The University of Oregon will seek public comment on the Black Cultural Center in the coming weeks at a public forum as they prepare to break ground on the center in the fall.

While the official date of the public forum has not been announced, Vice President of Student Life Kevin Marbury said to expect it in about two weeks.

The approximately 3,200 square feet building is scheduled to open in the fall of 2019. It will be on East 15th near Villard Street.

The project is in response to the November 2015 demands the Black Student Task Force sent to UO’s administration. Marbury applauded the pace of the project as a sign of the university’s commitment to making sure all students have a space they feel like they belong in.

“We’re talking about providing another opportunity for our students to have something that makes them feel connected to the institution, that sense of belonging, that place where they can go and recharge but also a place of learning and growth,” Marbury said.

He said he thinks it’s important that any freshmen involved in issuing the demands get to see something they asked for come to fruition before they graduate.

Marbury said that although the name of the center might make it seem like only black students can use it, that’s not true.

“I really think it’s going to be an opportunity for people to explore and learn and grow,” Marbury said. “Primarily black students have said they need some additional space to do some of the things that will help them be successful. It’s an important commitment by the institution to say, ‘we hear you and we believe in that as well’.”

Marbury noted the precedence for these kinds of spaces around campus, like the Women’s Center or the Many Nations Longhouse, as being open to anyone, despite sounding like it only serves certain groups.

”It is a place that I can, as a black person, go to share and learn the same way I can go to the Longhouse or any other building on this campus,” said Marbury.  I don’t think it’s a place of segregation, I think it’s an opportunity for there to be a kind of central location where things can happen. It’s not the only place they can happen, but certainly, it’s a place to start. It’s a place that, wherever you are in your journey, there’s a place you can go and connect.”

While the building is slated to primarily feature meeting spaces for a variety of uses, including studying, student planning groups, academic support and possibly small classes, Marbury said another mission is to include art and cultural pieces from both the university and across the state.

“We’re trying to make the space as flexible as possible so that it is of the most value to both the users and the UO community,” said Marbury.

With a price tag of about $2.2 million, about $1.7 million of the funding has come from donations alone. Some of the donations include about $1 million from alumnus Dave Petrone and his wife Nancy, along with resources allocated from UO President Michael Schill’s Presidential Fund for Excellence created from a $50 million anonymous gift in October of 2017.

Drawing on his own experience living in a Black Cultural Center when he was in college at Earlham College in Indiana, Marbury said they are pulling inspiration from examples at other colleges, including Oregon State University, to help inform the best ways the center can serve the community.

One thing that Marbury said sets UO’s Black Cultural Center apart from that of some other institutions’ is that it’s being built from the ground up as opposed to putting the center somewhere that wasn’t built specifically for it.

“You’re not just building a building, you’re actually building something that generations are going to get a chance to use and it is going to be significant, I think, to the university, that they made the commitment to do this,” said Marbury. “It speaks to everyone a feeling of being welcome, a sense of belonging. I’m honored that I get a chance to be a part of this.”

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Every 98 seconds an American is sexually assaulted, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN).  

Nationally there has been an increase in coverage of sexual assault with the #MeToo movement and multiple public allegations of sexual misconduct against influential people such as Harvey Weinstein, former Alabama judge Roy Moore and Louis C.K.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and although many support events mark campus calendars at the University of Oregon, some students don’t feel represented in the dialogue and curriculum promoted by administration.

In a 2015 UO campus climate survey on sexual assault and sexual misconduct, only 36 percent of respondents said they believed campus officials would take action against the perpetrator of a reported sexual assault.

According to the climate survey, 55 percent of the respondents stated they believed a victim would be supported by other students and 53 percent believed that a report would be taken seriously by campus officials. Just under half of participants said that those reporting misconduct would be protected by campus officials.

To each of these questions, transgender, gay, queer and nonconforming students showed less confidence in UO’s reporting process than other participants. “Overall, TGQN students were least likely to believe that a report of sexual assault or sexual misconduct would be taken seriously,” according to the survey.

RAINN reports that transgender students are at a significantly higher risk than other students of experiencing sexual violence on college campuses.

In general, women of color experience rape at higher rates. Thirty-two percent of multiracial women, 27.5 percent of Native American women, and 21.2 percent of black women compared to only 20 percent of white women and 13.6 percent of hispanic women were raped during their lifetimes, according to a 2014 CDC report.

Some students at UO say university prevention efforts don’t offer enough support and resources for those most at risk of experiencing sexual assault, like people of color and LGBTQ identified people.

University of Oregon’s Approach to Sexual Assault

In 2014, three university reports assessed sexual violence on campus and offered recommendations to Interim President Scott Coltrane. One of the reports estimated that 12 women a week are victims of attempted or completed rape at UO.

Coltrane announced a commitment of money, resources and programming to preventing sexual violence at UO. While not all of his recommendations have been completed, this push brought students programs like Get Explicit, a new Associate Vice President and Title IX Coordinator and an Fraternity and Sorority Life sexual violence prevention team.

At the Board of Trustees meeting in March, UO President Michael Schill applauded the university’s work on the issue of sexual violence on campus.

ASUO Wellness and Safety Advocate, Maya Date, took to the microphone to disagree with Schill.

“I would like to reiterate that UO is not doing a good job with their sexual violence prevention,” Date said at the meeting. “You say this campus is a place where survivors feel comfortable talking about their stories. That is just not true.”

Date collaborates with sexual violence prevention groups like the Sexual Wellness Advocacy Team, the Title IX office, the office of the Dean of Students and Safe Ride through her position with ASUO. But Date feels people of color and queer students don’t see themselves reflected in resources like the scenarios of Get Explicit, a sexual violence prevention workshop for first-year students, or the online prevention training, Haven, another first-year program.

As a woman of color herself, she said she is passionate about this issue because she sees how much it affects her and those around her.

This year’s Take Back the Night theme is “decolonization,” specifically honoring Native American women, a group that Date said has been especially marginalized in sexual violence discussions.

Native Americans are twice as likely to experience a rape or sexual assault compared to all races, according to RAINN’s website.

“Native women are being cut out of these narratives,” Date said.

So much of the discourse surrounding sexual violence, Date said, becomes an issue of “who’s the loudest.” For minorities and marginalized groups lacking resources that other groups have access to, their voices might not be able to reach the same volume as others, she said.

Kerry Frazee, director of prevention services and organizer of UO’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month events, said the events and services are about honoring those who have been harmed, in addition to continuing awareness and education efforts.  

“It’s a community effort, not an individual approach,” she said. “Students want to be a part of the solution.”

This month’s events include a display featuring the number 3250, the number of student the SVP Board estimates will be assaulted during their time at UO. It’s covered in sticky notes with pledges from people of what they’ll do to reduce the instances of sexual violence. At athletic events, athletes wore teal shoelaces, the color of sexual assault awareness.

In addition these campaigns, Frazee noted work of groups like Combined Culture, a UO group “committed to improving their respective communities through film and art” according to their website. The group created a video titled “Rewritten” featuring a scene at a party that could’ve led to a woman getting assaulted in a man’s bedroom but instead ended when she expressed discomfort.

UO psychology professor and author of a 2014 UO Sexual Violence and Institutional Betrayal Survey, Jennifer Freyd, said that while the rate at which people, especially on college campuses, are talking about sexual violence has improved, there is still work to be done.

“There’s been lots of increased attention to the problem, but I also think there’s a long way to go, that we probably need a lot more of that than we have right now,” Freyd said. “I think things are in better shape than they were in 2014, but we don’t actually have evidence we have been able to reduce the instances of sexual violence.”

Freyd’s study examined sexual violence experiences in members of FSL. In 2015, 26 percent of female participants not affiliated with FSL said they experienced unwanted physical sexual contact of any kind. But among female participants affiliated with FSL, 35 percent reported the same thing.

Within FSL, chapters have a representative on their own Sexual Violence Prevention team that works with Frazee. One of those representatives, Leah Cave, also sees a need to include different voices in the conversation, including polyamorous relationships and asexuality. Because there are no resources for those relationships and it’s not talked about, Cave said she doesn’t think those people feel supported in these spaces.

One effort of the FSL Sexual Violence Prevention Board is to provide a SWAT presentation for each fraternity. While Date said that’s a great idea, she thinks there needs to be more accountability in making sure these presentations happen and are productive.

Another category of people Freyd says isn’t as active in these conversations as they should be is men.

“We need to really take on the issues of how men are socialized and the kind of masculinity they learn and to really involve men in fixing and addressing this problem,” said Freyd. “We’re not going to stop it until we significantly involve men in this.”

According to a study by the CDC in 2010, men are much more likely to be perpetrators of sexual assault; 98.1 percent of women and 93.3 percent of men who were victims of rape reported male perpetrators. However, the data shows that in instances of sexual coercion against men, 86.3 percent of the perpetrators were women.

The Future of UO’s Sexual Assault Prevention

In order to see real change on campus and beyond, Freyd said there needs to be more of an emphasis on research.

“The university, like many universities, talks about training, like we can somehow just train people not to rape other people,” she said. “There’s very little evidence that that does anything.”

Freyd said she thinks students should continue their work on this issue and should put pressure on the university and administration to back up their official statements and policies with real change.

“There’s this tendency to talk, to say, ’The University of Oregon doesn’t tolerate sexual violence,’ but that kind of statement doesn’t have any force,” said Freyd. “Maybe it’s better than nothing, but you really need to commit serious resources if that’s the case.”

She said the resources that have been committed increased administrative capacity and some services.  

“Where it’s been lacking is to support the knowledge, creation and the really hard work we need to do,” said Freyd.

Date said one the best things she thinks people can do it get involved and put actions behind their words.

“If you’re not helping, you can’t be mad if it’s not changing,” said Date.

While she feels all of the campus efforts and events are necessary, she said the “narrative needs to be expanded” and more representative of the students body it’s affecting.

As Sexual Assault Awareness Month comes to a close, Freyd said she thinks universities, especially UO, can and should be on the front lines of this issue and approach it from a cultural perspective.  

“What we really need is a culture shift, which probably involves a lot deeper kinds of educational experiences,” Freyd said. “It’s a much bigger commitment and a much deeper thing we need to do, I think, than we’ve yet done.”

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Students, faculty and staff will soon have a new way of getting around campus and the downtown area. Eugene’s new bike share program launched April 19, when the shiny blue racks that have popped up around campus in the past week became filled with bikes for people to rent.

Although the bikes go active after the city’s launch ceremony on Thursday, the University of Oregon will have its own ribbon-cutting ceremony on April 24 at the station outside of the EMU on 13th Street. The event will feature demonstrations of how to operate the system, as well as guest speakers and PeaceHealth Rides swag.

The 300-bike, 35-station system, which includes 60 minutes of ride-time per day, will cost $5 a month for UO students, faculty and staff. Students, faculty and staff can also choose to pay per trip with a free 15 minutes each day. After that, it costs 10 cents a minute.

Riders must first make an account either on the PeaceHealth Rides app or online here. After that, UO Bike Program coordinator Kelsey Moore said riders only need a credit card to make an account. They will also create a pin they will use to rent a bike. 

Moore said she thinks the bike share program will make a difference in students’ commute and offer a flexible alternative to walking or owning their own bikes.

“A good way to think about bike share is like taking the bus,” said Moore. “Say you’re walking to school and then you have something you want to go to downtown and you’re like, ‘Wow, it’s really nice out’ and you don’t want to hop on the bus. Instead, you just grab one of these bikes.”

Moore said she sees freshmen using the bikes as an alternative to bringing cars or their own bikes.

“Instead of owning a bike they’ll need to make sure is secure and repair, they have total access to bikes for short rides or however they want to use it, and they don’t have to store it for the year,” said Moore.

Bike share can also “complete your daily transportation” by allowing students to keep their bikes on campus or take a bike share downtown, helping them to get around even when the EMX is full.

“It’s very flexible. Since there’s about eight stations on or adjacent to campus, students, faculty and staff can ride between buildings, they can park wherever, return to stations or rent from stations — it’s going to be really flexible,” said Moore.  

Announced in the fall, bike share was initially intended to be a UO-specific initiative with $200,000 in funding from ASUO. After campus planning rejected the system due to issues with security using credit cards, the City of Eugene and LTD decided to get in on the project and expand it to serve downtown and the Whiteaker neighborhood.

The bikes feature GPS tracking that not only ensures bikes aren’t stolen, but also helps riders find available bikes and reserve them on the app.

According to Moore, every day people will come and redistribute the bikes back to stations to ensure the racks are refilled.

The bikes are maintained by local employees of the bike system, JUMP Bikes. The head of the shop is a former UO Bike Program mechanic, Al Hongo.

The future for the bike share program seems to be promising, especially for students who are in a hurry to get from one part of campus to the other.

“I own a bike, but some days I walk, so I can totally see on a day I decided to walk, and I was running late for something, I would totally grab a bike,” said Moore.

This post has been edited with corrections. 

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Despite the gaping construction zone next to Johnson Hall and groundbreaking on the Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, crews won’t be done remaking the University of Oregon campus any time soon.

Around the O reported planning for a new $5 million building, proposed to create classroom and faculty office spaces for the College of Arts and Sciences and College of Design. It is presented to open in summer of 2021.

The project still needs to be approved by the Board of Trustees and a site has not yet been chosen for the building, but Around the O reports that a location should be chosen by next fall.

Provost and Senior Vice President Jayanth Banavar told UO Spokesperson Tobin Klinger that the facility is slated to house another 750 classroom seats in addition to the faculty office spaces.

Klinger reported the building will be funded through “university resources and philanthropy.”

The project is proposed to be the new home of the School of Planning, Public Policy and Management, the Department of Geography and the Environmental Studies program.

According to Around the O, this construction is part of the university’s 10-year capital plan. Current capital projects include the Knight campus on Franklin Boulevard, Tykeson Hall next to Johnson Hall and the construction of a Black Cultural Center, according to the Campus Planning and Facilities Management website.

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Have you lost something around campus and wondered if someone took it to the Lost and Found?

Now there’s a new way for you to find out if the UOPD has your item. A Lost and Found website can be found here, where students can type in what they’re looking for and the system will search the inventory for it.

UOPD spokesman Kelly McIver said this prevents students from having to come all the way to the UOPD station on 15th Avenue and Walnut Street just to check if anyone turned in their things.

UOPD obtained the Lost and Found in September 2017 from its previous location at the Department of Parking and Transportation.

McIver said this transition made sense due to the police station operating 24/7 as opposed to the 5 p.m. closing time of the Department of Parking and Transportation and its lack of weekend hours.

McIver also noted the training UOPD employees receive is another reason their office is the best place for this service.

Because officers and employees are trained in handling evidence and properly inventorying it, “UOPD has an advantage over other departments,” said McIver. Granted that training, UOPD ensures that all items can be stored securely and returned to their proper owners.

McIver said the resource sees a spike in inventory after athletic events and public events where people, not even specifically students, drop or lose a lot of things.

While McIver said most of the inventory is coats and umbrellas, UOPD keeps other things that offices previously might have thrown away. McIver suggests that all students check the website to be sure if their lost items were turned in.

“It used to be that it was only kind of higher value items that would get forwarded to Parking and Transportation and kept for release,” said McIver. “The nice thing now is that everything gets kept – everything gets logged, except for perishable things, like half a sandwich.”

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Have you lost something around campus and wondered if someone took it to the Lost and Found?

Now there’s a new way for you to find out if the UOPD has your item. A Lost and Found website can be found here, where students can type in what they’re looking for and the system will search the inventory for it.

UOPD spokesman Kelly McIver said this prevents students from having to come all the way to the UOPD station on 15th Avenue and Walnut Street just to check if anyone turned in their things.

UOPD obtained the Lost and Found in September 2017 from its previous location at the Department of Parking and Transportation.

McIver said this transition made sense due to the police station operating 24/7 as opposed to the 5 p.m. closing time of the Department of Parking and Transportation and its lack of weekend hours.

McIver also noted the training UOPD employees receive is another reason their office is the best place for this service.

Because officers and employees are trained in handling evidence and properly inventorying it, “UOPD has an advantage over other departments,” said McIver. Granted that training, UOPD ensures that all items can be stored securely and returned to their proper owners.

McIver said the resource sees a spike in inventory after athletic events and public events where people, not even specifically students, drop or lose a lot of things.

While McIver said most of the inventory is coats and umbrellas, UOPD keeps other things that offices previously might have thrown away. McIver suggests that all students check the website to be sure if their lost items were turned in.

“It used to be that it was only kind of higher value items that would get forwarded to Parking and Transportation and kept for release,” said McIver. “The nice thing now is that everything gets kept – everything gets logged, except for perishable things, like half a sandwich.”

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A total of 732 little flags flap in the wind from the lawn in front of the Knight Library Monday morning — 288 red and 444 yellow.

The red flags represent gun-related deaths in U.S. schools since the Thurston High School shooting in Springfield, Oregon in May of 1998. The yellow flags stand for injuries.

The UO College Democrats are responsible for the display, as well as a student walkout planned for Wednesday at 10 a.m. The walkout is a national tribute to the victims of the Parkland, Florida shooting and will feature a 17-minute period of silence, one minute for each of the victims.

UO College Democrats Communications Director, Joey Alongi, said the image of the flags in the lawn is important for people to see to conceptualize the sheer number of lives affected by gun violence.

The club’s Program Director, Kevin Lance, echoed that it can be hard to understand the scope of this issue.

“When it’s numbers on a screen it’s hard to put that into perspective. It helps to see the numbers,” said Lance.

“The reason [the Thurston High School shooting] was chosen as the cutoff was because for many of the students at the University of Oregon this was the first instance of gun violence in school that had an effect on our lives as students,” according to a post on the UO College Democrats Facebook page.

Alongi said there’s been such a rise in gun violence ever since that shooting that it seemed like Thurston was the best event to begin counting the number of gun deaths and injuries thereafter. It brought so much national attention to gun violence in schools in addition to its proximity, he said, and that the flags are an important part of visualizing that rise in just 20 years.

Alongi recalled the strategy of placing flags in the grass as used by other organizations on campus, particularly symbolizing the scope of sexual assault.

The flags will remain in the grass for the rest of the week. The student walkout Facebook event has 900 interested responses and 344 said they are going.

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The University of Oregon neighborhood is about to get yet another towering apartment complex to rival Eugene’s biggest names in student-living apartments.

Construction crews broke ground last month on a new 12-story student apartment building at 959 Franklin Blvd., located behind the Dad’s Gate EmX station and Deady Hall between Kincaid Street and Onyx Street.

After breaking ground on Feb 5, John Hyland Construction president, Shaun Hyland, said the building is scheduled to be ready for students to move in in September of 2019.

The Chicago-based architecture firm, Hartshorne Plunkard, also designed the Hub Apartments in Eugene. You can find more of its projects here.

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According to the plans, the first four floors will include a parking structure with floors 5-12 dedicated to residential space. The building is proposed to have 230 units and 443 beds.

The building is currently called The Sterling Oregon, but Hyland said the name is expected to change to Aspire. The most recently received permit was issued to Aspire Student Housing. Previous applications and documents have also been filed under the name Sterling Eugene.

The site of the apartments sits on the former grounds of Louie’s Village Chinese restaurant and the surrounding lot. In July of 2017 the city issued John Hyland Construction a demolition permit for the building.

Eugene city planner Kelly Whitmill said they were issued permits to begin building phases one and two. Phase one is grading and underground utilities. Phase two is foundation and structural work. The final two phases, which are not entirely approved by the city yet, are the actual building.

The Sterling building’s neighbors the Hub and Patterson Tower match its height at 12 stories and Hyland said Aspire will be “very similar to the Hub.”

The developer is Houston, Texas-based The Dinerstein Companies, although it is not listed on any of the permits. According to its website, The Dinerstein Companies is “one of the nation’s largest developers of multi-family and student housing communities” with over 52,000 apartments units in 26 states. This will be its first property in either Oregon or Washington, with its closest buildings in Reno, NV and Davis, CA. Dinerstein has 67 other student-housing properties that share the name Sterling of some kind.

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University of Oregon President Michael Schill invested $1 million towards research on sustainable technology in cities on Monday as a part of his Presidential Fund for Excellence created from an anonymous $50 million donation in October.

Schill announced his commitment on Monday at the Urbanism Next National Conference, a conference focused on creating sustainable cities compatible with new technologies, according to Around the O, a university blog.

Urbanism Next is the UO organization leading these innovations. It was created in winter of 2017 as a part of the UO’s Sustainable Cities Initiative. Urbanism Next “focuses on the ramifications of changes in technology on the design and planning of cities,” with a focus on technologies like autonomous cars and ecommerce, according to the initiative’s website.

The Presidential Fund for Excellence was created after an anonymous $50 million donation to be spent at Schill’s discretion and, “with the donor’s intent being to provide resources for strategic investment,” said UO spokesman Tobin Klinger.

Schill outlined his first five initiatives to use the funds on in his State of the University address and can be found here.

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The Board of Trustees met for the second day and has voted to increase tuition and approve differential tuition.

While many University of Oregon students spoke up against the tuition raise at the meeting, it was approved unanimously.

Here are a few highlights from the day’s meeting.

Tuition Raise

The board voted to raise tuition, which was recommended by TFAB and that recommendation was supported by President Michael Schill.

Schill said that he didn’t “make this recommendation lightly.”

“Although these increases are quite modest by historical standards and in line with other universities, I know any increase can be difficult,” Schill said.

According to Schill, the increase will still not be sufficient, and there is a predicted $2.8 million budget shortfall. Among the university’s unmet needs are renovations to classrooms, technology and lab upgrades and books for the library.

More than students were upset by the idea of a tuition raise. According to Professor Bill Harbaugh, who spoke at the meeting, the university needs to bring in more lower income students.

“The university is not doing a good job in promoting economic diversity in its students,” Harbaugh said.

Differential Tuition

During the time for public comment,  students pleaded for the board to split the votes, which they would.

ASUO President Amy Schenk also used her time to speak to the board, voicing frustrations that the board wants students to cover costs.

“Why now?” Schenk asked. “Why are we charging students to solve this problem?”

Students shared personal testimonials against the tuition increase, saying that students already paid too much. Imani Dorsey said that the increase would hinder her ability to get a degree, and Caroline Crisp said, “I feel robbed by the University of Oregon.”

Differential tuition passed, which was another almost unanimous vote, save for Ann Curry.

After the vote concluded, a student stood up and yelled “shame on you” at Schill, followed by students walking out and chanting, “fuck Michael Schill.”

While Schenk was happy they split the two issues, she felt frustrated by the board’s response.

“It made sense to me that it would at least help student voices be heard or some sort of movement forward, but just the fact that there was still administration just blatantly sort of misrepresenting and ignoring students input during the tuition process was just kind of frustrating,” Schenk said.

Other universities in the Pac 12 have differential tuition like the one for the business and Clark Honors College, and it “allows us to remain competitive,” according to Schill.

Student Safety and Sexual Assault

Schill cited both the recent shooting in Parkland, Fla. and the sexual assault charges brought against Larry Nassar at Michigan State, saying, “Risk of violence, while it can be minimized, it can’t be reduced to zero.” Schill also said they have worked to create an environment where survivors feel safe to come forward.

Later in the meeting, a student speaker who didn’t introduce herself but said she does work with ASUO on sexual violence prevention said that students don’t feel safe to come forward, especially those who are not white women.

The speaker said she felt that she created a sexual violence prevention curriculum with students, without any help from faculty, and that the university is not doing a good job with sexual violence prevention.

She also said that marginalized groups on campus and those who have had bad experiences with police feel uncomfortable and unsafe with police presence on campus.

CORE education and transfer students

Professor Chris Sinclair presented on CORE education, which is in direct relation to HB 2998, which concerns transfer students and their ability to transfer from community colleges to a public university.

They want to have a solid foundation by the end of the year, according to Sinclair.

“The criteria and outcomes that were created, they are actually better articulated than what we used to have here at the UO and I feel like that’s a win,” Sinclair said.

Provost Jayanth Banavar also spoke on the subject, saying that CORE education is necessary and it’s “allowing them to succeed.”

Knight Campus Bond Addition

It was announced by Schill that legislature has provided $20 million in bonds, raising the investment by the state to $70 million.

Today was also the official groundbreaking of the Knight Campus.

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