Ryan Nguyen and Michael Tobin have the story in the Emerald. While other university’s have been sued for closing frats and expelling students for exercising their first amendment rights to act like fucking morons, UO’s student conduct office cleverly nailed them on a hazing violation instead. Great idea. Read the story for…
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Personally I don’t care where it goes, although it wouldn’t look out of place on Nantucket. Just get the damn thing out of the middle of campus. The proposal is to use the site for a classroom/faculty offices building, which sounds perfect. The Campus Planning Committee is meeting tomorrow at…
Michael Tobin has the story of the incident, and what it took to get these public records from UO in the Emerald here: The University of Oregon Police Department released officer body camera footage this Tuesday of a spring term incident during which a student said officers pointed guns at him outside of the…
The RG has the report on today’s arborcide here: Last time this didn’t end well:
A reader asks: … perhaps it is time for this website to focus less on issues we cannot change and more on those we can. Here’s a few to start: 1) Lack of long term academic vision by the administration; 2) Administrative refusal to include faculty as partners in decisions;…
12/23/2019: Ever since the 1973 oil embargo our country has had to suck-up to murderous potentates like Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and send our soldiers to die in endless Middle East wars to keep the imports flowing. Meanwhile, some clever and well incentivized entrepreneurs figured out how to…
He has, however, resigned as TrackTown President, right in the middle of planning for the 2021 IAAF Championships, and a federal investigation. Ken Goe has the scoop here: Lananna led the successful bid for the 2021 World Outdoor Championships, which are scheduled to be at Hayward Field. The bid is…
Dear CAS faculty and Staff, As you’re aware if you’ve walked down 13th Street between Chapman and Johnson, Tykeson Hall, the new home for CAS and a building that will offer integrated academic and career advising to UO students, is quickly rising. We expect Tykeson to open for classes in Winter…
Temperature and High-Stakes Cognitive Performance: Evidence from the National College Entrance Examination in China Joshua S. Graff Zivin, Yingquan Song, Qu Tang, Peng Zhang NBER Working Paper No. 24821. Issued in July 2018 NBER Program(s):Children, Development Economics, Environment and Energy Economics, Health Economics, Public Economics We provide the first nation-wide…
While our General Counsel’s Public Records Office is still stonewalling requests for the Hayward Field lease agreement between UO and Phit LLC, today Duck spokesperson Tobin Klinger told the RG that UO is no longer in control: … The privately funded rebuild of the stadium is being led by Nike…
Fortunately we’ve got the Internet Archive: Free Speech Guidelines Rights, rules, responsibilities, and resources At the University of Oregon, established guidelines protect the right to free speech, while ensuring that opposing views may also be expressed. The basic guideline says that whenever one person’s or one group’s activities prevent another’s sanctioned…
Thanks to an alert reader for the link to UT’s puff piece.
At Temple, Inside Higher Ed here.
Audio file here. Adams was a fierce supporter of former artistic director Matthew Halls during Lintgate, and the word down at the faculty club is that the festival’s PR flacks are not happy about this free publicity. OBF ticket info here, bio on Ms Adams here.
I’m kidding, that’s just bargaining. But when a professor lies to his dean about an outside offer, that’s a felony: FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS4) – A former professor at Colorado State University is facing a felony charge for fabricating an outside job offer to improve his status at CSU. Professor…