Thanks to a reader for forwarding. Lots of stuff about community and transparency, but no mention of what sort of weaponry they will be armed with: Dear OSU community members, The Department of Public Safety wants you to know that we feel the pain, the outrage and the impact of…
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Just kidding, they’re going to meet, but just about de-naming Deady. Gosh, I wonder what they’ll decide this time. This Wednesday Thursday at 1 PM, online. Corrected materials here. (The original agenda had the day as Thursday, but it’s really on Wednesday.) Livestream will presumably be on the UO Channel…
Full results and open-source docs, so that other universities to use the survey are now posted here. The survey was done by Melissa Graboyes, Ph.D., MPH Associate Professor, Medical History & African History Clark Honors College. Here’s the gist from her website: The UO Fall Survey ran from June 3-11.…
From the Chronicle of Higher Ed, here: The University of Alaska’s president, James R. Johnsen, announced on Friday that he had withdrawn his candidacy for president of the University of Wisconsin system following growing criticism of his record in Alaska and of Wisconsin’s search, which named him its only finalist.…
Apparently not all new public art is as bad as what UO has been installing recently. For example: Compare with this strange new-age schlock, put up outside Straub a few years back: And then there’s this terrifying monster:
Just kidding, they’re asking the Duck athletes to sign it before starting workouts. Story in the Oregonian here.
From Eric Kelderman in the Chronicle of Higher Ed: The sky isn’t falling in college admissions. Not yet, anyway. The threat of the coronavirus and uncertainty about how campuses will operate in the fall had threatened to drive prospective college students to reconsider their options for the coming semester, at…
In the Eugene Weekly, here. Some snippets: The University of Oregon is on the verge of losing one of its only professors who studies race and the criminal justice system within a social justice framework. Ironically, this is happening at a historic moment of national crisis, where anti-Black violence is…
Thanks to an anonymous source for the leak: From: Janet Woodruff-Borden <[email protected]> Date: June 16, 2020 at 7:05:16 PM EDT To: Brad Shelton <[email protected]>, Bruce Blonigen <[email protected]>, DD Humanities <[email protected]>, Gabe Paquette <[email protected]>, Hal Sadofsky <[email protected]>, Janet Woodruff-Borden <[email protected]>, Juan-Carlos Molleda <[email protected]>, Karen Ford <[email protected]>, Kate Mondloch <[email protected]>, Laura Vandenburgh…
Another shocking act of sensible vandalism – this time from federal judges. From Willamette Week, here:
I have no idea. The docs are on the Oregon DOJ’s Charitable Activities website, here, if anyone wants to try and figure this one out:
From the FRB website press release, here: At this point the loan rules, which would apply to many public universities, are out for public comment. Eligible universities could borrow up to one quarter of expenses, or about $300M for UO. The proposed rules would discourage Johnson Hall from cutting payroll…
President Schill’s email this morning: Dear University of Oregon community, There is no question we are living in a moment when our nation is painfully coming to grips with the reality of systemic racism that has been woven into the fabric of our society for generations. Racism exists despite the…
And nothing else. Because they’ve got all the money and power and don’t have to listen to any more complaints from you whiners. Football starts in September, love it or leave it:
Update: These two photos were both taken by Andrew Nelson, a photojournalist for the RG. The first is from Bagdad in 2003, just before a US Marine vehicle pulled down Saddam Hussein’s statue. The second is from Eugene, today, from this RG report. I’m posting them as a reminder that…