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2 weeks agoChatsworth High's Grant Wang hits the MIT jackpot
Grant Wang, a senior volleyball player, received acceptance to MIT during a tournament, leading to an emotional celebration with his teammates.
They contended that, in the aftermath of the October 7 Hamas assault, MIT fostered a climate of hostility toward Jewish and Israeli members of its community; the complaint outlined several alleged antisemitic incidents directed at Alon, Sussman, and other Jewish students and faculty. Open-source records suggest that the campaign against MIT and its president, Sally Kornbluth, is probably being orchestrated by billionaire Paul E. Singer, a major funder of neoconservative organizations and media efforts to combat the purported pandemic of campus-based antisemitism.
MIT police are investigating numerous instances of hateful speech and images around campus, President Sally Kornbluth said in a letter to the MIT community Friday. Kornbluth said the incidents - two hand-drawn swastikas, a sign wishing violence on a conservative non-profit, and cases of graffiti and an email list of "messages celebrating violence" - do not seem to be connected.
Trump claimed that his uncle John Trump, a professor at MIT, had Theodore Kaczynski as a student, stating, 'Kaczynski was one of his students.' This assertion is factually incorrect as Kaczynski did not attend MIT at all, highlighting a significant flaw in Trump's statement.