University of Oregon

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University of Oregon

Motto Mens Agitat Molem
(Latin, "The mind moves the mass.")
Established 1876
School type Public
President Dave Frohnmayer
Location Eugene, Oregon, USA
Enrollment 20,339 students
(Fall 2004)
Endowment US$182.25 million
Sports team Ducks
Campus 280 acres (1.1 km²)
Website www.uoregon.edu

The University of Oregon (UO) is a Public University located in Eugene. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class (five students) two years later.

The school colors are green and yellow and its mascot is the duck.

The U.S. News and World Report ranked the school highest in academics among national universities in the state of Oregon. Overall, the school is ranked 117 out of 248 national universities.

Former Oregon attorney general David B. Frohnmayer is the president of the university administration. UO receives much of its funding from the UO Foundation, an independent not-for-profit organization.

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Campus

The University of Oregon has around 80 buildings and facilities, including athletics sites such as Hayward Field and McArthur Court, and off-campus sites such as nearby Autzen Stadium, the Westmoreland Housing area and the Riverfront Research Park.

The university is known for being the site of a pioneering participatory planning experiment known as the Oregon Experiment (which is also the subject of a book of the same name). The two major principles of the project are that buildings should be designed, in part, by the people who will ultimately use them (usually with the help of an 'architect facilitator'), and that construction should occur over many small projects (as opposed to a few large ones). Despite some initial successes, however, these principles have generally fallen out of use.

Deady Hall is the university's oldest building. Completed on October 16, 1876 it was the only building on campus with an enrollment of 177 students. Deady Hall is now home to many classrooms, offices of mathematics faculty and graduate students, and the mathematics undergraduate lounge. In 1977, Deady Hall was designated a National Historic Landmark.

Lillis Business Complex
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Lillis Business Complex
Solar panels
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Solar panels
Oregon Hall
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Oregon Hall
Knight Library
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Knight Library
Pioneer Statue
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Pioneer Statue

Willamette Hall is home to the university's hard sciences. The construction of the $45.3 million complex was completed in 1989.

Lillis Business Complex is home to the Lundquist College of Business. The complex has a capacity of 196,500 square feet (18,000 m²) and has the largest array of architectural solar glass installed in the Northwest.

Oregon Hall is the university's main administrative heart. This building includes the Registrar's Office and Office of Admissions.

Villard Hall is home to Theatre Arts. Like its sister building Deady Hall, it was designated a National History Landmark in 1977.

Johnson Hall is where offices for higher administration and trustee offices are found. The offices of the President of the university are in this building, and was one of main buildings used in the movie "Animal House".

Knight Library was originally erected in 1937. There were additions to the building in 1950, 1966, and a renovation in 1994. By the time of the third addition, the library had increased in size by 132,000 square feet (12,000 m²).

Pioneer Statue was created by sculptor Alexander Proctor in 1919, and is located between Fenton and Friendly hall. It is rumored to have inspired the fictional statue of pioneer Jebediah Springfield in the television show the Simpsons. In 1932, the "Pioneer Mother" statue was dedicated in the Women's Memorial Quadrangle on the other side of Johnson Hall; the two statues are aligned so that they can 'see' one-another through the large windows of the hall's main floor.

The university maintains the Riverfront Research Park, a small facility located across Franklin Blvd. from the main campus, next to the Willamette River. The Park is used for creating new technologies (including projects funded by the US military), such as research about artificial intelligence at the Computational Intelligence Research Lab and genetic engineering research on zebrafish.

Prince Lucien Campbell Hall is an aberration on the campus, due to a mix-up of plans with another university in California. Students describe "PLC" as "a 9-level dungeon", or as "a monolith".

Trivia

The University of Oregon's 280 acre (1.1 km²), park-like campus is home to more than 500 varieties of trees.

The university was the site of many major protests against the Vietnam war and continues to this day to be a center of radical activity.

Conflicts between students living in the West University neighborhood and the Eugene Police Department's so-called 'Party Patrol' have escalated into several large confrontations a number of times in the past few years.

The film Animal House was filmed on the University campus and the surrounding area.

According to popular campus legend, the "Pioneer Mother" will stand when the first student remaining a virgin graduates. Empirical evidence has largely disproven the rumor, however.

Matt Groening, creator of "The Simpsons" and Eugene native, may have based his Jebediah Springfield statue on the Pioneer statue. Eugene is mentioned specifically in one episode.

Colleges and professional schools

College of Arts and Sciences (Departments and Programs)

    • American English Institute (AEI)
    • Anthropology
    • Asian Studies
    • Biology
    • Chemistry
    • Classics
    • Comparative Literature
    • Comparative Literature Journal
    • Computer and Information Science
    • Creative Writing
    • East Asian Languages & Literatures
    • Economics
    • English
    • Environmental Studies
    • Ethnic Studies
    • European Studies
    • Folklore
    • General Science
    • Geography
    • Geological Sciences
    • Germanic Languages and Literatures
    • History
    • Humanities
    • Human Physiology
    • International Inst. for Sport and Human Performance (IISHP)
    • International Studies
    • Judaic Studies
    • Latin American Studies
    • Linguistics
    • Mathematics
    • Medieval Studies
    • Northwest Review
    • Oregon Inst. of Marine Biology (OIMB)
    • Oregon Survey Research Lab (OSRL)
    • Philosophy
    • Physics
    • Pine Mountain Observatory
    • Political Science
    • Psychology
    • Religious Studies
    • Romance Languages
    • Russian and East European Studies Center
    • Social Science Instructional Lab (SSIL)
    • Sociology
    • Theatre Arts
    • Women and Gender Studies
    • Yamada Language Center
  • Affiliated Centers and Institutes
    • Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (CAPS)
    • Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS)
    • Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences
    • Institute of Molecular Biology
    • Institute of Neuroscience
    • Institute of Theoretical Science
    • Materials Science Institute
    • Oregon Humanities Center

College of Education (Departments and Programs)

    • Counseling Psychology and Human Services
      (Counseling Psychology, Family and Human Services, and Marriage and Family Therapy)
    • Educational Leadership
      (Educational Leadership, Administrator Licensure)
    • Special Education
      (Communication Disorders and Sciences, Early Intervention, Special Education, School Psychology)
    • Teacher Education
      (Educational Foundations, English for Speakers of Other Languages, Graduate Elementary Teaching, Integrated Teaching, Middle/Secondary Education)

  • Affiliated Research Units
    • Behavioral Research and Teaching (BRT)
    • Center for Educational Policy Research (CEPR)
    • Center for Electronic Studying (CES)
    • Center on Teaching and Learning (CTL)
    • Early Intervention Program (EIP)
    • Educational and Community Supports (ECS)
    • Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior (IVDB)
    • Secondary Special Education and Transition Programs
    • University of Oregon Center for Excellence (UCE) in Developmental Disabilities
  • Affiliated Outreach Units
    • Career Information System (CIS)
    • Early Childhood Coordination Agency for Referrals, Evaluations, and Services (EC CARES)
    • High School Equivalency Program (HEP)
    • IntoCareers (IC)
    • Oregon Writing Project (OWP)
    • Technical Assistance and Consulting Services Western Regional Resource Center (TACS/WRRC)
    • Youth Enrichment/Talented and Gifted (YE/TAG)

Charles H. Lundquist School of Business

School of Architecture and Allied Arts

  • Department of Architecture
  • Portland Architecture Site
  • Department of Art
  • Digital Arts (formerly Multimedia Design)
  • Department of Art History
  • Department of Landscape Architecture
  • Department of Planning, Public Policy & Management

School of Journalism and Communication

  • Advertising
  • Communication Studies
  • Electronic Media
  • Magazine
  • News/Editorial
  • Public Relations

University of Oregon and Nike

UO track and field coach Bill Bowerman revolutionized the athletic shoe by pouring melted rubber into a waffle iron, creating a prototype rubber sole. Bowerman went on to co-found Nike corporation with UO alumnus Phil Knight. Nike has maintained a close relationship with UO ever since, manufacturing all university logo clothing and uniforms for the football team, including research prototypes for high-tech "smart clothes", such as jerseys with cooling systems.

Controversy surrounding Nike's labor practice precipitated protests in 2000 led by a group of students calling themselves The Human Rights Alliance. The protests included a 10 day tent city occupation of the lawns in front of Johnson Hall, the main administration building. Protesting students demanded and initially received independent oversight by the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC) of Nike's overseas factories. The University of Oregon joined the WRC but was quickly admonished by Phil Knight in a scathing letter resulting in the rescindence of a US$30 million dollar contribution to renovate Autzen Stadium, and a pledge for no more future donations should the University continue its membership in the WRC. The University eventually terminated the relationship with the WRC within a year of joining, citing "legal complications." Phil Knight later reinstated the donation and increased the money to over US$50 million dollars. [1]

Further controversy ensued in March 2005 with the resignation of track coach Martin Smith. Smith was ousted by the “Lame Ducks”, a group of former Oregon track athletes employed at Nike that raises funds to support the Oregon track program, and by Phil Knight who stated that he would quit donating to the track team as long as Smith was coach. The primary point of contention was that Smith did not focus enough on long distance running events which was a traditional strength for Oregon and Nike shoe sales. This occurred despite Smith’s success at re-building the Oregon track program back into national prominence after twenty five years of relative mediocrity. Additionally, former women’s track coach, Sally Harmon sued the university with a US$1.1 million gender discrimination lawsuit which was settled in July 2005. Smith was replaced by former Stanford coach Vin Lananna in July 2005.

Athletics

Main article: Oregon Ducks
The "Nikeized" logo
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The "Nikeized" logo

The mascot of the University of Oregon is the duck. UO is a member of the Pacific Ten Conference conference and Division I-A for athletics. Home football games are played in Autzen Stadium. The university intends to build a larger arena to replace McArthur Court, where basketball games are played.

The Nike Duck Mascot
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The Nike Duck Mascot

The University of Oregon has produced many world-class track and field and cross country athletes, including Steve Prefontaine. The Ducks have won five men's NCAA outdoor track and field championships, four men's cross country championships, and one women's outdoor track and field championship and two women's cross country championships. The university also maintains a relationship with shoe manufacturer Nike, who also provides uniforms and logo merchandise for the Ducks.

The football team has enjoyed strong success over the past twenty years though the major turning point of the football program was a game in 1994 at Autzen Stadium against the perennial football power and border rival, the University of Washington Huskies. In that game, Oregon held on to a slim lead but the favored Huskies looked to score late in the game resulting in yet another disappointing loss (Oregon had lost 17 of 20 and five straight to the Huskies prior to this game). Miraculously, freshman defensive back Kenny Wheaton, intercepted the football and ran the ball back 97 yards for a touchdown to secure the upset victory. This play became affectionately known as "the Pick" among Duck fans. With this momentum, the team proceeded to win the rest of their conference games, won the Pac-10 title and played in the Rose Bowl. In 1995, Mike Bellotti became the head football coach and took the football program to the next level. In 2001, under the leadership of Joey Harrington at Quarterback, the team finished 12-1 including a dominant 38-16 win over the University of Colorado in the Fiesta Bowl. The team finished #2 in the college rankings that year after the University of Miami.

With the support of its boosters (most notably, Phil Knight), the Oregon football program has among the best facilities in the United States including a newly remodeled Autzen Stadium and a state of the art locker room replete with luxuries such as plasma displays and video game consoles in individual lockers. The team has also benefited from the creative work of the University of Oregon's sports marketing department and Nike, with billboards promoting individual athletes, personalized comic books for prospective recruits, and high tech uniforms, logos and mascot.

Notable Alumni

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