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PDF of This Issue DroP CLasses weDnesDAY, then Feast THUrsDAY! WEATHER, p. 2 MIT’s Oldest and TUE: 49°F | 32°F Largest Newspaper Sunny WED: 52°F | 42°F Wind and rain tech.mit.edu THU: 50°F | 33°F Sunny Established 1881 Volume 131, Number 54 Tuesday, November 22, 2011 Stephanie Lin wins Rhodes Committee gathers community Senior will study medical anthropology at Oxford feedback on Orientation, again This past Monday, the Review Committee on Orientation, which was By Derek Chang formed in March to examine and re-evaluate MIT’s orientation, held its ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR second forum this semester to “put its ears to the ground” and gather community feedback on the pros and cons of various components of Stephanie Lin ’12 was recognized orientation. All the efforts of this committee would go into modifying this week as MIT’s newest Rhode Schol- the orientation two years from now, which would likely be “tweaked” ar. She will be studying at Oxford next rather than “overhauled,” said committee chair Merritt R. Smith, with year along with 32 other American re- next year’s orientation remaining unchanged. The meeting included a cipients who received the honor. Lin is the 45th MIT undergraduate to receive Orientation, Page 10 the Rhodes Scholarship. “I was extremely surprised when I got the news,” said Lin, a biology ma- jor and applied international studies minor. “The other applicants are all so MIT, Pfizer break highly accomplished — I feel very lucky to have received the scholarship.” Lin will be spending her year at Ox- ford to pursue an MPhil in medical an- ground on 610 Main thropology. “I’m interested in studying viruses and infectious diseases, espe- Speakers laud center’s significance cially when they are applied to issues in international medicine,” she said. By Adisa Kruayatidee that researchers can walk between According to Lin, one of her inspira- STAFF REPORTER both “without wearing a jacket in tions to purse medicine was the work winter,” said Rod McKenzie, head that she did at Health Leads Boston, a Monday morning, MIT and of Pfizer PharmaTherapeutics R&D. patient advocacy program that works pharmaceutical giant Pfizer cel- “It wasn’t enough to have a Cam- to improve the health of individual ebrated the official groundbreaking bridge zip code; we wanted to be children and families. There, she vol- of a new research center right next right here.” unteered in hospital waiting rooms and to campus. MIT President Susan J. In September, Pfizer announced referred patients to resources like food Hockfield opened the ceremony, it had signed a 10-year lease with stamps. “My work in Health Leads has whose speakers included Massa- MIT for 180,000 square feet of space introduced me to the social, human chusetts Governor Deval Patrick in a building to be constructed at side of medicine, and I especially enjoy and Pfizer President of Worldwide 610 Main St. The project is managed the blend of scientific and social issues Research and Development Mikael by the MIT Investment Manage- involved in medicine,” Lin said. Dolsten. With a mighty heave — lit- ment Company. Lin has been involved in the MIT erally — they and other participants One of the recurring themes community ever since she arrived on shoveled dirt and took the first step at the ceremony was the idea of campus. She was first interested in toward what Hockfield described as research collaboration. The com- pursuing chemistry, but after taking in- “the best way to support innovation pany deliberately chose to move to troductory biology, she was convinced in Cambridge.” Cambridge to foster relationships that biology was the right major for her. Located at 610 Main St. — an and discussion between MIT’s sci- The activities that Lin has partici- JOSEPH MAURER—THE TECH MIT-owned property — Pfizer will entists and their own drug delivery Stephanie Lin ’12 won a Rhodes scholarship to study medical an- be close enough to MIT’s Brain Rhodes, Page 11 thropology at Oxford University next year. She is majoring in biology. and Cognitive Sciences complex Groundbreaking, Page 10 Occupy UC digs heels in I fold! Students protest tuition & police action By Jennifer Medina But this year, propelled in part by the THE NEW YORK TimES fervor of the Occupy Wall Street move- ment and in part by the state of the LOS ANGELES — It has become economy and California’s mountainous something of an annual tradition on budget woes, the battle is sharpening. California college campuses, in what is Indeed, the Occupy movement — on perhaps the most prestigious state uni- campuses, at least — is transforming versity system in the country: the state itself into a student-led crusade against makes large cuts in public universities, increases in tuition. they in turn raise tuition, and students respond with angry protests. Protests, Page 11 needy children with gifts during the IN Short holiday season. Last warning: drop date is this Wednesday. Go drop the classes Yesterday, Bloomberg Business- you said you were going to drop two Week ranked MIT’s undergraduate weeks ago. business program as the ninth best in the nation! The Tech will not be publishing this coming Friday due to Thanksgiving Campus Activities Complex (CAC) break. Our staffers need a break and room reservation for the 2012-2013 massive amounts of tryptophan. academic year opens next Monday at 9 a.m. Reserve the rooms while Do some good in this world. Par- MELissA RENEE SHUMACHER—THE TECH they’re fresh. For more information, Michelle Fung ’13 shows students how to fold a pentagonal rose during OrigaMIT’s first origami ticipate to the MIT Public Service’s visit http://studentlife.mit.edu/cac. Giving Tree program, which provides conference on Saturday. A taLE OF two at The enD OF the worLD OVerhear traDition anD SECTIONS World & Nation . .2 Melancholia is weird … pretty weird. TURKEYS soMethinG FUnnY? MODernitY Opinion . .4 ARTS, p. 7 Meet turkey A and Sometimes Engineers say Old and new, West and Fun Pages . .5 turkey B. They’ve got 21W @ MIT the darndest things. East meet in Arts . .7 interesting stories to tell. CAMPUS LIFE, p. 9 photography exhibit. Campus Life . .9 CAMPUS LIFE, p. 9 Life as a writing major at MIT. ARTS, p. 7 Sports . .12 CAMPUS LIFE, p. 9 2 The Tech Tuesday, November 22, 2011 China bends to solar complaint D by US but plans retaliation Obama sidestepped the HONG KONG — Solar panel makers in China plan to shift some of their production to South Korea, Taiwan and the United States in hopes of defusing a trade case pend- deficit committee debacle ing against them in Washington, according to industry executives. By Jackie Calmes ous threat to the country’s future, The White House rejects such WORL But at the same time, the Chinese industry is considering THE NEW YORK TIMES the mounting federal debt. And if criticism, even as the president retaliating by filing a trade case of its own with China’s Com- Washington’s dysfunction extends and his advisers have long expect- N merce Ministry. WASHINGTON — In remain- to next November, voters show ev- ed it. But the risk to his leadership The most likely target would be U.S. exports to China of ing aloof from the special deficit ery sign of taking out their wrath image was one they decided to polysilicon — a prime ingredient in solar panels — Chinese committee in Congress even as it on everyone involved — not least take back in August, after Obama’s industry executives and officials said Monday. U.S. manufac- collapsed on Monday, President the occupant of the White House. prolonged summer fight with con- turers last year exported about $873 million of polysilicon to Barack Obama showed his calcu- Republicans wasted no time gressional Republicans over rais- China last year, nearly as much in dollar terms as the value lation more clearly than ever be- trying to fan the idea of a leader- ing the nation’s debt limit had de- of the solar panels that China shipped to the United States. fore: Republicans will never agree ship deficit in the White House, pressed his approval ratings to the ATIO The Chinese moves come after the United States Com- to raise taxes on the wealthy to even before the deficit commit- lowest point of his presidency. The merce Department opened a trade case against China’s solar balance any spending cuts, so let tee made its failure official on bigger risk, the advisers believed, panel makers earlier this month, at the request of seven U.S. the voters decide. Monday. would be to once again get in the solar companies. Congress still could reach a bi- “He’s done nothing,” said Mitt budget weeds with lawmakers and —Keith Bradsher, The New York Times partisan compromise in the next Romney, the former Massachu- again come up empty-handed. month, or next year, to avoid the setts governor who is seen by the “A president’s job is to lay out France, Sarkozy look vulnerable threat of automatic spending cuts, Obama circle as the candidate a plan and then rally the country especially in military programs, in most likely to be the Republican to that plan,” said Dan Pfeiffer, the & N as euro crisis persists 2013. But the president is figuring presidential nominee. “It’s anoth- White House communications di- that Congress will not, and he will er example of failed leadership.” rector. “This president has done PARIS — With the humiliating defeat on Sunday of the So- campaign by contrasting what he But Republicans were not exactly that. cialists in Spain, the two-year euro crisis has already toppled calls his “balanced” approach to alone in attacking.
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