Presumably naked self-interest on the part of college coaches and other athletic department employees getting rich off the labor of college football and basketball players is the main explanation for their opposition to the idea of paying their “student-athletes”. Racism also has some explanatory power: Prejudice or Principled Conservatism? Racial Resentment and White Opinion toward…
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This is a sad day for the University of Oregon. Diane Dietz deserves more than a little credit for the turnaround in the honesty and competence of the UO administration that we’ve seen in the last few years. When I came to UO in 1995 the RG’s coverage of UO amounted to…
An anonymous reader has been trying for months to get some simple public records from UO. They filed the request with the UO Public Records Office, they eventually got an estimate of the costs, and they paid it. Their check was cashed by UO. Then they waited some more. Months more. They…
That’s about 0.15 Gottfredsons, 0.005 Helfriches, or enough to pay a NTTF for a year and a half. Ryan Thorburn has the scoop in the RG here: Oregon paid former football assistant coach David Reaves a total of $63,750 in compensation for his brief employment as Willie Taggart’s co-offensive coordinator and tight ends…
I’ll get this contest started with entry #1, from Room 30 Pacific Hall. Most of the seat desks have been replaced with formica, but it appears the Facilities Services carpenters didn’t have the heart to rip out this motivational creation – from the back row, of course: Entry #1, “Focus on Class” Send…
I first started writing about the Arts and Administration Program (AAD) and Doug Blandy’s $1M credit hour scam back in 2014: 1/23/2014: VPAA Doug Blandy pulls off daring $1M student credit hour heist … Starting somewhere around 2006, when Doug Blandy took over as Director of the Arts and Administration program in…
Mike “The Cleaner” Glazier is the lawyer that UO’s Rob Mullens and Randy Geller hired to deal with the Chip Kelly/Willie Lyles recruiting scandal. The academic side got stuck with half his legal bills, Bob Berdahl used the fact that Nathan Tublitz and the Senate IAC tried to find out what was going on and who…
BOT March 3 meetings: 30 month delay in internal audit of “significant risks” and “negative impact of unfortunate events in athletics” Sorry, I’m skipping today. Looks like the livecast link below is now working, and Max Thornberry is tweeting here: https://twitter.com/Max_Thornberry There’s an updated version of the BOT materials here, and I…
This should be interesting. 9AM in Johnson Hall: Intercollegiate Athletics Advisory Committee (IAAC) Meeting Wednesday, March 1, 2017 9:00 am - 10:00 am Johnson Hall Conference Room, Room 105 Agenda Introductions and ground rules - Chair Athletics 101 - Rob Mullens Services for Student-Athletes - Steve Stolp NCAA and PAC12…
Andrew Theen has the story in the Oregonian, here: Phil and Penny Knight, arguably Oregon’s most prominent couple, were recognized earlier this month as the leading philanthropists in the nation. The Chronicle of Philanthropy listed the Nike co-founder and his wife as the top donors in its annual ranking of the…
Diane Dietz has the report in the RG here: To save money, the University of Oregon is preparing to trim about 75 jobs from its non-tenured faculty, according to United Academics, the labor union representing the faculty. Plans call for reductions of 25 positions from the College of Arts and…
3/1/2017: ESPN picks up the story, here: The University of Oregon is writing a new policy that could make coaches’ disciplinary records inaccessible to the public under Freedom of Information Act laws. According to The Register-Guard, the policy “explicitly says the personnel records of about 1,400 staff members, called ‘officers…
Will Campbell has an excellent data driven story with the history of UO’s failed efforts to fight grade inflation in the Emerald here: … In 2009, when [CAS Associate Dean Ian McNeely] became chair of the Undergraduate Council, the university-wide body that oversees undergraduate education, he became familiar with grade inflation.…
2/24/2017: The Washington Post takes a break from their coverage of President Donald Trump’s decision to ban NYT reporters from his press briefings to pick up the story on Duck coach Willie Taggart’s decision to ban Oregonian reporter Andrew Greif, from UO student-journalist Kenny Jacoby: The WaPo report is a bit sloppy though,…
The UO Alumni magazine has the story on this remarkable woman’s life here.