4/9/2012: From a lawsuit filed in federal court, asking for $10,000 in damages from UO after DPS stopped 2 people riding bikes without lights. (PSO is “public safety officer”): I have a great deal of respect for UO’s public safety officers, who regularly deal with bad actors like this with…
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4/10/2012 Update: Emily Schiola reports still more election craziness in the ODE. 4/9/2012: Two “slates” made it through the ASUO student primaries, voting in the final election runs all week. The “We Are Oregon” slate is made up of frat kids and looks like a front for the athletic department…
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4/8/2012: Jack is in a nasty fight with a divorce lawyer and needs our help. Go here and vote for him.
Of course I’m not talking about UO. This is President Wim Weiwel at PSU. Oregonian story here. Link to their pretty transparent finance and administration page, here. Compare it with UO’s VPFA’s pretty but uninformative website, here. 4/8/2012.
4/8/2012: We’ve written a lot about SB242, Pernsteiner’s watered down version of Lariviere’s New Partnership which got through the legislature last summer. One important consequence was that it required/allowed OUS and therefore UO to stop getting legal services through the state DOJ, and instead allowed them to contract with outside…
4/7/2012: Word down here at the faculty club is that Frances Dyke and Jim Bean have left UO with $15 to $30 million in unfunded obligations. Jamie Moffitt thinks she can patch it up though. Or at least that’s what I think I’m hearing, the music’s pretty loud.
4/7/2012: I’m no law professor, or $600 an hour union busting lawyer $600 an hour defender of faculty members’ right to negotiate individually with the administration, but it seems obvious that a key point in the formation of a UO faculty union is the definition of the term faculty. On…
Update: Is it possible UO’s lawyers have a sense of humor? Check out their idea of who counts as university faculty, from the Excelsior file they gave the ERB: 4/5/2012: Will someone please email me their copy? uomatters at gmail dot com. I’ll keep you anonymous. Thanks, that was quick.…
4/6/2012 update: And this morning after wasting a bit of our county DA’s time Randy Geller folded and gave up the contracts and invoices for the two firms UO has hired to advise them on the union organizing effort, here. One is with Stephen Hirschfeld of the SF firm Curiale…
Updated with union response to Geller at bottom 4/5/2012. It’s the trade union / IWW split all over again. Sam Stites has the quotes in the ODE. Diane Dietz has more in the RG. And an actual numerator and denominator: On March 13, members of the United Academics of the…
4/5/2012: The UO Matters readership is mostly Johnson Hall administrators seeing if I’ve posted anything they can sue me over, plus a few faculty. But occasionally a student stops by. For their benefit I’m posting this link from the Commentator, by Rebecca X: ASUO ELECTIONS ’12: The Official Oregon Commentator…
4/5/2012: From a Josephine Woolington story in the ODE on last term’s basketball fight: “It’s not wrong to videotape us (DPS). That’s OK,” said Carolyn McDermed, acting chief of DPS. “The cellphone was seized because it contained evidence of the crime. It was pertinent to the case.” DPS still has…
4/5/2012: From Betsy Swanback in ODE. Good quotes.
4/4/2012: UO’s accounting system is pretty detailed. There are thousands of accounting codes for everything from engraving to cheese to consulting contracts. But General Counsel Randy Geller’s budget puts more than a quarter of its expenditures under “miscellaneous”. Presumably the money we are paying for Chip Kelly’s NCAA cleanup lawyer…