“It really shuts down that idea of diversity because it’s not letting a group of people have a voice in a classroom setting just because of their skin color.” — University senior Melissa Hanks, who filed a complaint May 13 with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights against the University Office of Multicultural Academic Support policy that reserves early registration into several classes for minority students.
“Our community is one of the only urban areas in the world to enjoy a park at the center of its population that is managed for natural values, and we ought to do everything we can to maintain its wild and feral nature.”
— Fairmount Neighborhood Association member David Sonnichsen, responding
to a proposed Interstate 5 and Franklin
Boulevard interchange.
“We’re talking about atomic dimensions, the ability to manipulate atoms and molecules at that scale.” — Rich Linton, University vice president for research and graduate studies, on the University’s contribution of nanotechnology research to the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute.
“Every six days, a new case of HIV is diagnosed in Lane County. You can carry the virus for 10 years and not know you have it.”
— Lani Edenholm, an organizer of the
HIV Alliance’s 19th-annual River Walk and Run on Saturday.
“And when you compare anything to an ideal, it’s going to fall short. … Next to the Candy Land you’ve got going on in your head, America falls short.” — Conservative author and speaker Dan Flynn, during a lecture Tuesday on his 2002 book “Why the Left Hates America: Exposing the Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation’s Greatness.”
“The University community is working toward a world-class arena — and that’s fine — but does almost nothing about the fact that faculty salaries are at the bottom of the heap. Isn’t there something grotesque about the sense of priorities?” — Professor Michael Kellman, who served on the University Senate Budget Committee from 1999 to 2002, on faculty pay, which is about 86.2 percent of the average salary at peer institutions.
“I have been through all those struggles, but I overcame them … and now I’m back.” — University student Cory Mainor, after
receiving an award at the Black Women
of Achievement’s Ebony Man Showcase
on Monday.
“We have a lot of students who are victimized by other students — who feel like the conduct process does not meet their needs. (The existing code) silences victims of violent crimes.” — Director of Student Judicial
Affairs Chris Loschiavo, discussing possible revisions to the University’s Student
Conduct Code.
— From Daily Emerald news reports

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