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Elizabeth Bradbury, Chair of the Missouri State University Board of Governors…

… is an expert in performance management. Under her authority for the last three years, MSU has become arguably the most mismanaged, most under-performing campus in the country.

A humongous sports fan, Bradbury successfully pushed for JQH Arena, MSU’s new money-hemorrhage machine. Reed Olsen, an MSU economics professor, tried to explain to Bradley and MSU’s president and everybody that the arena would be a disaster, but they were too dumb to listen. They all beat up on old Reed. Nobody at a university – least of all its leadership – wants to read damn fool reports with lots of statistics and shit in them.

Okay but now they’re like losing tons of money I mean like what the hell happened? and now it’s time to sell beer there and chisel more fees out of undergraduates and rent out the place to well jackshit anybody I guess and I dunno fuck with the numbers…

The task force recommends the accounting of the arena be combined with Hammons Student Center and Plaster Sports Complex to create a “true” financial picture of athletic venues.

Dunn said the three facilities currently share resources such as personnel.

Former State Auditor Susan Montee last year specifically warned against mixing the finances of JQH Arena with other university sports facilities.

“In that way, it would not be transparent and nobody would be able to tell,” she said then.

Margaret Soltan, May 30, 2011 7:13AM
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