The latest rumors, from the faculty club hookah room: UO is now on an unofficial AAU watch list for underperformance – not enough federal grants or grad students. Johnson Hall is going to try and hang our expulsion on the faculty, or the union, or the weather, but we all…
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For me the Duck’s fast moving violations of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles are the most exciting part of the game. But every now and then I check out FishDuck.com to try and understand what’s happening on the field. This latest analysis by Josh Schlichter clarifies what are clearly some pretty complicated…
John Locanthi has the story in WWeek. Now I understand big-time college sports – they’re all still in high school. 12/19/12.
12/16/12: Diane Dietz of the RG has the story on the Eugene bubble. Since parents look at the total cost of attendance, decreases in rental costs allow UO to increase tuition dollar for dollar – and the fancy places like Kilkenny’s Towers are typically for rich out-of-staters. This glut will…
Ben Schorr of the Commentator on the Nike deal. Dash Paulson of the ODE on the faculty union. The ODE has been mostly filled with Duck propaganda lately – good to see some substance. The Oregonian also has an excellent Harry Esteve piece on the Nike tax deal machinations. 12/14/12.
From the faculty union website: First session December 13 (9am-1pm) and December 14 (1pm-5pm). Negotiations will take place in the Knight Library Collaboration Center (Room 122). The bargaining meetings are open to the public. Lots of people have lots of questions about how this will proceed. I don’t know how substantive…
The link is here. Short form. Deadline is 5PM Friday. 12/14/12.
to study the problems in his Johnson Hall administration. About time. Ad posting here: The ideal candidates will have a demonstrated record of past scholarly success and experience in developing and applying quantitative approaches to the analysis of complex data sets, to address problems that are computationally challenging and data…
12/4/2012: It takes a heavy hand to enforce the NCAA’s rules against letting college football players get any of the fruits of their labor. UO’s Faculty Athletics Representative Jim O’Fallon sits on the NCAA Infractions Committee that wields the lash – and he was lucky he recused himself from this particular case. The…
Originally posted Dec 4th, 2012: All hail the glorious new five year plans! CAS Dean Scott Coltrane is ignoring Interim Provost Bean’s silly threats to start a blog to help him rewrite UO’s Academic Plan. If Bean ever does follow through on this, everyone will ignore it and Bean will…
The athletic department is willing to take a chance on provoking an international incident involving a star Iranian basketball player, if it will help the Ducks pay off those arena bonds. Matt Walks has the story in the ODE. 11/20/2012.
The Emerald has photos. First is beautiful. 11/19/2012.
Word from the LCNI is that the brain scanner is down until mid December because of a shortage of helium for the 3 Tesla super-cooled super-conducting electro-magnet. Donate your party balloons, children! 11/16/2012.
A group of faculty opposed to the faculty union have just started a blog at http://uounionforum.wordpress.com/: Who we are We are faculty concerned with the establishment of the UO Faculty Union. We are not affiliated with United Academics or with the Faculty Union Bargaining Team. Many of us have not joined…