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Posts tagged as “worthwhile student initiatives”

Pretty in China party scene, and UO spending money on cops not counseling

Great story by Hannah Golden in the Emerald about the gloriously over-the-top parties that our entrepreneurial Chinese undergrads are organizing. And also an excellent report by Bayley Sandy, headlined “Student leaders do their best to compensate for the UO Counseling Center’s insufficient funding”. Maybe VPFA Jamie Moffitt should raffle off…

Applied garbology

6/12/2013: Need a very used couch? Eugene’s HS students have a great idea, straight out of the pages of my favorite archaeology book. And while I’m off topic, check out Around the O for the most dissonant headline I’ve ever read: Computer professor scores trifecta with committee posts But actually, these seem to…

No rich child left behind

From the NYT: … consider two children, one from a family with income of $165,000 and one from a family with income of $15,000. These incomes are at the 90th and 10th percentiles of the income distribution nationally, meaning that 10 percent of children today grow up in families with…

Kitzhaber to sign bill giving children of illegal immigrants in-state tuition

From “Around the O”: University of Oregon student Edith Gomez will join Gov. John Kitzhaber, Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney and others Tuesday morning (April 2) when the governor signs into law the state’s so-called tuition equity bill. Gomez, a general science major at the UO, testified in favor of…