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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 2101593" data-attributes="member: 26737">Why do you ASSUME that &quot;tax dollars&quot; are being spent on this project? The State of Oklahoma is actually a minority funder of OU (IIRC, they provide about 40% of OU&#039;s annual budget), and projects of this sort are usually funded with private money.&nbsp; (Also, every dollar spent at OU, be it from public or private sources, is audited--we have a department of Internal Auditing that does nothing but make sure that our accounting is in order.)I can think of plenty of reasons that OU would request permission to fly drones:1. Weather research.2. Research for the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering program.3. Crowd control on game days (you know, when there are suddenly ~100,000 people on campus).4. Surveying OU&#039;s not insubstantial properties.5. Facilities maintenance (see #4).6. Research at OU&#039;s research stations around the state.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 2101593, member: 26737"] Why do you ASSUME that "tax dollars" are being spent on this project? The State of Oklahoma is actually a minority funder of OU (IIRC, they provide about 40% of OU's annual budget), and projects of this sort are usually funded with private money. (Also, every dollar spent at OU, be it from public or private sources, is audited--we have a department of Internal Auditing that does nothing but make sure that our accounting is in order.) I can think of plenty of reasons that OU would request permission to fly drones: 1. Weather research. 2. Research for the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering program. 3. Crowd control on game days (you know, when there are suddenly ~100,000 people on campus). 4. Surveying OU's not insubstantial properties. 5. Facilities maintenance (see #4). 6. Research at OU's research stations around the state. [/QUOTE]

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