8/30/2013: Op-Ed in the RG today: … Our public university was built by Oregonians, and for more than 135 years it has carried out its mission to serve the students and the state of Oregon. In recent decades, inadequate investment in the activities, resources and personnel that constitute and define…
Posts tagged as “athletics subsidy”
8/26/2013: A correspondent notes that if UO faculty leave early (i.e. take a sabbatical and then don’t come back) we also have to repay a year’s salary. Link here. Of course we don’t get 3.5 years to do it, and we have to repay the cost of our benefits too. 8/24/2013:…
8/21/2013 update: After telling the faculty on the IAC we had to keep her presentation about Sand Volleyball secret, AAD Lisa Peterson has now blabbed all about it to Andrew Greif in the Oregonian. Interesting double standard.8/12/2013 IAC meeting update: The meeting took place as scheduled and lasted for about 40…
8/19/2013 update: “Around the O” reports UO raised $200M this FY in donations. It’s difficult to tell from the press release, and as explained below UO Foundation CEO Paul Weinhold has refused to release breakdowns, but it appears that about 57% of the donations to the Foundation went to the jocks.…
8/19/2013: In an Op-Ed in the RG: The debates surrounding the opening of the Hatfield-Dowlin Complex are not much different than the ones that have been waged since the University of Oregon Athletic Department decided to ramp up operations after the unexpected trip to the Rose Bowl in 1995. The…
8/18/2013: U of Nike shoes now available from Nike. Click here to order yours before the lawyers find out! 8/9/2013: U of Nike T-shirts now available! Click here to order from CafePress. $4 from each shirt goes to help UO Matters pay UO’s exorbitant public records fees, and maybe buy me a…
8/15/2013: Refreshingly open, transparent, and even updated in real-time: Oh wait, sorry, that’s for Oregon State. If you’re curious about research activity at UO, you’ll have to wade through a bunch of outdated pdf’s, here. Or you could make a public records request to UO for emails on our AAU…
8/13/2013: Priceless. Watch Rob Mullens’s “Duck, Duck, Money” video interview with CNBC here.
8/13/2013: Just kidding, that’s how much Athletic Director Rob Mullens is paying the Nicholls State University Colonels football team to show up in Autzen and lose to the Ducks, 4 weeks before the UO students even show up for classes. Vegas has Oregon by 51 points. College sports at its…
8/12/2013 update: The Daily Emerald is trying to use Dave Hubin’s public records office to get to the bottom of things: Strategic Communication emails Requester: Crump, JakeOrganization: Oregon Daily EmeraldInitial Request Date: 08/12/2013 Status: Requesting/Reviewing Records To view any and all emails dated Aug. 1 through Aug. 11, between UO…
8/11/2013: Knight’s embarrassingly gaudy tax-deductible football “Sweat Shop” has become an instant national joke. The letters and comments in the local papers are also running heavily in the “WTF?” direction. Today RG columnist Bob Welch tries to make some sense of it: … Allow me, then, amid flashing light sabers,…
7/29/2013: Great news. The university has finally published a comprehensible budget, a strategic plan, and information on future spending priorities. 114 pages, starting with a fact-filled letter from the President, followed with detailed reports on what has been achieved and what remains to be achieved from the 2009 academic plan. There’s…
7/22/2013. New UO flack Rob Moseley’s work? “Around the O” distorts a story by Mark Johnson in the RG. Actually, Johnson doesn’t report that “NCAA documents show UO football values integrity”. He writes: Several pages that appeared to address responses to allegations that involved individuals were completely redacted before being released by the UO. …
6/23/2013: That would be the AFT, suing the president of the Marshall University in West Virginia. More here. UO uses similar strategies to stall and prevent release of records, but usually goes for smaller estimates. Unless you’re Nathan Tublitz, and you ask for the records showing how JH administrators justified…
Fees for reporters, subsidies for propaganda
7/15/2013: We’ve written before about the $104K cost of “Around the O”. Here are two much worse examples of how UO is making work more difficult for real reporters, while spending public money on what amounts to propaganda. I suppose you could argue this is good for UO in the…