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…
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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…
7/1/2011: From Yahoo Sports: In a wide-ranging, multi-day interview, Lyles said Kelly “scrambled” in late February and asked Lyles to submit retroactive player profiles to justify the $25,000 payment to his company, just days before the transaction was revealed in a March 3 Yahoo! Sports report. … “I look back…