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...MIT professor who had begun a hunger strike after the university denied him tenure officially ended that strike last Friday, saying his protest had garnered sufficient attention...
...February 5, 2007, James L. Sherley, Associate Professor of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), decided that he too should begin a hunger strike to bring peace, harmony, and justice to the world. So, after two final bowls of Chex Cereal, Sherley began his vigil against the oppressors which comprise the administration of MIT. The university that had refused to grant the poor man tenure would be forced to watch...
...protest stemmed from the idea that MIT denied him tenure because he is black and they are racist. Yet, a few days ago, in a major setback to the struggle against racism, Sherley started eating again, after only 12 days and a weight loss of 20 pounds...
...course it should be noted that less than half of junior faculty members receive tenure at MIT. He was sadly in the 60 percent who were asked to leave. That is unfortunate, but does not warrant starving himself to death, at least not publicly. There are surely numerous job opportunities for a junior MIT faculty member; it is time to move on to greener pastures...
Organizing the event were Andrew Lobb, a fifth-year Harvard graduate student specializing in algebraic topology and geometry—“particularly seven-dimensional laser calculus”—and Ronen Mukamel ’05, a first-year MIT grad student with similar research interests...