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MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms at colleges

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Re: MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms at colleges

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Post by totalZero » Tue, Sep 12, 2017, 8:24 PM UTC

rasz wrote: post #213

rothbardrand wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What happened to the MIT Administration? Ever since Aaron Swartz death, it seems the administration of the school has been corrupted by some influence. My guess is that, like so many universities in this country, the administration is not answerable to students or even alumni.

You are forgetting Star Simpson 5 years earlier. MIT was always like that.

Several professors spoke out against President Hockfield's quickly formulated comments against Star. Patrick Winston, who received his BS, MS, and PhD at MIT before joining the faculty, is among them.

Re: MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms at colleges

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Post by totalZero » Tue, Sep 12, 2017, 8:37 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #44

What's the actual story here? "Four students tried to buy cocaine" isn't the story. That happens all the time, at every college, in every other MIT dorm, and in most city high schools.

MIT used what were supposed to be anonymous lifestyle survey responses to justify shutting down a longstanding dorm with a very strong culture of drug use, with no warning to the community.

The drug culture of this dorm goes much further than sporadic cocaine use. Frankly, without generalizing about individual residents, it's fair to say that drug use was an identifying component of the culture of the dorm. Yet that culture had existed for many, many years, so its existence alone didn't precipitate the closure of the dorm.

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