because he failed to report that his players were earning a few bucks selling memorabilia down at the tattoo parlor. Coach Tressel will get a fat severance deal, while the Ohio State “student-athletes” will be lucky to find minimum wage jobs. The NCAA rule is that only white people can…
UO Matters
5/30/2011: If you are nearing retirement you should be reading Dennis Thompson in the Statesman Journal and also the very well informed persinfo blog: … Finally, there must be a special hell reserved for my colleagues in the Oregon University System who decided way back in 1996 to accept the…
5/30/2011: When UO has its own sworn police patrolling off campus, they’ll likely be able to keep this sort of thing out of the papers by claiming FERPA prevents them from releasing the info. They already do this for on campus offenses. Note that the EPD cops who got this…
5/29/2011: “Dempsey, 59, earned a master’s degree from Duke University – in English”. Apparently he was unable to find work in his field. From Margaret Soltan. Here’s another one: “His doctoral thesis at Indiana’s Ball State offered no hints about the career he would pursue: “The Solo Songs of Edward…
5/27/2011: You need to read the Oregonian to have any sense of how bizarre state politics has become. Their reporting is just excellent. Check out this story by Jeff Manning, on the latest from AG John Kroger’s office. Things are getting very, very strange.
5/27/2011: The Senate Intercollegiate Athletic Committee has posted a little data on the Senate website. This year *all* arena bond repayments come out of the legacy fund. They are predicting a nearly 4x increase in arena revenue over the next 4 years, from $3.7 million to $12.2, at which point…
5/27/2011: Interesting story in the Chronicle by Richard Kahlenberg reporting that LBJ’s 1965 AA proposals were explicitly based on class, not the race and ethnicity that are its current focus, and the focus of UO’s Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity. Perhaps the new OIED director will have a view…
5/27/2011: From his last speech as Senate Pres: We are hanging on to our top tier research classification by the thinnest of hairs. … The status of our instructional mission is also tenuous. We have increased the number of students from 17,000 to 24,500 in the past 15 years, a…
5/26/2011: First it was Doug Tripp’s bomb-sniffing puppy. Now they’ve started the spin for a UO SWAT team. Mr. Roll delivers the fear in the ODE, without a hint of skepticism. Remarkable: Campus shootings have become an increasing risk in recent years. They can happen at anytime, without warning, often…
5/26/2011: From Adeline Bash in the ODE: Among the recognition of the successes made over the past year was a call for Senate and administration to work together to do more. In a tearful speech, McNelly — recognized for her work to get voting rights for the University’s classified workers…
5/25/2011: Jack Bogdanski is not impressed: Her name is Monica Rimai, and she comes to Portlandia from the State University of New York, where she was the chief operating officer. She was at SUNY for just a year and a half; she was reportedly making $325,000 a year there, along…
5/25/2011: (reposted, original lost in the blogger reboot). Oregon’s unemployment rate is 10.5%, but UO is doing what it can to put people to work in key sectors of the American economy of the future. First there’s the mission critical “Cheer Advisor” job. The ad calls for: Proven ability to…
5/25/2011: From Rob Moseley in the RG talking about the recent NCAA release of academic progress: Oregon’s four-year average of 941 was ninth among Pac-12 teams, and the 932 for 2009-10 was 11th among the 12 teams that will make up the conference this fall. Oregon State scored 959 as…
5/24/2011: I missed the AAUP/AFT union event Tuesday afternoon. Announcement here. The union’s facebook site is here. Adeline Bash’s ODE story here: “It’s always gotten worse than I thought it would be,” Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors, said of his decade-long predictions that higher education…
5/23/2011: Frances Dyke’s “liar’s budget” says sworn armed UO police will cost us the equivalent of 3 RA positions a year. The truth is it has already cost us about 20 – the budget is up $500,000 or so. Why is a sworn police force UO’s top priority? From the…