7/8/2011: This is the revenue and expenditure report the UO athletic department files with the NCAA every Feb. You’d think the the athletic department’s Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director for Finance and Administration Jamie Moffitt would just post these on the web, but no. It took a month, a meeting with…
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7/11/2011 Update: These two Daily Emerald stories, and especially the comments, are worth reading. Two sides to every story. Everyone agrees Dean Bullis botched it though. 7/8/2011: From Lyzi Diamond in the Oregon Commentator: The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has launched an investigation into the termination of…
A: Even a casual NCAA investigation is going to dig up worse stuff than Willie Lyles and an iffy car rental. B: If the NCAA comes down on the Ducks, Phil Knight and Howard Slusher are going to pursue the souls of those who make that call all the way…
7/8/2011: From the NBER‘s analysis of the “Oregon Health Plan” he started – I think in his first term: In 2008, a group of uninsured low-income adults in Oregon was selected by lottery to be given the chance to apply for Medicaid. This lottery provides a unique opportunity to gauge…
7/7/2011: I’ve been getting calls from reporters expecting me to give them a quote about how outraged the UO faculty are about the recent athletic scandals. As may be apparent to careful readers, I do have a bit of a beef about the jock box subsidy, the lies about the…
7/7/2011: The RG has a good editorial on the ORI building: ORI could have been in its new building already, and the UO could have netted one-third more income from the lease, if the UO hadn’t insisted there was no suitable alternative to the riverfront site. Simple enough. But do…
7/6/2011: The NCAA is shitting all over Chip Kelly because he paid Willie Lyles $25,000 to steer a few kids from Texas our way, and because a staffer rented a few players a car for the weekend. But if we want to hire someone to spy on the team and…
7/6/2011: That’s the rumor. He’s no longer in the UO Directory – not even as an Emeritus faculty. New rumor is he’s been given a terminal contract, keeping his job as VP for Academic Affairs until next June. Should reappear in the directory shortly.
7/6/2011: We wrote earlier about how UO General Counsel Randy Geller told Jamie Moffitt not to tell the UO Senate IAC committee about the costs of the Willie Lyles cover-up, or if the academic side would be left holding the bag again. Steve Duin at the Oregonian has the contracts,…
working in a Houston grocery store. That’s about $16,000 a year. It’s a sad story, from Canzano. The guy is just trying to make a living, hoping for a paycheck, being an entrepreneur with what he’s got, dealing with a system that is heavily stacked against people like him –…
7/4/2011: Stunning news from my colleagues down at the faculty club. The University of Oregon’s Athletic Department is preparing to free themselves from the NCAA’s oppressive football recruiting rules by forming a new “united sports association”, in congress with other state universities. Word is that Howard Slusher and Pat Killenny…
7/4/2011: I didn’t believe this until someone sent me proof. Former UO Provost John Moseley is still on Provost Jim Bean’s payroll – $248,941 at an 0.5 FTE. Tell me how this is not a crime?
7/4/2011: Dennis Thompson of the Statesman Journal has an analysis. (He also runs the excellent State Workers Blog.) The sticking point is Kitzhaber wants a 5% contribution towards premiums (apparently w/ no means test!) plus this: Under the Health Engagement Model, all workers would undergo a health assessment and then…
7/2/2011: UO’s efforts to stonewall and prevent public input into the riverfront research park planning process have failed, in a major victory for the http://www.connectingeugene.org/ folks. Greg Bolt reports in the RG: But the move will cost the university. Under the new deal, Trammell Crow will pay the university $1.47…
7/2/2011: George Schroeder of the RG accuses UO of a cover up: But the larger concern Oregon’s power brokers — President Richard Lariviere, athletic director Rob Mullens, are you listening? — should have today is over the clumsy attempt at a cover-up. It deletes the Ducks’ dodge that they were…