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I don’t really think there is one, other than some people perceive that someone who was elected to office as a Democrat is somehow aligned with George Kaiser because Kaiser does philanthropy or something?

This whole equivalency is dumb. The man owns a large regional bank and an oil company. That’s not exactly reflective of some socialist agenda. He’s all about profit and himself. And when I think about commie hippy leftist instituons, that’s clearly the Army in which Brad Carson served any many of the wankers on this board wouldn’t have qualified for.

Kaiser did make a lot of money in the last 40 years and has given back to his community. A lot of other people in this state (cough cough Harold Hamm) haven’t done anything near what he has done with way more resources. I guess that’s bad? Or something?
 
I don’t really think there is one, other than some people perceive that someone who was elected to office as a Democrat is somehow aligned with George Kaiser because Kaiser does philanthropy or something?

This whole equivalency is dumb. The man owns a large regional bank and an oil company. That’s not exactly reflective of some socialist agenda. He’s all about profit and himself. And when I think about commie hippy leftist instituons, that’s clearly the Army in which Brad Carson served any many of the wankers on this board wouldn’t have qualified for.

Kaiser did make a lot of money in the last 40 years and has given back to his community. A lot of other people in this state (cough cough Harold Hamm) haven’t done anything near what he has done with way more resources. I guess that’s bad? Or something?
I don’t have the time to look and see if he gave him hard money and we would never know if he gave him soft money, but I think it’s reasonable to conclude that Kaiser donated to his Congressional campaigns through one fundraising apparatus or another or advocated others give to him. Simple geography, mutual friends, and shared interests are just too overlapping.

Carson was a board member of the National Energy Policy Institute while at TU and contributed to a report they wrote. Kaiser funded NEPI through TU and it hasn’t really done anything since Carson left. Whether that connection is what got him hired at TU or it happened afterwards, I dunno. It’s possible to be an academic on a board like that and never even meet your major donor.

But I think all of that is irrelevant.

He was a Rhodes Scholar who worked in the White House, got elected to Congress, won the Bronze Star, and ran HR at one of the most complex business organizations in the world. He’s a published author in several different disciplines who’s taught at Harvard and Virginia. As a political, you presume he knows how to work a room for money and find it in places nobody else is looking. He clearly knows the academic research grant complex in place in our government. He likes Tulsa. He’s from here. His worked at TU and wants to come back. He seems perfect for TU.

The only negative thing about him is he tends to stay at one task for a couple of years and then goes and does something different, probably due to nothing more than curiosity. This is his second or third time coming back to Oklahoma. You are left with asking when he will leave, especially with Biden in his first half of his first term.

The only person I know who has said anything negative about him is John McCain. Who is dead. Who was an ahole to so many people you couldn’t take anything he said on decorum seriously. Who accused him of unspecified and unsupported personal conduct improprieties when he was at the Pentagon. He left shortly thereafter and the matter was dropped.
 
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Well when the George Kaiser Foundation takes over... is TU going to change it's name to the "Fighting Kaisers" and are the students going to start wearing Kaiser Pic Helmets? Inquiring minds want to know!
 
We’ll be the Kaiser Kangaroos. A kangaroo mascot is as relevant to Tulsa as ‘Captain Cane’.

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Well when the George Kaiser Foundation takes over... is TU going to change it's name to the "Fighting Kaisers" and are the students going to start wearing Kaiser Pic Helmets? Inquiring minds want to know!
The Fighting Solyndras... our mascot will be a solar collector.
 
When it comes to community support Kaiser has been #1. The only family in the ballpark I can think of is the Warren family with Saint Francis. Thank God for both.

I know little of Brad Carson as a person but would love to see him be more visible and vocal in the lead up to his tenure.
 
Just watched the interview on KOTV. He wore a three piece suit and talked with something of a forced accent/ air of snootiness. He said generic things. I think this will be OK, but it also wasn’t exactly exciting.

Then again, Upham had the excitement level of an 8:00 am anthropology class. Upham’s deal was telling you all the cool things he was doing to overspend. Carson was a little closer to Lawless on the way he handled himself and that’s good. I’m being over critical and you should be too.
 
Even as a congressman he was not exactly electrifying.
 
As a politician turned administrator I hope he develops a position that is firm but flexible, appeals to the masses but is tailored to the individual and issues his position paper shortly.
 
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Just watched the interview on KOTV. He wore a three piece suit and talked with something of a forced accent/ air of snootiness. He said generic things. I think this will be OK, but it also wasn’t exactly exciting.

Then again, Upham had the excitement level of an 8:00 am anthropology class. Upham’s deal was telling you all the cool things he was doing to overspend. Carson was a little closer to Lawless on the way he handled himself and that’s good. I’m being over critical and you should be too.
I was pretty good friends with Brad very long ago, in high school. The way you describe him now, forced accent, air of snootiness, stiltedly formal dress, is just like he was then. You'd expect a Doug Neidermeyer. But he was also, counter-stereotype, one of the nicer, kinder, warmer people I knew and very easy to get to laugh, not at all what you'd expect. And while he was pretty straightlaced, he was never a narc or judgey. I haven't talked to him in more than 30 years so take this for what it's worth, but back then, he was definitely a "don't judge the book by its cover" kind of person. Gold, I take from your Lawless comparison that you're withholding judgment on Carson, which I think is smart and I'd encourage others to do the same.
 
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Let’s look at this from a philosophical perspective. I Obviously, if you pee in the fountain at Utica Square during an event someone will see you. However, if a man pees in the woods and no one is around to see him, did he really pee?
 
Let’s look at this from a philosophical perspective. I Obviously, if you pee in the fountain at Utica Square during an event someone will see you. However, if a man pees in the woods and no one is around to see him, did he really pee?
Was it the man that peed or was it pee that manned?
 
President Carson gave his cell phone number out at freshman orientation this evening in case anyone wants to give him a shout. Claims that he responds nightly to all messages.
 
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There would be endless material there for those so inclined. Then again, maybe that says something about enrollment.
 
There would be endless material there for those so inclined. Then again, maybe that says something about enrollment.

The incoming freshman class is not as large as three years ago, but there were more students than what I expected.

That being said, it does appear that they have enough extra space available to give almost all students single rooms in the dorms.

Sorority houses are back to double occupancy this year.
 
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