The RG’s Christian Hill has the story on the $26M redo of the EWEB steam plant, here: … With a mix of commercial debt, equity from investors and tax credits, the team estimates a $4.1 million funding gap and likely would seek public dollars for the project… A project like…
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DRAFT. Location: EMU 145 & 146 (Crater Lake rooms) 3:00 – 5:00 P.M. All times are estimates. 3:00 P.M. Call to order University update; Provost Banavar Introductory Remarks; Senate Pres Harbaugh Senate committee review report; Senate VP Skowron 3:30 PM Approval of Minutes February 13, 2019 and April 10, 2019 3:31…
That would be the administration of San Diego’s Salk Institute. The NYT has a long story on their long history of discrimination against women scientists, here. Read it all.
RG reporter Jordyn Brown has the story here: … Additionally, UO refused requests for interviews with representatives of the Oregon Bach Festival, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, the Museum of Natural and Cultural History and the Labor Education and Research Center about the budget cuts. … This is what we…
Dear Colleagues, I’m writing to ask that you join me in signing a petition in support of the UO´s crucial Labor Education and Research Center. Many of you are longtime friends and supporters of LERC; others have collaborated with LERC faculty and know how the UO benefits from having a…
4/22/2019: Apparently I’m not the only person on campus who appreciates a sophomoric joke about this phallic egofice. From Around the O:
4/11/2019: Duck AD Rob Mullens to charge Hayward fans $50K for Slusher’s Schlong
I swear I am not making this up.
Update: RG photographer Chris Pietsch has taken many wonderful photos over the years and he is one of the reasons we still subscribe. And this may be his best: Story here. A little lite live-blogging. Usual disclaimer: Nothing is a quote unless in quotes. Two TV cameras, about 200 town hallers.…
Just kidding, they’re actually talking about cuts to museums, OA’s and staff, and increasing in-state tuition. There is no sign that the Rob Mullens and the Ducks will even be asked to cut their bloated budget or the subsidies they take from the academic side. This recent report in Oregon…
From the daily roundup that UO’s news service sends out: Return of the Reefer-Crazed Killer Reason Magazine (232K Twitter followers | 3,170,033 unique visitors per month | 42,000 circulation): University of Oregon W.E. Miner Chair and associate professor of economics Benjamin Hansen provides expert commentary.
Dana Altman, from CBS sports: Steve Berkowitz, from USA Today: The plaintiffs’ lawyers have developed a list of roughly 53,000 football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball players who are set to get some share of the settlement money, according to Wednesday’s ruling. Those who played their sport for four years will get…
The last survey I was allowed to see showed that UO students listed our reputation for environmental studies and activism as a bigger part of their enrollment decision than the ~$120M Duck athletic empire. So with freshman tuition deposits due May 1, this protest couldn’t have come at a better…
I was born in the town of Chaplin, Connecticut. New England towns are famous for their Town Hall form of governance. The town Selectmen (now mostly Selectwomen) make proposals about the budget, and then everyone – or every property-tax paying resident who cares – meets, discusses, and votes about the…
Reporter Hannah Kanik has the story in the Daily Emerald here.
4/10/2019: Results from today’s Senate meeting: After a presentation by Sierra Dawson (OtP), Lee Rumbarger (TEP), and a discussion with participation ranging from student senators on down to several unit heads responsible for instructor evaluation, and responses from the CIET committee members, and an amendment to require that the CIET…
I had to miss Friday’s bargaining session, but it seems the administration finally responded to the GTFF’s economic proposal by repeating their previous proposal, throwing in an additional 0.5% per year to make it an even 1%. I know a few economists, and they tell me the western US consumer price index increased by 3.1 % last year, so as might have been predicted this did not go over well.
Likewise, while the administration’s proposal to move some of what it pays for GTFF health care (by all reports it’s a cadillac plan that puts PEBB to shame, although the GTFF did manage to cut what UO paid for it last year) and put it in salary, while optimal to a rational expected-income maximizing risk-neutral agent, is not so optimal under the assumption of utility-maximization and the resulting risk aversion that has been the working model of economists since before there were such things as economists (Bernoulli, 1738). Yes, I know that newer models of loss aversion from psychologists and behavioral economists make this result stronger, but they are not needed to predict the response here.
The messages from the GTFF and the administration are below the break.