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But will they generate revenue?
Your students’ association plans to turn the first floor of the University Bookshop into rental accommodation, and past Exec members are not happy about it. Two previous Exec members have questioned why a proposal rejected three times in the last five years was resurrected in 2021.
“It was a stupid idea then, and it’s a stupid idea now,” said 2016 Administrative Vice-President Jarred Griffiths on Twitter. With “no commercial acumen or commercial experience” in the Exec or the senior staff, Jarred saw OUSA entering the world of property development as a “group looking to go off on a jaunt with millions of dollars of student money.”