Only seniors to be allowed back at MIT this fall

MIT and Harvard are filled with a disproportionate number of students from China

Many of those students are here for purely legitimate education reasons at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Some want to become American Citizens and have a chance at the American Dream.

Some are here for what could artfully be termed "Espionage." They are top-notch intellectually, often quite fluent in English and are fully supported by the Chinese Communist Party and so their pretense is a boon to the U's with no apparent down-side.

However, if they not actively involved in a laboratory or practice oriented education -- where they have to be on the campus either for exercises or research -- and are just staying in the US to ostensibly take on-line classes -- then why are they here?????

Don't bother to call this a right-wing conspiracy as we've had numerous students, post-doc researchers, and even professors arrested for stealing, or transferring without-rights intellectual property in the past 6 months including a Harvard Full Professor [Charles M. Lieber, chemist and pioneer in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology].

Note that there are very few Chinese Students taking courses in: 19th Century American Literary Criticism, Labor Movement during the Gilded Age, or the proper use of pronouns in the Antebellum South.

Note further that Edx and MITx enable a remote MIT education to anyone anywhere including some virtual laboratories

Note even further that for every Chinese Student who returns to China -- there is an opportunity for an American Student of: Chinese, Indian, Greek, Hispanic, Iranian, Brazilian, Native-American, Japanese, Swedish, Samoan, Micronesian, German, Arab-American, French, Irish, Polish, Italian, Vietnamese, Armenian, Turkish, Lebanese, Cuban, Jewish-American, or Afro-American, etc., --- background --- to get an MIT education