President Lariviere puts down a few markers:

4/7/2010: From Rachel Bachman in the Oregonian:

“This institution did not follow acceptable business practices in the past,” Lariviere said. “That will not be repeated under my administration.”

 and Greg Bolt in the RG:

The university’s legal department late last month said it didn’t realize that there was no contract for Bellotti until last winter, after Bellotti told Lariviere of the ESPN job possibility. However, The Register-Guard had been asking the legal department since the previous summer for the document but received no reply. The newspaper submitted requests for the contract on June 25 and Nov. 11, and again on Jan. 14.

Asked about the UO’s failure to respond to those requests and the difficulty of getting public records in the past, Lariviere acknowledged the university has not lived up to the spirit of the open records law and pledged changes.

“As a result of our discoveries in this, we are going to change a lot of the university’s practices,” Lariviere said. “At this point I can’t tell you exactly what the response will be to any individual request, but I can tell you we will be as responsive, open and transparent as we possibly can be.”

We’ll see.