7/9/2013: Oregonian story here, his ruling on the limits of the privilege here.
UO Matters
7/9/2013: Those are some classy earmarks at the bottom. Is the $15m tuition deal good news or bad news for UO’s budget? Every 1% cut to in-state tuition costs us roughly $100 a head, or maybe $1.5 million a year. My guess is pretty close to a wash. Oregon University System The Subcommittee…
7/8/2013: My understanding is the UO Trustees are to be appointed and in place by this September. They will presumably then have semi-secret meetings for a year, until they take power in July 2014. Former Interim Provost Jim Bean is working on the by-laws now. I’m sure the lobbying is…
ASUO President Sam Dotters-Katz passes on this statement: SB 270 is crucial because the climate of higher education in Oregon is so unstable and unpredictable, and we need that local autonomy and flexibility to continue to advance excellence in higher education in Oregon. More than any other reason, SB 270…
7/5/2013: Diane Dietz of the RG had a story last month on the problems with UO’s public records office, here. Now the Student Press Law Center has a report on UO’s efforts to prevent the Oregon Commentator, a student publication, from seeing President’s Gottfredson’s official calendar. Erlichman and Haldeman Hubin…
7/5/2013: My complaint to the bar is here, the Jaquiss story is here, Rudnick and Gary’s retraction demand over the headline is here. In response I’ve changed the headline on the post to more accurately reflect the facts: “Bar investigates Rudnick, Gary and Geller for allegations of lack of candor…
7/5/2013: Excuse me if I’ve got anything wrong here, it’s been a long strange trip. Back in 2010 or so Dave Frohnmayer and HLGR filed an ethics complaint on behalf of the county’s general counsel Mark Pilliod against newly elected DA Patrick Flaherty. After a year or so of digging…
7/3/2013: Eder Campuzano has the story in the ODE, vote is 23 to 7.
7/3/2013: Benjamin Franklin was a failure as an apprentice chandler and a runaway from his first apprenticeship as a printer. Eventually he figured out what to do with his life, and in the end donated L1,000 in his will to start a revolving fund to lend money to Boston students.…
7/3/2013: UO “top scholars” admissions officer David Van Der Haegen in the RG Letters: The Register-Guard clearly displayed what it viewed as the single most important news of the day on June 27. Of course, it was the fact that the Oregon Ducks football team would be spared the horrific fate of…
7/1/2013 retraction, per ORS 31.120 The original headline on this post, on 6/10/2013, was “Bar investigates Rudnick, Geller and Gary for alleged bill padding.” On 6/20/2013 I received a retraction demand from Ms Rudnick and Mr. Gary per ORS 31.120, which gives news organizations 2 weeks to retract allegedly false and defamatory statements, before they can be sued…
7/2/2013: Tom Bowerman in the RG letters, on an issue which has attracted a lot of criticism about where Rob Mullens is taking UO: My father, a former track coach at the university, was a moonlight developer of apparel worn by various university athletes. The designs eventually contributed to forming…
6/30/2013: The new academic year starts July 1, which means it’s time to make public records requests for the contracts President Gottfredson has given our administrative leaders. Under Lariviere I could get these in a few days at no charge, but I’m expecting this year Gottfredson and Hubin will use…
6/27/2013: From the minutes of the 5/24 OUS F&A meeting: Projected campus fund balances for biennial-end include: EOU, 5.1%; OIT, 12.4%; OSU, 8.4%;PSU, 14.2%; SOU, 7.4%; UO, 17.%; WOU, 16.6%; and Chancellor’s Office, 20.7%. Vice PresidentMoffitt, UO, advised that they are preparing a written plan for submission to the Boardconcerning…
6/27/2013: Just 4 days before his eviction from Treetops, former OUS Chancellor Dr. George Pernsteiner has landed a job as president of the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. No word on whether or not his former chief of staff Bridget Burns will follow him to their offices in Boulder.…