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…
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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…
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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…
10/7/2010: The campus erupted in celebration back in April when Pres Lariviere fired General Counsel Melinda Grier and announced: “This institution did not follow acceptable business practices in the past,” Lariviere said. “That will not be repeated under my administration.” Jeff Manning and Ken Goe of the Oregonian wrote: Grier,…
10/6/2010: From the announcement of UO’s summer research awards program, below: “It is anticipated that up to twenty awards in the amount of $4,500 each will be granted.” That’s as much as $90,000! This could increase UO’s research expenditures from 63.25% of average to 63.33%! Meanwhile, in the past 3…
10/6/2010: This is a bad change for any students who have parents or relatives with a job. VP for Student Affairs Robin Holmes justifies it as follows: With 30,000 visitors and 29 events, it takes an army of university staff and faculty to coordinate the important events of commencement day. …
10/4/2010: … over her convocation statements complaining about the EPD “tear gas attack”, vehemently opposing President Lariviere’s restructuring plan, and calling on students to register to vote and then to oppose it. By Commentator Editor Lyzi Diamond. Personally, I think Ms Rousseau is wrong on Pres Lariviere’s restructuring plan, but…
10/4/2010: I’ve talked to way too many reporters over the years. They would spit in the phone everytime UO’s public records boss Melinda Grier’s name was mentioned. Steve Duin of the Oregonian compared her operation to the KGB. It took a rebellion of sportswriters over the Bellotti payoff to get…