[T]he agenda item for Tuesday’s public meeting at which the U of H purchase approved negotiating the purchase may have been lacking in full disclosure, said Joe Larsen, a lawyer with the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas.

[U of H rep Karen Clarke] said as the deal progressed over the last few weeks, Rice “was concerned about why it would go public and even said, ‘Why do we have to do this in public?’

“We knew that some Rice students might be upset, but the way it was portrayed [by Rice] was that it was a small and insignificant number and that they would manage it. We never got the impression that it would cause an uproar.”

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