Under Dave Hubin UO’s Public Records Office refused to give fee waivers to journalists – even UO student journalists. Oregon public records law requires an explanation for fee waiver denials. Hubin and PR Officer Lisa Thornton ignored that law. Now Daily Emerald reporter Noah McGraw has written a very good report…
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Undergrads respond to Provost Coltrane’s pleas for a rescue effort: “Nope. Voluntary collective action would be a violation of the standard model.” “Wait, let me check my 201 grade on Canvas. No. Definitely not.” UOAlert! This is a test of the UOAlert! system and a reminder to practice earthquake response: Duck, Cover, and Hold.…
The BBC reports that the Ashmolean only paid £250,00 for their bowl: So far UO’s tab is: $452,200 Attorney Fees to plaintiff’s lawyers $ 45,773 Costs to plaintiff $650,000 Economic damages $105,000 Punitive damages $1,252,973 Total Then of course you have to add in the many billable hours UO’s outside lawyer Andrea…
Transparency, accountability, etc. Presumably this explains why UO faculty Trustee Susan Gary (Law), who was appointed with minimal input from faculty, and then reappointed with none, has suddenly started holding office hours. From the HECC docket, here:
10/14/2015: The NYT has the news here.
Whoops, that’s about Berkeley Astronomy Prof Geoffrey Marcy, not about UO AAEO Director Penny Daugherty.
10/12/2015: UO’s workplace relationships policy is broken
Stuart Tomlinson has the report in the Oregonian, here: Oh, wait, this is the earthquake data. Never mind.
10/13/2015: That’s the latest from the faculty club – no more money down this hole. It’s nice how even the rumors are more optimistic at UO these days. But don’t forget how much effort it took to end this, if it’s really ended: public records requests, a petition to the DA after UO’s General…
Taking out the mirror requests, it looks like a bit less than one PR request per day. Most are pretty simple requests for a contract or some such. The office has a $300K budget: How can they be this far behind? It’s almost as if they’re not really trying. Full log…
Here. But don’t try to get them to provide basic financial records during union bargaining, unless you’re willing to file an Unfair Labor Practices complaint. The latest data omits some of the more interesting administrative bloat salary data that IR revealed last year:
10/30/2018 update: I’ve always had a soft spot for Kelly, because he had the sense of humor to hide his $25K payoff to Willie Lyles where no reasonable person would ever have found it – in the UO libraries financial accounts: Unfortunately for Kelly, sports reporters are not reasonable people.…
10/12/2015: Today’s report by the Daily Emerald on this course, here, doesn’t mention that little detail. How did UO’s Faculty Athletics Representative miss this irregularity?
Fortunately for the Ducks, the UO Senate Intercollegiate Athletics Committee discovered this and put an end to it several years ago. The course is now pass/fail.
What other questionable courses are UO’s student-athletes taking? Hard to say. AD Rob Mullens and his designees have refused to meet with the IAC since a few days after Mullens and Mike Gottfredson read the EPD report on the basketball rape allegations, and Gottfredson then appointed his handpicked “Presidential Advisory Group on Intercollegiate Athletics” to take over the IAC’s job. The IAC asked too many questions.
And the PAGIA’s meetings are closed.
10/23/2014: Report on gut classes for athletes leads UNC to fire nine employees
Here. Interactive map. By time, location, photographer, including Dorothea Lange etc. (Their server is overloaded at the moment.) Closely followed by this worrisome news of water damage to the NYT morgue.
10/10/2015: Apparently unaware of a basic statistical principle, Chuck Lillis and the BOT gave Mark Helfrich and AD Ron Mullens fat new contracts in February, just after the #2 BCS outcome. It will now cost about $15M to buy out Helfrich, although there’s a 50% discount if he doesn’t win at least six games in each of 2…
From the recent job postings, it looks like the Ducks are scheduling a major increase in fundraising effort, just as Mike Andreasen’s UO Advancement Office finally gets its academic fundraising efforts rolling. This is really bad timing. This is the time when the Duck fundraisers should be directed to shift…