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Media mentions for January 10
UO diversity changes discussed
The Register-Guard, similar stories available at KGW and The Oregonian: University of Oregon administrator Yvette Alex-Assensoh said her decision to restructure the Office of Equity and Inclusion — which included demoting three well-known vice presidents — is to provide better service and access to UO students and Oregon citizens. “The intent all along is for inclusion and equity to be infused into the everyday commonplace interactions at this university, and that’s exactly what we plan to do,” Alex-Assensoh told a Wednesday meeting of more than 50 university employees, students, alumni and community members at the Erb Memorial Union on campus ... Lindsey Watchman, coordinator for Native American recruitment at the UO, said the demotions have brought “a real pain in people’s hearts. You need to address that before you get people to help you move on.”
Buying the perfect gift? Fuhgeddaboudit
Portland Tribune: In the lobby of a Pearl District fitness studio last week, someone asked the handful of men and women waiting for class if any of them had received the holiday gift of their dreams this year ... Lan Jiang, a University of Oregon assistant professor of marketing, says the material prosperity of our culture gets in the way of logical gift-giving in all sorts of ways. “A lot of people overrate the happiness that can be brought by material goods,” says Jiang ... University of Oregon economist Bill Harbaugh says there’s another factor involved in giving cash or gift cards: they are exchangeable. “If I give my wife $1,000 to show that I care about her, she can then take that $1,000 and give it to the lady down the street,” Harbaugh says. Pretty soon, in his estimation, the meaning of the gift has been lost.