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Cecil Rhodes statue to remain at Oxford University after alumni threaten to withdraw millions
Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 12:53AM GMT 28 Jan 2016 | By Javier Espinoza, Education Editor, and Gordon Rayner

Posted on 01/28/2016 6:42:12 PM PST by Olog-hai

Oxford University's statue of Cecil Rhodes is to stay in place after furious donors threatened to withdraw gifts and bequests worth more than £100 million if it was taken down, The Daily Telegraph has learned.

The governing body of Oriel College, which owns the statue, has ruled out its removal after being warned that £1.5m worth of donations have already been canceled, and that it faces dire financial consequences if it bows to the Rhodes Must Fall student campaign. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: cecilrhodes; orielcollege; oxforduniversity; rhodesmustfall; unitedkingdom
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1 posted on 01/28/2016 6:42:12 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I’d really be offended if they took the Beanie statue down


2 posted on 01/28/2016 6:45:16 PM PST by Insigne123 (It is the soldier, not the community organizer, who gives us freedom of the press)
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To: archy
ping... screw the left and the RATS they road in on
3 posted on 01/28/2016 6:45:27 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: Olog-hai

Are Donald Trump statues available yet?


4 posted on 01/28/2016 6:46:36 PM PST by Daniel Ramsey
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To: Olog-hai

Money is the one item more powerful than the lunatic left.


5 posted on 01/28/2016 6:49:27 PM PST by armydawg505
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To: Insigne123
I’d really be offended if they took the Beanie statue down

Beanie? Cecil?

Beanie & Cecil?


6 posted on 01/28/2016 6:49:35 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Why do we give our hearts to the past? And why must we grow up so fast?)
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To: armydawg505

Money is the one item more powerful than the lunatic left.


7 posted on 01/28/2016 6:49:54 PM PST by armydawg505
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Wow! That pic made my day! I had a stuffed talking Cecil- pull sting in the back. It was one of my favorite toys.

Screen getting blurry now.


8 posted on 01/28/2016 6:54:43 PM PST by americas.best.days... ( I think we can now say that they are behind us.)
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To: Olog-hai

What they mad at Cecil about? Our son got his doctorate
degree from Oxford University (Oriel) several years ago
and now is a pastor.


10 posted on 01/28/2016 7:02:45 PM PST by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: Daniel Ramsey

I wanna see a Trump statue at Hillsdale College.


11 posted on 01/28/2016 7:02:46 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Olog-hai

cofounder of the Remove Rhodes Statue movement received a Rhodes Scholarship!

Oxford law student Ntokozo Qwabe calls for universities to ban French flag after Paris attacks, comparing it to ‘Nazi flag’

Student also defends receiving the Rhodes Scholarship, despite campaigning to have ‘racist’ Cecil Rhodes statue removed from Oxford college

http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/oxford-law-student-ntokozo-qwabe-calls-for-universities-to-ban-french-flag-after-paris-attacks-a6788206.html


12 posted on 01/28/2016 7:04:25 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: americas.best.days...
I loved Cecil the seasick sea monster.

"How are ya glad ta see ya!"

And his rendition of "Ragg Mopp". Classic stuff from waaaaaaayyy back.

13 posted on 01/28/2016 7:05:25 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Why do we give our hearts to the past? And why must we grow up so fast?)
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To: Olog-hai

I’d really be offended if they took the Beanie statue down


14 posted on 01/28/2016 7:11:16 PM PST by Insigne123 (It is the soldier, not the community organizer, who gives us freedom of the press)
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To: Olog-hai

Jolly good!


15 posted on 01/28/2016 7:20:11 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Olog-hai

My parents have been very generous with their alma mater. One year they paid for the redecorating of the college chapel. Then the college paid Bill Ayers to speak there. No donations since.


16 posted on 01/28/2016 7:28:45 PM PST by CrazyIvan (Hey Pope Francis- The Gospels are not Matthew, Marx, Luke and John.)
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To: americas.best.days...

When my children were little I introduced them to wonderful things like Beanie & Cecil cartoons, and comedians like Danny Kaye, Bob Hope, Red Skelton and others so they would have an idea of the pleasures fast leaving our world.


17 posted on 01/28/2016 7:45:53 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Olog-hai

Rhodesia should still be Rhodesia, the breadbasket of Africa. It was a thousand percent better as Rhodesia then as the rat hole cesspit that Zimbabwe has become today. It was absolutely pathetic and a great pity that neither Great Britain or the United States supported Ian Smith in those fateful days. it is another great pity that white Rhodesian farmers were not openly and enthusiastically welcome to come and we settle in America after the fall of Rhodesia. they would have brought a new life into our great Midwest farmland


18 posted on 01/28/2016 7:46:43 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: Insigne123

Just who do those idiots image is the namesake of their prestigious “Rhodes” scholarship?


19 posted on 01/28/2016 7:52:49 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: Olog-hai

Wow. Is the pale, white, worm that built a godly civilization on the pillars of Greek /Roman/Judeo/Christian values that liberals//Marxists/ and primitives of all types abuse and try to destroy is beginning to turn?

Perhaps the destroyers should start asking themselves whay they have not been able to build instead of destroy.


20 posted on 01/29/2016 12:41:11 AM PST by amihow (l)
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