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Professor Proctor’s ‘ecopocalypse’ research featured in USA Today column

 Jim Proctor, professor and chair of environmental studies, is featured in a USA Today column on environmentalist Americans’ fear of ecological collapse and the problems with end-times fixations. Religion and public life columnist Tom Krattenmaker questions the effectiveness of this dystopia concept and other fear-based strategies designed to motivate people to behave in a certain manner.

Proctor and a research team have been talking with Oregonians and surveying the general population about their experiences with nature and pursuit of perfecting the co-existence between humans and the environment.

“‘You find that people working for a utopian future have tremendous fear about things turning out differently,’” Proctor explains in the column. ‘Utopias are often framed against a dystopian nightmare,’ he adds, producing a kind of all-or-nothing fixation on perfection and its perfect opposite.”

Proctor’s project was also the focus of a recent article in The Oregonian, detailing the survey and citing some of its initial results.

USA Today  ‘The End’ as a weapon

The Oregonian Shaping dreams—and nightmares—about natural world

15 December 2008

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Krattenmaker discusses the role of faith at secular colleges

Tom Krattenmaker, associate vice president for public affairs and communications, believes that the successful showing of “Lord, Save Us From Your Followers,” a documentary exploring the collision of faith and culture in America, challenged the notion that secular college campuses are closed off to discussions of faith: “The conventional wisdom, as it turns out, is not quite right,” he writes. Read more here.

USA Today (Portland, Ore.) Is God silenced on college campuses?

31 March 2008

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Senior concludes debate career with international challenge

Senior Eric Atcheson is one of three students nationwide who will represent the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA) in an annual U.S./Irish debate. Coached by Professor of Communication Steve Hunt, Atcheson and his Lewis & Clark teammate, junior Scott Cheesewright, are ranked 10th nationally. Listen to a conversation with Atcheson here.

25 March 2008

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Tom Krattenmaker calls for end of anti-Muslim rhetoric

Tom Krattenmaker, associate vice president for public affairs and communications and professional writer, offers regular commentary on religion and public life for USA Today and The Oregonian. In his latest op-ed, Krattenmaker points to anti-Muslim rhetoric as not only demeaning to Muslims but destructive to U.S. political discourse.

The Oregonian (Portland, Ore.): Malice for Muslims

6 January 2008

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