A University of Oregon athlete soaks in one of the heated pools at the athletic department's expanded medical treatment center at the Casanova Center. Among the features are nutritionist and X-ray stations, multiple pools and flat-screen televisions aplenty.
The article that goes with the picture includes this gem, "The first thing that jumps out to visitors, and this is no surprise because it's an Oregon trademark, is that there are flat-screen TVs everywhere." Yes, this has become quite the trademark here at Oregon. I remember when the UO first offered us a flat-screen in every office. i thought they were joking! The article goes on, "In the expanded space, spread out over 14,580 square feet, a recovering athlete will seemingly never be out of range of a flat-screen tuned to some type of sporting event."
Then we get this column from the R-G's new sports columnist. The shorter version is that you don't really need a college degree to be successful, whether you want to be a sports columnist, multi-millionaire, athletic director, or baseball coach. It is this column we are informed/reminded that the UO waived it's requirement to hold a BA to be the athletic director in order to hire AD Kilkenny. Of course, since we were waiving the requirement about any relevant experience, waiving the degree requirement is no big deal.
Boy the R-G hates the UO.
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WTF? my first office as a GTF was--literally--a converted closet. and i shared it with two other GTFs. we had to coordinate our office hours in advance, because you couldn't fit more than two people in there at once. because it was designed to be a closet, not a "office," the light switch was outside in the hall. you never knew when some smartass would walk by and flick it, leaving us in the dark (b/c of course there was no window in this closet). and because a printer used to be in this closet, clueless faculty were always barging in without knocking, looking for the documents they had just printed.
and we were lucky: this was deluxe accommodations reserved only for Ph.D. students! needless to say, there was no flat screen in there.
(jeebus, i sound like grandpa simpson...)
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