FAYETTEVILLE -- Most everyone who has graduated college gets besieged with ceaseless demands to "give back" to build stuff, from athletics to zoology.
Universities so frequently have their hands out that some alumni might put their hands up as if they have been held up.
Suspicions worsen if there's cause to think some among the university's board of trustees can enhance their personal businesses via the university projects they approve.
Varying conflicts of interest are almost guaranteed among a board of prominent people. Some conflicts seem bigger than others.
Thursday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 1A story that University of Arkansas System trustees Reynie Rutledge, the CEO of First Security Bank; Kelly Eichler, whose husband, Brad Eichler, is an executive vice president of Stephens Inc.