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Vol. XXXVII No. 4March/April 2025
Letters
A Painful Personal Reality and a Call to MIT Faculty To The Faculty Newsletter: I’m a long-time Cambridge resident and retired educator, and I wanted to share how touching and...
Vol. XXXVII No. 4March/April 2025
The Red Lines We Will Not Cross . . . Will We?
We understand attacks on any university to be an attack on our values. The university is an ideal, and we will defend it everywhere. We will not compromise on the...
Vol. XXXVII No. 4March/April 2025
Upcoming FNL Editorial Board Elections
The annual faculty-wide, electronically based elections to the Faculty Newsletter Editorial Board will be held later this spring. In addition to the standard Institute faculty and emeritus faculty voting lists,...
Vol. XXXVII No. 4March/April 2025
Really?
The last issue of the FNL includes an unsigned FNL Editorial article responding to my November/December article about the Pulse and the FNL. This (unsigned) article titled “Setting the Record...
Vol. XXXVII No. 4March/April 2025
To Our Readers
It has been brought to the attention of the Managing Editor and Co-Chairs of the Editorial Board that the erratum, “Setting the Record Straight,” made unwarranted claims. Among them was...
Vol. XXXVII No. 3January/February 2025
A Call for Courage in the Face of Rising Antisemitism, White Supremacy, Misogyny, and Authoritarianism
In case anyone doubted what was unfolding before our very eyes, Elon Musk did a Nazi salute not once but twice during the presidential inauguration. To the horror of many...
Vol. XXXVI No. 5May/June 2024
The Hayden Library Renovation: Living Up to Its Promise
Five years ago, I shared in this newsletter our plans for the renovation of Hayden Library, citing the work of the Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of Libraries and...
Vol. XXXVI No. 5May/June 2024
I. Congratulations to Grads and Families II: Resolution in Support of the FNL III: Revised Policies & Procedures; Editorial Board Election; Clarification
All of you in the Class of 2024 started your college years in the midst of the worst pandemic of modern times, and have had to overcome unprecedented stresses on...