An account of a recent APLU meeting on this topic, from Inside Higher Ed here. A snippet: Page, the columnist, said, “I don’t want to call your generation coddled,” but went on to share an example of what he said “troubles me about political correctness.” He cited the reactions of students…
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UO’s Government and Community Relations website is a glossy mess. Fortunately Jock Mills, Director of Governmental Relations for Oregon State, has sent out his usual informative report: Governor’s Race Democrat Kate Brown defeated Republican Bud Pierce with just over a 50% majority. She carried seven of Oregon’s 36 counties: Columbia,…
That’s my read of it. The text is on the Senate’s website here. Please consider posting your comments there. I think Dave Chappelle would vote yes:
Some simple common sense – something which has often been missing from the previous statements on the halloween incident and the Trump election – from CAS Natural Science Assoc Dean Hal Sadofsky, here: I’m not someone who normally embraces symbols, but I want all our faculty, staff and students to feel safe and to…
11/11/2016: In the RG here, read it all: When Schill took the microphone near the end of the two-hour event, he agreed that “many students, faculty and staff do not feel included in the University of Oregon. Some have been victims of intentional discrimination. Some have been hurt by careless, thoughtless…
Tyson Alger has the scoop on Chuck Lillis’s committee meeting here. Tomorrow by telephone. Strange, but Board Secretary Angela Wilhelms still hasn’t posted the contract. She expects them to do their due diligence without having read it? Or maybe she’s just hiding it from the public. I’ll go out on…
Personally I’m processing this election just like my Dad did in ’72, after his friend and grad school classmate George McGovern lost to Nixon – by crying into a glass of bourbon while rereading the speeches of Abraham Lincoln: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived…
The post from CAS Dean Andrew Marcus on his blog is below. He doesn’t allow public comments, so I’ll respond here. You can too. There is also a change.org petition, with 232 signatures so far. To: CAS Dean <[email protected]> Andrew, your post is outrageous. Yes, dressing up in blackface, in…
Andrew Theen has the story in the Oregonian: Measure 97’s failure creates tough decisions for Oregon lawmakers next year, but the state’s public university presidents say one choice should be clear: Keep funding higher education. Oregon’s seven public university presidents signed a joint letter Wednesday asking for a “minimum” of $100…
The RG has the news here: “There was a little unkind language, so there may be damage to certain people’s egos if they were listening. I don’t think I was involved in any of the language, so that’s also good,” [President Schill] said.
Just kidding, that’s who Interim President Scott Coltrane and Interim General Counsel Doug Park hired to investigate me over the presidential archives, along with Hershner Hunter’s Amanda Walkup. President Schill and GC Kevin Reed have hired Edwin Harnden (http://www.barran.com/our-team/edwin-a-harnden/) and Shayda Le (http://www.barran.com/our-team/shayda-zaerpoor-le/) to investigate the professor over the blackface incident. They sure look…
The Oregonian has the report here. Tough news for the UO, our students, and the Duck athletic program we all subsidize. The good news is that Phil Knight has offered to cough up enough money to buy out Coach Helfrich, who will have taken $20M off us and our Board of Trustees before…
11/8/2016 update: Market predictions are not worth a shit. 11/7/2016: Betting market predicts Clinton + Dem Senate, S&P up 2.2% Data from predictwise.com, based mostly on the $140M gambled on betfair.com so far:
I confess I fell hook line and sinker for Rolling Stone reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s story, “A Rape on Campus”. In my defense I grew up in Charlottesville, went to parties on fraternity row, and know of one fraternity gang rape from back in the day that was very similar (and never…
Wed Nov 16th, at the Eugene Hilton: Program at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_ug50TjNFiINVlqMDk2ZG14UnM/view