> In his email, Brain wrote that the school's head of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering later informed him the department would stop recommending students for Brain's Engineering Entrepreneurs Program. According to Brain's account, this led to disciplinary action against Brain for "unacceptable behavior."

This is a cowardly move by Srinath Ekkad.

The the article from the student paper is worth a read and includes information carefully removed in the Ars version, https://www.technicianonline.com/news/popular-nc-state-profe...

Please don't kill yourself when you have accidentally kicked a hornets nest of petty people in a bureaucracy.