Jennifer Winters has the hard hitting investigative story in “Around the O, here. Just kidding, Ms Winters is one of Gottfredson’s many paid PR flacks, and her report is just what you’d expect.
Gottfredson’s (renamed) “Presidential Review Panel” had secret meetings Wednesday and Thursday. According to the post on his website, Gottfredson gave his hand-picked review panel a warmed over version of the speech that his “Senior Director of Integrated Communications” Ann Wiens wrote for him to give to the UO Senate, back in May:
In fact, the pervasiveness of this issue underscores the challenges before us. As a nation and as a campus there are profound social and cultural issues to consider. We have an opportunity to learn from others and to lead with our actions. etc., etc.
Senate video:
While Gottfredson refused to appoint US prosecutor and UO alum Amanda Marshall to his review panel, it does include two retired judges. But if they, or his mentor Bob Berdahl, or the members appointed by our athletic director asked him any skeptical questions Gottfredson’s PR flacks are not going to report it. And if you want to try getting public records, Dave Hubin’s public records office is going to delay, redact, and charge out the butt.
So far Gottfredson’s committee is looking more like part of the problem than part of the solution. They aren’t even allowed to issue their own public statements?
Uhmm … have I mentioned “Being There”?
On the Jennifer Winters front, one can only hope that in her detailed reporting of how this committee is functioning — with total simplistic, PC consciousness, her current reporting will prod thinking individuals to remember her hard-hitting reporting of the past. She’s reporting now on a sham, and she knows it.
.. that the new Board has given Gott a medium-longish leash, watching while he decimates the institution of “President” until the continued praise of Ed Ray gives them night sweats.