Tim Rohan has the story, here. On Wednesday America’s sportswriters will wake up from their 36 hour hangovers and start in on Dana Altman.
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Steve Berkowitz and Dan Wolken have the story in USA TODAY: A meeting including Obama administration officials, NCAA executives and college athletics directors is scheduled to occur at the White House this week, according to three people with direct knowledge of the meeting. The people spoke on the condition of…
1/10/2015 update: UO to lose federal funding for leaking student-athlete drug test results: Just kidding. While Rob Mullens argued he couldn’t tell the campus about the basketball rape allegations because of federal student privacy laws – even with names redacted – apparently he’s got no problem plastering the names of…
The background on the case is here. Former UOPD officer James Cleavenger is now represented by the Portland firm of Kafoury & McDougal: Dave Frohnmayer and Randy Geller’s firm, “Harrang, Long, Gary and Rudnick (sic)”, is representing UO of course. Lead counsel was Jens Schmidt, one of HLGRs top ~$300 lawyers: Schmidt’s 5/2/2014 response…
Oregon has a law on government transparency: SB 2500, passed in 2009. State agencies are required to post a bunch of info, including expenditures, on the state transparency webpage here. For example, Oregon State University spent a fair amount on Legal Services: What about UO? Well, UO has stopped reporting Legal Services…
Update: The complaint is here: Update: Andrew Greif in the Oregonian. Brandon Austin’s mother calls Dana Altman a liar: … The players were barred from campus for at least four years, and up to 10, in June, by the university. But before that discipline was handed down, the suit alleges, the university…
1/7/2015 update: Josephine Woolington has more in the RG on the Eugene School Board’s decision to hire HLGR to help them hide these public records: Said school board Chairman Jim Torrey on Wednesday: “In this case, we believe our decision to bring legal action was in the best interest of…
1/7/2015 update: Rumor has it that graduating law student Sam Dotters-Katz tried to keep his position on the board for another year, but a long talk with Randy Geller convinced him it was better to go quietly. UO student government then submitted several names to Governor Kitzhaber, and nominee Helena Schlegel was confirmed by the Oregon Senate just before the December board meeting. Alexandra Wallachy has an interview with her in the Emerald, here:
How have you learned to improve transparency and student outreach?
I would like to see more communication between students, faculty and administration when it comes to our governing body, as I feel that often students are not informed, and thus not aware when important decisions are being made at Board of Trusteees meetings.
Personally, I would like to initiate some of these conversations. Initially, I want to ensure students are aware of the Winter Board of trustees meeting, so they can provide a student perspective and/or opinion on the matters being discussed.
4/28/2014: Dotters-Katz to be replaced as student representative to UO Board of Trustees
I’m no lawyer, but my understanding is that the normal immunity of state officials for official acts does not hold in cases involving violations of civil rights: AMES, Iowa, January 7, 2015—Yesterday, an Iowa federal judge denied Iowa State University’s (ISU’s) motion to dismiss a First Amendment lawsuit filed by students.…
Apparently the perps were offended by the cover of the latest issue: More in the NYT, here. The dead include the magazine’s editor, economist, and cartoonists.
The respected UO student publication the “Daily Jade” has the news, here: More on the UO Athletic Department’s efforts to prevent sexual violence here:
Brad Wolverton has the report in the Chronicle, well worth reading it all: … According to a former NCAA investigator who was familiar with the case, five universities—Liberty, Morgan State, Oregon, South Florida, and Xavier of Ohio—faced questions about players with whom Mr. White had worked. … Mr. White’s first client,…
The UO administration has been wishing this would happen for the last 20 years, as justification for their slavish devotion to big-time sports. Richard Read has the latest in the Oregonian here, complete with quotes from Chief PR flack Tim Clevenger, VP for Enrollment Roger Thompson, and VP for Development Mike Andreasen,…
Doesn’t Oregon have a free speech policy? We do, assuming Chuck Triplett hasn’t cancelled it yet: Expression of diverse points of view is of the highest importance, not solely for those who present and defend some view but for those who would hear, disagree, and pass judgment on those views.…