US News MIT student awkwardly interrupts math lecture to call for walkout and lead ‘Free Palestine’ chant By Yaron Steinbuch Published Nov. 13, 2023, 11:58 a.m. ET ...

- A beloved math professor who pioneered lectures that gave millions of people free access to college classes has retired after 61 years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

A pro-Palestine student interrupted a mathematics lecture at MIT on Wednesday. The viral video of the incident shows the student standing up near the podium while a professor was giving a lecture.