1/11/2010: From Insidehighered.com – Nice to see that some University boards have guts. The abuses at UO, with Frohnmayer and Moseley have been much more serious than what happened in NC, but this is Oregon and the newspapers and the OUS board pretend everything is fine. The University of North…
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1/11/2009: Cheerleading coach: “Schedules, organizes and conducts cheerleading and mascot tryouts. Supervises the selection of the cheerleading squad and mascot.” The previous coaches, Laraine Raish and Corine Lewis, were fired after some mysterious scandal.
1/10/2009: UO students have started a facebook group with about 550 600 650 members so far, to protest (or at least discuss) the Jaqua Athletes Only Study Center. We’ve been getting a lot of hits from there, welcome. Our main post on this, with a link to the contract between…
1/10/2009: OSU Economist Bill Jaeger has an Op-Ed in the RG today about the economic arguments, and Eugene pollster Rick Lindholm has released results on polls on 66 and 67. These are straight from his website (which has a lot of other interesting Oregon political info as well.) Survey: Measures…
1/9/2009: Steve Duin of the Oregonian, on the history leading up to Knight’s Athletes Only Study Center: Similarly conscientious, Frohnmayer broke land-speed records in quitting the WRC, then using a convenient higher-ed board opinion to announce Oregon would quit all monitoring groups. “This is not about money; it’s about relationships…
1/8/2010: Jim Harper from Art History has a interesting Op-Ed in the ODE today – interesting as in you’ll learn something – on Taj Mahals and despots, petty and otherwise: The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, built in the mid-17th century by the Mughal ruler Shah Jahan was a “vanity…
1/7/2010: I’m not sure of the accuracy of these numbers, comments welcome: The construction of the Jaqua center took away about 150 parking spots, and shifted about 150 more from general use to athletes only. These will eventually need to be replaced with a parking garage. Current construction costs for…
1/6/2010: If you’re tired of the relentless RG boosterism about the new Jaqua Athletes Only Study Center, (not just in the editorial, but also in Greg Bolt’s news article) you can read a more balanced report from Todd Milbourn of KVAL, here. There is a pretty comprehensive discussion about UO’s…
1/6/2010: This might be an interesting event: Sports and American Culture with the University of Oregon’s Richard Lariviere, Mike Bellotti, and Barbara Altmann in Eugene Think & Drink, the popular Portland happy-hour series, will visit Eugene on Friday, February 12, 2010, at 5:30 at Cozmic Pizza, 199 West 8th Ave.,…
1/1/2010: The rumors were true, Phil Knight was able to take general university parking and convert it to special reserved slots for athletes only. Lot 34F was originally student basketball courts, very popular for pickup games from the nearby dorms. It was converted to parking a few months ago, to…
12/31/2009: Since we started this blog in April we have had 51,919 page loads and have earned $20.38 in google ad revenue, while spending $77 on bourbon. This means each of the UO Matters staff owes me $9.44. Happy New Year.
12/30/2009: This is a fascinating piece on the history of the ivy league, from the London Times: Why are American universities on balance so much better than those of continental Europe? And why do the universities of the rest of the English-speaking world fall, on average, somewhere in the middle?…
12/30/2009. State law requires a response in 7 days. The DOJ will bill UO about $1000 ($137 per hour) for writing a careful, annotated response to this petition. Apparently Melinda Grier would prefer paying this to just forwarding along the draft – or just being straight about why UO is,…
12/28/2009: At least Moseley’s vacation home was in Bend, not Dubai.