From June 8, just getting around to posting. Video here: I’m posting this in part because of today’s Op-Ed in the Oregonian from Oregon Association of Scholars President (and PSU PoliSci prof) Bruce Gilley, which inaccurately characterizes the UO Senate’s resolution in support of the free-speech rights of our students as…
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That would be the University of Maryland. The WaPo: A federal grand jury in New York investigating corruption in college basketball has requested records from Maryland regarding one unnamed former player, assistant coach Orlando “Bino” Ranson, and Silvio De Sousa, a recruit who ultimately attended Kansas. Maryland released copies of…
The Eugene Weekly has the report here: After the most tumultuous year in its history, the Oregon Bach Festival returns — its internationally acclaimed artistic director fired, its reputation tarnished by his mysterious dismissal and its parent University of Oregon’s botched, secretive handling of the whole situation and its schedule diminished. Yet the…
I’m no economist son of an historian, but he seems like a good hire. Website:
The SCOTUS be damned. 75% of UO’s tenure-track faculty are now full voting members of UAUO. And as of today all of Oregon’s 7 public universities have unionized faculty, including what some call Oregon’s flagship university. Union website here. I never believed that more than 50% of the faculty of…
“The federal government may no longer extract taxes from nonconsenting citizens”, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote for the majority. “This procedure violates the First Amendment and cannot continue. Citizens cannot be compelled to pay to support political speech with which they disagree.” Whoops, the SCOTUS decision was actually about…
Congratulations to the good people of Springfield. Elon Glucklich in the RG: … The council voted unanimously Monday evening to end the ICE contract with the Springfield Police Department. Since 2012, the contract has allowed ICE to rent up to five of its 100 municipal jail beds at a time…
For the Knight Campus. From Around the O: The DeArmonds have been avid donors to the university for years. In 2005, their leadership challenge gift helped launch the fundraising effort for construction of the MarAbel B. Frohnmayer Music Building, inspiring Lorry I. Lokey and other donors to contribute. The building…
Update: From the RG, here: UO spokesman Tobin Klinger described the work being done Friday as the “pre-construction process,” part of preparing the site for a new stadium. “There are a couple of earth-movers that are doing the removal in a way that is intended to allow us to continue…
The RG’s Maggie Vinoni reports here: … UO Deputy Athletic Director Eric Roedl said that out-of-town fans would benefit from having more time to enjoy pregame festivities. “Sixty percent of our current football season ticket base comes from beyond Lane, Linn and Benton counties,” Roedl said. “Which means they are…
Update: A press release, explaining that city officials will be present to discuss the arborcide. Contact: Michael Carrigan 541-844-4677 Jim Watson 541-520-8942 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Tuesday, June 19 Protesters To Gather at Hayward Field East Grandstand Tuesday Community members will hold a vigil at 2:00 PM Tuesday to protest the…
Call me an economist, but one of the things I love about graduation day is the sense of accomplishment in knowing that I’ve helped ship some high quality product. In this view, our university’s job is to transform raw high school inputs into sharp, well-tempered, polished college outputs. We don’t…
Which they did. The Eugene Weekly has the report here: On Friday, June 8, local videographer Tim Lewis ran onto Hayward’s track during the meet, wearing a T-shirt that said “Save Hayward” and holding up another that said “Pre Lives For Now.” … Lewis was arrested on the misdemeanor charges…
That would be the University of Chicago, which will no longer require undergraduate applicants to submit SAT/ACT scores.