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4/25/2010: An interesting result from a UO Psych professor, described in the RG: In experiments involving 100 students at UBC, the researchers found that a belief in God doesn’t deter a person from cheating on a test, unless that God is seen as mean and punishing. 

4/18/2011: I sprung for the NYT 99 cent trial: Business majors spend less time preparing for class than do students in any other broad field, according to the most recent National Survey of Student Engagement: nearly half of seniors majoring in business say they spend fewer than 11 hours a…

4/17/2011: Les Zaitz of the Oregonian has just wrapped up a great 5 part retrospective on the Rajneeshee movement in Oregon. The Oregonian is a consistently interesting newspaper with an excellent website. Meanwhile the 4J school board has stabbed the 4J teachers and the supporters of a Eugene income tax…

4/16/2011: Steve Duin of the Oregonian gives the background, stirred by the memory of UO journalism professor Ken Metzler. You can read excerpts from Metzler’s book on Johnson here: This is just one little incident – caused by the Daily Emerald printing the phrase “Mother Fuckers” on state owned equipment.…

4/5/2011: From the Oregonian.

4/3/2011: I don’t know why the RG has not been printing much about this scandal, or this one. You really need to read the Oregonian to keep up with how corrupt Oregon’s one party state government has become.

4/1/2011: From Glenn May, in the Oregonian.

3/10/2011: Rachel Bachman of the Oregonian has a story on Ethics Point. They contract to state agencies, including OUS, to allow employees to make anonymous reports about financial improprieties. I’ve used this with mixed success. The reports are forwarded to OUS auditor Pat Snopkowski, but she often sits on them…

3/6/2011: POCATELLO —One of Idaho State University’s major financial donors has some harsh words for both ISU President Arthur Vailas and the State Board of Education about the escalating turmoil on campus.     “The president is not there to be supported entirely by students and by faculty,” said James E.…

3/5/2011: The academic side pays $2 million for the Jock Box tutoring, and millions more for other athletic subsidies. Including the $250,000 for our suddenly very busy Public Records Officer, Liz Denecke. But hey – look what the Ducks do for our national reputation! Two mentions in the NY Times…

OHSU, PSU, and OSU have set up a group to push Pernsteiner’s higher ed reform proposal, and presumably fight Lariviere’s. They’ve even got a website. From Nigel Jaquiss at wweek.com.

2/25/2011: Experiences of a student, soliciting donations for UO academics: My biggest pet peeves are three-fold: getting hung up on in the middle of a call, being told that you only support the Duck Athletic Fund so you can get access to better football tickets, or worse, being sworn at.…

http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2009/11/17/david-frohnmayer-loves-the-oregon-commentator/ I’ll say this for Dave, he wasn’t afraid to talk to the press. Probably because he had no qualms about lying his ass off.

2/18/2011: Because he won’t talk to the student press and because he didn’t consult student government about the plan to convert Public Safety to an armed police department. More here. ODE editorial here: