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Re:MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz’s Secre... by marshray on Thursday July 18, 2013 @08:19PM (#6067504)
But MIT didn't get where it is by being careless about its public image. Association with that image is a nonzero part of the value of a degree from MIT. If they go about acting like bozos it affects current and future students as well as alumni.
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Re:MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz’s Secre... by rayiner on Thursday July 18, 2013 @08:58PM (#6067651)
MIT got where it is by being a crucial instrument of the military industrial complex, in many years the largest non-profit defense contractor in the country. They know which side their bread is buttered on.
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Re:MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz’s Secre... by ericd on Thursday July 18, 2013 @08:47PM (#6067602)
Eh, I think you have to separate the students and faculty from the admins. I don't think many MIT students have ever been proud to be associated with the admins, because they do boneheaded things pretty regularly.
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Re:MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz’s Secre... by Amadou on Thursday July 18, 2013 @10:52PM (#6068038)
The way the administration threw Star Simpson under the bus within hours of her arrest was despicable.
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Re:MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz’s Secre... by ericd on Friday July 19, 2013 @12:01AM (#6068258)
Did they? I graduated the year before that whole debacle, so I didn't get a very good sense of what happened beyond what was going on on one of the dorm mailing lists. I wouldn't be very surprised, though.
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