7/14/2014: From Will Creeley of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, here. More on UO’s revisions to its student conduct code here.
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7/14/2014, In Al Jazeera America: … It is not trivial to measure sexual victimization or perpetration, because these are stigmatized behaviors. People don’t readily admit to abusing others or being abused themselves. Researchers have worked for decades to discover how to ask behavior-oriented questions that avoid charged language and pick up…
Above Dana Altman, at #18. I’m not sure how Rob Illig missed out, but this is a well deserved honor from the Oregonian, here: That said, Ms Thornton is just following orders from her boss, President Mike Gottfredson, who is the one who needs to hide things! https://uomatters.com/2014/05/gottgate-timeline-and-questions.html
Here’s some good news: TO: Deans and Department Heads, Directors of Graduate Studies, GTF Contacts, and Graduate Coordinators FROM: Kassy Fisher, UO Graduate School RE: Tuition Support for Grants Funding Level III GTFs (Revised July 2, 2014) Effective Fall 2014, the University will provide support to grants on which GTFs…
Andy Greif of the Oregonian has a round-up of the current situation with the basketball rape allegations, here. The players haven’t found another school to take them, some disputes about the disciplinary process. Gottfredson, Altman, Mullens, and Holmes aren’t talking.
OK, maybe she didn’t post it. But someone sent it to me and here it is. From outside it seems like the sort of transparent well run process the faculty union insisted on. Anyone got comments or reports from other schools or departments?
One of the recommendations is a campus climate survey, along the lines of the one Professor Freyd wants to do at UO. As Steve Duin reports in the Oregonian, UO *really* does not want her to do that survey. Press release on the McCaskill survey, with link to full results here. Quoting:…
Probably not Tim Gleason’s 160over90 branders. Here’s the story on the burgeoning business of helping universities deal with the legal and PR implications of rape allegations, athletic or otherwise. No evidence that Gottfredson has gone there yet, though who knows what’s in the hidden subcontracts. More likely that UO is…
RG story here, audit report here. It’s too bad that Secretary of State Kate Brown’s audit focused on low paid staff and OA’s instead of on UO’s central administrators, where the big money and big problems are. The 2011 SOS audit of former President Dave Frohnmayer’s golden parachute retirement contract…
The New Yorker has a bit here. (Thanks to former UO Journalist CJ Ciaramella’s FOIA newsletter for the link) The legislation came from CA congressman John Moss, a victim of McCarthyism. He tied it to the First Amendment right to petition the government for redress, arguing that the execution of…
Patrick Hruby isn’t buying it: And then the NCAA said something truly ridiculous: … Maintaining the collegiate model of athletics, which is uniquely American, is crucial … Uniquely American? No. No. A thousand times no. Not on a Thursday, not on a Sunday, and absolutely freaking not on the Fourth of July.…
7/2/2014 update: The old post below now seems a bit more relevant, given that President Gottfredson apparently assumed he could keep the March 8-9 basketball rape allegations secret while the players potentially transferred to other schools. (The comment from Berdahl and replies are also interesting.) And here’s another related case, from a reader.…
LBJ signing the civil rights act. A calm, convincing, and inspiring speech: And while I’m on the subject of personal liberty, I feel the need to mention my fellow Tandem High School graduate David Garner. David’s eloquent junior year book report presentation on Robert Moses’s biography of LBJ forever changed…
And now they need to clean out Johnson Hall, starting with Gottfredson: Dear friends and colleagues, The University of Oregon is entering a bold and exciting new era. Today—July 1, 2014—signals the completion of the university’s transition of governance authority from the Oregon State Board of Higher Education to the…