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10/14/2011: De gustibus non est disputandum. Or so the Nobel Prize winning economists say. But the rest of  us might wonder why the UO development office didn’t try, or couldn’t succeed, at redirecting this generous couple’s tax deductible gift toward some purpose more important than a concert hall that will…

In the last few months the readership of this blog has nearly doubled. I would appreciate suggestions from new or old readers on what issues they would like to see covered more, less, or differently. Leave a comment or email [email protected]

10/13/2011: Dream job at UO. Reality check: after ~8 years of grad school, starting salary will be about $60,000.

10/13/2011: From Kara Hansen Murphey in the Lake Oswego Review. The blogger posted some information about a doctor’s disciplinary records and her opinion. He sued her for $1 million in damages. She went to the Electronic Freedom Foundation, got some advice and an attorney and filed an “anti-SLAPP” suit against the…

10/12/2011: From Harry Esteve in the Oregonian. Bojack has one interesting explanation.

10/10/2011: So did the DOJ. Bojack.org has the story. Meanwhile Bill Graves tries to dig up some quotes complaining about the UO raises, from PSU and other OUS professors. He can’t find much, but the online comments are interesting – many support the UO raises. The Croissant Chancellor’s lowest common…

9/26/2011: Two recent opinion pieces in the Oregonian. Both with praise for UO’s ambitions and the importance of that ambition for the state. Steve Duin – not exactly a patsy for UO’s public relations department in the past: What’s not to like about the university’s ambition, in a state where…

my bad, should be working now

9/14/2011: Provost Jim Bean announced yesterday that his last official act would be the destruction of the much hated PLC office building – “brick by goddamn brick, if necessary”. Work began this morning: Celebrating profs down at the faculty club cheered the news that they would be housed in tents…

9/13/2011: The most common thing people say to me about this blog is some variant of “It’s a public service to UO, but do you have to be so rude?”. My usual reaction is some version of “I’m not rude. Rude is wasting ten people’s time in a pointless meeting,…

9/12/2011: We make them do it every quarter. It’s where the money for our salaries comes from. But when students start offering to pay other *students* for a seat in a course with an enrollment cap – well at Brown that’s apparently an honor code violation. It’s an economics class.…

9/10/2011: Sure you did, Mr. Harris. But we’re OK with that now. Go Ducks!

9/8/2011: Dennis Thompson of the SJ has a story and a long post on his excellent State Workers Blog: I am proud of the work our union has done to help make health care more affordable not only for ourselves, but for everyone. In Oregon, we worked hard to get…

9/7/2011: From the Register Guard editorial page: Bottom of the heap: UO rates dead last in faculty salaries In a time of 12.1 percent unemployment, Oregonians may have a hard time mustering much sympathy for University of Oregon faculty members whose pay averages a mere $73,300 a year. But by…