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 regent Steve Sviggum to take a Republican Senate staff job has been a little general.

Just what regulations does the university think he might be violating? After all, Sviggum said the Board of Regents' conflict-of-interest policy doesn't list his job as one that's prohibited.

two areas I thought might be sticky for him.

 But I later talked to Mark Rotenberg, the U's general counsel, to get a better idea.

He confirmed the two passages I thought might problematic in the regents’ 

He also suggested that Sviggum might have problems dealing with this passage:

It was hard to pin Rotenberg down on this last one, but my impression was that the frequency with which Sviggum would have to recuse himself -- and not just on voting decisions -- would make holding both jobs impractical.

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Much of this conflict-of-interest talk surrounding the decision by University of Minnesota regent Steve Sviggum to take a Republican Senate staff job has been a little general. Just what regulations does the university think he might be violating? After all, Sviggum said the Board of Regents’ conflict-of-interest policy doesn’t list his job as one that’s…

What rules does the U think Sviggum might be breaking?

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