United Academics General Membership Meeting – March 3, 2015 – 5:00-7:00pm – Gerlinger Lounge. An occasionally reliable source says there will be free beer.
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- Univ uses big-time football to... (30)
- thedude { You're splitting hairs in completely farfetched ways. Discrimination - a·tion [dəˌskriməˈnāSH(ə)n] NOUN the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories... }
- just different { "Bigotry" is probably a more fitting word than "discrimination." You can tell the exact same story about the history of... }
- uomatters { I really don't have a problem with our students chanting Fuck the Mormons. It was rude, but I think all... }
- just different { I'm not making any excuses for these jackasses. But "discrimination" means a consistent, entrenched bias that puts the target at... }
- BYU Gender Discrimination { Will the UO also condemn BYU’s open gender discrimination? https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2022/02/10/feds-dismiss-complaint/ Should the UO even play with a school that violates... }
- thedude { Being a dick to someone because of their gender, race, or religion is generally considered harassment which is a form... }
- just different { Discrimination also isn't the same thing as being a dick. Sometimes a dick is just a dick. }
- thedude { I didn't say it was a tragedy, or a massacre, or a genocide, or a slaughter or a murder. But... }
- UO switches phones to Microsoft... (2)
- Payroll Guy { Just another move to reduce Classified Staff. }
- honest Uncle Gangsta { Surely it will work as well as shared central services, Tykeson advising, and the policy of not buying books for... }
- Let’s put all eggs in one off site basket { Having all forms of communication (teams chat, file sharing, email, phone) in the very capable, dependable, secure, responsive, inexpensive Microsoft?... }
- New Pres and Provost to... (19)
- Dog { presentism only thrives with revisionist history }
- old guy, hard scientist { Thanks for the update on UO/OSU biology/ecology. The book mentioned is here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo170590828.html }
- thedude { I think presentism is a bigger problem these days than revisionist history. }
- anon { Some UO depts are pretty well paid, by the AAU public U comparison ( eg, Biology, which is arguably the... }
- just different { One argument for more people studying the humanities is that they seem to learn enough critical thinking skills to not... }
- Dog { Yes of course we don't need them. The coin of the realm these days is revisionist history. Screw the historical... }
- PreviouslyPDX { Do we really need more dudes who don't understand the value of historians and other humanities graduates? Do we really... }
- thedude { This combined with a decreasing college wage premia. The only strong wage premia that exists is for parts of STEM... }
- Rob Mullens grosses $4.5M for... (2)
- Int Prov Janet Woodruff-Borden to... (3)
- thedude { What if their priorities are to raise salaries more than the 2 percent raises (i.e. 8 percent real pay decreases)... }
- thedude { She knows very well the provost has been taking all power away from deans. So what she means to say... }
- honest Uncle Gangsta { Lately it has all been DEI restricted searches, declining male enrollment, other weird stuff I dare not even mention. I... }
- Had to watch the rest... (9)
- Fishwrapper { To be sure, like many online comedians, he's not exactly the president of Slow Talkers of America... }
- just different { Nope. Good comedy is always transgressive. What's characteristic of TikTok-delivered humor is shallowness, juvenility, and rapid-fire one-liners. }
- uomatters { Little known fact: Redd Foxx and Malcolm X briefly worked together in the same NYC restaurant. }
- Fishwrapper { This clearly shows a lineage that includes the likes of Lenny Bruce, Nichols and May, Redd Foxx, and Richard Pryor.... }
- uomatters { Yeah, but at least he's not earning millions from giving concussions to unpaid student-athletes, like say Rob Mullens. }
- just different { This is what Gen Z thinks is comedy. Enjoy. }
- anonymous 3 { A little offensive? This coach should be fired. I know I would be if I said the same thing to... }
- { I am sorry but the video gets a little offensive at the very end. }
- Int Pres Phillips committed to... (40)
- Dog { and hence the available ICC dollars to support that unit }
- just different { Did not know that about BU. But they have a research footprint several times the size of UO's. }
- Jane Rock { The morale among staff is the worst I have seen it in my 20 years at Oregon. Shared Services is... }
- { I am well aware of the costs. Research Universities have plenty of ICC return to fund any kind of computing... }
- just different { Dog, how are you getting this to pencil out? A good UX designer is $120K. Good programmers are even more.... }
- Dog { that is because most in house stuff is developed by amateurs; higher ed needs to pay in- house professionals (but... }
- Knight Campus to pay up... (4)
- Fishwrapper { Back in the day, when I learned the trade, most of those areas of emphasis would be their own person.... }
- uomatters { Thanks, I'd missed Rob Guldberg's slap at the J-School. }
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