about voicing your opinion in the polls on the right or in the comments? Don’t be. The NY Times reports, tonight, on a new NLRB case involving an employee who criticized her boss on Facebook: Lafe Solomon, the board’s acting general counsel, said, “This is a fairly straightforward case under…
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11/8/2010: When the Athletic Directors at other universities start saying the academic side of UO is not benefiting from our athletic success, maybe it’s time to do something about it. From the UW AD – before they lost the game ;) “What they have done here athletically is nothing short…
11/7/2010: Greg Bolt of the RG on the promotion of Randy Geller to General Counsel: A six-month search for a new general counsel led the University of Oregon right back to Johnson Hall. Randy Geller, the university’s deputy general counsel, recently was given the top job as UO general counsel.…
11/6/2010: This blog is for muckraking and whistleblowing. But as Teddy Roosevelt said: “The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society; but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them, to the crown…
11/8/2010: We’ve written before about how UO’s VP for Finance and Administration Frances Dyke blew $2.4 million remodeling Johnson Hall back in 2007. This led to a cut of millions per year in federal research money, when UO couldn’t show the feds it was spending enough money on research support…
11/7/2010: From The New Yorker: Then, later that day, the doctors I was travelling with told me that, to insure their own safety while they worked, they had to prove their neutrality by tending to génocidaires as well as to their victims. And I wondered: If these humanitarians weren’t here,…
11/7/2010: The union organizers send along this announcement: This Monday, United Academics will host events featuring Professor Joan DelFattore of the University of Delaware. Joan DelFattore is a Professor of English and Legal Studies at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Knowledge in the Making: Academic Freedom…
11/3/2010: After 2 weeks of delays from UO, and a petition to the Attorney General, we’ve now got a copy of new UO General Counsel Randy Geller’s cover letter and resume, here. His employment contract is here – $200K a year. Nice raise. There is no mention in his letter…
11/4/2010: Randy Geller’s resume is now one of our most frequently downloaded documents, surpassing such favorites as Frohnmayer’s golden parachute contract, the Jock Box parking deals with Frances Dyke, and the accounting sheet showing how the athletic department uses regular students’s tuition to subsidize the jock box, and our collection…
11/3/2010: UO’s media relation office produces E-clips every day. Subscribe and you get a daily email with news stories that mention UO. They do a great job – everything from the latest research to the latest athletic funding scandal. No censorship. OUS has a similar service, but they only forward…
11/2/2010 update: Two weeks and counting after we requested them, new UO Public Records Officer Liz Denecke still will not provide a copy of her resume, Randy Geller’s resume, or the same documents for the other finalists in the searches. Her office’s budget is $240,000. She’s got a full time…
11/2/2010: Last year Emerald reporters Alex Tomchak Scott and Dave Martinez were the first to figure out that Frances Dyke and Doug Tripp were using student, staff and faculty parking fees to subsidize the new Matt Court underground parking garage. The Emerald editors ripped into this. Of course, nothing happened…
10/31/2010: For our annual Halloween post we take a strong pro-robot position. We are serious.The UO President’s and Provost’s websites have recently added computer code that hides their content from Google and prevents public access to the archives maintained by the Internet Archive. Indexing and archiving services use robots –…
10/30/2010: Oregon Attorney General John Kroger and his Government Transparency Counsel Michael Kron have been making slow but steady progress improving Oregon’s public records situation – currently rated F. Earlier this month they released the 2010 Public Records Manual with some potentially important re-interpretations of the law. Now, in response…
10/30/2010: A helpful reader sends what is believed to be a photo of UO’s new General Counsel, Randy Geller. UO will not provide a photo to reporters, or even allow Mr. Geller to be interviewed. More amazingly, nearly 2 weeks since we made the request, UO’s new Public Records Officer…