7/6/2011: The NCAA is shitting all over Chip Kelly because he paid Willie Lyles $25,000 to steer a few kids from Texas our way, and because a staffer rented a few players a car for the weekend. But if we want to hire someone to spy on the team and…
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7/6/2011: That’s the rumor. He’s no longer in the UO Directory – not even as an Emeritus faculty. New rumor is he’s been given a terminal contract, keeping his job as VP for Academic Affairs until next June. Should reappear in the directory shortly.
7/6/2011: We wrote earlier about how UO General Counsel Randy Geller told Jamie Moffitt not to tell the UO Senate IAC committee about the costs of the Willie Lyles cover-up, or if the academic side would be left holding the bag again. Steve Duin at the Oregonian has the contracts,…
working in a Houston grocery store. That’s about $16,000 a year. It’s a sad story, from Canzano. The guy is just trying to make a living, hoping for a paycheck, being an entrepreneur with what he’s got, dealing with a system that is heavily stacked against people like him –…
7/4/2011: Stunning news from my colleagues down at the faculty club. The University of Oregon’s Athletic Department is preparing to free themselves from the NCAA’s oppressive football recruiting rules by forming a new “united sports association”, in congress with other state universities. Word is that Howard Slusher and Pat Killenny…
7/4/2011: I didn’t believe this until someone sent me proof. Former UO Provost John Moseley is still on Provost Jim Bean’s payroll – $248,941 at an 0.5 FTE. Tell me how this is not a crime?
7/4/2011: Dennis Thompson of the Statesman Journal has an analysis. (He also runs the excellent State Workers Blog.) The sticking point is Kitzhaber wants a 5% contribution towards premiums (apparently w/ no means test!) plus this: Under the Health Engagement Model, all workers would undergo a health assessment and then…
7/2/2011: UO’s efforts to stonewall and prevent public input into the riverfront research park planning process have failed, in a major victory for the http://www.connectingeugene.org/ folks. Greg Bolt reports in the RG: But the move will cost the university. Under the new deal, Trammell Crow will pay the university $1.47…
7/2/2011: George Schroeder of the RG accuses UO of a cover up: But the larger concern Oregon’s power brokers — President Richard Lariviere, athletic director Rob Mullens, are you listening? — should have today is over the clumsy attempt at a cover-up. It deletes the Ducks’ dodge that they were…
7/1/2011: From Yahoo Sports: In a wide-ranging, multi-day interview, Lyles said Kelly “scrambled” in late February and asked Lyles to submit retroactive player profiles to justify the $25,000 payment to his company, just days before the transaction was revealed in a March 3 Yahoo! Sports report. … “I look back…
7/1/2010: Over the last several years UO has raised parking fees by hundreds of dollars, to subsidize construction of the Matt Court garage and the Jock Box athlete-only lot. Today they announced they are lowering the faculty/staff fee from $400 to $384. Big whoop.
7/1/2011: It’s getting harder and harder for the NCAA to enforce their rule that only white people get to make money off college sports. Bill Rhoden says in the NYT, about Ohio State: This violated N.C.A.A. rules. But the biggest rule it violated was an unwritten one: that the only…
6/30/2011: Today the SEIU staff union hold a lunchtime rally about their bargaining situation. UO is flush with money – read the Bunsis report for details. The state is broke. Unfortunately, the UO staff union bargains with the state, not with UO. So the contract they get is very likely…
6/29/2011: (revised, corrected to note existence of the old rules and the fact that they are also illegal) At some universities it’s automatic. At the University of Montana, it’s apparently subject to the petty whims of the faculty. The UO Senate approved new rules in 2010, but the entire package…
6/29/2011: Sending popular Portland blogger bojack.org this takedown notice was not the brightest move.