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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...
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
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
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
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...
Vol. XXXVI No. 2November/December 2023
Thanking the Protesting Students
As the administration has repeatedly noted, the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom reserves the right to limit “the time, place, and manner of protected expression, including...
Vol. XXXVI No. 2November/December 2023
An Open Letter From Faculty & Staff Regarding Freedom of Expression and Student Safety at MIT
November 14, 2023 Dear President Kornbluth, We, MIT faculty and staff[1] are writing to you to voice our growing concerns about the safety of the MIT community. We have watched...
Vol. XXXVI No. 2November/December 2023
Engaging Constructively with Israel/Palestine
In response to: “Gaza: What Have We Learned from the bin Salman Scandal?” Sally Haslanger, Jonathan A. King, Ceasar McDowell, Nasser Rabbat and Balakrishnan Rajagopal note that the war in...
Vol. XXXVI No. 2November/December 2023
Antisemitism on Campus
Social movements come in many forms and have different purposes. Some serve to advance the collective welfare of humanity by bringing us together. Others dehumanize their opposition to advance their...