Thanks to several members of Pres Schill’s Intercollegiate Athletics Advisory Committee for forwarding this secret memo, along with the email from “Faculty” Athletics Rep Tim Gleason, below. NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION:
From: Tim Gleason
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2021 10:49 AM
To: Kristyn Elton <[email protected]>; Christopher Minson <[email protected]>; tom lininger <[email protected]>; Troy Elias <[email protected]>; Anne ‘Michelle’ Wood <[email protected]>; Katy Lenn <[email protected]>; Anita Weiss <[email protected]>; Joshua Gordon <[email protected]>; Kylie Robinson <[email protected]>; Jack Scanlon <[email protected]>; Stephanie Prentiss <[email protected]>; Roger Thompson <[email protected]>; Kimberly Johnson <[email protected]>; Stephen Stolp <[email protected]>; Rob Mullens <[email protected]>; Lisa Peterson <[email protected]>
Cc: Ceara Wilson <[email protected]>; Ellen Laing <[email protected]>; Lauren Crockett <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Urgent IAAC meeting
IAAC members,
Attached is the draft Alston policy that we will discuss tomorrow at 11:00 am. Please note that this is a draft and it should not be distributed beyond the IAAC. Thanks for finding time for this meeting.
Tim
Tim Gleason
Professor of Journalism
Faculty Athletics Representative
Coordinator, SOJC Hall of Achievement & Eric Allen Award
School of Journalism and Communication
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1275
541-346-3739 (office)
541-914-0739 (cell)
541-346-0682 (fax)
In other news, my landlord just raised my rent by just under ~10%. (Last year the rent increase was also just under 10%.)
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Rent already accounts for ~65% of my income. I can’t find a cheaper place to live. My food bill is also going up. Not sure how I will buy groceries. Thinking about foodbanks. Anyone have experience with selling plasma in Eugene? I’m not hot enough for OnlyFans.
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I’m glad that UO has so much money to spend on athletics and the law school. Oregon def needs more attorneys and sportsball players.
GE — I feel for you. The world apparently is sending you a message: get the hell outta here! Because the odds are fairly good it won’t get better. You wanna be an adjunct at age 40, 50? I don’t know enough about your situation to really give advice. But a Eugenean, a UO ph.d. (who did put together a good career) once gave me some really goid advice: “Adjust or leave. Because it’s not going to change for you.” Devise a plan, or else escape. There is a better life somewhere, doing something. But if you think your rent is going to get rescued by the athletic program, you’re just dreaming. Don’t count on the GE union, either. Many people would look at the pay scale — $40K top for 9 mo. FTE with tuition remit + health ins — and say that diesn’t sound so bad. Remember, you are here because you have chosen it.
@Poor GE. This does sound tough, but (1) HUB is right. Ask yourself if your present situation is good or not, whether you’re preparing yourself for a good career or not, and so on. If the answer is no, bail. That’s a totally fine thing to do. The decision is yours, and you should do what’s best. Don’t let faculty tell you that there’s nothing worthwhile outside academia. (2) if you have the typical GE salary, 65% of this is $1200-1300/month. Most GEs I know have roommates, and combining a few times $1200 gets a pretty good place, especially if you’re biking (not walking) distance to campus. You probably know this, but I thought I’d write anyway.
Wish it were otherwise, but HUB is right. The economy is an unthinking force with unfathomable inertia, and it commands us all to its will. I’ve spent some years resisting this force modestly, and even at that level, it’s both difficult to endure and difficult to see the benefits of.
If you’re single, maybe time for a marriage of convenience. Cheaper now, though perhaps awful or crazy expensive in the long run.
Alternatively, when I was in grad school, there were always one or two beatniks living in their offices (or cars), using the gym for showers, and eating off of the office snack tray. If you have no dependents, you could do worse.