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Trumped

Update, 4/27/2011: One week after my post below, Barack Obama finally released his long form birth certificate. Coincidence? Every other sentient being on the planet may think so, but not me and this other guy with a website. With the help of Donald Trump and Oregon Attorney General John Kroger,…

VP Russ Tomlin open forum:

Update, 4/27/2011: I went to today’s faculty forum, moderated by Larry Singell. It was well attended, and people seemed relatively open about speaking their minds. The review committee made it very clear that they would not report quotes or attribute statements to particular speakers, and that people were free to…

religion and cheating

4/25/2010: An interesting result from a UO Psych professor, described in the RG: In experiments involving 100 students at UBC, the researchers found that a belief in God doesn’t deter a person from cheating on a test, unless that God is seen as mean and punishing. 

college athletics and race

4/23/2011: At a recent “visioning session” for the UO diversity office, a speaker from the local minority community made the very accurate point that UO’s outreach efforts were mostly focused on the athletic department – not on recruiting high academic performing minority students interested in college. The economist Charles Clotfelter,…

Ai Weiwei

4/21/2011: Posted at the request of UO historian Glenn Anthony May: I received an Email today from a distinguished China scholar who asks whether the University of Oregon has had public discussions concerning the “illegal detention of Ai Weiwei.” I can’t answer that. (Here is one event at PSU.) Are…

Public Safety problems

4/21/2011: Mat Wolf in the ODE: SEIU Chief Steward Gary Malone said he had received complaints about questionable behavior by one specific male DPS employee toward three individual female department employees during the last five years. (I’ve had several comments on this situation. I don’t intend to post any until…

OIED/OMAS and the peace of God

4/20/2011: There are a lot of things about UO’s OIED I do not understand. Like this email. Apparently VP for Diversity Charles Martinez hired Abernethy for $2500, to mediate a dispute between the OIED/OMAS staff and himself. Abernethy is a psychologist at Fuller Theological Seminary. Fuller is a fundamentalist divinity…

PEBB cuts health benefits

4/20/2011: Details in this Dennis Thompson story in the Statesman Journal: State workers who smoke or have their spouses on their insurance will pay a monthly surcharge for their health benefits in 2012, according to plan changes tentatively approved Tuesday by the Public Employees’ Benefit Board. Story includes much more.…