And not the good kind. Washington Post Reporter Adam Kilgore, here:
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Andrew Greif has the story in the Oregonian, here: At least three Oregon Ducks football players were hospitalized after enduring a series of grueling strength and conditioning workouts at UO last week, The Oregonian/OregonLive has learned. Offensive linemen Doug Brenner and Sam Poutasi and tight end Cam McCormick are in fair condition and…
Update: My apologies to those who wanted to hear the UO Gospel Singers and went to Beall Hall at 3 today. The information provided by Around the O in its list of MLK Day events was wrong. The link was for last year’s performance. So far as I can tell there is no…
Jack Moran has the scoop on the latest student-athlete tort-claim notice in the RG here. This is a new one – not related to the one from Dana Altman’s players. UO’s response on that lawsuit isn’t due til Thursday.
Professor Harper announces that the UO Faculty Club will be open this Wed and Th, under the usual rules: WHO: The UO Faculty Club is open to all UO statutory faculty—tenure-track faculty, career non-tenure-track faculty, and OAs tenured in an academic department, as well as people retired from positions in…
That would be the cynical take. Kenny Jacoby has the scoop in the Daily Emerald here: Three Oregon football players who had off-the-field issues have been dismissed from the team, UO athletics spokesman Craig Pintens confirmed Monday afternoon. No news yet on the General Counsel’s investigation of the Duck Athletic Department’s threats to…
A while back I asked commenters for links to legal analyses defending the administration’s decision to discipline Prof. Shurtz. The popular Lawyers, Guns and Money blog has one of sorts, with many comments: http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2016/12/bad-applications-of-anti-harassment-law-should-not-be-used-to-justify-mostly-eliminating-anti-harassment-laws. The beginning: I agree with the bottom line of Eugene Volokh’s analysis here: Shurtz’s foolish decision to wear…
Dear Colleagues, Over the past couple of months, the University of Oregon’s handling of events associated with Professor Nancy Shurtz’s decision to wear a controversial Halloween costume has garnered significant media attention, both locally and nationally. A number of editorials, letters to the editor, and blog posts have engaged in…
That would be the Oregon State University Board, which has some significant business on their agenda, as usual: Public Meetings Notice January 9, 2017 The Oregon State University Board of Trustees will meet on Friday, January 20, to discuss Oregon State’s efforts to advance equity, inclusion, and social justice and…
That would be Ohio University, searching for a new president. Their local paper has the names and backgrounds here.
A (sole-authored) paper presented at the American Economic Association annual meeting this weekend. Summary from InsideHigherEd: To determine the impact of co-authorship, Sarsons tracked all of economics professors who came up for tenure between 1985 and 2014 at 30 top universities, all places that stress tenure candidates’ research credentials. She…
Wow, and I thought this blog gets some pointed comments. I don’t see anything that would be illegal under the protection of the First Amendment, but knowing how our administration feels about free speech I’m just reposting a few of the more civil ones: Perhaps Coltrane was so reluctant to cancel classes because…
A long analysis in the Chronicle of Higher Ed from Jacob Gersen and Jeannie Suk Gersen, professors at Harvard Law School. (May be gated if off campus): Often with the best of intentions, the federal government in the past six years has presided over the creation of a sex bureaucracy…