SALEM, Ore. — Payments in the sports-marketing contracts of Oregon's two large universities are trade secrets, and the schools can keep the amounts secret, Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers said this week.
The secrecy gives the University of Oregon and Oregon State an advantage over marketing contractors and other schools, an opinion from Myer's office said, and the value of the revenue the schools get as a result outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

