Emailed from Hank Moore

March 28th, 2006 at 4:27 pm (Stillwater Concern)

Please post this from me on your site. I am not afraid to make my
position known and stand for what is right.

I realize that some in the community have issues with Mayor Bud Lacy,
yet, none should question question his absolute devotion to the City
for the past 15 years. From planning commission, to city commissioner
and now as our Mayor. There is no practical reason to throw that level
of experience and knowledge away. He has done nothing harmful to the
City and has usually made the right decision for the long term of
Stillwater. He brings dialogue to a healthy debate and we, as
Commssioners decide issues and move on. No consequence to opposing
viewpoints!

While some may not like his management style or decision making process
at times, I respect his role as Mayor and one I know he takes seriously
to heart. I am out front trying to get him re-elected. He stood by me
when the commission voted 3-2 to not re-appoint me to the Stillwater
Visitors and Convention Board (because I voiced opposition against the
Stw. Chamber of Commerce). Further, he has allowed me to speak out and
to express my viewpoints, whether he agreed or not.

From my personal and political experience, Roger is both vindicative
and definitely in lock step with the Chamber and the University. If you
disagree with him at all, you become an enemy for life!
That is not how a Mayor should or can operate.

With the appointment of Calvin Anthony to the Board of Regents, those
two will, or should I say will try, to railroad the City Stillwater
policy and finances more to their special interests with no consideration
for the rest of the community. Decisions will be made with disregard to
the city; and the Chamber and University interests will come
first. This has happened with most of the past Mayors who pictured
their support in an ad for Roger. His support is NOT solid and is mostly on appearance (big money and signs in rental properties).

This community needs to look forward and not be operated as the city of
the 60s-70s-80s and early 90s. We should not turn the city back to the
Chamber of Commerce political machine and further allow the
University to further step on our citizenery.

PLEASE HELP - find just 20 people and get them to vote! We can
win! We need to energize the grass roots pockets of different thinkers
to rally around Bud Lacy. He is our the best alternative to standing up
for what is right.

You can vote in person at the Payne County Administration Building on
Friday or Monday prior to the election. We need to get to the 2,000
person level of voter participation. Watch for the papers to publish my editorial and watch the mail for my letter.

I have not changed and I have stood by my principles and goals the whole
year. Now, I need my voice to be carried by helping re-elect Bud Lacy
as our Mayor.

I would appreciate your support with my efforts here.

Thank you.

Hank Moore

3 Comments

  1. Doug Emde said,

    March 29, 2006 at 8:28 pm

    I’ve known both candidates for for a long time and I signed on to help Bud get re-elected. Bud is a man of the people and he is the type of person that tries to build a concensus. I’ve watched the campaign as Roger continues to go negative and complain about Katz being closed and Hall of Fame being closed. Look around Stillwater folks! There is so much good going on, unprecedented growth despite the efforts of the Chamber of Commerce to lock the doors to the city. A feasiblity study recently came back on the possibility of building a convention center, the analyst said this was one of the most positive communities he’s ever done a study on. 2.1 million people within 75 miles of Stillwater, a 72% positive response by meeting planners saying they would consider having their meeting here if we had a facility. That put Stillwater as number 1 in the NATION of communities it’s size. Will you hear any of this from the Chamber? NO! Why? Calvin Anthony, president of the chamber is completely convinced that economically no one will want to come meet in Stillwater and we won’t be able to convince a hotel to build in Stillwater. Funny, Calvin thinks the Alumni center is the cat’s meow as far as meeting facilities go. Folks, we don’t need to go back in time, we need to move forward and continue to build on what we’ve got started! The only way that Roger could improve City/University relations is by just giving in to the University. Bud is fighting for what is right, but he is a realist and knows that OSU (not the foundation) has the legal right of eminent domain and they will be using it at some point. Bud will fight for the citizens of Stillwater. Vote for Bud next Tuesday!

  2. Lee Agnew said,

    March 29, 2006 at 10:16 pm

    I’m not a Stillwater resident, nor do I know either candidate, but I can agree with Hank’s statement about the importance of participation. It is essential that members of any community get informed and get involved. To sit back and say “Aah, politicians are all alike” or whatever is to abdicate our rights as citizens, and to invite continued oppression.

  3. Calvin Anthony said,

    March 30, 2006 at 11:32 am

    This comment is in response to Hank Moore’s letter:
    I have never seen a more blatant disregard for the truth. In my opinion you have reached an all tiime low. Calvin Anthony

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News Channel 11, Lubbock, Tx.

February 11th, 2006 at 9:51 am (Misc)

Quoted from New Channel 11, Lubbock, Tx. in “New name added to possible TTU Chancellor list (link found at left under News/Articles:

“Sources tell us that Dr. David Schmidly, former President of Texas Tech, is now on that list of speculated chancellor candidates. According to our sources, Schmidly has expressed interest in returning to Tech as its third Chancellor.”

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  1. Amy said,

    February 23, 2006 at 12:28 pm

    Well now, isn’t this just great! When is he leaving?

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Song/Poem by Lee Agnew

January 31st, 2006 at 11:08 am (General, Life Changes, Stillwater Concern)

Good Old Town (for Stillwater, OK)

A Poem by Lee Agnew (Ted & Jeanne’s son)

Listen, have you heard the news
Oklahoma’s got the blues
Up there in Stillwater town
Funny things are going down

A University needs land
To build up their new Master Plan
Don’t care what the neighbors say
Four hundred homes are in the way

They got money if you play nice
Tell you it’s fair market price
If you argue or complain
They got Eminent Domain.

Good old town a long time gone.
Good old town a long time gone.
Good old town a long time gone.
Left me here to sing this song

Ted and LeRoy they were friends
At Oklahoma A&M
After the War they both came down
To teach in a land grant college town

Jeanne taught at the college too
She and Martha had lots to do
Their children walked to school together
In the Oklahoma weather

Good old town a long time gone
Good old town a long time gone
Good old town a long time gone
Left me here to sing this song

Now fast-forward fifty years
In the paper it appears
T. Boone Pickens gave some dough
And OSU has got to grow

An Athletic Village is
The way to be competitive
Training rooms and tennis courts
A practice field that’s all indoors

President says yes it’s true
They want Ted’s house and LeRoy’s too
Now I like to watch a game of ball
But this don’t make no sense at all

Good old town a long time gone
Good old town a long time gone
Good old town a long time gone
Left me here to sing this song

Long ago the Okies sang
Of Pretty Boy Floyd and the Dalton Gang
I think we’ve all learned since then
There’s lots of kinds of highwaymen

They say we can’t stop their game
So take the money and don’t complain
But Woody Guthrie called it then:
Robbery with a fountain pen

I can’t tell you what to do
But to yourself you must be true
Me, I gotta take this fight
Cause there’s some stuff that just ain’t right

All you people on Bellis Street
Now sing this song and sing it sweet
And all you folks down Washington,
Jump in with me and sing along

Good old town a long time gone
Good old town a long time gone
Good old town a long time gone
Left me here to sing this song

(Repeat chorus)

(This piece was inspired by the life and work of Woody Guthrie. It is not intended to infringe on any copyrighted material)

Listen to “Good Old Town” here.

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  1. Linda said,

    April 3, 2007 at 10:47 am

    This is to Lee and his siblings. My dad had your father as a professor. My sister and I both majored in mathematics and had your mom for Number Theory (late ’70’s and early 80’s). I stayed in touch with your mom for awhile and even got to go to an OSU football game once with your parents. I didn’t know that their house was part of OSU’s plans. I heard yesterday, from my dad, that he had heard that your dad became ill in Arizona. I just wanted to let you know that our hearts and prayers are with you.

  2. Sue Agnew said,

    April 10, 2007 at 11:36 pm

    Thank you, Linda, for sharing your story. That’s how teachers attain immortality, through those whom they’ve influenced, who carry on the good work.

    Daddy is in HealthSouth, a rehab hospital. He is becoming stronger each day, toward the goal of eventually returning to Stillwater. Rehab seems to be two steps forward/one step back, so it’s discouraging, but when we think that two weeks ago he was on a ventilator in the CCU, it’s amazing. He’s a tough 90-year-old, and he’s “fighting” with grace and dignity.

    The address of HealthSouth is 2650 N. Wyatt Dr., Tucson, AZ 85712 (his name is Ted). Cards are appreciated! And hearts and prayers are really helping — all of us!

  3. Lee Agnew said,

    April 17, 2007 at 6:14 pm

    As some of you already know, our father Dr. Theodore L. Agnew, Jr., passed away Sunday, April 15 in Tucson AZ.

    Funeral services will be held Saturday, April 21, 11:00am at First United Methodist Church in Stillwater. A complete obituary will be published in the Stillwater News-Press.

    Memorials may be directed to the Oklahoma United Methodist Foundation (Agnew Family Endowment Fund), 4201 Classen Blvd, Oklahoma City 73118, or to the First United Methodist Church, 400 West 7th Avenue, Stillwater 74074.

    Condolences may be e-mailed to the family and an online obituary may be viewed by visiting http://www.strodefh.com.

  4. Lloyd L. Wallisch II said,

    April 18, 2007 at 6:21 am

    “Back in the day”, Lee and I were tight friends politics and otherwise, then drifted apart.

    I’ve been gone from S-water a quarter century now, but the entire Agnew family … I’ve always thought the highest of all of you.

    So a terrible shock to open the Tulsa World this AM and see the death notice for Ted, esteemed historian and prince among us.

    Sorry, I don’t know if Jeanne is still with us, but, if so, my profound regrets and sorrow, and same to the entire Agnew clan.

    Time to go John Dunne: ‘Every death like this, diminishes all of us, but each of us is better, that one such as Ted sojourned so long among us.”

  5. Lee Agnew said,

    April 18, 2007 at 10:00 pm

    Thanks for the kind words, Lloyd, and it’s good to hear from you again!

    (Ah, those long conversations in the Wesley Foundation basement — we sure had the world figured out back then, didn’t we?)

    Mom passed away back in May of 2000, after a struggle with Alzheimer’s. Both she and Dad set a high standard for the rest of us, and they are both sorely missed.

    I will certainly pass your condolences on to my brothers and sisters. Thanks again.

  6. Dee Ann Sanders said,

    April 20, 2007 at 11:40 am

    Hi, Lee,

    I got to know your father well the past few years, since I returned to OSU as an engineering professor. I found your name in a family biography that Will Paine had prepared, and had a sudden flash of fond memories: you and I were in the OSU band the one year I was here as a student–working on my MS during the 1971-1972 school year. Band, especially the wonderful and wily French horn, helped me keep my sanity that year. And conversations with your dad; newspaper articles and letters to the editor by you, your dad and sister, and just being with your wonderful father, helped me keep my sanity at OSU the past few years. I shall miss him terribly, and I feel for your loss. Even 90 years isn’t enough for a man of your father’s stature.

    Take care.

    Dee Ann

  7. Lee Agnew said,

    April 29, 2007 at 10:04 pm

    Hi, Dee Ann,

    It’s good to hear from a fellow French hornist. Those were indeed some great times. And thank you so much for your kind words about Dad. He was an inspiration and example for all of us.

    Best to you and yours,

    Lee

  8. Lee Agnew said,

    November 17, 2007 at 11:40 pm

    Update from the Agnew family:

    Since our father Ted Agnew’s death this past April, my siblings and I have been hard at work dealing with all the physical, legal, and emotional matters involved with settling our parents’ estate. Those of you who have been down this road know what I’m talking about.

    We have reached some significant milestones: The house in Washington Heights is on the market, and the dates are set for the estate sale. (December 7-8-9. For information contact JLK Antiques, 377-1805.) Dad’s papers and documents related to his work with the United Methodist Church have been donated to Oklahoma City University. His papers related to his OSU career have gone to the Special Collections of the OSU Library. Mom’s papers have gone to the Archives of American Mathematics in Austin TX. It is immensely gratifying to us that so many others are interested in our parents’ lives and their work.

    The house at 701 N. Bellis Street that Dad donated to the Oklahoma United Methodist Foundation lives on through the endowment fund established by the proceeds from the house’s sale to OSU. The first year’s earnings from that endowment have gone back to our parents’ communities via the First United Methodist Church in Stillwater, and our mother’s home congregation, Trinity United Church in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

    On November 2, 2007, at the annual Friends of the OSU Library Banquet, Ted and Jeanne Agnew were honored posthumously with the Edna Mae Phelps Award for their years of support of the Library and the University. Accepting on my parents’ behalf, I quoted some of my father’s words from his valedictorian’s speech before the graduating class of 1933, Ogden (IL) Community High School. (The handwritten draft of that speech was among the boxes of papers we had been sorting through the week before.):

    “Have we learned … that courtesy ranks with courage? Do we know how to be good losers? Do we know the power of kindness, the joy of work? Do we appreciate the influence of example, the worth of character?”

    Dad wrote that speech when he was 16 years old, but he lived the values expressed in it throughout his 90 years. As the year of his death draws to a close, we are grateful, not only to the example that he and Mom set for us, but for all our Stillwater and OSU friends who have shared our grief with us.

    We would like to wish everyone who reads this a Blessed and Joyous Holiday Season, and a New Year filled with new and happy memories.

    Sincerely,

    Lee Agnew

  9. Tamara Colbert Maschino said,

    December 5, 2007 at 12:25 pm

    Lee, our thoughts are with you and your family, it is so hard to finalize a family members estate, the jewels of wisdom you found from your father are priceless.

  10. Kim Cox said,

    January 3, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    Lee & Susan:

    You probably do not remember me but I will always remember you two. You befriended a frshman bassoonist who had never been to a large university and made him feel like he was pasrt of the band. I will never forget that. I am sorry to hear about Dr. Agnew. Although I never had him for a professor, I always heard a lot of good about him.

    Actualy, I was googling for Lloyd Wallisch and happen to come across your name, Lee. Nice poem.

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Email received from web visitor

January 28th, 2006 at 4:41 pm (Owner Concern)

We are hearing back on some of the appraisals that have been done and it seems as if OSU is getting even tighter with proper funding of these properties. One property appraisal is approximately 45% below current Payne County Tax Assessments and over 55% below what the homeowner could have sold the home for if in a natural market. It appears as if the appraisers are using the old tax assessments and not considering what the homes real market value would have been. This is almost like stealing properties. This is unconscionable, OSU has the funds available, why are they treating homeowners in such a disrespectful manner. They are not acting as promised, and that needs to change. If they want the land so desperately then they need to do the proper thing and pay for it properly and keep the homeowner or property owner whole and intact.

These mainly senior citizens will be unable to purchase another property at the amount of cash funded without obtaining a mortgage. Or worse yet, they will be forced to move into an apartment and pay rent for the first time in years. We calculated in one instance that the funds received would be gone in less than seven years if the senior had to pay rent or mortgage. These are folks that have not had a mortgage in years, this was not in their budgetary plans for retirement. Why do they have to give up a comfortable, paid for home, to move into a lesser situation and then have to pay monthly for the privilege of losing their homes.

This situation must be addressed immediately, these people will be in dire situations and we cannot sit by and let it happen. OSU must be held accountable for their actions, we need an impartial advocate ,not connected to the university in any way, to look out for these people. This project is creating suffering in those who need the most help , and they need that help now.

I honestly do not know how these people can sleep at night knowing what they are doing to these good people who have worked hard all their lives for their homes and have paid taxes all those years. This is not the OSU I grew up, I don’t recognize this OSU. The loyalty that was cultivated so carefully throughout the years is being demolished so casually and without thought, along with these peoples homes.

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  1. Doris Friedle Stokes said,

    February 13, 2006 at 12:14 am

    I would encourage you to take a look at this link:

    http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11280106/

    The article is concerning a 93 year old woman in Georgia. A hospital near her condemned her property so they could expand their Child Development Center used for their employees. A jury ruled that the hospital had to pay the owner 5 times the approximate $50,000 appraised value in addition to $51,000 for moving expenses.

    The article also states that 40 states are in the process of re-examining their laws with regard to eminent doman. Interesting reading.

  2. Tamara Colbert Maschino said,

    February 13, 2006 at 3:54 pm

    Hi Doris, how are you and your family doing ? It is nice to touch base but wish it was under more pleasant circumstances. It is time to re-examine this issue and how this is affecting homeowners everywhere. It is an unfair situation that is never really cured even after buyouts, especially with long term homeowners.

  3. Doris Friedle Stokes said,

    February 16, 2006 at 11:05 pm

    Just a lot of upheaval. It’s quite a task to sort through 50 years of memories. I just don’t believe this is happening in America. Sad, sad situation when the university who relies on the citizens of Stillwater to support it, are now trying to take advantage of them. My parents and my sisters and I worked for the university. I am constantly getting solicitations from the Alumni association for money. I can tell you right now, they aren’t getting any of my money if this is how it is going to be spent.

  4. Tamara Colbert Maschino said,

    February 17, 2006 at 9:25 pm

    Hi Doris,
    It is heartbeaking and I cant believe it is happening here either. I dont think I will ever get over how it is impacting our family and yours and everybody who lives in this area or owns property here. It is like a nightmare you dont wake up from. Mom said your parents were here as long as she has been, that is incredible because you do not see long time neighborhoods in other towns like this. The strain on our folks is the worse part of it all, they dont deserve this at this time in their lives.

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OSU fund raiser idea

December 8th, 2005 at 2:16 am (Misc)

I have a great idea for a fund raiser for OSU. Why not have everyone who complains about the whining property owners try this. Sell your home to the University. If you don’t think it is close enough to campus, do it anyway. Maybe they’ll put a satelite school on your property. Wouldn’t that be great.

OR, sell your house or your business. Give OSU half the sale price. Then relocate. That’s about what the homeowners in the area are doing. THEN, you can say, look, I did the same as you did in selling your house/business, “voluntarily”, and it’s no big deal. And it would REALLY BE voluntarily for you.

Note: There are 35 homes in Stillwater currently on the market for less than $100,000.00. There are more homeowners in the acquisition area than that. People who have looked for housing in OKC said real estate prices were less there than in Stillwater.

AND the amount calculated for the academics includes parking garages and lots.

Who do you think has paid for the streets that OSU will be closing? Stillwater taxpayers! Who will pay for new streets in Stillwater in order to be able to drive across town? Stillwater taxpayers. Who do you think will make up the tax revenue loss to schools, etc? Stillwater taxpayers. Moving Washington 1/2 block (at 6th street) and deleting several businesses and a frat house….so we have a view of the library? Makes sense to you, I am sure.

OSU has 2400+ acres of property to which they hold deeds. They DO have other property on which this lovely athletic could be built. AND I am a tremendous OSU sports fan. Even when they lose.

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  1. Leonard G. Herron III said,

    December 8, 2005 at 10:27 am

    I agree. OSU could place this thing on the old golf course site. Open with a huge parking lot for football traffic just north of McElory. Put in a monorail system around the entire campus with a separate car for the football team. They could develop a backdoor controlled access form Knapp and the President could have private access from the Presidents home. My objection is that there appears to have been little or no discussion about any alternative locations and designs and on overall cost benefit analysis to the entire Stillwater community of any of the plans.

  2. Craig Buchanan said,

    December 8, 2005 at 11:24 am

    The same thing happened when we were kicked out. We had the real estate agent pull a masterlisting of all the properties that were under $115,000. Of them only 1 had as many square feet as ours and it was built around 1910 and was just outside of Perkins. That was it. Most houses around 2,000 sq ft are around 200,000…. You really think OSU is going to be offering this amount?

    We had several people in the paper tell us we were getting such a good deal. I kept wanting to ask people if they will give us their home in exchange. I wounder how many will offer theirs to these people this time around?

  3. Lee Agnew said,

    December 8, 2005 at 12:07 pm

    Leonard, putting “this thing” on the old golf course site (intramural field, right?) would be preferable to razing a 400+ homes… but it would certainly have an impact, probably negative, on the Washington Heights area.

    A better question is, why build “this thing” (on this scale, at least) anyway? Will demographic trends in the potential student population justify this kind of investment in athletics?

    Not to toot my family’s horn too much, but I’d be interested in some more followup on this issue. The numbers my sister Marion used in her study are all public information, and figuring out the implications requires no special training. If academic experts in these areas can come up with contradictory information, we both would be interested in seeing it.

  4. Leonard G. Herron III said,

    December 9, 2005 at 11:43 am

    A cost benefit analysis needs to be developed before they do any of this. OSU could end up with a white elephant that could cripple the ability to compete in both athletics and academics. The planning process for OSU needs to be restarted and adequately include all elements of the Stillwater community.

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Pandering to athletes.

December 2nd, 2005 at 3:55 pm (Misc, Mtg Questions/Comments)

Why not have a village for teachers, musicians or performing artists, architects, chemists or professors, or foreign exchange students? I oppose this pandering to athletes. They may not like being forced to go live in one area. Has anyone taken a poll?
Ginger L. Lynd

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  1. Fred Thornton said,

    December 3, 2005 at 12:08 am

    The athletes might just be the key to this deal… if they were to go public with a rejection it would carry some weight. After all, they are (purported to be) students first.

  2. Marion Agnew said,

    December 3, 2005 at 10:55 pm

    And many of them truly are student-athletes. I’m sure some of them are leery of putting tons of money into athletics facilities — they might prefer more support for competition travel or support to finish their degrees after their athletic eligibility runs out. Some of them love their sport and enjoy participating at the NCAA level, and they’ll be perfectly happy to graduate or go into the working world when their eligibility is finished.

    It’s always difficult to expect people to argue against something that is in their self-interest. In this case, few of the athletes here today would be around to benefit directly from any athletics village — especially since there’s funding only for buying land, not for building anything on it. Yet they could well enjoy the sense of leaving a legacy for future athletes in their sport.

    Think of it this way — if President Schmidly can’t say no to $30 million, even when its donor insists it be spent in ways that are counterintuitive and counterproductive, it’s not too surprising that an athlete wouldn’t say no to a great dorm or practice court.

    However, if anybody is buddies with an OSU student-athlete, ask — it’s always good to know, even if it just confirms that they’re gung-ho for it.

  3. Greg Swaim said,

    December 8, 2005 at 8:54 am

    I’ve talked to over 50 athletes, in all sports, and they are 100% for it.

  4. Craig Buchanan said,

    December 8, 2005 at 12:21 pm

    Greg,

    If they were not sending lawyers, police, and National Guard troops to talk with the people would they still be for it? Let these athletes look in the eyes of a woman who is loosing the home her and her husband built. The home where her kids took their first steps. The home that saw countless family gatherings. The home where he life partner drew his last breath. Let them then tell her that you will give her a fraction of the homes finical worth. That she will go from no mortgage to being in debt until the day she dies. Let them do that, then ask them if they are still 100% for it.

  5. Dr. Ted Douglas said,

    December 8, 2005 at 8:52 pm

    First, let’s leave the National Guard out of it. These young men and women are out there risking their lives in Iraq and other areas around the world. They will not be used to kick folks out of their homes, that will be the Sheriff’s departments job after a court order from Payne County.

    Now, to respond to Greg, were any of the 50 athletes from Stillwater and if so did they grow up in the targeted area. More than likely they were out of state students that could care less about the residents of Stillwater. What college kid (even excluding athletes) wouldn’t want to live like a king? With the canal work, maybe we can even have them living like Saddam did before the war. Nice little palaces for each sport and a canal to keep the old folks out. But really, the last people that we should care about in this concern is the student-athletes. They already have a MUCH better lifestyle and academic support than ANY normal students attending OSU.

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Wasting time and money

December 2nd, 2005 at 3:55 pm (Board of Regents, Mtg Questions/Comments)

If the Board of Regents, OSU Administration, the Foundation, and Boone Pickens really believe they must expand OSU’s athletic facilities because it is “crucial to our national competitiveness,” this plan is wasting time and money! Using land OSU already owns means you could start construction TODAY, capitalize on the value of your dollar TODAY (construction costs are rising rapidly, due in part to the Katrina disaster) and improve the competitiveness of our athletic programs TODAY (the publicity would be MUCH MORE positive and you’d have actual in-phase work to show off to potential recruits). Your plan is misguided, wasteful and short-sighted in addition to its lack of consideration for our residents, property owners, OSU students, and school children.
Lynda Halley

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Aggressive growth plan

December 2nd, 2005 at 3:54 pm (Board of Regents, Mtg Questions/Comments)

Is such an aggressive growth plan in sync with a future student body? Such a huge expansion benefits such a small percentage of students, i.e., 1-2%, is it justified? More time should be provided to groups impacted - before the plan is considered.
James F. Jackson

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At least five master plans

December 2nd, 2005 at 3:53 pm (Board of Regents, Mtg Questions/Comments)

What is the master plan? There are at least five master plans that have been posted on the Benham web page. Does the Board of Regents know what they are really voting on? Can we urge the Board of Regents to postpone any action now? How can we stop the closing of Hall of Fame? How can we stop them from take our property?Does the University really have the power to use eminent domain for athletic facilities? Let’s use political action to stop them. Why can’t the University use university land to develop the Athletic Village.
Jo Ann Halley

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Land take-over

December 2nd, 2005 at 3:53 pm (Board of Regents, Mtg Questions/Comments)

Stop this land take-over! This is not ethical or behavior with integrity. Students will NOT choose OSU - Alumni will NOT donate, due to these plans from the President and Regents. Eminent Domain is not designed for athletic complexes. Is the money even donated yet? Mr. Pickens still owes $ to Texas!
Anonymous

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