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Vol. XXXVI No. 1September/October 2023
Advancing Racial Equity After the End of Affirmative Action
“At the same time, as all parties agree, nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her...
Vol. XXXVI No. 2November/December 2023
The Academic Well-Being Initiative
Dear Faculty Community, We invite you to be a part of our mission to cultivate engaged undergraduate students who emphasize their well-being. The Academic Well-Being Initiative (AWI), led by John...
MIT Values and the Protests in Lobby 7
Sally Haslanger, Jonathan A. King, Ceasar McDowell, Nasser Rabbat, Balakrishnan Rajagopal Social movements and social protests come in many forms and have different purposes. In the face of a global...
Vol. XXXVI No. 2November/December 2023
Sending MIT Students to War with Water Pistols
I am strolling along my wormhole – a hypothetical cylinder from the theory of general relativity that is a topological shortcut between different points in spacetime, say a tunnel that...
Vol. XXXVI No. 2November/December 2023
A High Bar in Hard Times
This column is being written in late November, into a future of several weeks from now that seems especially unpredictable. This has been a chaotic semester, as we’ve all experienced...
Vol. XXXVI No. 2November/December 2023
MIT Values and the Protests in Lobby 7
Social movements and social protests come in many forms and have different purposes. In the face of a global crisis, one important purpose of protests is to give individuals an...
Vol. XXXVI No. 2November/December 2023
Gaza: What Have We Learned from the bin Salman Scandal?
The war in the Middle East is forcing us to confront the often-silenced dialogue around Israel and Palestine. Regrettably, the world has been forced into this reckoning by two unimaginable...
Gaza: What Have We Learned from the bin Salman Scandal?
Sally Haslanger, Jonathan A. King, Ceasar McDowell, Nasser Rabbat, Balakrishnan Rajagopal The war in the Middle East is forcing us to confront the often-silenced dialogue around Israel and Palestine. Regrettably,...