11/29/2016 update: The RG’s Ryan Thornburn has the shocking details here.
Or at least I think it was the basketball coach – he’s about to drop out of the rankings too. But maybe his buyout is next year.
Meanwhile, Mullens, Altman, Helfrich and the other well-paid Athletic Department employees haven’t been giving much to the University’s Charitable Fund Drive for state and community charities:
11/28/2016 update: Matt Helfrich wins excellent $9.4M buyout with lousy 34-44 Civil War loss
Why does it always have to be a 5-year plan? It’s simple. The Nazi’s gave the 4-year plan a bad name. The Poles tried a 6-year plan, but gave up after 5. Jesuits do 7-year plans, but they’ve got eternity on their side. So while the inventor of the 5-year plan was not exactly a saint, 5…
11/13/2016: In a podcast with a Black UO philosophy student, posted on the Daily Emerald website here: Professor Coleman’s undergraduate work was in theater. He started the Ethnic Studies program at UO. He says the administration should have thought before condemning Shurtz. He connects white emcees making money off blackface to white…
Some group of far-right-wing cranks has started a website where students can report their professors for being too liberal. I assume they got the idea from UO’s Bias Response Team, which encouraged students to report faculty for not being liberal enough. (The UO shut down that part of the BRT website, in response…
for violating team rules about interviewing athletes. That would be at Baylor: Police charged Heath Nielsen, Baylor’s associate athletic director for communications, after James McBride, a reporter from the Keller, Texas-based Texas Blaze News, told police Nielsen assaulted him Nov. 5 after the Bears’ 62-22 loss to TCU in Waco,…
More good news on fundraising from Around the O: His many admirers considered Dave Frohnmayer the “leader’s leader,” and now his legacy will live on permanently at the University of Oregon School of Law through the new Dave Frohnmayer Chair in Leadership and Law, made possible by a lead gift…
Jennifer Gomez (Psychology), has an excellent op-ed in the RG today. Read it all, here’s an excerpt: … Over the years, I have witnessed and participated in protests and marches, and I have watched the UO change. I have watched victims of sexual violence publicly find their voices. I have…
11/18/2016: In the RG here: Holland [a recent UO graduate] claims that Darren Carrington, a wide receiver on the Ducks football team whom he had just watched play in the game against Arizona State, assaulted him early on Oct. 30, pushing him to the ground outside an apartment complex near East…
A sketch of Ms Irene Hazard Gerlinger. She was the unstoppable force behind the construction of UO’s Gerlinger Hall, and it was named in her honor in 1929: So which of our Board’s members would have the gall to propose taking this remarkable woman’s name off the building she created? She would. Franklin Lewis has the story in the Emerald here.…
Rumor has it that the faculty’s official safe space will be open from 5-8 today (Wed) and tomorrow.
11/1/2016: Real-life UO Faculty Club to replace deplorable on-line rumor mill
Yet. Plenty of reasonable fear of it, however. In the RG here: For some local residents, there’s anxiety that Donald Trump’s presidential win has heightened the threat of hate crimes against minority groups in Lane County. “We have heard an increase of fear and concern among community members and local…
Lots of interesting resolutions and discussion on the Senate blog here, including a new resolution declaring UO a sanctuary university. Comment there, not here.
Andrew Greif has the interview in the Oregonian here. It’s not clear if Duck PR flack Craig Pintens or other athletic department minders set up and monitored the interviews, but that is the Duck’s normal practice. Two years ago two of Dana Altman’s Duck basketball players tried a Black Lives Matter protest during…
Update: Another Helfrich player is under investigation, for allegedly breaking a student’s arm in a fight. The RG has the report here. 11/13/2016: Chewed up and spit out by big-time Duck football The people who hang out down at the faculty club have no idea whether or not Coach Matt Helfrich will keep…
He also thinks Phil Knight’s birthday should be a state holiday. Kilkenny is the Duck booster who in his brief reign as Dave Frohnmayer’s AD created a new baseball program that he swore would make money and set up the creative funding plan for Knight Arena, which the academic side…