Science Graduate Student Sues Harvard University For Intellectual Property Rights, Royalties From His Work

This is not "extreme" arrogance. It is the usual arrogance of the richest, most prominent University in the United States. 

[From article]
Brian D. O’Reilly, who is representing Charest in the case, called the University’s position one of “extreme arrogance.”

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/3/23/charest-royalties-lawsuit-liability-relief-issues/

Years-Long Royalties Dispute Moves to Questions of Liability and Relief
By LUCA F. SCHROEDER,

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
March 23, 2016

Cambridge, MA City Council Supports Harvard University Graduate Student Union

"Based on current legal precedent, private universities can refuse to recognize graduate student unions, [. . .] The National Labor Relations Board ruled in 2004 that graduate students are primarily students and that any work they do is part of their degree program." So what. Supreme Court ruled White House appointments to NLRB were illegal. They still make decisions. What's the point if laws are selectively enforced? Were campaign contributions made to city councilors to encourage this shocking courageous vote?

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/2/23/city-council-supports-grad-union/

Cambridge City Council Backs Graduate Student Unionization Effort
By JOSHUA J. FLORENCE, SAMUEL VASQUEZ, and LEAH S. YARED,

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
February 23, 2016

Affirmative Action Studied, Found Lacking

[From article]
Our best estimate is that only about one-third of blacks who start law school in America successfully graduate and pass the bar exam on their first attempt
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Competition mismatch thus appears to have large and damaging effects on the number of blacks, in particular, graduating with science or engineering degrees.
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But if preferences promote substantial social mismatch, then race-conscious admissions actually decrease interracial contact and learning—not only at the school where the preferences are used, but also at the college that the preferenced minority student would have attended in the absence of preferences.
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But the logic of affirmative action efforts has been proven to be flawed. It is an example of good intentions leading to hell. Sooner or later, even its supporters will catch on, although the growth of bureaucratic empires devoted to “diversity” provides a huge, wealthy, and powerful constituency for the continuation of these policies. Regardless of the cost to minorities.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/12/media_starting_to_panic_over_scotus_review_of_affirmative_action.html

December 10, 2015
Media starting to panic over SCOTUS review of affirmative action
By Thomas Lifson

MIT Graduate Student Demands Conformity With His Views on Global Warming

Essayist cites "the international community [for an] upper limit of tolerable warming." Using international standards for policy in the United States, white people, a minority in the world, deserve protections from the oppressive majority non white population. Maybe some affirmative action at MIT? Convince Exxon and BP to cease extracting oil. Will essayist petition ISIS in Iraq, Russia, Venezuela to join the ban? Argument that a committee majority recommends action is not a scientific finding. Ethics experts make recommendations, personal opinion, like psychiatry. Spreading disinformation is protected speech. Government agencies and PR flacks do it every day. Is he recommending a bureau of permitted speech?



[From article]
2 degrees Celsius, the upper limit of tolerable warming agreed upon by the international community, and by MIT itself.
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I’m skeptical that MIT can convince Exxon, BP and the like to forgo extracting fossil fuel reserves
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a three-fourths majority of the president’s own climate committee supported MIT’s divesting [. . .] form an Ethics Advisory Council to investigate ties between MIT and entities spreading disinformation on climate change.

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20151028/NEWS/151025648

GUEST COLUMN: MIT's paltry plan for climate action
By Ben Scandella
Posted Oct. 28, 2015 at 2:24 PM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle
Ben Scandella is a PhD candidate in MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Columbia University Grad Student, Advocate For Muslim Terrorists, Condemns Free Speech and Demonizes Exercising It

Haroon S. Moghul,  Sharia Law Advocate and Enemy of Free Speech 
[From article]
The clearest indication that Haroon Moghul is a jihad terror-enabling charlatan is the fact that after jihadis attempt to commit mass murder at a free speech event, he doesn’t write a piece defending free speech and explaining why Muslims must accept it, or a piece condemning the Islamic jihadis and explaining why Islam’s death penalty for blasphemy must not be carried out in the modern age, or a piece calling for reform of the teachings and doctrines that Islamic jihadis use to justify violence and supremacism.
Oh, no. You will never see such from his august pen. What Haroon Moghul, fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, Fellow at the New America Foundation, perennial Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University, and an energetic purveyor of the spurious concept of “Islamophobia” (a propaganda term designed to intimidate people into fearing to resist jihad terror), serves up instead is yet another in today’s ever-growing pile of condemnations of Pamela Geller for daring to stand for the freedom of speech.
Moghul is desperately afraid that other Americans might realize that standing up for free speech against violent intimidation is a great idea, in the finest American tradition. That would interfere with the mainstream media’s push to get us all to silence ourselves and conform to Sharia blasphemy laws in order to save our skins. And so Moghul pens this vicious little screed in order to convince his easy marks at CNN that Pamela Geller is not really a defender of the freedom of speech but really a very bad person, and to stay on the reservation, not question the elites, and continue to allow for restrictions on the freedom of speech.
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Our quarrel is not with Muslims either as individuals or in the aggregate. It is with the elements of Islamic teaching that incite violence and hatred (including and especially Jew-hatred, which is particularly virulent in the Qur’an and Sunnah), deny the freedom of speech and the freedom of conscience, and that encourage oppression of women and non-Muslims. We’re also constantly told that Muslims in the U.S. reject all this. Fine. Then they should have no quarrel with our opposing those things.
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a Hamas video that ran on its official TV station, containing the words, “Killing Jews is worship that draws us close to Allah”

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/05/dont-be-fooled-by-haroon-moghul

Don’t be fooled by Haroon Moghul
MAY 5, 2015 5:33 PM

BY ROBERT SPENCER

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http://pamelageller.com/2015/05/dont-be-fooled-by-haroon-moghul.html/

Don’t be fooled by Haroon Moghul
ADVANCING ISLAMIC LIES

Third Boston Marathon Bomb Victim Identified

The third victim of the Boston marathon has been identified as Lü Lingzi, pictured, from Beijing, who was pursuing a graduate degree at BU in Mathematics and Statistics. Her devastated father said learning of his only child's death 'is like a dagger in our hearts'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2310289/L-Lingzi-Boston-bombing-victim-Chinese-graduate-23.html

'It is like a dagger in our hearts': Devastated father of killed Chinese graduate student, 23, speaks about pain of learning his only child was the third person killed in Boston terror attacks
Third victim of Boston marathon bombing named by her devastated father in China as 23-year-old Lü Lingzi
She was an only child whose parents were immensely proud she was able to study in America
The graduate student at Boston University, from Shenyang in north-east China, was at the race with two friends
Her social media accounts reveal her to be an enthusiast; a dog-loving foodie who enjoyed cooking and eating out
One friend, Zhou Danling, was badly injured in the attack - although she has reportedly regained consciousness
The other two fatalities are eight-year-old Martin Richard and 29-year-old restaurant manager Krystle Campbell
Series of candlelit vigils held throughout the city and beyond as hundreds of people honor the dead and injured
Investigators sift through 2,000 tips as FBI says Saudi 'person of interest' has been ruled out
Authorities say Boston commuters will be subject to random searches as transport chiefs help FBI investigation
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER and DANIEL BATES IN BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
PUBLISHED: 01:43 EST, 17 April 2013 | UPDATED: 13:40 EST, 17 April 2013

Diversity at Harvard

[Interesting Comments under this story]
Only problem with promoting diversity at Harvard is that it means uniformity and conformity at the world's "for-most" university.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/3/9/harvard-law-racism-election/

Racism Alleged in Harvard Law School Election
By HANA N. ROUSE and JUSTIN C. WORLAND
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
Published: Friday, March 09, 2012

Police Question Harvard Grad Student In Wife's Murder

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/cops_questioning_husband_source_jEWjkknlf9WZJgk307ueuN

Cops questioning husband after murder of his wife in NJ: source
By JOSH MARGOLIN
New York Post
Last Updated: 6:43 PM, August 18, 2011
Posted: 11:08 AM, August 18, 2011