“(Gordon) probably dislikes me almost as much as I dislike him.”
– Preacher Frank Zaccaro on student Cree Gordon, who held a yellow sign proclaiming his pride in being gay behind Zaccaro while Zaccaro preached last week.
“I love you. You’re hot.”
– Gordon, responding to Zaccaro.
“We wish we had had more information and in hindsight, we should have,”
– Dave Williford, Athletics Department spokesman, on the department’s decision to sign one of two male recruits accused by Eugene police of groping female students in a January incident.
“What is happening to people in Darfur is genocide and we need to call it that. It is like calling the holocaust on Jews and homosexuals and gypsies a humanitarian crisis and then collecting items to send to the concentration camps to make their lives better.”
– Photojournalist Paul Jeffrey during a speech May 31 on the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan.
“This is an emergency to a lot of us.”
– Journalism student Trevor Atkins at the May 31 Student Senate meeting on the importance of spending $16,000 to bring the band Ozomatli to the University next year.
“You’re going to have professors saying things in class and they can be fired for its content. To me, it indicates the decision’s flawed reasoning.”
– David Colapinto, an attorney with the
National Whistleblower Center, on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last week that the First Amendment does not protect public employees when they speak on public matters in the role of their jobs.
“I think it’s a shame that nowhere in this town people who identify as gay or lesbian or queer can identify as themselves.”
– Journalism student Brian Lum at the newly opened Villard Street Pub, formerly Neighbors, a gay-friendly bar, during an LGBTQA-organized event to take back the bar as part of Gay Pride Week.
“Oregon means so much to me. It’s given me my own identity and self-esteem. It’s really important that I do this.”
– Jim Warsaw, founder of the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center in the Lundquist College of Business and co-founder of the Cure
Parkinson’s Project, who is completing his bachelor’s degree in business administration at the University. He plans to walk this month.
“Maybe I should hang around for another twenty years. No, I don’t think so.”
– Judy Newman, who retires this year after spending 10 years in the University’s math department.