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.

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 adm

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 wou

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

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 se

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 instructio

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

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 comments [...]

So Campus Change Coalition did this dance number. Then Reality Check did foam-sword Medieval combat. Then Alex McCafferty said of CCC’s dance number: “It was small. It lasted about, you know, 30 seconds.” Then he paused for a beat. Then a realization dawned on his face. “That’s what she said,&#

Click this link to read it. It is very compelling, I think.

David Zahn called me at some point tonight and left a voicemail message saying Charles Denson is not, in fact, involved in Students for Honest Campaigning. “That would be a conflict of interest,” he said. Not quite sure where the error or miscommunication was a long the line. He must have called me while I was [

Corrections appended for some candidates, others coming in. Corrections denoted in bold italics. The story is this: I added the candidates’ names straight from a list the Elections Board sent me. Since then, those involved in the campaigns have sent in corrections to the list. President/VP Jairo Castaneda/Alex Esparz

LTD didn’t end up accepting the ASUO’s request to pay for service at last year’s rate in the end. LTD spokesperson and director Andy Vobora said the transit provider came back at the ASUO with a “counterproposal”: $15.54 per student per term, halfway between last year’s rate and the rate

Here’s the agenda: Follow the meeting live at the location in this link. 1. Call to order 2. Approval of the agenda 3.  Special requests a. Club Persia (first request, second request, total: $1,536) b. NASU ($266) 4. New Business a. Take Back the Tap Resolution Note: this may be an old version i. Public Testimony (15

Jairo Castaneda got back to me too late to make it into my Tuesday article, but when he did, he told me he is also in favor of pushing forward the elections to alleviate distractions for candidates and students.

Lest it be said the order in which I sequenced the paragraphs about candidates and their platforms for my article today, I want to tell you that it was an agonizing process. In the end, I wrote about Rousseau first, then Castaneda, then McCafferty, then Ciaramella. I decided to write about Rousseau and Arora first because [

The Associated Press (AP) explains why it would not accept a handout photo of the meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Obama today. It feels that in democratic countries access should be granted to provide an independent view of the situation. They also detailed a few situations in which they would accept a handout

I’ve been thinking about this idea for awhile “The best and worst of the internet” on a weekly basis where I point out what’s funny, what’s new, and what’s terribad on the world-wide-intarwebz. I’ll try to do five things and keep it hillarious: 1. A school is caught using cameras in

Redshirt freshman LaMichael James was arrested Wednesday morning by Springfield police. According to the Lane County Jail’s website, James was arrested for strangulation, assault and menacing. Here’s his booking information. James was the Pac-10 Freshman Offensive player of the year this season.

Follow this link. OSPIRG public hearing

Click this link: ASUO Senate

I spent a sizable portion of my free time Sunday and today attempting to get the University’s police reports on the swastika painted on the LGBTQA floor last weekend. Unfortunately, neither the Eugene Police Department, nor the Department of Public Safety was willing to provide them, although both were very nice and a

Here is the ASUO Senate agenda for Wednesday. The meeting will be at 7 p.m. in the EMU Walnut Room. You’ll notice, if you click on the Executive’s special request form, that only the first page of the special request form has been scanned. According to ASUO spokesperson Curtis Haley, the request is for the USSA&

Follow the link here: ASUO Senate Feb. 3rd

Over the weekend, a four-by-four-and-a-half-foot swastika was spraypainted into the carpet of the LGBTQA. The group’s computer monitor and television set were also painted over. The Department of Public Safety has evidently been called. I’m still waiting to talk to them.

A wide range of games were played from single player to co-operative. I saw AudioSurf, Borderlands, the Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne mod Defense of the Ancients, Rock Band, and a range of others. The LAN was a great social outlet, as many people came in groups. I personally wandered the rows of computers and interacte

The Ducks came out firing in this one, and trail by just four at the half. Nia Jackson is on her to way to a new career high in points, having already tallied 18 to lead the team. Surprisingly, she is the only Duck player in double figures, but a number of other players are [...]

Starcraft and Counterstrike: Source tournaments beginning.  10 players for the 1v1 Starcraft and five teams of five for Counterstrike. Counterstrike Round 1 is over!  My team, “Bang Bang”, lost 16-0 to “These are our real names”.  “We should have played Quake” won the other match and a

OSU is the victor as WookieGT took 8 kills to slardels 5.  Boos, cheers, and jeers erupted regardless of the individual games being played. Better luck in the upcoming Starcraft: Brood War tournament, UO!

Our slardel vs. OSU’s WookieeGT in the final matchup of the tournament. It’s going on now. The current score is slardel 2, WookieGT 2!