Update: Scott Greenstone has a brief report in the ODE, here, with a subhead that pretty much captures how little JH has done on sexual violence prevention: Coltrane promises the UO is deciding how to fight sexual assault President Coltrane, do we have your firm commitment on your promise to…
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Update: Dahlia Bazzaz reports in the Emerald that UO may not have violated FERPA – just the laws of decency and common sense – by snooping around in this student’s counseling records, looking for information they could use against her in a lawsuit.
A lawsuit which she brought after having been (allegedly) gang raped by three members of UO’s basketball team, including one whom Coach Dana Altman had brought to campus despite (allegedly) knowing that he had a history of sexual assault.
Update: The Huffington Post has more, including the letter, which calls out the UO General Counsel’s office for special attention:
6/23/2015 update: Oregon Law says: PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES WITH A GOVERNING BOARD 352.025 Legislative findings. (1) The Legislative Assembly finds that the State of Oregon will benefit from having public universities with governing boards that: (a) Provide transparency, public accountability and support for the university. (b) Are close to and…
It was an ALA ethics violation for Dean Adriene Lim to tell GC Doug Park I’d checked out a copy of the UO Presidential Archives. But Park’s in full witch-hunt mode – he must have leaned on her pretty hard. But now Lim has let it slip that Bill Walton,…
I sleep better at night knowing we’ve got nuclear submarines with nuclear missiles, manned by men with a personal stake in freedom:
2/9/2015 reminder: Two of the Parker principals, Laurie C. Wilder, President, and Porsha L. Williams, Vice President, will be on campus Wednesday to answer questions about the Presidential Search:
9-10 in the Law School’s 4th floor Lewis Lounge room, then 3-4 at the Senate meeting.
Lewis Lounge holds about 40, so if you get there early please save me a seat.
This search has been in trouble since the day Chuck Lillis and Angela Wilhelms snuck a motion by the board giving Lillis sole authority to pick one finalist. We’ll see if Parker can explain the plan to save it.
2/6/2014: The New York Times has a story on a problematic previous search by this firm, for Rutgers, here.
With the lawsuit over the alleged basketball rapes picking up steam, Johnson Hall is in a dicey situation regarding allegations they’ve been mishandling sexual assaults. Changes in procedures might imply that there was something wrong with the old procedures and increase liability. Sure enough, it seems like not much is changing. From Scott Greenstone and…
“The materials for this portion of the agenda are not yet complete”. The meeting is Monday at 3PM, Room 402 in the Alumni Center. BOT Secretary Angela Wilhelms has done her best to evade the intent of public meetings law a few times before, this is getting pretty shameless. Coltrane…
2/7/2014 update: It turns out the ASUO committee tie-breaker vote reported below was disallowed. They are going to meet again Tuesday 8AM (in the Rogue River room, I think) to try again. Presumably AAD Eric Roedl will be there, hat in hand. If the committee can’t come to an agreement,…
Seriously? Oregon has managed to corrupt the idea of a Gross National Happiness measure? Why can’t our politicians stick to sleazy construction deals and garbage contracts, like the rest of the world does? The Oregonian reports that state bureaucrats are now releasing incriminating public records with abandon, trying to save…
That would be Tobin Klinger, of course. Today in “Around the 0”. Don’t bother to google it, waste of time. He doesn’t mention GradGate either. When is the administration going to hire someone competent to put out some actual information?
Dave Hubin’s Public Records Office doesn’t seem to want to make that public. So I’ve cced Doug Park on the followup. We’ll see if he’ll oblige. Surely Doug Park and Doug Blandy were careful to put the terms for an important investigation like this in writing. Right? Or were they so afraid that…
2/5/2015 update: A reader passes along this Brad Shelton powerpoint, which among other things documents the $1.5M Moffitt to Moffitt transfer: The bottom line though, is that there’s plenty of water in the well. Or at least that’s what Brad Shelton was telling UO’s academic deans in September: I wonder…
I went to a couple of the finalist interviews and looked through the resumes. I thought Ms Resnick was the best candidate, and I think this hire is good news for UO: Date: February 5, 2015 at 4:29:40 PM PST From: “Human Resources” <[email protected]> Subject: Personnel Announcement from Jamie Moffitt,…
Tobin Klinger, UO’s $115K Deputy Strategic Communicator, has a rather saccharine-sweet report on Session I in “Around the 0”: Maybe the rest of Mr. Klinger’s post has content. I wouldn’t know, I barely made it to the toilet. Jennifer Winters’ report on last week’s Senate meeting is even worse. Some might…