“It’s less than a latte.”
— EMU Board of Directors member Yoko Silk, discussing Ballot Measure 21 and the
$2 price tag per student it would take to power the EMU with wind energy.
“He was like a person in everyone’s family … to see a family member pass is about what it’s like to see the pope die.”
— Justin Schneider, senior business administration major, mourning the death of Pope John Paul II.
“I can’t say I’ve been to a meeting. I don’t know where they’re held; I don’t know much about them.”
— ASUO Vice Presidential candidate Chris Haak, at Wednesday’s executive debate, answering a question about attendance at Programs Finance Committee meetings earlier this year.
“National identity is being subsumed by national security identity.”
— Pacific News Service writer Roberto Lovato, about post-Sept. 11 paranoia shaping U.S. policy. Lovato spoke at a symposium last week in the Knight Law Center.
“I’d be pretty cheesed off if I was told I had to go to Rennie’s to have a cigarette.”
— Graduate teaching fellow Jacque Pollard, responding to the proposition of a campus-wide smoking ban.
“The state has been disinvesting year after year after year while the cost of education has gone up at the expense of students.”
— ASUO President Adam Petkun, explaining the need for a state funding increase for higher education.
“I started crying before I even came in the door.”
— Senior Lin Charpentier, about her experience at “Eyes Wide Open,” a touring Iraq War exhibit that stopped at Lane County on Sunday and Monday.
“Overall, the students don’t have much to say in what’s going to happen.”
— Freshman Martini Morris, on University plans regarding the purchase of the vacant car lot near the Williams’ bakery site.
“When we respond to a party with a beer bong and a person next to it on the couch and they’re passed out, I think they are making a conscious decision at that point to consume large amounts of alcohol.”
— Department of Public Safety officer Mike Eppli, during Tuesday’s debate with the Office of Student Life regarding actions taken toward students with alcohol poisoning.

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