Student leader said he did it to show MIT administration ‘the tax they impose on marginalized communities’
Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s student government president has been removed from his position and faces a recall election due to his role in perpetrating two campus hate-crime hoaxes hanging posters and chalking slurs against LGBTQ people, Latinos and other “marginalized communities.”
Undergraduate Association President David Spicer helped hang the offensive posters and chalk the quad once in February and then again in mid-April during Campus Preview Weekend, infuriating his peers — even progressive ones who once championed him as a leader in campus diversity and inclusion.
Spicer has publicly admitted to — and defended — his role in the effort, arguing he did it to protest the university’s newly implemented wide-ranging policies in support of free speech.“My decision to participate in the postering campaign was not one made lightly. I decided to join in […]
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