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9/3/2013: Randy Geller is only now releasing the tapes, in response to a public records request. You bet I’ve got another ethics complaint brewing. It seems there’s been a lot of questionable behavior inside the President’s office, and the secret football recruiting video will raise many new questions with Jim…

8/15/2013: ODE reporter CJ Ciamarella cut his teeth on Duck athletics scandals, now he’s working in DC, reporting on the EPA.

8/9/2013: From an extensive interview with Larry Scott by former UO student Allie Grasgreen, in IHE: There’s obviously already a big concern, especially among the academics we write for, about the escalation of spending and the so-called arms race, and Oregon’s new football building is a good example of that.…

7/29/2013: Job posting in the Chronicle here. The hiring committee is here, Alec Murphy chairs. The search firm is Isaacson Miller. From what I can tell their most recent prior contract with UO was for the CFO search in 2011, which failed. President Lariviere then made the command decision to…

There was a last minute cancellation of this session. I went to the meeting room, and it looks like the admin team took off to find some more money: Wed 7/23/2013, 1PM – 4PM. 122 Knight Library. I’ll live blog it. Your Guarantee of Truthiness: All UO Matters bargaining posts are…

7/22/2013 update: Some fodder for the UO Trustees counter-proposal on raises to be presented Tuesday. IR should have new salary data from the AAU data exchange soon, but the sharing agreement says it can’t be posted on the web. 4/8/2013 update: The AAUP released its latest salary report, showing average faculty…

7/18/2013: I asked a few of the legislators who voted against SB 270 if they would send a statement explaining the reasons for their vote, to post on UO Matters. Here are the replies I received. Comments welcome: Senator Floyd Prozanski (Eugene): As much as I support individual governing boards,…

7/9/2013: Those are some classy earmarks at the bottom. Is the $15m tuition deal good news or bad news for UO’s budget? Every 1% cut to in-state tuition costs us roughly $100 a head, or maybe $1.5 million a year. My guess is pretty close to a wash.  Oregon University System The Subcommittee…

7/3/2013: UO “top scholars” admissions officer David Van Der Haegen in the RG Letters: The Register-Guard clearly displayed what it viewed as the single most important news of the day on June 27. Of course, it was the fact that the Oregon Ducks football team would be spared the horrific fate of…

6/25/2013: Sam Stites has the story in the RG: Earlier this month, the UO’s office of marketing and brand management sent out a request for proposals for anyone seeking to manufacture Ducks apparel, requiring a guarantee starting July 1 of a least $500,000 a year in royalties to be paid…

6/24/2013: My original post on my ethics complaint regarding Rudnick, Gary, and Geller here. Some excerpts from the brief submitted by the Oregon DOJ to the Court of Appeals last Monday, arguing for a substantial reduction in HLGR’s $562K legal fees. Big pdf here.

6/22/2013: A small step for the faculty. Very small. Why does the UO Senate Coordinator report to Dave Hubin? Job ad here: Title:  Executive Coordinator for the Statutory Faculty and University Senate Department:  President’s Office Reports to:  Sr. Assistant to the President and the Senate President Salary Range:  $38,000 to…

6/20/2013: “Around the O” has an obituary of Cathleen Leue, longtime UO economics professor and CASIT director, and a wonderful person.

6/17/2013: Protesters showed up by the thousands … evolved into a broader movement by groups and individuals irate over a range of issues including … lavish new stadium projects. Whoops, never mind, that’s in Brazil. Here in Eugene everyone’s cool with Phil Knight’s plan to spend $5 million on new…