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- Schillions { Thanks for the math. WTF. The Schillionaire and his crony board buddies are clearly only pursuing “excellence” at the executive... }
- SEIU member { Which union? UA? SEIU prepares to walk out (and when we do, certain UO bargainer claims we aren't bargaining in... }
- Compulsory Pessimist { *weeps* Why you gotta rub our faces in it, FwS? (Thanks though for real - it's good to have the... }
- Townie { Final post of the night: I believe Philip Knight's legacy has hurt UO more than it has helped it. UO... }
- Townie { Board of Trustees packet Race mentioned 7x, Racial mentioned 15x, Equity mentioned 70x, Diversity mentioned 33x, Diverse mentioned 22x, Inclusion... }
- Townie { According to the BoT packet, UO raised $920.3m for sports during the capital campaign (~10 yrs total). (pg 101, https://trustees.uoregon.edu/sites/trustees1.uoregon.edu/files/2022-05/may-2022-consolidated-board-packet-v.3_1.pdf)... }
- Truth { None of them have ever been a university president so why hire them. No experience. No professional relationships. Lien hiring... }
- CSN { Also, did you click "four-year" on that graph? Oregon is 5th from the bottom. Only New Hampshire, Vermont, Arizona, and... }
- Oregon's self-service ban raises gas... (9)
- New Year Cat { I lived in states where I had to pump my own. It sucked. Physically, the smell of gas makes me... }
- uomatters { Got skunked fishing again? }
- Salmon-powered future { I could totally sell a dam to a salmon. They're just dumb fish. }
- honest Uncle Bernie { From a non-economist's perspective -- it always struck me as nice not to have to pump my own in the... }
- honest Uncle Bernie { depends on what you count as "the externalities." The Northwest has an abundance of hydropower. But try selling more dams... }
- It's Classified. { I'm curious, from an Economist's perspective, what expense or benefit there is to having the additional jobs in the community--... }
- non-electric { Just "fill up" your electric car in the the north parking garage FOR FREE! }
- Dog { Indeed that has now come to the case for price. In the case of externalities - this is not clear... }
- Former UO AVP Charles Martinez... (6)
- Dog { For the record, the law suit was Wade (Joe) vs Moseley (John) Filed in 2001 https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4366383/wade-v-state-of-oregon/ }
- Anonymous { The first person hired as the Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity was Dr. Gregory Vincent. He was not... }
- Cheyney Ryan { Note on Robin Holmes as new L + C President: U of O Matters commented upon Robin's departure from the... }
- Publius { FIRST ROBIN HOLMES, NOW CHARLES MARTINEZ: https://www.lclark.edu/live/news/47686-dr-robin-holmes-sullivan-named-the-next-president “Through her management of campus crises large and small, Robin has proven herself... }
- Fishwrapper { One wonders as one peruses the CV's: how is it that a flagship R1 institution cannot attract someone with commensurate... }
- honest Uncle Bernie { Effin' A! }
- President Schill urges UO to... (22)
- Raghu Parthasarathy { 1 Thanks, all, for the pointers to various books. Since this is a 10--days-old thread, it is unlikely that anyone... }
- vhils { Here's a related question that seems right up your alley UOmatters: How much is Nike actually paying to kick out... }
- honest Uncle Bernie { Yes, "Unsettled" by Steven Koonin (former professor of physics at Caltech, and provost, i.e. impeccable credentials) is worth reading. I... }
- honest Uncle Bernie { Serge, a tad parochial yourself, perhaps? No visual art, music, science or mathematics? }
- Prosser { I think the problem is having a law professor as president. The typical law professor, like Schill, only has a... }
- Serge Protektor { Is this what happens when you become a university president without an adequate grounding in philosophy, ethics, literature, and history? }
- just different { ^^^THIS. Enough already with rich people and their "independent" politics. }
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- Fishwrapper { UPDATE! Oregon State University announced today that they have hired a new President. We just don't know which of the... }
- Johnny Earl { From: Johnny Earl Sent: Monday, May 16, 2022 9:39 AM To: Lindsey D CAPPS Subject: UO Board of Trustee Seat... }
- Fishwrapper { From the "I can't believe you even suggested that" file, I do recall a high-level spinmeister about, oh, a year... }
- ODA { It still seems like total BS that high level (or really any) hires are done in secret. Someone should run... }
- honest Uncle Bernie { Effin' A! }
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- Dog { no that is Shared Suffering Services or S-cubed, something they might install at the KC. }
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The Urban Farm is an oasis of sanity and healing, providing anyone who visits a breath of hope for a future regenerative return to sensitive, intelligent, sustainable agriculture.
The Knight Campus is so awful in appearance that, on a beautiful day, it sucks the life out of everything around it. But it’s not only hard to look at. It’s a billionaire’s regressive, monopoly-capitalist colonization of education, funding the enchantment of students into wage-slavery for an industrialism that we should be dismantling now, as fast as we can.
The older project represents the ecological future we need. The newer project represents everything that is destroying the planet.
“They’re not going to adjust the footprint of a half a billion dollar project for a couple of fruit trees,” he said…
… is pretty much a flawless start for a really terrific dystopian science fiction novel. So, ideal symbolism for the UO.
Why the hell should they. I don’t see billions of dollars of investments on fruit trees.
Plenty of forest to plant those trees in outside of campus. Think smarter and stop whining like a baby
It depends. I don’t know anything about those particular trees, but IF they were research trees that were being studied for resilience to a much hotter climate, then moving the boundary of a parking lot would make sense since the study could impact our future food system. In any case, I find it ridiculous that blacktop always wins out over living beings. Any trees are a help to our climate at this point. Park fewer cars over there — we have busses direct to campus anyhow.
Exactly. It’s infuriating that people have a massive sense of entitlement about parking and roads, but not about better public transit and bike/ped infrastructure. Imagine how much nicer the world would be if those priorities were reversed.
The only science needed is Nikescience.
Don’t care about two trees, or five. Could care less that a little land is going to a new building.
Care a whole lot more about the collective decision to go net zero. When are we doing that, exactly? Shouldn’t we pushing it like mad?
Why haven’t you started?
I have. I sold my internal combustion car. Later this year I’ll be switching off the furnace in favor of an electric heat pump. I’ve adapted my diet to be more climate friendly. I plan to be carbon neutral, but the biggest source of my own emissions is my job. I would like to work for an employer that helps me abate those sources. (Greg, thanks for assuming the worst of other commenters, it helps keeping this a friendly forum.)
Mike is right – Nikelaw was a early big step. We now are at the cusp of our chance to design, enhance and brand and quietly patent the first Nike human. Years ago Dave F had his ” Transforming Lives” gimmick….well he was on the board of NIH I am pretty sure, so now we face the widely unknown and misunderstood agenda….the Transhumanism movement. The most obvious warning was the NYT article years ago “In Pursuit of Doped Excellence”. The average UO student does not matter at the new Nike shadowcampus because they are simply obsolete. perhaps a new slogan for that facility -“make friends here”