Fishduck.com is a great fan run website for seriously obsessed ducks, and an interesting example of how sports fan sites are taking over from old media. Today’s top story there is a long piece by Jerod Young, which comes down in favor of cutting Kilkenny’s baseball program, because of its…
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That would be chancellor H. Holden Thorp of UNC. The Chronicle reports he was worn down by the usual athletics scandals and one involving fundraising. I wonder if universities ever count this sort of administrative cost of dealing with big-time college sports as part of the athletic department’s overhead? 9/18/2012.
Dave gives a nice talk. It’s not yet clear if Randy Geller’s efforts to help Frohnmayer’s firm get paid an extra $432,000 from his suit against the Oregon DOJ will pay off. I should have more documents in a few days. Still nothing new on the counter-ethics complaint filed with the Oregon…
It’s not for sports facilities. Oregonian story here. 9/17/2012.
9/16/2012: It’s a long and complicated story, the Andrew Rice article is very comprehensive, I’m not going to even try and synthesize it just now. The issue has many other interesting education articles as well, e.g. this one on computerized tutoring. Comments welcome.
Craig Pintens and UO’s other well paid hypesters are starting to sound a little shrill. Bob Welch of the RG started it off last week with this nicely written column: The excess. “In a word, that’s how I’d sum it up,” says Darrel Linker, 68, of Springfield, who says the UO is…
That’s the word from OPB’s Think Out Loud, show on now. Beav’s sent Doug Aukerman: Senior Associate Athletic Director for Sports Medicine. UO’s representative pulled out at the last minute.
here. I haven’t looked yet. Adam Jude of the Oregonian has. 9/12/2012.
9/10/2012: That’s the decision by Dave Hubin, who’s running the search for a replacement for Randy Gelller’s hire, Liz Denecke. But you are allowed to read their resumes on Gottfredson’s website, here.9/13/2012 Update: I went to the interview for the first candidate, Lisa Thornton. She has been the Interim PR Officer since October.…
Ian Campbell has the story in the ODE. 9/11/2012.
I’ve posted a few things about the Chinese government’s use of on-campus Confucius Institutes to promote their political ends. It appears they’ve jumped the shark on this one though. From the RG: The Chinese government is pressuring the mayor of an Oregon college town [Corvallis] to order that a Taiwanese-American…
without consulting the UO Senate Intercollegiate Athletics Committee. It’s possible he talked to the executive committee, I’m not on that. Josephine Woolington report here. Despite this I still support Gottfredson’s plan to draft Rob as interim Provost. Bean’s done far worse, far more often.
to take public comments, this Thursday:
Steve Duin has the details. 9/10/2012.
Brian Smith is departing F&A for a big promotion at the UCSD medical school. Another AVP, Laura Hubbard, left last fall to be VP at SUNY Buffalo after she didn’t get the UO VP job. The UO search failed and Moffitt, who’d been on the search committee and was not…