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What the firing of a legendary yet difficult organic chemistry professor says of America’s ‘meritocracy’

Organic chemistry is hard. Anyone who’s ever made it through a premedical curriculum, or perhaps more importantly, did not, can tell you that. But apparently 82 students who signed a petition against their legendary organic chemistry professor hadn’t heard. Neither had the administration at New York University who dismissed their professor, Dr. Maitland Jones Jr., […]

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