Two weeks back UO announced it was going to try and change the Oregon Administrative Rules which forbid random drug testing of Ducks. Bob Berdahl, Rob Mullens, and Randy Geller ignored both the intent of Oregon law (which requires public input) and the UO “Policy on Policies” (which requires Senate…
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That’s Wayne State, currently bargaining with its faculty union. Scott Jaschik in IHE: The faculty union at Wayne State University says that proposals made by the administration last week would effectively eliminate tenure protections any time the university wanted to make budgetary shifts. Under the proposal, “they can get rid…
From Kevin Kiley at IHE: A group of influential Vermont leaders thinks $40 million shouldn’t buy a majority stake on the University of Vermont’s governing board. That’s roughly how much the state appropriates to the university every year. But the group says that’s not enough. These days, state appropriations make…
7/24/2012: That’s Stephen Hsu in Physics, hired by Michigan State as VP for Research. More information on his blog, here. He will be missed. Michigan had an open, public search with faculty input. The faculty has a formal written agreement with the administration requiring that. The process starts with the…
7/22/2012: Word is NCAA Pres Mark Emmert and OSU’s Ed Ray – the head of the NCAA’s Exec Committte – are going to announce tomorrow that they will fine Penn State $30 to $60 million over the Paterno scandal. But who will fine the NCAA, the enforcers of the system…
(Links fixed) Presumably Bob Berdahl gave Randy Geller permission to write a letter endorsing this effort. I wonder if he thinks this is in UO’s interest. I’ve written before about Dave Frohnmayer’s success at using his sabbatical to restart his legal career at Harrang, Long, Gary and Rudnick. And his…
at Penn State, and now it is coming back to bite them in the ass. Does anyone think UO and OUS have done due diligence with oversight of the Ducks? (Besides Rob Mullens, Jim O’Fallon and Bob Berdahl, who think the faculty has gone too far?) 7/19/2012.
7/18/2012: There have been a few editorials in Oregon papers dealing with the Penn State Paterno/Spanier/Sandusky football scandal. The Daily Astorian editors are the first I’ve seen to explicitly compare the lack of institutional control that led to Penn State with UO’s lack of institutional control of its own athletic…
that coaches need private hot tubs with waterproof video displays. Diane Dietz of the RG on UO’s newest football palace. FWIW, AD Rob Mullens never completed the report to OUS on how he’d cover the operating expenses. My suggestion – cut baseball. $76,274,142 in expenses for crap like this, but ask…
Phil owns us. I think this was pretty well proven when Knight took away the law school professors’ parking lot for the jocks to use while they were getting tutored. But just in case there was any doubt, a curious law student dug up this: From: Zach Spier @uoregon.edu> Date: July 16,…
It seems that someone in the President’s office forgot to notify interested campus components – like the Senate Intercollegiate Athletics Committee – of the proposed UO rule change, as OAR requires: 571-001-0025Procedure for Providing Notice(1) The University News Bureau shall be responsible for providing notice to appropriate media. The Office…
Kevin Kiley of IHE has the story, read it it all: “[The Oregon state board] can say, ‘For the good of the system, the matter is closed,’ “ Kyr said. “But it can’t say ‘We did this for the good of the university’ without extensive prior consultation with the faculty,…
at Cal Tech. Something about the students not taking courses seriously. Right. The NCAA infractions committee – paid by the colleges – is wasting its time on this, while burying their head in the sand on serious problems. It’s intentional. 7/16/2012.
In the ODE: … With EA in the midst of fighting a class-action lawsuit led by former Arizona State quarterback Sam Keller, they went out of their way to show the public – and the legal experts – that the speedster in University of Oregon’s backfield isn’t De’Anthony Thomas,though everyone…
Because, to paraphrase Dave Zirin of the Nation, at this point the NCAA doesn’t even have enough moral authority to credibly condemn child rape. 7/14/2012.