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9/5/2011: Back in the day, that was about what I paid for tuition in real dollars, if you forget about that year in the ivy league, which I mostly have. This was not because college was cheap, it was because of heavy subsidies from the taxpayers. Those subsidies are gone…

9/5/2011: That’s one college football coach’s summary of his experiences: “Why did you recruit the guy who shot his roommate with a .22?” he begins. “Well, if I hadn’t, he would have been playing at Notre Dame, Texas or Texas A&M. He was the No. 1 defensive back in the…

9/2/2011: Thanks to Margaret Soltan for the link: Chapel Hill – The chairman of the Department of African and Afro-American Studies at UNC has resigned from the department’s top post amid a university investigation into academic irregularities, possibly involving two former football players. … McAdoo, who was kicked off the…

9/2/2011: is a much talked about book by Benjamin Ginsberg at Johns Hopkins on the growing power of administrators. He has a long summary in the Washington Monthly: Between 1975 and 2005, total spending by American higher educational institutions, stated in constant dollars, tripled, to more than $325 billion per…

9/2/2011: “To have an associate professor who is a member of the Devils Diciples and allegedly dealing methamphetamine is quite alarming. I mean, it’s unusual to say the least,” Sheriff Rod Hoops said.

9/1/2011: Word from some slightly jealous professors down at the UO faculty club is that Phil Knight has invited OSP trooper Ray Stallsworth and Baton Rouge Parish sergeant Don Stone to join him in the Nike skybox at Cowboys Stadium. The FAA refuses to verify whether or not Kilkenny has…

8/25/2011: That’s the worst, from poll responses at right. I’m sure UO would never do that. Worse than losing to LSU? Barely.

8/22/2011: If you don’t read Willamette Week, the Oregonian, or Bojack.org you probably haven’t been hearing about the recent corruption cases involving administrators from a variety of state agencies, PSU, and Portland City government. Here’s an article on the price the people who blow the whistle pay.

8/20/2011: I’m no economist, and the devil is in the details, but on the surface Andy Stahl’s plan for promoting old growth forests *and* timber jobs looks pretty damn sensible.

8/20/2011: From Yahoo sports: Lyles, even while denying he intentionally guided Seastrunk to Eugene or funneled any money his way, admitted he helped Seastrunk’s grandmother become his legal guardian so she could sign his letter of intent to Oregon over his mother’s protests.  The result: Seastrunk never appeared happy and…

8/9/2011: From Insidehighered.com. PLoS ONE link here. Nearly half of female faculty members in top science departments wish they’d had more children, but didn’t because of their careers, while about a quarter of their male counterparts feel the same way, according to a new study. This is a large but…

8/8/2011: From economist Alex Tabarrok: …I pointed out that the market was moving towards superstar teachers, who teach hundreds at a time or even thousands online. Today, we have the Khan Academy, a huge increase in online education, electronic textbooks and peer grading systems and highly successful superstar teachers with Michael Sandel and his…

8/8/2011: From Mark Baker in the RG. The Princeton Review rankings, on the other hand, put us in bottom 10 nationwide for teaching. The fact they also put Cal Tech in that group makes me a little curious about their methodology. The UO NRC grad program rankings are here.

8/4/2011: That’s what he says *after* they arrest him for backyard fission experiments. Funny, I remember having a science set with a bit of radium and a cloud chamber, when I was 12. From boingboing.net.