9/2/2013: Drew Hendricks, a handyman in Port Madlock WA, started out making public records requests to his local police department, asking if they were using cameras to record his license plate: What he eventually found led to a major story in the NY Times today uncovering a massive secret database of…
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9/1/2013: Forwarded by a helpful OA: Open enrollment this year begins Sept 1 and goes through Oct 31. HR is asking us to complete it as soon as possible. Here is an excellent slide presentation with lots of good information: http://benefits.uoregon.edu/2%20Months2%20Steps.pdf In a nutshell: You must take action during open enrollment.…
8/30/2013: President Gottfredson’s faculty supporters – OK, make that his faculty supporter – have argued for that past year that, after getting his UO Board, he would finally turn his efforts to cleaning up Johnson Hall. Replacing Bean was a good first step, and rumors tonight down at the faculty…
8/30/2013: Op-Ed in the RG today: … Our public university was built by Oregonians, and for more than 135 years it has carried out its mission to serve the students and the state of Oregon. In recent decades, inadequate investment in the activities, resources and personnel that constitute and define…
8/30/2013: Thanks for all the U of Nike t-shirt purchases and google ad revenue: I’ve almost got enough money to pay Dave Hubin’s public records office the $225.56 they want to provide info on the authors of the admin bargaining team’s harassing “open letter to Professor Harbaugh”. Please help out. Buy a…
Thursday 8/29/2013, 9am-4pm, room 122 Knight Library.The admin team’s fact-check on this post should be quite interesting.Lead admin negotiator and noted tobacco company lawyer Sharon Rudnick violates UO Respectful Workplace Policy? If you’d showed up you’d probably know what I’m talking about. Don’t miss the next session: Tuesday, 9/3, 10AM. Your chance…
and their well-paid, non-profit, faith-based executives. 8/28/2013.
8/28/2013: A modest proposal from the RG letters. You know, President Gottfredson must have received hundreds of letters and emails from parents, students, and alumni about the new football Sweat Shop. Some enterprising reporter ought to ask Dave Hubin for copies, and for the responses. Just sell university to Nike…
8/27/2013: The guy running this excavator across the street from PLC says he’ll leave the keys in the ignition tonight. We just need $500 in small bills, and a volunteer who knows how to run a Deere 120C. Slip your contribution under my office door.
8/26/2013: Updated elevator version: We’re going down. During the first year of Gottfredson’s administration UO faculty pay has fallen still further behind other AAU public universities: Full profs: down from 85% to 82% Associate profs: down from 92% to 90% Assistant profs: down from…
8/26/2013: An amazing story in the Oregon Quarterly by UO journalism graduate Elisabeth Kramer, on 1966 ODE Editor Annette Buchanan and her role in creating Oregon’s shield law, which protects journalists and their sources. All over a story about pot smoking on campus. How far have we slid back in…
8/26/2013: A correspondent notes that if UO faculty leave early (i.e. take a sabbatical and then don’t come back) we also have to repay a year’s salary. Link here. Of course we don’t get 3.5 years to do it, and we have to repay the cost of our benefits too. 8/24/2013:…
8/22/2013: This is great news. I know some skeptics will say these are just words, but they are powerful ones, made with force and commitment. For me, this goes a long way towards erasing many of the concerns that the faculty and the press have been raising about President Gottfredson’s…
8/22/2013: This is goddamn brilliant. I’ve seen a few comments on this blog calling for a daylong strike during week one, over the administration’s laggardly pay proposal. But instead the faculty union is asking its members to volunteer with VP for Student Affairs Robin Holmes and her annual “Unpack the…