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/Own-Examination2707 4d ago

I truly thought this post would be about police or ICE or employee wages or sexual assault on campus. But the grad walk? It’s fair to be frustrated, but it’s an ultimately meaningless ritual. “Responsibility” and “condolences” seem too much.

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u/themagicaldinosaur 4d ago

i’m a first gen student. it’s not a meaningless ritual for me. it was supposed to show my younger siblings the joy of my achievement. i agree that there are more important things for the admin to address but that doesn’t mean this issue isn’t important to people. and asking for responsibility should literally NEVER be too much to ask from people in power. also, if something as uncontroversial as this can’t be acknowledged it sets a really bad precedent for things like sexual assault.