The university presidents were right and American Jews’ moral panic is wrong
Joining a right-wing war on higher education will not make us any safer
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Opinion University presidents waffled in condemning calls for genocide. Jews are on our own as much as ever
To suggest that antisemitic hate speech is problematic only when it violates university policy is a profound failure of leadership
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Fast Forward MIT partially suspends students who occupied building for pro-Palestinian ‘die-in’
The university did not specify whether the suspensions affected protesters or counter-protesters
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Culture Want To See Chomsky, Rand, Marx And Musk Argue About Technology? Now You Can — In A Puppet Show
If you have ever sat in a critical theory lecture and wished that your professor would be replaced by a group of dapper, miniaturized historical figures who sometimes rap, there’s now a puppet show to satiate that desire. Mexican artist Pedro Reyes will debut a goofy new production, “Manufacturing Mischief,” on April 26 at the…
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Breaking News Award-Winning Retired MIT Professor Dumped Over Sexual Harassment Claims
Walter Lewin, an award-winninng retired Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, has been dumped by the university over claims he sexually harassed a student taking one of his online classes. Lewin, who retired in 2009, has been removed from lecturing online after an investigation into the female student’s claims, MIT said in a statement. MIT is…
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Breaking News Jewish MIT Students Create $100 Bitcoin Giveaway Plan
(Reuters) — Every undergraduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology next fall will be offered $100 in bitcoins in an experiment that students say will turn the prestigious university into one of the first places on the planet with widespread access to digital currency. Bitcoin is not backed by any government or central bank,…
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Breaking News MIT Report Defends College But Raises Uneasy Questions on Aaron Swartz Case
An internal report from the Massachusetts Institute for Technology claims it did nothing wrong in the case of Aaron Swartz, the co-founder of Reddit and internet activist who committed suicide this January — but criticized administrators for displaying a disappointing failure of “leadership.” The review, led by an MIT alumnus, an MIT professor, and an…
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