An out of control athletic department that is not the Ducks? Joe Nocera has the report in the NYT. Tyler Kingkade has the $65.5M news from LSU: LSU Faces Dramatic Budget Cuts While It Builds An Expensive Lounging Pool. And you thought Robin Holmes was out of control? Thanks to my vigilant and ever-optimistic readers…
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Plenty of money for the Duck football coaches though:
This Thursday, Room 142 in the Law School. From “Around the 0”: Brenda Tracy, an emerging national speaker on campus sexual assault, will give a talk on the UO campus this Thursday, May 14. Sponsored by the UO Senate Intercollegiate Athletics Committee, the event takes place at 3:30 p.m. in…
Finally. This will save UO a lot of money: From: James Bean Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 1:00 PM To: LCB Faculty; LCB Staff Subject: New Adventures Colleagues: I have accepted an offer to become provost of Northeastern University in Boston beginning July 1, 2015. Northeastern presents a great opportunity…
UO Matters’ operatives have obtained a secret video of Doug Park and the Johnson Hall Executive Leadership Team briefing Schill on the current UO situation, here. Around the 0 has the rest of the story: Incoming UO President Michael Schill will return to campus this week for the first of a couple…
5/11/2015 update:
The new policy, apparently rushed through in response to the UO archives release, is here:
Unless required by law, patron information is not to be given to non-library individuals, including parents, friends, professors, university administrators, police, FBI, university security staff, or the CIA.
The old policy said:
Patron information is not to be given to non-library individuals, including parents, friends, professors, university administrators, police, FBI, university security staff, or the CIA. Only a court order can require the disclosure of patron records.
The question is who decides what is required by law. The American Library Association’s recommended policy is very clear – nothing should be disclosed until a court requires it:
The Council of the American Library Association strongly recommends that the responsible officers of each library, cooperative system, and consortium in the United States:
1. Formally adopt a policy that specifically recognizes its circulation records and other records identifying the names of library users to be confidential. (See also ALA Code of Ethics, Article III, “We protect each library user’s right to privacy and confidentiality with respect to information sought or received, and resources consulted, borrowed, acquired or transmitted” and Privacy: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights.)
2. Advise all librarians and library employees that such records shall not be made available to any agency of state, federal, or local government except pursuant to such process, order or subpoena as may be authorized under the authority of, and pursuant to, federal, state, or local law relating to civil, criminal, or administrative discovery procedures or legislative investigative power.
3. Resist the issuance of enforcement of any such process, order, or subpoena until such time as a proper showing of good cause has been made in a court of competent jurisdiction. 1
1 Note: Point 3, above, means that upon receipt of such process, order, or subpoena, the library’s officers will consult with their legal counsel to determine if such process, order, or subpoena is in proper form and if there is a showing of good cause for its issuance; if the process, order, or subpoena is not in proper form or if good cause has not been shown, they will insist that such defects be cured.
At UO, Library Dean Adriene Lim released the records because the university’s interim general counsel Doug Park asked her to. It appears that Oregon State is now ready to do the same. Will the ALA quietly go along with this?
5/6/2015: Proposed UO Library privacy policy lets admins snoop through circulation records, Coltrane won’t release Walkup report, Library Dean Adriene Lim won’t let ALA release her emails or letter on archives
This has some interesting parallels to the debate over the Counseling Center’s privacy policy.
That’s today’s news from Rich Read in the Oregonian: Six University of Oregon employees, including a vice president and the school’sinterim top lawyer, are under investigation for alleged misconduct in the handling of therapy records of a student who says she was gang-raped by three Ducks basketball players. The Oregon State Bar…
Try hiring a new professor without scrupulously following the affirmative action hiring procedures: a public job posting, an open search, and diverse finalists. Break those rules and AAEO Director Penny Daugherty will tell you sorry, no hire this year. Of course the rules are a little different for Johnson Hall. Last summer Mike Gottfredson…
5/7/2015 update: Edward Russo has the latest on HLGR’s accidental transparency here, complete with this classic quote: “We deeply regret that appearance of a lack of transparency,” board member Beth Gerot said. It’s a little difficult for me to wrap my head around the idea that 4J is still paying HLGR after the…
You log into Duckweb to vote. voting closes Thursday May 21. You only vote for Senators from your unit, but for the Senate Committees voting is at large – e.g. faculty have a vote for the OA member of the FAC. If you aren’t sure who to vote for, I suggest…
From Jennifer Freyd’s Op-Ed in the RG today on the basketball rape allegations, “UO can move beyond institutional betrayal”. Read it all here. A snippet: What have sexual assault survivors and their allies learned at the UO this year? From the counterclaim in the lawsuit — which was later withdrawn under…
Very interesting story by reporter Tran Nguyen, here. Hi-end rents increasing, low-end rents decreasing. Kilkenny Towers is now low-end. All in all good news for the overall affordability of a UO education.