(from left) Donald Trump, me, my then-husband John Johnson, the CBS anchorman, Ivana Trump
Before I tell you why I didn’t speak up, here’s a painfully relevant question from the 2019 vault:
Dear E. Jean:
Talking to classmates recently, I learned that "everyone knew" about a creepy male professor in the Mechanical Engineering department; and I was so glad when my daughter decided to go to school closer to home rather than follow my path to MIT. He still has an honored role at MIT and most of the young women he harmed are now older and probably, like me, won't give the school a dime since he's still there. I'm not sure if that is enough. Do you have any recommendations of action that might be fruitful? We spoke up at the time, but that was the 1990s —Something’s Still Rotten at MIT
Still, My Luv:
Not giving MIT money because a male professor did horrible things to female students is good. Writing a letter to the President of MIT, Dr. L. Rafael Reif and the Chancellor, Melissa Nobles and tel…
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