[bredren]

Not a great selling point for the CS department.

"Yes, we are banned from submitting patches to Linux due to past academic research and activities of our PhD students. However, we have a world-class program here."

[a-posteriori]

I would argue it should be "due to past academic research and activities of our PhD students and professors"

[threatofrain]

Stanford continues to employ the famous Philip Zimbardo, and is Stanford not one of the top universities for psychology in the US?

Getting banned from Linux contribution is an ouchy for the university, but the damage has been done.