Critics from conservative and pro-Israel camps have long argued that Muslim countries are buying influence in academe. Now objections to foreign money are also coming from the left, emphasizing the human-rights issues and the unseemly relationships colleges might have with despotic governments or money that flows through them.
The divestment mania of the 1980's, all over again.
From Apartheid to...?
taint of foreign money is different from the taint of domestic money?
US CoC is lobbying heavily to allow more taint of foreign money in US elections, and of course, in complete secret.
Taint isn't a problem. Interest groups love money tainting for their interests, and detest money tainting against their interests.
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