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- Pres Schill celebrates tuition increase... (4)
- Darby Yep, Dog, it should be illegal. It **IS** shameful. And, frankly, it is embarrassing. – Tuesday
- Dog The budget "crises" only exists on paper in that we have a budget "model" that hardwires certain expenses to student... – Sunday
- New Year Cat So we actually have NO budget crisis. Otherwise we would not do this, right? – Sunday
- honest Uncle Bernie Does anyone know how the athletic endowment is doing? You know, including the Knight legacy fund? Are they spending it... – Saturday
- School of Music and Dance... (41)
- JH Expat 12 OA’s and 6 classified Hardly 12 million in cuts as reported – Tuesday
- Entrenched How is someone supposed to comment when you’re under a gag order and your job is threatened? Anyone with a... – Tuesday
- uomatters Dear Dog and Duck - Please keep comments focused on our local scandals. – Monday
- Deplorable Duck Probably better not to bring up the subject of competence, lest thoughts drift to Trump's opponent, and then to unanswerable... – Monday
- Dog only in the context of whether Godel's incompleteness theorem is the fundamental limitation in our desire to create AI robot's... – Monday
- uomatters Thanks, how about starting a Godel thread? – Monday
- Dog come on man, this blog is still incredibly important, look how much traffic results when anything related to OBF is... – Monday
- Amy Adams "Katharine" - the more you comment, the more you appear to be a specific stakeholder in this whole affair, or... – Monday
- Who is going to make... (5)
- Darby You Wrote: Other Planner: UO is creating “An Olympic style athletic village for this. [That’s explains why we’re building new... – Tuesday
- uomatters $700 a day for your whole house? The Eugene Homeowners Cartel Union has set the minimum at $300 per room... – Tuesday
- thedude If you rent your house for less than 14 days, the rent is not taxable income. We already have an... – Monday
- uomatters Hmm, I wonder if Seb Coe will swap me straight across for his flat in London - no need to... – Monday
- thedude I am when I Airbnb my house. – Monday
- Provost could solve budget crisis... (6)
- hippo I’d reminded of the old saw of the referee report that read “this paper fills a much needed gap in... – Monday
- thedude I bid $10. – Monday
- Fishwrapper And it's only Monday. This does not bode well for the rest of the week... – Monday
- uomatters Comment of the week – Monday
- Dog and that money will help seed the much needed position of Associate Vice President for Statues – Monday
- Fishwrapper My concern is that someone in JH will see this and assume they've got the $1.435M already in the bank.... – Monday
- University hid reserves from legislature... (6)
- Tim Not sure what this has to do with anything but ok. – Friday
- charlie I wonder if any of those construction contracts were no bid. And who were the auditors or the audit mechanism... – Friday
- honest Uncle Bernie I was expecting to read a scandalous report about UO, not Cal State. How about telling us about the new... – Friday
- Crackpot Ask SOU...I believe he took 10k from their union and told them, among other things, that funds from the legislature... – Thursday
- uomatters Really! I've always found his reports much more credible than our VPFA's. So give us some specifics, please. – Thursday
- Crackpot Hiding money is terrible. That being said Bunsis is all too happy to take faculty unions' money to write reports... – Thursday
- Pres Schill closes closed search,... (65)
- Deplorable Duck "KC does not seem like a fun place, however." Do tell! – Thursday
- Anon Unless I read the salary document incorrectly, he will return to the faculty ranks making $376K/yr. I think having fun... – Thursday
- Dog molding the KC could have been FUN it was not ... – Thursday
- honest Uncle Bernie If he thought he was coming here to have FUN while making nearly $500K, he showed poor judgment. – Thursday
- Deplorable Duck Compensation notwithstanding, all of the top admin jobs look incredibly unrewarding to me. I don't understand why anyone signs up... – Wednesday
- uomatters If we're going to get nastalgic, last I looked Lorraine Davis was still on the payroll - ~$75K from the... – Wednesday
- ODA And with all that why would she come out our way? – Wednesday
- UO is in a budget... (12)
- Deplorable Duck I'm not sure. It could be incompetence. It could be that someone higher up simply dislikes the guy. It could... – Thursday
- CSN Not even all Fortune 500 companies make decisions from a pure NPV context. How can you be so sure about... – Thursday
- Deplorable Duck Not seeing the circular part. Yes, administrative incompetence is always a possibility. But aside from that, I'm inclined to think... – Wednesday
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While expected by many, it is certainly interesting timing given all that’s going on. Or, maybe what’s going on doesn’t really matter to Knight as much anymore.
Love this quote by Parker:
“Phil founded Nike to serve athletes.”
My sides ache from laughing.