[vintnes]

According to the "Hypocrite Commits" paper by Qiushi Wu, UMN specifically approved this research, granting IRB exemption.

https://github.com/QiushiWu/QiushiWu.github.io/blob/main/pap...

See section VI-A (page 8).

[detaro]

That doesn't conflict with the statement. If the IRB looks at something and exempts it, it has no reason to report that to the hierarchy in any way, because that's a routine process.