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Posted on 09/15/2025 10:49:19 AM PDT by Twotone
In the fall of 2015, a student government colleague hustled me into a private room in the University of Oregon library to meet a visitor I “had to meet” before his flight out of Eugene. Tall, skinny, and with a grin from ear to ear, Charlie was in Eugene to flip our student government conservative. At a place like Oregon, just scraping together a slate of non-liberals was a stretch. But Charlie was ambitious and wanted to use Oregon as a trial run for flipping student governments at deeply progressive universities across the country.
I was involved in student government, ran recruitment for the Interfraternity Council, and once liked Mitt Romney’s Facebook page. At Oregon, that was enough to make me a recruit.
I told him I was a sophomore without the résumé or reputation to co-lead a student government slate. He told me to stop disqualifying myself, that I could lead and must try. He treated responsibility as something to be grabbed, not given.
Charlie scraped together enough funds to seed a slate and then stayed with us for weeks, often on the floor with a notepad, building the race from scratch. He cut our platform down to what students actually lived every day: bring Uber back to Eugene and support Greek life. We probably did not have the power to bring Uber back after a local ordinance banning it, but he was deeply strategic and understood the zeitgeist, even then. He started with what people worried about: getting home safe after a night out and having a sense of belonging on campus.
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This inadvertently got posted twice. Can you delete?
What he said instead changed my life: “It’s important that you be Jewish.”
Well, the other one doesn’t leave a way for FReepers to comment, so that should be the one to be deleted.
I didn’t notice that. I got an error message when I tried to post the first one, so I assumed it didn’t post. And then hit post again & realized both were there.
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Charlie sounds like he was a one in a million personality. One in ten million. What a loss!
HOW FORTUNATE A PERSON THIS GUY WAS-—AND IS.
it’s been apparent to me that Charlie had a very deep and integrated understanding of Holy Scripture. amazing young man.
Christianity and Judaism are intimately intertwined. They are both ethical belief systems with a common genesis.
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