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WEATHER, p. 2 FRI: 47°F | 57°F MIT’s Sunny Oldest and Largest SAT: 39°F | 55°F Newspaper Partly cloudy SUN: 42°F | 55°F Partly cloudy Volume 130, Number 49 tech.mit.edu Friday, October 29, 2010 UA rep to HDAG quits in frustration Trepman says that administrators are ‘just going through the motions’ By Natasha Plotkin not been taking students’ concerns EXECUTIVE EDITOR seriously. “I feel like the decision is made, Undergraduate Association din- and that the recent actions of the ad- ing committee chair Paula C. Trep- ministration were just to appear as if man ’13 resigned on Tuesday, criti- it cares about student opinion,” she cizing the House Dining Advisory said in the letter. (See page 12 for the Group’s “sense of paternalism” and full text of Trepman’s statement.) the “lack of general Trepman also complained about student input” into the group’s “paternalism.” Accord- RELATED YUANYU CHEN (LEFT), SAM RANGE (RIGHT)—THE TeCH new mandatory ing to Trepman, the members See the full For Halloween, hackers installed a giant black widow spider in Building 6-C on Thursday morning� Little house dining plan think “it is their job to regulate and spiders scattered along the Infinite and on the first floor of 6-C directed visitors to this spider’s hiding place� text of Tread- planned for fall ensure that students eat a normal man’s state- 2011. three meals every day. College stu- ment, p. 12 As dining com- dents are adults that can take care of mittee chair, Trep- themselves.” How to get wicked this weekend man was an non-voting member of Modi said he and Wyman would HDAG, the dining advisory group look to identify a replacement soon. composed of students, housemas- Until then, the UA will have no of- Need Halloween help? Here’s a guide to celebrating at MIT ters and administrators. She was ficial representation on HDAG. On By Ziwei Hao carry through the weekend. Here’s ner of Mass. Ave and Prospect St. also on the request for proposals Thursday night, Wyman sent an e- STAFF REPORTER how you can get the most out of opened right after Labor Day and committee that drafted the solicita- mail to UA senators explaining that Halloween on and around campus. will stay open until November 1 to tion to dining vendors to implement Trepman resigned “because she It’s that spooky time of the year supply MIT students with a selec- the new plan. was overwhelmed and under a lot of again for people to don costumes, Need a last minute costume? tion of prepackaged costumes, wigs, In a message Trepman wrote to pressure.” party-hop, gorge on candy, or watch Costume store iParty has opened makeup, and accessories. Costume UA President Vrajesh Modi ’11 and Trepman’s resignation follows a pumpkins fall from the Green Build- temporary Halloween shops in the choices range from the classic Grim Vice President Sammi G. Wyman wave of student outcry against the ing. This year, Halloween lands on a Boston and Cambridge areas that Reaper to risqué nurses. Most pre- ’11 on Thursday, Trepman said that Sunday, meaning festivities are pop- do not already have iParty stores. she thought the administration has Resignation, Page 12 ping up as early as Friday and will The Central Square store at the cor- Halloween, Page 13 State St. building 56 to 54 will be closed for IN SHORT Campus saw four the next two weeks for utility main- (former) N52 Analog Devices The Athena Cluster combina- tenance. tion is changing on Nov. 1: “He gave Windsor St. robberies last week me hope when hope was gone / The Anna’s stabber was arraigned, Front St. Smart St. He gave me strength to journey on.” on two charges Monday, see p. 12. Instructor and 2 grad students were ZP Shire Type tellme combo at the athena N42 Osbourne St. prompt. The Supreme Court considers the robbed, suspects said to have knives petition in Stanford v. Roche today; Massachusetts Ave. By Leo Zhou A free bike repair clinic is happen- we’ll here the result next week, p. 14. ing in the Student Center basement Four street robberies, possibly related, have been from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. today and to- The stem cell legal battle continues, Novartis Campus reported just north of campus in the past week, ac- morrow, sponsored by the Parking catch the latest on p. 12. Albany St. N9 cording to MIT Police. One incident involved an Office. “Minor repairs only,” they say. N10 MIT instructor, and two others involved graduate Send news information and tips to students. No one was injured. The basement passageway from [email protected]. DAVID M. TeMPleTON, OPENSTREETMAP CONTRIBUTOR S, CC-BY-SA Police believe that these four in- Novartis has leased the above four pink lots from MIT for at least sixty years; they are just across the RELATED cidents were committed by the same pair of black male suspects. The vic- street from Novartis’ existing sites at 186, 220, and See a map 250 Massachusetts Avenue. of the tims in three of the four robberies said robberies, that the robbers were brandishing Fires an ongoing vexation at p. 14 kitchen-type knives. No other weap- ons were mentioned. MacGregor and other dorms Novartis to build Two of the street robberies occurred on Friday, October 22, while the other two occurred on Tues- Housing director says new alarms may be too sensitive day, October 26. One suspect was described as $600M complex chubby, and the other as “tall with a thin build, and By Stan Gill MacGregor — have all had their dark skin.” The suspects are between 19 and 22 years STAFF REPORTER fire alarms go off this month. Will replace Analog Devices as old. Residents in MacGregor now Dan Riviello, a spokesman for the Cambridge Po- Wednesday night marked the count the number of days since MIT’s tenant at 181 Mass Ave. lice Department, said that the first incident occurred fourth time this month and the the last fire alarm through mark- on Friday in the area of Broadway and Norfolk second time within 10 days that ings on the east side windows of By John A. Hawkinson Streets; a male graduate student was robbed. Later the fire alarms in MacGregor the MacGregor high-rise. NeWS EDITOR that night, two male graduate students were robbed House have gone off, forcing resi- The most recent fire alarms on Albany Street. The two incidents occurred be- dents to evacuate the building. occurred in Baker on Wednesday Novartis and MIT announced Wednesday that tween 7:45 p.m. and 8:20 p.m. The reason, according to MIT’s di- morning, twice within 20 minutes MIT has leased four parcels of land just north of Riviello said that the incident involving the MIT rector of housing, is that the build- of each other. The House Manager the MIT campus to Novartis. Novartis will increase instructor occurred in the 700 block of Main Street ing’s new fire alarm system is too of Baker, Jonathan F. Nolan ex- its space by at least 400,000 square feet, and invest (near the 7-Eleven store) on Tuesday at 9:55 p.m. The sensitive. plains that “It was just unfortunate $600 million for construction of laboratory and office other incident that night occurred between 200–300 Completely separate from the they came within 20 minutes of space, as well as ground floor retail space. Mass Ave (near Zeta Psi) at 10:10 p.m. alarm-pulling incident on the east each other early in the morning.” The four land parcels are: MIT Building N42, at Despite these recent incidents, Cambridge police side of campus last week, the West Both fires were legitimate, the 211 Massachusetts Avenue, which is used by Infor- said in a September report that they have seen a ma- Campus dorms have had their fair first triggered by “an issue in the mation Services and Technology (IS&T) Helpdesk; jor decline in street robberies in 2010. They report share of fire alarms as well. Three freight elevator machine room” out of the six dorms on dorm Novartis, Page 13 Four robberies, Page 14 row — McCormick, Baker, and Fire alarms, Page 14 MIT AND CITY AT WHY TEAL WORKS MIT SHAKESPEARE HOMEY CUISINE, SECTIONS ODDS OVER LAND TEAL clearly helps students learn physics� ENSemble’S KING BUT STILL HAUTE World & Nation � � �2 Why don’t students like it? OPN, p. 5 Opinion � � � � � � � � �4 City councilman Reeves LEAR IS THRILLING At Jacky’s Table, you get Arts � � � � � � � � � � � �7 writes a scathing letter to LOOK TO THE LATINO VOTE The swordfights, betrayal exquisite french food Fun Pages � � � � � � 10 MIT over his frustration and maiming make this in a cozy setting� It’s Sports � � � � � � � � �16 The Latino community has really come at how MIT manages its production worth watching� family-style, minus the into its own this election cycle� OPN, p. 5 real estate� OPN, p. 6 CL, p. 8 gimmicks� ARTS, p. 9 2 The Tech Friday, October 29, 2010 Two new DNA tests are aimed D at reducing colon cancer Companies aware of cement Two new DNA-based tests, one of them described at a meet- ing in Philadelphia on Thursday, hold the promise of detecting flaws before oil blast, report says early — and sharply reducing — colon cancer, a disease that afflicts 150,000 people a year in the United States and costs an estimated $14 billion to treat. 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