That’s the rumor from a generally reliable source, who reports the ask to ASUO is coming from VP for Student Life Kevin Marbury. Pres Schill got a donor, but apparently CPFM low-balled the construction estimate and they don’t want to go back to that well. No word yet on whether…
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4/8/2014 update: No, I’m not making this up, and yes, my first reaction was to wonder why the UO Senate didn’t think of this years ago.
Reporter Ian Campbell has the story in the Emerald, which also has a helpful timeline for background on this developing crisis. Meanwhile, still no word on which administrator ordered UO’s newly armed police department to arrest and jail one of ASUO’s student president candidates.
11/18/2013: Last summer the Oregonian’s Betsy Hammond wrote a revealing story on the shenanigans of UO VP Robin Holmes and the use of student money to manipulate the student vote on the EMU expansion: University of Oregon leaders admit they made a tactical error when they hired a top political…
7/16/2013: From Teri Figueroa in the San Diego UT: A former Cal State San Marcos student who rigged a campus election by stealing nearly 750 student passwords to cast votes for himself and friends was sentenced Monday in federal court to a year in prison…. On Weaver’s computer, authorities found…
5/27/2013: Haven’t seen an announcement about this, but a source sends this notice: As part of Robin’s 5-year Administrative review, she will be giving a campus-wide presentation. That presentation is scheduled for Wednesday, May 29 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Gerlinger Lounge.
5/19/2013: As part of Robin Holmes’s 5-year Administrative review, she will be giving a campus-wide presentation Wednesday, May 29 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Gerlinger Lounge. Presumably she’ll be taking questions, maybe even answering them.
Update 4/16/2013: A group of students are protesting Holmes’s intervention: We write this letter in protest of the circumstances surrounding the culmination of the 2013 ASUO elections. The unwarranted intervention by UO Administration in the release of this year’s election results was an unacceptable breach of the autonomy of our…
If anyone knows, please comment or email me, thanks. 4/8/2013.
Update: The EMU renovation has passed the OUS board. Hilariously, “Around the O” doesn’t report this qualification: “Approved adding to the OUS 2013-2015 Capital request a total of $84.3 million in Article XI-F(1) bonds to renovate and expand the Erb Memorial Union at the University of Oregon, subject to satisfactory resolution…
P 23 in the docket. Robin Holmes and RBI get the Winston Smith treatment: RBI:
And he keeps the two houses, maid service, croissants etc: I’m sure there’s plenty more scandal in these OUS board minutes. And they’ve got another meeting coming up on Friday. One agenda item? Approve Robin Holmes’s EMU renovations. Another? A new code of ethics. You can’t make this shit up. 1/9/2013
Update: It appears from the docket that one of the bond sales approved during the public part of this meeting was $2.06 Million to start Robin Holmes’s EMU renovation project: Which explains why they met while the students were out of town. The Oregon Commentator has stories on the EMU…
Full email dump here. Lots of CYA, spiced with a little defamation. Robin Holmes to Mike Gottfredson, after Diane Dietz broke the RBI story: Of course UO would never interfere in a student election. And anyway, it’s OK, everybody does it. Wait: the EMU is generating profits as an IRS 990…
Final update: Not until Hubin gives the Commentator the emails showing who gave Robin Holmes the go ahead to hire the RBI consultants and what their orders were.11/16/2012 6PM: The ODE now reports that the referendum passed with 54% of ~4,000 votes. The ends justify the means?11/16/2012: Ian Campbell of the ODE…