OREGON
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Many
Oregon
colleges
to require
COVID-19
boosters
By MEERAH POWELL
Oregon Public Broadcasting
PORTLAND — The
University of Portland
announced Tuesday, Jan.
4, that it will require
COVID-19 booster shots for
students, staff and faculty.
The Portland univer-
sity joins other schools
that have made the shift to
requiring boosters in the
past few weeks including
the University of Oregon,
Oregon State Univer-
sity and Southern Oregon
University.
Other private institutions
such as Willamette Univer-
sity, Lewis & Clark College
and Pacifi c University have
booster requirements.
Along with the booster
requirement, the Univer-
sity of Portland will also
start the fi rst week of its
new term online as an addi-
tional precaution against
COVID-19 spread.
Eastern Oregon Univer-
sity offi cials have not insti-
tuted COVID-19 booster
shot requirements.
“Our current vaccina-
tion requirement does not
include boosters,” Tim
Seydel, EOU’s vice presi-
dent for university advance-
ment, said Tuesday, Jan. 4.
“We are evaluating the use
of boosters and reviewing
recommendations from
the CDC, OHA and public
health offi cials.”
The school instituted
a vaccination mandate in
October that requires all
of EOU’s on-campus staff
and students to be fully
vaccinated for COVID-19
or to have an approved
exemption.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 2022
Kristof: Intent should dictate residency ruling
with Clatsop County and
never made an affi rma-
tive decision to change his
domicile elsewhere. Con-
tinuous physical presence
(within the district) is not
required.”
Myers did not appeal
the ruling.
“Thus, today, the
Marion County Cir-
cuit Court decision is the
only judicial decision to
address the signifi cance of
registration and voting in
evaluating an Oregon can-
didate’s residency. That
decision squarely resolves
the issue in favor of Mr.
Kristof’s position,” the
letter reads.
In their letter, Isaak
and Carp also said that
residency requirements
are historically rooted
in racism, especially in
Oregon: “They applied
originally both to voting
and serving in elected
Governor hopeful
has been voting
in New York
By JIM REDDEN
Oregon Capital Bureau
offi ce and were adopted by
powerful white elites to
keep themselves in power
and to exclude from polit-
ical participation people
of color, ‘foreigners,’
and other disempowered
newcomers.”
Also included in the
letter was an indepen-
dent opinion from retired
Oregon Supreme Court
Justice R. William Riggs
that Kristof is qualifi ed to
run for governor.
Oregon Secretary of
State Shemia Fagan must
now decide whether to
keep Kristof’s name off
the May 17 primary elec-
tion ballot. If she does,
Kristof’s lawyers likely
will fi le a legal challenge,
just as Wyatt did 47 years
ago.
Kristof already has
raised more than $2.5 mil-
lion from more than 5,500
donors.
PORTLAND — Law-
yers for former New
York Times columnist
Nick Kristof have sub-
mitted a 15-page letter to
the Oregon Secretary of
State’s Offi ce asserting
Kristof is legally qualifi ed
to run for governor this
year.
Kristyna Wentz-Graff /Oregon Public Broadcasting, File
The offi ce, which regu-
Nick Kristof speaks with the media, answering questions about his
lates elections in the state,
campaign for Oregon governor, on Oct. 27, 2021, at the First Presby-
is questioning Kristof’s
qualifi cations, in large part terian Church of Portland.
because he registered to
vote in New York while
you voted in New York
beginning in 1982.
working at the Times.
State as recently as 2020.”
According to the letter,
The Oregon Constitution
In their response, Isaak
there has been only one
requires that candidates for and Carp noted that many
Oregon court case that
governor be a resident of
people have multiple res-
considered the question
the state for at least three
idences, sometimes in
of whether voter registra-
years before their election, diff erent states, but that
tion determines residency.
or no later than November
Kristof has always con-
It took place in 1974 after
An Independent
2019 in Kristof’s case.
sidered Oregon his home,
former Oregon Secre-
Insurance Agency
“Mr. Kristof is an
even when going to col-
tary of State Clay Myers
Oregon resident and has
lege or working out of
ruled then-Clatsop County
been for his entire adult
state. Among other things, state Rep. Bill Wyatt off
life,” said the letter from
the letter said Kristof has
the ballot because he had
Misha Isaak and Jeremy
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