Posted on 11/06/2019 2:22:04 AM PST by Libloather
A group of students is demanding that MIT fire Seth Lloyd, an undergraduate mechanical engineering professor who visited Jeffrey Epstein in prison.
In late August, MIT admitted that the university had accepted roughly $800,000 from Epstein, and that all of those gifts either went to the MIT Media Lab, or Lloyd.
Eleanor Graham, a fourth-year physics major at MIT, said she faced a tough decision when she received her class schedule this semester. She had enrolled in the only quantum computing class that MIT offers to find out that Lloyd, who had been in the news for accepting funds from Epstein, would be her professor.
Graham attended Lloyd’s first class—but after hearing his lecture, which included an unsolicited “monologue” about his relationship with Epstein—she and at least one other student dropped it, she told Motherboard.
“Some students feel comfortable remaining in the class and others don’t,” Graham told Motherboard. “You can kind of guess who doesn’t. People with a history of sexual trauma or those in underrepresented groups in science already, those are the people who don’t feel comfortable.”
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>> Eleanor Graham, a fourth-year physics major at MIT, said she faced a tough decision
STFU Eleanor, and be intelligent.
Enough with the pathetic. Life has its ongoing expectations...
What is it about "those in underrepresented groups in science already" that would cause them to be uncomfortable with the concept of Jeffrey Epstein?
The Prof sounds STUPID to even VOICE Epstein’s NAME!
I was not there and am only doing a WAG, but, perhaps he was answering a student question? This student's complaint was about a monologue which is also descriptive of such a response. These things are SUBJECTIVE which is why they are so pernicious. Fire a professor because I'm offended - smells like an impeachment!
“What is it about “those in underrepresented groups in science already” that would cause them to be uncomfortable with the concept of Jeffrey Epstein? “
I was describing someone’s outraged behavior to my elderly mother. She said, approximately, “Some people feel really good when they get angry and yell and it’s not like the people on the receiving end can respond. It allows them to feel righteous indignation and not fear a rebuttal. These aren’t good people.”
Tell the students to go eff themselves. Their opinion means exactly nothing.
But if Bill or Hillary wanted to speak at MIT they would be crying with glee at the thought of
Your elderly mother is a very perceptive.
I would hypothesize that “underrepresented groups” may be struggling with the MIT physics curriculum and therefore on the lookout for any excuse to bail on the class or finagle a good grade without doing the work.
It is good then that their feelings have absolutly nothing to do with physics.
This is all really interesting. Students protesting links to pedophilia, while the far left seeks to normalize it. Between this and the trans kerfuffle we could be witnessing the implosion of the woke left. But in this case, I would hate to see quantum computing sucked into it and the field left to the Chinese.
I see in the article’s sidebar that Richard Stallman thinks Epstein’s underage victims were willing participants, and had to resign a position at MIT. It’s like political diesel runaway.
Will these same students vote for Hitlery even though she accepted $$$ Millions from Epstein?
“In late August, MIT admitted that the university had accepted roughly $800,000 from Epstein”
How, in good conscience, can this student choose to remain at MIT?
“Never look a gift horse in the mouth.”
Wasn’t Eppie into science and engineering?
For all that he was one seriously FUBAR dude in other respects, why’n Hell does that need to taint what’s — essentially — a financial gift to a Professor at a University?
Eppie TOOK money from people for the crap he was into, and then dangled them over the fires of Hell if they didn’t cough up more afterward; he didn’t GIVE it to them.
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