7/5/2013: Excuse me if I’ve got anything wrong here, it’s been a long strange trip. Back in 2010 or so Dave Frohnmayer and HLGR filed an ethics complaint on behalf of the county’s general counsel Mark Pilliod against newly elected DA Patrick Flaherty. After a year or so of digging…
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7/3/2013: Eder Campuzano has the story in the ODE, vote is 23 to 7.
7/3/2013: Benjamin Franklin was a failure as an apprentice chandler and a runaway from his first apprenticeship as a printer. Eventually he figured out what to do with his life, and in the end donated L1,000 in his will to start a revolving fund to lend money to Boston students.…
7/3/2013: UO “top scholars” admissions officer David Van Der Haegen in the RG Letters: The Register-Guard clearly displayed what it viewed as the single most important news of the day on June 27. Of course, it was the fact that the Oregon Ducks football team would be spared the horrific fate of…
7/1/2013 retraction, per ORS 31.120 The original headline on this post, on 6/10/2013, was “Bar investigates Rudnick, Geller and Gary for alleged bill padding.” On 6/20/2013 I received a retraction demand from Ms Rudnick and Mr. Gary per ORS 31.120, which gives news organizations 2 weeks to retract allegedly false and defamatory statements, before they can be sued…
7/2/2013: Tom Bowerman in the RG letters, on an issue which has attracted a lot of criticism about where Rob Mullens is taking UO: My father, a former track coach at the university, was a moonlight developer of apparel worn by various university athletes. The designs eventually contributed to forming…
6/30/2013: The new academic year starts July 1, which means it’s time to make public records requests for the contracts President Gottfredson has given our administrative leaders. Under Lariviere I could get these in a few days at no charge, but I’m expecting this year Gottfredson and Hubin will use…
6/27/2013: From the minutes of the 5/24 OUS F&A meeting: Projected campus fund balances for biennial-end include: EOU, 5.1%; OIT, 12.4%; OSU, 8.4%;PSU, 14.2%; SOU, 7.4%; UO, 17.%; WOU, 16.6%; and Chancellor’s Office, 20.7%. Vice PresidentMoffitt, UO, advised that they are preparing a written plan for submission to the Boardconcerning…
6/27/2013: Just 4 days before his eviction from Treetops, former OUS Chancellor Dr. George Pernsteiner has landed a job as president of the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. No word on whether or not his former chief of staff Bridget Burns will follow him to their offices in Boulder.…
6/27/2013: The legislative website has the amendments, here. Saul Hubbard of the RG explains the deal: Addressing a key sticking point, the bill now requires one student seat, one faculty seat and one classified-employee staff seat on each 11- to 15-member university board. The student seat would have voting rights, while…
6/26/2013 update. The public NCAA report is here. Hilariously pompous. Public Censure and Reprimand. Presumably much more will be released eventually, thanks to this public records opinion from Dave Frohnmayer’s DOJ. The NYT has this quote from Kelly: Kelly, in a statement issued through the Eagles, apologized to the university and its fans.…
6/26/2013: From an op-ed in the Oregonian by libertarian Steve Buckstein of the Cascade Policy Institute: “If it were possible to opt out of membership in a labor union without losing your job or any other penalty, would you do it?” Nationally, 33.4 percent of respondents answered yes.In Oregon, 31.2…
6/26/2013: Starts at 3pm, scant details here, agenda here (3rd and 4th items).
6/25/2013, 9-4. Sorry, no live-blog on this one but I’ll post a synopsis later. Meanwhile try Luebke’s blog. Your Guarantee of Truthiness: All UO Matters bargaining posts fact-checked by Randy Geller, HLGR and their lobbyist and public relations consultant, (and former Frohnmayer aide) Marla Rae. Disclaimer: My opinion of what people said or were…
6/25/2013: UO’s student-journalists at the Daily Emerald have started a non-profit to raise money to pay the fees UO charges them to see public records about UO. Their explanation is here and the donate button is here. Note that all donations are public. Dave Hubin’s response, in the form of a letter…