Student Protestors Demand St. John’s College, Oxford ‘Immediately Divest from Fossil Fuels’, Professor Gives Them an Education

The Times of London’s Ben Webster asks, “How do you respond when placard-waving students occupy your 15th-century quadrangle and refuse to leave until you sell the college’s shares in oil companies? As this is Oxford, naturally you present them with a philosophical dilemma.” Professor Andrew Parker manages the college’s £551 million endowment fund, £8 million of which is invested in BP and Shell. This represents a whopping 1.45% of the value of the fund. Webster reports: -- More...