6/26/2010: Les Zaitz has a long story in the Oregonian today about AG John Kroger. Very mixed reviews, mostly involving his political ambitions. This part struck home: … he also has refused to release the record of his agency’s examination of Mike Bellotti’s unwritten employment deal as the University of…
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6/19/2010: UO has now posted a job announcement for the General Counsel job: … at least fifteen years of law practice experience …. To ensure full consideration, please submit a cover letter, resume, and the names of three professional references by July 8, 2010. … The committee will strongly prefer…
6/14/2010: Eric Kelderman of the Chronicle of Higher Education (or here) has an interesting, long, and thorough article on the recent unpleasantness, and more generally on UO and the tough job Lariviere has in front of him: … what is clear is that Mr. Bellotti’s hiring was highly unusual and…
6/2/2010: Greg Bolt of the RG has a story on the Jerry Lidz resignation, here, suggesting Frohnmayer deserved more of the blame for the Bellotti payoff than he got. Which was none. Meanwhile the lawyers are in an uproar over Lidz – this is the third of AG Kroger’s top…
6/1/2010: This is stunning news from Nigel Jaquiss at Willamette Week. (Les Zaitz of the Oregonian has more here.) Oregon Solicitor General General Jerry Lidz has given AG John Kroger two weeks notice. This is fallout from Lariviere’s firing of Melinda Grier: Lidz is her husband. After the Bellotti verbal…
5/22/2010: Normally when you make a request to the Oregon DOJ for public records, you get a reply from DOJ Attorney Michael Kron, the DOJ’s Government Transparency Czar. So when I asked for the full report on the Bellotti investigation, I was a little surprised to get a denial from…
5/17/2010: President Larivere fired Melinda Grier almost 4 weeks ago. He didn’t let her resign or give her a golden parachute. He fired her and immediately took away her job responsibilities. This is almost unheard of. She had been Dave Frohnmayer’s General Counsel for 12 years, and Lariviere’s for 10…
5/1/2010: Greg Bolt of the RG finally gets Frohnmayer to talk about the Bellotti contract. Frohnmayer was waiting to see exactly how much the AG’s report unearthed before he went on the record with his version. And the report has just one mention of Frohnmayer – he delegated signing authority…
4/30/2010 update: Greg Bolt has a story about this in the RG. Not much new except this: Some attention also focused on former UO President Dave Frohnmayer, who in 2005 had assigned responsibility for personnel issues in the athletic department to Grier’s office. Frohnmayer was winding down his presidency when…
4/28/2010:At 11AM tomorrow the OUS Board meets and will hear a report from their auditor, Pat Snopkowski, on the Frohnmayer / Bellotti oral contract scandal – or as they call it in their docket, “A UO Athletics Matter.” I’m expecting a coverup, based on how the OUS Audit Division handled…
When your blog starts getting a bunch of hits from United States Department of Justice IP addresses, googling Oregon DOJ melinda grier doug park, you start to wonder where this is all going. Someplace that’s OK for UO, I hope.
4/22/2010: Rumor control Reports in the RG and Oregonian explain that Melinda Grier will be given a one year terminal contract at the Knight Law School, apparently at her full $183,00 salary. Under Brad Shelton’s new budget model it looks like the law school will have to pay her salary…
4/22/2010: From Jeff Manning at the Oregonian. Obviously Lariviere has some guts and he is now taking charge: Melinda Grier, the attorney at the center of a controversy surrounding the University of Oregon athletic department, appears to be on her way out. University President Richard Lariviere and Oregon Attorney General…
4/8/2010: That headline on Steve Duin’s column in the Oregonian does not say it all. There’s plenty more in the article about Melinda Grier’s role in recent events: Let me see if I can get my arms around the challenge facing University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere if he is…
4/4/2010: Lots of hits and lots of comments on the payoff stories, some from people who sound like they know something. Lariviere will have a news conference Tuesday, and maybe he will tell the truth about what happened. George Schroeder of the RG has a column calling for more transparency…