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Colleagues, The University of Oregon has made preventing and responding to sexual assault a top priority. We are reviewing our practices, have added resources, and are hiring staff to strengthen our prevention efforts. Universities everywhere are struggling to educate students about how to stay safe, what to do if they…
11/4/2013: Alando Ballantyne has the story, here.
1930: Ed’s Coed – Pledge Rag Scene from beta collide. Trumpet by Brian McWhorter. 2013: Video from the ODE, by Allysa Veigel
10/20/13: A good piece on the Duck’s alcohol promoting billboards. And an Open letter to the class of 2017 passes on some hard-won advice to our incoming freshman. I’ll add it to my syllabus for next fall. Then there’s an interesting cost-benefit analysis of a fake ID. You might also enjoy this piece on the…
9/30/2013: Richard Reeves explains how to increase economic mobility, in the NY Times: It is well known that in the United States, income distribution has a “sticky floor.” Two-fifths of children born into the poorest fifth of households remain there as adults. But it is sticky at the top, too:…
9/12/2013: Troy Brynelson has the scoop in the ODE: In solidarity for the protest, ASUO President Sam Dotters-Katz, with the support of student presidents from Oregon State and Portland State universities, has also called for students across the state walkout. “These folks work some of the lowest paying and often…
between the students and the faculty union on tuition increases seems to have failed. 6/3/2013 update: Here’s the mic check video, from a helpful commenter. The guy in the middle is Frog, or maybe Bean, after an administrative sabbatical paid for with student tuition increases. Say, what is Bean going…
6/3/2013: Troy Brynelson has a fascinating look at how the free-market and UO student party people have responded to Eugene’s new social host ordinance: the students hire professional bouncers to keep their parties under control. Better than trying to quiet down your wild friends, and yourself. And cheaper than the…
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…
9/25/2012: The RG’s Diane Dietz digs into the student debt situation, with a focus on UO. Some tidbits: The prisons’ share is $1.36 billion in the current two-year budget, compared with the $691 million for the entire, seven-school Oregon University System. Not clear if that includes direct state aid to…
Full version of the RBI Strategies EMU campaign plan is here.Update: Why was the RBI contract for $25,000? Because Oregon administrative rules require public notice for contracts of $25,000.01 or more. Sneaky.Update: Diane Dietz has the story in the RG. AP version here. VP Holmes spent $25,000 of student union money for the…
Page and pages of docket info here for a telephonic meeting on Friday. The UO students have voted against this several times, a fact which is conveniently not mentioned in the proposal. Costs have increased from $300 per student per year to $351 – payment starts before construction finishes – and approval…
5/18/2012: Libby Nelson of Insidehighered.com has a much better piece than the crap the NYT has been pushing on this issue.
Secret slide update on Senate IAC expels student-journalists from meeting
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…