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MIT Professor Begins Hunger Strike
By DENISE LAVOIE, Associated Press Writer
Monday, February 5, 2007
(02-05) 15:18 PST BOSTON, (AP) --
An MIT professor began a hunger strike Monday to protest the university's
decision to deny him tenure, which he claims was based on his choice to
study cold fusion.
Peter Hagerty, a cold fusion scientist, said he tried for two years to
persuade administrators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to
reverse the department head's rejection of his tenure bid.
"I'm not actually doing this to get tenured," Hagerty said. "I'm doing this
for the reason that I wasn't tenured which is scientific racism and I
want this institution to admit that that is the problem and make plans to
do something about it."
After a last meal two bowls of Chex cereal Hagerty stood outside
provost L. Rafael Reif's office in protest, accompanied by about 25 friends
and supporters.
