BOSTON (Reuters) - A black professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology began a hunger strike on Monday, refusing to eat unless the university reverses its decision to deny him tenure.
I admire his core beliefs, but I also support the right of private entities (which MIT most certainly is) to hire & retain whomever they want.
I think Dr. Sherley would be much better off if he sought tenure at a college or university that supported his stem-cell position, of which there are many.
Posted by: SOT
Ummm by the fact that he's nuts enough to go on a hunger strike, seems to be that it reinforces that MIT did the right thing.
Posted by: NewEngland2007
B oh oh, H oh oh.
Posted by: Mitpo62
The good doctor is claiming that race played a part in the 'tute's decision not to give him tenure. At MIT? The most liberal place on the planet, located within the People's Republic of Cambridge? Pahleeeze!
Posted by: justanotherparatrooper
Not often I side with liberals but they do have a right to decide who works for them HOWEVER...do you think this would play out different in the media if it was a Christian or conservative school and a professor with an opposing view?
Posted by: 94c
Can we add a poll to see how long he lasts?
Posted by: dcs2244
Like Mitpo said...nobody at the 'Tute is factoring in race: the guy is being denied tenure simply because of his respect for life. Simply put, he is an apostate of the religion of Liberalism. If he supported embryonic stem cell research, he would have received tenure.
In any event, MIT has the right to tenure who they wish. What is telling, though, is the lack of opinion diversity in what passes for American academia these days. Had he been a critic of the "global warming" orthodoxy over at the earth science school, he'd would have had a stake driven through his heart, his head cut off and buried under a flowing stream with a mouth full of salt.
JAP is right...had this been a pro-embryonic stem cell guy at a Christian school, the media would be screaming for the president and the provost to be crucified up-side-down, the story would play 24/7 and ABC would make it into a movie of the week...and they would have blamed it on George W. Bush!
Posted by: JoninNH
Well put DCS...
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