacques seemed genuinely heartbroken as he refilled my sherry glass at last month’s department meeting. Something about how they’re taking space from the wine cellar for a grow room. He blames the biologists.
That little shit said that? He never complains when we share our special mushrooms with him.
The ingratitude! I am a young biologist looking to sign on to the proposed cactus genetic recombination cluster hire program. You know, the one that wants to grow those magic desert buttons using Oregon’s unique rain and light cycles.
I’ll think you’ll find some unique research synergies here at UO, Professor Castaneda. I hope our VPR can fund your startup request for $1M in small unmarked bills.
Jacques is exactly the sort of deadwood Chuck Lillis is complaining about. He hasn’t done any research in years – the assistants do all the work for those co-authored articles in the Wine Spectator. The Committee has voted several times to fire him, but a former provost gave him tenure in Media Studies after Jacques showed him the betamax tapes from that Commencement party with the basketball teams. And you Young Turks think you invented gender-neutrality! Anyway, this is why the Club now strictly enforces the no central administrators policy. Sorry, I know no one wants to hear an old man drone on about the good old days, but I remember when the faculty really ran this university.