AusChron: Parsing the Cactus Proposals

Posted by Save the Cactus Cafe on Sun, 04/11/2010 - 3:17pm

In “Parsing the Cactus Proposals” from the Austin Chronicle “Earache!” blog, Richard Whittaker analyzes UT’s three proposals and raises these points, among many others:

  1. “[O]ne option that doesn't explicitly appear to be on the table is closure.”
  2. There is nothing in the proposals that mentions using the current space.
  3. “[The] draft terms are so broad that without a clear plan they don't rule much out.”
  4. There is no definition of a business model or who defines it.
  5. With the third proposal, “KUT (still reeling from the bad PR from dumping Larry Monroe and Paul Ray) gets to look like the good guys.”
  6. The source of alternative plans is mysterious, and UT’s claims that they resulted from “open discussions” are false.
  7. The KUT proposal is “arguably trifurcated: KUT gets it for 150 days a year, students for 215, with a third party vendor as possibly the only constant in the room.”