University of Portland - Log Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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Something happened this ye Greg Wolfe said that it vvas a state of financial exigency' Others said that the students were tu rned-off by rhetoric, burned-out by confrontatioi turned inward in despair. But, the important truth vvas more nearly that vve took a good look at ourselves and at PSU and vve laughed For if laughter is a catharsis for grief, novv then our mourning is over. We laughed quietly at first, then ironically, then with increasing confidence as vve looked around us at the waste and foolishness, the petty decisions, the arbitrary impediments to learning, the absurd system of accounting that curtailed spending for needed academic programsvi allowing superfluous buildinq to continue unchecked ani vve settled dovvn to change the University, with a little help from our friends. i

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