The story from the Tulsa World tells us what insiders have known all along, the bylaws governing ORU’s Board of Regents give the Roberts family a huge voice in university decisions. The Tulsa World article also offers up an interesting quote from George Pearsons from May of this year:

“I am standing here today because the Lord clearly spoke to me and said, ‘Do whatever Richard Roberts asks you to do,’ “

– George Pearsons, Speech to the ORU Board of Regents, May 2007

Hopefully Mart Green’s financial audit and requirements for his 70 million dollar donation will help bring the university to more safer ground from a financial as well as a leadership standpoint.