MIT took a lot of flak last week over the vile commencement speech served up by Hamasshole class president Megha Vemuri. What outsiders fail to understand is that the Undergraduate Association President at MIT has been a joke for at least half a century.
STEM students, like STEM faculty, don’t have time for politics. The curriculum is too rigorous, and the research work is all-consuming. As a result, a tiny vocal minority of misfit “student grease” has long dominated the Undergraduate Association (UA).
Take, for example, David Spicer, the self-identified “Latinx, immigrant, genderqueer, gay, disabled, low-income” Class of ‘23 President that the Beaver mocked in these pages two-and-a-half years ago. David capped his term as UA president by being booted out in a recall election after staging a postering fraud.
Or take a look at the entire roster of UA officers that helped trigger a congressional investigation.
The Beaver can recount similar tales from his student days half a century ago. Some things never change.
So don’t get too riled up by the antics of these class clowns. And maybe cut MIT President Spinless Sally Kornbluth a little slack for not calling them out. She had the presence of mind to ask known troublemaker Vemuri to submit her speech for approval before she was given the stage, but wasn’t sharp enough to have a technician standing by to cut off her microphone when she substituted her rant for the approved text.
Kornbluth has certainly had her hands full since the day she got handed a powder keg by disgraced prior president L. Rafael Reif, who put DEI on steroids after he got his hand caught in the Epstein cookie jar. Time will tell whether the gentle lady’s please-all/please-none approach to free the world’s leading STEM university from the grip of the Woke Mind Virus bears fruit.