Last updated on 09/04/2015
Ryan Thorburn has the story in the RG, here. No word on how much the gift letter requirements will cost UO’s academic side. (But a correction to note below – Board Secretary Angela Wilhelms has posted the gift agreement at http://trustees.uoregon.edu/sites/trustees1.uoregon.edu/files/ffc_notice_agenda_materials_091015_-_for_posting.pdf )
The last time this happened the OUS Board demanded considerable documentation from UO and UO Foundation CEO Paul Weinhold, which they then made public. Bill Graves wrote an excellent story for the Oregonian about it, here. Read it all. One snippet:
But Phit’s gift does not come without costs. The license agreement requires the university to employ a facilities manager, museum curator, museum receptionist, food service administrator and a senior administrative assistant for football operations — all full time for at least six years.
The new UO Board of Trustees will take up this newest gift at their Sept 10-11 meetings. Their docket is considerably less transparent than what the old OUS Board made public.
I hope the new UO President puts a stop to the shameful union busting practice of “selling” the land to Uncle Phil so he can build whatever he wants with non-union labor. The whole thing is simply a scam to avoid labor laws for state construction projects.
A scam to avoid labor laws? Looks to me more like a desperate legacy plea to read his name in sports lights yet again.
What horseshit.
It also gets around any semblance of campus planning, allowing a private donor to determine design without considering campus values or aesthetics — witness the off-key, naked glass cube of the Jaqua Center. Another triumph of private interest over public good. Enough already.
This is just gross. We got an independent BoT for this–more of the same?!