Nine Shift

MIT and the Death of Aaron Swartz

MIT lets hundreds of thousands of people take their online courses for free.
Then they threaten a young man with 35 years in prison for accessing research material free to any MIT student.

It is the clearest link between higher education and the persecution of millions of young men. Every year hundreds of thousands of smart young men are pushed out of college.
   Some, like Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Arnold and Aaron Swartz, are also harrassed and threatened along the way. Others are simply told they are not good enough for college. 

   Instead of banishing smart young men, colleges and universities should be admitting them and graduating them.  And what MIT did to Aaron Swartz is simply unacceptable. 

Historic Horrendous Week for STEM

It has been an historic and horrendous week for STEM.

Anonymous continued its protest over the death of Aaron Schwartz.
Then Congress proposed to bring in foreign students to fill STEM jobs.

The new act shows that Congress now prefers foreign boys over American born boys.
Congress still ignores the millions of smart boys here in the U.S. who want and can fill those STEM jobs,if only they were admitted to college based on their test scores and learning rather than on their neurology.

Instead of enforcing Title IX, Congress continues to look the other way when it comes to gender discrimination against males in school.

It does mark admission that females are not going into STEM, and are unlikely to go into STEM.
While America will continue to spend millions on pressuring girls to go into STEM,
H-1B visa records demonstrate that over 90% of the imported STEM workers in non-nursing fields will be male.

Bottom line: chaos with STEM. Still no solution.  Still no gender equity.