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Re: [Mit-talk] Bullying by MIT professors?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M Kelch)
Fri Jul 28 13:53:16 2006

Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:52:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steven M Kelch <kelch@mit.edu>
To: "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060728133150.moa8wfn4hu044gs4@webmail.mit.edu>
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The article does its best to turn this into a sexism issue, but I think it 
generally fails at doing so.

Either way, competing research can be healthy, and MIT needs to make sure 
things like this do not happen.

skelch


On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Richard J. Barbalace wrote:

> I am unsure whether "bullying" is an appropriate term, but that is what the
> Boston Globe uses in this story, "Professor allegedly bullied MIT prospect":
> http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/07/28/professor_allegedly_bullied_mit_prospect/
>
> I find it rather disappointing that a professor would put rivalry above science,
> but I suspect that this practice is sadly common.
>
> + Richard
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