at Penn State, and now it is coming back to bite them in the ass. Does anyone think UO and OUS have done due diligence with oversight of the Ducks? (Besides Rob Mullens, Jim O’Fallon and Bob Berdahl, who think the faculty has gone too far?) 7/19/2012.
UO Matters
7/18/2012: There have been a few editorials in Oregon papers dealing with the Penn State Paterno/Spanier/Sandusky football scandal. The Daily Astorian editors are the first I’ve seen to explicitly compare the lack of institutional control that led to Penn State with UO’s lack of institutional control of its own athletic…
that coaches need private hot tubs with waterproof video displays. Diane Dietz of the RG on UO’s newest football palace. FWIW, AD Rob Mullens never completed the report to OUS on how he’d cover the operating expenses. My suggestion – cut baseball. $76,274,142 in expenses for crap like this, but ask…
Phil owns us. I think this was pretty well proven when Knight took away the law school professors’ parking lot for the jocks to use while they were getting tutored. But just in case there was any doubt, a curious law student dug up this: From: Zach Spier @uoregon.edu> Date: July 16,…
It seems that someone in the President’s office forgot to notify interested campus components – like the Senate Intercollegiate Athletics Committee – of the proposed UO rule change, as OAR requires: 571-001-0025Procedure for Providing Notice(1) The University News Bureau shall be responsible for providing notice to appropriate media. The Office…
Kevin Kiley of IHE has the story, read it it all: “[The Oregon state board] can say, ‘For the good of the system, the matter is closed,’ “ Kyr said. “But it can’t say ‘We did this for the good of the university’ without extensive prior consultation with the faculty,…
at Cal Tech. Something about the students not taking courses seriously. Right. The NCAA infractions committee – paid by the colleges – is wasting its time on this, while burying their head in the sand on serious problems. It’s intentional. 7/16/2012.
In the ODE: … With EA in the midst of fighting a class-action lawsuit led by former Arizona State quarterback Sam Keller, they went out of their way to show the public – and the legal experts – that the speedster in University of Oregon’s backfield isn’t De’Anthony Thomas,though everyone…
Because, to paraphrase Dave Zirin of the Nation, at this point the NCAA doesn’t even have enough moral authority to credibly condemn child rape. 7/14/2012.
UO General Counsel Randy Geller’s previous modification of the Oregon rules on drug testing to suit the needs of the NCAA cartel was in 2010: Geller appears to have notified the Senate of what he planned to do: http://senate.uoregon.edu/sites/senate.uoregon.edu/files/email2attachNoticeAndStatementOAR571_004.pdf and shown us the proposed changes: http://senate.uoregon.edu/sites/senate.uoregon.edu/files/email2attachOAR571_004proposedAmends20101201.pdf But that was when…
The $2 million that Jim Bean is making regular students pay for the jock box tutoring isn’t enough? David Lieberman has the story in the ODE: The University of Oregon released on Friday a list of proposed amendments and additions to its current student-athlete drug policy, including implementing random drug…
UO’s Bob Berdahl, from UO Matters 5/22/2012: Last September, after a long series of meetings and after input from the faculty, students, and the press, President Lariviere instituted a simple $200 fee waiver system for public records requests. It worked pretty well. Maybe too well. Yesterday, with no warning or…
Lead author is Dennis Jenkins from UO’s Museum of Cultural and Natural History. NYT story here.
big time athletics enabled "Sandusky to attract potential victims to the campus and football events"
7/12/2012: From the NYT on the Freeh report on Penn State: “In order to avoid the consequences of bad publicity, the most powerful leaders at the university – Spanier, Schultz, Paterno and Curley – repeatedly concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky’s child abuse,” the report said. Paterno “was an integral part of…
7/11/2012: North Carolina newspapers have obtained some heavily redacted documents from the recent NCAA Infractions Committee investigation of its various football misdeeds, along with the BSK law firm’s $60,000 in invoices. (Oregon reporters haven’t obtained any of these for the UO case since Bob Berdahl rescinded Lariviere’s public records policies.)…