The tents are already going up in the quad. The bongos are loud enough to drown out the jackhammers on PLC. Their website is here.
Oct. 27, 2011
Dear ColleaguesThe University of Oregon has received word that leaders of the Occupy Eugene movement intend to relocate their encampment this afternoon from Alton Baker Park to the UO campus. …
Lorraine Davis
Acting Provost
Rumor down at the faculty club is that Occupy Eugene will soon move to the nicely landscaped area to the east of the Jock Box. Right off of Franklin, 30,000 cars a day, next to the Arena, excellent public visibility. The ground is soft enough for tent stakes, and Uncle Phil’s bathrooms are open to the public. Here’s one good route:
On campus they are as much out of the world as if they were still in Alton Baker….
The U of O has been fomenting this for at least three decades, now they can taste it first hand.
I thought UO was not going to allow them to camp out here. How then can they be allowing the tents to go up?
It sounds like UO is speaking with forked tongue (not for the first time!): you absolutely are not allowed to camp here, and now let’s negotiate about that.
If UO is really going to be that goofy, it will be very amusing to watch!
I wonder if this is Lariviere or Davis at work? Whatever. If UO can be roughed up that easily, it will not bode well for negotiations over the “New Partnership.”
I think they got run out of Alton Baker by the homeless. Maybe the homeless are not part of the 99%….
Definitely worth checking out Occupy Eugene’s Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/groups/occupyeugene/ . Some interesting perspectives on how the university is viewed by greater Eugene. And they’re candid about their decision. David Loitz: “we didn’t move to U of O because this movement believes it is the best place to fight the greed, or that education should be the central issue or that most of the 30,000 student support us. We did it because ABP was hellish and this is the one that 50 people liked… not everyone voted nor did everyone agree even.” This is not going to end well.
A major source of the economic misery in USA is the wasting of our national treasure on wars. Five hundred and fifty members of the UO Faculty (as it was defined in 2003) sought to convene the Assembly to raise a voice against the pending illegal, immoral, and financially wasteful war on Iraq. The UO President gagged the Assembly by declaring that Oregon Law forbid it from speaking because less than 1000 of its members came to the meeting. With this action, the University President made it clear that, as an institution, the UO didn’t give a damn if our country played Shock and Awe when it could, instead, have been building high-speed rail, supporting the development of non-carbon energy sources and in myriad other ways putting people to work for the long-range health of our society. By its silence in the face of an obvious disaster, the UO, as an institution, did its bit to impoverish Americans. What will it do now for (or to) the people who are demonstrating a vision and courage that our University lacked. The Old Man is just asking.
I have enough crazy homeless people screaming outside of my office in PLC. I have to get research done for Pete’s sake.