Thomas Prebis
Medina,#2General Comment
Fri, March 22, 2013
A student at the lofty, vaunted, highfalutin Massachusetts Institute of Technology whom is careless enough to misspell such common terms like "available" and "papers?" To say NOTHING, mind you, of misspelling your own given name to close your diatribe...
It is indeed FAR more likely that you, 'Jerrrry,' are an agent of the international Zionist (Israeli) advocacy movement grasping at straws for any way you can find to discredit Noam, because his advocacy on the part of the Palestinian people has been a thorn in your side for the duration of the modern existence of your country (fifty-plus years)!!! -Tom
Jane
United States of America#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Sat, January 23, 2010
I used to work at MIT, and I must say, after reading this
blog I am not surprised, not even a bit. Chomsky would always hire all
these high school boys, who were in the 12th and 11th grade to work for
him as assistants. I and many other members of the faculty and staff
of MIT would always wonder why he would constantly surround himself with
all these young boys. We would also regularly witness him strolling with them
on that boardwalk on Memorial drive, alongside the Charles River.
Taisha
Illinois,#4Consumer Comment
Wed, November 18, 2009
Mariane, if you can find a way to link tha molestation with tha suicide, not only tha school and tha county, but also tha state can be in some deep s*t for this.
Mariane
USA#5Consumer Comment
Tue, October 27, 2009
Many years ago a friend of mine who attended MIT confided in me some traumatic events he suffered at the hands of Professor Noam Chomsky. He recanted how Chomsky would always want to spend time with him, and how he would always call him on the phone at his dorm (this was before cell phones existed). He would tell me of how Chomsky would always take him to his house and grope him and try to kiss him (it was no secret Chomsky's lust for boys, a lot of people knew about it). I remember in specific, of one traumatic experience he had with Chomsky, in which he refused to talk about, and he locked himself up in his room for 2 days. He swore me to secrecy, out of the fears that if this would be made public, he would risk loosing his scholarship.
He also suffered from depression before and after these events. A few years later he hung himself. Till this day I am convinced that those events were one of the factors which led to his suicide.
Vlad
Saint Paul,#6Consumer Comment
Mon, May 04, 2009
Thats disgusting that the day he was suppose to pay you your 300 dollar paycheck he tried to extort sexual favors from you. I actually know a girl that her boss also tried to do the same to her. You should file a complaint against him with the state.
Ellen
Los Angeles,#7Consumer Comment
Thu, April 30, 2009
I started university at age 17
Stacey
Dallas,#8Consumer Comment
Wed, April 29, 2009
A "pedophile" is someone who preys on children If you are indeed a student to MIT maybe you would know that but I suspect that you are not a student at MIT Prove this - did you file a report with campus security? A report with the Dean's office? or maybe Academic Affairs?? That is what I suspected Grow up
Monster
Toronto,#9Consumer Suggestion
Tue, April 28, 2009
There is absolutely nothing to verify that this actually occurred. I could pick a famous name out of a hat and file the exact same thing. To those who seem to buy the story, grow up and use some sense.
Michelle
New York,#10Consumer Suggestion
Tue, April 28, 2009
How can a sick individual like this, still be allowed to teach? He should be reported to the local school board of Massachussets, and his teaching license should be revoked.
Michelle
New York,#11Consumer Suggestion
Tue, April 28, 2009
How can a sick individual like this, still be allowed to teach? He should be reported to the local school board of Massachussets, and his teaching license should be revoked.
Michelle
New York,#12Consumer Suggestion
Tue, April 28, 2009
How can a sick individual like this, still be allowed to teach? He should be reported to the local school board of Massachussets, and his teaching license should be revoked.
Michelle
New York,#13Consumer Suggestion
Tue, April 28, 2009
How can a sick individual like this, still be allowed to teach? He should be reported to the local school board of Massachussets, and his teaching license should be revoked.
Linda
Austin,#14Consumer Suggestion
Sat, March 14, 2009
I am not buying it and believe this is a joke/hoax. An MIT student would have better grammar. Please be aware that you are opening yourself up to libel and slander if what is being posted is not true.
Joe
Austin,#15Consumer Comment
Tue, March 10, 2009
HIS NAME IS KEVIN MADISON AND HE HAS BEEN A CITY ATTORNEY AND ALL SORT OF DEFENSE CASES. YOU CAN FIND HIM ON YOUR OWN AND SEE IF HE CAN HELP YOU. IT MUST BE VERY TRAUMATIC TO HAVE THIS HAPPEN TO YOU FROM AN OLDER MAN WHO YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO ADMIRE AND RESPECT. THIS GUY IS SUPPOSED TO BE A WAY DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR TOO --SOMEWHAT OF A CELEBRITY. I WOULD BE SHOCKED EXCEPT YOU WOULD BE SURPRISED AT THE NUMBER OF CELEBRITIES WHO THINK THEY CAN JUST WIPE A ( EXPLETIVE DELETED) all over an ordinary person whom they perceive as powerless, a sipher, an absolute nothing. You need to talk with Kevin ASAP! if this even happened...
Joe
Austin,#16Consumer Comment
Tue, March 03, 2009
AND IT HAPPENS MORE THAN MOST PEOPLE REALIZE. THIS GUY HAPPENS TO BE FAMOUS, A BIG NAME LIBERAL ACADEMIC GIANT WITH A WORLDWIDE REPUTATION WHO THINKS HE IS G*D AND ALL OTHER PEOPLE ARE ONLY GOOD TO BE HIS PERSONAL SLAVE... I NEVER HEARD OF HIM BEING GAY THOUGH BUT STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED, i GUESS, HE PROBABLY HAS TENURE WHICH MEANS IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIRE HIM UNLESS FOR MORAL TURPITUDE. I AM NOT SURE IF BEING GAY AND ALLEGEDLY PROPOSITIONING A SAME-SEX STUDENT FOR SEX WHO IS OVER 18 CONSTITUTES MORAL TURPITUDE OR NOT. I DID DO SOME RESEARCH ON HIM THOUGH AND I USED WIKIPEDIA WHICH IS FAIR USE AND NOT COPYRIGHTED AND THIS IS WHAT I FOUND ABOUT HIM; Avram Noam Chomskyborn December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher,] cognitive scientist, political activist, author, and lecturer. He is an Institute Professor emeritus and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Chomsky is well known in the academic and scientific community as the father of modern linguistics. Since the 1960s, he has become known more widely as a political dissident, an anarchist, and a libertarian socialist intellectual. In the 1950s, Chomsky began developing his theory of generative grammar, which has undergone numerous revisions and has had a profound influence on linguistics. He also established the Chomsky hierarchy, a classification of formal languages in terms of their generative power. In 1959, Chomsky published a widely influential review of B. F. Skinner's theoretical book Verbal Behavior, which was the first attempt by a Radical Behaviorist to provide a functional, operant analysis of language. Chomsky used this review to broadly and aggressively challenge the behaviorist approaches to studies of behavior dominant at the time and contributed to the cognitive revolution in psychology. His naturalistic[approach to the study of language has affected the philosophy of language and mind. Randy Harris, author of The Linguistics Wars, has described him as: "a hero of Homeric proportions, belonging solidly in the pantheon of our country's finest minds, with all the powers and qualities thereof. First, foremost, and initially he is staggeringly smart. The speed, scope, and synthetic abilities of his intellect are legendary. He is, too, a born leader, able to marshal support, fierce and uncompromising support, for positions he develops or adopts. Often, it seems, he shapes linguistics by sheer force of will." Beginning with his opposition to the Vietnam War, Chomsky established himself as a prominent critic of US foreign and domestic policy. He is a self-declared adherent of libertarian socialism which he regards as "the proper and natural extension of classical liberalism into the era of advanced industrial society." According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar during the 198092 period, and was the eighth most-cited source. He is also considered a prominent cultural figure.At the same time, his status as a leading critic of US foreign policy has made him controversial. Chomsky was born to Jewish parents in the East Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of a Hebrew scholar and IWW member, William Chomsky (18961977), a native of Ukraine. His mother, Elsie Chomsky (ne Simonofsky), a native of what is present-day Belarus, grew up in the United States and, unlike her husband, spoke "ordinary New York English". Their first language was Yiddish, but Chomsky said it was "taboo" in his family to speak it. He describes his family as living in a sort of "Jewish ghetto", split into a "Yiddish side" and "Hebrew side", with his family aligning with the latter and bringing him up "immersed in Hebrew culture and literature". Chomsky also describes tensions he personally experienced with Irish Catholics and German Catholics and anti-semitism in the mid-1930s. He recalls German-American "Beer parties" celebrating the fall of Paris to the Nazis . In a discussion of the irony of his staying in the 1980s in a Jesuit House in Central America, Chomsky explained that during his childhood, "We were the only Jewish family around. I grew up with a visceral fear of Catholics. They're the people who beat you up on your way to school. So I knew when they came out of that building down the street, which was the Jesuit school, they were raving anti-Semites. So childhood memories took a long time to overcome." Chomsky remembers the first article he wrote was at age 10 while a student at Oak Lane Country Day School about the threat of the spread of fascism, following the fall of Barcelona in the Spanish Civil War. From the age of 12 or 13, he identified more fully with anarchist politics. A graduate of Central High School of Philadelphia, Chomsky began studying philosophy and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1945, taking classes with philosophers such as C. West Churchman and Nelson Goodman and linguist Zellig Harris. Harris's teaching included his discovery of transformations as a mathematical analysis of language structure (mappings from one subset to another in the set of sentences). Chomsky subsequently reinterpreted these as operations on the productions of a context-free grammar (derived from Post production systems). Harris's political views were instrumental in shaping those of Chomsky. Chomsky earned a BA in 1949 and an MA in 1951. HE WAS MARRIEd AT LEAST ONCE. they ahd two kids. NO WORD ON WHETHER OR NOT HE REMARRIED. In 1949, he married linguist Carol Schatz. They remained married for 59 years until her death from cancer in December 2008.[22] The couple had two daughters, Aviva (b. 1957) and Diane (b. 1960), and a son, Harry (b. 1967). Chomsky received his PhD in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955. He conducted part of his doctoral research during four years at Harvard University as a Harvard Junior Fellow. In his doctoral thesis, he began to develop some of his linguistic ideas, elaborating on them in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures, his best-known work in linguistics. Chomsky joined the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1955 and in 1961 was appointed full professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics (now the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy). From 1966 to 1976 he held the Ferrari P. Ward Professorship of Modern Languages and Linguistics, and in 1976 he was appointed Institute Professor. As of 2008, Chomsky has taught at MIT continuously for 53 years. In February 1967, Chomsky became one of the leading opponents of the Vietnam War with the publication of his essay, "The Responsibility of Intellectuals", in The New York Review of Books. This was followed by his 1969 book, American Power and the New Mandarins, a collection of essays which established him at the forefront of American dissent. His far-reaching criticisms of US foreign policy and the legitimacy of US power have made him a controversial figure: largely shunned by the mainstream media in the United States,[he is frequently sought out for his views by publications and news outlets worldwide. Chomsky has received death threats because of his criticisms of US foreign policy. He was also on a list of planned targets created by Theodore Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber; during the period that Kaczynski was at large, Chomsky had all of his mail checked for explosives.[He states that he often receives undercover police protection, in particular while on the MIT campus, although he does not agree with the police protection. Chomsky resides in Lexington, Massachusetts and travels often, giving lectures on politics. AND IRONY OF IRONIES, CHECK OUT WHAT HE HAS TO SAY IN HIS OWN WORDS: That there isn't much difference between slavery, and renting one's self to an owner, or "wage slavery." He feels that it is an attack on personal integrity that destroys and undermines our freedoms. He holds workers should own and control their own workplace. LIKE THE WORKPLACE YOU CLAIM HE PROVIDED FOR YOU. HOW OLD IS THIS DUDE ANYWAY? MAYBE HE HAS ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE OR IS IN THE BEGINNING STAGES OF DEMENTIA? HE IS NOT A PEDOPHILE AND I THINK YOU WILL HAVE A HARD TIME PROVING THAT HE IS GAY...I THINK MAYBE HE WAS JUST DOING THAT -- IF HE DID DO WHAT YOU SAY HE DID -- SO THAT YOU WOULD GET GROSSED OUT AND LEAVE AND HE WOULD NOT HAVE TO PAY YOU. IF You have proof that he hired you, like maybe an agreement on paper or a W-2 form or something, maybe you should go to the Federal Wages and Hour commission office near you and tell them that he did not pay you, And on the way, maybe they have an office in the same building, you need to file a complaint with the EEOC Equal Employment Opportunities Commission or whatever... Sounds like this guy has plenty of enemies who would do something about this!
Edgeman
Chico,#17Consumer Comment
Mon, March 02, 2009
You're opening yourself up to some potentially serious liability here. Not that I believe that this post is genuine, but the law is pretty clear on situations like this. By the way, nothing you described suggests pedophilia unless you're claiming that you're a minor who attends MIT full time.