Student Coalition On Reorganizing Education held a rally Thursday night to protest the lack of transparency in the athletics department. Demonstrators walked down 13th Street to Matthew Knight Arena chanting different chants directed towards Rob Mullen, the director of the athletics program.
SCORE demonstrators were asked to stand on the sidewalk outside of Matthew Knight Arena so they wouldn’t block people on their way to the basketball game. (Tess Freeman/Oregon Daily Emerald)
Around 60 people gathered in the EMU Amphitheater Thursday night to protest the lack of transparency within the athletics department. (Tess Freeman/Oregon Daily Emerald)
Ceder Cosner started the rally in the EMU Amphitheater Thursday night. Demonstrators directed their chants and signs towards Rob Mullen, the athletic director, and encouraged him to make a change. (Tess Freeman/Oregon Daily Emerald)
Students Coalition on Re-prioritizing Education (SCORE) protested the athletics department on campus Thursday evening. The group started at the EMU amphitheater and stopped in front of Matthew Knight Arena. (Tess Freeman/Oregon Daily Emerald)
Molly Bacon, one of the ASUO senators, was one of about 60 people present at the demonstration. (Tess Freeman/Oregon Daily Emerald)
Demonstrators walk across 13th Street in front of traffic on their way to Matthew Knight Arena. (Tess Freeman/Oregon Daily Emerald)
The demonstrators stopped in front of the newly constructed Matthew Knight Arena while people entered the arena for the basketball game. (Tess Freeman/Oregon Daily Emerald)
Jeremy Hedlund, One of the ASUO senators, led the group through the Hamilton Complex Thursday night. Hedlund talked about how the Intercollegiate Athletics Committee have tried to work with the Athletics department to get more money directed towards students. (Tess Freeman/Oregon Daily Emerald)
Demonstrator Jeff Leanse met Andrew Rogers in one of his classes and decided to join the rally. “The University of Oregon Althetics said they were going to reorganize in 2004 but the didn’t,” Leanse said. (Tess Freeman/Oregon Daily Emerald)
Andrew Rogers lead the protest with megaphone in hand. The group chanted “hey, hey, quack, quack, time for Mullens to give back.” (Tess Freeman/Oregon Daily Emerald)
University freshman Matthew Miyamoto holds one the signs made by SCORE for demonstrators to hold during the rally. (Tess Freeman/Oregon Daily Emerald)
A man in line to enter Matthew Knight Arena for the basketball game expressed his support for the athletics program. (Tess Freeman/Oregon Daily Emerald)
