Went down to buy a laptop. Dozens of happy parents and students and parents milling around, stocking up on tech stuff. Staff handling it all very professionally, and chatting up the parents too. Very nice.
UO Matters
today. He hasn’t got out of Johnson Hall much yet, so it will be interesting to hear what comes from this. 9/19/2012. 9/20/2012 update: Turns out he did not show and was not on the agenda. Jamie Moffitt stood in for Johnson Hall. Step up your game, secret sources.
9/21/2012 update: President Gottfredson and Provost Mullens’s double secret faculty salary improvement plan will let faculty pick up summer pay caddying for the boosters and JH administrators. Tips go into a startup money pool for new science hires. Personally, I don’t know what’s wrong with just using Hayward Field, it was…
9/19/2012 update: DeFazio gets results. I wonder if this means the UO Public Records Office is still going to refuse to give a public-interest fee waiver on the public records? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Oregon Hall NewsSent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 3:11 PMTo: ‘[email protected]‘Cc: George Hecht; Donald Elting;…
Interesting post from Hannah Hoffman’s SJ State worker’s blog. 9/19/2012.
Some reference documents on the UO Intercollegiate Athletics Committee (IAC) and UO athletics, updated periodically. Random marijuana testing policy: Berdahl, Mullens try to sneak random drug testing of “student-athletes”through during summer, Senate and IAC leaders oppose, General Counsel Randy Geller calls out Senate and IAC head and members: … Your allegations…
9/24/2012 update: From: Penny Daugherty Subject: RE: 2012-2013 AA planDate: September 24, 2012 12:46:33 PM PDTCc: Annie Bentz The reference to October 31, 2010 data in footnote 8 is in error. I will work with staff to make the necessary correction, and arrange for the copy posted on our webpage…
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…
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.