Universities Get Oil Money

Submitted by Dave (United States), Sep 15, 2014 at 18:11

Universities which receive mega-funds from the mega-rich petro-moguls also should be exposed. I've read that Georgetown receives a lot of Gulf money and, lo and behold, it has the Islamophilic John Esposito on the faculty. A coincidence? Maybe.

Shouldn't prospective students be made aware of potential conflicts of interest before they pay a king's ransom for their tuition? Who knows, at the rate their going with their funding, maybe some day ISIS will endow a chair in Caliphate studies.

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