From a Lewis and Clark Law Prof’s Blog: A Modest Proposal for Dealing with Corruption in College Sports While the NCAA prepares its nuclear bomb for use against Ohio State in the wake of that school’s football scandal, I thought I’d propose a way to address the corrupting influence of…
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6/2/2011: “Know the O” is the athletic department’s latest effort to pretend that they have some relationship to UO’s academic side. They are going to find a sponsor for 30 second spots on televised Ducks games, to highlight faculty research. Right in between the Bud Light commercials. 8 seconds for…
6/1/2011: From Rockne Andrew Roll in the ODE: One of those opponents was Rep. Gene Whisnant (R-Sunriver), who thought more discussion was necessary before moving forward. Though Whisnant described himself as a public safety supporter, he thought the proposal was too expensive. “I thought it was an overkill,” Whisnant said.…
6/1/2011: The OUS Board meets Friday. “The Board will review and approve the proposed tuition and fee rates for 2011-12.” Yes, the agenda states they will approve the increases. No vote? Bill Graves has a good story in the Oregonian, here. From OUS: UO – The University of Oregon is…
6/1/2011: Only problem is that it will be in Corvallis: Campus officials are set to build a $14-million Student Success Center, just north of Reser Stadium. It will feature classroom space, computer labs and more room for student tutoring.More academic help for a growing campus. Oregon State’s Assistant Vice President,…
To the left, the sleek, overflowing (but shallow) fountain of the Jacqua Jock Box, symbolizing purity, excess, and athletics. To the right, the broken debris filled fountain in front of the Knight Library, symbolizing the corrupt, dissolute, and empty life of the mind. Note that the jocks tricked Provost Bean…
print sports stories like this? From the OSU student paper, on the Tresell scandals market transactions between willing buyers and sellers: “The tattoo thing is whatever. It’s not that big of a deal, but it’s one of the dumb rules that the NCAA has,” Jenkins told The Lantern on Wednesday.…
5/30/2011: State cuts education, spends $2 million on carpooling consultants.
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…
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…