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Posts published in May 2018

Dana Altman & Kevin Reed’s bête noire Kenny Jacoby wins Scripps Howard fellowship, will spend year reporting from DC

UO Daily Emerald reporter Kenny Jacoby’s work for the Daily Emerald and SI on various Duck sports scandals is documented here. In 2016, as reported in the Emerald, efforts by the Duck Athletic Department to limit student-athletes’ access to the press in potential violation of UO policies on academic freedom…

Shaun Harper: Institutional Considerations on Expression, Rights, and Race

Harper has done work on a variety of topics on race and higher education, including athletics. Scholar page here, more on talk here. This talk was organized by the English Dept’s Avinnash Tiwari. Shaun Harper – UO African American Workshop and Lecture Series Monday, May 14 Public Lecture: Institutional Considerations on Expression,…

Senate to meet Wed on learning, multicultural, teaching, diff tuition

SENATE MEETING AGENDA – MAY 9, 2018 DRAFT Location: EMU 145 & 146 (Crater Lake Rooms) 3:00 – 5:00 P.M. 3:00 P.M.   Call to Order Introductory Remarks; Senate President Chris Sinclair Update from Johnson Hall 3:20 P.M. Approval of Minutes, April 25, 2018 3:35 P.M.   Business Vote: US17/18-17: Learning Goals for Methods…

Today: Dana Altman to introduce Harry Edwards at sports and free speech event

4PM today at the Alumni Center. The panelists will include former journalism dean and noted transparency opponent Tim Gleason – currently making ~$100K a year off the unpaid labor of UO’s student-athletes as UO’s NCAA “Faculty” Athletics Representative – and Prof Curtis Austin (History). Austin was the most interesting speaker…

Library committee starts contest for art to counter insipid, racist mission statement

5/7/2018 update: Because the best response to speech you hate is more speech. The Daily Emerald has the story here. The website for the contest is here: The University of Oregon Libraries invites UO students to participate in a juried art exhibition that will showcase creative expressions of the culture…

Eager frat boys jump on First Amendment right to make fools of themselves

I’m thinking this is not quite what Pres Schill had in mind when he spent ~$100K on lectures to promote free speech. The Daily Emerald’s Ryan Nguyen and Michael Tobin have the report here: The University of Oregon Phi Kappa Psi chapter has been temporarily suspended after a defamatory document printed with the fraternity’s name…

VP for Communication Kyle Henley still uncommunicative on “brand awareness” contract

Latest: From: [email protected] Subject: Public Records Request 2018-PRR-370 Date: May 8, 2018 at 4:25:54 PM PDT To: [email protected] 05/08/2018 Dear Mr. Harbaugh: Records responsive to your request, made 5/2/2018, for “copies of any proposals submitted to RFQ for Brand Awareness Study…” are exempt under 192.355(9), as an award has not…