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Threatened with a lawsuit challenging its racially-exclusive admission policies, an MIT program for high school students has had to open its ranks to non-minorities, angering many Harvard students who once attended the program...
...MIT has not only begun to feel the brunt of governmental efforts to monitor certain projects, he said. It has also worked extensively over the past year to manage visa delays and new, more stringent registration requirements that foreign students across the nation have faced...
...MIT will comply with recent governmental restrictions as much as is required, Vest maintained. But constraints established in the name of national security could initiate a “slippery slope” effect, he warned, severely compromising academic freedom at the nation’s top research institutions...
...MIT gained public attention this fall when it refused a $400,000 computer science grant from the National Security Agency because the grant would have required the Institute to provide information about foreign researchers working on the unclassified project...
...work will not be done at MIT,” she remarked. “Is that in the interest of national security? I don’t think...