Dear Campus Community, If you have not yet voted for your representatives on the University Senate or elected university committees, please take a few minutes to do so. Voting closes at noon on Friday, May 11. We know there is a lot going on, but this election is important to…
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5/7/2018 update: Because the best response to speech you hate is more speech. The Daily Emerald has the story here. The website for the contest is here: The University of Oregon Libraries invites UO students to participate in a juried art exhibition that will showcase creative expressions of the culture…
I’m thinking this is not quite what Pres Schill had in mind when he spent ~$100K on lectures to promote free speech. The Daily Emerald’s Ryan Nguyen and Michael Tobin have the report here: The University of Oregon Phi Kappa Psi chapter has been temporarily suspended after a defamatory document printed with the fraternity’s name…
Latest: From: [email protected] Subject: Public Records Request 2018-PRR-370 Date: May 8, 2018 at 4:25:54 PM PDT To: [email protected] 05/08/2018 Dear Mr. Harbaugh: Records responsive to your request, made 5/2/2018, for “copies of any proposals submitted to RFQ for Brand Awareness Study…” are exempt under 192.355(9), as an award has not…
Ken Goe has the story here about the 2020 USATF championship. Apparently this means UO and Eugene can now piss away millions bidding for it. Or maybe the feds will turn up something on Weinhold and Lananna first.
I’m a little bitter I didn’t get invited to be a judge this year, but I’m going to take the high road and post this announcement anyway: All are invited to come to the UO Graduate School’s Graduate Student Research Forum on Friday, May 11 in and around the EMU…
This WSJ op-ed is about UNC, not UO: It would be hard to imagine a more demoralizing example of the tail wagging the dog. UNC is a “public ivy.” Its faculty win Nobel, Pulitzer and Guggenheim awards. Since 1987, UNC ranks first among public universities in competitions for Rhodes scholarships.…
PDF’s below, in response to a request for docs sent in response to this NYT request, which was apparently aimed at docs involving the federal investigation of NCAA basketball: https://publicrecords.uoregon.edu/content/correspondence-66 Dear Professor Harbaugh: Below are links to the records requested on 4/27/2018. These links will remain active for a period of…
Ken Goe of the Oregonian has an interesting piece on the arguments the teardown supporters are trying to get traction with, here: “Hayward Field is a special place, but let’s not get too precious about a stadium. We need to ask ourselves, which history exactly are we clinging so tightly…
Around the O has the news: The University of Oregon is in receipt of a notice of investigation from the Office for Civil Rights. The university issued the following statement in response to the matter: The University of Oregon has been notified by the Office for Civil Rights of the…
4/26/2018: As announced by Senate Pres Sinclair yesterday. I have no idea why it took the administration so long to realize that they had to do this. 4/19/2018: UO administrators waste an hour of Senate Exec time trying to explain why they still can’t decide if they need to involve the Senate…
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/04/25/study-questions-whether-high-impact-practices-yield-higher-graduation-rates
DRAFT Location: EMU 145 & 146 (Crater Lake rooms) 3:00 – 5:00 P.M. 3:00 P.M. Call to Order Introductory Remarks: Senate President Chris Sinclair 3:10 P.M. Business/Reports Report: Knight Campus; Patrick Phillips Vote: US17/18-17: Learning Goals for Methods of Inquiry; Chris Sinclair Discussion: US17/18-18: Proposed Changes to Multicultural Requirement; Lee Rumbarger, Chair of…
Update: For an interesting contrast in institutional responses, see this story from tonight about how Cal State Fresno President Joseph Castro reacted to public anger about a professor who made disparaging comments about the recently deceased Barbara Bush: Professor Jarrar’s conduct was insensitive, inappropriate and an embarrassment to the university.…
4/24/2018 update:
Opponents of tearing down Hayward Field’s east grandstand get support from city council (The Oregonian)
The new design was made public last week for the first time. It includes a nine-story tower on the track’s northeast corner, planned in honor of longtime UO track coach and Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman.
The council heard from a parade of people opposing the plan, among them Bob Penny; his brother, Bill; Neta Prefontaine, sister of distance legend Steve Prefontaine; former University of Oregon runner and author Kenny Moore, and Peter Thompson, a retired senior manager of the IAAF, the governing body of international track and field.
…”Bill Bowerman would cringe at the height and shape of his honorary tower.
Neta Prefontaine said she spoke before the council with a heavy heart. “I feel like I’m losing my best friend,” she said.
Eugene council takes up Hayward Field teardown, might nominate grandstand as city landmark (The Register-Guard)
4/23/2018: Live feed here. Vin Lananna’s Track Town enterprise has hit up the council for lots of public cash. We’ll see if that translates into public input.
