In a break with the tradition established by MIT’s innumerate DEI-hire chancellor, this year’s MLK Day speaker didn’t harangue the world’s leading STEM university over its systemic racism. Nor were Hamas terrorists invited to get on stage and insist on the extermination of all Jews from the river to the sea.

Rather, former NFL linebacker cum TV producer and entrepreneur Spencer Paysinger gave an uplifting speech that the reverend Martin Luther King would have been proud of. “We can have different ideologies, we can come from different backgrounds, of race, socioeconomic backgrounds. … At the end of the day it comes back to the mindset we need to have. It’s rooted in community; it’s rooted in togetherness.”

Speculation was rife that this abrupt change in MLK Day festivities had something to do with the vibe shift sweeping the nation. Or maybe it was the assault on bloated university administrations feeding at the trough of “indirect” overhead rake-offs of federal scientific research grants. Or perhaps some concerns were raised about investigations into collegiate antisemitism.

Most MIT alums are hoping that President Sally Kornbluth finally grew a pair and told Chancellor Melissa Nobles to apply her skills to something besides embarrassing MIT by turning MLK day into an axe-grinding spectacle of divisiveness.

Regardless, the Beaver applauds all efforts to stamp out the excesses inflicted on his alma mater by the woke mind virus. Let the healing begin.

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