A group of local college students, along with a handful of Massachusetts lawmakers, are advocating to tax nearly a dozen elite Massachusetts colleges and universities, whose multibillion-dollar endowments they say should fund early and higher education opportunities for students beyond these campuses.

A retired state employee is suing Oklahoma’s treasurer, arguing that his enforcement of a new law is harming his pension.

Former Oklahoma Public Employee Association President Don Keenan filed the lawsuit in Oklahoma County District Court on Monday. It seeks to stop a law prohibiting the state from doing business with companies believed to be hostile to the oil and gas industry. Keenan’s lawsuit asks the court to find Oklahoma’s Energy Discrimination Elimination Act unconstitutional.

The head of the second-largest US university endowment is pouring cold water on one of Wall Street’s hottest markets: private credit. Rich Hall, who took over as chief executive officer of the University of Texas/Texas A&M Investment Management Company in July, said leverage in private credit makes it too risky to boost allocations, even as other endowments and pension funds have been funneling money into what’s now a $1.6 trillion global market.

Andy Golden, president of the Princeton University Investment Company (Princo), found his fountain of youth in a bottle of beer – when serving it rather than consuming its contents. The 64-year-old looked particularly relaxed, joyful, and youthful when he recently fulfilled drink orders as the guest bartender for a Housing Initiatives of Princeton (HIP) fundraiser at the Ivy Inn on Nassau Street.