7/11/2011: Bob Wolfe and Barry Kast have the best Laffer curve argument ever. I’d use this in class – if I were an economics professor.
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7/11/2011: Richard Kahlenberg has a good roundup of recent events, at the Chronicle, followed by this interpretation: Historically, the “diversity rationale” for affirmative action was an important strategic advance for supporters of the policy. The original “remedial rationale”—that racial preferences were necessary to correct for a history of egregious discrimination—suffered…
7/10/2011: Presumably Ms Funk has an innocent explanation, which may or may not be revealed when they put out their 2010-2011 annual report. Or maybe they blew all the donor money on their salaries, the Duck Athletic Fund, Bellotti’s payoff, and their new palace next to Matt Court. (click…
7/10/2011: From Dennis Thompson in the Statesman Journal: (My interpretations, not his.) A) Unions squashed it: “The reality is there will be no significant PERS reform as long as public-employee unions have such extreme power in the Oregon Capitol,” said Rep. Dennis Richardson, R-Central Point, one of the strongest voices…
7/9/2011: John Canzano (left) tries to explain why it’s OK for Oregon to pay Chip Kelly $3.5 million, but not OK for Oregon to pay Willie Lyles $25,000. I’m no psychologist, but I think they call the micro-expression of the guy on the right “WTF?”
7/9/2011: It didn’t take long for the UO administration to decide that Melinda Grier would be the scapegoat for Frohnmayer’s failure to get a written contract for Mike Bellotti. And she was an excellent choice, in so many ways. But now Ms Grier is gone and the search for someone…
7/9/2011: Not the legal costs of the NCAA investigations – Randy Geller is still refusing to disclose that info to the faculty. But they will pay for rerouting the utilities for the new Football museum and complex. From Greg Bolt in the RG: The $227 million Knight Arena has put…
7/8/2011: This is hilarious – from Ken Goe in the Oregonian. For years the UO Foundation has been little more than a money laundering operation for the Duck Athletic Fund. And all of a sudden the Chairman of the Board of Trustees is “concerned”? … So, trustees were caught flat-footed…
7/8/2011: From Bill Graves in the Oregonian. Yes, Lariviere showed for the OUS meeting – video here. The OUS docket for the meeting is here. 9% cut in state support for UO. Graves doesn’t mention what will happen to OUS Chancellor Dr. Pernsteiner’s croissant budget or maid service. I’ve got…
7/8/2011: This is the revenue and expenditure report the UO athletic department files with the NCAA every Feb. You’d think the the athletic department’s Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director for Finance and Administration Jamie Moffitt would just post these on the web, but no. It took a month, a meeting with…
7/11/2011 Update: These two Daily Emerald stories, and especially the comments, are worth reading. Two sides to every story. Everyone agrees Dean Bullis botched it though. 7/8/2011: From Lyzi Diamond in the Oregon Commentator: The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has launched an investigation into the termination of…
A: Even a casual NCAA investigation is going to dig up worse stuff than Willie Lyles and an iffy car rental. B: If the NCAA comes down on the Ducks, Phil Knight and Howard Slusher are going to pursue the souls of those who make that call all the way…
7/8/2011: From the NBER‘s analysis of the “Oregon Health Plan” he started – I think in his first term: In 2008, a group of uninsured low-income adults in Oregon was selected by lottery to be given the chance to apply for Medicaid. This lottery provides a unique opportunity to gauge…
7/7/2011: I’ve been getting calls from reporters expecting me to give them a quote about how outraged the UO faculty are about the recent athletic scandals. As may be apparent to careful readers, I do have a bit of a beef about the jock box subsidy, the lies about the…
7/7/2011: The RG has a good editorial on the ORI building: ORI could have been in its new building already, and the UO could have netted one-third more income from the lease, if the UO hadn’t insisted there was no suitable alternative to the riverfront site. Simple enough. But do…