June 15, 2007
MIT Hunger Striker's Colleague Resigns
A prominent professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has resigned to protest the treatment of an MIT stem-cell biologist who went on a 12-day hunger strike over his tenure denial.
"I leave because I would neither be able to advise young blacks about their prospects of flourishing in the current environment, nor about avenues available to effect change when agreements or promises are transgressed," Frank L. Douglas, executive director of the university's Center for
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