“Long.”
— Kyle Davis of California-based a cappella group Everyday People on Saturday describing the trip from Stanford University to Eugene. Everyday People competed in the International Championship of Collegiate A
Cappella at South Eugene High School.
“Teaching singers to dance is different from teaching dancers to dance.”
— Erica Barkett of University a cappella group Divisi on Saturday, explaining that the dance movements accompanying songs are smaller and more confined than most but are still an important part of the Divisi package.
“It’s a really tight song for us.”
— Jacob
LaCombe of Oregon State University’s a cappella group Outspoken on Saturday, referring to “Don’t Whiz on the Electric Fence” from “The Ren and Stimpy Show.”
“I think I can hear crickets.”
— ASUO President Adam Petkun of one of the lengthy pauses during last Thursday’s Program Finance Committee hearings.
“My suggestion is not voting on it, just doing it first. I just want to do it then figure it out later.”
— PFC member Khanh Le on Feb. 25 discussing how to remedy the PFC overspending its budget.
“This is the biggest crisis Lane Transit has been in, ever.”
— Carol Allred, executive board officer for the Amalgamated Transit Union
Division 757 and LTD driver on Feb. 25 in
reference to the impending drivers’ strike.
“She didn’t know what the hell she was doing.”
— former ASUO receptionist Laurie Rice, on Jenny Neiwert, who was hired by her
sister-in-law, ASUO Accounting Coordinator Jennifer Creighton-Neiwert, to work as a
temporary employee.
“All I know about Jenny is she showed up one day in the office. There was never an interview process, so she was hired without any competition.”
— Rice on Neiwert’s lack of
interview process.
“There are changing models of institution. Current models are a thousand years old, and we are in the 21st century.”
— Yolanda Moses, former president of the City University of New York and the American Anthropological Association and current special assistant to the chancellor for excellence and diversity at the University of California, Riverside, speaking about diversity issues in higher education at a forum Tuesday night.
“She would always compliment me on how
I looked, and she would compliment a lot of
people on how they looked. She loved little kids, and she would always go up to them and kind
of coo and make funny little talks with them.
She was just a part of our lives every day. I
will miss her a lot, and it’s going to be really strange going by there and not seeing all of
her things there. It was great that people just let her be there and just sort of accepted her.”
— University student and bookstore employee Emily Rogers remembering community
member Victoria “Hatoon” Adkins, who lived on the corner of East 13th Avenue and
Kincaid Street and was killed in an automobile accident Tuesday.
“Hatoon was what everybody wants to believe a homeless person is in Eugene: a person who had a family, had a home, and for whatever reason developed some mental illness that caused them to decide that they needed to live a different lifestyle. But she functioned. She knew her Social Security, managed to take care of herself, never caused any trouble, never got herself arrested and was a good addition to the neighborhood. It’s a damn shame.”
— Eugene police officer Randy Ellis, also remembering Hatoon, who he knew for 20 years.
— From Daily Emerald news reports