Enough with the inferiority complex already, UO. No one at the UO is served by dwelling on these things they can never control. The UO doesn't and won't ever have an engineering or medical school (and doesn't need them). It can't compete with universities such as Stanford, Michigan or UCLA in terms of resources because they have a much longer history of world-class research and scholarship and a much larger and wealthier donor base. 

The UO should just focus on its mission, as the flagship public university of Oregon. It isn't the flagship state university of California, Washington, Michigan, Ohio, or Florida or any other state. It should focus on Oregon, its residents, its communities. Focus on what it can control, such as sound administrative oversight, effective and efficient fiscal management, robust faculty research and instructional quality, and providing the best support it can to staff and students. Just quit being Chicken Little; it's a pointless waste of everyone's time.