You know this is a strange ongoing issue with Oregon leaders...they want a full service campus in central Oregon yet don't want to pay for that service. Of course there are many reasons why this system is broken; one is the morphing of the structure of higher education in Oregon. The rational system would a University of Oregon and a State University system. Each would have their leaders a provost and their charges. OS Universities serving the state through regional units and university extension. U of O combining the Eugene and OHSU campuses. Look north or south and we have see leadership and strong distinctions and control. In this way Cascades, Eastern, Southern and Western would be an articulate vision meeting regional and statewide needs...PSU could argue with this but they should have been part of either group a long time ago. So instead we have a weak, competitive system without leadership. It's sad that the leaders in Salem were given thus excuse due to the vacuum of vision.