"In July 1998, Prof. Sherley was hired into a faculty slot reserved for under-represented minorities as established by a special Provost’s initiative to promote minority recruitment. Such a slot came with certain restrictions on laboratory space: any minority recruited in such a line would have to be given space that is already available from the hiring unit---not additional space by the Provost. As he was being recruited, Prof. Sherley was never told that he would be hired into a special-initiative minority-faculty slot or that such a slot came with restrictions on how space would be allocated to him
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Seriously, it's just horrible -- I'm glad that this letter was written by other faulty in protest. Probably a fat lot of good it did with MIT, cause it seems like they already had their minds made up about this guy. And the recusing issue makes me want to vomit. Any scientist (or decent person) knows that if they have a conflict of interest they acknowledge it and recuse themselves. It happens all the time not only in committees, but in reviewing papers, grants, etc. Can you imagine if everyone who *thought* someone had a conflict of interest with them asked for that someone else's recusal? No one would evaluate anyone!
I don't really know what's more inappropriate, the obviously-less-given-space and respect to the minority, blaming him for his own problems, or lying about it. It's all just a big.... assfuck, really, and I feel badly for the guy. I hope he wins everything he deserves and then some. All he wants is some goddamned tenure.
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I don't really know what's more inappropriate, the obviously-less-given-space and respect to the minority, blaming him for his own problems, or lying about it. It's all just a big.... assfuck, really, and I feel badly for the guy. I hope he wins everything he deserves and then some. All he wants is some goddamned tenure.
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