Eugene Dial Quotations

We're hoping that people realize it's an attempt to try to have a healthy campus environment while respecting the interests and needs of those who do smoke. At this point it's a reasonable compromise, but hopefully no additional action will be needed if everybody's reasonable about it.

Most smokers I talk to don't want to be in a situation where they're bothering someone else.

I would characterize myself as a health and safety lover. My love for animals is because if you don't properly care for and manage the pet population, you can have some serious health consequences for people.

We have some good practices in place on campus, too. There's good police work on-campus and in the community.

We went out and looked at shelters all across the southern part of the state, and then we got on the Internet and did a lot of research. This has taught me how you operate a shelter and how you build it, things like that.

There would be a different set of challenges.

The small town atmosphere helps contribute to people not being here who don't belong. The community is also concerned about each and every individual. It's the standard the community sets.

The big thing is that the pet population is something that people can do something about. Humans have a choice to do the decent and humane thing. We can walk away from it and ignore it, but I have decided to not walk away from it.

You don't want to turn them back loose on the street, but you don't want them to spend months and months or years and years in a shelter. You are going to have situations when you are going to have to put an animal down.

All four groups came back and said they understood the need to eliminate smoking, but there had to be some compromise. There are a lot of people on campus who might have felt differently.