to make room for yet another Duck sports egofice: The new facility will be named the Jane Sanders Stadium after a UO cheerleader who attended the university in the late 1940s. Diane Dietz has the story in the RG, here. It touches on a lot of interesting UO history. I…
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They won’t of course. The first rule of Dave Hubin’s Public Records office is to delay, redact, and charge out the butt for anything that might conceivably embarrass the Johnson Hall administration, or even just help the public understand what the hell is going on at Oregon’s flagship public university.…
A podcast for The Oregon Daily Emerald, here: Emerald reporters Dahlia Bazzaz and Alexandra Wallachy discuss news events from week 4 at the University of Oregon and beyond, including: a leak of 22,000 UO admin. records, … It starts with an excellent summary of the UO presidential archive release. About 7 minutes…
The Chronicle of Philanthropy has the news: A federal judge today handed open-records activist Carl Malamud a victory in his battle to get the Internal Revenue Service to release Form 990 tax returns in a format that can be read by computers, thus making information about nonprofit operations far more…
Thanks to a student for forwarding the message – here’s hoping Doug Park doesn’t try to nail me on a FERPA violation for posting it: University of Oregon Young Americans for Liberty will be meeting at 6:30 tonight in Peterson 103. We will be walking over to the Knight Law Center together to…
1/29/2015 update: Rich Read of the Oregonian reports on Wednesday’s UO Senate meeting, here: … Harbaugh sees both farce and tragedy in his latest episode, LibraryGate. He called Coltrane’s email alleging unlawful release of records “outrageously premature judgment on his part, and I’m assuming Tobin Klinger wrote it – but I can’t be sure…
Summary: A kickass meeting. Large turnout. Coltrane and Lim are generally forthright. Coltrane and Library Dean Lim commit to public review of UO public records problems. That’s my takeaway from their generally positive and constructive statements and the Q&A at today’s Senate meeting. (Archives too). A public review of Dave Hubin’s…
1/28/2015 update: Interim Provost Bronet releases statement: Friends and colleagues, Many of you are following with interest the recent release of electronic documents, which bypassed archival processing procedures, and the university’s efforts to get those documents back. I am pleased to inform you that the documents have been returned. Our separate…
1/27/2015 update: Guilty on all counts, here. What happened to the coach who brought them to campus? He’s now Penn State’s well-paid head coach, and has “no comment”. 1/24/2015: I’m not much for trigger warnings, but this needs one. From the Nashville Tennessean, here.
“The Open Records King of Eugene”, by Eric Kelderman, here. (Gated if you’re off campus). Some extracts: Since 2009 the University of Oregon has had five presidents, including interim officeholders. It has gone through four athletic directors, and it’s now advertising for its fourth general counsel. During that time the…
Makes sense, it would be a conflict of interest for UO’s Interim GC Doug Park to let Randy Geller get too close to this one. Seems like a lot of lost billable hours though, I wonder how Geller is making it up for Sharon Rudnick and the other HLGR shareholders? The victim’s…
It’s a union, of course there will be beer. And also info about bargaining priorities and how you can help the union convince Scott Coltrane to honor Richard Lariviere’s promise to get UO faculty salaries to the AAU medians. There’s plenty of water in the well this year, as demonstrated…
Job ad here. Rumor has it that Board Secretary Angela Wilhelms wants a Chuck Triplett type, who will keep her and Chairman Chuck Lillis informed about exactly what UO’s President is up to: Title: Senior Executive Assistant The University of Oregon seeks applications for the Senior Executive Assistant for the Office…
Here, now updated with useful links to the UO Presidential Archives, and Dave Hubin’s Public Records log.