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Who counts as faculty?

4/7/2012: I’m no law professor, or $600 an hour union busting lawyer $600 an hour defender of faculty members’ right to negotiate individually with the administration, but it seems obvious that a key point in the formation of a UO faculty union is the definition of the term faculty. On…

Excelsior file

Update: Is it possible UO’s lawyers have a sense of humor? Check out their idea of who counts as university faculty, from the Excelsior file they gave the ERB: 4/5/2012: Will someone please email me their copy? uomatters at gmail dot com. I’ll keep you anonymous. Thanks, that was quick.…

UO Police keep cell phone

4/5/2012: From a Josephine Woolington story in the ODE on last term’s basketball fight: “It’s not wrong to videotape us (DPS). That’s OK,” said Carolyn McDermed, acting chief of DPS. “The cellphone was seized because it contained evidence of the crime. It was pertinent to the case.” DPS still has…

Change

4/2/2012: From the NYT: Reagan’s strongest margins were among the college educated, who backed him over Walter F. Mondale by a crushing 62.7-36.9 margin. Among all those with both college and advanced degrees, Reagan won 58.7 percent, a landslide margin. … By 2008, the Republican advantage of the early 1980s…