[320] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: The coming storm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Jones)
Sun Apr 29 15:49:12 2001
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
Cc: SMITH <cdsmith@MIT.EDU>, mit-talk@MIT.EDU
From: Ray Jones <rjones@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: "Christopher D. Beland"'s message of "Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:18:47 -0400"
Date: 29 Apr 2001 15:49:04 -0400
Message-ID: <ppwitjnxz9r.fsf@PIXIE.MIT.EDU>
"Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Changing this reality requires lobbying both the MIT administration
> and the United States Congress.
Probably only the former. Since MIT is a private institution, it
isn't subject to "sunshine laws" that have been successfully applied
to disciplinary hearings at state schools. However, if students were
to apply sufficient pressure, they could probably convince the
administration to (re)instate due process guarantees currently
lacking.
Ray Jones
