http://www.statesman.com/weblogs/bevo-beat/2014/jul/24/two-texas-players-charged-sexual-assault/ The Onion has more, here.
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7/23/2014: I thought I’d repost this classic on the meetings of Dave Hubin’s working group to hide public records. From what I can tell this group has now accomplished its mission and is defunct.
6/5/2013 meeting, page down for 3/7/2013 meeting.
Prologue:
- Last meeting (see below) was a disaster for Hubin and Thornton, who got raked over the coals and revealed that there were serious problems with the office’s decisions about fee-waivers, bad software, refusal or complete inability to answer questions about policies, inconsistent statements, no decision on the STC recommendation for fee-waivers for student journalists.
Synopsis:
- Dave didn’t even tell UO’s student-journalists that the meeting was being held, they found out about it from UO Matters.
- Faculty and students not allowed to ask questions.
- Thornton killed a bunch of committee time with irrelevant numbers, worked well.
- No progress on public-interest fee waiver policies. Still a black hole. Thornton’s statements just added to the mystery of what current policy is. Still seems like she has *never* given a full fee-waiver.
- In Feb the STC voted unanimously to recommend Gottfredson waive fees for student-journalists, up to some reasonable limit, with Hubin to determine what’s reasonable. Gottfredson won’t do it, claims he’s studying the issue. He was provost at UC-I, where there are no fees for anyone (except for computer programming time, if that’s required.) So Gottfredson already knows how well this would work, and he just doesn’t want the students to be able to get information on how UO is spending their money.
Live-blog disclaimer: My opinions on what people said or would have said, if they only had a spine.
Former RG reporter Greg Bolt has the story in “Around the 0”, here. Pretty cool. I’m having a hard time maintaining my usual cynicism on this one, which certainly raises the bar for Gottfredson’s hand-picked IAC-lite replacement committee. Check out Professor McWhorter’s youtube videos here. Mostly safe for work, except the…
That would be Auburn University. Documents here, story here. Here at Oregon, reporters requested the Duck infractions data on June 18 (here) and June 27 (here). UO’s public record’s office still has not released anything, despite this 1981 opinion from the Oregon DOJ making clear these reports are public records. I wonder…
7/20/2014: In the RG, here. This is silly, the idea has been around forever. OSU does seem to be ahead on implementing it though. But hey, the Beavers can’t beat the Ducks at spending money on sports! 6/28/2014: RG reports on surreal mismanagement of UO research efforts I’m no humanities…
7/20/2014 update: Kansas community college refuses to hire UO’s disgraced coach Dana Altman Tyson Alger has the story in the Oregonian, here. Oh wait, this is about the *player* Dana Altman brought to campus. Oh well, at least the players get to keep their NCAA tournament bonuses. Wait, those only…
Mostly for assaults involving athletes. Jake New has the report in Inside Higher Ed, here.
Maybe, maybe not. President Ed Ray was a little smarter than Berdahl and Gottfredson. Instead of paying Sharon Rudnick $1M to fight with his faculty, he gave them a big round of raises last year. And today he announced he’s brought in the goats. Fishwrapper sends a link to the awesome time lapse-video of…
Josephine Woolington in the RG: Former University of Oregon basketball player Brandon Austin will not face criminal charges for an alleged sexual assault at Providence College in Rhode Island, his attorney said this morning. Austin’s case was not presented to a grand jury due to what Rhode Island’s attorney general’s…
Update: Apparently Klinger was one of the ghost-writers for this Robin Holmes Op-Ed. In fact it’s not clear if Holmes even read it before it was submitted. The once secret email trail is here. 7/15/2014: UO’s VP for Student Life Robin Holmes (paid $241K a year plus family bowl game…
7/14/2014: From Will Creeley of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, here. More on UO’s revisions to its student conduct code here.
7/14/2014, In Al Jazeera America: … It is not trivial to measure sexual victimization or perpetration, because these are stigmatized behaviors. People don’t readily admit to abusing others or being abused themselves. Researchers have worked for decades to discover how to ask behavior-oriented questions that avoid charged language and pick up…
Above Dana Altman, at #18. I’m not sure how Rob Illig missed out, but this is a well deserved honor from the Oregonian, here: That said, Ms Thornton is just following orders from her boss, President Mike Gottfredson, who is the one who needs to hide things! https://uomatters.com/2014/05/gottgate-timeline-and-questions.html
Here’s some good news: TO: Deans and Department Heads, Directors of Graduate Studies, GTF Contacts, and Graduate Coordinators FROM: Kassy Fisher, UO Graduate School RE: Tuition Support for Grants Funding Level III GTFs (Revised July 2, 2014) Effective Fall 2014, the University will provide support to grants on which GTFs…