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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
1. Informed consent
Given when pt with mental illness needs
any surgery or ECT,
◦ Will obtain from
Patient himself or herself
Relative or guardian
2 psychiatrists
Include :
◦ Diagnosis
◦ Identification of procedures
◦ Risks expected
◦ Any alternative procedures
◦ Offer to answer any inquiries
◦ Can discontinue without prejudice
◦ Prognosis
2. Duty to inform patient or relatives
◦ About which provision of the Mental Act
2001 to be detained
◦ The effect of the provision
◦ What rights to refuse treatment
Exceptions to rules of informed consent
◦ Emergency
Require immediate intervention
to prevent death or serious harm to pt or other ppl
to prevent deterioration of pt’s clinical state
◦ Therapeutic privilege
Info from psychiatrist that may harm the pt or be
an antitherapeutic
3. Child custody
The action of a court in a child-custody
dispute is predicated on the child’s
interests.
However, the courts presume that the
welfare of a child of tender years generally
best served by maternal custody.
Task of psychiatrist is to provide expert
opinion and supporting data
Mental disability parent can cz transfer of
custody to another parent or agency
Will terminate parent’s right if chronic
4. Testamentary and contractual
capacity and competence
Mental competence
◦ Ability to perform certain function for particular
legal purpose
Contracts
◦ Contractual capacity
Wills
◦ Testator know
Nature of act
Nature and extent of property
Heirs, relatives’ claims on patient
Marriage
5. Testamentary and contractual
capacity and competence
Guardianships
◦ Whether can manage affairs or not
Durable power of attorney
◦ To permit patient
Make provisions for their anticipated loss of
decision-making capacity
Advance selection of substitute decision maker
Competence to inform
◦ Risks and benefits of withholding information
about suicidal or homicidal intent
6. Worker’s compensation
A psychiatrist is often called to do evaluation.
The stresses of employment can cause/
accentuate mental illness.
Pts are entitles to be compensated
◦ for their job-related disabilities
◦ to receive disability retirement benefits.
7. Criminal law
Competence to stand trial
◦ a test of competence that seeks to
ascertain whether a criminal defendant
“has sufficient present ability to consult with
his lawyer with a reasonable degree of
rational understanding & whether he has a
rational as well as factual understanding of
the proceedings against him”.
◦ Criteria
Whether understand charges against him or her
Whether can assist in his or her defense
8. Criminal law
Competence to be executed
◦ Requirements based on 3 general
principles
Aware of what is happening is supposed to get
punished
Competent person believed that peace is
appropriate for religious beliefs (including
confession and absolution)
Competent person recall a forgotten detail of
event or crime proven exonerating
9. Criminal law
Criminal responsibility
◦ Criteria whether at the time of act due to
mental disorder, defendant
Did not know what is doing or the action is
wrong (cognitive test)
Could not confirm the conduct to requirements
of law (volitional test)
10. Criminal law
Criminal responsibility
◦ M’Naghten rule (right-wrong test)
This rule holds that persons are not guilty by reason of
insanity if they labored under a mental disease such that
they were unaware of the nature, the quality, the
consequences of their acts.
◦ Irresistible impulse
Person charged with an offense is not responsible for an
act, if the act was committed under an impulse that the
person was unable to resist because of mental disease.
◦ Model Penal Code
Persons are not responsible for criminal conduct if, at the
time of such conduct, as a result of mental disease/defect,
they lacked substantial capacity either to appreciate the
criminality (wrongfulness) of their conduct/ to conform their
conduct to the requirement of the law.
◦ Durham Rule
The accused is not criminally responsible if the unlawful act
was the product of mental illness or mental defect.
11. Guilty but mentally ill:
1. This verdict is available to the jury if the
defendant pleads not guilty by reason of
insanity.
2. 4 possible outcomes:
-not guilty
-not guilty by reason of insanity
-guilty but mentally ill*
-guilty
* The convicted person is still sentenced but
he should receive psychiatric tx at the same
time.
12. According to CPC
Medical Director shall prepare a medical report and it
will be given to the courts as requested in the order
(without consent of the patient)(usually routinely)
Admit patient if required
Treatment given should be multimodal and may
include pharmacotherapy and psychosocial therapies.
Management should comprise comprehensive
assessment and treated through a multidisciplinary
team approach wherever possible
13. •If there is significant evidence to establish that a
defendant or suspect has a significant mental
illness, a prosecution may not be appropriate
unless the offence is serious or there is a real
possibility that it may be repeated.
•The procedure has two stages:
- Whether the offender is under a disability i.e.
whether he is unfit to plead (section 4
Criminal
Procedure (Insanity( Act 1964);
- Whether he did the act or made the omission
charged against him (Section 4A of the
above
act)
14. Civil Liability
1. Psychiatrists who sexually exploit their pts are
subject to civil & criminal actions
2. Legal & ethical consequences of sexual
exploitation:
- Civil lawsuit ( negligence, loss of consortium)
- Breach-of-contract action
- Criminal sanctions (e.g statutory, adultery,
sexual assault)
- Civil action for intentional tort (e.g battery, fraud)
- License revocation
- Ethical sanctions
- Dismissal from professional organizations
15. references
Kaplan & Sadock’s Synopsis of
psychiatry 10th edition
Mental Health Commission,
2009. Code of practice on the use of
physical restraint in approved centres.
Mental Health Commission.
Editor's Notes
Consent form : written document outlining pt’s consent to certain procedure or treatment plan
For conventional treatment, no consent is needed.
Cognitive tests are assessments of the cognitive capabilities of humans and other animals. Tests administered to humans include various forms of IQ tests
volitional insanity, or Irresistible Impulse. A defense of irresistible impulse asserts that the defendant, although able to distinguish right from wrong at the time of the act, suffered from a mental disease or defect that made him or her incapable of controlling her or his actions.