“They’re toast.”
– Eugene Emergency Program Manager Chuck Solin on what would happen to the cars beneath City Hall if a major earthquake hit Eugene.
 
“If you’re looking for a big pile of waste, you’re not going to find it because we don’t have one.”
– University Environmental Manager Nick Williams on hazardous waste on campus.
 
“It’s my dream.”
– University President Dave Frohnmayer about his hopes to acquire as much land as possible in the east campus neighborhood in order to build a land bank for future administrations.
 
“If we do not sell it we have no – zero – resources with which to acquire any of this property that the University needs.”
– Senior Vice President and Provost
John Moseley at the University Senate meeting on why the University is hoping to sell Westmoreland Apartments.
 
“How do you expect us to go forward when we are being told of the decision rather than decisions being made by all?”
– University Senator and biology professor Nathan Tublitz on the faculty’s lack of involvement in the administration’s decision to sell Westmoreland.
 
“Is it lies, or are they really just as ignorant as they appear?”
– Graduate student Joe Christison to the State Board of Higher Education regarding the University’s botching of the number of international students who hold leases at Westmoreland. The University originally said there were 25 but has since concluded that there are 87.
 
“We went to learn about mushrooms and found out about everything. I can guarantee that universities in Armpit, Idaho, and Pooptown, Nebraska, don’t have a program like this.”
– Eugene resident and mushroom enthusiast Dan Shankle on the Outdoor Program’s day-long mushroom hunting expedition near Shotgun Creek.
 
“I think everyone acknowledges that changes need to be made.”
-Ward 1 City Councilor Bonny Bettman about the passage of Ballot Measure 20-106, which allows the city council to hire an external auditor to review complaints against the Eugene Police Department.
 
“Don’t be content with just getting a piece of paper from college.”
– Film director David Lynch during a speech in Columbia Hall.
 
“If you’re crossing as a pedestrian or a bicyclist, you kind of take your life in your hands.”
– Ward 3 City Councilor David Kelly on the need for a traffic signal at Eighth Avenue and Mill Street near the new federal courthouse.
 
“Hopefully someone with an open-door policy, even after they get their office at Johnson Hall.”
– ASUO President Adam Walsh on what qualities he would like to see in the new senior vice president and provost.
 
“I came in, grabbed a microphone and something crazy came out of me.”
– Singer for The Crimes of Ambition Lisa Blue on her audition for the band.
 
“It would require an heroic act of philanthropy to proceed.”
– Frohnmayer in his State of the University address on what it would take for the University to get a new basketball arena.