7/28/2011: UO General Counsel Randy Geller has no problem signing his name to a $150,000 contract appropriating state funds to hire “The Cleaner” to “investigate” UO’s NCAA compliance: But ask him whether the athletic department or the academic side is going to pay that bill? Now he’s counting pennies –…
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7/27/2011: George Schroeder of the RG calls for more of it, regarding the NCAA investigation. The Maryland Board of Regents wants more too, after they discover their athletic department is a few million in the red – about as much as Oregon would be if not for the costs Mullens…
7/26/2011: Looks like Howard Slusher’s plan to divorce Duck football from the NCAA is gaining more traction. Sports Illustrated breaks the story. The key seems to be to make football independent, while leaving the NCAA with basketball and the non-revenue sports. The model for this is college rodeo. Many fine…
7/25/2011: He was a former NFL football star, suffering from football induced brain injuries, aged 50. He shot himself, in the heart, and asked that his brain be used for research that might help other players. Sort of puts Chip Kelly’s troubles in perspective. Goes along with a very well…
7/25/2011: Word from the SEIU union is that the state DAS has agreed on a contract, but the OUS locals are still negotiating with Chancellor Pernsteiner’s bargaining team on the OUS details. Staff making $25,000 a year will now have to pay 5% of their health insurance. The furloughs continue.…
7/25/2011: I’ve written before about the perverse “Directors Cup” incentives in the contract UO wrote for AD Rob Mullens last year. This is an NCAA competition between athletic directors for the most successful overall athletic program. UO ranked 30th, and now the bill is due. I can see why Mr.…
7/24/2011: This well researched ODE article by Thomas Kyle-Milward brings back a few memories. But these days UO Matters seldom goes bottoms up, except for the occasional bag of bagels, and then only if it’s on the top. Back problems. Of course, I do check the Johnson Hall paper recycling…
7/24/2011: Ron Mullens and his Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director for Finance and Administration Jamie Moffit brag about “zero-based budgeting” for the athletic department in today’s George Schroeder piece. Where did I last hear about zero-based budgeting? Oh, yeah, right. Jimmy Carter. Get real. The AD budget has grown 50%…
update: Thompson reports the state has reached a deal with SEIU, the UO staff union. 7/23/2011: Dennis Thompson of the SJ runs an excellent one. Today there is an angry debate between SEIU wokers on whether it is right for higher income worker to pay more for health insurance.
7/23/2011: Thanks to a commenter for the link to the Kennedy mansion purchase, in the WaPo. Nice, but it’s not quite President Bongo’s pied-a-terre in Paris. The Gabon / Oregon proposal is here. (Sorry, I got this last week from Ms Denecke – and then forgot to post it.) “Twin…
7/22/2011: Apparently it’s his willingness to take on a player with a domestic violence conviction and an urgent need to find a school on the quarter system that will not ask him to red-shirt for a year while working on his anger management issues. Let’s play some basketball! It’s not…
7/22/1011: Or at least he emailed the UO Foundation board, and other boosters. Ron Bellamy has the story: “The firm has been charged with making an independent assessment of the football program’s use of outside recruiting services,” Mullens wrote. “In addition, they have been asked to provide the University with…
7/22/2011: That’s the question a former Board of Regents president is asking, in Iowa: All university revenue should come into one pot, and every department should have to justify its spending. The University of Iowa takes in $66 million in athletic revenue, but that doesn’t mean the department should have…
7/22/2011: From Dennis Thompson’s excellent coverage in the SJ: -Participants in the HEM will have to undergo health screenings to detect potential chronic diseases. In the first year, the screening will involve a simple self-reported waist measurement. Screenings in future years could involve blood work, blood pressure testing and other…
The 2009 IRS 990 form showing the 8 JSTOR execs making over $250,000 each, is here. The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge from lessig on Vimeo.