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68-555: The New Guinea Sculpture Garden is located in a small, wooded grove on the Stanford campus next to a dormitory. In addition to wooden and stone artworks, the garden also features landscaping and plants organized by Wallace M. Ruff, Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon , and research fellow in the Department of Architecture and Building, Papua New Guinea University of Technology , Lae, Papua New Guinea. He

136-416: A long and complex relationship with Nike, Inc. , and the firm's co-founder Phil Knight . As a consequence of state higher-education disinvestment starting in the 1990s, UO has embraced a "University of Nike" image. Fueled by large investments in athletic infrastructure, this trend has accelerated in recent years. Knight, an alumnus, has advocated for both athletic prominence and increased privatisation of

204-541: A contemplative gaze (so-called " art for art's sake "). That is, the carvers were given an opportunity to "break free", in a sense, from the conventional aesthetic constraints of the village in the Papua New Guinea – to create art not possible in a Sepik River setting. Much of the success of the project resulted from the interplay of different yet not-necessarily compatible cross-cultural categories: Melanesia/West, traditional/modern, art/culture, and so forth. Thus

272-399: A general term for the people. But I doubt whether I am right in so doing." In Mindimbit village, he reported, local people referred to the entire linguistic group with the compound phrase Iatmul-Iambonai . The word Iambon (pronounced Yambon) referred then, and still does, to the uppermost Iatmul-speaking village along the river. Iatmul referred only to a single, small clan. The use of

340-455: A group is conferred at birth through the father, what anthropologists call patrilineal descent. Every village has its own cluster of groups; no two villages consist of exactly the same clans and lineages. Each group tells its own ancestral history of migrations through the region. These tales are encoded in long chains of complex polysyllabic names called tsagi that are known only to ritual specialists. When tsagi are chanted during rituals,

408-565: A large ethnic group of about 10,000 people inhabiting some two-dozen politically autonomous villages along the middle Sepik River in Papua New Guinea . The communities are roughly grouped according to dialect of the Iatmul language as well as sociocultural affinities. The Iatmul are best known for their art, men's houses, male initiation, elaborate totemic systems, and a famous ritual called naven , first studied by Gregory Bateson in

476-461: A majestic Sepik cult house. The garden is roughly organized into four zones. Near the entrance is a large, wooden eagle atop the shoulders of an ancestresses. This statue resembles the finials that often adorn Iatmul cult houses. Behind the eagle is a cluster of about a dozen, enormously tall wooden poles carved with exquisitely elaborate Iatmul and Kwoma motifs and patterns. A series of brightly painted Kwoma poles forms another aesthetic cluster, while

544-468: A regular basis. I spoke with him a couple of days ago. He was mostly talking about -- his view is the next step to upgrade the academic side of the university is to get the Legislature to go along with his plan, which is a little bit complicated, but it's to take a step -- I hate to use the word because it's an oversimplification -- but to take a step toward becoming more of a private university. I think

612-473: A series of mythic-historic migrations. Where they trod, land appeared. Along these routes, the ancestors created the world through naming. Literally, they named all the features of the world into existence—trees, mountains, stars, winds, rains, tributaries, villages, actions, virtually everything in the world. These names are called totemic names. They are claimed by specific patrilineal groups (clans, lineages, and branches). Totemic names are magical, and form

680-491: Is " The Pioneer " a statue of a bearded, buckskin-clad pioneer cast in bronze by sculptor Alexander Phimister Proctor in 1919. In 1932, Proctor's " Pioneer Mother " statue was dedicated in the Women's Memorial Quadrangle on the other side of Johnson Hall; the two statues are aligned so they can "see" one another through the large windows of the hall's main floor. Lawrence Hall is at the end of hardscape walkway, directly north of

748-881: Is a public research university in Eugene, Oregon , United States. Founded in 1876, the university is organized into nine colleges and schools and offers 420 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. The university also operates the Ballmer Institute for Children's Behavioral Health in Portland, Oregon ; the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology in Charleston, Oregon ; and Pine Mountain Observatory in Central Oregon . UO's 295-acre campus

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816-711: Is adjacent to the West University neighborhood and Pioneer Cemetery . Eugene is near many prominent geographic features such as the Willamette River , the Cascade Mountain Range , and the Pacific Ocean. Also, within a two-hour drive is the Portland metropolitan area. The campus is occupied by approximately 80 buildings. However, there are several ongoing construction projects, as well as plans to build new facilities. The campus

884-461: Is and is not mysterious, contemplative, quiet, and surreal. The logistics of the project were enormous. Mason raised $ 250,000 in individual donations. One could sponsor a fern for $ 250, a palm tree for $ 500, a bench for $ 750, and so forth. Large donations are acknowledged, like the artworks themselves, by name. Corporate donors included Bechtel Corporation, Chevron , and Airnuigini, the national airline of Papua New Guinea. Funds were also supplied by

952-515: Is no comparable category of "master carver" in the local lexicon or social structure. Ironically, then, the garden fostered the Western appreciation of non-Western art by substituting one western category for another. One of the great aesthetic joys of the sculpture garden is the visual contemplation of the ironies that arise from the cross-cultural dialogue and categorization of artworks in the contemporary, transnational or globalized world. A goal of

1020-520: Is situated along the Willamette River . Most academic programs follow the 10-week quarter system . The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and is a member of the Association of American Universities . Since July 2014, UO has been governed by its own board of trustees . UO student-athletes compete as the Oregon Ducks and are part of

1088-551: Is the home of the Oregon Bach Festival . Based on Ellis F. Lawrence's vision, many of the university's buildings are planned around several major quadrangles, many of which abut the 13th Avenue pedestrian mall. The university is known for being the site of a pioneering participatory planning experiment known as the Oregon Experiment , which is also the subject of a book of the same name that evolved into

1156-748: The Aeneid by Virgil , Book VI, line 727. The motto is now shared with the Eindhoven University of Technology , the Military Academy of the German Armed Forces , and the University of Warwick . The Oregon State Legislature established the university in 1872 and named it Oregon State University. The residents of Eugene raised $ 27,500 to buy eighteen acres of land at a cost of $ 2,500. The doors opened in 1876 with

1224-664: The Big Ten Conference in the NCAA Division I . With eighteen varsity teams, the Oregon Ducks are best known for their football team and track and field program. These two teams are even incorporated into the design of the school's "O" logo. In the summer of 2022, UO hosted the 2022 World Athletics Championships . It was the first time the event was held in the United States. The university has

1292-579: The National Endowment for the Humanities , Stanford University, and affluent Palo Alto families. The university allowed the garden a permanent site. Mason arranged for several dozen hardwood trees to be shipped to the campus from Asia. The ten woodcarvers were flown to California from the Sepik by way of Hong Kong , a journey that far exceeded any of their previous travels. Once they arrived,

1360-598: The Oregon Institute of Marine Biology in Charleston, Oregon. The University of Oregon is home to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and the Museum of Natural and Cultural History . The campus has been smoke and tobacco free since 2012. The oldest section of campus is in the northwest area of the current campus. The university's first building, University Hall , opened on October 16, 1876, when

1428-416: The 1930s. More recently, Iatmul are known as a location for tourists and adventure travellers, and a prominent role in the 1988 documentary film Cannibal Tours . In Iatmul legend, the original condition of the world was a primal sea. A wind stirred waves, and land surfaced. A large pit opened, and from it emerged the first generation of ancestral spirits and culture-heroes. The ancestors then embarked on

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1496-712: The 60s and 70s, fewer UO undergraduate students would go on to earn doctorates in the 80s, 90s, 2000s and 2010s. Prominent UO researchers of this era include Michael Posner , Frank Stahl , George Streisinger and Aaron Novick . . UO experienced state disinvestment in the 1980s during the tenure of president Paul Olum. Further state disinvestment occurred during the 1990s and during the Great Recession. Many programs have been scaled back or eliminated. In recent years UO's administration and Board of Trustees have approved hundreds of millions of dollars in construction projects. These facilities include Matthew Knight Arena,

1564-777: The Ford Alumni Center, the EMU renovation (student union building), and dormitories. This has occurred in tandem with state budget reductions, tuition increases, and increases in out-of-state enrollment. In 2016, the university removed the name of Frederic Stanley Dunn , head of the Classics department in the 1920s and 30s, from the dormitory Dunn Hall, because of his leading role in the Ku Klux Klan . Measure 5 established limits on property taxes in Oregon. This impacted

1632-547: The Hayward Field renovation project. Major publications including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have described the university as the "University of Nike". A book titled The University of Nike , written by Joshua Hunt, describes Nike and Phil Knight's influence on the university. As of 2022, 16.5% of UO's gross square footage is purpose-built for the university's sports programs. In 2010,

1700-523: The Iatmul artists, Teddy Balangu from Palimbei village, later was an artist-in-residence at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC (University of British Columbia). He also spent time at Alcheringa Gallery in Victoria, British Columbia . The "spirit of the project" framed the carvers as "artists" and not as exotic, anonymous specimens of primitive savagery and mystery. By labeling the men as "master carvers",

1768-639: The PAC's stated goal was to help facilitate an increase in autonomy at the University of Oregon. In reaction to a growing movement to establish an independent university board, the Oregon Legislature in 2013 passed SB 270, requiring local governing boards for the state's three largest institutions. In 2014, the University of Oregon became an independent public body governed by the Board of Trustees of

1836-697: The Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden on the fourth Sundays of the Month, 11:30 am, rain or shine; meet on the corner of Santa Teresa and Lomita Drive. "Created on-site at Stanford by artists from Papua New Guinea, the garden contains wood and stone carvings of people, animals, and magical beings that illustrate clan stories and creation myths." 37°25′30″N 122°10′25″W  /  37.42499°N 122.17355°W  / 37.42499; -122.17355 University of Oregon The University of Oregon ( UO , U of O or Oregon )

1904-456: The Robert D. Clark Honors College. The center of campus houses a mixture of academic buildings, an administration building, and student recreation buildings. Just to the east of Memorial Quad, facing 13th Avenue is Johnson Hall where offices for higher administration and trustee offices are found, including the offices of the university president. Directly across 13th Avenue, facing Johnson Hall

1972-568: The School of Education in 1910, the School of Architecture , the College of Business in 1914, the School of Law in 1915, the School of Journalism in 1916, and the School of Health and Physical Education in 1920. However, the University of Oregon lost its School of Engineering to Oregon Agricultural College , now known as Oregon State University . In 1917, a "three term" (quarter system) calendar

2040-498: The Stanford campus, The Thinker and The Gates of Hell . Both sculptures were carved by the two Iatmul men from Tambunum village. According to Simon, when he saw The Thinker in the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts on campus, he thought to himself, "I can do this - even better!" The Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden has its own Facebook page. The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts leads tours of

2108-611: The United States government and forcibly removed to the Coast Indian Reservation in Western Oregon. Today, Kalapuya descendants are primarily citizens of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. The university's motto, mens agitat molem translates from Latin as "mind moves mass", or poetically as "minds move mountains." The line comes from

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2176-424: The University of California at Eugene. That's the result of the current Legislature's policies. On March 31, 2012, a Political Action Committee called Oregonians For Higher Education Excellence was formed by Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle . As of May 23, 2012, the organization has raised over $ 320,000. Notable contributors to the PAC include, Phil Knight , Patrick Kilkenny, and Tim Boyle. According to Boyle,

2244-530: The University of Oregon . Proponents of local governing boards claimed that an independent board would give the university more autonomy and free it from inadequate state funding. This change of the board structure that eventually allowed the University of Oregon to leave the Pac12 and move to the Big10 without consideration for other state-funded universities in the state, i.e. Oregon State. Michael H. Schill became

2312-599: The University of Pittsburgh. In 1969, the UO was admitted into the Association of American Universities , along with Case Western Reserve University, the University of Maryland, and the University of Southern California. Graduate enrollment peaked during the 1978-79 academic year at 4,568. From 1970 to 1979, 2,614 doctoral degrees were awarded at UO cumulatively. From 1970 to 1979, 817 UO undergraduate students would go on to earn doctoral degrees at UO or another institution. Despite increases in total undergraduate enrollment since

2380-459: The William W. Knight Law Center. Knight did not make a major contribution to academics between 1996 and 2016. Knight is an athletic booster . He has contributed to, and managed, the construction of various athletic department facilities. Knight's involvement in said projects usually does not involve any university oversight, making them controversial. Knight also financed the majority of

2448-468: The basis for the religious system. According to the Iatmul, the primal pit is located near the Sawos-speaking village of Gaikarobi. After emerging from the pit, most ancestors travelled to the village of Shotmeri. From there, they dispersed throughout the region, eventually arriving in each village inhabited today. Each Iatmul community consists of clans, lineages, and "branches." Membership of

2516-408: The carvers were the toast of Palo Alto and multicultural Stanford. They dined at catered events in mansions and performed with African-American drummers outside dormitories. The carvers, working on a six-month educational visa, were given local donations by individuals, organizations, and businesses of food, medical care, clothing, transportation, recreation, materials, and a trip to Disneyland . One of

2584-431: The carvers, a public lecture series, Friday night barbeques, "story-time" with the artists, and outreach programs for school children, such as on-site bark painting. These interactive encounters are vital to the authenticity of the works. The sculptures that received the greatest amount of press and attention were two carvings in wood and pumice respectively that intentionally resemble Rodin sculptures displayed elsewhere on

2652-545: The carvings beautifully wind around the natural contours of the wood, a sense of three-dimensionality that was not traditionally incorporated into Sepik carving. One of the most brilliant works in the garden is a bare pole that contains only a hint of the sculpture it might have become. This work, titled "untitled,” expresses the processual aspects of the garden, and the unfinalizability and partiality of any interpretation. The garden wonderfully plays with themes of light and shadow, revelation and concealment, nature and culture. It

2720-399: The final display of their works, and in choose how and what works to display. Similarly, the garden foregrounds the individuality of the artists – identifying them by name on each piece, which rarely, if ever, occurs in museum displays of "traditional" tribal art. An essential part of the six-month process was a variety of collaborative programs: daily site tours, bamboo flute performances by

2788-524: The institution's track and field venue. The outside of the logo is said to represent Autzen Stadium , which is UO's football stadium. Phil Knight has financed hundreds of millions of dollars worth of construction projects on UO's campus going back to the late-1980s. Knight contributed to the renovation and expansion of the Main Library, now called the Knight Library , and the construction of

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2856-419: The intersection of 13th Avenue and University Street. It houses the School of Architecture and Allied Arts and is named after its first dean, Ellis F. Lawrence , in 1957. Allen Hall, opened in 1954, is adjacent to Lawrence Hall and houses the School of Journalism and Communication. Additionally, Erb Memorial Union and the recreation center are in this part of campus. Iatmul people The Iatmul are

2924-641: The intersection with Kincaid Street. Student recreation and union centers are toward the center of the campus, with residence halls on the east side. Sports facilities are grouped in the southern-central part of campus with the Autzen Stadium and PK Park complexes across the Willamette River. The university also owns and operates several satellite facilities, including a large facility in the White Stag Block of downtown Portland and

2992-549: The legal freedom to borrow money for large capital projects. Lariviere's proposal called for $ 800 million in state bonds and "an equal amount" of private gifts. The new funds would provide a large boost to UO's then modest endowment. In a 2010 interview, UO booster Phil Knight discussed the New Partnership. Knight explained that Lariviere's plan would allow UO greater control and possibly allow it to set its own tuition for in-state students. Oh, I talk to [Lariviere] on

3060-427: The men were brought to Stanford University on the basis of their Sepik River or Papua New Guinean identity; but once there, they were encouraged to think of themselves not as Papua New Guineans but as artists. Moreover, the artists were given considerable input into the project, thus intentionally dispersing "curatorial authority" such that, in contrast to most museums, the "tribal" artists are lent considerable "voice" in

3128-401: The name of "Oregon State University" and University Hall as its sole building. The first year of enrollment contained 155 students taught by five faculty members. The first graduating class was in 1878, graduating five students. In 1881, the university was nearly closed; it was $ 8,000 in debt before Henry Villard donated $ 7,000 to help pay it. In 1913 and 1932, there were proposals to merge

3196-405: The names evoke ancestral migrations and different places and features of the landscape created by the group's mythic ancestors during their long-ago travels. The word "Iatmul" was coined by Gregory Bateson during his initial period of anthropological research among the language group in the late 1920s. In his 1932 article in the journal Oceania , Bateson wrote that he "adopted the name Iatmul as

3264-409: The newly installed UO president, Richard Lariviere, proposed establishing a new governance and funding model for UO. The New Partnership, as it became known, sought to establish an independent board and large endowment to fund the university into the future. Funding had become too low and unpredictable for UO officials, and the new model would provide the university with a consistent stream of funding and

3332-414: The project positioned them in Western category defined by rare artistic genius, a category defined by the very terms of connoisseurship that once marginalized Melanesian art as something less refined than Western masterpieces or so-called " high art ". This way, visitors approached the carvers and their works not as primitives and crafts but as authentic artists and art. However, in Iatmul society, there

3400-425: The project was not to recreate a traditional Melanesian setting but, as Mason himself reported, to create "an opportunity to experiment with and reinterpret New Guinea aesthetic perspectives within the new context of a Western public art space." The carvers, it was hoped, would blend traditional, Sepik River themes with the ideals of Western modern art such as individualistic expression and the creation of art solely for

3468-485: The recent influx in private gifts given by mega-donors, as of 2020, UO's state subsidy per resident student is one of the lowest in both the Association of American Universities and Pac-12 Conference. The school's "O" logo was officially adopted by the university as a whole in 2002. Designed by Nike , it was first adopted by the athletic program in late-1998. The inside of the logo is said to depict Hayward Field ,

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3536-536: The south side, and the Lillis Business Complex on the north. It is flanked on the west by the tallest building on campus, Prince Lucien Campbell Hall , also known as "PLC", Condon Hall on the west, housing the Geography department, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the east, which was remodeled and reopened on January 23, 2005. Also adjacent to Memorial Quad is Chapman Hall, which houses

3604-428: The state budget, and led to budget and programmatic cuts at UO starting the 1990s. The College of Human Performance and Development was closed. Furthermore, many of the school's primary and secondary teacher training programs were eliminated. By 1997, more than 20 other programs were closed or significantly reduced in size. UO has initiated three capital campaigns in the last 30 years. The first campaign of this era

3672-415: The state provides about 7 percent of the funding now, so basically it is a private university that's hamstrung by public policy ... He's hamstrung in the sense he can't charge more tuition than the Legislature will let him do for in-state kids. So he loses money on every state kid that enrolls in the University of Oregon and he makes money on every kid that comes from out of state. So, increasingly, it's become

3740-480: The third area of the garden consists of large sculptures in pumice, an entirely new medium for the carvers since stone is rare in the Sepik flood plain. At night, the objects are aglow from ground-level spot lights. The stone sculptures largely represent Sepik mythological creatures modeled after Western sculptures found elsewhere on the Stanford campus. The carved poles subtly blend traditional and modem motifs so that, for example, ancestresses wear grass skirts. Many of

3808-419: The time. With contributions exceeding $ 100 million from benefactors such as Phil Knight and Lorry I. Lokey , the campaign goal was exceeded by over $ 253 million. In the fall of 2014, the institution announced that it would attempt to raise $ 2 billion from donors. In the fall of 2018, the campaign revised its goal to $ 3 billion. Substantial gifts were donated by Phil Knight and his wife. In October 2016, it

3876-461: The university had an enrollment of 177 students. It was known as "the building" before being named after Judge Matthew Deady in 1893. In June 2020, Deady's name was removed from the building in and it was temporarily renamed University Hall. The second building on campus is known as Villard Hall and is home to the Theater Arts and Comparative Literature Departments. Completed in 1886, the hall

3944-422: The university with what is now Oregon State University . Both proposals were defeated. During Prince Lucien Campbell's tenure as president from 1902 to 1925, the university experienced tremendous growth. The budget, enrollment, facilities, and faculty members all grew several times its amount prior to his presidency. Numerous schools were also established during his tenure, including the School of Music in 1902,

4012-441: The university's president in the summer of 2015. In June 2015, UO's endowment surpassed the $ 700 million mark. In 2022, Schill became president at Northwestern University. Karl Scholz has been president since July 1, 2023. The campus is spread over 295 acres (119 ha) and includes eighty buildings . Additionally, the campus is an arboretum consisting of 500 species of trees. In total there are over 3,000 trees on campus. It

4080-531: The university, and has donated over $ 1 billion to UO since the late-1980s, much of it going towards athletics. The school's "O" logo was designed by Nike in 1998 and sports facility projects on campus typically involve both Knight and Nike. The University of Oregon is located on Kalapuya ilihi, the traditional indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people. Following treaties between 1851 and 1855, Kalapuya people were dispossessed of their indigenous homeland by

4148-443: The well known book A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander . The project's two major principles are buildings should be designed, in part, by the people who will use them with the help of an "architect facilitator", and construction should occur over many small projects as opposed to a few large ones. Although academic buildings are spread throughout the campus, most are along East 13th Avenue, with heavy pedestrian traffic at

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4216-551: The word Iatmul to signify the entire group was Bateson's convention, and it thereafter gained anthropological and wider currency. However, the term is rarely used by Iatmul speakers. In fact, Iatmul speakers rarely have reason to refer to the entire language group. The Iatmul are not a centralized tribe. They never act politically, socially, or economically as a single unit. Villages are autonomous. People tend to self-identify not as Iatmul or, as they sometimes say, Iatmoi, but in terms of their clan, lineage, village, or sometimes just

4284-731: Was adopted by the university faculty as a war-time measure. This academic calendar has remained ever since then. However, it is now referred to as the Quarter System. The Zorn-MacPherson Bill in 1932 proposed the University of Oregon and Oregon State College (now "University") merge. The bill lost in a landslide vote of over 6 to 1. The University of Oregon Medical School was founded in 1887 in Portland and merged with Willamette University 's program in 1913. However, in 1974 it became an independent institution known as Oregon Health Sciences University . The Institute of Molecular Biology

4352-548: Was announced Phil Knight and his wife Penny will contribute $ 500 million to establish the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact. At the time it was the largest donation to a public research university. Knight gave an additional $ 500 million to the Knight Campus in 2021. In 2022, Steve Ballmer made a large gift of $ 425 million to fund a new institute for children's behavioral health . Despite

4420-429: Was assisted by one of his students, Kora Korawali. The landscaping evokes the Sepik environment – river flanked by embankments - as well as the central plaza in Sepik villages, in front of an all-male cult house or men’s house , which are used for the staging of rituals. The entrance to the garden is an open space, like the Sepik flood plain. But visitors quickly stroll into a forest of sculptures and trees reminiscent of

4488-489: Was established at the university in 1959. UO served as the filming location for the 1978 cult classic National Lampoon's Animal House . The 60s and 70s were somewhat of a golden age for the university. In 1964, the university ranked 25th nationally in National Science Foundation basic research grants, ahead of the University of Rochester, Northwestern University, the University of Colorado and

4556-473: Was launched with a goal of $ 150 million. It ended up raising a total of $ 255.3 million between 1992 and 1998. With financial support from the state dwindling from 40% to 13% of the university budget, in January 2001, University President Dave Frohnmayer began Campaign Oregon with the goal of raising $ 600 million by December 2008, the most ambitious philanthropic fundraising campaign in the state's history at

4624-478: Was named after railroad magnate Henry Villard , who provided financial aid to the university in 1881. Before its naming, it was known as "the new building." Both University and Villard Halls were designated National Historic Landmarks in 1977. Just south of Old Campus is the Memorial Quad, which runs north and south along Kincaid Street, capped at both ends by the main campus library, Knight Library , on

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