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You tend to put every third word in quotation marks and most of them unnecessarily, so what I don't have time for is to divine what you think you actually mean. It honestly doesn't matter. I'm the last person who'd shill for this university, but hypothesize as you wish. For all we know, this was nothing but a bit of calculated stagecraft between these gentlemen, for that is the Oregon way. The president may have asked the chairman to tee up the question for him, with both knowing that Schill's melodic response would play soothingly to the ears of the hundreds of highly valued tenured faculty and shoot a chill up the spines, assuming they have them, of the dozens who are on cruise control. What it showed is that everyone up the food chain, from department heads and deans all the way to Beaverton, is paying attention. Now. Rich guys running the show like a business is nothing new in public higher education. What's new is not accepting that it be done badly.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Doesn't it matter that a woman was raped while in police custody here in Eugene? Would you say the same thing if a body was just discovered? Rape is an act of violence and I find your comment insensitive. Sorry.	0.7	0	0	0.1	0	0	0.6
I just read somewhere that "what yesterday challenged orthodoxy could become orthodoxy in the future. That’s how change occurs." Can't recall where and who said it, but it sure seemed to make sense in a variety of contexts. The Boston Globe's overdue questioning of the Catholic Archdiocese in that city comes to mind. I also saw recently in Oregon Quarterly that "Schill plans to hire 100 tenure-related faculty members in addition to replacing professors who will retire or leave. Each professor will need to be proficient at scholarship and teaching." Eliminating tenure at Oregon would seem to mean also searching for yet another president, at which this university has become famously practiced. Maybe, just maybe, Lillis's asking the question wasn't tantamount to his firing a starter's pistol.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rules and political choices have nothing to do it; Trump is crude and disgusting. Even more disgusting is the given fact that his flock worships his boorish, evil behavior. For example, "I could shoot someone and still get the nomination". What kind of person agrees with and supports this man?	0.3	0	0	0	0.3	0	0
How and when were the "people on the right" bullied by people in the civil rights movement?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
A rape that happened 47 years ago is also an act of violence. Since neither one of these acts can result in any restitution to the victim due to the passage of time, both are basically irrelevant today except as a reminder as to why we need oversight of the police. Unless having a feeling of instant outrage makes someone feel better, of course.	0.166667	0	0	0	0	0	0.166667
Hope the kids who don't take the Standardized tests don't have any trouble with their SAT tests, ACT tests or Oregon Drivers' License Tests. Be a real bummer not to get into college or be able to drive a car because you didn't know you were too ignorant to do either one because no one tested your knowledge level until it was too late.	0.4	0	0	0	0.4	0	0
As desperately as Oregon wants to remain part of the prestigious Association of American Universities, or so it seems from the outside, how could it survive or ever hope to thrive as a research institution without granting tenure? It couldn't, of course. Yours is the first reference I've seen to Dr. Streisinger's ground-breaking contributions since the announcement of the Boyle family's $10 million donation in support of zebrafish research. As I recall from the excellent documentary series on the UO's history aired by OPB, his recruitment to Oregon came during the halcyon days of scientific research at the university. Is that correct?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
You must lead a rather sheltered life. "We must be the laughing stock of the world." These are just words. Across the world, there have been multiple actual fist fights on the floors of their legislative chamber. Here's a summary of 14 different countries, the most recent being Venezuela. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_violence Here are some videos in Japan, Mexico, Taiwan. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=japan+legislative+fist+fights&qpvt=japan+led%3dgislative+fist+fights&FORM=VDRE The US hasn't had those kinds of fights in over one hundred years. We are pretty genteel, actually.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I probably worded it badly, but I would consider the people that wanted to hold onto the status quo as the "conservatives" of the time and place. Also, if you consider the civil rights movement ongoing, conservatives get called racist and worse if they push a color blind society and try to end affirmative action.	0.4	0	0	0	0.3	0.1	0
Right, he was recruited when the new Institute of Molecular Biology was formed and attracted a very strong group of researchers wanting to push in new directions. I think there is the echo of that in the cluster hires the university wants to do now (bring in a group of people to work on something new) but I don't know if those areas (who does?) will be like the start of molecular biology.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
"In fact, cellulose fiber in the diet is beneficial." Seemed counterintuitive to me. But according to a recent San Francisco Food Column he's right. Cellulose passes through your digestive system, aiding in the removal of waste from your body. This waste can include normal metabolic waste excreted in the bile, but may also include sugar and cholesterol if your blood levels are elevated. If you do not eat high-fiber food, your body continually reabsorbs excess sugar and cholesterol. Soluble fiber binds excess sugar and cholesterol in your intestines carrying them out of your body via solid waste. A high-fiber diet can improve heart and colon health and aid in weight loss. Cellulose is not digestible and serves no other purpose in your body aside from aiding in waste removal. Cellulose is classified as "generally regarded as safe," or GRAS, by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This means there is no scientific evidence that suggests cellulose may have any adverse effect.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
"a large share of the university’s increasing costs are caused by rising employee retirement and medical costs." AKA PERS? Somebody has to pay for it.....	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
So, are you trying to say that had the weapon used in the Charleston massacre been purchased in Oregon, this massacre would never have happened because ALL Oregon firearms dealers would never have released the weapon until the background check had cleared? Every single one of them? And you can speak for every single one of them?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Senator McConnell is apparently 'following the will of the people' who elected him and his Republican Majority in the Senate. Just like Senator Reid did when he was the Majority Leader. Since the replacement Justice will probably be there for 20-30 years, I think having the new President, (whoever she or he is) nominate that replacement is hardly an egregious act. Obama has appointed and had confirmed, 323 Federal Judges with lifetime appointments including two to the Supreme Court (Justices Kagan and Sotomayor). There are still 42 other nominations pending.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
No kidding. Did you know at 30 that you were about five years from 40, then a month away from 50? Whoosh!!	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Do you mean Food for Lane County, Catholic Services, the Dining Room, TheMission, Whitebird, Cahoots, Occupy Medical, St Vincent's..... Those places?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Regardless of the outcome, it will serve as a reminder to many as the risks of not hiring a white male It's on the mind of every owner or manager every time there is a hire. This candidate seems like a good fit, but do I really want to get sued if I need to fire them down the road? Eh... maybe I'll go with the middle-aged white guy who won't ever sue me for wrongful termination, sexual discrimination or being called a cracker. Clearly the alleged behavior is not acceptable and should never have happened. I'm not sure that a million dollar payout is a win for anyone though.	0.3	0	0	0	0.1	0.2	0
I think we respectfully disagree. If I remember right, the level of felony was the lowest, avoiding a prison term. And it allowed the court to levy a fine. Insurance may work, but they sure seem to fight and delay payouts. Always a problem: harder on the defendant makes it better for the plaintiff.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Except that the consumer is paying for Parmesan cheese but is getting sawdust. I would think the melting properties would be quite different.......	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
"Many of us on the right are tired of being called racist, homophobes, and other derogatory names just because we do not support the latest leftist cause." Nope, many people on the right are labeled for what they SAY and DO, not because of the "latest leftist cause". Trump is an avowed racist...that is a fact. Why support racism?	0.4	0	0	0	0.3	0.1	0
I rather resent the notion that I am supposed to "get over it already". I have a mother to talk to me like that. Many people have difficulty determining what is an opinion and what it a fact. But that is my assessment based on years of teaching.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I suppose that Russ would have tried to compromise with Hitler also.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
The law to limit immigration by the President does exist. Stroke of a pen. Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, as amended (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President "Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate." Obama did it August 4, 2011 against those " Persons Who Participate in Serious Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Violations and Other Abuses".	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I think insurance claim denials should result in felony fraud convictions, but I digress.... I appreciate the respectful disagreement. I'd be inclined to slap an uninsured driver or unlicensed driver with a felony. They know each and every time they get into a car that they are violating the law. A momentary distraction, it could happen to anyone. The other thing is, why would the felony only apply if the victim is a pedestrian or bicyclist? What about the motorist in the other car when someone runs a red? Here's a sentencing chart: I don't want people losing their jobs over driving infractions that most people commit. http://www.oregon.gov/cjc/about/Documents/guidelinesgrid.pdf	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Amen	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I want the City of Eugene to expand their generosity to include all of the things I have mentioned; only a limited number are available now. The taxpayers of Eugene are constantly being chided for not doing their fair share for these individuals; let's meet all of their needs in perpetuity so the taxpayers can know how much money they have left for themselves. Lynn Porter, for example, is constantly telling us that we aren't doing enough. Tell us how many thousands or hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars are needed. Then let the Eugene and Lane County taxpayers get on with their own lives, if we have any money left.	0.181818	0	0	0	0.181818	0.090909	0
I do not support racism. Do you support affirmative action? If so, I can call you a racist because you are supporting giving advantages to one race over another.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I wonder if Jesus would fly an American flag.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Is it still a research university? Isn't that status currently being reviewed by one of its oversight organizations? Isn't that why the new President is seeking change is to get it back to the status it had 30-40 years ago? Is it now an excellent educational institution?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Part of the reason that voter fraud seems small is that nobody is really looking for it. In this state alone, I would not be surprised to find more than 1000 instances of wives voting for husbands or husbands voting for wives. Another situation I would not be surprised to see is children voting for elderly parents. This is only going to be compounded by the new registration law.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
"...she admitted her company used more cellulose powder in her product than is allowed by law" The FDA actually has standards as to how many rat feces and other adulterants are permitted by product. Cellulose at least appears to have some beneficial value. Apparently there is cellulose permitted in a bunch of other things according to the article I found above. " Cellulose is frequently used as a food additive to improve physical qualities such as smoothness, creaminess and mouth feel in products including dressings, sauces and even ice cream, according to MayoClinic.com. Cellulose can make baked goods firmer and absorb excess moisture in products, reducing spoilage. Additive cellulose also adds fiber content to commonly consumed foods in a time where the average diet is greatly lacking in fiber."	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
It is important for citizens understand that business will not pay any of the proposed massive tax increase. All the tax increase will be passed on to the citizens in the form of price increases. Business exists to make money and certain margins are necessary to make it worth while to stay in business. So to maintain necessary margins each affected company will increase prices of goods or services rendered. Same as will happen to fund the new minimum wage legislation. It is really important to understand that both the minimum wage cost and the massive business tax cost will be paid by we the people of the state of Oregon. The politicians and supporters of public unions want to hoodwink us all to think that money can be created from nothing. It can't. Someone has to pay the piper and the piper is we the people.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
As a graduate of the University of Oregon, BA '69 and JD '71, my personal experience as an undergraduate in the liberal arts was that 'freedom of speech', with some few fortunate exceptions, was freedom to regurgitate each particular professor's course notes in the style which he preferred. Most were arrogant, extremely pleased with themselves and viewed undergraduates as unfortunate necessities. Those few tenured who would deign to be in the same room with undergraduates were much worse. I view tenure, like any union, as a protection for the mediocre who would otherwise be required to actually be productive.	0.166667	0	0	0	0.166667	0	0
Better looking than the fruit flies a friend of mine worked with back in the '80's during his Master's program days.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Well, al the ones I have talked to have said so. Feel free to talk to others and let us know what you find out.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
It is still a research university. The review is if it should still be one of the 62 AAU member universities. Oregon State is not AAU, but is a research university. If Oregon was booted out of the AAU it too would remain a research university. I don't think Oregon is excellent. There are pockets that are. It's an average state university. But like any school, it is mostly up to the student as to what they get out of it.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
So what is the actual value of AAU membership? Prestige? Frankly, I have much more respect for OSU's veterinary and engineering prgrams than I do for any of the U of O's programs. Maybe that's because they are under reported to we hoi polloi, but that's my perception. I recently discovered that the Law School's Bar Exam Pass rates are abysmal compared to when I attended there. How far down is the organization overall?	0.166667	0	0	0	0	0	0
Love it!	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
It's one of Obama's new "fuel efficient cars of the 21st century".	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
In other news, Bossy the cow got out again. Thelma Jennings is offering a fresh baked rhubarb pie for anyone who can get her halter back on and back in the barn.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
so president schill, with his $800,000 plus bennies salary, is going to do his best to "cushion" the impact. is he starting a soup kitchen ...is he "sponsoring, for a few pennies a day - the cost of a cup of coffee..." a student or 2 to get through this?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wrong. "Rich guys running the show" indeed is new, quite recent in fact, with the ascendant of unapologetic worship of the financial sector. In the not-so-recent past, "rich guys" were content to put up the money and perhaps assign it to a specific area, i.e. Shakespeare, while leaving the "how" to administrators. What we're seeing, especially so in the out-of-control situation in North Carolina, is the mega-rich now becoming hands-on directors, saying which programs should thrive and which should suffer the death-of-a-thousand-cuts. In many conservative states, legislatures use subject matter (political science, Darwinism!) as an excuse to slash public funding. You obviously are content to have gentleman (for their are few if any women driving this) of very deep pockets, none of whom are competent or experienced in the field of academic administration, calling the shots. Universities are not for-profit industries. There is a basic disconnect here.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ah, so you're a conservative passionately opposed to unions, i.e. workers rights. It appears you managed to get those degrees without a proper understanding (a tad shocking for an attorney) of "freedom of speech."	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
While they are looking at the air, soil, and water pollution from cadmium, arsenic, and chromium around these hotspots, they should add lead to the analyses. Also, when they start looking much more closely at school children, at increased proximity to hotspot exposures, they should not just rely on blood and urine metal content, but also at body burden stored records to see how these metals have built up more in those exposed heavily compared to others across the city. They could start with comparative assessment of shed baby teeth, Laser ablation ICPMS might look at the growth increments in the teeth that variably show up take during times of higher output from the sources of pollution. The results can compare to teeth of children elsewhere in the city. The body burden levels are even more important to understand than the levels that the body has managed to get rid of.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
just think if it had been a 25yr old on a skateboard going 3 mph., within the state's "highway's regulation", telling a cop he had just 11 more miles to go. - on a state hwy on a Friday afternoon. that 25 yr old would still be picking gravel out of his forehead after being planted, face first, onto the hwy's shoulder. did the cops run interference for the wagon? control traffic so it could get around this wagon safely and in a timely manner??	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
The lack of 'freedom of speech' to which I referred was the insistence by professors that liberal positons were the 'Truth' incarnate and that anything less than left wing progressivism was anathema and received lower grades on exams. As far as unions, are concerned, there is a field of study over at the Duck U Law School called 'Labor Law' which provides one a lengthy history of the benefits and the downsides of unions in this country. I have to admit that part of my disagreement with unions in Oregon is based on my mandatory membership in SEIU in order to be a State employee. There I saw the union realities of today in the public sector first hand; not the halcyon days of fights against child labor, egregious working conditions etc. Now, the public unions are just different types of Corporations whose purpose is to protect the incompetent and extract further tax dollars to support their liberal agendas. At least real Corporations have to produce something positive to sell.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Excellent article.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Motel 6.....they should have stayed at a Super 8.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
If you can't spell the word 'appetizing' correctly, you can't claim to have gourmet taste. Soul food is for the hard workers, the country kin, and people who don't need their ass kissed by a waitress.	0.7	0.1125	0.625	0	0.35	0	0.525
I'm curious... if this was a big, bearded, tattooed man, would people still be up in arms? Does this "male discrimination" apply only to men in drag? I have a hard time believing that people would really care if this was some big biker dude.	0.166667	0	0	0	0	0.166667	0
http://noiwillnotyield.com/ All that needs to be said.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
As long as the Feds will loan money on it the U of O will keep charging more. It is that simple.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Isn't there a rule about pulling over if you have five or more vehicles lined up behind you? Of course, at 3 mph it shouldn't have been too difficult to pass him. The ones that go 45-50 most of the time, then accelerate to 60 when there's a passing lane, those are annoying and dangerous.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Somebody must call a spade a spade. “When current black students feel unsafe to walk into Deady Hall..." In view of all the positive life actions of Deady as enumerated above, I conclude that those students who feel unsafe walking into Deady Hall are mentally disturbed. Or perhaps the students are just being disingenuous and misrepresenting their feelings to achieve a political objective. I have little sympathy for those who attempt to manipulate us to achieve political objectives especially when they invoke notions of safety where there is no rational danger. Can any rational human attribute danger to entry to Deady Hall that is related to the name of the building?	0.3	0	0	0	0.1	0.3	0
Ed is right. Black Lives Matter. So do gay lives, women's lives and all other lives. We should not privilege the sensitivities of one subgroup of a group and throw out the rest. Who gets to "win" when a person turns out to be complex? Are we going to rename buildings named after President Kennedy because he called the black gay poet James Baldwin, one of America's greatest writers, "Martin Luther Queen"? What happens to Churchill High School after people read the colonial views of Sir Winston the Tory? Do we erase MLK's name because he plagiarized a paper? What did Abe Lincoln think of gay rights? Did Cesar Chavez support abortion? Do people really feel "unsafe" entering a building named after a person a hundred years dead? That is not a credible position for an adult to take. The building has only the spiritual power that we each care to give it. As for these ancient crusty founders whose lives were imperfect, teach about them, not without them.	0.2	0	0	0	0	0.2	0
Ha, ha, ha!	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
The dude's quoted electricity rates are off by x1000. Probably, he meant MWhr rather than kWhr. Regarding the Seneca biomass issue. Hindsight is cheap. EWEB board members just go with the flow and the contract sounded good in terms of global warming hype. It didn't make sense really since locally biomass electricity displaces hydropower, which is the best of all renewable resources. But the folks who run EWEB are in the follow the current trend category and likely were very sincere about doing good for global warming even though they could not understand the details. Fighting global warming does involve hardship. By accepting higher rates to run the biomass plant, probably some fossil fuel is saved since more hydro power can be sent to California or elsewhere so as displace coal or natural gas power usage. Fighting global warming is going to cost bundles. Those serious about it will have to swallow many cost increases to be involved.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Impeding the flow of traffic. Unfortunately the police rarely use it. Art West told me once that the reason they don't enforce it is "because frankly, the fine for impeding is less than the fine for the reckless driver trying get around the slow vehicle". he said that on air on the radio when I called in to his question and answer period. For once I was left speechless. http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/811.130	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Some in Canada are recommending to build a full-length border wall, to keep fleeing U.S. citizens out.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Always keep in mind that HR departments and union bosses are there to shield businesses from their employees.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
To all of you people that say he's impeding the flow of traffic or what happened to the there's 5 vehicles behind you you must yield the right-of-way. Do you see those fluorescent triangles it means slow moving vehicle and do you see the four horses pulling that wagon in the state of Oregon those four horses have the right of way on any roadway. Remember just because your car can do 110 miles an hour you don't have to be an asshole	0.706667	0.053333	0.613333	0	0.613333	0	0.28
If the police had forced the wagon over and written a ticket, what response would the religious right have?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I sense a little hostility here, goddess?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
". . . but by policy, none of them do." Your claim, your responsibility to verify it. My skepticism is based upon observation of human nature: there is nothing that is is done by everyone.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Moreno fears "total control of the populace" that socialism would bring. McKinney (who Moreno references) knows quite well what Socialism and Capitalism is, as he runs a car leasing company. I don't have fears of "total control" but let's see what we have now. Students have the freedom to attend college. Work hard, get good grades. Now if you are just average or a little above average, well, then you need to get a loan and run up a debt of $30,000. Already in school? Fork over another 4% per term. Is that freedom? We all have access to the American dream. Get a good job at McDonalds. Work hard. Apply for public housing because wages don't cover rent. Oops, now we have socialism. Work hard all your life. Get sick in your later years. Give up nearly everything you own because medical bills will wipe you out. Medical expenses are the #1 cause of bankruptcy. Yep, lots of freedom 'goin on.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
This editorial contains a fundamental error. I have several credit cards with chips, and have used them many times. At no time have I had to enter a pin, and my understanding is that this is the case throughout the USA. In Europe, however, pins are required.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Please tell me how invoking Hitler is relevant to the proposal.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
"Probably most 21st-century Americans would agree that wearing, say, blackface or Native American war paint is generally outside the accepted bounds of taste, civility and human decency." In one simple statement, Catherine loses all credibility in objecting to any form of political correctness. Wearing "blackface" or "war paint," i.e. putting make-up on one's face, represents zero physical encroachment on the rights of others. Catherine legitimizes the control of other's personal body choices by agreeing that certain face make-up is unacceptable. Once we acknowledge the right of others to control our personal actions as in face make-up, we have no grounds to object to others having different sensitivities from attempting to control personal actions they dislike. Since Catherine supports requiring PC make-up, she cannot logically oppose PC hats.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mr. Robinson your speculations are entirely without value. If you want to know how Trump feels about minorities, ask him. The tendency of the media to avoid direct questions so that they can manipulate random comments is unproductive and manipulative.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Motley thanks, your comment here, the text, is a useful addition. I agree with the writer of this column, so your legal text took me aback, for a bit. Then I consoled myself with the thought that what President Obama did in 2011 was based not on race or religion, but behavior. I think that's a huge, significant difference. I'd guess, and hope, that the courts would object to exclusion based on race or religion as against the constitution. And we know already that exclusion based on behavior, criminal records, and health has been accepted as constitutional. I do hope that as a nation, as a society, we don't accept bigotry and racism. And we don't elect people who openly do.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Motley, in comparison to your examples, you are correct. I think your comparisons invoke a norm referenced criteria vs a criteria referenced standard. I could just as easily note many other countries with very calm political processes. Shall we adjust our "civility rating" in the world according to those examples? You are correct, we are pretty genteel. But not compared to our past two decades. Yet very much so compared to how the Framers spoke (in the paper today). Shall we judge our standards via world norms or our own criteria? Not that anyone really cares, but I believe many people in the world look to us and see a civil political process. What they see recently is surprising. But it is not without precedent. The R-G even had to invoke this Civil Comments process to get a handle on what is happening.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yesterday a politico on OPB radio said that when politics and science intersect in Oregon, politics wins. While I am a liberal and support the Democratic Party with my vote and in other ways, I also prefer science and facts over dogma and superstition. We rail against the politics of climate deniers. Yet we become just as under-informed and reactionary when our collective superstitions are threatened. In Portland, people are going "nuclear," over the release of Arsenic into the atmosphere by a glass maker. I wonder how many of them know that Arsenic is used as a pesticide by Organic farmers and is not tested for on their produce? Nuclear power plants are being built world wide. China and Iran have dozens on the drawing board. The current crop of science illiterates in my party will do everything in their power to prevail politically, even if the facts and logic prove them to be as uninformed as a sign waver at a Trump rally.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Things are always a little more interesting at Motel Styx.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Trump is a product of the failed Obama presidency. We as a nation are at a critical time. During the last seven years the national debt has skyrocketed, economic growth is at best tepid, we have an unemployment crisis with too many un or underemployed. We've lost all credibility as a nation that can deal with tyranny and as a reliable ally. Obama had his chance but instead followed his narrow ideology. Now our choices are only Trump and Clinton.	0.2	0	0	0	0.2	0	0
Thanks all, for correcting me. In my defense, I did look up the address on Google, saw the Denny's, and saw I-5 right next to it, and the only combination I recall of that was at Gateway. I jumped right back on here and made my comment.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Outsider, are you dismissing direct quotations from Mr. Trump, inside quotation marks, as just speculation? Which would it be, then: That he didn't say those things, or that he didn't mean them?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Allen Alley is not as conservative as I would like, but he is a very bright guy who always does his homework. As a moderate with some conservative leanings, Mr. Alley is well suited to be governor of Oregon and would be infinitely better than the incumbent. I ran against Allen in the Republican Primary back in 2010 and in the process had opportunity to debate him several times. I was under indictment at the time and was only running because a Portland judge told me I couldn't, but Allen Alley treated me respectfully and I enjoyed our multiple opportunities for interaction. I am happy to learn that he is considering jumping into the race for governor. I hope he does. It is tough to win in Oregon as a Republican, but if hard work and diligence can get you there, Allen has a real shot.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Larry - Keep flailing, wailing and baling. The HMS Donkey is sinking fast	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
This is a complex issue with bits of truth on many sides. In light of Edwin Coleman's findings, the assertion that black students feel "unsafe" in the building, if true, suggests a serious educational flaw exacerbated by today's negative emphasis on wrongs rather than rights (as if victimized groups don't have enough "real" issues to worry about). Ironically, universities (with a few glaring exceptions - see Donald Trump's perversion) are supposedly established to discover and broadcast truth. From that perspective, it would seem that keeping Deady's name on the hall could provide a valuable spring board for demonstrating how racism can be transformed into tolerance and positive social action - which is just what Deady appears to have done in his lifetime. If delivered, that lesson could go far toward alleviating black student's concerns about entering the place and help to constructively recast campus dialogues for improving inter-group relations.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
You go Nicholas.... vote for Hillary and return the biggest womanizer since the Kennedys to the White House. Brilliant!	0.166667	0	0	0	0.166667	0	0
Just like the expansion of the protected area at Crater Lake, it is just a move to lock up more of the forest and restrict recreational activities to a select few who hike long distances.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I have seen several links to this story on Facebook. Some of my conservative friends are pooh poohing the idea of Allen Alley running for governor. I get that. They want a staunch conservative, which Mr. Alley is not. But I hope they get real. Unless there is a conservative Republican with good name ID and the ability to raise a lot of money they ought to be happy to have a serious choice besides Kate Brown. www.billsizemore.org	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
No. We do not need a Portland office to perform tasks the DEQ is funded to perform but doesn't. That's just like funding the CASA program because DHS is supposed to take care of foster kids and doesn't. We need to clean house of incompetent administrators and employees, and then hold these tax funded agencies accountable for doing their jobs. Creating individual city level DEQs is duplicative and wasteful, and seems to assume the state DEQ can never be counted on to perform as expected. Really? This makes no sense, but if it's going to happen the Portland office needs to be subsidized by the state DEQ office not local taxes.	0.2	0	0	0	0.2	0	0
Comrade, I disagree. Obama is one the best presidents this country has ever seen. National debt? Did you forget Iraq, Afghanistan, and the near collapse of the economy? Unemployment? Down to 5+%? A quick Google search revealed 335 accomplishments President Obama has achieved up until now. I don't see a "narrow ideology", I see a leader, well respected here and around the world. Here is a link to a list of 335 of President Obama’s accomplishments along with full citation. http://pleasecutthecrap.com/obama-accomplishments/	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I prefer our standards to those of 'the rest of the world' cited in the letter to the editor. 'World Opinion' has been cited for decades in regard to the death penalty, length and numbers of people incarcerated, medical care systems, etc. I am not so insular or ethnocentric as to believe we have the only answers or to ignore other countries' solutions to similar problems, but doing something or not doing something just because it pleases 'other countries' will never persuade me by itself.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
If your idol Don Trump makes it to the White House, he'll hold the record for presidents with multiple divorces, bankruptcies, verbal insults, and vile attacks on women.	0.2	0	0	0	0.2	0	0
I think your 'guess' about the courts' reactions are too hopeful. There are numerous immigration cases heard and reported every month in the US (I just checked, four (4) in the 9th Circuit for the month of February). Other than the big case headed to the Supreme Court this term where Obama tried to not deport 3 million illegal aliens, significant deference is given to immigration laws actually followed by a President and his Attorney General. They are usually arguing about how many crimes they have committed and whether they are sufficiently serious to justify deportation, or the credibility of those claiming exemptions, but the actual authority of the President and his Attorney General acting within the laws Congress has passed, like the one above, are viewed primarily as exercises in presidential discretion.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I've had a few conversations with the County compliance officer.....and interesting conversations they were. I asked her "I'm guessing most of the complaints you receive come from neighbors who, for whatever reason, are mad at the "guy who lives next door." Is that the case? She begrudgingly acknowledged that was the case. Several years ago I, with the permission of the owner, placed signs opposing our Coop's merger with another Coop. The County road crew removed them, saying "they were too close to the highway" The complaint....guess what.....came from a Coop Board member who favored the merger. The examples could go one for pages. Sign codes do, in fact, often limit freedom of expression; and complaint driven enforcement is, by definition, selective. Eugene's battle with the opponents of the Westside EMX shows that, too often, the unspoken stance is "you're free to express yourself, so long as we like what you have to say"	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
As long as wives and husbands and elderly parents sign the outside of the envelope, we will never know the extent of such frauds. I miss the polling places; not because I didn't have other things to do but because it meant I cared enough to make the effort. The mail in ballot, like DMV mandatory registration, was put in place in the belief that one party would get more voter turnout that way. I continue to believe that these little tricks are more likely to just 'dumb down' the voting pool.	0.2	0	0	0	0.1	0	0
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You may have missed the point. The machines where you shop must now be purchased by the merchants for $1000-$2000 so the new ones can 'read' your chip. When they buy them, you will then have to use your chip card differently. Your card still has a stripe which can be used on the 'old' machines until they are replaced.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Very good article. Save the error of major price discrepancy between Eugene and Springfield rates. Obviously, the die is caste on the contract issue. Would take an act of congress to change it. Most important, how do we the public keep it from happening again?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
You seem to be a black amd white thinker. What is this business of communism vs capitalism? Are you suggesting that tenuref track professors are communists? Seriously?	0.1	0	0.1	0	0.1	0.2	0
"Michelle Obama's staff consisted of 18 employees who got paid nearly $1.5 million in salary in 2010, according to the administration's Annual Report to Congress on White House Staff." So a 'First Husband's' staff should be of equal size. At those salaries, he might be able to have access to quite a few 'interns' to meet his needs.	0.166667	0	0	0	0.166667	0	0
And if Bill gets caught in flagrante delicto again, as President, Hillary can just grant him as many pardons as he needs. Sweet!	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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More evidence that liberalism really is a mental disorder. This is the stuff that's driving Donald Trump's popularity.	0.5	0	0	0	0.5	0.1	0
Martin Luther was a university professor.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
This is from socialistworld.net: “Sweden has reduced public spending as a proportion of GDP from 67% in 1993 to 49% today. It could soon have a smaller state than Britain. It has also cut the top marginal tax rate by 27 percentage points since 1983, to 57%, and scrapped a mare’s nest of taxes on property, gifts, wealth and inheritance. This year it is cutting the corporate-tax rate from 26.3% to 22%”. (Economist, 1 February 2013) http://www.socialistworld.net/doc/6330 Duber is apparently unaware that Sweden has been dismantling their socialist democracy since the 1980s. Reduced tax rates and reduction of public spending have contributed to the current success of Sweden. Sanders will have no support in congress and his ideological intransigence won't allow him to compromise his empty campaign proposals. No socialist revolution will rise up in the Red States. Those states control congress, for better or worse.	0.166667	0	0	0	0	0.166667	0

You tend to put every third word in quotation marks and most of them unnecessarily, so what I don't have time for is to divine what you think you actually mean. It honestly doesn't matter. I'm the last person who'd shill for this university, but hypothesize as you wish. For all we know, this was nothing but a bit of calculated stagecraft between these gentlemen, for that is the Oregon way. The president may have asked the chairman to tee up the question for him, with both knowing that Schill's melodic response would play soothingly to the ears of the hundreds of highly valued tenured faculty and shoot a chill up the spines, assuming they have them, of the dozens who are on cruise control. What it showed is that everyone up the food chain, from department heads and deans all the way to Beaverton, is paying attention. Now. Rich guys running the show like a business is nothing new in public higher education. What's new is not accepting that it be done badly.

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Doesn't it matter that a woman was raped while in police custody here in Eugene? Would you say the same thing if a body was just discovered? Rape is an act of violence and I find your comment insensitive. Sorry.

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I just read somewhere that "what yesterday challenged orthodoxy could become orthodoxy in the future. That’s how change occurs." Can't recall where and who said it, but it sure seemed to make sense in a variety of contexts. The Boston Globe's overdue questioning of the Catholic Archdiocese in that city comes to mind. I also saw recently in Oregon Quarterly that "Schill plans to hire 100 tenure-related faculty members in addition to replacing professors who will retire or leave. Each professor will need to be proficient at scholarship and teaching." Eliminating tenure at Oregon would seem to mean also searching for yet another president, at which this university has become famously practiced. Maybe, just maybe, Lillis's asking the question wasn't tantamount to his firing a starter's pistol.

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Rules and political choices have nothing to do it; Trump is crude and disgusting. Even more disgusting is the given fact that his flock worships his boorish, evil behavior. For example, "I could shoot someone and still get the nomination". What kind of person agrees with and supports this man?

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How and when were the "people on the right" bullied by people in the civil rights movement?

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A rape that happened 47 years ago is also an act of violence. Since neither one of these acts can result in any restitution to the victim due to the passage of time, both are basically irrelevant today except as a reminder as to why we need oversight of the police. Unless having a feeling of instant outrage makes someone feel better, of course.

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Hope the kids who don't take the Standardized tests don't have any trouble with their SAT tests, ACT tests or Oregon Drivers' License Tests. Be a real bummer not to get into college or be able to drive a car because you didn't know you were too ignorant to do either one because no one tested your knowledge level until it was too late.

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As desperately as Oregon wants to remain part of the prestigious Association of American Universities, or so it seems from the outside, how could it survive or ever hope to thrive as a research institution without granting tenure? It couldn't, of course. Yours is the first reference I've seen to Dr. Streisinger's ground-breaking contributions since the announcement of the Boyle family's $10 million donation in support of zebrafish research. As I recall from the excellent documentary series on the UO's history aired by OPB, his recruitment to Oregon came during the halcyon days of scientific research at the university. Is that correct?

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You must lead a rather sheltered life. "We must be the laughing stock of the world." These are just words. Across the world, there have been multiple actual fist fights on the floors of their legislative chamber. Here's a summary of 14 different countries, the most recent being Venezuela. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_violence Here are some videos in Japan, Mexico, Taiwan. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=japan+legislative+fist+fights&qpvt=japan+led%3dgislative+fist+fights&FORM=VDRE The US hasn't had those kinds of fights in over one hundred years. We are pretty genteel, actually.

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I probably worded it badly, but I would consider the people that wanted to hold onto the status quo as the "conservatives" of the time and place. Also, if you consider the civil rights movement ongoing, conservatives get called racist and worse if they push a color blind society and try to end affirmative action.

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Right, he was recruited when the new Institute of Molecular Biology was formed and attracted a very strong group of researchers wanting to push in new directions. I think there is the echo of that in the cluster hires the university wants to do now (bring in a group of people to work on something new) but I don't know if those areas (who does?) will be like the start of molecular biology.

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"In fact, cellulose fiber in the diet is beneficial." Seemed counterintuitive to me. But according to a recent San Francisco Food Column he's right. Cellulose passes through your digestive system, aiding in the removal of waste from your body. This waste can include normal metabolic waste excreted in the bile, but may also include sugar and cholesterol if your blood levels are elevated. If you do not eat high-fiber food, your body continually reabsorbs excess sugar and cholesterol. Soluble fiber binds excess sugar and cholesterol in your intestines carrying them out of your body via solid waste. A high-fiber diet can improve heart and colon health and aid in weight loss. Cellulose is not digestible and serves no other purpose in your body aside from aiding in waste removal. Cellulose is classified as "generally regarded as safe," or GRAS, by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This means there is no scientific evidence that suggests cellulose may have any adverse effect.

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"a large share of the university’s increasing costs are caused by rising employee retirement and medical costs." AKA PERS? Somebody has to pay for it.....

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So, are you trying to say that had the weapon used in the Charleston massacre been purchased in Oregon, this massacre would never have happened because ALL Oregon firearms dealers would never have released the weapon until the background check had cleared? Every single one of them? And you can speak for every single one of them?

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Senator McConnell is apparently 'following the will of the people' who elected him and his Republican Majority in the Senate. Just like Senator Reid did when he was the Majority Leader. Since the replacement Justice will probably be there for 20-30 years, I think having the new President, (whoever she or he is) nominate that replacement is hardly an egregious act. Obama has appointed and had confirmed, 323 Federal Judges with lifetime appointments including two to the Supreme Court (Justices Kagan and Sotomayor). There are still 42 other nominations pending.

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No kidding. Did you know at 30 that you were about five years from 40, then a month away from 50? Whoosh!!

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Do you mean Food for Lane County, Catholic Services, the Dining Room, TheMission, Whitebird, Cahoots, Occupy Medical, St Vincent's..... Those places?

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Regardless of the outcome, it will serve as a reminder to many as the risks of not hiring a white male It's on the mind of every owner or manager every time there is a hire. This candidate seems like a good fit, but do I really want to get sued if I need to fire them down the road? Eh... maybe I'll go with the middle-aged white guy who won't ever sue me for wrongful termination, sexual discrimination or being called a cracker. Clearly the alleged behavior is not acceptable and should never have happened. I'm not sure that a million dollar payout is a win for anyone though.

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I think we respectfully disagree. If I remember right, the level of felony was the lowest, avoiding a prison term. And it allowed the court to levy a fine. Insurance may work, but they sure seem to fight and delay payouts. Always a problem: harder on the defendant makes it better for the plaintiff.

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Except that the consumer is paying for Parmesan cheese but is getting sawdust. I would think the melting properties would be quite different.......

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"Many of us on the right are tired of being called racist, homophobes, and other derogatory names just because we do not support the latest leftist cause." Nope, many people on the right are labeled for what they SAY and DO, not because of the "latest leftist cause". Trump is an avowed racist...that is a fact. Why support racism?

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I rather resent the notion that I am supposed to "get over it already". I have a mother to talk to me like that. Many people have difficulty determining what is an opinion and what it a fact. But that is my assessment based on years of teaching.

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I suppose that Russ would have tried to compromise with Hitler also.

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The law to limit immigration by the President does exist. Stroke of a pen. Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, as amended (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President "Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate." Obama did it August 4, 2011 against those " Persons Who Participate in Serious Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Violations and Other Abuses".

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I think insurance claim denials should result in felony fraud convictions, but I digress.... I appreciate the respectful disagreement. I'd be inclined to slap an uninsured driver or unlicensed driver with a felony. They know each and every time they get into a car that they are violating the law. A momentary distraction, it could happen to anyone. The other thing is, why would the felony only apply if the victim is a pedestrian or bicyclist? What about the motorist in the other car when someone runs a red? Here's a sentencing chart: I don't want people losing their jobs over driving infractions that most people commit. http://www.oregon.gov/cjc/about/Documents/guidelinesgrid.pdf

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I want the City of Eugene to expand their generosity to include all of the things I have mentioned; only a limited number are available now. The taxpayers of Eugene are constantly being chided for not doing their fair share for these individuals; let's meet all of their needs in perpetuity so the taxpayers can know how much money they have left for themselves. Lynn Porter, for example, is constantly telling us that we aren't doing enough. Tell us how many thousands or hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars are needed. Then let the Eugene and Lane County taxpayers get on with their own lives, if we have any money left.

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I do not support racism. Do you support affirmative action? If so, I can call you a racist because you are supporting giving advantages to one race over another.

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I wonder if Jesus would fly an American flag.

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Is it still a research university? Isn't that status currently being reviewed by one of its oversight organizations? Isn't that why the new President is seeking change is to get it back to the status it had 30-40 years ago? Is it now an excellent educational institution?

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Part of the reason that voter fraud seems small is that nobody is really looking for it. In this state alone, I would not be surprised to find more than 1000 instances of wives voting for husbands or husbands voting for wives. Another situation I would not be surprised to see is children voting for elderly parents. This is only going to be compounded by the new registration law.

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"...she admitted her company used more cellulose powder in her product than is allowed by law" The FDA actually has standards as to how many rat feces and other adulterants are permitted by product. Cellulose at least appears to have some beneficial value. Apparently there is cellulose permitted in a bunch of other things according to the article I found above. " Cellulose is frequently used as a food additive to improve physical qualities such as smoothness, creaminess and mouth feel in products including dressings, sauces and even ice cream, according to MayoClinic.com. Cellulose can make baked goods firmer and absorb excess moisture in products, reducing spoilage. Additive cellulose also adds fiber content to commonly consumed foods in a time where the average diet is greatly lacking in fiber."

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It is important for citizens understand that business will not pay any of the proposed massive tax increase. All the tax increase will be passed on to the citizens in the form of price increases. Business exists to make money and certain margins are necessary to make it worth while to stay in business. So to maintain necessary margins each affected company will increase prices of goods or services rendered. Same as will happen to fund the new minimum wage legislation. It is really important to understand that both the minimum wage cost and the massive business tax cost will be paid by we the people of the state of Oregon. The politicians and supporters of public unions want to hoodwink us all to think that money can be created from nothing. It can't. Someone has to pay the piper and the piper is we the people.

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As a graduate of the University of Oregon, BA '69 and JD '71, my personal experience as an undergraduate in the liberal arts was that 'freedom of speech', with some few fortunate exceptions, was freedom to regurgitate each particular professor's course notes in the style which he preferred. Most were arrogant, extremely pleased with themselves and viewed undergraduates as unfortunate necessities. Those few tenured who would deign to be in the same room with undergraduates were much worse. I view tenure, like any union, as a protection for the mediocre who would otherwise be required to actually be productive.

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Better looking than the fruit flies a friend of mine worked with back in the '80's during his Master's program days.

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Well, al the ones I have talked to have said so. Feel free to talk to others and let us know what you find out.

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It is still a research university. The review is if it should still be one of the 62 AAU member universities. Oregon State is not AAU, but is a research university. If Oregon was booted out of the AAU it too would remain a research university. I don't think Oregon is excellent. There are pockets that are. It's an average state university. But like any school, it is mostly up to the student as to what they get out of it.

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So what is the actual value of AAU membership? Prestige? Frankly, I have much more respect for OSU's veterinary and engineering prgrams than I do for any of the U of O's programs. Maybe that's because they are under reported to we hoi polloi, but that's my perception. I recently discovered that the Law School's Bar Exam Pass rates are abysmal compared to when I attended there. How far down is the organization overall?

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It's one of Obama's new "fuel efficient cars of the 21st century".

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In other news, Bossy the cow got out again. Thelma Jennings is offering a fresh baked rhubarb pie for anyone who can get her halter back on and back in the barn.

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so president schill, with his $800,000 plus bennies salary, is going to do his best to "cushion" the impact. is he starting a soup kitchen ...is he "sponsoring, for a few pennies a day - the cost of a cup of coffee..." a student or 2 to get through this?

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Wrong. "Rich guys running the show" indeed is new, quite recent in fact, with the ascendant of unapologetic worship of the financial sector. In the not-so-recent past, "rich guys" were content to put up the money and perhaps assign it to a specific area, i.e. Shakespeare, while leaving the "how" to administrators. What we're seeing, especially so in the out-of-control situation in North Carolina, is the mega-rich now becoming hands-on directors, saying which programs should thrive and which should suffer the death-of-a-thousand-cuts. In many conservative states, legislatures use subject matter (political science, Darwinism!) as an excuse to slash public funding. You obviously are content to have gentleman (for their are few if any women driving this) of very deep pockets, none of whom are competent or experienced in the field of academic administration, calling the shots. Universities are not for-profit industries. There is a basic disconnect here.

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Ah, so you're a conservative passionately opposed to unions, i.e. workers rights. It appears you managed to get those degrees without a proper understanding (a tad shocking for an attorney) of "freedom of speech."

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While they are looking at the air, soil, and water pollution from cadmium, arsenic, and chromium around these hotspots, they should add lead to the analyses. Also, when they start looking much more closely at school children, at increased proximity to hotspot exposures, they should not just rely on blood and urine metal content, but also at body burden stored records to see how these metals have built up more in those exposed heavily compared to others across the city. They could start with comparative assessment of shed baby teeth, Laser ablation ICPMS might look at the growth increments in the teeth that variably show up take during times of higher output from the sources of pollution. The results can compare to teeth of children elsewhere in the city. The body burden levels are even more important to understand than the levels that the body has managed to get rid of.

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just think if it had been a 25yr old on a skateboard going 3 mph., within the state's "highway's regulation", telling a cop he had just 11 more miles to go. - on a state hwy on a Friday afternoon. that 25 yr old would still be picking gravel out of his forehead after being planted, face first, onto the hwy's shoulder. did the cops run interference for the wagon? control traffic so it could get around this wagon safely and in a timely manner??

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The lack of 'freedom of speech' to which I referred was the insistence by professors that liberal positons were the 'Truth' incarnate and that anything less than left wing progressivism was anathema and received lower grades on exams. As far as unions, are concerned, there is a field of study over at the Duck U Law School called 'Labor Law' which provides one a lengthy history of the benefits and the downsides of unions in this country. I have to admit that part of my disagreement with unions in Oregon is based on my mandatory membership in SEIU in order to be a State employee. There I saw the union realities of today in the public sector first hand; not the halcyon days of fights against child labor, egregious working conditions etc. Now, the public unions are just different types of Corporations whose purpose is to protect the incompetent and extract further tax dollars to support their liberal agendas. At least real Corporations have to produce something positive to sell.

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Motel 6.....they should have stayed at a Super 8.

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If you can't spell the word 'appetizing' correctly, you can't claim to have gourmet taste. Soul food is for the hard workers, the country kin, and people who don't need their ass kissed by a waitress.

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I'm curious... if this was a big, bearded, tattooed man, would people still be up in arms? Does this "male discrimination" apply only to men in drag? I have a hard time believing that people would really care if this was some big biker dude.

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http://noiwillnotyield.com/ All that needs to be said.

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As long as the Feds will loan money on it the U of O will keep charging more. It is that simple.

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Isn't there a rule about pulling over if you have five or more vehicles lined up behind you? Of course, at 3 mph it shouldn't have been too difficult to pass him. The ones that go 45-50 most of the time, then accelerate to 60 when there's a passing lane, those are annoying and dangerous.

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Somebody must call a spade a spade. “When current black students feel unsafe to walk into Deady Hall..." In view of all the positive life actions of Deady as enumerated above, I conclude that those students who feel unsafe walking into Deady Hall are mentally disturbed. Or perhaps the students are just being disingenuous and misrepresenting their feelings to achieve a political objective. I have little sympathy for those who attempt to manipulate us to achieve political objectives especially when they invoke notions of safety where there is no rational danger. Can any rational human attribute danger to entry to Deady Hall that is related to the name of the building?

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Ed is right. Black Lives Matter. So do gay lives, women's lives and all other lives. We should not privilege the sensitivities of one subgroup of a group and throw out the rest. Who gets to "win" when a person turns out to be complex? Are we going to rename buildings named after President Kennedy because he called the black gay poet James Baldwin, one of America's greatest writers, "Martin Luther Queen"? What happens to Churchill High School after people read the colonial views of Sir Winston the Tory? Do we erase MLK's name because he plagiarized a paper? What did Abe Lincoln think of gay rights? Did Cesar Chavez support abortion? Do people really feel "unsafe" entering a building named after a person a hundred years dead? That is not a credible position for an adult to take. The building has only the spiritual power that we each care to give it. As for these ancient crusty founders whose lives were imperfect, teach about them, not without them.

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The dude's quoted electricity rates are off by x1000. Probably, he meant MWhr rather than kWhr. Regarding the Seneca biomass issue. Hindsight is cheap. EWEB board members just go with the flow and the contract sounded good in terms of global warming hype. It didn't make sense really since locally biomass electricity displaces hydropower, which is the best of all renewable resources. But the folks who run EWEB are in the follow the current trend category and likely were very sincere about doing good for global warming even though they could not understand the details. Fighting global warming does involve hardship. By accepting higher rates to run the biomass plant, probably some fossil fuel is saved since more hydro power can be sent to California or elsewhere so as displace coal or natural gas power usage. Fighting global warming is going to cost bundles. Those serious about it will have to swallow many cost increases to be involved.

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Impeding the flow of traffic. Unfortunately the police rarely use it. Art West told me once that the reason they don't enforce it is "because frankly, the fine for impeding is less than the fine for the reckless driver trying get around the slow vehicle". he said that on air on the radio when I called in to his question and answer period. For once I was left speechless. http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/811.130

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Some in Canada are recommending to build a full-length border wall, to keep fleeing U.S. citizens out.

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Always keep in mind that HR departments and union bosses are there to shield businesses from their employees.

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To all of you people that say he's impeding the flow of traffic or what happened to the there's 5 vehicles behind you you must yield the right-of-way. Do you see those fluorescent triangles it means slow moving vehicle and do you see the four horses pulling that wagon in the state of Oregon those four horses have the right of way on any roadway. Remember just because your car can do 110 miles an hour you don't have to be an asshole

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I sense a little hostility here, goddess?

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". . . but by policy, none of them do." Your claim, your responsibility to verify it. My skepticism is based upon observation of human nature: there is nothing that is is done by everyone.

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Moreno fears "total control of the populace" that socialism would bring. McKinney (who Moreno references) knows quite well what Socialism and Capitalism is, as he runs a car leasing company. I don't have fears of "total control" but let's see what we have now. Students have the freedom to attend college. Work hard, get good grades. Now if you are just average or a little above average, well, then you need to get a loan and run up a debt of $30,000. Already in school? Fork over another 4% per term. Is that freedom? We all have access to the American dream. Get a good job at McDonalds. Work hard. Apply for public housing because wages don't cover rent. Oops, now we have socialism. Work hard all your life. Get sick in your later years. Give up nearly everything you own because medical bills will wipe you out. Medical expenses are the #1 cause of bankruptcy. Yep, lots of freedom 'goin on.

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This editorial contains a fundamental error. I have several credit cards with chips, and have used them many times. At no time have I had to enter a pin, and my understanding is that this is the case throughout the USA. In Europe, however, pins are required.

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Please tell me how invoking Hitler is relevant to the proposal.

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"Probably most 21st-century Americans would agree that wearing, say, blackface or Native American war paint is generally outside the accepted bounds of taste, civility and human decency." In one simple statement, Catherine loses all credibility in objecting to any form of political correctness. Wearing "blackface" or "war paint," i.e. putting make-up on one's face, represents zero physical encroachment on the rights of others. Catherine legitimizes the control of other's personal body choices by agreeing that certain face make-up is unacceptable. Once we acknowledge the right of others to control our personal actions as in face make-up, we have no grounds to object to others having different sensitivities from attempting to control personal actions they dislike. Since Catherine supports requiring PC make-up, she cannot logically oppose PC hats.

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Mr. Robinson your speculations are entirely without value. If you want to know how Trump feels about minorities, ask him. The tendency of the media to avoid direct questions so that they can manipulate random comments is unproductive and manipulative.

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Motley thanks, your comment here, the text, is a useful addition. I agree with the writer of this column, so your legal text took me aback, for a bit. Then I consoled myself with the thought that what President Obama did in 2011 was based not on race or religion, but behavior. I think that's a huge, significant difference. I'd guess, and hope, that the courts would object to exclusion based on race or religion as against the constitution. And we know already that exclusion based on behavior, criminal records, and health has been accepted as constitutional. I do hope that as a nation, as a society, we don't accept bigotry and racism. And we don't elect people who openly do.

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Motley, in comparison to your examples, you are correct. I think your comparisons invoke a norm referenced criteria vs a criteria referenced standard. I could just as easily note many other countries with very calm political processes. Shall we adjust our "civility rating" in the world according to those examples? You are correct, we are pretty genteel. But not compared to our past two decades. Yet very much so compared to how the Framers spoke (in the paper today). Shall we judge our standards via world norms or our own criteria? Not that anyone really cares, but I believe many people in the world look to us and see a civil political process. What they see recently is surprising. But it is not without precedent. The R-G even had to invoke this Civil Comments process to get a handle on what is happening.

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Yesterday a politico on OPB radio said that when politics and science intersect in Oregon, politics wins. While I am a liberal and support the Democratic Party with my vote and in other ways, I also prefer science and facts over dogma and superstition. We rail against the politics of climate deniers. Yet we become just as under-informed and reactionary when our collective superstitions are threatened. In Portland, people are going "nuclear," over the release of Arsenic into the atmosphere by a glass maker. I wonder how many of them know that Arsenic is used as a pesticide by Organic farmers and is not tested for on their produce? Nuclear power plants are being built world wide. China and Iran have dozens on the drawing board. The current crop of science illiterates in my party will do everything in their power to prevail politically, even if the facts and logic prove them to be as uninformed as a sign waver at a Trump rally.

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Things are always a little more interesting at Motel Styx.

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Trump is a product of the failed Obama presidency. We as a nation are at a critical time. During the last seven years the national debt has skyrocketed, economic growth is at best tepid, we have an unemployment crisis with too many un or underemployed. We've lost all credibility as a nation that can deal with tyranny and as a reliable ally. Obama had his chance but instead followed his narrow ideology. Now our choices are only Trump and Clinton.

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Thanks all, for correcting me. In my defense, I did look up the address on Google, saw the Denny's, and saw I-5 right next to it, and the only combination I recall of that was at Gateway. I jumped right back on here and made my comment.

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Outsider, are you dismissing direct quotations from Mr. Trump, inside quotation marks, as just speculation? Which would it be, then: That he didn't say those things, or that he didn't mean them?

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Allen Alley is not as conservative as I would like, but he is a very bright guy who always does his homework. As a moderate with some conservative leanings, Mr. Alley is well suited to be governor of Oregon and would be infinitely better than the incumbent. I ran against Allen in the Republican Primary back in 2010 and in the process had opportunity to debate him several times. I was under indictment at the time and was only running because a Portland judge told me I couldn't, but Allen Alley treated me respectfully and I enjoyed our multiple opportunities for interaction. I am happy to learn that he is considering jumping into the race for governor. I hope he does. It is tough to win in Oregon as a Republican, but if hard work and diligence can get you there, Allen has a real shot.

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Larry - Keep flailing, wailing and baling. The HMS Donkey is sinking fast

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This is a complex issue with bits of truth on many sides. In light of Edwin Coleman's findings, the assertion that black students feel "unsafe" in the building, if true, suggests a serious educational flaw exacerbated by today's negative emphasis on wrongs rather than rights (as if victimized groups don't have enough "real" issues to worry about). Ironically, universities (with a few glaring exceptions - see Donald Trump's perversion) are supposedly established to discover and broadcast truth. From that perspective, it would seem that keeping Deady's name on the hall could provide a valuable spring board for demonstrating how racism can be transformed into tolerance and positive social action - which is just what Deady appears to have done in his lifetime. If delivered, that lesson could go far toward alleviating black student's concerns about entering the place and help to constructively recast campus dialogues for improving inter-group relations.

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You go Nicholas.... vote for Hillary and return the biggest womanizer since the Kennedys to the White House. Brilliant!

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Just like the expansion of the protected area at Crater Lake, it is just a move to lock up more of the forest and restrict recreational activities to a select few who hike long distances.

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I have seen several links to this story on Facebook. Some of my conservative friends are pooh poohing the idea of Allen Alley running for governor. I get that. They want a staunch conservative, which Mr. Alley is not. But I hope they get real. Unless there is a conservative Republican with good name ID and the ability to raise a lot of money they ought to be happy to have a serious choice besides Kate Brown. www.billsizemore.org

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No. We do not need a Portland office to perform tasks the DEQ is funded to perform but doesn't. That's just like funding the CASA program because DHS is supposed to take care of foster kids and doesn't. We need to clean house of incompetent administrators and employees, and then hold these tax funded agencies accountable for doing their jobs. Creating individual city level DEQs is duplicative and wasteful, and seems to assume the state DEQ can never be counted on to perform as expected. Really? This makes no sense, but if it's going to happen the Portland office needs to be subsidized by the state DEQ office not local taxes.

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Comrade, I disagree. Obama is one the best presidents this country has ever seen. National debt? Did you forget Iraq, Afghanistan, and the near collapse of the economy? Unemployment? Down to 5+%? A quick Google search revealed 335 accomplishments President Obama has achieved up until now. I don't see a "narrow ideology", I see a leader, well respected here and around the world. Here is a link to a list of 335 of President Obama’s accomplishments along with full citation. http://pleasecutthecrap.com/obama-accomplishments/

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I prefer our standards to those of 'the rest of the world' cited in the letter to the editor. 'World Opinion' has been cited for decades in regard to the death penalty, length and numbers of people incarcerated, medical care systems, etc. I am not so insular or ethnocentric as to believe we have the only answers or to ignore other countries' solutions to similar problems, but doing something or not doing something just because it pleases 'other countries' will never persuade me by itself.

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If your idol Don Trump makes it to the White House, he'll hold the record for presidents with multiple divorces, bankruptcies, verbal insults, and vile attacks on women.

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I think your 'guess' about the courts' reactions are too hopeful. There are numerous immigration cases heard and reported every month in the US (I just checked, four (4) in the 9th Circuit for the month of February). Other than the big case headed to the Supreme Court this term where Obama tried to not deport 3 million illegal aliens, significant deference is given to immigration laws actually followed by a President and his Attorney General. They are usually arguing about how many crimes they have committed and whether they are sufficiently serious to justify deportation, or the credibility of those claiming exemptions, but the actual authority of the President and his Attorney General acting within the laws Congress has passed, like the one above, are viewed primarily as exercises in presidential discretion.

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I've had a few conversations with the County compliance officer.....and interesting conversations they were. I asked her "I'm guessing most of the complaints you receive come from neighbors who, for whatever reason, are mad at the "guy who lives next door." Is that the case? She begrudgingly acknowledged that was the case. Several years ago I, with the permission of the owner, placed signs opposing our Coop's merger with another Coop. The County road crew removed them, saying "they were too close to the highway" The complaint....guess what.....came from a Coop Board member who favored the merger. The examples could go one for pages. Sign codes do, in fact, often limit freedom of expression; and complaint driven enforcement is, by definition, selective. Eugene's battle with the opponents of the Westside EMX shows that, too often, the unspoken stance is "you're free to express yourself, so long as we like what you have to say"

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As long as wives and husbands and elderly parents sign the outside of the envelope, we will never know the extent of such frauds. I miss the polling places; not because I didn't have other things to do but because it meant I cared enough to make the effort. The mail in ballot, like DMV mandatory registration, was put in place in the belief that one party would get more voter turnout that way. I continue to believe that these little tricks are more likely to just 'dumb down' the voting pool.

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I wonder if this whole research deal is not predicated on government money. These professors were unable to bring in government money for research. So they had to go. The first thng that goes on at the University of Oregon is taxpayer money.

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You may have missed the point. The machines where you shop must now be purchased by the merchants for $1000-$2000 so the new ones can 'read' your chip. When they buy them, you will then have to use your chip card differently. Your card still has a stripe which can be used on the 'old' machines until they are replaced.

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Very good article. Save the error of major price discrepancy between Eugene and Springfield rates. Obviously, the die is caste on the contract issue. Would take an act of congress to change it. Most important, how do we the public keep it from happening again?

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You seem to be a black amd white thinker. What is this business of communism vs capitalism? Are you suggesting that tenuref track professors are communists? Seriously?

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"Michelle Obama's staff consisted of 18 employees who got paid nearly $1.5 million in salary in 2010, according to the administration's Annual Report to Congress on White House Staff." So a 'First Husband's' staff should be of equal size. At those salaries, he might be able to have access to quite a few 'interns' to meet his needs.

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And if Bill gets caught in flagrante delicto again, as President, Hillary can just grant him as many pardons as he needs. Sweet!

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The University receives less than 6% of its funding from "the government ".

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More evidence that liberalism really is a mental disorder. This is the stuff that's driving Donald Trump's popularity.

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Martin Luther was a university professor.

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This is from socialistworld.net: “Sweden has reduced public spending as a proportion of GDP from 67% in 1993 to 49% today. It could soon have a smaller state than Britain. It has also cut the top marginal tax rate by 27 percentage points since 1983, to 57%, and scrapped a mare’s nest of taxes on property, gifts, wealth and inheritance. This year it is cutting the corporate-tax rate from 26.3% to 22%”. (Economist, 1 February 2013) http://www.socialistworld.net/doc/6330 Duber is apparently unaware that Sweden has been dismantling their socialist democracy since the 1980s. Reduced tax rates and reduction of public spending have contributed to the current success of Sweden. Sanders will have no support in congress and his ideological intransigence won't allow him to compromise his empty campaign proposals. No socialist revolution will rise up in the Red States. Those states control congress, for better or worse.

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