Jump to full article: UPI, 2001-05-17
Author: AL WEBB / UPI Science News
Intro: "The company wants something -- and thinks that giving money to Nottingham University is a good bargain for getting it," he said. "That something is, I suggest, respectability -- or the hope of a place in heaven after a lifetime of evil."
By taking funds from the tobacco industry, the university "debases itself. It offers the industry -- at a cheap price -- a respectability it doesn't deserve," he said.
The university decided to keep the money anyway, despite 84 percent of nays from 1,075 readers who voted May 4 to 10. Some 54 voted that Dr. Smith should step down in such a case. . .
In his resignation letter, Dr. Smith said Campbell's comments "give the impression ... that it was all right for the university to accept the (BAT) money so long as it was spent in a part of the university that received no funding from the (Cancer Research) Campaign."
"In fact," he said, "the campaign makes clear that it does not approve of the acceptance of the money and that it thinks that you have breached the protocol that it agreed with the Universities U.K."
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