1/28/2015 update: Interim Provost Bronet releases statement: Friends and colleagues, Many of you are following with interest the recent release of electronic documents, which bypassed archival processing procedures, and the university’s efforts to get those documents back. I am pleased to inform you that the documents have been returned. Our separate…
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1/27/2015 update: Guilty on all counts, here. What happened to the coach who brought them to campus? He’s now Penn State’s well-paid head coach, and has “no comment”. 1/24/2015: I’m not much for trigger warnings, but this needs one. From the Nashville Tennessean, here.
“The Open Records King of Eugene”, by Eric Kelderman, here. (Gated if you’re off campus). Some extracts: Since 2009 the University of Oregon has had five presidents, including interim officeholders. It has gone through four athletic directors, and it’s now advertising for its fourth general counsel. During that time the…
Makes sense, it would be a conflict of interest for UO’s Interim GC Doug Park to let Randy Geller get too close to this one. Seems like a lot of lost billable hours though, I wonder how Geller is making it up for Sharon Rudnick and the other HLGR shareholders? The victim’s…
It’s a union, of course there will be beer. And also info about bargaining priorities and how you can help the union convince Scott Coltrane to honor Richard Lariviere’s promise to get UO faculty salaries to the AAU medians. There’s plenty of water in the well this year, as demonstrated…
Job ad here. Rumor has it that Board Secretary Angela Wilhelms wants a Chuck Triplett type, who will keep her and Chairman Chuck Lillis informed about exactly what UO’s President is up to: Title: Senior Executive Assistant The University of Oregon seeks applications for the Senior Executive Assistant for the Office…
Here, now updated with useful links to the UO Presidential Archives, and Dave Hubin’s Public Records log.
1/25/2015: Rachel Donadio has the story in the NY Times, here: … Every archival official knows that he or she would be safer” erring on the side of “denying access to documents.” The problems are both bureaucratic and political. The slow-moving federal committee in charge of declassifiying state archive material…
1/24/2014: The case of the UO records. In the Register Guard, here: Decoding the curious case of the University of Oregon’s misdirected records requires the deductive powers of a master sleuth — one with an ear for dogs that do not bark, an eye that can detect the fig behind the…
Josephine Woolington has the report in the RG, here: … In the UO case, filed Jan. 8, the unnamed student says she was raped by three UO basketball players. She is suing the university and head basketball coach Dana Altman, alleging they violated her federal civil rights because one of…
Back in 2009 I was trying to get a pdf copy of the “Oregon Attorney General’s Public Records and Meetings Manual” to post online. This is a 362 page book published by the DOJ every few years, explaining how citizens can use Oregon law to get public records, and giving DOJ opinions and court…
The latest report from RG reporter Diane Dietz on the Presidential Archives is here. Oregonian reporter Rich Read has more here. Previous stories and emails about the Presidential Archive are here. While Duck PR flack Tobin Klinger and Interim UO President Scott Coltrane are hard at work spinning the possibility that the…
1/22/2015 Presidential Archives records release investigation update: FOR INTERNAL-LIBRARY USE ONLY Dear Library staff, faculty, administrators, As you read in President Coltrane’s recent message, we have recently learned that significant numbers of archived records have been released, despite the fact that some of these records contained confidential, private, and sensitive…
One of the many inexcusable aspects of the UO administration’s handling of the March 8th basketball rape allegations was the the refusal to tell UO students what had happened. From what I can tell Mike Gottfredson, Robin Holmes and Dana Altman planned to keep it a secret forever. Our students found out…
Over the summer Mike Gottfredson hired Chuck Triplett, the OUS Board Secretary who’d helped Pernsteiner fire Lariviere. The BOT and Angela Wilhems then put Triplett in charge of revising UO policies – and taking away the Senate’s former control over academic policies. No search, no faculty input, no affirmative action compliance, just…