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More on drugs

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…

Duck drug testing follow-up

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…

Berdahl and Spanier both worked to restrict public records access

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…

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…

UNC wanted *athletes* to pay for the NCAA infractions

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 (Oregon reporters haven’t obtained any of these for the UO case since Bob Berdahl rescinded Lariviere’s public records policies.)…