today. He hasn’t got out of Johnson Hall much yet, so it will be interesting to hear what comes from this. 9/19/2012. 9/20/2012 update: Turns out he did not show and was not on the agenda. Jamie Moffitt stood in for Johnson Hall. Step up your game, secret sources.
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Some reference documents on the UO Intercollegiate Athletics Committee (IAC) and UO athletics, updated periodically. Random marijuana testing policy: Berdahl, Mullens try to sneak random drug testing of “student-athletes”through during summer, Senate and IAC leaders oppose, General Counsel Randy Geller calls out Senate and IAC head and members: … Your allegations…
That would be chancellor H. Holden Thorp of UNC. The Chronicle reports he was worn down by the usual athletics scandals and one involving fundraising. I wonder if universities ever count this sort of administrative cost of dealing with big-time college sports as part of the athletic department’s overhead? 9/18/2012.
It’s not for sports facilities. Oregonian story here. 9/17/2012.
Craig Pintens and UO’s other well paid hypesters are starting to sound a little shrill. Bob Welch of the RG started it off last week with this nicely written column: The excess. “In a word, that’s how I’d sum it up,” says Darrel Linker, 68, of Springfield, who says the UO is…
Ian Campbell has the story in the ODE. 9/11/2012.
without consulting the UO Senate Intercollegiate Athletics Committee. It’s possible he talked to the executive committee, I’m not on that. Josephine Woolington report here. Despite this I still support Gottfredson’s plan to draft Rob as interim Provost. Bean’s done far worse, far more often.
Steve Duin has the details. 9/10/2012.
Brian Smith is departing F&A for a big promotion at the UCSD medical school. Another AVP, Laura Hubbard, left last fall to be VP at SUNY Buffalo after she didn’t get the UO VP job. The UO search failed and Moffitt, who’d been on the search committee and was not…
That’s the rumor overheard Saturday night down at the opening of the Faculty Club’s new Lariviere Smoking Lounge: “Seriously, it’s a brilliant move, gives me a little hope for this place. Mullens looks out for his people – he got his coaches 21% raises and bonuses, they didn’t even need a union,…
Discounts for the faculty? You know that had to hurt. They’re cheaper on stubhub, but it’s the thought that counts. The JH administrators get in free of course. Well, free to them. The academic budget gives athletics $375K for 80 seats, part of the secret Frohnmayer/Kilkenny deal. 9/5/2012. Dear University of…
We had a post a while ago about how the Ducks were auctioning off football game jerseys to cover their mounting deficits. LaMike was not amused. But now it’s used women’s soccer team shorts – complete with certificate of authenticity. Surely there’s a classier way to pay for the UO administration’s family…
per week, last 52 weeks. The spikes are the Lariviere firing and Gottfredson hiring. The most popular recent document downloads are Randy Geller’s resume and Robin Holmes’s EMU election plan. 9/4/2012.
The Ducks may be a money loser for UO’s academic side, but they’ve been a gold mine for ambitious area sportswriters. A few years back ODE reporter Ryan Knutson turned his exposes of Kilkenny’s Matt Court arena financing scheme into an associate producer job at Frontline. Last week George Schroeder…
According to an NBER working paper: In The Effect of Housing Wealth on College Choice: Evidence from the Housing Boom (NBER Working Paper No. 18075), Michael Lovenheim and Lockwood Reynolds find that a $10,000 increase in a family’s housing wealth in the four years before they send a child off…