Rich Read of the Oregonian had a long series of stories on former Interim GC Doug Park’s decision to get a copy of Jane Doe’s confidential counseling records while Doe was suing UO over the alleged basketball gang rape. Park’s decision was the basis for changes in state and federal law…
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So he should be able to pay UO back for his legal defense, right? Andrew Theen has the report in the Oregonian, based on the latest Chronicle data: Michael Gottfredson, a former University of Oregon president, received more than $1.2 million in compensation during the 2014-15 school year, making him the…
Complementary money pits – every politician’s dream. From Diane Dietz in the RG: The 2021 IAAF World Championships track meet in Eugene presents an opportunity to move teams by rail to Eugene from training sites up and down the Willamette Valley. “It could prove to ourselves and to the Legislature what…
Follow the menu from police.uoregon.edu to http://police.uoregon.edu/content/campus-security-authorities then check the links at the bottom for a variety of wrong, misleading, and outdated information about reporting sexual assaults. For example, our Police Department’s Quick Reference Guide, written after Mike Gottfredson declared that faculty were mandatory reporters of sexual assault and harassment (and then tried to hide…
The Washington Post has a long report that uses a recent rape allegation against a UVA football player to address many aspects of campus sexual assaults, here.
and lobby the legislature. Is the lobbying going to focus on more state funding, or on even less state control? It’s unlikely it will be about how to rationalize the system for redistributing what little state funding there is, given the competing interests of the universities. Andrew Theen has the story in the…
I’m particularly impressed by the quotes from Provost Coltrane, who finally apologizes for how he dug CAS a budget hole while he was dean and then when he became provost and president, ignored Marcus’s attempts to fix things until the inevitable crisis occurred. And, in a first, Around the O actually…
7/13/2016 update: Reporter Max Thornberry has the report in the Daily Emerald here. A snippet: Concerns about the timeliness and effectiveness of the AAEO office [aren’t] new. A 2014 report from the ombuds office found that, “classified staff report high levels of distrust…in the fairness, competence and responsiveness of the University’s AA/EO function.”…
Diane Dietz has the good news in the RG here.
Follow links for application materials. For more info see the UO Police Department website: Tuesday, July 12 — James Miyashiro, Senior Director of Safety Operations, University of LaVerne (LaVerne, Calif.): Public forums include a student session from 11-11:50 a.m., a public presentation and Q & A from 2:30-3:30 p.m. open to all,…
I’m no classics professor, but the Greeks had a word for people who could run fast, jump high, and throw far. That word was heroes. Of course that word doesn’t mean what Tracktown thinks it means: μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆοςοὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί’ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε’ ἔθηκεν Greek heroes were also known for their…
Dan Bernstein has the report for CBS here.
Time for the Oregon Tourism Commission to rethink where to spend that $25M in new hotel tax revenue? The jocks almost tied in 2012, but the doping and IAAF scandals have taken their toll. Meanwhile the Bach Festival aficionados are a no-show when it comes to on-line impact. Google Trends data on…
The NYT has the story here.
yet. Which should be good news for this year’s enrollment, given this InsideHigherEd report on the negative effects of campus scandals on undergraduate applications here: Scandals on college campuses — whether related to sexual assault, hazing or other crimes — have made headlines in recent years. A new working paper suggests…