By Payton Bruni

Eugene, Oregon – When University of Oregon professors Marc Schlossberg and Dyana Mason chose the projects their students would work on with the city of La Pine, they wanted to prioritize not their own interests or the students’ interests, but the community’s. “Everything we do is to add value to the community; that is our starting point,” said Schlossberg. “If anything we do is totally counter to a community’s desire, well, that’s a waste of everyone’s time.”