Bad news from the RG. UO’s final exams start Monday. Rumor has it desperate undergrads are already looting the Starbucks on 13th: OAKRIDGE — A Nevada man escaped injury this morning after his tractor-trailer rig overturned on Highway 58 east of Oakridge, state police officials said. The crash occurred when…
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6/2/2011: I’m hoping that this ODE story is not an entirely accurate description of what happened in our Arabic program. But at this point anything is plausible. Maybe they needed the money for another Associate VP of strategic planning and communication? Or to pay for our new VP for Diversity?…
6/2/2011: Interesting opinion piece, courtesy of a reader: Back in the mid 20th century, colleges and universities helped America beat down economic inequality. Now they reinforce it.
5/30/2011: State cuts education, spends $2 million on carpooling consultants.
5/29/2011: “Dempsey, 59, earned a master’s degree from Duke University – in English”. Apparently he was unable to find work in his field. From Margaret Soltan. Here’s another one: “His doctoral thesis at Indiana’s Ball State offered no hints about the career he would pursue: “The Solo Songs of Edward…
5/13/2011: There are some intermittent problems with posting, comments, and with the polls (the n seems to have doubled overnight). This has happened before, blogger.com usually fixes it in a day or two.
5/3/2011: Joe Moseley is doing a nice job with the “Official Organ” of UO. And I appreciate the fact he’s not competing with my coffee cup sideline.
Update, 4/27/2011: One week after my post below, Barack Obama finally released his long form birth certificate. Coincidence? Every other sentient being on the planet may think so, but not me and this other guy with a website. With the help of Donald Trump and Oregon Attorney General John Kroger,…
4/25/2011: Not news to any college professor, from Sam Dillon in the NY Times. It’s all up to us:
4/25/2010: An interesting result from a UO Psych professor, described in the RG: In experiments involving 100 students at UBC, the researchers found that a belief in God doesn’t deter a person from cheating on a test, unless that God is seen as mean and punishing.
4/18/2011: I sprung for the NYT 99 cent trial: Business majors spend less time preparing for class than do students in any other broad field, according to the most recent National Survey of Student Engagement: nearly half of seniors majoring in business say they spend fewer than 11 hours a…
4/17/2011: Les Zaitz of the Oregonian has just wrapped up a great 5 part retrospective on the Rajneeshee movement in Oregon. The Oregonian is a consistently interesting newspaper with an excellent website. Meanwhile the 4J school board has stabbed the 4J teachers and the supporters of a Eugene income tax…
4/16/2011: Steve Duin of the Oregonian gives the background, stirred by the memory of UO journalism professor Ken Metzler. You can read excerpts from Metzler’s book on Johnson here: This is just one little incident – caused by the Daily Emerald printing the phrase “Mother Fuckers” on state owned equipment.…
4/5/2011: From the Oregonian.
4/3/2011: I don’t know why the RG has not been printing much about this scandal, or this one. You really need to read the Oregonian to keep up with how corrupt Oregon’s one party state government has become.