"No doubt he made that little pained face of his the whole time"

I wondered where Saltzman learned that from.

The Scone can do a lot less damage on the OUS board than the City Council.

He's an attorney? Bar member 782058? Subject to the Bar's ethics rules? Well dude, I did not know that. That is very interesting information.

Every time I see the Scone I want to throw up.

His qualifications to sit on the OUS board:

OK Jack, I get your disgust with the remnants of the Neil Goldschmidt era. However, it seems to me overall that Laveriere was a rogue, dedicated only to the worship of the U of O franchise, which I think is worshiped enough with Phil Knight leading the charge.

And no, I'm not an OSU alumn - I'm a Pilot.

I'm not very educated on this issue, I'll say that up front, but I fail to see why one public university should be exalted above all others, despite the pretty uniforms of their football team, which seems to get a lot more press than their academics.

To everyone who thinks it's about promoting UO to the detriment of the rest of the state universities: it's not.

Yesterday, I happened to be in Monmouth and visited one of my undergrad professors at WOU. He and I were talking about the situation, and he was very unhappy about Lariviere's ouster. He didn't see the "New Partnership" maneuver as being to WOU's detriment. Quite the opposite, in fact--he saw it as a university president innovating to keep his institution (and the whole Oregon University System) afloat while the state continues disinvesting in higher ed. I suspect that sentiment is common at other OUS universities.