https://orgchart.mit.edu/node/6/letters_to_community/importa...
Edit: and for what it's worth, I think many people here are too easily stirred into a frenzy based on astonishingly little information about this incident.
This wouldn't have happened at University of Chicago.
Not all of these schools have a perfect history of supporting free expression, but this is a big positive indicator.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
How often is the community broadly consulted on MIT climate science lecturers ?
"Its not a campus cancellation, this was off campus aaaand this Professor is actually still invited and now to an on campus event!"
uhhh ok.
My takeaway is that there is some silver lining here that communication was done between parties instead of a unilateral kneejerk cancellation. But they should have still ignored detractors and held that "off campus" outreach event. Let the detractors embarrass themselves when trying to interrupt the Professor's speech or ask irrelevant questions at the end.