Wilsonville building from InFocus, rumors of the institution's plans to convert it into a "flagship tech-focused" campus spread among the staff. A picture of a duck pushing an owl out from a building, presumed to be the Wilsonville Campus, was found in the student commons and later removed.
===== Rivalry with Caltech =====
Since around mid-2012, there has been rivalry between Oregon Tech and Caltech after Oregon Tech rebranded from its stylized OIT logo and focused on being the number one institute of technology on the West Coast.
On September 18, 2014, students handed out shirts in the first floor commons to freshmen that had "Caltack on Titan" on the front and the image of Caltech's beaver mascot running in fear, while Oregon's Hootie the owl mascot plays an electric guitar.
On December 10, 2015, a cardboard cut-out of the Big Bang theory's Sheldon Cooper with thumbs-up and a speech-bubble that said, "Oregon Tech. It's above California Tech. That's why I moved!", placed in the stairway leading to Rockwell …