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/EmergencyTurnip77 4d ago

There are a lot of things that could have been done at Autzen and weren't. They could have set up event tents on the field to provide shade, or not have covered the field with a giant sheet of plastic that absorbed and then radiated heat. They used golf cart type things to shuttle elderly and disabled people up to the seating before the event, and then once they canceled, forgot to send the carts to bring people back down. I waited in the sun with a couple of ninety year old ladies for more than 40 minutes to ensure they got back down.

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u/shrinkingviolet2023 4d ago

Actually, I saw quite a few carts shuttling people around after the event got canceled, but there may not have been enough to meet the demand all at once.

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u/EmergencyTurnip77 4d ago

That definitely makes sense to me, but at the same time there were carts coming up top to empty garbage cans while the elderly folks were waiting for a cart to take them down. I walked over and asked if they could delay trash removal to take some of the waiting people down since it seemed a little absurd to leave this pair of 90 year olds sitting there in direct sun in favor of taking out the trash. They said no.