Oxford should remember Pecunia Non Olet
Students and academics at Oxford are angry that their university has accepted more than £3m from a foundation established by a founder of the controversial oil trading company Trafigura to fund a new summer school at the University of Oxford that will aim to help pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Yesterday, students and staff at Oxford urged the university to reconsider accepting the donation. Peter Oppenheimer, emeritus professor of economics at Christ Church, said the university had a history of being "naive" when it came to accepting donations. "Oxford's central fundraising effort has long been an undirected mess – they will happily take money from anywhere," he said.
As Peter relaxes in his sumptuous surroundings of Christ Church does he rail against the injustice of Henry VIII escheating Wolsey's property which he had "acquired" from the church is circumstances that might not be considered entirely fair? Do the spoilt students already within the machine consider how their "ethical outrage" will hurt the disadvantaged outside? Prats the lot of them. Graham Sharp is a good and generous man, and the ungrateful curs should be kicked, and kicked hard.