All UP employees, both faculty and staff, are welcome to take part in the first annual Employee Kickball Extravaganza on Wednesday, August 14, at 4 p.m., on the Shipstad Quad, according to organizers Mary Beebe and Joe Kuffner, marketing and communications. Kick off the new school year by playing everyone’s favorite schoolyard game (no, not […]
08-05-2013
From Our Past
On August 8, 2001, at around 5:45 p.m., a fire broke out along the bluff that borders the University and the east side of the Willamette River. Witnesses reported seeing a passing train throwing sparks along the base of the bluff. Within a half hour the fire threatened homes along Willamette Boulevard. Tinder dry conditions, […]