12/1/2010: The Senate meets today, agenda here. A report from President Lariviere/Provost Bean on the Riverfront Research Park should be interesting, given recent revelations about UO’s apparent failure to follow the development procedures. I suspect the statement will be limited, given the potential for a lawsuit from the developer. France…
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Sorry, we’ve moved on. Unacceptable (bad to worse): Lorraine Davis Jim Bean Dave Frohnmayer Clearly unqualified, but apparently mentioned: Jamie Moffitt, Robin Holmes, Frog
11/30/2010: From the IU press office, here. Their previous dean resigned unexpectedly.
11/29/2010: The RG has an editorial with a clear and succinct summary of the issues around the proposed ORI building. At least it seems clear to a casual observer like me: … But now another obstacle has arisen. When the research park was created in 1986, the UO, the city…
11/24/2010: When I got the campus alert involving Sunday’s sexual assault on campus, I wondered how long it would take DPS to use it to argue they need more money and police powers. Not long. This would be slightly more plausible if they weren’t pissing away the 110% budget increase…
11/24/2011: Not content with violating Oregon’s public meetings law by making a secret decision to fire Lariviere, the OUS Board members have now had all their phone numbers removed from the OUS website. Good luck with that. A helpful reader passes along their browser cache. I assume these are work…
11/24/2010: One of the sadder aspects of college athletics is the resemblance to slavery. The coaches earn millions, while the players get subsistence. Slave owners were able to do this because they owned the slaves and had a brutal system of enforcers to prevent the slaves from bargaining for more,…
11/23/2010: President Lariviere has an Op-Ed in the WSJ on his restructuring plan today, here. It’s pretty rare for the Journal to give space to a university President – they usually save it for economists. So I suppose UO Matters can do the same. Here’s the full text: Saving Public…
11/22/2010: Ron Bellamy of the RG offers a milquetoast recap of a story reported by Bill Graves and Rachel Bachman in the Oregonian back in June: Phil Knight is building more athletic facilities for UO. As in the past, these tax-deductible gifts will cost taxpayers a bundle. They also require…
11/17/2010: From Steve Duin’s column in the Oregonian on Chancellor Pernsteiner’s raises – while he was pushing furloughs for the UO staff and trying to get faculty to take them too: … In February 2009, Gov. Ted Kulongoski told union officials he wanted to freeze wages and eliminate step increases…
The parents are paying $50,000 plus for their kids to sit in a lecture that starts with “telegram” and ends with “kilobyte”. The random abuse from the prof in between is not the real story. Parents are willing to pay this because other parents are willing to pay it. This…
11/16/2010: This adds some credibility to the argument for unionization. From Peter Schmidt in the Chronicle. The paper itself is here. I’m no economist, but the story quotes Ron Ehrenberg, a very respected one from Cornell: “This is a serious study, and very well done.” Unions Hold Mostly Pluses for…
(Werner von Braun, rocket scientist. 1912-1977.) Posting will be light for a bit, because I don’t know what I’m doing.
11/14/2010: President Lariviere’s restructuring plan calls for more UO autonomy and the unique state bond financing plan Michael Redding drew up. The UO Senate Budget Committee report on both is here. Very thorough and is generally very favorable on both counts. They do call for more transparency, particularly with the…
11/11/2010: My personal preferences are for more riverfront development, not less. But they are also for more transparency, not less. And the Connecting Eugene people have just demonstrated, very convincingly, that UO and ORI would have been *much* better off with more transparency from the start. Now ORI faces long…