MIT has been at the center of a media storm over its ties to sex offender Jeffery Epstein with visiting professor Richard Stallman resignation over comments about Epstein's victim the latest blow.
: “To the MIT Community, I am resigning effective immediately from my position in CSAIL at MIT. I am doing this due to pressure on MIT and me over a series of misunderstandings,” Stallman said. : Designer and MIT professor Neri Oxman apologized this week to her students for accepting a $125,000 donation from Epstein on behalf of her department.
Shethat she was instructed to keep the gift confidential “so as to not enhance his reputation by association with MIT.”: The MIT Media Lab has been racked by the revelations that it solicited cash from the disgraced financier and had sought to present his donations as coming from anonymous donors to duck the university’s ban on receiving money from Epstein.
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