BOSTON (AP) — Police early Friday have begun dismantling a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. People were being detained and video showed police roaming through the encampment. Organizers said only about 10 people were inside the camp, but a crowd outside the camp began gathering and chanting pro-Palestinian slogans. Tensions have […]
Yesterday, John covered the ongoing protests at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where administrators briefly managed to clear an encampment on the campus after “negotiating” with the protesters. The respite was indeed brief, however, because agitators were once again on hand to rile up the crowd and move them back into the fray. More disturbingly, […]
There has been a pro-Palestinian encampment on MIT’s campus for the past two weeks. This afternoon, MIT’s President Sally Kornbluth posted a statement announcing that the camp will have to come to a close. She gave protesters until 2:30 pm today to vacate the camp. Kornbluth cited several reasons including the safety of protesters, the […]
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has discontinued the use of required diversity, equity and inclusion statements in hiring, becoming the first top U.S. university to drop the ideological litmus tests on its own initiative after concluding that “they don’t work.” MIT President Sally Kornbluth made the decision to abandon the DEI requirement for faculty hiring […]
NEW YORK — Pro-Palestinian protesters that had been blocked by police from accessing an encampment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Monday broke through fencing, linked arms and encircled tents that remained there, as Columbia University canceled its university-wide commencement ceremony following weeks of pro-Palestinian protests. Sam Ihns, a graduate student at MIT studying […]
If you want to understand Sam Bankman-Fried and what he symbolizes about our culture, you could do worse than to understand the cultural environment in which he grew up. The son of two Stanford academics who ooze a sense of privilege and moral superiority, and looking through the lens of his upbringing it’s suddenly easy […]
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