MIT Professor Begins Hunger Strike

Newsday ^ | 2/5/07 | DENISE LAVOIE

[kiriath_jearim]

Isn't MIT Noam Chomsky's stomping grounds?

[dfwgator]

He's probably eating a big hamburger as we speak.

[EagleUSA]

Good. Maybe we can round up a whole bunch of the these academic parasites, who could not feed their faces if they had to get a real job....the unions are their Gods...

[D.P.Roberts]

Maybe he should work on his articulation and cleanliness.

[Cvengr]

IBTZ


Don't call me Shirley!

[BCrago66]

Beat me to it. I was going say I was hoping it was Chompsky starving himself, but that guy has also been well-fed and well-paid, and by Department of defense grants too.

[xJones]

The 5-foot-8, 254-pound professor said he planned to ingest only water, vitamins and electrolyte supplements until the university acknowledges its racism.

It's about time he went on a diet.

[kinoxi]

The 5-foot-8, 254-pound professor

He could use a little time to lay off the cheeseburgers anyway.

[Flightdeck]

MIT hires a lot of assistant professors and allows them to furiously compete for tenure, giving it to precious few. It works for them, b/c they can do it where other schools cannot. This guy sounds like a whiner.

[dfwgator]

IBTZ Don't call me Shirley!

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?!?!

[Crawdad]

"[He]opposes research using human embryonic stem cells because he believes it amounts to taking human life." BINGO!

[jtal]

BTW - What ever became of Cindy Sheehan's hunger strike? Wasn't she going to refuse food until the troops came home?

Is she still alive? IIRC she made that vow last summer.

[dfwgator]

I take it Bobby Sands this guy ain't.

[Cvengr]

"I'm not actually doing this to get tenured," Sherley said.

How can he be so sure? Sherley said is surely denied?

[dynachrome]

"Is she still alive?"
You can't kill the undead.

[xJones]

Well, let's dig a little bit deeper into the article. Chubby hadn't been doing too bad in terms of grant money:

Sherley, 49, works with adult stem cells and opposes research using human embryonic stem cells because he believes it amounts to taking human life. In September, he won a prestigious $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Sherley doesn't approve of human embryonic stem cell research because he appears to be a right-to-lifer. Maybe that's what had him turned down for tenure, but he shouldn't be playing the race card, regardless.

[onyx]

LOL - For sure.

[Huntress]

The fact that he's chosen the asinine strategy of going on a hunger strike suggests to me that MIT made the right decision.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Checking my give-a-damn .... whoa the things flat out busted - doesn't even register.