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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Time: 4:05:19 PM EDT
Author: mpwright9
See my Facebook album for updated information about David Boren's history of male-on-male sexual harassment.
See this album for information about Boren's corrupt administration at the University of Oklahoma.
BULLETIN: My 9/11 Research
My 9/11 research is mentioned in a book recently published in England by Ian Henshall. The title is 9/11 Revealed: The New Evidence (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2007). In his reference notes Henshall provides the link to this web journal. Henshall reports information I uncovered about David Edger, a top CIA agent brought to OU in August 2001 by David Boren. This requires an update.
Henshall cites this website as reference note 229. He misrepresents me by saying that I have made "the suggestion that some of the hijackers' airline tickets were purchased by an unknown, non-Middle Eastern person at the University of Oklahoma."
That is a mistake. It is far more than a mere "suggestion." It is a definite fact that an airline ticket for a 9/11 terrorist (probably Moussaoui) was purchased at the OU library. The purchaser was not "unknown" to the FBI. They identified him. OU librarians assisted in this and knew that he was a white American male and temporary library employee. It is an extraordinary event because he was never arrested and was probably an infiltrator supervised by the CIA. I have never said that "some" of the hijackers' tickets were purchased at OU. There was only one. See my 9/11 report for the evidence about this.
On page 82, the author makes reference to my video of ex-CIA boss George Tenet telling a 9/11 lie at his March 2005 speech at OU. This is note 177 in Henshall's reference section. The video is posted at youtube.com. David Boren is the mentor and patron of Tenet.
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Time: 7:32:16 PM EST
Author: mpwright9
[Go here for my report about the 9/11 attack and Boren's role in it.]
Former U.S. Senator David Boren of Oklahoma:
One of the Most Corrupt Political Bosses in America
Michael Phillip Wright
Norman, Oklahoma, All Rights Reserved 2005, 2006
mpwright9@aol.com
[This more recent material is just the tip of the iceberg. Be sure to scroll down to the Table of Contents for earlier entries. Read that material for a comprehensive view.]
Demanding that David Boren be fired from the University of Oklahoma is not a matter of being "liberal" or "conservative." It's about abolishing the de facto corrupt MONARCHY we have in Oklahoma and restoring constitutional government. Boren is a monarchist, and he thinks he is King. Dumping him is all about the spirit of 1776.
It's also a matter of discarding Boren's many lies and exposing truth. If you agree with me on these principles, then you will find value in this website.
If you are on Boss Boren's payroll, you might not like this website.
The Muskogee Phoenix published an article by me about the David Boren problem on November 23, 2005. Unfortunately, it is no longer online. If you find yourself in Muskogee, then it's probably archived in a public library there. Email me and I'll send you a scan: mpwright9@aol.com.
"Those who have the privilege to know, have the duty to act." -- Albert Einstein
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Oklahoma Daily Exhibits Great Courage -- Comes Out Against Ku Klux Klan !
The editors of the Oklahoma Daily, student newspaper of the University of Oklahoma, fancy themselves to be courageous champions of progress willing to risk danger by advocating
unpopular ideas which challenge established powers. Just recently they declared themselves to be unswervingly opposed to the Ku Klux Klan ! We marvel at the Daily's boldness !
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OU Is On Shaky Financial Ground
As of June 30, 2006
OU Official Says School’s Debt Is $467.9 Million
But financial officer Chris Kuwitzky "forgot" to include the obligated interest on revenue bonds when he added up the total.
In December 2006 I made an Open Records Act request to OU and wanted to know the school’s estimate of what its current debt is. Most of the debt is from revenue bonds which have financed Boren’s vast construction program.
I received a reply from Kuwitzky. To no one’s surprise, it was murky and deceptive. Still, some useful information could be extracted from it by reading between the lines.
First of all, Kuwitzky did not tell me about the current debt. He said that the debt was $467.9 million as of June 30, 2006.
His deceptive tactic was that he listed only the principal of the various OU bond issues as items in his list of debts. He excluded the interest.
Here is his list for calculating the total debt. I have a scan of his letter which I am willing to send to readers on request. Email mpwright9@aol.com:
Outstanding debt (bonds and capital leases) as of June 30, 2005...........$385.5 million
Plus: OCIA capital lease obligations (F.Y. 2006 activity)........................$ 82.6 million
(payable by the state of Oklahoma from lottery proceeds)
Plus: ODFA capital lease obligations (F.Y. 2006 activity)........................$ 8.5 million
Less: Principal payments (F.Y. 2006 activity).....................................$ 10.8 million
Less: Bond principal refunded with Series 2006A Bonds........................ $112.9 million
Plus: Series 2006A bond principal......................................................$115 million
Outstanding debt after Series 2006A bonds as of June 30, 2006...............$467.9 million
Observe the last line before the total. He adds the principal only for the 2006A bond issue. From an earlier Open Records Act request, I had obtained OU's prospectus for this issue. It was prepared by the UBS Investment Bank.
On page 9, it lists the annual debt service, principal, and accumulated interest obligation for the 25-year payout The interest over this term adds up to an additional $78.3 million.
Readers need to click here to see the debt service schedule for the 2002 stadium expansion bonds. For this series, the interest of $71.7 million is greater than the principal. Subtracting the payments made up through 2006, the remaining interest obligation for this bond series is $56.8 million.
To arrive at the true total current debt for OU, we need to add at least another $135.1 million (56.8 plus 78.3). That will not tell the whole story, though, because there are four other OU bond series on which interest is obligated. I'll be making another Open Records Act request to Kuwitzky to try to wring the truth out of him.
Misleading Statements in Evaluation of OU 2006 Bond
Readers need to see this Fitch Ratings service evaluation of OU's bond offer of September 2006. Fitch made two errors on the path to arriving at its AA evaluation:
1. they claim that OU's enrollment is "stable";
2. they claim that Oklahoma public school enrollment is stable too, and say
that the 2017 high school senior class will change only by 1% compared
to today.
Both of these false claims -- meant to build confidence in prospective purchasers --are easily demolished.
Due to Boren's incessant tuition hikes and Oklahoma's declining public school enrollment, freshmen enrollment at OU has declined by 20% in the recent 4-year interval. Today's sophomore class has also diminished by 15.5% in the same period. See this link from the OU website. Observe the rows for freshmen and sophomores and compare '02 to '06. Over the years these declines will be reflected in asimilar decline for total enrollment.
Who will be occupying all the new buildings in ten years?
October 2004 enrollment data from the Oklahoma department of education confirms that the number of Oklahoma third-graders in that year was 12% less than the number of 9th-graders. That means that the graduating class of high school seniors in 2015 will be 12% smaller than 2008. Many will not be able to afford OU.
OU's enrollment cost bill is now two-and-a-half times greater than it was when Boren arrived in 1994, but Oklahoma's average family income is not two-and-a-half times greater.
Oklahoma gets an F for affordability of higher education. See this opinion by expert evaluators. Boren has priced OU out of the market for families of average income in Oklahoma.
Per capita income in Texas is higher. According to the Statistical Abstract of the United States, in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area it is 107 percent of the national average. In Oklahoma City it is 92 percent. Fitch observes that currently "23% of OU's students come from Texas."
Boren so far has been able to keep his treasury stuffed with cash by raising tuition, but there is an upper limit to how much longer he can get away with this before the dollars lost from declining enrollment outpace the dollars gained from rising enrollment costs.
The reality for OU's future is a diminishing number of enrollees from Oklahoma. Boren's strategy for avoiding financial crisis is to focus his promotional effort on Texas and other states, in order to attract enrollees from wealthy families.
But average-income Oklahomans, who can't afford to send their sons and daughters to OU, will still be expected to pay the taxes to support OU.
Boren Lied About Business School Ranking
Boren's goal of attracting Texans is based on lies to give the impression that OU is a "leading" university around the country. Boren claimed last year that the OU business school was in the Forbes top 50 (Oklahoma Daily, 9/30/05). That's a lie. Go here for the Forbes top 50. The Oklahoma Daily did not condemn Boren for this lie.
Realities About OU Which Boren Neglects
OU Lags Behind in PhD Production
Boren loves to boast about all the "endowed professors" at OU. Under Boren, "endowed professor" is nothing more than a shallow title dispensed to favored faculty members to reward them for being loyal.
The fact is that the glorious "endowed professors" have not done anything to improve OU's performance in areas which are considered relevant in the nation's academic community. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, OU is not on the top 50 list of institutions ranked by the number of doctor's degrees they award. Go here and scroll down for the list of institutions awarding the most doctorates.
OU Is Not in the Top 100 for Federal Research Grants
One of Boren's favorite boasts has been to claim that "OU ranks first among the Big 12 universities in the growth of research funding." We wonder which of his medications caused this hallucination. Go here for the current list of universities ranked by the amount of federal research funding they receive. OU is not there. Seven other Big 12 schools are in the top 100.
OU Is Not an AAU Member
Another big fact which people outside of Oklahoma should not overlook when Boren tries to con them is that OU has never been invited to join the prestigious Association of American Universities. This was founded by the Ivy League in 1900 and is the true elite of higher education. Boren pretends that it doesn't exist. Go here for the member list.
Fitch's Wrongful Judgement
Why did Fitch make its wrongful judgements on the path to giving an AA rating to the OU bonds? They are supposedly professionals. Two possible answers cone to mind:
1. an OU bureaucrat lied to them, and/or
2. Boren has one of his many "proteges" in place at Finch.
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Democrats Bash Boren at their Late October Forum
Mainly they were mad before the November election because Boren had endorsed Republican Thad Balkman for Oklahoma House of Representatives. I see no surprise here. Boren was one of the most right-wing "Democrats" in Congress. He hasn't changed.
Here is the Democrats' forum. Look for the messages by eander2. He says: "OMG! does this mean David and Thad = Jack and Ennis? ewwwwww that's so brokeback mormon!"
I assume readers know that the movie Brokeback Mountain was about two gay cowboys. Balkman is a Mormon.
Scroll down to another message by eander2 in which he says: "I was looking for David Lyle’s email address and can’t find it posted on the OU site. If you can post it in this thread I promise not to call him a bitter old closet queen in my email to him."
In the same forum, the DemoOkie administrator says: "Boren has always been a sucker for the blondes." I really doubt if he meant blonde women. Go here for more information on this subject. Boren has a long history of male-on-male sexual harassment.
More Bashing of Boren by Democrats in December
Some of the Democrats are finally beginning to talk openly amongst themselves about the fact that David Boren is a sleaze. In this forum thread, they bash him because of his close friendship with Robert Gates, Bush's choice for Secretary of Defense. Boren and Gates go back a long time together. In 1991, while Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Boren did the Bush family a big favor by pushing through Gates' confirmation as CIA director. Boren, Bush, Rumsfeld, Gates, Tenet -- all part of the same gang of miscreants.
More On Escalating OU Tuition
In other news, here is a tuition fact. When Boren arrived at OU in 1994, tuition was $1918 for a 30-hour year, for a resident. Five years later, in 1999, it was $2456. That’s a $538 increase for this 5-year interval.
Six years later, in 2005, it was $5008. That’s an increase of $2552 compared to 1999. Additionally, that is an increase of $3090 since Boren's 1994 arrival. OU tuition today is two and a half times greater than it was when Boren arrived.
USA Today Article about Stoops and All the Money He Gets
The USA Today writer generously allows OU boosters to argue that Stoops is "worth it." The article says:
"OU's athletics revenues went from $26.1 million in 1998-99, the year before his arrival, to $64.6 million in 2005-06, according to data provided by the school. Football accounted for more than half that take a year ago ($33.7 million), and the sport turned a nearly $20 million profit and kept Oklahoma's overall, 20-team athletics program in the black."
Notice that it says "according to data provided by the school." Does OU ever lie?
According to the financial history information available in the prospectus for the 2002 stadium bonds, revenues in 2001 were $32.6 million (wait for icon and use the mouse to expand scan to regular size). This was the year after OU won the national football championship. Could anyone ever expect a better year for ticket sales and donations?
This was for the whole athletic department -- not just the football program. The revenues line in the prospectus says "Funds Available for Department Expenditure." Is it believablethat this increased to $64.6 million in '05-'06?
Note 4 at the bottom of the page says that the athletic department was required to borrow funds from the university to pay operations and maintenance expenses in1997, 1998, and 1999. The current mythology is that the athletic department contributes to the university.
The USA Today article, relying on claims from OU, says that revenues in '98-'99 were $26.1 million. The prospectus -- a much more credible source -- says $24.6 million were the revenues for '98-'99.
November 19 Update: Norman Transcript Article on Texans Attending OU
In the entry below I discuss Boren's strategy of rescuing OU from financial catastrophe by vigorously recruiting enrollees from Texas and making false claims about OU's "excellence" along the way. Today the Norman Transcript has an article on that very same subject, but of course they don't tell the whole story.
The Transcript reports that in the 5-year period beginning in 2000, Texas student enrollment at OU increased by 105 percent -- from 1719 to 3526. In the same period, enrollment at OU from Oklahoma natives grew by only 2.9 percent -- from 16,589 in 2000 to 17,070 in 2005.
The same article quotes an OU student from Texas reporting that the recruiting effort from OU included the courtesy of a bus ride up from Texas.
Yep, Boren is bringing the Texans in by the bus load !
Will they all remain in Oklahoma after graduation to work and pay taxes to reimburse Oklahoma taxpayers for having borne some of the costs of their OU education?
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Time: 5:15:49 PM EST
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OU Regents Should Be Told to Dismiss Boren
I have drafted a resolution which people can introduce at precinct meetings of both major parties. The resolution should also be presented at county, district, and state conventions. See the entry below this one for documentation of the factual statements. These meetings will be taking place in the spring.
RESOLUTION CALLING FOR THE DISMISSAL OF DAVID BOREN FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
WHEREAS under the administration of David Boren, the University of Oklahoma (OU) has acquired, mostly from the sale of revenue bonds, a debt of close to half a billion dollars;
WHEREAS, according to the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, enrollment costs at OU are now unaffordable for Oklahomans of average income;
WHEREAS, according to OU records, enrollment costs today are two and a half times greater than they were in 1994, when David Boren resigned his U.S. Senate seat and became OU president;
WHEREAS, the number of freshmen enrolled at OU for the fall 2006 semester is 20% less than the number enrolled for the fall 2002 semester;
WHEREAS, the number of sophomores enrolled at OU for the fall 2006 semester is 15.5% less than the number enrolled for the fall 2002 semester;
WHEREAS, David Boren boasts of having seen to the construction of about $1 billion worth of new buildings, either completed or in progress, since his arrival at OU;
WHEREAS, the debt from OU's sale of revenue bonds has been acquired to finance this construction;
WHEREAS, it is predictable that OU enrollment in the foreseeable future will continue to fall, due to both affordability and demographic reasons;
WHEREAS, David Boren has attempted to avoid the inevitable financial crisis resulting from his corrupt mismanagement by conducting a heavy campaign to recruit Texans to attend OU;
WHEREAS, Oklahoma taxpayers who cannot afford to send their sons and daughters to OU will still be paying taxes to support it;
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the [name of party organization unit] calls on the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents to dismiss David Boren from the office of president immediately.
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Saturday, June 24, 2006
Time: 12:18:13 PM EDT
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UPDATE: The Oklahoma Daily messed up its archive. The links to Oklahoma Daily articles at this journal no longer work. The Daily has done away with its original website and now its online edition is incorporated into a new website called "The Hub." The archived articles are no longer displayed.
Alarming Prank "Terror" Attack in OU Library: October 2005
Go here for the full report with photos. I sent this information by email to Lt. Chan of the OU police department. He replied on the next day and confirmed that the OUPD did show up to investigate the event and that no criminal charges or disciplinary actions were taken against the pranksters.
OU Library Cutting Journals and Databases by 10%
The OU library is cutting journals and databases by 10%.
This letter is an online announcement from library dean Sul Lee in which he blames inflation for the cuts and says that the funds will be redirected to other "programmatic needs."
This statement from the library confirms the 10% cut in unambiguous language:
It says: "Each discipline will reduce the amount of funds spent on serials for their area by 10%."
The goofballs can't even get their grammar straight. It should have said "ITS area."
A librarian told me that the most likely route for redirecting the funds will be to provide new air conditioning and ventilation to protect the rare books collections, which have been stored on the 5th floor. There has been a mold problem due to a leaky roof.
Another library worker who works on the 5th floor said she was involved in cleaning up some of the mold, but was told in a staff meeting to lie and not reveal that it was mold. My sources must remain confidential because they fear retaliation from the tyrannical buffoons who run OU.
The roof had been leaking for years before they finally repaired it. Look at the ceiling on the 4th floor, east side, and you will see some water damage.
Also observe the east wing of the third floor. ALL of the books have been removed. Informed speculation is that they are going to relocate the rare books to the 3rd floor.
The public deserves to know what's going on.
See this set of minutes of a Regents meeting to confirm the contract to repair the roof. Just use roof as a search term.
The corrupt sewer known as the "university" of Oklahoma is long overdue for a federal investigation.
OU Alumni Magazine Parades Its Goofiness
Credit goes to Tom Elmore for uncovering this goof in Sooner, the OU alumni magazine (which was a good publication in the 60s but has deteriorated during the Boren years).
Read the last sentence in the 2nd paragraph. It says: "As impressive for her compassion as she is for her intellect, the OU Law School alumna is also a congenital quadruple amputee, born without arms and legs. "
The goofball who wrote this forgot about the fact that you have to have limbs to begin with, before they can be amputated.
This example is so typical of the situation at OU. Amateurism goes hand-in-hand with corruption. When a disgusting old reprobate like Boren is making personnel decisions, and packing the place with his inept boot-licking cronies, stupidity is the result.
Prediction: OU Will Lose from 4 to 6 Football Games in '06
In '05 the Sooners lost four games, in spite of the fact that they had Rhett Bomar, who was a reasonably competent quarterback but a fool in so many other ways. Now that Bomar has been kicked off the team, along with starting offensive lineman J.D. Quinn, isn't it reasonable to expect that the Sooners will lose at least four games this season? Replacement quarterback Paul Thompson, a senior, was a wide receiver last year. Thompson had been quarterback in the first game only, which OU lost to TCU ! After that fiasco Bomar was switched to quarterback.
Additionally, the Sooners this year must play Oregon, Texas A&M, and Baylor, and none of these will be home games. What's interesting is that last year these three teams came within a touchdown of beating OU. Baylor, playing them in Norman, had them tied at the end of 60 minutes and OU won in the overtime.
Bob Stoops' $2.4 million annual salary and the $3 million "bonus" given to him by Boren last year are looking all the more stupid.
Tulsa World: Bomar Misconduct Discovered in January
The Tulsa World (8/08/08) reported that a Texas Aggie participating in an internet forum told readers that his girlfriend worked at the Norman car dealership which was giving easy money to Bomar. The girlfriend told him about the irregularity six months before Stoops kicked Bomar and his roomate Quinn off the team. Are we to believe that Stoops didn't know about the NCAA
violation months ago? Go here for the story.
Enid Newspaper Publishes my Letter Exposing Boren's Diabetes Lie
In December 2005 Boren finally decided to disclose to the public that he has diabetes. Consequently he launched another imperial crusade. He thinks he is going to have a "world class" diabetes center in Oklahoma. As usual, fathead Boren supports this fantasy with lies. See my letter in the Enid News and Eagle.
Bomar Was Just Following Boren's Corrupt Example (August 7, 2006)
Last week, OU's starting quarterback Rhett Bomar, along with his roommate, were both dismissed from the football team because they were taking money from Big Red imports but not working for most of it. On April 20 of this year, in an article by John Hoover, The Tulsa World reported that OU football player Adrian Peterson had been using a Lexus from Big Red for months, but had not paid for it. The newspaper said that OU conducted a five-month review of this situation. Are we to believe that OU's NCAA compliance staff was not aware of Bomar's fake "employment" at Big Red months ago?
Why did Bob Stoops, now trying to appear as Mr. Ethical Good Guy, wait till this late date to dismiss Bomar? Was he earlier calculating that he could conceal it? Did word reach him that the heat was going to come down from NCAA?
As for Bomar, the dumb kid was just following Boren's example. Boren's entire life history and his corrupt mismanagement of OU sends this message: "lying and cheating will get you ahead."
So what's in store now for OU? Here is my doomsday scenario:
1. the football team will have a losing 2006 season;
2. revenue from 2007 ticket sales will seriously diminish;
3. Sooner football recruiting will be impaired;
4. Boren will be stuck with these financial obligations:
a. paying Stoops annual salary of $2.4 million;
b. paying the remainder of Stoops' $3 million bonus promised to him in 2005;
c. paying the remainder of the bonded indebtedness on the stadium expansion; this will be about $125 million.
Remember, the evidence is already there to confirm that Boren takes money from the OU general fund to bail out athletic department debts.
Boren will try to relieve OU's financial burdens by raising tuition even more. He has already made OU unaffordable for average Oklahoma families. He thinks that he can bail OU out by deceiving out-of-state rich kids into believeing that OU is an "elite" school. He tells lies to put over this illusion.
Boren is dreaming again. He is not going to be able to deceive the rich kids.The Bomar scandal has once again made OU the laughingstock of the nation ! Be sure to read page 2 of the Herald Bulletin article. Writer Mike Beas makes this notable statement: "The ability to bend or altogether sidestep rules is about trickle-down, which means Stoops, Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione and university president David L.Boren for the moment smell worse than an open dumpster in July."
See also this interesting commentary, on the Bomar situation, by Dennis Dodd, a writer for CBS sportsline.com. Because of Boren's unspeakable evilness, and the cowardice and refusal of Oklahomans to deal with it, the "university" (whatever's left of it) is going to sink.
Online Encyclopedia Reports Boren's Queerness
Update August 10: It Looks Like About.com Has Taken Down the Boren Page
The link doesn't work any more. This may be a silent response to my having complained to the NYT lawyers about plagiarism. Alternatively, maybe Boren pulled some strings.
My Original Copy
The online encyclopedia about.com is part of the New York Times Company. See the fine print at the bottom. So maybe I am slowly ratcheting my way up to getting the truth out about Boren and his misconduct: sexual harassment and corrupt hiring practices favoring unqualified boyish fellows for high-paying jobs. He's been guilty of this for decades. Although about.com does not provide details of these deplorable practices by Boren, they do present the evidence that he is definitely queer. (For some odd reason the evidence link often goes to a Wikipedia webpage. If this happens, just keep clicking till it takes you to the Boren page of about.com).
Now if they would just acknowledge me for my work, and stop stealing from me, it would be even better ! I had this information online about Boren years ago. The thief at about.com stole the language about W. ScottThompson's book from me almost word-for-word. Here's my report in the online archive. The URL confirms that this report by me was online in 2002. See "Former Rhodes Scholar Confirms It." It is painfully obvious that Boren resigned from his U.S. Senate seat in 1994 because he was being outed as gay and was terrified by it.
Legislature Swats Boren on Tuition
David Boren was howling in pain in late June. Unfortunately for students, Boren was later able to persuade his puppet, the Governor, to veto this bill, which would have provided some relief from Boren's incessant tuition hikes. In 2003, I was at the Capitol trying to discourage legislators not to turn the power of tuition hikes over to Boren and the other college presidents. Unfortunately, they obeyed Boren. It took them three years to realize their mistake and reverse this action. In the meantime, Boren was able to pick students' pockets for 10s of millions more.
From the Tulsa World (June 24, 2006):
OKLAHOMA CITY --The Legislature stripped tuition-setting authority from regents and returned the power to lawmakers in a bill sent to the governor Friday.
David Boren, president of the University of Oklahoma, said he hopes Gov. Brad Henry will veto the bill because it is "out of the scope of the special session" called to deal with the state budget.
--- end of quote --
For a quick summary of the mess Boren has made with his corrupt mismanagement of OU, here is an email I have been sending tolegislators:
Dear Representative Jones:
I appreciate your support for the bill to give the legislature the power to set tuition and fee rates for higher education. I have some information which might be helpful and invite you to share it with your colleagues for future deliberations related to OU and Boren. It would also be helpful if any of this could be brought to the Governor's attention.
See my guest article in the Muskogee newspaper, from last fall. Before they published it I documented every single factual claim for them.
There are many facts, but these deserve to be highlighted:
1. since he arrived, Boren had raised enrollment costs for resident undergraduates by 161%, as of fall 2005;
2. because of affordability and declining birth rates, at that time freshmen enrollment was 17% smaller than four years earlier (continuing decline is predictable);
3. according to the 2004 report card of the National Center for Public Policy on Higher Education, Oklahoma colleges and universities receive an F for affordability;
4. Boren has made apractice of giving prestigious jobs at high salaries to unqualified young men (for whom, I would add, he has a special fondness).
Another important fact is that Boren boasts of having seen to the construction of $750 million in new buildings on all three OU campuses. Part of the 2003 tuition hike was devoted to construction costs. Eachbuilding represents an ongoing fixed cost for maintenance and utilities. As enrollment shrinks and revenues from tuition decline, OU cannot "lay off" a building like they can lay off classified employees.
Boren will try to compensate by attracting more students from wealthy families as he inflicts more tuition hikes. The problem with this strategy is that the wise shoppers will know that they will have a much more marketable degree if they attend a school which is a memberof the prestigious Association of American Universities, which OU has never been invited to join. Here is the list.
At your request I can document that Boren has made false claims about OU's evaluations and research funding as he tries to make the institution look appealing to potential applicants desiring to attend an elite school.
In 2003, Boren persuaded the legislature that he should be allowed to raise OU tuition to the average of the Big 12. He used the misleading idea that OU is the "peer" of the Big 12. That is nonsensical. The Big 12 is only an athletic conference. Seven Big 12 schools are AAU members. In no way is OU their academic peer.
Finally, from tuitionincreases enacted since 2001, Boren has extracted an EXTRA $155 million from the pockets of main campus students. This information comes from OU budgets available at the main library circulation desk. A 2004 letter from an OU dean documented the fact that OU has an excessively high drop-out rate because many students are forced to take jobs.
I strongly encourage the legislature to explore the question of what Boren has been doing with the money. From official documents I have obtained, I can demonstrate that some of it is going to pay the $5 million annual debt service on the stadium expansion and also to cover the annual operating losses for the museum.
Contact me if you have questions.
Sincerely,
Mike Wright
OU Alumnus
Norman resident
329-6688
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Wednesday, May 3, 2006
Time: 11:41:10 PM EDT
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Old Elm Tree Chopped Down by Boren Is Fighting Back -- June 21
Recently the historic elm tree, which had been in front of the OU administration building for a century, was chopped down. Usually these trees live 300 years, but this one was rotting and coming apart. I wonder if it had received proper care during the Boren years.
As usual, Boren found opportunity in the destruction of the tree. He decided to leave the stump there and put a plaque on top of it to "memorialize" it. I figured this was just another excuse for Boren, always in a state of self-celebration, to see his name cast in bronze. Behind the ad building is -- would you believe? -- a monument to his deceased dog Bailey. No. I'm not kidding. On top of the monument is a plaque with Boren's name.
For weeks I have been watching the stump to see whether my suspicions will be confirmed. No plaque has appeared. Today I spoke to a landscape worker who was installing stones around the stump. He said that the problem is that the stump is still producing sap ! It refuses to die ! Because of the sap, he explained, they are unable to seal it for the plaque. Local legend has it that the stump has been inhabited by the forest goddess Diana, and she is resisting Boren's scheme. She is making a "sap" out of him !
How OU Deceives the Public About Enrollment Data (June 12)
Go here and click on CURRENT STATISTICS and then click on SUMMER. You will see that OU claims that enrollment was 7987 for summer 2004.
Now, go here and read this Oklahoma Daily article. It says that summer '04 enrollment was only 6886 -- a 16% decline fromsummer '03 enrollment of 8200.
The OU provost is Nancy Mergler. Today I went to the office of a researcher on her staff and asked how to account for this discrepancy. I learned that there are two reasons:
1. the provost's data include May intersession enrollees as part of the summer school enrollment regardless of whether they actually attend summer school, and
2. Matt Hamilton was giving June 1st data, but students can still enroll late in summer school, and his number included neither late enrollees nor May intersession enrollees; the practtice of counting May intersession students in summer enrollment data is deceptive, but there are other issues.
It's obvious that Matt Hamilton, Boren's associate vice president for admissions and records, did not know what he was talking about; he was comparing apples and oranges; the 8200 number for '03 included both intersession enrollees and late enrollees; it looks like we've found another boy wonder who got his job because he was a "special friend" of Boren;
The Daily -- to no one's surprise -- was too stupid to investigate further to get the realpicture;
The provost's office does not report the true number of summer school enrollees, which would be known by subtracting the May intersession enrollees who do not actually attend summer school.
OU under Boren has become a dirty cesspool of corruption and incompetence. All I can do is scratch the surface.
The provost's data indicate that summer enrollment peaked in '03 and in the next year declined by 213 and was close to the same in '05. The woman at the provost's office said that the final figures would be available on June 23rd and that it is "a little less" than last summer.
OU also posts deceptive data about fall enrollment. It includes students who took August intersession courses regardless of whether they remained for the fall semester.
The enrollment decline continues, and I predict it will continue in the future and that Boren will be playing all kinds of tricks to conceal the truth from us. Enrollment is declining because Boren has made tuition too high and the number of Oklahoma high school graduates is beginning to diminish annually.
Update on 9/11 Memorial (June 12)
I learned from an eyewitness who observed the damage last year that some of the bark near the ground had been stripped from the memorial cherry trees. This is probably the consequence of Boren using untrained and low-paid student labor in the landscaping department. Most likely they had allowed the weed-cutters to get too close to the trees. The weed-cutters are cords which swing around rapidly on motorized axles. Boren takes advantage of students desperate for cash to pay his high tuition and willing to accept jobs at low pay. Meanwhile, he pays huge salaries to unqualified young jerks for whom he has a "special fondness." Go here for insight into this corrupt practice by Boren.
Boren Destroys 9/11 Memorial at OU (May 16)
We see more peculiar behavior from Boren. After the spring commencement was concluded, at a time when few were on campus, Boren ordered the destruction of the 9/11 memorial. The memorial consisted of three weeping cherry trees and a plaque. It had been located just southwest of the OU student union.
This evening I observed that they have all been chopped down. There are three stumps where the trees used tobe. I have seen noexplanation for this in the local press. Were they stricken by an illness? Did they not receive proper care? Are these trees not suited for the local environment? Did Boren not research this in advance? It is well known that his tyrannical wife Molly considers herself to be the boss of the landscaping department. Did she slip up? It was a dry winter. The trees were young and did not have deep roots. Did Molly-girl forget to water them? If so, she will find someone else to blame.
Or has Boren lost his mind? Has he become demented from all the meds he is taking?
The planting of the trees is reported in this 2002 Oklahoma Daily article.
Update May 19
Early this morning I observed an OU landscaping crew planting new weeping cherry trees where the originals had been. A worker cited the winter drought as a factor in the demise of the originals. A retired employee told me that the crew is overworked and understaffed.
Another Silly OU Graduation Ceremony with Fireworks and Iridescent Lights (May 13)
Boren is very full of himself and in a continuing state of self-celebration. He loves ceremonies where he can be the center of attention, but has very perverted ideas about pageantry.
I am not sure when Boren began this childish tradition. I first became aware of it in 2005, when he had fireworks and graduates waving red iridescent wands at the commencement ceremony. Last night he repeated this foolishness, only this time the celebrants were supplied with blue iridescent lights attached to cords. I did not go inside the stadium to see exactly what happened, but observing from the outside I saw numerous people twirling the lights around to form circular patterns in theair. I assume that at the magic moment inthe ceremony all the graduates were expected to perform this ritual.
Were any of them mature enough to feel childishly foolish doing this?
The torturous fireworks show began a few minutes after 9:00 pm. I was across the street to the east and could feel the impact of the booming explosions in my ear, so I walked eastward to preserve my hearing. Inside the stadium, the sound level must have reached 120 decibels. I am quite sure that some of the graduates and relatives left the stadium with fewer hearing hair cells then they had when they entered. These cells do not regenerate.
According to expert sources in audiology, at that sound level hearing impairment can be inflicted in less than a minute (see the blue table). It has also been established that loud bass sounds can collapse lungs. But Boren and his silly henchman, ex-RufNek Clarke Stroud, act like they do not know these things. They thrive on noise and fanfare. It makes them feel powerful and important.
Meanwhile, the kiddies got their fireworks show and new iridescent toy. A rock band was waiting for them outside the stadium to blast away a few more hearing hair cells while they crunched on cookies.
OU dominates the community with noise. A Norman resident who lives a mile from the stadium toldme that she heard the fireworks explosions in her home last night and thought it was thunder. There are of course thousands of residents living within a one-mile radius of the stadium, and each had to suffer from this latest expression of Boren's unending festival of self-celebration.
Katie Couric Got $115,000 for Commencement Speech
The Norman Transcript reported that Katie Couric, who will soon be the CBS anchor woman, was paid $115,000 for her OU commencement speech. Supposedly, this came from "private funds," butwe havequestionsabout this. Borenis a liar, but theTranscript routinely accepts his fiction as truth. Even if it did come from private donors, we wonder if this kind of use was intended by them for their gifts.
Boren has made a practice of hosting prominent news people and paying them generous fees. Last fall he paid $45,000 to Bob Woodward. He has hosted several journalism conferences at OU in recent years. Each time Boren puts money in the pocket of someone in the news industry, he is buying that person's friendship and making sure that his corrupt practices will not be investigated and reported. Couric's banal OU speech was attacked at newsbusters.org.
NY Daily News Describes OU's October Bomber as "Infamous Terrorist"
In October 2005, on an OU bench within a two-minute walk of the stadium while a football game was in progress, OU student Joel Hinrichs set off a bomb in his backpack and killed himself. This happened three minutes before half time. The bench was adjacent to a sidewalk. (Go here for my full report).
Evidence strongly suggests that Hinrichs intended to kill others but experienced an accidental early detonation. Shortly after the bombing, Boren began to shoot off his mouth as usual, and told the the media that it was just a "lone suicide" by an "emotionally troubled" student. Boren was obviously concerned that the event might frighten people who would otherwise buy fall '06 football tickets. Heavy on his mind was the fact that, due to his 2002 stadium expansion, OU acquired an annual debt service of $5 million for 30 years.
Now the New York Daily News has reported that the "NYPD's highly guardedcounterterrorism training center" has "re-created the workrooms where infamous terrorists cooked up their deadly explosives and schemes." One of the "infamous terrorists" just happened to be Joel Hinrichs.
The fact that NewYork terrorism experts don't buy Boren'snonsense that this was just a "lone suicide" by an "emotionally troubled" student is most interesting. What a world of mirrors and illusions OU has become under boss Boren !
Daily Cartoonist Promotes Myth That Boren Is "Healthy"
On May 1, the Oklahoma Daily had this silly cartoon which made Boren look like a slender young man with a full head of hair. The Daily has been desperate to get back on the sick old tyrant's good side, after publishing this realistic photo of him in April. (On the cartoonist's behalf, we admit to the possibility that he was being sarcastic.)
It Never Ends -- Another Boren Lie (May 3, 2006)
Trying to defend his new tuition increase for fall '06, goofball president David Boren, probably suffering dementia from all the medications he is taking as doctors struggle to manage his various disease conditions, began to talk in riddles. According to the Daily, he said he tries to "buffer" increased tuition by attaching a $300 fee for freshmen that helps even out the price for them as upperclassmen.
The idea that freshmen are somehow expected to benefit asupperclassmen by having to pay an extra $300 penaltyduring their first year is strange indeed. How did this nonsensical statement come about?
The fact is that the extra fee is extracted against freshmen and new OU students in order to help pay for Boren's construction campaign. This was reported by the Daily (June 18, 2003) as it itemized all the new charges in that year's tremendous tuition increase. The amount was $270 instead of $300. Boren boasts of having orchestrated $750 million worth of new buildings on all three OU campuses. Each one is a monument to the fathead's eternal grandeur. Inhis recent speech, Boren didnot want to call attention to the fact that the freshmen and new students are being penalized to help pay for all his new buildings.
OU Students Question Ridiculous Alcohol Policy
For years David Boren and his silly henchman, "vice president" Clarke Stroud, looked the other way while fraternities were having a good old time with under-age and binge drinking. In 2002, two under-age frat boys were arrested with 2100 cans of beer on their way to a party. Stroud, an ex-Ruf-Nek boom boy who never outgrew adolescence, toldthe Daily that this was just an "isolated incident" and he hoped that no one would "stereotype" the fratboys because of it. He and boss Boren just love to indulge those frat boys and badly crave admiration from them.
Then, in September 2004, OU frat boy Blake Hammontree drank himself to death in the course of a binge drinking ritual at the Sigma Chi house. A month later another OU frat boy had to be hospitalized for alcohol poisoning.
Uh-oh ! The Boren-Stroud duo had to do something, but they didn't want to put the blame where it belonged-- on the frat houses. They adopted the pretense that the problem was "campus-wide" and then enacted the silly rule that no alcohol could be kept in anyone's living quarters on campus regardless of age. The rule probably violates the equalprotection clause of the Constitution, since the Boren-Stroud duo does not claim to be able to prevent OU students of legal age living in private housing off-campus from keeping alcohol.
But uh-oh again ! Now they have the new "Traditions" apartments, and they need toget all the money they can out of them. For reasons of wanting to attract tenants they made an exception for residents of this university housing. These folks can have alcohol !
Boren and Stroud keep flopping around like chickens without heads. The time to fire these jerks and clean house at OU is way overdue. All of Boren's cronies and henchmen need to be uprooted like so many rotten teeth.
In 2001 Oklahoma Daily Called for Strict Limit on Tuition Hikes
In 2001, resident undergraduate tuition and fees amounted to $2,713 for 30 academic hours.
An Oklahoma Daily editorial of February 2001 stated: "we should not raise tuition by more than $800 over the next ten years." Boren ignored this suggestion.
It is now five years later. Tuition for 2005-06 was $5008 -- an increase of $2295 -- or almost three times as much as the Daily had considered tolerable for an increase over ten years. Why isn't the Daily vigorously protesting Boren's money-grab?
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Boren Has Claimed $155 Million in Tuition Hikes Since 2001 (May 3, 2006)
And he'll be picking students' pockets again for fall 2006. See this article.
Where is the money going? The stadium debt service and subsidizing the museum (with all the fiberglass dinosaur "fossils") can only account for about $8 million annually, or $32 million for the four-year period.
Here is how I calculated the $155 million. In the fall of 2001, OU collected $61.3 million from tuition and fees. Had there been no tuition increases since then, the total sum of revenues collected from students as of fall 2005 would have been approximately four times $61.3, or $245.2 million. This is for the 4-year interval from fall 02 through fall 05.
Instead, it has been $400.2 million. Data came from OU budgets available at the main library circulation desk. This is for the main campus in Norman:
Year Tuition & Fees ($million)
2002-03 69.2
2003-04 93.7
2004-05 111.3
2005-06 126.0
Total 400.2
The $50 Million Scholarship Hoax
Boren has been thumping on his chest lately and boasting that he has raised $50 million for scholarships. Actually, the Daily reported that about $18 million of this is pledges -- not cash in hand.
Secondly, the money will be sunk into an investment fund, which will yield about $2.5 million annually in interest. That is all the money that will be available for scholarships from this fund.
Boren has taken an annual average of about $39 million extra from tuition hikes since 2001. Is anyone celebrating the $2.5 million in scholarships?
Some Scandal from OU's Past
There are many skeletons in OU's closet. See this article from the University of Indiana's Media Relations. It says that Martin Jischke, a highly distinguished man, was being considered for the OU presidency in 1985. At one point a majority of the Regents favored him. Now see this smoking gun statement:
"When Jischke tells the story himself, he adds a key detail. Yes, he said, the count was in his favor at one point. But Jischke refused to bend admissions rules so a regent's son could attend the law school. "
Why am I not surprised? Jischke proved that he was an honest man -- too good for OU. He is now the President of Purdue. He also leads the Association of American Universities, an elite league to which OU will never be admitted.
OU had a chance for a good president in the 80s. In the 90s, the school ended up instead with Boren, a disgusting liar, buffoon, and political hack. OU boosters can take comfort in the fact that they can claim people like Barry Switzer and Bob Stoops as part of the great OU "tradition."
Go here to read about Switzer's 1977 affair with the wife of his defensive coordinator Larry Lacewell. It's in the book review for Shark Among Dolphins.
Boren Lies Again -- Nose Keeps Getting Longer (April 28)
Not long ago, OU student Michael Moore had a letter in the Oklahoma Daily bashing Boren. In response to a Daily propaganda article putting forward the illusion that the rapidly deteriorating Boren is in good health, Moore wrote that he was "sad that his health is the best it has been in 10 years." (In contrast to many around the OU campus, Moore is obviously no Boren boot-licker).
Moore also wrote that Boren "keeps trying to compare OU to his alma mater, Yale, but meanwhile OU's enrollment over the last four years has consistently gone down because of tuition and fee costs."
Boren was deeply anguished by Moore's letter and had a reply in today's Daily. As usual, it was very dishonest. Twisting Moore's words around, Boren found opportunity to congratulate himself. He wrote that Moore "alleges that I am committed to bringing 'Ivy League'-like academic standards of excellence to OU." Anyone who is not demented like Boren would have immediately understood that Moore was not alleging anything of the kind. On the contrary, he was ridiculing the idea that Boren was making any progress in elevating OU to the same academicleagueas Yale. I must continue to remind readers that OU has never been admitted to the prestigious Association of American Universities. If that ever happens, OU will have some bragging rights.
Boren misrepresented Moore again when he claimed that total enrollment at OU (including the HSC campus) has increased since 1994, the year he arrived. Moore's comment was only for the last four years. For the facts on this, see this OU website and look at what has happened to freshmen enrollment since 2001.
By misrepresenting Moore and attacking the phantom argument he has created with his deceitfulimagination, Boren has employed the "straw man" informal fallacy.
Boren's Robbery of an Environmental Clean-up Fund
In 2002, in order to fund his dream for a "national weather center," Boren manipulated the legislature to snatchmoney from a fundset up exclusively for the purpose of cleaning up underground tanks for storing gasoline and sealing leaks in them. Do you like the idea of gasoline leaking into undergroundwater? If not, you can thank Boren for this.
From an article in the Norman Transcript:
"Ed Kessler, the former director of the National Severe Storms Laboratory and current vice chair of the public watchdog group Common Cause, said it is a 'moral outrage' that a group of environmental scientists at the weather center would be funded from a foundation of enhanced pollution." Go here for more comments by Kessler.
Data Published by Chronicle Exposes Another Boren Lie (April 26)
The Oklahoma Daily often treats Boren's lies as truth. This 2002 article says: "OU ranks firstin the Big 12 in the growth of research funding." That nonsense came straight from Boren.
Reality is displayed in this table published by the Chronicle of Higher Education. It shows federal research and development funding for the top 100 institutions in 2001. OU ranks 97th and its funding shrank by .5% from the earlier year while the funding for the entire group of 100 increased by 9.4%. These Big 12 campuses all receive more funding than OU: Colorado, Texas A&M, Kansas, Iowa State, Missouri, Texas, and four medical centers of Texas. OU boosters will also be interested to know that Mississippi State gets more funding than OU. Boren doesn't have any bragging rights, but he pretends that he does and manipulates the gullible and obedient student newspaper staff into believing him.
In 1999 Boren Believed That Having a Losing Football Team Was a Good Thing !
I bet you think I'm making this up. You can read fathead Boren's statement for yourself in the Chronicle of Higher Education (October 15, 1999). The historical context is that OU had losing football seasons in 1996, 97, and 98. Boren was of course deeply troubled by this and was struggling to reconcile himself to it. His statement was obviously made before Bob Stoops had begun to show success in restoring OU's winning football tradition.
Boren's exact words: "From my perspective, the time we've gone through, of difficulty and struggle in football, has been good over all. It's been good for our national image in academic circles." He added: "I don't think we need to have any national championships."
What was the jerk smoking when he made these statements? He clearly believed that since Harvard and Yale don't have winning football programs either, then the departure of OU from its status as a football powerhouse would elevate it to the same academic prestige level as these Ivy League emblem schools. Boren's mind has been in a serious state of decay for years.
In 2001, after Stoops won the championship in 2000, fathead Boren forgot all about what he had said in 1999 and launched the project to bulldoze the historic neighborhood across from the stadium, re-route Jenkins Street, and expand the stadium. Along the way, he also expanded the bonded indebtedess of the athletic department to $152.7 million and made a gift of almost $18 million from the OU general fund to cover its past debts. Go here and scroll down to SCANS to see the official documents confirming this. The annual debt service for this extravaganza is about $5 million dollars. That explains the tuition increases.
More history is told by the Chronicle:
"At Oklahoma [athletic director] Castiglione in July 1998 inherited a department that was $8-million in debt,as a result of revenue shortfalls related to the football team's problems. Season-ticket sales were below 50,000 every year from 1992 to 1998, down from the 60,000-plus the Sooners had sold during their glory years. Last year, the department had to borrow $261,000 from the university to pay newly fired and newly hired football staff members. "
Boren Desperate to Deceive Public Into Thinking He Is in Good Health (April 26)
At this journal I have highlighted the fact that Boren is in poor health and probably doesn't have much longer to live. The Regents should terminate him immediately, for this reason and many others. Both morally and physically the old despot is just not fit to hold any office of public responsibility.
See my entries of April 22 and an earlier one with this headline: "Boren's Deteriorated Health: Is a Wasting Syndrome Consuming Him?" I also wrote about his declining health in December 2005. The entry is still at this journal.
Boren or one of his henchmen reads what Isay about him. You can be sure of that. For this reason, he had his lackeys at the Oklahoma Daily publish an article which appeared on Tuesday of this week and in which he claimed that he was in great health and that he had lost 67 pounds due to his disciplined diet.
If you believe this, then may I offer you a great investment opportunity on a bridge in Brooklyn?
Boren is a known liar. Why should anyone believe him about his health? Additionally, he is terrified of the prospect of being forced to resign. That would free up the many people he has abused and they would no longer fear retaliation from him for blowing the whistle.
Boren states that his health will not take him away from the OU presidency in the next five or ten years. The fact that he is compulsive about putting over this deceit is evidence of how scared the old foolreally is. He is flopping around like a mackeral stranded on a beach.
Additionally, a couple of weeks ago I emailed the Daily, gave information about Boren's deteriorated health, and said that the public deserves a full disclosure about his health status. This deceitful article is my answer.
Following the OU newspaper's puff piece about Boren's health, OU student Mike Moore sent them a letter bashing Boren soundly, accusing him of being deceitful, and expressing regret over Boren's improved health. Moore did not realize that Boren was also lying with his health claims.
Boren Is an Uncultivated Buffoon
My mom was not from a background of wealth. Far from it -- her parents were illiterate peasants from southern Italy. Still, mom had plenty of common sense and good taste in decorating. She took good care of her furniture.
When I was in grade school,I remember that she scolded me once for leaning back and rocking on the two rear legs of a chair. She said it would weaken it. I haven't repeated the behavior since that day.
Now compare my mother to Boren. Daily reporter Whitney Coleman writes:
"Balancing his weight on the back legs of his chair, OU President David L. Boren allows his feet to dangle just above the floor as he entertains his afternoon appointments. After a 67-pound weight loss, the president’s secretaries may catch him rocking back in his chair more often these days."
The reporter does not explain how Boren could simultaneously balance his weight on the back legs of his chair while dangling his feet in the air. Apparently he braces his arms on his desk top in order to accommplish this.
And are we all expected to applaud this low-class behavior?
Boren is a boorish oaf. The Italians would have called him a "gavone" (Italian-American dialect for cafone). He and wife Molly are both high-dollar white trash. A good example of his lack of taste is shown by the mural he had painted at the Will Rogers room in the student union. It looks little better than painting-by-numbers. Boren was admitted to Yale and Oxford because of political connections -- not because of outstanding personal merits.
Unlike my mom, Boren is a rich guy who can use taxpayers' money to buy all the replacement furniture he wants. Tearing up furniture is no problem to him.
OU to Seniors: "Give Us $50 and You Can Use Our Job Search Databases" (April 26)
The OU bureaucracy under Boren has become a haunted house full of ghouls lurking in the closets and rubbing their hands together and cackling while scheming on the next way to exploit students, many of whom are desperate in their job searches while wondering if they will ever be able to pay off the loans they had to take out because of Boren's escalating tuition.
Yesterday I was in the student union and encountered a booth operated by students who had successfully campaigned for a three-day free trial providing access to the Soon |
