5/4/2010: The PSU student newspaper, the “Daily Vanguard”, reports on the OUS system’s consideration of a conversion to semesters. 89% of public universities are on semesters. There is extensive information about this on the OUS website, looks like it is under serious consideration. A reader pointed me to this survey…
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5/3/2010: To my knowledge this is the first time the Oregon DOJ has actually ordered UO public records officer Doug Park to produce public records. Often they will pressure UO, and you will get the records the day before the DOJ has to make a ruling (7 days from your…
Q: Where do you get your facts? Do you watch television? Do you read books?A: I get most of them from the Internet. I constantly sit at my computer. From the DER SPIEGEL interview with Moammar Quadafi. No, the reporter did not ask the logical followup: Mac, or PC?
5/3/2010: The results of the Senate survey on unionization are here. The comments on the survey are also posted and are worth reading. The response rate is higher than the previous UO Matters survey, and the results are very clear: The tenure track faculty are opposed more than 2 to…
5/1/2010: Greg Bolt of the RG finally gets Frohnmayer to talk about the Bellotti contract. Frohnmayer was waiting to see exactly how much the AG’s report unearthed before he went on the record with his version. And the report has just one mention of Frohnmayer – he delegated signing authority…
5/1/2010: Billy Witz of the NY Times has a long story on the recent troubles. No citation, but they do pick up the “Jock Box” phrase coined by UO Matters: A new learning center — dubbed the Jock Box for its glass cube design — has been built for athletes…
4/29/2010: Diversity Vice President Charles Martinez is paid $146,537 by UO for his 0.75 FTE appointment at UO. (The stipend is really just extra salary, paid from a fund that was set up to compensate faculty for administrative work. The administration has been using these instead as a device to…
4/30/2010 update: Greg Bolt has a story about this in the RG. Not much new except this: Some attention also focused on former UO President Dave Frohnmayer, who in 2005 had assigned responsibility for personnel issues in the athletic department to Grier’s office. Frohnmayer was winding down his presidency when…
4/29/2010: The results of the Senate survey on unionization are just in, here. Response rate looks like an admirable 50% or so. TTF: 55% opposed, 23% in favor. (380 responses). Overall (TT, OA, NTTF, etc): 50% against, 22% in favor. (1053 responses) I don’t have time to digest this til…
4/28/2010:At 11AM tomorrow the OUS Board meets and will hear a report from their auditor, Pat Snopkowski, on the Frohnmayer / Bellotti oral contract scandal – or as they call it in their docket, “A UO Athletics Matter.” I’m expecting a coverup, based on how the OUS Audit Division handled…
4/28/2010: Many bloggers are wondering about their legal status in the wake of the seizure of the computers of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen, the guy who blogged about the iphone HD. Is a blog a news organization? Was he a journalist? If so, apparently CA’s “shield law” says the gov’t…
4/27/2010: Parking pdate: The ODE follows up their excellent reporting on parking with an angry editorial: … What’s more, more than a third of the 377 spots in the arena parking structure are reserved for users of the Jaqua Academic Center for Student-Athletes. DPS paying for the arena structure bond…
4/27/2010: Lariviere leaves no doubt who is in charge. From Ron Bellamy in the RG: Lariviere said that at times he re-directed Kilkenny when he felt that the search was heading in a direction with which he wasn’t comfortable. “Not that Pat was promoting a particular person, but a name…
When your blog starts getting a bunch of hits from United States Department of Justice IP addresses, googling Oregon DOJ melinda grier doug park, you start to wonder where this is all going. Someplace that’s OK for UO, I hope.
4/26/2010: Unhappy UO students thought they would talk with President Lariviere, got Russ Tomlin and Diversity VP Charles Martinez instead.