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NCAA investigations

11/24/2010: One of the sadder aspects of college athletics is the resemblance to slavery. The coaches earn millions, while the players get subsistence. Slave owners were able to do this because they owned the slaves and had a brutal system of enforcers to prevent the slaves from bargaining for more,…

Football Museum Curator

11/22/2010: Ron Bellamy of the RG offers a milquetoast recap of a story reported by Bill Graves and Rachel Bachman in the Oregonian back in June: Phil Knight is building more athletic facilities for UO. As in the past, these tax-deductible gifts will cost taxpayers a bundle. They also require…

Pernsteiner’s pay

11/17/2010: From Steve Duin’s column in the Oregonian on Chancellor Pernsteiner’s raises – while he was pushing furloughs for the UO staff and trying to get faculty to take them too: … In February 2009, Gov. Ted Kulongoski told union officials he wanted to freeze wages and eliminate step increases…

Riverfront and ORI

11/11/2010: My personal preferences are for more riverfront development, not less. But they are also for more transparency, not less. And the Connecting Eugene people have just demonstrated, very convincingly, that UO and ORI would have been *much* better off with more transparency from the start. Now ORI faces long…

You can’t make this shit up

11/10/2010: You can’t make this shit up. From Ken Goe of the Oregonian, link courtesy of the Commentator. We should all thank UW Athletic Director Scott Woodward for bringing some attention to the embarrassing imbalance between UO’s athletic extravaganza and our academic mission. This is supposed to be UO President…

Wed Senate meeting

11/9/2010: The Senate has an unusually full agenda for tomorrow – everything from the ORI building to a report by Frances Dyke on parking. The opposition to the ORI project has dug up some documents that apparently show the decisions to approve the building were made without the necessary community…