Here at the Emerald, we have a 90-year history of archives that we can examine for the sake of institutional knowledge and historical framing. Here’s a glimpse of that Emerald history with a weekly feature, giving you a look into what was happening this day in the past.
We’ll be trying to find stories and headlines inherently relevant to situations that persist today, as well as the occasional oddity we find in our past.
April 11, 2000
Frohnmayer, students talk it over
Simone Ripke | Emerald archives
Approximately 250 students crammed into the EMU Fir Room Monday night to attend an open forum with University President Dave Frohnmayer and nine student leaders who have participated in an ongoing protest demanding that Frohnmayer sign on with the Worker Rights Consortium and increase shared governance for students.
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Scandals have been rife with this session of ASUO elections as allegations of impropriety have run rampant. But just 12 years ago, the student body got involved with that year’s controversy; that is, our association with the clothing giant Nike and its co-founder Phil Knight, a University alumnus. In 2000, that was a relatively new thing as we had recently adopted the ‘O’ logo we have today, and students wanted then-University President Dave Frohnmayer to sign on with the Worker Rights Consortium in response to concerns about Nike’s manufacturing. @@http://frohnmayer.uoregon.edu/biography/@@
“It is not with pleasure that we come here with demands, President Frohnmayer,” then-ASUO Vice President Mitra Anoushiravani said at the meeting. “I am very concerned with the way you have marginalized student investment.”
This was as a part of an ongoing, on-campus protest, during which 14 students were arrested on trespassing charges.
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