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Established 1881 WEATHER, p. 2 MIT’s Oldest and TUE: 37°F | 26°F Largest Newspaper Wintry mix WED: 38°F | 25°F Breezy tech.mit.edu THU: 39°F | 26°F Chance of showers Established 1881 Volume 133, Number 13 Tuesday, March 19, 2013 Plans for releasing Swartz evidence MIT plans to make documents public, but with names redacted By Joanna Kao that MIT willEstablished release requested 1881 CONTRIBUTING EDITOR documents to the public, but with some redactions. It’s not clear that Aaron Swartz’s lawyers filed a MIT’s opinion will be final — the motion on Friday requesting that decision still rests with Judge Na- evidence used in Swartz’s trial thaniel M. Gorton of the Massa- be made publicly accessible, in- chusetts District Court, who was cluding many MIT documents. assigned to Swartz’s case. The motion requested in particu- Reif said that some of the docu- lar that the court not redact the ments contain information about names and official titles of all law vulnerabilities in MIT’s network enforcement personnel and em- and that he has the responsibility ployees of MIT and JSTOR who to “protect the privacy and safety appear in the evidence. of those members of our commu- nity who have become involved in INSIDE THE ISSUE this matter in the course of doing their jobs for MIT, and to ensure a See President L. Rafael Reif’s safe environmentEstablished for all of us who 1881 letter to the MIT community on call MIT home.” MELISSA RENÉE ScHUMACHER—THE TECH page 9. “Therefore — in the spirit Mark Antony (Zachary D. Tribbett ’13, left) leads a Roman citizen (Salvador Esparza ‘14, right) out of of openness, balanced with re- a crowd to see Julius Caesar’s (Christopher D. Smith ‘13) body up close in the MIT Shakespeare En- In a letter to the community sponsibility — we will release the semble’s performance of “Julius Caesar.” The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble, composed of MIT students and this morning (http://tech.mit.edu/ requested MIT documents, re- community members who work together long-term to produce Shakespeare shows, are performing the play V133/N13/reifletter.html, see page until March 23. 9), President L. Rafael Reif said Swartz, Page 9 UA VP candidate withdraws Body in Charles identified as Joe Gage Ticket removed & voting reset; other races unaffected A body found in the Charles River the Massachusetts State Police Twit- last Thursday was identified Friday as ter feed, a body was recovered around By Anne Cai ward,” wrote Kongoletos. “The undergraduate that of a 32-year-old South End man noon. EDITOR IN CHIEF population deserves the best effort from all elect- who went over the rail of the bridge on According to Suffolk County Press Establisheded officials. I believe 1881that I will be unable to de- Jan. 1. Although investigators did not Secretary Jake Wark, there is an ongo- This year’s Undergraduate Association Presi- vote the time that the MIT community deserves officially release the name, the man ing joint investigation by Suffolk and dential/Vice Presidential election took a surprise of the UA VP.” He continued to assure voters that had been previously identified as Joe Middlesex counties into the cause and turn late Sunday night, when UA VP candidate Hernandez was still running for UA president, Gage by a memorial on the bridge. manner of death, and there has thus far Johnathan Kongoletos ’14 emailed out to several and if he were to be elected, Kongoletos would Last Thursday morning, March 14, been no indication of foul play. dorm lists announcing his withdrawal from the “aid in the search” for a suitable vice president. state police officers and the state police Previous reporting on Gage can be UA VP candidacy at 11:21 p.m., under 10 hours However, as of 9:30 p.m. last night, the Her- marine unit responded to the report of found at http://tech.mit.edu/V132/ before online voting opened at 9 a.m. yesterday nandez/Kongoletos ticket was removed from the a dead body under the Harvard Bridge N61/gage.html. morning. At that time and throughout the day, ballot. The elections were reset for the UA P/VP near Memorial Drive. According to —Bruno B. F. Faviero both of the tickets — Sidhanth P. Rao ’14/Devin race, and “no votes from the first P/VP race will be T. Cornish ’14 and Cory D. Hernandez ’14/Johna- counted, so everyone must vote in this new race, than Kongoletos ’14, for UA P/VP — still appeared regardless of previous voting,” according to an on the ballot at vote.mit.edu. email sent to all undergraduates by UA Election “For those who know me well, they know that Commission Chair Laura D. Royden ’13. IAP Subcommittee report I am a person who always puts his best foot for- UA elections, Page 10 proposes minor changes Recommends leaving IAP mostly unchanged By Stan Gill an additional recommendation regard- NEWS EDITOR ing campus community during IAP. The committee does not recommend “One overarching message emerged that the length of IAP be changed in any from student and faculty feedback: ‘If way, citing that 91 percent of under- it’s not broken, don’t fix it,’” the report graduates reported being satisfied with reads. The IAP Subcommittee of the IAP according in a survey conducted Faculty Policy Committee has released by the subcommittee at the start of this its final report following a “thorough academic year. Aaron R. Weinberger, review of IAP and its evolution in the special assistant to the chancellor and last 40 years,” as stated in its charge. The member of the committee, also noted report contains 10 recommendations in that the survey revealed that 85 percent response to seven questions the com- mittee was asked to consider, as well as IAP, Page 11 Choose to Reuse this Thursday from 11 IN Short a.m. to 1 p.m. in Stata! 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CAMPUS LIFE, p. 8 2 The Tech Tuesday, March 19, 2013 Hillary Clinton endorses D same-sex marriage 11th-hour Cyprus bailout Saying that “gay rights are human rights,” Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former secretary of state and potential 2016 presi- dential candidate, has endorsed same-sex marriage. incites turmoil in Europe “I believe America is at its best when we champion the free- dom and dignity of every human being,” Clinton said in a video By James Kanter, control the damage of what Philip driving a hard bargain. WORL posted Monday on the Internet by the Human Rights Cam- Nicholas Kulish, Whyte at the Center for European A wild card in this instance paign, a gay rights advocacy group. Her announcement comes and Andrew Higgins Reform called a “completely ir- were the Russians, who have de- N as the Supreme Court is about to hear two landmark gay rights THE NEW YORK TIMES rational decision” to put bank de- posited billions in Cypriot banks, cases that advocates hope will make same-sex marriage legal positors on the hook for part of the extended a $3.25 billion line of in all 50 states. BRUSSELS — The plan to res- bailout. credit to Cyprus in 2011 and were in Clinton’s announcement represents a switch in position; cue the tiny European country of The deal flopped so badly that negotiations to help Cyprus again. as a presidential candidate in 2008, she explicitly opposed Cyprus, assembled in overnight finance ministers who came up Cypriot leaders apparently were same-sex marriage, saying that she favored civil unions but talks in Brussels, was itself the with it early Saturday were on the so concerned with keeping their that decisions about the legality of marriage should be left to product of European dysfunction phone Monday night talking about wealthy Russian customers happy ATIO the states. (Until last year, President Barack Obama took that and has left financial regulators, ways to revise it. Whatever the out- that they pushed their own citizens position as well; the president now favors a right to marriage German politicians, panicked Cy- come, the dispute provides a vivid to pay more than some of the lend- for gay couples.) priot leaders and a disgruntled demonstration of why Europe, ers were demanding. But Clinton did take steps to protect gay couples when she Kremlin thrashing out a bailout which until recently was congratu- The Russians reacted angrily to was secretary of state, work that she said “inspired me to think package that left virtually all the lating itself on having weathered a so-called stability tax on depos- anew” about the values she holds.