Update: These two photos were both taken by Andrew Nelson, a photojournalist for the RG. The first is from Bagdad in 2003, just before a US Marine vehicle pulled down Saddam Hussein’s statue. The second is from Eugene, today, from this RG report. I’m posting them as a reminder that…
Posts tagged as “Pioneer Father”
A modest proposal for Provost Patrick Phillips, from the 1/2 Price Provost: Cutting Duck baseball and moving the Jock Box from the provost’s budget to the AD’s are the easy ways to raise $4M recurring for the academic side. Auctioning off Alexander Phimister Proctor’s statue of the Pioneer Father would…
The Pioneer, by Alexander Phimister Proctor, on the UO campus between Fenton and Friendly Halls: Call me a Yankee, but I’d thought General Ulysses S. Grant and President Abraham Lincoln had settled matters with Robert E. Lee and his ilk at Appomattox in April 1865, far beyond our poor power…