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…
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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…
7/5/2012: At some point in the next few years the UO athletic department will announce plans for an expansion of Autzen stadium and Hayward field. We can expect that they will argue that sports has spillover economic benefits for Eugene. This is a dubious idea theoretically, since when people spend…
The famed Pulitzer prize winning historian of the civil rights movement has turned his attention to college sports and the NCAA hiring cartel. His 3 point program for reform is here – it starts with transparency: 1 . TRANSPARENCYAt any college or university that hosts an intercollegiate sports program, the principal…
Results just in. I interpret this as a sharp rebuke by the UO Senate Intercollegiate Athletics Committee to Interim President Berdahl’s efforts to repudiate the 2004 Task Force report and the 2006 NCAA certification report, his efforts to gut the committee’s charge and shared governance, and Rob Mullens’ efforts to…
5/19/2012: Bob Berdahl’s threats to veto faculty votes on who will chair our committees are getting more strident. And the administration has been setting up its own committees on important issues like policing, without even consulting the senate. But FWIW the senate and committee election results are now posted here.…
Update: Rebecca X gives a student viewpoint on this excess and extravagance, in the OC. 5/8/2012: Sam Stites of the ODE has a great expose of the administration’s Rose Bowl junket. How can 56 people spend $120,000 on airfare to LA? Believe what you want about Duck football attracting students…
4/11/2012: That’s what happened at the University of Illinois 3 weeks ago: Hogan has been under fire since early January, when his chief of staff, Lisa Troyer, resigned after being accused of posing as a faculty senator in anonymous emails sent to a faculty group to influence its debate. Troyer…
3/19/2012: Interim President Bob Berdahl thinks the UO Senate Intercollegiate Athletics Committee is asking too many hard questions about athletics, and he is going to rewrite the committee’s charge to make it easier for the athletic department to have their way with UO. From what I can tell this is…
That’s UO’s Interim President Bob Berdahl, discussing athletic scandals. Results from a survey of college and university presidents show: Exactly 75 percent of the presidents surveyed said colleges and universities spend too much on athletics, and only one out of every seven — just 13.1 percent— said that the presidents…
3/2/2012: Dave Duerson was a former college and NFL football star, suffering from brain injuries induced by concussions and repeated MTBI on the field. He was in denial for years, but in 2011, age 50, he realized the brain damage was serious and irreversible and was making him a violent…
That would be at UC-Berkeley: The Chancellor’s Advisory Council on Intercollegiate Athletics Financial Sustainability has been asked to: develop an understanding of the recent and current financial and competitive state of the Intercollegiate Athletics program; assess alternative approaches to promptly putting the IA program on a financially sustainable course; assess…
2/14/2012: From the Philadelphia Inquirer. Penn State has now begun to post documents about the scandal and about university operations in general (budgets, contracts) at http://openness.psu.edu/ Meanwhile here at UO we still don’t know what the Kelly/Lyles scandal will cost – just that the jocks have convinced Randy Geller that…
2/13/2012: Good story in the Chronicle on the NCAA / NYT blogging fight.
1/23/2012: Or maybe that offer wasn’t rich enough, according to the latest from the RGand Canzano. 1/22/2012: I didn’t check, but I assume that’s some sort of a football team, not a rum drink with an umbrella. Story here. More here. Under the NCAA college football is so corrupt it…