Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Hubin’s PR office finally gives Tublitz the BCS championship junket lists 03/31/2015

http://uomatters.com/2015/03/as-students-and-faculty-prepare-for-strike-uos-senior-admins-plan-bowl-game-junkets.html


Hubin’s PR office finally gives Tublitz the BCS championship junket lists

   03/31/2015
3/31/2015 update: It took a month or so – presumably they were hoping people would forget about it. Full dump here. Check the manifests to see who actually went. Senate President Kyr didn’t. Presumably he understands that taking this sort of largess from the athletic department, while the Senate is taking up legislation to get some money back from the Ducks for the academic side, would be a conflict of interest. And indeed, state law forbids the UO Trustees, and their relatives and household members from taking these sorts of gifts from the Ducks:
But for our Johnson Hall colleagues, who are now considering whether or not to implement the Senate legislation, it’s a family vacation opportunity:
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12/4/2014 8:00 PM update: UO admins evacuate for family bowl-game junkets, as GTF strike mediation drags on
As mediated talks drag into Friday, a photographer captured the chaotic scene as Interim President Scott Coltrane’s executive assistant Dave Hubin packed UO’s top administrators, lawyers, consultants, and their family members into the last helicopter to leave Johnson Hall for Dec 5th’s PAC-12 Football Championship festivities at Levi Field in Santa Clara:
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The university, devastated by years of corrupt puppet governments and a series of coups d’etat orchestrated by athletic department extremists, faces a long, uncertain period of rebuilding, as collateral damage from infighting for the vacant presidency increases. 
The careers of several administrators were last seen clinging to the Huey’s skids. 
Update: Word tonight from the ODE that opposition forces managed to infiltrate the Johnson Hall perimeter and approach the presidential bunker, in a desperate attempt to get help for their 8AM Monday poli-sci final.
11/25/2014: Free bowl game junkets for UO admins and families. Think of it as a parental leave policy on steroids.
This year should be particularly fun for them, and costly for us. The Ducks are a lock for the PAC-12 championship to be played Dec 5th in San Francisco. Then, if all goes well, there will be a College Football Championships playoff game at some sunny location, to be followed on Jan 12th by the championship game in Texas. Many JH nomenklatura have contracts guaranteeing free junkets to these games not only for themselves, but also their families.
The street price for good tickets is typically $1000-$2000, and when you add in airfare, hotels, and per-diem, it’s maybe $5,000 per couple, more if they bring the kids. Here’s the contract clause for our interim General Counsel Doug Park, who insisted on getting it in writing, after Gottfredson panicked over a potential IRS investigation last year, and took away Randy Geller’s free trip:
Of course these junkets are a conflict of interest for people like Park, who help the athletic department hide public records, or VPFA Jamie Moffitt, who controls the athletic department’s budget and subsidies. But for some people a COI isn’t a moral dilemma, it’s a family vacation opportunity.
What’s UO’s policy for dealing with these conflicts? Last time I asked, there was none:
From: “Thornton, Lisa”
Date: February 1, 2013 12:28:59 PM PST
Dear [UO Matters]-
The University does not possess records responsive to your request for ” a copy of UO’s policies and/or procedures on paying for travel and tickets to away games and/or postseason games”, made 1/28/2013.
Thank you for contacting the office with your request.
Sincerely,
Lisa Thornton
Office of Public Records
Given the problematic nature of these junkets Dave Hubin’s public records office typically does its best to hide the cost and the names of the people taking them. But here is some info Daily Emerald reporters and I have been able to get over the years. More on this here.
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And more here, from the 2012 Rose Bowl.
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14 Responses to Hubin’s PR office finally gives Tublitz the BCS championship junket lists

  1. Anas Clypeata
    11/25/2014 at 7:20 pm
    Hey look, a Bowl of Ducks list!
    Rating: +11 (from 11 votes)
    Reply
  2. Clueless
    11/25/2014 at 11:04 pm
    Post of the year!
    Rating: +1 (from 1 vote)
    Reply
    • uomatters
      11/25/2014 at 11:44 pm
      Thanks, you can buy me a prize here: http://www.lovescotch.com/
      Rating: +2 (from 2 votes)
      Reply
  3. Anonymous
    12/04/2014 at 2:51 pm
    The rumor is that we’re paying for their plane tickets so they can “work” at a football game, so their flight information is subject to an information request. 
    Expect GTFs and the media available to greet you at the airport, admins!
    Rating: +4 (from 4 votes)
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  4. Anonymous
    12/04/2014 at 4:24 pm
    Not a rumor: https://twitter.com/Lumpen_Marek/status/540651395683086336
    Rating: 0 (from 0 votes)
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    • Anonymous
      12/04/2014 at 7:30 pm
      What an inspiring and courageous gift. Donors who vote with their dollars should consider repurposing their UO donations to the GTFF strike hardship fund at http://gtff3544.net/2014-bargaining/gtff-strike-fund-donations/
      Rating: +2 (from 2 votes)
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  5. FYI
    12/04/2014 at 4:57 pm
    They moved the grade deadline…  http://registrar.uoregon.edu/
    Rating: 0 (from 0 votes)
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    • Hen
      12/04/2014 at 6:10 pm
      Fantastic. I so want to still be grading on the 19th.
      Rating: +1 (from 1 vote)
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  6. Clueless
    12/04/2014 at 7:43 pm
    I hear there might be picketing at the airport. That would be great.
    Rating: +2 (from 4 votes)
    Reply
  7. UO Grad Student
    12/04/2014 at 8:07 pm
    “I’m proud of our bargaining team for staying at the table to work to find a solution and we look ahead to another mediation session tomorrow.”
    Coltrane’s email on bargaining makes it sound like his zoning lawyer is doing this out of the goodness of his heart because he believes in the cause of the UO Admin- not because he’s paid $300 an hour to do it. Of course the UO bargaining team looks forward to another mediation session at those rates.
    Rating: +6 (from 8 votes)
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    • Hen
      12/04/2014 at 8:25 pm
      ………while I head off to watch the game.
      Rating: +2 (from 2 votes)
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  8. The Truth
    12/04/2014 at 8:38 pm
    “$150,000 for parental leave for graduate students? Outrageous, financially irresponsible, and not going to happen.”
    “$250,000 for Frohnmayer’s law firm? Where do we sign up?!”
    Rating: +6 (from 6 votes)
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  9. Dog
    12/04/2014 at 9:56 pm
    Nah, the evacuation of Saigon (April 30.1975) was far less chaotic and stressful than the current Bowl of Ducks dilemma …
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    • uomatters
      12/04/2014 at 9:58 pm
      Although the similarities are uncanny: http://dailyemerald.com/2014/12/04/asuo-and-slap-stopped-in-attempt-to-enter-office-space-of-johnson/

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Monday, March 30, 2015

UO to seek state funds for new administrative offices 03/30/2015

http://uomatters.com/2015/03/uo-to-seek-state-funds-for-new-administrative-offices.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

http://www.dailyemerald.com/2015/03/30/uo-new-renovations/



Monday, March 30, 2015

Instead of firing Penny Daugherty, Coltrane to hire AVP to do her job 03/30/2015

http://uomatters.com/2015/03/instead-of-firing-penny-daugherty-coltrane-to-hire-avp-to-do-her-job.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Instead of firing Penny Daugherty, Coltrane to hire AVP to do her job

   03/30/2015
Baby steps, I suppose. Job posting here. Reports to VP Robin Holmes. $105K-$120K. Chuck Triplett gets $130K, and didn’t even have to go through a search.
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  1. Reorganization
    03/30/2015 at 4:17 pm
    Oh wow, that didn’t take long. It’s supposed to be Jamie & Penny who oversees affirmative action & title ix compliance, it looks like it’s slowly moving elsewhere. “Joint accountability to the President” is a clear message to Jamie to get out of the way. Considering what’s happened here already, I guess a change is needed.

Monday, March 30, 2015

Did Rudnick and Gary break Bar’s COI rules on archives investigation? 03/30/2015

http://uomatters.com/2015/03/did-rudnick-and-gary-break-bars-coi-rules-on-archives-investigation.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter


Did Rudnick and Gary break Bar’s COI rules on archives investigation?

   03/30/2015
The Oregon state bar incorporates model language from the ABA in its “Rules of Professional Conduct“:
RULE 1.7 CONFLICT OF INTEREST: CURRENT CLIENTS
(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), a lawyer shall
not represent a client if the representation involves a
current conflict of interest. A current conflict of interest
exists if:
(1) the representation of one client will be directly
adverse to another client;
(2) there is a significant risk that the representation
of one or more clients will be materially limited by
the lawyer’s responsibilities to another client, a
former client or a third person or by a personal
interest of the lawyer; or …
Scott Coltrane said that the investigation of the UO Presidential Archives would be done by an independent law firm, Hershner Hunter.
Why not UO’s longtime HLGR firm? Because UO’ former GC Randy Geller now works for them as “of Counsel”, and the one substantial document I released from the archives was a memo from Geller proposing to dissolve the UO Senate and replace it with a more compliant, hand-picked group of faculty, and as I learned later, HLGR and Geller have a lucrative contract with OUS to advise the “Technical and Regional Universities” on matters including shared governance.
This memo, and other similar documents that might have been in the digital archives, might be a serious problem for HLGR’s credibility and ability to get work providing advice on university governance.
When I was interviewed by Amanda Walkup of HH about how I got the archives, I first asked if I could record the interview. She refused to continue the interview unless I agreed not to. I then asked her if I could see a copy of the document from UO charging her to conduct the investigation. She said there was no document – the agreement was verbal.
I asked her incredulously if this whole thing was being done on the basis of a phone call from Interim GC Doug Park. She nodded.
It now turns out that might not have been true, and that instead Hershner Hunter may have been hired by Bill Gary and Sharon Rudnick from HLGR, and not independently by Doug Park, as Coltrane said. It is certainly true that Rudnick obtained a copy of Walkup’s report, and wrote the summary of it for public consumption that the feckless Tobin Klinger sent out to reporters, complete with metadata showing her as the author.
Is Rudnick and Gary’s participation in the “independent investigation” of the release of a damaging document written by one of its employees a violation of the Oregon Bar’s ethics rules, or just a really bad idea?
I don’t know, but I think I’ll file an ethics complaint with the Bar, and see what they think.
Meanwhile, still no news from HLGR’s Bill Gary on the defamation lawsuit he threatened me with last week, over this post.
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2 Responses to Did Rudnick and Gary break Bar’s COI rules on archives investigation?

  1. you are an idiot
    03/30/2015 at 12:31 pm
    Your use of “might have”, question marks, and other “maybes” doesn’t excuse your defamatory statements you idiot.
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  2. amused
    03/30/2015 at 12:34 pm
    Gary won’t dance to your tune or care about your time line. He is a deliberate, careful, smart guy. And apparently you have pissed him off one to many times.

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