FROM COMMON DREAMS: Sally Kornbluth, MIT’s president: “The institute’s mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students, and bring knowledge to bear on the world’s significant challenges. We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. MIT prides itself on rewarding merit and opening its doors to the most talented students, and we value free expression. These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they’re right, and we live by them because they support our mission—work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health, and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law.”  Read more here.