Bernie Sanders ordered an egg scramble and potatoes with a side of University of Oregon student hysteria for breakfast at Glenwood this morning. Supporters cheered and took pictures, pushing and shoving to get close and shake his hand.

Police cars and Sanders’ bus blocked off East 13th Avenue and Alder Street while the senator ate. As he walked out of the restaurant he was met with roars of applause from the crowd of at least one hundred students and supporters. People climbed trees and trampled bushes trying to get a good view.

“Hey you on the roof, get off!” a security guard yelled at a student on the awning outside US Bank.

Sanders was in town for a rally at noon in Springfield’s Island Park.

The waiting staff at Glenwood rushed to get the restaurant back in order after the senator left. They said his appearance was a complete surprise.

After finishing the rally, Sanders made another pitstop on campus to shake hands with students. Most photos show him near Chapman Hall and the Memorial Quad.

Sanders isn’t the only presidential candidate in Oregon today. Ohio Governor John Kasich will be at two town halls in Medford and Portland, according to CNN. 

Here are some social media reactions to Bernie’s unexpected detours.

The man and woman who robbed the Market of Choice on Franklin Boulevard last week have been arrested.

Soul Hardesty, 19, and Bradley Ossenbeck, 25, were caught dining and dashing on Sunday in Florence. On April 20, the two stole a number of items from the Market of Choice near campus and fled on their mountain bikes after an employee tried to detain them.

According to Eugene Police Department and University of Oregon Police Department reports, both received charges of theft and robbery for crimes involving both incidents.

The two were booked at the Lane County Jail on April 24 and released a day later.

The University of Oregon Foundation married the fossil fuel industry today in a mock political theater act presented by Divest UO. The event was the culmination of the campaign’s 35-day sit in at Johnson Hall.

Dozens attended the wedding, which featured a sharply dressed duck marrying a smokestack in a white dress.

“Their decision to marry has not been entered into lightly,” the priest told the audience, “and today they publicly declare their private devotion to each other.”

“If anyone can show just cause as to why this couple cannot lawfully be joined together in matrimony, let them speak now or forever hold their peace.”

Several members of the audience stood up to oppose the union:

“This marriage isn’t about love!”

“End this farce of a marriage while you still can!”

“I object on behalf of kids too young to know the consequences of your actions!”

Faculty Senate President Randy Sullivan joined in to oppose the union. “Oil, you and me go way back. Ever since I was 16 and bought my first car,” he said. “You think you have to do this, but you don’t.” The Senate voted to urge UO to divest from oil in January of 2015.

The UO Foundation’s best man then took the mic to explain the benefits of fossil fuel investment.

“This union is about maximizing returns in a beautiful way,” he said. “There will be no further dialogue during this ceremony.” The speech was a parody of a recent email conversation between Divest UO and administration that went public.

The priest then read the bride and groom their vows.

“Fossil fuel industry, do you pledge to share your life with University of Oregon Foundation? Do you promise to cherish alumni donations and maximize returns for their investments? Will you encourage the foundation, stand with them, in sickness and in health, through oil spills and drilling, through water contamination and government subsidies, ’til death do you part?”

Fossil fuels agreed, but the the UO Foundation’s response was interrupted by audience members chanting, “UO Foundation destroys this nation!”

Eventually, the foundation left the ceremony, a runaway groom.

“I think it went really well,” Divest member Selena Blick said. She said the group got the idea from other schools who put on similar performances.

From here, the campaign is focusing on promoting a national fundraiser called Divest Fund that supports universities that divest from fossil fuels.

“We’re putting a lot of energy into that fund,” Blick said. “We’re meeting with the Board of Trustees in June and organizing an event during the next Board meeting also in June.”

If the UO doesn’t commit to divest from fossil fuels by the end of 2017, any money pledged to UO in the fund will be dispersed to other schools who have committed to divesting.

Oregon wants a more diverse teacher work force, and it’s requiring the state’s public institutions to help.

Oregon Legislature passed a bill last year requiring that the state make progress toward hiring more minority teachers into Oregon’s public K-12 school system. The ultimate goal is that the diversity of the state’s teachers match the diversity of the student body they serve. Because Oregon’s public universities produce a large number of in-state, qualified teachers, the Higher Education Coordinating Commission is asking all seven universities to increase minority enrollment in education departments. On April 13, UO announced its plan to do so.

Randy Kamphaus, dean of the College of Education, is spearheading the plan along with several members of COE. He told the Academic and Student Affairs Committee that he’s approaching the plan “not from the standpoint of responding to mandates, because as a research university we should be shaping and exceeding mandates of this nature.”

The plan has nine objectives, ranging from researching UO’s graduate diversity statistics to expanding COE’s educator degree options.

The most straightforward objective of the plan is to increase graduation rates of minority students in education majors. Only 15.6 percent of graduates of UO’s teaching program identified as “not-white” in 2014, according to the Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission.

Oregon isn’t a particularly diverse state. The state is 86.6 percent white, according to the 2015 census, putting it in the top half of the list of whitest states in the country. But minority enrollment in grades K-12 has been increasing steadily over the past few decades. In 1998, minority students in K-12 made up only 16.3 percent of Oregon students. That number is now at 36.4 percent.

Teacher diversity, however, has not increased at the same rate. Teachers from minority groups currently make up 8.5 percent of Oregon’s teachers, up from 3.9 in 1998. That leaves a gap of 27.9 percentage points between teachers and students.

Another objective is to increase collaboration with programs already attempting to increase the university’s diversity. “We need to do better as a college, collaborating both within the college, across our university and across universities,” Kamphaus said.

The university also wants to increase minority faculty enrollment. Tenure-related faculty at UO are 72 percent white.

“From a demographic standpoint, we really don’t look like a faculty or a student body that’s a member of the Asian Pacific Rim organization of universities,” Kamphaus said.

ASAC received the plan well, and seemed to think it had a high probability of success. One concern was funding.

“I can’t help but pause with the irony of the legislation being passed with no fiscal note to help you accomplish these goals,” Trustee Connie Ballmer told Dean Kamphaus. “I’m wondering if there should be a focus on this, how important this is, given everything you’re trying to do in the College of Education, and given that this requires a lot of funding.”

One way the college intends to minimize costs is through collaboration. Many goals outlined in the plan overlap with goals the college already has, such as increasing the number of scholarships. Trustee Allyn Ford suggested a collaboration across the entire university.

“Looking at the objectives and goals, I would think that those would apply across the whole university,” he told ASAC.

Kamphaus will present the plan to the HECC in May. If approved, the plan is expected to be completed over five years.

University of Oregon President Michael Schill took questions about tuition increases and faculty cuts at today’s campus conversation — and he didn’t try to deny that more are likely.

Schill spoke for around 30 minutes in the Ford Alumni Center, detailing his goals for the next year and beyond. The focus of his work since coming to the university almost a year ago has centered on his main objective: bolstering research.

“UO will take its place among the nation’s preeminent research institutions,” Schill said.

He reiterated many of the same objectives he presented to the Board of Trustees at their meeting in March: to hire between 80 and 100 new tenure-track faculty, to build a stronger UO presence in Portland and to expand the Robert D. Clark Honors College. Schill also said that, in support of making UO a stronger research university, new research facilities will be built and the university’s computing power will be enhanced through the IT department.

Schill also said the university is nearing the halfway point for their fundraising goal of $2 billion.

The president addressed tuition increases when talking about the accessibility of a college education.

“Tuition will go up. Our costs will go up,” he said. “But to the extent we can, we will keep those increases low, or at least reasonable.”

During the time set aside for questions, one student representative suggested that Schill’s talk of increasing affordability and access to minorities conflicts with increasing tuition costs.

“Do you have an alternative?” Schill asked the student. He expressed frustration over people asking for spending cuts rather than tuition increases but not providing alternatives. He said the blame lies with legislation and the state’s budget cuts, not with university administration.

In his plan to make tuition affordable, Schill wants to increase the university’s graduation rate by 10 percent, encouraging students to graduate within four years. He also endorsed the controversial freshman live-in requirement, something he believes will increase student engagement.

Faculty cuts were also discussed during the questions forum.

Gina Psaki, a professor of Italian Language and Literature, asked about the recent faculty realignment, which laid off many teachers in the humanities departments. “Winter term was the most demoralizing term in 27 years of teaching,” she said. “Will these cuts happen again and again and again?”

Schill’s response was that he refuses to compromise his vision of making UO the best it can be, even if it means more cuts in the future.

“We will always be looking at where we spend our money. I can’t tell you we will never look at how we allocate faculty resources,” he said.

On the budget and infrastructure side, administration has asked most departments to decrease spending by three percent. Schill encouraged people to see athletics not as a resource draining machine, but as a model for efficient spending.

“Instead of being envious of athletics, saying ‘they get all the resources,’ we want to model ourselves on them as an efficient allocation of resources,” Schill said.

Terry Shockley, the former owner of Eugene Rentals and Property Management Concepts who lost $3.5 million in rent and security deposits, pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud in Eugene District Court on Wednesday, the Register-Guard reported. Sentencing is set for Sept. 6.

The government is accusing Shockley of using rent and security deposits from the properties his firm managed for his own use.

The two counts of wire fraud accuse Shockley of communicating across state lines in an effort to cheat people out of their money. Each count carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

The three slates running for various University of Oregon student government offices released information on their campaign donations and spending on Tuesday. The wide margin of spending between One Oregon and the other campaigns has caused some to question whether ASUO should institute a spending cap next year.

One Oregon spent about $15,000 in this year’s election, more than double the amount spent by I’m With UO and Duck Squad combined, that spent $3,774 and $3,500 respectively.

At Tuesday’s ASUO election debate, Zach Rentschler, One Oregon‘s presidential candidate, characterized his campaign’s spending as proof of his team’s ability to raise funds.

“Our campaign’s fundraising has been a total blessing,” Rentschler said. “Fundraising from the community has been huge, and it’s something we’re going to help clubs do next year if we’re elected. We have no idea how much the other campaigns are fundraising, so we never stopped fundraising, and we never will stop fundraising because there is no way of knowing where other people are at going into elections.”

A majority of One Oregon‘s campaign funds have come from the candidates. Adam Scharf, One Oregon‘s internal vice president candidate, contributed $1,000. Rentschler himself contributed $4,000. External vice president candidate Tori Ganahl contributed $7,000. Of the $22,995 One Oregon has raised, 52 percent comes directly from the candidates themselves. That’s not counting an additional $3,000 donated by an Albert and Pnina Scharf, and $3,000 by a Heidi and Jason Ganahl.

One Oregon‘s spending is the highest in recent history. Last year, the election campaigns spent less than $10,000 combined. In 2014, it was $16,000.

“It’s clear they’re trying to buy this election,” I’m With UO‘s campaign manager Andrew Dunn said. Dunn hopes the elections will be reformed next year, specifically around spending caps.

“It makes the elections much less accessible. Students will run based on their ability to fund raise rather than the importance of the issues,” he said.

“There should absolutely be a spending cap,” Duck Squad‘s campaign manager Vickie Gimm said. “If One Oregon thinks they can abuse the elections process and get away with all this bribery, I will be uber disappointed.”

Here’s a breakdown of each campaign’s revenues and what they spent it on:

Duck Squad

• Total raised: $3,413
• Total spent: $3,500
• Largest contribution: $370
• Three biggest expenses: T-shirts: $500; posters and flyers: $600; food: $300.

I’m With UO

• Total raised: $6,034
• Total spent: $3,774
• Largest contribution: $900
• Three biggest expenses: T-shirts: $2,774; campaign kickoff: $372.34; room rental: $175.

One Oregon

• Total raised: $22,995
• Total spent: $15,573
• Largest contribution: $7,000
• Three biggest expenses: T-shirts: $7,500; advertising: $3,116; FedEx: $2,142.

The three slates running for various University of Oregon student government offices released information on their campaign donations and spending today.

One Oregon spent about $15,000 in this year’s election, more than double the amount spent by I’m With UO and Duck Squad combined. The largest portion of One Oregon’s revenue comes directly from its external vice president candidate, Tori Ganahl. The contribution to Ganahl’s totaled $7,000, which is more than the individual budgets of either opposing slates. Here’s a breakdown of each campaign’s revenues and what they spent it on:

Duck Squad

• Total raised: $3,413
• Total spent: $3,500
• Largest contribution: $370
• Three biggest expenses: T-shirts: $500; posters and flyers: $600; food: $300.

I’m With UO

• Total raised: $6,034
• Total spent: $3,774
• Largest contribution: $900
• Three biggest expenses: T-shirts: $2,774; campaign kickoff: $372.34; room rental: $175.

One Oregon:

• Total raised: $22,995
• Total spent: $15,573
• Largest contribution: $7,000
• Three biggest expenses: T-shirts: $7,500; advertising: $3,116; FedEx: $2,142.

University of Oregon president Michael Schill has teamed up with the presidents of Oregon’s six other public universities to ask the state for a $100 million increase in funding.

The presidents sent their petition to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission on Wednesday, the Oregonian reported. They collectively asked for $765 million for the 2017-2019 cycle, $100 million more than the current cycle.

The money will go toward protecting students from increasing costs related to maintaining university operations.

The increase in state funding will not, however, stop tuition increases, according to the letter. The funding would help tuition increases stay lower than five percent each year.

The added funding would also go toward the Public Employee Retirement System going into effect next year. PERS increases will cost the universities nearly $60 million in the next two years.

In an interview with the Oregonian, Hans Bernard, the University of Oregon’s associate vice president for state and community affairs, pointed to roughly two decades of decreased state funding for Oregon universities as the primary reason for the request.

“We cannot expect to make up two decades of cuts with two biennium of investment,” he said.

The HECC will discuss the proposed budget increase in a meeting on April 13.

The University of Oregon filed motions to appeal the verdict of a former UOPD officer’s lawsuit in a national court of appeals on Tuesday. The university lost their first appeal of the case on Feb. 29 in Portland.

In 2013, former UOPD officer James Cleavenger sued the university for wrongful termination and retaliation. He won the case in September 2015. UO filed appeal motions, but those were denied by the same judge that presided over the original case.

UO filed the motions in the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a federal court with power to review and change the outcomes of cases tried in lower courts. Decisions made in the Ninth Circuit set legal precedents for future cases, giving this trial national implications. The court can decide whether to review the case or deny it, depending on whether they believe the jury and the original judge, David Carter, made a mistake in their verdict. If it is reviewed, it could set a national precedent for wrongful termination cases. If it’s denied, the lawsuit will end.

“Naturally, I’m disappointed, but I’m not surprised because of the way the university has handled this matter from the beginning,” Cleavenger said. “But I’m in for the long haul, just disappointed because the costs of the case have become astronomical.”

The jury originally awarded Cleavenger $755,000. Adding in UO’s attorney fees, Cleavenger’s attorney fees (which UO also has to pay), costs of arbitration while Cleavenger was still a UOPD officer and other small fees, the known costs of the case have risen above $1.6 million. Unknown costs include UO’s attorney fees during the appeal process and arbitration. If the Ninth Circuit accepts the case, it will cost even more.

“It’s gonna cost another half million, I’m sure,” Cleavenger said. The university’s insurance policy, PERMIT, will ultimately pay for the damages. UO General Counsel did not reply for comment by time of publication.

The defendants are still Lieutenant Brandon Lebrecht, Sergeant Scott Cameron and former chief Carolyn McDermed. McDermed retired from the UOPD chief position on Feb. 26. UO’s appeal in the Cleavenger case was denied Feb. 29.

Here’s a breakdown of what UO will be charged for the lawsuit if their Ninth Circuit Court appeal is denied:

• $755,000.00 – Jury Award
• $12,268.75 – Interest on the jury award (estimated by Cleavenger’s attorneys)
• $448,642.99 – Plaintiff legal fees and costs for original trial
• $394,925.70 – Defense legal fees and costs for original trial
• $30,226.65 – Arbitration award for back-wages, retirement plan and interest
• $6,392.50 – Half the cost of arbitration (the Service Employees International Union paid the other half)
• $505.00 – Filing fee for Ninth Circuit Court Appeal

Total: $1,617,734.94

Fees Unknown at this time:

• $55,201.60 – Plaintiff attorney fees requested for appeal process (not yet reviewed by the judge)
• UO legal fees during arbitration process
• UO legal fees during appeal process