MIT Professor Halts Hunger Strike Over Tenure Denial, but His Demands Are ‘Still on the Table’

by E Wayne Ross on February 19, 2007

The Chronicle: MIT Professor Halts Hunger Strike Over Tenure Denial, but His Demands Are ‘Still on the Table’

Twelve days after he stopped eating to keep an earlier vow that he would “die defiantly” if his university did not grant him tenure, James L. Sherley, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, ended his hunger strike on Friday.