The University Senate passed four motions in their emergency meeting Tuesday afternoon. The meeting included Oregon University System Chancellor George Persteiner and Board of High Education member Lynda Ciuffett. Both Persteiner and Ciuffett faced public criticism from the University faculty and community.
- Chancellor George Pernsteiner stands at the podium and speaking to the University Senate, statutory faculty, and community. Pernsteiner has recently come under fire for the failure to include the University community and faculty in discussions to fire President Richard Lariviere. (Nate Barrett/Oregon Daily Emerald)
- President Richard Lariviere thanks the University audience for their four-minute standing ovation following his entrance to the emergency University Senate meeting. Lariviere became emotional soon after he took to the podium and thanked the audience for their support. (Nate Barrett/Oregon Daily Emerald)
- Recently ousted President Richard Lariviere speaks to the University faculty and community and thanks them for their support. Lariviere’s firing has made waves of shock and frustration among the University community after the Oregon University System board decided they would end his contract five months sooner than planned. (Nate Barrett/Oregon Daily Emerald)
- A letter written by Congressman Peter Defazio, who’s district Eugen is in, was read to the audience by Priscilla Southwell, head of the political science department. In that letter Defazio detailed that he has pushed for two decades to get rid of the chancellor’s office, which brought a thunderous applause from those attending the meeting. (Nate Barrett/Oregon Daily Emerald)
