The 31st annual PIELC conference started today. Organized by law school students. List of speakers, and more, here. Complete brochure here. Just in case anyone got the wrong idea that the UO Law School was all about stuff like CnC. 2/28/2013.
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Does anyone know what happened to Assistant General Counsel Paul Kaufmann? He used to be listed on the GC website, right above Randy’s General Counsel Emeritus (sic) Melinda Grier. (Geller’s apology letter to former hack job AG John Kroger and the Honorable Judge David Leith is here.) Now he’s gone.…
Two weeks ago Bean told Karen Sprague she wouldn’t be reappointed as VP for UGS – claiming the office would be reorganized. As a commenter wrote: She wasn’t fired – she was asked to step down as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies. Just one more example of Bean focusing on…
to spend their time enforcing the NCAA’s rules against giving the athletes “impermissible benefits”, given all the cash they bring in for the cartel, coaches and athletics directors. Other people have no shame, like UO’s “Faculty Athletics Representative” Jim O’Fallon: NCAA enforcer Jim O’Fallon NCAA player, kicked off team for…
Excellent report from Saul Hubbard in the RG on the prospects for Lariviere’s toned down New Partnership proposal in the Legislature: Some key state lawmakers remain lukewarm about a proposal that would create independent governing boards at the University of Oregon, Portland State University and Oregon State University, partially freeing…
I think those economists call this a natural experiment. Before 2010 UO had a contract with the EPD for armed officers to patrol campus and respond to campus trouble. I think it cost $500,000. Then VPFA Frances Dyke canceled the deal, and started dumping money on her pals in the…
2/27/13: The academic side is finally off the hook for the 50% we’d been covering out of tuition money. We’ve written a fair amount on UO General Counsel Randy Geller charging the academic side half the cost of “The Cleaner” Mike Glazier’s work on the Chip Kelly / Willie Lyles recruiting infraction.…
Makes sense. But more likely they make Gottfredson move into it to satisfy the gift intent, then use McMorran house for? Suggestions welcome. 2/26/2013.
Long story. The complaint to the bar’s ethics committee against Frohnmayer, Gary, and Pilliod was initiated by the wife of the Deschutes county DA, after they made an ethics complaint about him over some weird public records case involving the county. Frohnmayer collected quite a few billable hours from the…
My usual pitch to faculty is “Surely there must be something about your research that would interest high school students for 45 minutes?” But just in case I recommend asking one of your undergrads to come along and answer questions about college life. Details here at “Around the O” and the SAIL…
That’s my take, from this excellent Josephine Wollington story in the ODE: “What am I supposed to do again when someone tells me they’ve been sexually assaulted?” … The 21-year-old UO junior didn’t know she was a mandatory reporter until summer 2011. No written policy, no explanation, she said. “No one…
2/25/2013: My live-blogging of the bargaining sessions is mostly sober, but not that reflective: Rudnick seems to be scheming to weaken the Faculty Personnel Committee. Check out last year’s FPC report, chaired by Mike Russo, here. It includes three pages on issues with current procedures, here. Looks like considerable overlap…
Say what you will about former VPAA Russ Tomlin, at least he is teaching courses for his 600 hours, instead of taking the easy way out with the usual administrative sinecure for retiring VPs: It’s going to be an interesting list of guest speakers. Maybe UO’s General Counsel Emerita, Melinda…
2/24/13. Whoops, sorry, actually that story is about one of the many villas belonging to the Bongo Ondimba family, who recently gave $20 million in Gabonese money to UO for a greenwashing program. The latest story about Treetops and departing OUS Chancellor George Pernsteiner is in the RG, here: Interim…
Investigative reporting by Ted Sickinger of the Oregonian, relayed to us by our Portland reporter Bojack, covering the tax scam beat: You can argue about tax giveaways for “green” this-and-that, but just about everybody would agree that the companies that reap the benefit of those subsidy programs should be required to…