Cyclist: Phone call yields all-access pass
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“People said tailgating was an all
American culinary experience, so
here I am," Kevill-Davies said.
The English might indulge by eating
sausages out of their Volvos before rug
by games, “but it’s on a completely dif
ferent level here,” Kevill-Davies said.
“They don’t drive 400 miles in a
million-dollar RV.”
A phone call to the University
Athletics Department put him in
touch with Eric Brandt, director of
food and hospitality services for
athletics, and come game day
Kevill-Davies had what amounted
to an all-access pass to Autzen.
“This is crazy,” he said as he made
his way through the sea of busses, cars
and motor homes. “I’ve never seen
anything like it.”
Kevill-Davies visited the poshest
and most lavish tailgaters the Autzen
parking lot had to offer, snacking on
barbecued chicken, grilled salmon and
smoke-cooked pork sandwiches while
hobnobbing with some of the most
diehard Duck fans around.
Minutes before kickoff, Brandt
whisked him up to University Presi
dent Dave Frohnmayer’s skybox,
where he watched the first quarter of
the game with the Frohnmayer family
and more than 40 guests.
A writer and aspiring food journal
ist, Kevill-Davies talked journalism
with the dean of the School of Journal
ism and Communication and dis
cussed the food in London -with the
University senior vice president and
provost while sipping on a bottle of
ESB India Pale Ale, compliments of the
company catering the skybox.
He left Frohnmayer’s skybox after
the first quarter, passing Republican
Sen. Gordon Smith of Oregon in the
hallway as Brandt led the way to the
next stop: the press box.
Sampling chicken and baked beans
as more than 50 of the Northwest’s top
sports journalists worked nearby,
Kevill-Davies said he wanted to expe
Tom Kevill-Davies eats a sandwich at the University president's Civil War tailgater. Kevill
Davies joined President Dave Frohnmayer in his skybox for the first quarter of the game.
nence tne game as an average student
would in the student section, not as a
“corporate bigwig” in a skybox.
“I think it’s a bit more honest
down with the band and the
students,” he said.
He stood in the student section dur
ing the last quarter and soon realized
the pass Brandt had given him was
enough for some security guards to
allow him on the sidelines.
He spent a few moments watching
the game from behind the Ducks’
bench before a skeptical guard ordered
him to return to the stands.
Kevill-Davies hopes to write a
book about his experiences and is
trying to raise money for cancer re
search, but he says that’s not the
main impetus behind the trip.
He’s here to eat food and see America.
“If a book comes out of it, great,”
Kevill-Davies said. “If that means I raise
£10 or £50,000 for charity, brilliant. ”
He said he’s always loved food and
saved money for years to make the trip
happen, though many companies
have sponsored him by providing
camping equipment for his bike ride.
He ranks his experience at this
year s civil war as one oi uie uesi
he’s had on his nearly 5,000-mile trip.
A perfect meal doesn’t just depend
on food quality, he said, because the
sights, sounds and people that make
up the surrounding atmosphere play a
huge role.
Duck fan Randy Enders of Eugene
has been attending the football game
tailgate parties for many years and told
Kevill-Davies tailgating is the best ex
ample of American culture he’ll find
during his travels.
“Americans lack culture, but it all
comes out at the tailgate party,”
Enders said.
And come out it did.
After a full day of eating, drinking
and generally being merry, Kevill
Davies said he’s still as amazed as he
was when he first set foot in the
Autzen parking lot.
"I’ve never gotten to see anything
like that in my life,” he said. “The fact
that people do it week in and week out
is amazing.”
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Sued: Weiner employed the
help of other professors
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Handbook to argue against the
University administration’s claim
that publishing the article was a
personal act.
“I don’t think the University is liv
ing up to its obligations under the
law,” Weiner said. Either the Oregon
Tort Claims Act or the University’s
policy needs to be changed, she said.
Weiner stated in a 32-page report
that “because the University explicit
ly directed me to engage in scholarly
publishing... and directed me to con
tinue publishing throughout the
course of my employment at the Uni
versity, publishing ‘Strengthening Ar
ticle 20’ is precisely the kind of work
that I was hired to perform.”
Weiner wrote “Strengthening Arti
cle 20” while on sabbatical from Aug.
the ad hoc research committee,
and asking Judd Sneirson et al to
work on defining this issue, doing
some more groundwork, etc,”
Keyes wrote in an e-mail.
Hollis Professor of Law Garrett
Epps, formerly a staff writer for The
Washington Post and visiting associ
ate professor at Boston College of
Law and Duke Law School, helped
Weiner deal with defamation law.
“We thought it set a bad precedent
to basically cave in on an academic
freedom issue,” Epps said.
Together, Weiner and Epps sought
outside advice from Rodney A. Smol
la, dean and Allen professor of law at
the University of Richmond and au
thor of “Free Speech in an Open Soci
ety.” Smolla read Weiner’s article and
said Weiner will likely win the case.
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2004, “for the precise
purpose of writing a
published article.” This
kind of publication “di
rectly serves the Univer
sity’s mission as a
flagship research
university,” she wrote
in her claim.
“Any claim that I de
parted from the scope of
my employment or du
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bargaining position, she
said, because the Universi
ty would not indemnify
her. Also, the University of
San Francisco, a co-defen
dant in Weiner’s case, had
offered to remove electron
ic and hard copies of the
article. The reference to
Aldinger’s case was re
moved, which Weiner said
cheapened the article.
“Mv opinion is that the
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able but barred by the University’s
own admissions,” Weiner wrote.
The University said Weiner’s claim
was related to work done outside her
role as a University employee,
according to Weiner’s report.
Melinda Grier, general counsel to
the University, did not return multi
ple Emerald phone calls and e
mails on Friday and Monday asking
for comment about the Senate com
mittee or Weiner’s case in general.
The Oregon Department of Ad
ministrative Services Policy Manual
states that “we will pay and defend
claims against you for torts which
you are alleged to have committed,
while acting within the scope of your
employment or duties.”
The DAS Policy Manual also says,
“The state covers only claims, which
arise in the scope of your perform
ance of your state duties under the
direction and control of the state.”
Assistant professor of law and fac
ulty Senator Judd Sneirson, acting as
a law school representative to the
Senate, brought the issue to the Sen
ate Executive Committee’s attention
on Nov. 14.
Senate President Peter Keyes said
the new committee will look into the
issue at the Jan. 11 meeting.
“We will be going forward with
University has their priorities
wrong,” Weiner said.
Grier encouraged Weiner to re
move the reference to the Aldinger
case in an e-mail dated March 30.
“While I understand your frustra
tion with Mr. Aldinger, when I step
back and look at what (University of
San Francisco) is proposing, it seems
a reasonable way to resolve this
without undermining or reducing in
anyway the power and quality of
your article,” Grier’s e-mail states.
The University hired Weiner in
1998 and awarded her tenure in 2000.
Weiner received a letter from
former law school dean Rennard
Strickland in May 2003 that read:
“This is exactly the type of work
that is so important for our faculty
to engage in and that will bring
much justified credit not only to
you but to the school.”
“The University has basically shut
down and will not deal with us on
this issue,” Epps said. “The Senate
may have a better chance. ”
“It was a very alienating feeling be
cause the University was abandoning
me, basically,” Weiner said.
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