8/20/2011: From Yahoo sports: Lyles, even while denying he intentionally guided Seastrunk to Eugene or funneled any money his way, admitted he helped Seastrunk’s grandmother become his legal guardian so she could sign his letter of intent to Oregon over his mother’s protests. The result: Seastrunk never appeared happy and…
UO Matters
8/20/2011: The NCAA vows to get tough on schools that try to use athletics money to help with the players’ basic needs for drugs and hookers, instead of spending it as a righteous God intended – on car payments for the Athletic Director, his assistants, and the coaches. Oh yeah – turns…
8/20/2011: They’ve apparently hired a $95,000 administrator, now they are looking for teachers – emphasis on Mandarin. As with the Ed school’s “Global Education Leadership Institute“, the rest of what’s up is a mystery, not even known to God.
9/19/2011: Be clear: this is not some lowly professor abusing the system. It’s a politically well connected administrator, using $4500 in state funds for his “working trip” to England and Paris. From Brent Walth in WWeek: “We concluded that there was not a valid conference to justify PSU’s reimbursement of…
8/18/2011: At some point, this transparency stuff starts to become a movement. First wikileaks, now this, on the Vatican’s website – in Latin, of course: The Oregonian has the sad explanation. Meanwhile the UO public records office still hasn’t figured out how to post the coaches’ contracts on dropbox. Drag and drop Liz, the…
8/18/2011: From the LAT: Under the plan, all faculty with good performance reviews will receive 3% raises this year, and nonacademic staff, who have received no increases since 2007, could be in line for larger raises. About 78,000 UC employees will be eligible under the plan, officials said. But nearly…
Update: More chatter that the Div 1 football teams will leave the NCAA. That will make a lot of money for some people. 8/18/2011: From Tim Dahlberg, in the RG, on the latest football scandal from Miami: Much of it allegedly happened under the watch of former Miami athletic director…
8/17/2011: They’ve posted the planning document here. SB 242 gives the Board authority to hire lawyers – not UO. Will Randy Geller have to reapply for his job? We can only hope. This time maybe they’ll check that resume a bit more closely and ask a few questions about compliance…
8/17/2011: Though I have heard rumors that UO is helping the football players rent apartments in the new buildings Pat Kilkenny put up next to Matt Court. From Yahoo Sports:
8/16/2011: The UK group that does the ratings says their procedures were not followed: SWIP UK regrets to announce that we are withdrawing the Women-Friendly Department Recognition that we had awarded to the University of Oregon’s Philosophy Department for 2011. It has become clear to us that our procedures were not…
8/15/2011: (Also see Bojack.org) Where does the little bit of athletics money that is left over after paying the coaches, AD Rob Mullens, and car payments for most of the athletics department go? Overpriced hotel rooms, with kickbacks to the bowl organizers, of course. Playoffpac.com has the story here. Economist Andy…
8/14/2011: More on this later, meanwhile here is the 8/27/2011 letter from Oregonian editor Peter Bhatia on public records access, with President Lariviere’s response.
Except of course for the players. That would be an NCAA violation. 31 UO employees get stipends for cars, they are all in the athletic department. The RH column is the annual amount in dollars. Name Title courtesy car stipend Abrams, Harold J Assoc AD – Dir of Dvpmt 4800…
58/12/2011: from the Greg Bolt RG story: Almost two-thirds of the money raised during the 2010-11 fiscal year was for academics. Donations for academics totaled $73.3 million, and athletics donations totaled $43.6 million.
8/11/2011: The Eugene Weekly has the story: Allegations of sexual harassment by an unnamed male faculty member of the UO Department of Philosophy by a retired faculty member have led to an investigation by the UO Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity (AAEO) and a lively discussion on philosophy…