MIT professor James L. Sherley says the school denied him tenure due to racism.

As some 30 students and colleagues gathered in support yesterday, an MIT professor began a hunger strike outside the university leaders' offices, saying the school has denied him tenure due to racism.

For nearly two years, James L. Sherley, a stem cell scientist, has asked senior administration to overturn his department head's decision not to put his name forward for tenure. The provost said the decision would stand.

Sherley, who is African-American, said he will stand outside the offices each day from 9 a.m. to noon until they grant him tenure, censure the provost, and initiate a process for addressing racism at the school. He said he would eat no solid food during the strike and would subsist on bottled water and vitamin supplements.

"One of the things we have to recognize in America is that when we are all free, we are all better off," said Sherley, 49.

Less than half of MIT's junior faculty members are granted tenure. After Sherley was initially denied tenure, his case was examined three times before the university established that neither racial discrimination nor conflict of interest affected the decision. Twenty-one of Sherley's colleagues issued a statement yesterday saying that the professor was treated fairly in tenure review.

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I think I can usually tell an intelligent Negro from an pretender. This guy looks stupid! It's possible that he may actually be correct in as far as his seniority should have bumped him up by now. It could also be true that it may be an open secret that he's an Affirmative Action clown.