Synopsis: Coltrane looks like he likes the job, and his colleagues. The faculty and staff clearly like Coltrane too. He gave a brief talk, answered questions, easy rapport. What an improvement. (Funny how when Berdahl and Gottfredson kept insisting we were all colleagues it was so plainly manipulative. Coltrane didn’t even…
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Christian Hill has the story in the RG, here. This development process will raise lots of questions about the secretive foundation, and perhaps will prompt some transparency from them. I’ll have more coverage in the coming weeks.
10/7/14 update: That’s the word from the latest meeting of the “President’s Review Panel” tonight. After 30 minutes of plaintive appeals from the moderator for someone, anyone, to tell the panelists (who have an average age of 83, and were sitting above the students on a raised dais, behind protective tables, partially hidden by white tablecloths) an interesting sexual assault story, several students finally took pity and threw them a bone by suggesting UO use the blank space below the mag stripe on the back of student ID’s for some info on how to avoid rape, and what to do afterwards:
Berdahl and the other desperate panelists seized on this uncontroversial feel-good measure with shameless enthusiasm. Wow, that’s going to be so much cheaper than making the jocks skip practice for some dumb feminism class!
Michigan’s Ted Spencer was so excited he offered to donate his entire $10K honorarium as the prize for the best student entry on how to fill the 1.5″x3.5″ space. OK, I’m kidding about Spencer’s $10K promise. I totally made that up. He’s keeping his $10K – although maybe not, now that his Michigan bosses know about it.
But the rest is pretty accurate, and I’m happy to accept your suggestions in the comments for the best stop rape label, or you can find email addresses for Berdahl, Spencer, and the other panelists here.
More seriously, Alexandra Wallachy has a brief Q&A in the ODE with Sexual Assault Review Panel Chair Mary Deits here. Hailey Geller has it on twitter, here. There was supposed to be a video of the session here, but it’s not working. And, in contrast to the distorted pablum we’ve got from UO PR flacks Julie Brown and Tobin Klinger on this issue, former reporter Greg Bolt plays it remarkably straight in “Around the 0”, here. Well worth reading it all, and that’s a first:
Law professor John Bonine also spoke and asked the panel to be cautious about recommending that the university take part in a campus climate survey organized through the Association of American Universities. He said the organization, of with the UO is the only Oregon member, might have a conflict of interest because it is made up of university administrators.
10/7/14: Berdahl, other Gottfredson panelists visit dorms tonight to hear student rape reports
He’s like 85 years old. It all sounds a little creepy to me, even ignoring the $10K payment panelist Ted Spencer tried to hide from Michigan. Back in May, this was a sick joke in The Onion:
Not quite up to the level of 160over90’s “VD” logo, but they’re trying. Thanks to an anonymous reader for the photo and explanation, if you can call it that, from the CAS Dean’s office. Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 1:21 PM Subject: Stencils – coming to a sidewalk near you… CAS Heads…
This latest report is from Virginia Wesleyan. The assailant is an athlete: They just said, ‘We looked it over and we want to ensure he can still get a good education and be able to play athletics,'” Doe said in an interview with HuffPost, recalling how college officials further explained…
10/6/2014 update: No wonder Rob Mullens tried to keep this one out of the papers too. KATU has some potentially bad news for Dana Altman’s future net worth, here. KATU pulled court records showing [student] was found guilty of assault and battery, disorderly conduct and vandalism in his home state of…
I’m old enough to remember back when the Supreme Court would only make unanimous rulings on civil rights cases, because they all believed that any dissent would leave an opening for racist crazies to tear the country apart. Now the NYTimes reports that the court has decided they can’t be…
Of course. From the Oregon State Bar website: Back in 2011, as UO General Counsel, Geller helped Harrang, Long, Gary and Rudnick get UO’s lucrative contract for outside legal work, shortly after HLGR had hired retiring UO President Dave Frohnmayer – during his UO sabbatical. Then Geller gave HLGR the job of…
That would be the University of Florida, suspending a quarterback accused of a sexual assault Sunday night, the day after he won a football game. Here at UO, it took 2 months for President Gottfredson and Rob Mullens to admit that three of their basketball players had been accused of…
UO’s overpaid VP for Research Brad Shelton is going to have an interesting time rationalizing these low retention offers. Diane Dietz has the story in the RG, here: At least one UO brain researcher has already been poached. Clifford Kentros, a neuroscientist in the psychology department, who designed and produced…
Updated in real-time as reports from the faculty parties roll in. Send your unverified rumors and overheard gossip to uomatters at gmail dot com. I’ll post when I’ve finished my Martini. Or just add a comment. 10/3/2014, 7:47 PM: Reports of Interim President Coltrane’s competency continue to roll in: An unverified…
Update: Jennifer Freyd and Carly Smith gave an impressive hour long talk to the City Club. It certainly resonated with the audience, who asked questions about the role of alcohol and sports and perpetrators. Interim President Scott Coltrane was there. I think it would be hard for any reasonable person…
10/2/2014: Seems like a good time to repost this: 11/29/2013: Every year the state runs a Charitable Fund Drive for employees. You know the drill. You get a few emails from your department head, asking you to sign up for payroll deductions to support community groups like the United Way,…
Update: For a more serious take on the Freyd survey and the Adam Ritz athletics training, read Camilla Mortensen in the Eugene Weekly, here. 10/2/2014: The Oregon Commentator is in hibernation, but fortunately the DailyJade.com has taken up what Dave Frohnmayer affectionately called the OC’s “beery indifference to the law of defamation“: Meanwhile, ESPN…
After the Freyd survey on UO rape and institutional betrayal, and the news reports on the astonishing lengths the UO administration went to keep the basketball rape allegations (and what else?) out of these reports, it’s hard to take them very seriously, but there is some presumably reliable data on…