Some at Oregon State criticizing Reser Stadium renovation project
Updated Mar 12, 2021;
By K. Rambo | Mid-Valley Media
Some students, faculty and staff at Oregon State University are pushing back against the $153 million rebuild of the west side of Reser Stadium.
Critics say the project, financed in part with $68 million in bonds and slated to draw more than $680,000 annually from the university’s education and general budget for 30 years to pay a portion of the debt, shows a lack of judgment and misplaced priorities in the midst of a pandemic and a national reckoning with issues of racial injustice. The OSU administration says a renovated football stadium will usher in a new era of financial prosperity for the athletics program and cover an existing athletics deficit of more than $30 million.