Rumor has it that the faculty’s official safe space will be open from 5-8 today (Wed) and tomorrow.
11/1/2016: Real-life UO Faculty Club to replace deplorable on-line rumor mill
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Yet. Plenty of reasonable fear of it, however. In the RG here: For some local residents, there’s anxiety that Donald Trump’s presidential win has heightened the threat of hate crimes against minority groups in Lane County. “We have heard an increase of fear and concern among community members and local…
Lots of interesting resolutions and discussion on the Senate blog here, including a new resolution declaring UO a sanctuary university. Comment there, not here.
Andrew Greif has the interview in the Oregonian here. It’s not clear if Duck PR flack Craig Pintens or other athletic department minders set up and monitored the interviews, but that is the Duck’s normal practice. Two years ago two of Dana Altman’s Duck basketball players tried a Black Lives Matter protest during…
Update: Another Helfrich player is under investigation, for allegedly breaking a student’s arm in a fight. The RG has the report here. 11/13/2016: Chewed up and spit out by big-time Duck football The people who hang out down at the faculty club have no idea whether or not Coach Matt Helfrich will keep…
He also thinks Phil Knight’s birthday should be a state holiday. Kilkenny is the Duck booster who in his brief reign as Dave Frohnmayer’s AD created a new baseball program that he swore would make money and set up the creative funding plan for Knight Arena, which the academic side…
Back in 2014 President Gottfredson and the UO Police Department went through some amazing contortions to cover up the rape allegations against Dana Altman’s basketball players. That’s not happening any more. Good for President Schill and our new UOPD chief. The Daily Emerald’s Jack Pitcher has the report here.
Just when we need Gwen Ifill the most, she’s gone.
An account of a recent APLU meeting on this topic, from Inside Higher Ed here. A snippet: Page, the columnist, said, “I don’t want to call your generation coddled,” but went on to share an example of what he said “troubles me about political correctness.” He cited the reactions of students…
UO’s Government and Community Relations website is a glossy mess. Fortunately Jock Mills, Director of Governmental Relations for Oregon State, has sent out his usual informative report: Governor’s Race Democrat Kate Brown defeated Republican Bud Pierce with just over a 50% majority. She carried seven of Oregon’s 36 counties: Columbia,…
That’s my read of it. The text is on the Senate’s website here. Please consider posting your comments there. I think Dave Chappelle would vote yes:
Some simple common sense – something which has often been missing from the previous statements on the halloween incident and the Trump election – from CAS Natural Science Assoc Dean Hal Sadofsky, here: I’m not someone who normally embraces symbols, but I want all our faculty, staff and students to feel safe and to…
11/11/2016: In the RG here, read it all: When Schill took the microphone near the end of the two-hour event, he agreed that “many students, faculty and staff do not feel included in the University of Oregon. Some have been victims of intentional discrimination. Some have been hurt by careless, thoughtless…
Tyson Alger has the scoop on Chuck Lillis’s committee meeting here. Tomorrow by telephone. Strange, but Board Secretary Angela Wilhelms still hasn’t posted the contract. She expects them to do their due diligence without having read it? Or maybe she’s just hiding it from the public. I’ll go out on…
Personally I’m processing this election just like my Dad did in ’72, after his friend and grad school classmate George McGovern lost to Nixon – by crying into a glass of bourbon while rereading the speeches of Abraham Lincoln: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived…