> David Boren Undermines Investigation of University of Oklahoma Bomb
3 October 2005, 20:20
REPLY FROM MICHAEL WRIGHT:
One of the reasons Boren keeps raising your tuition is that he has transferred money from the OU general fund to the athletic department to pay off their debts. Chances are good that this practice will continue for three decades, during which the $152.7 million bonded indebtedness for the 2002 stadium expansion must be paid off. This amounts to an annual debt service of about $5 million. My information comes right out of OU’s legal prospectus for selling the bonds. Boren is under pressure to keep revenues high from ticket sales to meet this obligation. Fear of terrorist bombing attacks can definitely impact ticket sales. That’s why he’s so desperate to spin the incident as just an "individual suicide" by an "emotionaly troubled" individual. He wants to rule out any consideration of the possibility that the bomber intended to attack a crowd and experienced a premature accidental detonation. You seem to have a residue of Boomer-Sooner loyalty to Boren. Get over it. He doesn’t deserve your loyalty.
REPLY FROM MICHAEL WRIGHT:
One of the reasons Boren keeps raising your tuition is that he has transferred money from the OU general fund to the athletic department to pay off their debts. Chances are good that this practice will continue for three decades, during which the $152.7 million bonded indebtedness for the 2002 stadium expansion must be paid off. This amounts to an annual debt service of about $5 million. My information comes right out of OU’s legal prospectus for selling the bonds. Boren is under pressure to keep revenues high from ticket sales to meet this obligation. Fear of terrorist bombing attacks can definitely impact ticket sales. That’s why he’s so desperate to spin the incident as just an "individual suicide" by an "emotionaly troubled" individual. He wants to rule out any consideration of the possibility that the bomber intended to attack a crowd and experienced a premature accidental detonation. You seem to have a residue of Boomer-Sooner loyalty to Boren. Get over it. He doesn’t deserve your loyalty.