Posted on 02/05/2007 3:57:15 PM PST by kiriath_jearim
BOSTON -- A black MIT professor began a hunger strike Monday to protest the university's decision to deny him tenure, which he claims was based on race.
James Sherley, a stem cell scientist, said he tried for two years to persuade administrators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to reverse the department head's rejection of his tenure bid.
"I'm not actually doing this to get tenured," Sherley said. "I'm doing this for the reason that I wasn't tenured -- which is racism -- and I want this institution to admit that that is the problem and make plans to do something about it."
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Isn't MIT Noam Chomsky's stomping grounds?
He's probably eating a big hamburger as we speak.
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...
Maybe he should work on his articulation and cleanliness.
IBTZ
Don't call me Shirley!
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.
It's about time he went on a diet.
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.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?!?!
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.
I take it Bobby Sands this guy ain't.
How can he be so sure? Sherley said is surely denied?
"Is she still alive?"
You can't kill the undead.
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.
LOL - For sure.
The fact that he's chosen the asinine strategy of going on a hunger strike suggests to me that MIT made the right decision.
Checking my give-a-damn .... whoa the things flat out busted - doesn't even register.
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