April 5, 2002

2 Oxford Professors Quit After Sting

By DAVID WALKER

Two University of Oxford professors resigned last month after university administrators and government officials reacted angrily to a newspaper report that the professors had offered a student admission to one of the university's colleges in exchange for a philanthropic donation.

A journalist with The Sunday Times, pretending to be a wealthy banker seeking an undergraduate place at Oxford for his child, secretly tape-recorded conversations with two fellows of Pembroke College. The

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