Maybe this story is a little important?
The University, the Oregonian reports, is seeking to basically get the next 30 years’ worth of state funding in one lump sum. This, it believes, will increase independence and so forth.
Financial details, albiet unconfirmed, on Grier
UO Matters is attributing to “rumor control” information about Grier’s transfer to the School of Law. The gist of what the site says is that Grier will be paid her current salary out of Law’s budget. Here is the site administrator’s opinion on it: Seriously, if you add up UO’s obvious administrative deadwood we are [...]
Oregonian says Melinda Grier is gone.
The Oregonian reports that it has it from four sources that University General Counsel Melinda Grier is being pushed out of her position. One of the sources is state Board of Higher Ed president Paul Kelly, Jr. The University’s spokesperson Phil Weiler, when I asked him whether the rumor was true, said a statement would [...]
ASUO Senate agenda
Here’s the agenda for the Apr. 14 Senate meeting in the EMU Walnut Room. The most interesting part will certainly be the grilling some senators may give Robin Holmes over the Crisis Center. Also controversial may be the Coalition Against Environmental Racism’s request for more than $2,000 to attend an off-campus conference. 1. Call to [...]
Wherefore Campus Recycling?
To answer the above question, probably just where it is right now. Moving Campus Recycling off of the incidental fee was one of Alex McCafferty’s less-cited but, I think, more interesting campaign planks. It’s of a strain of old-timey ASUO conservatism that’s no longer so pronounced. That is, it’s seemingly rooted in the idea, articulated [...]
More about whether results are known.
So I’m still looking into how Campus Change Coalition and its volunteer might have gotten some sort of knowledge of the voting results. People from other campaigns, privately, have been raising a stink about the link that CCC has posted to Duckweb on Facebook, which produces a Duckweb page with a frame with instructions from [...]
Do candidates know the vote count? Probably not.
I got a mass text message from someone working for one of the ASUO election campaigns. It said: “We’re 100 votes behind! Can you get 5 votes for Amelie & Maneesh & Campus Change Coalition before voting ends on DuckWeb at 5pm?” Which is a weensy bit fishy because, of course, none of the candidates [...]
A few points about campaigns and money
There appears to have been some confusion in the comments section of the article I wrote, while I also felt compelled to write more information than I was able to fit in 15 column inches about campaign finance numbers, so here we go. To be more explicit than I was in my article, which the [...]
