10/20/2010: I heard John Lewis speak a few years ago at UO: “Don’t believe them when they tell you things never change, that you don’t matter. You do matter. America has changed. America is a better country now that it was. We changed it.” Yes. Update: But maybe we haven’t,…
UO Matters
10/19/2010: The Oregon Commentator has been on a binge. Alex Tomchak Scott is publishing daily updates of UO relevant stories, with commentary. Very popular at Johnson Hall, I hear. They also published the best yet inside view of the recent riots, by Russ Coyle (p 18). Their proposed solution? Lower…
10/19/2010: Today the RG prints a story on the Lariviere overtime kerfuffle and Pernsteiner’s attempt to get Lariviere to toe the OUS line on his UO restructuring plan. This is a week after Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette Week did the hard work getting the audit reports and emails for the…
10/18/2010: Wondering what was on the agenda of the 10/8 OUS Board meeting? Try here. All kinds of interesting things related to the Bellotti payoff, new regulations for how Pernsteiner will rule all the university presidents, an internal audit report on UO, etc. Wondering what sort of debate there was,…
10/18/2010: From the Oregonian editorial board, not from me: University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere is asking the Legislature to allow him to run the university as he sees fit, freed from the stifling edicts applied to the rest of state government. It looks now like Lariviere chose not to…
10/15/2010: Provost Jim Bean’s Oregonian op-ed today is an attempt to refute reporter Rachel Bachman’s story in the Oregonian from last week, here: Oregon athletic department uses state money for academic needs despite claims of self-sufficiency Ducks athletes have received $8.5 million in general fund benefits in nine years while…
10/15/2010: Anyone who pisses off Pernsteiner is OK in my book. From Nigel Jaquiss in WWeek, who seems to be enjoying the recent reforms to Oregon’s public records law pushed by Michael Kron of the DOJ. OUS doesn’t seem to have gotten the word yet on how to delete emails…
10/15/2010: A courageous UO student journalist decides to kill chances of ever getting a job in sports, points out: … long term brain damage is more likely the result of hundreds of sub-concussive collisions. According to a recent ESPN.com article, “Studies have shown a first-string college football player in a…
will be light until Monday
10/13/2010: This article by Nigel Jaquiss below is one UO story I would really rather have not seen in the newspaper. For one thing it’s full of mistakes. For another it attacks the UO staff without any justification. This situation is not their fault, or Lariviere’s fault. It’s Kulongoski’s fault…
10/12/2010: From the DOJ archives of their public records orders, on cases Randy Geller was involved in while serving as Melinda Grier’s Deputy General Counsel. 01/04/2006 – January 4, 2006 Daniel J. Stotter Bromley Newton LLP …Jan 4, 2006 … As noted above, Randolph Geller, on behalf of the University,…
10/12/2010: From Libby Sander in the Chronicle of Higher Ed: For four straight years, faculty members at Mississippi State University have gone without merit pay raises. This year, for some, a financial boost came from an unlikely source: the athletics department. Last week, 406 faculty members—nearly a third of the…
10/11/2010: From Insidehighered.com, a succinct summary of Rachel Bachman’s Oregonian article: U. of Oregon Disputed on Claim of Athletic Self-Sufficiency The University of Oregon has asserted that it has one of the few big-time athletic programs that are self-sufficient. But an article in The Oregonian revealed that about $8.5 million…
10/8/2010: UO athletics brings in about $70 million. They pay about $14 million to the coaches and the AD. This is not enough for them, so they want the regular students and the taxpayers to write a blank check for the jock box operations – about $2 million this year.…
10/9/2010: Update, the DPS budget for 2006-2011 is here. Up a bit more than 100% *before* the costs of converting to a sworn force.. The whole of the College of Arts and Sciences, for comparison, is up a bit less than 50%. Apparently DPS is having a hard time spending…