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Cross laminated timbers proposed for Hayward Field fail at OSU Forestry School

You’ll be shocked to hear that politics were involved. Jeff Manning has the story on OSU’s new School of Forestry building in the Oregonian here: … The Peavy problem comes after years of efforts by state officials to promote a technology they view as an economic engine for rural Oregon.…

UO settles tortuous, incomprehensible COI/C case over Ed School profs DIBELS

The docket is here. It started August 2014, with this: DYNAMIC MEASUREMENT GROUP, INC., an Oregon corporation, PLAINTIFF, v. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, a special governmental body as defined by ORS 174.117(1)(i); MIA TUAN, individually and in her official capacity; EDWARD J. KAME’ENUI, individually and in his official capacity; FRANCIS J.…

University reins in athletic department fundraisers

That would be Vanderbilt University. Rick Seltzer in InsideHigherEd: Long-running tensions between athletics and academics are on display once again at Vanderbilt University, with charges surfacing that the athletics side is being prevented from raising money from some donors courted by university fund-raisers. Blocking certain donors is undercutting efforts to…

NCAA responds to FBI investigation by re-instating requirement Lananna and his ilk disclose outside income

But not to the public – just to the university. Brad Schmidt has the story in the Oregonian: The NCAA approved a new rule Wednesday that decodes the financial influence of shoe companies in collegiate sports, eliminating a glaring shortcoming in disclosure requirements highlighted this spring by The Oregonian/OregonLive. That change,…

Paul Weinhold’s UO Foundation murky about money for Track Town / IAAF bid

Summer time, so here’s a rerun. FWIW the FBI is now on it: 12/13/2015 update: Jeff Manning’s new report in the Oregonian, here, lays out what is known so far, and quotes the French Ministry of Justice: “The object is to determine the conditions under which the hosting decision was taken,”…

RG editorial board: Cuts to public services will trim your mortgage 25%!

Worse schools for your kids, but more fees for Wall Street brokers and consultants who want PERS to fund its pension obligations with stock market investments, so they can get their cut. The RG editorial board regurgitates the latest PERS hysteria here, straight from the WSJ editorial page: For a…

Ducks rehire failed Fresno State AD Jim Bartko – or did Mike Andreasen?

8/8/2018 update: The Oregonian’s John Canzano has a weepy puff piece about the Bartko hire here. Apparently this is all about doing a solid for Phil and Penny Knight. They can’t get Nike to hire him? More on how much Bartko cost Fresno State’s academic side here: Fresno State president Joseph…

Sunshine is the best disinfectant

OPB’s Anna Griffin has the story here: Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian has accused state legislative leaders of creating a hostile work environment in which reports of sexual harassment were ignored, underplayed or buried. In a complaint filed Wednesday with his own Bureau of Labor and Industries, Avakian says Senate President Peter…

Why is Eugene paying artists to glorify Tracktown’s 2021 championships?

When the 2012 Olympics came to London, the town’s graffiti artists took to the city’s walls to mock the corporate pomposity of it all. As the Guardian reported, London’s government did its best to eradicate these troubling works of artistic sarcasm, which was not hard to do in a country…