Students and staff hang in the balance as UO faces financial strife - Zack Demars, Daily Emerald

Protest signs in hand, more than a hundred people packed the Ford Alumni Center ballroom last week to make their voices heard by the University of Oregon board of trustees. For more than two hours, about 35 students, faculty and graduate employees spoke to the board during the meeting’s comment period. “2019 will either be the year that the university corrected course,” said Rita Ludwig to the board, “or it will mark the year that the university descended into financial and educational ruin over a short-sighted decision.” https://www.dailyemerald.com/news/students-and-staff-hang-in-the-balance-as-uo-faces/article_10d1385a-80e8-11e9-82f0-53120c3dbc05.html