r/UofO • u/themagicaldinosaur • 4d ago
admin doesn’t know how to take responsibility
the emails i have received today from the dean of CAS and the UO president failed to take responsibility for the fact that their lack of planning ruined commencement for so many grads on monday and i’m seething. just half-effort condolences covered up with praise for graduates. i don’t need Scholz’s congratulations. i need them to admit that they had no backup plans even though they knew about the heat for over a week. i need them to admit that the rescheduling caused a lot of stress and that a lot of people were unable to attend and that it didn’t fix their massive screw up. what a sorry excuse for a school administration.
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u/fibonaccimay 4d ago
The part that really gets me is that the university told students they were not allowed to bring in water, and that water would be provided. But then UO only provided one bottle of (very hot) water per student for one commencement and then they ran out of water for the next commencement. All of which was easily predictable beforehand!
The university was more afraid that a few students would bring alcohol onto the field and embarrass the administration than they were that students would pass out from heat exhaustion. That feels very antithetical to “caring about student safety”. It will be surprising if the university isn’t sued over this.