Last updated on 05/04/2016
5/3/2016: Diane Dietz has the good news here:
The University of Oregon is one of the 50 best universities nationally for “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ)” students, says the rating service collegechoice.net.
… The UO also offers gender-inclusive housing where students can room with members of any gender they wish. In academics, UO offers a minor in queer studies through the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.
Plus, this year the UO is redesignating up to 111 restrooms on campus as gender-inclusive facilities.
The UO Economics Department was one of the first to get the “All Gender” restrooms, and I can report that Ted Cruz’s worst bathroom nightmares were not well grounded in reality. It seems most of Indiana’s republicans agree.
9/21/2015: Progressive UO economists first to try out gender neutral bathrooms in PLC
I’m not saying correlation is causation, but perhaps the fact UO pays its economists just 72% of peer salaries is the reason Economics has long been known as UO’s most progressive academic department. Although I did hear one of the old-guard mutter “I just hope I’m not caught in here with some differently gendered undergrad and my pants down when DeFazio’s earthquake alarm goes off.”
Still a few kinks to work out with the signs, however.
Update: “What if” UO’s Late Night Brander taunted Vulcan *and* Fortuna?
“long been known as UO’s most progressive academic department”
Come again? Says who? I am looking at sociology for starters, let’s not even get to art, Women’s and gender studies, etc.
Economics the most progressive department?
That’s a good one ( if we mean progressive in the political sense.)
Just goes to show the difference between stated preference and revealed preferences.
We are revealed to be progressive given our inclusive bathrooms. Where’s your proof??
And our faculty union membership rate is among the highest of any UO department. “Gender neutral union members” sure sounds progressive to me.
I think he means progressive in the “sarcastic” sense.
Or perhaps he is just REALLY PC?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Conservative
Just add “s agitat molem” and you’re good to go.
Easy for you to say, but that didn’t work out so well for Pliny the Elder, did it?
Yes, but this is Economics, not Vulcanology
Old Grey Mare’s solution has now been implemented. I’ve emailed a new picture of the door to uomatters, so hopefully the post will be updated soon.
I did the best I could to match the lettering, but try as I might I couldn’t for the life of me find the hand-painted-on-wooden-door-who-knows-how-many-decades-ago typeface anywhere on my machine. (Alas!)
[Naturally, all apologies to Pliny the Elder and the hapless inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Residents of Cascadia realize that volcanoes warrant our respect.]
I don’t know if Econ is really the UOs most progressive department, but after this post you’ve got a lock on the nerdiest. And thanks for the bathrooms!