UO journalism dean apologizes for assignments

0 Comments | Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), June, 2004

Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard

The dean of the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication apologized and accepted "full responsibility" Monday for a workshop where students were assigned such unorthodox exercises as running naked in public and standing up to object at a wedding.

In a statement posted on the school's Web site, Dean Tim Gleason also said the school's faculty would work on policies to ensure that students are not given "any assignments that might lead them to actions inconsistent with the ethics and vision of the school."

An advertising workshop conducted last month for the school by Dan Wieden, a principal in the prestigious Portland advertising firm Wieden Kennedy, drew fire after some participants were...