Posted on 06/02/2025 4:27:46 AM PDT by dennisw
The class president at Massachusetts Institute of Technology was banned from walking across the stage to receive her diploma after she gave a jaw-dropping anti-Israel speech.
Megha Vemuri was set to serve as the marshal of this year's graduation ceremony on Friday, but received an email earlier in the day that she could not attend the event, and her and her family were banned from campus for most of the day, the Boston Globe reports.
'You deliberately and repeatedly misled Commencement organizers,' MIT Chancellor Melissa Nobles wrote in the email.
'While we acknowledge your right to free expression, your decision to lead a protest from the stage, disrupting an important institute ceremony was a violation of MIT's time, place and manner rules for campus expression.'
The email came just one day after Vemuri veered from her prepared statements at the OneMIT commencement ceremony to instead call on the university to cut all ties with Israel.
'You have faced the obstacle of fear before and you turned it into fuel to stand up for wat is right,' she told her fellow graduates, university officials and even Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey - who was sitting in the audience.
'You showed the world that MIT wants a free Palestine,' Vemuri said of the widespread anti-Israel protests at the Cambridge campus.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Born in Georgia by the way
Seems like the speech of a future terrorist bomb maker.
Take away her diploma.
Wondering what her next career opportunity will be.
These pinheads all have to have a cause. They have this burning desire to disrupt, disagree, interrupt, and antagonize at every turn. Good luck getting that engineering job bitch.
I am SO sick of these ignorant, pampered little dirtbags.
Looks Indian. Huge population in the ATL area.
That “free Palestine” thing again... sounds familiar...
Oh, yeah—the NPC sleeper-cell murderers among us are fond of saying it. Over, and over, and over again. As if it means anything, other than instantly sparking fear in the minds of good people.
I’d love to see her cringe in a couple of years when she GETS it!
Young people know nothing!
Her degree was in computation and cognition and linguistics. Wasn’t the MIT linguistics dept Noam Chomsky’s home? Not teaching a lot of engineering there I’d guess.
In India, image is everything. Getting banned from graduation is a HUGE deal and an embarrassment for the family.
I don't who is responsible for this spelling error, the MIT official or the DailyMail author, but either one should be educated enough to 'what'.
And I will put out another plug for websites to employ Editors to catch this sort of thing.
Her profs must be disappointed. Getting a degree at MIT is justifiably difficult. To do something like this so close to commencement is bone-headed. Throwing away something she and her profs have worked hard for. And for what? To be seen as cool or fashionable by mind-numbed communist street thugs?
While this action by MIT is welcome, I still refuse to believe they have woken up and smelled the coffee.
When Trump changed the rules on federal grants, it shook the universities. They could no longer use grant money for payroll “infrastructure”. They can’t afford to piss off Trump even more.
*** and her and her family were banned from campus for most of the day, the Boston Globe reports.***
Her and her family? Can’t the DM afford an editor?
That may be, but I still believe MIT is wokey wokey.
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