The well respected Sports Illustrated law journal (Impact Factor 789,321) has the analysis here: … The need for harmonious interpretation of federal law could become relevant as it relates to the O’Bannon decision. Both a federal district judge and a three judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit…
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4/13/2017: If that’s not clear, the docket is here.
2/12/2017 Dana Altman’s Duck basketball players file more lawsuit docs:
Dear Colleagues, As my two-year anniversary as president of the University of Oregon approaches, enough time has elapsed for me to do some assessment and make some course corrections. Over the past 21 months we have achieved quite a number of things. We have hired great new deans for five…
From Colleen Flaherty in Insidehighered: Women shoulder a disproportionately large workload at home in ways that might disadvantage them professionally. But are female professors also “taking care of the academic family” via disproportionate service loads? A new study says yes and adds to a growing body of research suggesting the…
UO paid Duck coach Dana Altman ~$500K in bonuses. His players have to sell their used shoes for cash. And they can only do that when they’re done with the NCAA cartel and Jim O’Fallon’s rules:
Marc Feldesman has the latest on his PERSinfo blog here. A snippet: … Today brought the latest salvo … in the form of a 52 page amendment to Senate Bill 560, that seems to consolidate the various features of the 8 previous amendments to the bill, while adding a few…
From: FS Customer Service Ctr Subject: Notice: Shutdown of PLC heating system for emergency repairs 4/12/17 Date: April 11, 2017 at 9:29:50 AM PDT Building Occupants, The damaged pump which is causing a lack of heat in Prince Lucien Campbell Hall (PLC) will be repaired tomorrow, April 12th. This will…
From the official comment-free CAS blog: Thinking About CAS » Moving Forward in a Time of Uncertainty April 7, 2017 On the evening of Presidential election, I immediately began to wonder, “What will I tell the College tomorrow?” The next morning, in front of all the CAS department heads and…
Max Thornberry has the story here.
Dylan Darling has the story in the RG here.
And reels in another $10M for the academic side, thanks to Tim and Mary Boyle, and Marilyn and Gerry Cameron.
4/4/2017 update, in the SJ here: PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A state agency has dropped its lawsuit against a weekly Oregon newspaper that sought public records about a man charged in the kidnapping and killing of his ex-wife. … After Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum ordered the review board to…
InsideHigherEd has the story on SUNY-Buffalo here. At UO, Duck baseball sells about $300K in tickets, and sucks about $5M a year out of our budget for expenses and allocated administrative costs – enough to buy a healthy chunk of academic excellence:
Thanks to a friend for sending me a link to this story by Kurt Streeter, about his father Mel Streeter. Read it all and the obit below, these are just snippets: … My dad, who grew up in Riverside, California, wasn’t just the fourth black athlete to ever suit up…