Update on “Take Back the Campus”
As I previously reported, there will be a meeting, now titled “Take Back the Campus”, held on Monday, March 3 at 7 p.m. in Willamette 100. The event, co-hosted by the ASUO and the Sustainability Coalition, will focus on student involvement on campus and recent actions by the university administration.
You can tell from the oddly proportioned “power to the people” fist on the right (the event’s logo) that the organizers mean business. Or at least have some vague concept of business. According to the Facebook event, the meeting “is not one night of complaining but a chance to come together and take action.” No, I’m pretty sure it will mostly be complaining. Not that there’s anything wrong with that; I’m just saying …
For a full list of the grievances cited by the event organizers,
According to the aforementioned Facebook page, the meeting was spurred by student concern on recent issues such as:
- Construction of new sports arenas and levying of major bonds
- The removal of wrestling
- Ethnic studies not yet being departmentalized
- The replacement of Holy Cow
- The potential of tasers being brought to campus and the possibility of DPS being departmentalized with Eugene Police Department
- Lack of administrative action on sustainability initiatives
This should be a wild time. I’ll be there with a digital recorder to capture any craziness.
P.S. Crossing my fingers for a Ty Schwoeffermann tirade.
