“They spent all the money on the Jacqua Center to kill baby ducks.”
Posts tagged as “jock box”
6/1/2011: Only problem is that it will be in Corvallis: Campus officials are set to build a $14-million Student Success Center, just north of Reser Stadium. It will feature classroom space, computer labs and more room for student tutoring.More academic help for a growing campus. Oregon State’s Assistant Vice President,…
To the left, the sleek, overflowing (but shallow) fountain of the Jacqua Jock Box, symbolizing purity, excess, and athletics. To the right, the broken debris filled fountain in front of the Knight Library, symbolizing the corrupt, dissolute, and empty life of the mind. Note that the jocks tricked Provost Bean…
5/25/2011: From Rob Moseley in the RG talking about the recent NCAA release of academic progress: Oregon’s four-year average of 941 was ninth among Pac-12 teams, and the 932 for 2009-10 was 11th among the 12 teams that will make up the conference this fall. Oregon State scored 959 as…
5/8/2011: Greg Bolt has dual front page stories on the UO administration’s complicity in subsidizing UO athletics with state tax revenue and regular student tuition, in today’s Register Guard. The first compares the dismal support services for regular students with what the athletes get at what the NY Times calls…
3/18/2011: From Bill Graves in the Oregonian: A group of University of Oregon students today plan to enter a restricted area in the opulent academic center built for athletes by Nike founder Phil Knight and call for opening the building to all students. Students say the top two floors of…
12/17/2010: That would be the new President of Missouri State: “This has been a fairly laissez-faire type of institution where you just kind do what you want to do, … There’s no control, there is no policy. There really is no oversight. People just spend. That’s the inheritance we have here,…
10/26/2010 update: A careful, and helpful, reader points out that the SSA email says: For your information, each student-athlete has signed the NCAA Student-Athlete statement, which includes the Buckley Amendment Consent Declaration, which allows Services for Student Athletes the right to this information. Not our first mistake, or our last.…
10/19/2010: Today the RG prints a story on the Lariviere overtime kerfuffle and Pernsteiner’s attempt to get Lariviere to toe the OUS line on his UO restructuring plan. This is a week after Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette Week did the hard work getting the audit reports and emails for the…
10/15/2010: Provost Jim Bean’s Oregonian op-ed today is an attempt to refute reporter Rachel Bachman’s story in the Oregonian from last week, here: Oregon athletic department uses state money for academic needs despite claims of self-sufficiency Ducks athletes have received $8.5 million in general fund benefits in nine years while…
8/14/2010: German rich guy questions the logic. From Der Spiegel: Peter Krämer, a Hamburg-based shipping magnate and multimillionaire, has emerged as one of the strongest critics of the “Giving Pledge.” Krämer, who donated millions of euros in 2005 to “Schools for Africa,” a program operated by UNICEF, explained his opposition…
8/10/2010: Greg Bolt of the RG has an article on the Jock Box, based on the cost estimates the Oregonian obtained from UO with a public records request. The article does not explain how the tax-deductibility of this sort of donation means that regular taxpayers picked up about half the…
8/9/2010: The Chronicle and several other papers quote Senate Pres Nathan Tublitz on the Jock Box: Cost of U. of Oregon’s New Center for Athletes Draws New Debate Over Priorities The $41.7-million cost of the University of Oregon’s new academic center for athletes prices out to more than $1,000 per…
8/7/2010: From Rachel Bachman in the Oregonian. $41,677,868 total. Almost 20% more than a Gehry. I’m no economist, but after tax deductions, this breaks down to about $22 million from Phil Knight, $16 million from US taxpayers, and $4 million from Oregon taxpayers. The gift that keeps on taking. The…
6/4/2010: Bill Graves of the Oregonian has a new story on the latest sports facility craziness here. This seems to be another “gift that keeps on taking,” like the Jock Box: But Phit’s gift does not come without costs. The license agreement requires the university to employ a facilities manager,…