President Reif Writes to MIT Community Regarding Aaron Swartz

by Gary Kopycinski on January 14, 2013

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BOSTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 13, 2013. At 4:15 p.m. today, MIT President L. Rafael Reif emailed the following message to the MIT community.

To the members of the MIT community:

Yesterday we received the shocking and terrible news that on Friday in New York, Aaron Swartz, a gifted young man well known and admired by many in the MIT community, took his own life. With this tragedy, his family and his friends suffered an inexpressible loss, and…