[BOBTHENAILER]

Why is the title of this post “SHELL OIL BUYS HARVARD”

Are you two anti-energy? The ultra liberal TV show Boston Legal, had a skit similar to the tenor of your posts, ie;
any donation by an Energy Company to the “Collegiate Atmosphere” is automatically tainted.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I am positing that the current state of academe is so leftist and anti-business that the money is likely to produce no usable results for Shell.

[rface]

Shell gives Harvard money....Harvard says thanks and say they will use it .

It's a Pay-off....I hope it pays off.

[rface]

The ultra liberal TV show Boston Legal, had a skit similar ..../b>

I saw that episode. I like the show....but you are right.....It has a stiff liberal bent

[posterchild]

...is automatically tainted.

Such foolishness has been going on a long time. The following is an excerpt from U. Nebraska's history.

http://www.unl.edu/ucomm/aboutunl/history.shtml
"The university began to outgrow its original four-block city campus, and in 1906 constructed a student activity center, known as the Temple Building. Matching funds for the construction of this building were given by petroleum magnate John D. Rockefeller, a friend of Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews. The donation created an uproar among such Nebraska populists as William Jennings Bryan, who considered Rockefeller's oil money to be tainted."