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Students are demanding MIT fire a professor who visited Epstein in prison

• Bostonian 7y ago
  I don't think a professor visiting a sex offender in prison is grounds for firing him. Its too easy nowadays to say that someone's actions make you feel "unsafe" in order to ruin their career. I am reminded of Harvard removing law professor Ronald Sullivan from his position as housemaster supervising a dorm because he represented alleged sex offender Harvey Weinstein.
• javagram 7y ago
  > Two other professors with ties to Epstein, including Richard Stallman, the famed founder of the free software movement, have resigned. (From the article). Considering Stallman wasn’t a professor and didn’t have ties to Epstein, it doesn’t give a lot of confidence in the article author to get other facts right.
  • rumanator 7y ago
    > Considering Stallman wasn’t a professor and didn’t have ties to Epstein, it doesn’t give a lot of confidence in the article author to get other facts right. Even worse, IIRC Stallman was fired for intervening in a email flamewar where a random user was accusing a deceased colleague of Stallman of having committed crimes that didn't even matched the accusation.
• gbronner 7y ago
  The subject of quantum computing is not changed by the professor's actions in visiting someone who has been accused, but not convicted, of crimes.
  • Bostonian 7y ago
    Epstein had been convicted of crimes and was jailed because of new charges. But I agree with your overall point.