“He was full of life. He was vivacious. He was optimistic. He was really future-oriented, even in the face of really naughty problems, like Chernobyl. … That was one of the reasons I really enjoyed working with him. I’ll miss him.”
— University landscape architecture professor David Hulse remembering his friend and co-worker, University Planning, Public Policy and Management associate professor John Baldwin, 54, who died in his sleep at home Monday night of
unknown, natural causes.
“The commitment we made today is that these won’t just be strategic plans laying on a shelf but actually be action plans that will guide work that we will accomplish. They’re going to take some time; they’re going to take some resources, and they’re going to take keeping this a priority over time.”
— City Manager Dennis Taylor at the City Council meeting on Tuesday reviewing a report with 57 recommendations to improve the Eugene Police Department.
“Out of crisis comes opportunity.”
— Police Chief Robert Lehner, answering questions Wednesday at City Hall about the recent audit of the Eugene Police Department.
“What I’m worried about … is that it affects who has the ability to run for ASUO president in the first place.”
— ASUO President Adam Petkun expressing concern about a planned reduction of the ASUO Executive’s stipend from $700 to $175 in next year’s budget and noting that the planned decrease might make the ASUO a “place where only the privileged can work.”
“It was talked that the money that’s in reserves was waiting for a rainy day — at 12:01 it’s about to pour.”
— Amalgamated Transit Union Division 757 Vice President Jonathan Hunt on Sunday just before union members went on strike.
“This is a sad day for Lane County. We are out on strike, and we will stay out on strike until we can get a fair contract.”
— Hunt
on Monday about the ensuing Lane Transit District strike.
“People are not comfortable with change. That’s why our profession exists — we’re here to manage change.”
— University Planning Director and Architect Chris Ramey on University land acquisition and development.
“A fight for environmental justice is really a fight for the protection of all of us. Pollution doesn’t stop at a particular street. The air blows everywhere.”
— Beverly Wright, founder and director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Xavier University in Louisiana, at a weekend University conference on environmental law.
“He was the kind of student that I saved stuff for. I would see something and think ‘Oh, Tim would be interested in this.’ He found everything interesting, he was a really fun student.”
— Renee Irvin, assistant professor in the University Public Policy, Planning and Management department, on University senior Timothy D. Buras, 22, who died Saturday after falling down a chimney shaft in Portland.
“She lived life her own way.”
— Eugene
Police Officer Randy Ellis at a memorial for
Hatoon Victoria Adkins, a longtime campus
resident, who died last week.
“It would have been much easier to keep
us in the door in the first place than to get us back in the door.”
— Carol Allred, executive board officer for ATU Division 757 and LTD driver, at a union rally Monday night at the LTD downtown station.
“My personal opinion is rules can sometimes be completely useless in finding a good solution to a problem.”
— Dan Kieffer, former PFC member, in response to the ASUO Constitution Court’s Monday ruling.
— From Daily Emerald news reports