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11/9/2010: The Senate has an unusually full agenda for tomorrow – everything from the ORI building to a report by Frances Dyke on parking.

The opposition to the ORI project has dug up some documents that apparently show the decisions to approve the building were made without the necessary community input. I suspect they are correct. But I think they are turning the perfect into the enemy of the good. Let’s just build it.

Regarding parking, who knows. Ms Dyke’s normal approach is throw out a few semi-relevant numbers her staff has put together, and then get pissy if anyone challenges her. That or she pours on the saccharin, and says she doesn’t have the numbers but she will get back to you. She won’t. If you call her on this, she will act like you are the one being rude. Right. Remember the furlough Town Hall? Or the Senate meeting on financial transparency?

This is a case of the bad being the enemy of the good. UO needs a new VPFA. It’s past time for Provost Bean to decide who will fill her job while he leads a national search. The longer this goes on the more embarrassing for UO and the people who run it.


Senate Meeting Agenda – November 10, 2010
Law School 175, 3:00‐5:00 pm

3:00 pm 1. Call to order
       1.1 Approval of the Minutes of the 13 October 2010 Meeting
3:05 pm 2. State of the University
2.1 Remarks by President Lariviere and/or Provost Bean
3:20 pm 3. New Business
3.1 Motion US10/11-02: Motion to adopt Research Misconduct Policy, Lynette Schenkel & Rob Horner
3.2 Resolution US10/11-04: Resolution requesting the University to comply with the existing Intergovernmental agreement on the Riverfront Research Park, Zach Stark-MacMillan, Frank Stahl, Ron Lovinger, Bitty Roy and others
3.3 Discussion of updated Retired and Emeritus Faculty Policy, Frank Stahl and Russ Tomlin
3.4 Senate letter to Eugene Congressional delegation about the loss of the UO Post Office
3.5 Senate Budget Committee Report on New Partnership Proposal, John Chalmers
4:10 pm 4. Open Discussion: New Partnership Proposal, President Lariviere & John Chalmers, Senate Budget Committee
4:40 pm 5. Reports
5.1 Update on Smoke Free Campus resolution US08/09-06, Amelie Rousseau, ASUO President
5.2 Update on Parking, Frances Dyke, Vice President for Finance and Administration
4:55 pm 6. Announcements and Communications from the Floor
6.1 Notice of Motion(s)
5:00 pm 7. Adjournment

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