6/6/2013 update: AAD for finance Eric Roedl’s secret athletic slides, with redactions, here. Oregon Commentator Nick Ekblad got them via a public records request, after the IAC voted to kick him out of their meeting on budgets and athletic subsidies. More below. Why in the world would the blacked out…
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5/22/2013: From UO’s Public Records log: President’s CalendarRequester: Ekblad, NicholasOrganization: The CommentatorInitial Request Date: 05/22/2013Status: Requesting/Reviewing RecordsI would like to request the president’s calendar from January 8th 2013 to the present President Gottfredson’s public records office made me pay $108 for an earlier version, and wait 2 months. Pdf here. Let’s…
3/16/2013: What is Jim Bean going to do to justify his last 16 months of feeding at the Johnson Hall sugar tit, at $27K a month? It seems to involve badly organized efforts to try and lobby students to support tuition increases. Nick Ekblad of the OC has the scoop:…
2/17/13: Nick Ekblad of the Oregon Commentator on the recent Senate Transparency Committee meeting: Being asked questions (about transparency, no less) is stressful and intimidating– apparently something that wasn’t in the Public Records Officer job description.
Most NYT stories about Republicans read like the editor sent the reporters off on a dangerous expedition as punishment for some newsroom etiquette faux-pas. But Robert Draper seems to have had fun with his interview with two UO Commentator alumni, Bret Jacobson and Ian Spencer (Econ 2006), who now run…
6/20/2011: That’s according to Deborah Bloom of the ODE. But it’s all OK, Lyzi Diamond of the Oregon Commentator reports that Oregon is rated #1 out of the 50 states for the most personal freedom.
5/17/2011: Two posts from the OC: College Republican BBQ is Saturday at 1PM, organized by Zach Webb. Art Robinson will speak. Vegetarian option available. Lyzi Diamond writes on FIRE and how they would run the zoo.
5/2/2011: The latest issue of the Oregon Commentator is out, large pdf here. Alex Tomchak Scott tells the story of the guy who rides across campus every morning, screaming about LTD. I didn’t read it all, but apparently Frances Dyke just appointed him Vice Provost for Sustainable Transportation. Ben Maras…
3/24/2011: The latest OC issue is out, here. Some excellent articles on UO expansion plans (lots), competitive bids for the ORI lease (bids? what bids?) the New Partnership (transparency first). President Lariviere seems to have forgiven the OC for their sophomoric and embarrassing “Big Balls” issue: He’s agreed to meet…
10/20/2010: by Alex Tomchak Scott. This daily update is becoming a must. Read too far though, and you’ll get into the subsequent anti-Kitty Piercy on OSPIRG editorial. And you should: .In an attempt to help the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group regain its funding from the ASUO in the…
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…