[RWebb]

re the entire "country club" U of O attitude

I don't really see that. Most faculty I know here think it is a pretty podunk place. I don't know too many students - the one I do know don't seem to have that attitude.

UO IS the state's lead university. That's just the way these things work -- except for states that have just one university, or where the main univ. is the Ag. school too.