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When the lease is up and you've got no intention of leaving what's the next course of action? The landlord changes the locks on the door. That's precisely what happened to James Sherley, a stem-cell biologist at MIT, over the weekend. Sherley, who had embarked upon a hunger strike only to end it 12 days later, was locked out of his MIT laboratory as his appointment ended on June 30. He had planned on continuing...

MIT Professor James Sherley ended his 12 day hunger strike in mid-February, hoping that the attention he'd gained in the effort would bring some resolution to his quest to expose and eliminate systemic racism at the university. His faculty appointment ends on June 30 (the end of the fiscal year) and he's said that even though he doesn't have tenure he doesn't have any plans to leave. It's a different story for Frank Douglas, executive...

The intended hunger strike was announced at the end of the year last year, and executed in the early days of this month. It's over now. On February 16, 2007, professor James Sherley ended his hunger strike and protest outside of the offices of the MIT president and provost. According to the statement he issued I am ending this part of my struggle. Starting today, I will in fact break my fast, in celebration of...

You can't say the man doesn't deliver on a promise. MIT's Associate Professor of Biological Engineering James Sherley has started the hunger strike he announced before Christmas. He stated February 5 as the start date, and the Herald reports that he's begun his quest today. A hunger strike is an unhealthy way to take off some of the holiday pounds, soon we'll find out if it will be the fast way to tenure track at...

There's an unsettled feeling in Boston at the end of the semester. The undergrads start pouring out of the city when they turn in that last paper assignment or take the last test until they have to do it all again the next year. Professors and TA's are busy grading, trying to get their own work complete so they can find a break in the winter recess. Associate Professor of Biological Engineering James Sherley is looking to stir things up and dominate an otherwise quiet time in academia. He's vowed to avenge the injustice done to him when MIT denied him tenure, he'll protest using a tried and true method of non-violent protest: the hunger strike.