One of the recommendations is a campus climate survey, along the lines of the one Professor Freyd wants to do at UO. As Steve Duin reports in the Oregonian, UO *really* does not want her to do that survey. Press release on the McCaskill survey, with link to full results here. Quoting:…
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Probably not Tim Gleason’s 160over90 branders. Here’s the story on the burgeoning business of helping universities deal with the legal and PR implications of rape allegations, athletic or otherwise. No evidence that Gottfredson has gone there yet, though who knows what’s in the hidden subcontracts. More likely that UO is…
RG story here, audit report here. It’s too bad that Secretary of State Kate Brown’s audit focused on low paid staff and OA’s instead of on UO’s central administrators, where the big money and big problems are. The 2011 SOS audit of former President Dave Frohnmayer’s golden parachute retirement contract…
The New Yorker has a bit here. (Thanks to former UO Journalist CJ Ciaramella’s FOIA newsletter for the link) The legislation came from CA congressman John Moss, a victim of McCarthyism. He tied it to the First Amendment right to petition the government for redress, arguing that the execution of…
Patrick Hruby isn’t buying it: And then the NCAA said something truly ridiculous: … Maintaining the collegiate model of athletics, which is uniquely American, is crucial … Uniquely American? No. No. A thousand times no. Not on a Thursday, not on a Sunday, and absolutely freaking not on the Fourth of July.…
7/2/2014 update: The old post below now seems a bit more relevant, given that President Gottfredson apparently assumed he could keep the March 8-9 basketball rape allegations secret while the players potentially transferred to other schools. (The comment from Berdahl and replies are also interesting.) And here’s another related case, from a reader.…
LBJ signing the civil rights act. A calm, convincing, and inspiring speech: And while I’m on the subject of personal liberty, I feel the need to mention my fellow Tandem High School graduate David Garner. David’s eloquent junior year book report presentation on Robert Moses’s biography of LBJ forever changed…
And now they need to clean out Johnson Hall, starting with Gottfredson: Dear friends and colleagues, The University of Oregon is entering a bold and exciting new era. Today—July 1, 2014—signals the completion of the university’s transition of governance authority from the Oregon State Board of Higher Education to the…
This is good news, just in time to celebrate the 4th of July: The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a.k.a. theFIRE.org, has just announced a major new legal initiative. In the past FIRE has worked as an advocacy group, and co-ordinated free speech lawsuits on behalf of students and…
$3M goes from regular students to subsidize athletes. The students are protesting, and the administration has pledged to overrule the athletic director and end the subsidies. That would be at UW, a member of the prestigious AAU and, unlike UO, likely to remain a member. Story here. At UO, the…
12/11/2013: Geller: Faculty must be fully engaged An email from President Gottfredson’s General Counsel Randy Geller, sent round today: Work schedule for bargaining unit faculty members: This is a reminder that under Article 32, Section 21, of the United Academics Collective Bargaining Agreement, bargaining unit officers of instruction who do not…
6/30/2014 update:
Aaron Kasinitz has the rather moving story in the Oregonian, here. And this is a relatively good outcome for a Duck football player. If O’Bannon wins his lawsuit, Thomas might be able to collect some money from the NCAA cartel, someday.
And right on time, here’s news on a partial settlement of the O’Bannon lawsuit. Perhaps UO’s chief sports lawyer and FAR wannabe Rob Illig will comment?
“The filing of settlement terms today signifies an opportunity to provide complete closure to the video game plaintiffs, but should not be considered pay for performance,” NCAA chief legal officer Donald Remy said in a statement.”
Robert Carey, an attorney for the Keller and Alston plaintiffs, said that if a player appeared as an avatar in four different years of the game, he potentially could end up with $20,000 – or $5,000 per appearance year. But if such a player’s photograph also was used in two different years, he could get another $10,000 – again $5,000 per appearance year – for a total of $30,000.
9/5/2012 update: Unpaid internships, but with brain damage.
A paper in the journal Neurology today reports that NFL players are 3x more likely than average to contract Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. And in today’s story on college football brain injuries Ron Richmond of the RG reports that
Dr. Greg Skaggs, the UO director of athletic medicine, also declined a request through an athletic department spokesman to be interviewed for this series.
Not exactly consistent with UO’s academic mission.
I’ve been trying to get a copy of the resume’s and job application letters for UO’s lawyers in the General Counsel’s office for the past 8 weeks or so. The qualifications of UO’s attorneys are a matter of obvious public interest given UO’s many current legal problems, the new legal…
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