I have a few stones to throw at Phil Knight’s glass cube for student athletes … besides the fact that Knight is spending big money to defeat measures that will benefit the public good.
The University’s own tour guide has already admitted seeing people walk into the building’s glass walls (The Register-Guard, Jan. 13). This means that the University is on notice of a hazardous condition, and unless it takes steps to ameliorate the hazard — such as prominently placing colorful stickers at eye level throughout the structure  —  the next person who gets hurt walking into a glass wall will have a slam-dunk injury lawsuit against University.
Also, who’s going to clean all that glass, and who’s going to pay for all that extra cleaning? Is the University going to spend more money doing that instead of paying professors what they’re worth?
And why can’t athletes study in the library, or the student center, like everybody else? Does the University deem athletes more worthy than scholars?
For all this aggravation, the University gave up a perfectly good parking lot.
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