By: Anon

Anon
Thu, 05 Mar 2015 14:23:44 +0000

“In terms of energy efficiency, it may very well be that some private company has ideas on how to save money on energy, and if that’s the case, let’s hire them to give us the ideas, but there’s no need to hire them to run it,” Cohen said.

If the companies can make money doing it, Cohen questioned why the university wouldn’t want to do it themselves to “either generate the income or, more importantly, generate the savings to keep college, university expenses down.”

Cohen said he thinks Oklahoma’s 50-year contract is “a long time to lock yourselves into a contractual obligation to keep a company profitable,” though.

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Those statements pretty much sum up why this is a bad idea for OSU. Hopefully senior management will come around to that line of reasoning...