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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

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(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. By John M. Broder tions about it,” Bartlit said in his re- cascade of events as oil and gas ex- worl The new tests could help most people avoid colonoscopies, The New York Times port. ploded upward from the 18,000-foot- which are routinely prescribed for people over 50. Instead of Another Halliburton cement test, deep well. The blowout preventer, screening the entire population, doctors could instead refer WASHINGTON — Halliburton carried out about a week before the which sits on the ocean floor atop

n people for a colonoscopy only if they had tested positive in one officials knew weeks before the fatal blowout of the well on April 20, also a well and is supposed to contain a of the DNA tests. explosion of the BP well in the Gulf of found the mixture to be unstable, well bore breach, also failed. Unlike a colonoscopy, in which a seeing tube is threaded Mexico that the cement mixture they meaning it was unlikely to set prop- In an internal investigation, BP up the colon, the DNA tests are noninvasive, so more people planned to use to seal the bottom of erly in the well, but those findings identified the faulty cement job as would take them. Both tests could be brought to market within the well was unstable but still went were never sent to BP, Bartlit found one of the main factors contributing two years. ahead with the job, the presidential after reviewing previously undis- to the accident and blamed Halli- One of the tests, developed by Exact Sciences, of Madison, commission investigating the acci- closed documents. burton, the cementing contractor on

a tWis., i o looks in stool samples for the presence of four altered dent said Thursday. Although Bartlit did not specifi- the Macondo well, as the responsible genes that are diagnostic of colon cancer. The test could catch In the first official finding of re- cally identify the cement failure as party. Halliburton has said repeat- cancerous and precancerous tumors at an early stage, when sponsibility for the blowout, which the sole or even primary cause of the edly in public testimony that it tested they are curable, and allow doctors to remove them promptly. killed 11 workers and led to the big- blowout, he made clear in his letter and used a proper cement formula The other test looks in blood for changes in a single gene, gest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, that if the cement had done its job and that BP’s flawed well design and called Septin 9, which is not in the Exact Sciences’ panel of the commission staff determined and kept the highly pressurized oil poor operations caused the disaster. four genes. The test has been developed by Epigenomics AG, that Halliburton had conducted and gas out of the well bore, there Jesse Gagliano, a Halliburton in Germany. three laboratory tests that indicated would have been no accident. technical adviser, told federal inves-

& N & —Nicholas Wade, The New York Times that the cement mixture did not meet “We have known for some time tigators in Houston in August that the industry standards. that the cement used to secure the company was confident in the ce- The result of at least one of those production casing and isolate the ment job and said that BP’s decision tests was given March 8 to BP, which hydrocarbon zone at the bottom of to use six well-stabilizing devices A Sunday Halloween failed to act upon it, the panel’s lead the Macondo well must have failed known as centralizers contributed to investigator, Fred H. Bartlit Jr., said in in some manner,” he said in his letter the failure of the cement work. is tricky business a letter delivered to the commission- to the seven members of the presi- Another Halliburton official, The date of Halloween has always been one of the easy ones ers Thursday. dential commission. “The cement Thomas Roth, told a National Acad-

o rto l remember: d Oct. 31, plain and simple. No first Tuesday-after- “There is no indication that Hal- should have prevented hydrocar- emy of Engineering panel last month the-first-Monday-of-November nonsense (that’s Election Day), liburton highlighted to BP the sig- bons from entering the well.” that Halliburton’s cement met indus- no fourth-Thursday-in-November (Thanksgiving), no second- nificance of the foam stability data or The failure of the cement set off try standards and had been success- Monday-in-October (if you don’t know, ask a Canadian). Just that BP personnel raised any ques- a complex and ultimately deadly fully used at over 1,000 other wells.

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But this Sunday, Oct. 31, matters are not quite so simple. Across the country, people are monkeying with the optimal day to dress up. In some cities, residents have decided to celebrate Halloween on Saturday to preserve the purity of the Christian Libraries replacing hard-cover Sabbath, while others would rather not choose between Hal- loween and college football. There is even a vote for Monday. Officials in Chatham County, Ga., which includes Savannah, also invoked a third reason — the desire to move Halloween off books with digital technology a school night — when they asked residents to trick or treat on Saturday this year. By Tom McGhee the cost of library acquisitions, said nology Library says it has no bound —Mark Oppenheimer and Kim Severson, The New York Times The Denver Post Penrose’s collections librarian Mi- books at all, according to the website chael Levine-Clark. Inside Higher Ed. DENVER — A digital revolution is Nearly 40 percent of the 126,953 Public libraries also have begun under way at the University of Den- hard-copy books purchased for Pen- to invest in their digital collections. China said to resume rare ver’s Penrose Library, where a $30 rose between 2000 and 2004 have “Our physical collection has not million renovation will cut the num- gone unused. The library can rent e- gone down because of digital media, earth shipments ber of bound books and journals and books and purchase them after they but we are collecting digital media as BAOTOU, China — The Chinese government Thursday push the remainder into the base- are checked out four times, rather a format because our customers are abruptly ended its unannounced export embargo on crucial ment to create space more friendly to than buy a volume that might never asking for it,” said Diane Lapierre, a rare earth minerals to the United States, Europe and Japan, four tech-savvy students. be used. Denver Public Library spokeswom- industry officials said. “The renovation will change the “This is all about service,” Levine- an. “We are buying both.” The embargo, which has raised trade tensions, ended as it building’s functionality from book- Clark said. “We can give them wider The digitization at the Univer- had begun — with no official acknowledgment from Beijing or storage space to technology-rich access to what they really want, in- sity of Denver is ongoing, but won’t any explanation from customs agents at China’s ports. people space,” university Chancellor stead of guessing at the possible eliminate print products, said library Rare earths are increasingly in demand for their use in a Robert Coombe said. need.” director Nancy Allen. “We are like broad range of sophisticated electronics, from smart phones to Like most libraries, Penrose has Other university libraries are do- every library. We are doing a lot to smart bombs. been increasing the digital content ing the same thing: removing hard- bring the world of digital books to Having blocked shipments of raw rare earth minerals to Ja- offered in its catalog. Today, the li- copy books from selves and replac- our students and faculty, but that pan since mid-September, and to the United States and Europe brary’s customers have access to 1.7 ing them with digital media. doesn’t mean we abandon our paper since early last week, Chinese customs agents Thursday morn- million digital links — 686,442 of Stanford University, the Massa- collection.” ing allowed shipments to resume to all three destinations, the which lead to electronic books that chusetts Institute of Technology and About 140,000 of the 1.1 million industry officials said. They spoke only on condition of ano- can be checked out to computers or others are reducing their book col- books now on the shelves will go into nymity because of the business and diplomatic sensitivity of readers, such as the iPad, Kindle or lections — in some cases drastically. storage, along with another 1 million the issue. Nook. The University of Texas at San Anto- or so bound scholarly journals, doc- —Keith Bradsher, The New York Times E-books have helped to reduce nio’s Applied Engineering and Tech- uments and other materials.

Weather 130°W 125°W 120°W 115°W 110°W 105°W 100°W 95°W 90°W 85°W 80°W 75°W 70°W 65°W 60°W Halloween gives MIT a 40°N chi-i-i-i-illing weekend By Vince Agard damage, and even snow to STAFF METEorologist the midwest earlier this week. 35°N 1012 While our area will not expe- Going out for Halloween rience such extreme weather, festivities this weekend? Bring the result of the frontal passage a jacket, as temperatures will will be a sharp contrast from dip into the low 40s (°F) each yesterday’s balmy, 75-degree 30°N night. day to crisp, cool, and breezy The recent pattern of un- conditions today. 1024 usually warm temperatures While temperatures will be will come to an end this week- noticeably lower this week- end, as a cold front will cause end, there is little chance for temperatures to drop sharply precipitation, as sunshine will 25°N

to more seasonable levels. The be present for at least part of 1029 cold front is part of the large each day, and daytime tem- cyclonic storm system that peratures will remain in the brought severe weather, wind mid 50s (°F).

Extended Forecast Today: Mostly sunny and breezy, high 57°F (14°C) Winds Situation for Noon Eastern Time, Friday, October 29, 2010 W at 10-15 mph. Weather Systems Weather Fronts Precipitation Symbols Other Symbols Tonight: Mostly clear, low 39°F (4°C). Winds WNW at 8-14 Snow Rain Fog High Pressure Trough mph. - - - Showers Thunderstorm

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Q Meteorology Staff L L Stationary Front Heavy Monday: Partly cloudy with highs in the low 50s °F (11°C). and The Tech nation world & nation world & nation world & nation & world nation & world nation & world nation Friday, October 29, 2010 The Tech 3 Verizon deal ends inquiry over WORLD & Nati on WORLD & Nati on WORLD & Nati on WORLD & Nati on WORLD & Nati on W Schumer readies possible unauthorized data fees WASHINGTON — Verizon Wireless, the nation’s largest mobile leadership bid if Reid defeated phone carrier, will pay $25 million to end an investigation into com- plaints that it had charged 15 million cell phone customers unau- thorized data fees over the last three years, the Federal Communi- By Raymond Hernandez “Senator Leahy takes no elec- The situation for Schumer is cations Commission announced Thursday. and Jennifer Steinhauer tion for granted and is grateful for further complicated by his partner Verizon announced this month that it intended to refund money The New York Times Senator Schumer’s support,” said in the Senate leadership and Capi- to its customers for the unauthorized charges. Under a consent de- Carolyn Dwyer, campaign manager tol Hill housemate, Sen. Richard J. cree with the FCC announced Thursday, the company also will pay WASHINGTON — Sen. Charles for Leahy. Durbin of Illinois, also positioning a minimum of $52.8 million in refunds. E. Schumer shipped $500,000 to Ne- The two donations underscore himself in the underground cam- The $25 million settlement is the largest payment under a con- vada in recent weeks to help Harry the excruciatingly delicate posi- paign to replace Reid, although both sent decree in the FCC’s history, said Michele Ellison, chief of the Reid, the Senate majority leader tion Schumer finds himself in. He men have made it clear they would agency’s enforcement bureau. and Schumer’s political patron and is doing everything he can to help greatly prefer that Reid return. The In a statement, Verizon said: “We are a company that listens to close friend, as he fights for his po- his friend Reid fend off a challenge senators and their aides declined to its customers and in this case we got to the bottom of a problem and litical life in Nevada. from the Tea Party candidate, Shar- comment for this article. resolved the errors. We have taken this action because it is the right At the same time Schumer, a New ron Angle, and prevent the embar- Schumer, one of the party’s most thing to do.” York Democrat, made out a smaller rassing ouster of the party leader. prolific fundraisers, has distributed Verizon has begun notifying customers eligible for refunds, and check, for $20,000, to the Demo- Yet given his own deep political $4 million from his own campaign it will apply credits or, in the case of former customers, mail checks cratic Party in Vermont, where the ambitions and drive, Schumer is also coffers to the party and his col- for the refund amounts in October and November. Most of the cred- gift earned him the good will of Sen. very carefully laying the groundwork leagues this election cycle, includ- its range from $2 to $6, Verizon said. About 77 million of its custom- Patrick J. Leahy, even though Leahy to move on a moment’s notice to try ing the $500,000 turned over to the ers, or roughly five out of six, are unaffected, the company said. is not believed to be in any serious to secure the top Democratic job if Nevada Democratic Party to help —Edward Wyatt, The New York Times re-election jeopardy. Reid is defeated Tuesday. Reid. A region fouled by garbage loses faith in its leader High above India’s poverty, tower TERZIGNO, Italy — In 2008, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi won the national elections in large part by promising to clean up the garbage that had been piling up on the streets of Naples. With much will house five of India’s most rich fanfare, he called in the army, opened new dumping sites, built a waste treatment plant and declared victory. By Jim Yardley finally, after several years of planning that?” said Prahlad Kakkar, an adver- Today, that victory is coming undone. Garbage is once again pil- The New York Times and construction, the residents are tising filmmaker and prominent city ing up in Naples. The treatment plant does not operate at capacity. about to move in. resident. “Either it is a landmark, or a And here in Terzigno, in the foothills of Mount Vesuvius, residents MUMBAI, India — The newest All five of them. symbol, or it is Mammon.” who live downwind of a dump’s overpowering stench are in revolt. and most exclusive residential tower The tower, known as Antilia, is the He added: “There is shock and In recent days, hundreds have taken to the streets, blocking garbage for this city’s super rich is a cantile- new home of India’s richest person, awe — both at the same time.” trucks and violently skirmishing with the police. vered sheath of steel and glass soar- Mukesh Ambani, whose $27 billion Ambani, his wife, Nita, and their Once again, Berlusconi has said he will solve the problem. But ing 27 floors into the sky. The parking fortune ranks him among the richest three children are expected move this time around, something is different: Few believe him. garage fills six levels. Three helipads people in the world. And even here into the building after a housewarm- For years, Berlusconi has been able to survive with jokes and are on the roof. There are terraces in the country’s financial capital, ing party with 200 guests scheduled grandiose promises. But now, as he struggles to keep a grip on his upon terraces, airborne swimming where residents bear daily witness to for Nov. 28. For his part, Ambani unruly center-right coalition. pools and hanging gardens in a Blade the stark extremes of Indian wealth has declined to comment about the Over the weekend, a radical handful tossed Molotov cocktails, Runner-meets-Babylon edifice over- and poverty, Ambani’s building is project and required his designers, burning a row of garbage trucks whose carcasses were being cleared looking India’s most dynamic city. so spectacularly over the top that decorators and other contractors to from the main road this week. But most of the protesters appeared There are nine elevators, a spa, a the city’s already elastic boundar- sign confidentiality agreements, as to be peaceful, middle-class citizens fed up with the stench and sig- 50-seat theater and a grand ballroom. ies of excess and disparity are being if a cone of silence could be erected nificant health problems that they believe come from living next to Hundreds of servants and staff are stretched to new dimensions. around a skyscraper rising near the a garbage dump. expected to work inside. And now, “One family is going to live in edge of the Arabian Sea. —Rachel Donadio, The New York Times

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rofessor P And now some guy is telling them to not not to them telling is guy some now And - tell ad an aired recently Latinos4reform Latinos4reform is organization initiated La- all for, vote Latinos whom matter No then, it will be a fair game. never Until TEAL’s formative years TEAL’s were just that: for reform, education an of example an is TEAL “On a scale“On of one ten, to beingten the hardest, was on Voyager working Implementing a five. TEAL a ten.” …was tino voters find themselves lost as to whom for. vote to vote? ing Latinos: “Don’t vote, that is alternative our to be only taken seriously. This - No politi - all to message a send can we vember cians: if they didn’t keep their promise on immigration reform, then they can’t count vote.” on our by conservative Republican Posada. This Robert message is meant to De- curb the Demo- the to giving are Latinos advantages craticParty. But politics aside, this message is foul play. Many Latinos are citizens. And citizens should enjoy their right Through to vote. propaganda, conservatives manipulating Latinos are into throwing away their American privileges. Latinos not should be treated like po- a like treated not should second-classthey Moreover, citizens. arena. in a muddied football litical tinos should vote and start throwing their around. weight this, it was done away with. done away it was this, mative. But now the program has reached an adult stage. Instead of a few instrucreluctant tors, there are now teach a teachers TEAL section. They find clamoring it more flex to ible, more enjoyable, and more effective than lectures. The failure rate has stayed at levels lower than that of the proving that lectures, TEAL is more effective. While TEAL has been largely effective, the members of the physics department do anticipate it to ously be refined and - continu polished, tweaking it here and there to ensure an optimal not are many learning that fact final the ex And perience. aware of speaks the most to popular TEAL’s that surveys end-of-term the to according ity; students fill out, TEAL is now just as popular but more as popular, Just as the were. lectures TEAL is In words, a other complete effective. success. It worked. which research, scientific on based is an example of what more schools at all lev els across the country need to begin doing. I do not claim that every reform will succeed, attempted but if a reform is implemented by a team of dedicated individuals, and it is worked on patiently to correct its flaws, the potential for success is certainly there. It may not be worth easy, it. but certainly In it’s the words of Professor Belcher, who Principal Investigator served on the Plasma as Science Experiment ten, on to one of the scale a “On it, Voyager put Neptune/Inter Mission stellar ten being reforming the and TEAL hardest, Implementing working five. a was on Voyager a 10.” was education ------Through propaganda, propaganda, Through conservatives are Latinos manipulating their away throwing into American privileges. In In other words, the major difference be- If all this is true, why do I vividly recall All four of members of the physics depart vative. vative. But Latinos are now more comfort voting voting records and its skin representatives’ color resemble theirs. Marco Florida’s - Ru bio, California’s Abel Maldonado, Idaho’s Raul Labrador, Nevada’s Brian and Sandoval New Mexico’s Susana John Martinez Sanchez are and all Latino What’s Republicans. different about conser unapologetically as just still they’re them? Nothing, able than ever to cross over to the - Repub lican Party. Many share the same views on abortion and the definition of family with rank-and-file Republicans. What holds La- tinos back is the rise in the anti-immigrant rhetoric used among the party The members. Republican agenda also includes ex tending Arizona’s alien-deportation laws into other bordering states. Because of this racism inherent within the party, many La- played on the projector. The students then use use then students The projector. the on played they believe what to input remotes hand-held to be the correct answer. The instructor can then choose to give students, sitting at tables in of groups 9, to an the discuss opportunity problem and change their answers. After do- the number of ing so, correct answers - typical element of The TEALfinal major ly shoots up. is the addition of experiments; in the lecture/ allows This none. were there format, recitation students to get hands-on experience testing learned in class. the concepts they’ve tween TEAL and lectures is the fact that lec tures tures are passive. Students sit and take notes, if they show up to class at all. In TEAL, - atten the in participation the through taken is dance questions and - clicker it is Stu active learning. dents get up theyand solve answerproblems, questions, and are actively involved in their learning. There is plenty of research - substan tiating the fact a that than learning by rate doing retention (active higher far a has learning) learning). (passive lecture during my orientation an upperclassman - la take to forced be would I that fact the menting TEAL? Why were some students choosing to to do TEAL? have didn’t so they just do 8.012 Why was the general among students that I was greeted with perception upon of Redwine, Prof. TEAL negative? so MIT at arrival my who has taught and administered TEAL, ar im- TEAL’s effectfrom residual a is it that gues he is correct. and I believe that plementation, ment ment I interviewed echoed one identical sen - begin- the In teach. to difficult timent:is TEAL faculty to ning members years, reluctant were abandon their lectures for this experiment in - imple TEAL’s of years few first The education. testing experimental, indeed were mentation what worked and what didn’t. Predictably, it which work, didn’t that things the of some was are now gone, that students took away from - real not do probably students Many class. the ize the extent to which TEAL is responsive to their input. Last year, for example, problem sets in 8.01 were optional, but after students expressed an extreme dissatisfaction with ------So how does one change transform to teaching into novice thinkers experts?was the This goal of TEAL…ultimate So how does one change teaching to The The second major difference is the clicker This was one of the failures of lecture-based lecture-based of failures the of one was This So whom will they vote for? It’s uncer Democrats have consistently - disap Consequently, Republicans are drawing transform transform novice thinkers into experts? This was the ultimate goal student any of As TEAL — self-learners. to problem-solving, create who has gone through TEAL knows, the class consists of a few elements that make it fun- damentally different than a lecture. First, it is problems solve to instructors TEAL of goal the that combine various methods and multiple concepts as opposed to simply memorizing concepts. Students are also able to ask ques ered which seemed clear and carefully thought thought carefully and clear seemed which ered light different entirely an in perceived were out the to yet who had develop students, by their problem-solving skills and advanced - reason Research granted. for took lecturer the that ing supports this; Wieman points out that it - simu a at looking haswhen even that shown been “literally students screen, computer a on lation see different things happening… than do the As can interpret the a student experts. result, what is shown very differently from what was ideas.” incorrect and learn intended, tions during the in which, solution, practice, rarely happens during lectures. Furthermore, they that problems periodically given theyare must work together as a table and solve. Fri- days are typically devoted solving. problem entirely group to such questions, where a multiple-choice question testing the understanding of a concept is dis tiple abstract concepts to new situations, to adapt general methods of problem-solving to seen never before. they’ve problems freshman during physics. techniques For most “expert” students, utilize to they’d had never high school. The formulas were all they need- ed. As a result, lectures that professors deliv ty’s direction in direction states like Arizona, Florida, ty’s (nearly Mexico New especially and Nevada, 40percent of all eligible voters in the state). Back in Obama’s 2008 election, from — this is a jump voted million Latinos over 9.7 7.5 million back in 2004. By 2050, the La- tino population is predicted to more than and the number of their double in number, votes will follow. The Latino has established their community presence in this elec tion, and they will continue on to become a powerhouse. tain. pointed their consistently voters on loyal immigration reforms. Latino - Republi cans, of course, do not help by filibuster ing the reform bills, but the lossestimes. too from many shied away Democrats have illegal to amnesty grant to Act Dream Reid’s college-bound and service-bound minors remains just a dream. Latinos are growing for help. call the Democrats’ to indifferent in Latino voters because both the party’s bloc in the coming election. Their numbers numbers Their election. coming the in bloc can effectively tip the race in any one par ------t t s Columni Staff Staff s columni Staff By Andy Liang Andy By By Ryan Normandin By Ryan

But better teaching wasn’t all the team was team the all wasn’t teaching better But “TEAL, which stands for technology-en- Professor Professor John Belcher, frustrated with In In the years leading up to 2000, the MIT The The Latino population in United States But there’s hope, Harry. This year, there When Angle plays, she goes to the ex The The political stage has been tarnished,

know know (thanks to TEAL), this works in phys the problems. Rather than running to the for unknown. However, unknown. as However, many students now about thinking were students way the change find a formula that worked and solve for the the goals of TEAL, therefore, was to literally set; when given a problem, they would try to ics for only the simplest problems. One of mulas, students should be able to apply - mul students were still stuck in the “novice” mind- “novice” the in stuck still were students relearn the relearn This material. was because most it for two years, they were also quite slow to everything they learned after not looking at While it isn’t expected that they remember with basic physics learned in 8.01 and 8.02. level level physics classes, students had difficulties along along with Wieman, observed that in higher physics students into experts. Dourmashkin, into Dourmashkin, students physics experts. aiming for. They wanted to transform novice novice to They wanted transform for. aiming Dourmashkin explained. the information instead of just distributing it,” the information instead of just distributing it,” abled active learning, is more about learning is learning about more learning, active abled was a passive style of teaching. style a passive was format format of teaching physics was the fact that it that that one of the problems with the traditional was was born. From their research, the trio knew Carolina Carolina State’s “Scale-Up” program, TEAL implemented implemented in other schools, like North done by Carl Wieman and changes already taught. taught. Borrowing from education research jor change in the way freshman physics was Professor Professor David Litster to implement a - ma with Senior Lecturer Peter Dourmashkin and decided to try something new. He teamed up the the failure of the format, lecture/recitation what it does best:what solved the problem. It 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism). So MIT did (Mechanics) and 14 percent of students failed failed students of percent 14 and (Mechanics) average of average 10 of percent failed students 8.01 percent by the end of the term. In addition, anaddition, In term. the of end the by percent Lewin, attendance Lewin, at attendance fell physics lectures 40 lem. lem. Despite great lecturers such as Walter Physics Physics Department realized it had a - prob stituency will account for a large voting has has grown to nearly 50 million. Their con- is a wild-card: Latino voters. Latino is a wild-card: sweating in his gym shorts. sweating Republican primaries. All primaries. Republican the Reid is while, Church Church of Scientology, and to stop insur into national spotlight since her win in the rehabilitation rehabilitation program supported by the views, her campaign has been catapulted treme. treme. Angle plans to abolish the Depart ment of Education, to instate an inmate ing autism patients. Despite her extremist upcoming Nevada Senate race. race. Senate Nevada upcoming lican lican and Tea Partier Sharron Angle in the against against the menacing newcomer - Repub DemocraticSenator Harry Reid will face off — this is politics at its dirtiest. Incumbent and the politicians greased up by the year go home crying. This is better than ESPN exchanged. exchanged. Feelings were hurt. Losers will long long mudslinging. Mean words have been

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Several scenes pay direct homage to the original Frankenstein films, including the monster’s comic with encounter a blind hermit who accidentally pours him on fire. and lights soup in his lap come: the intellectual Frankenstein scientist (played by Frederick Gene Wilder, per haps best known for his role as Willie - Won ka), his busty and dim-witted lab assistant Garr), and Inga (Teri the strange hunchback servant Igor (Marty Feldman) together form make a up trio hilarious whose interactions some scenes of the funniest the movie. in the him gave Igor that out finds he when tion been “Do even labeled had it — brain wrong in the monster. put — to not use this brain!” calmly. he asks Delbruck’s?” Hans I did put it?” me whose brain telling mind who?” ultimate ninger’s thesis distracted from the as a whole. work mance of Tchaikovsky’s fifth difficult not While to it’s hear Tchaikovsky’s symphony. symphony as an old work, as with the Bar ber, while — again — details were some - time sacrificed at the tex altar of orchestral ture and contrast in sonority, Lehninger’s Tchaikovsky presented the work through the lens of its dramatic narrative. 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texture: Grandiose, film-like orchestral tone tone orchestral film-like Grandiose, texture: work work was swept with contrast in orchestral most prominent in Thursday evening’s per evening’s Thursday in prominent most counterpoint of work forward. Barber’s the more detailed portions of Barber’s work, work, Barber’s of portions detailed more the sharp dynamic shifts that compels the odd ensemble ensemble seemed to lose some accuracy in conception of the work. A confident per contrast essential to the piece: beyond the ture ture to the School of Scandal. Although the formance was the overall narrative and formance, Lehninger highlighted the rich dent dent performance of over Samuel Barber’s learn: The performance began with a confi- a with performancebegan The learn: complete synthesis of the evening’s works. of the evening’s synthesis complete ensemble. ensemble. Not a daring program, the per of future the career young than maestro’s a tor’s premiere as premiere tor’s assistant conductor of the formance somehow begged a divination orchestra orchestra marked the 31-year-old conduc Marcelo Marcelo Lehninger’s performance with the found found it hard to separate artist from opus: the United States. the United breed breed of films and established the genre in most most notably defined the “monster movie” concentrated concentrated in the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s — refers to their popular series of monster films monster of series popular their to refers Hunchback Hunchback of Notre Dame that term a — Monsters” “Universal Studios’ Rains Rains became household names forever as Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., and Claude (Lugosi), The Mummy (Karloff), The Invis poked fun of the over-the-top style of the film 40’s. It is in these years that Boris Karloff, cliches classic that films these in is it were born. Frankenstein (Karloff), Dracula goes… the list on. Golem (1915), the silent German vampire tom of the Opera lowed by the “Golden Age” of monster mov ies in the 30’s and a slew of sequels in the sociated with the they creatures played, and with torches, creepy mist, creeking stairs — ible Man (Rains), The (Chaney Wolfman Jr.) in monster movies: Paul Wegener’s

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on classic cinema on classic Friday, October 29, 2010 2010 October 29, Friday, 8 The Tech Friday, October 29, 2010 Theater Review Swords, storms, and (bloody) eyeballs! Ensemble’s Lear is tragically delicious

Michael T. Lin princesses played by Schneider, Williams, Staff Writer and MacConnell. Williams and MacConnell are believably devious and unlikeable, in The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble’s pro- spite of a small early dose of sympathy in light duction of King Lear opened last weekend. of the demands of their father. King Lear, considered one of Shakespeare’s Schneider, for her comparatively brief finest tragedies, starts with an ill-conceived stage time, along with Otte as King Lear, man- brownnosing competition and ends, unsur- age to create a quaintly stoic ray of hope in the prisingly, in death. Lots and lots of death. last act, shortly before it’s snuffed out. In Act I, King Lear (Timothy Otte) decides Tribbett and Smith as the two mortally to step down from being the official king opposed brothers were the highlights of the and decides to distribute his land among his show for me. Both familiar faces in Ensemble daughters according to how sycophantic they shows, Tribbett and Smith proved convinc- can be. When his favorite daughter Cordelia ing and engaging. Tribbett in particular takes (Allison Schneider ’13) refuses to play ball, on two very challenging roles, one of which he banishes her to France, instead bestow- requires him to traipse around the stage in a ing large gifts of estate to his other daughters, state of near-nudity, raving like a madman, all Regan (Rachel Williams) and Goneril (Mali challenges that he takes on with verve. MacConnell), which inevitably sets him up The play itself is surprisingly long, in the for disappointment when it turns out that they vicinity of three-and-a-half hours, and the don’t love quite as much as they claimed. first half is somewhat slow to get started. Elsewhere, bastard son Edmund (Chris However, the post-intermission half of the Smith ’12) tries to scheme his way into the play more than compensates for any exposi- inheritance and title of legitimate son Edgar tory sluggishness with phenomenal action (Zach Tribbett ’12) in the vein of the long sequences. The latter acts of the play contain Shakespearean tradition of having bastards a staff fight, a very unsettling but engaging be bastards. From there, things go downhill eye-gouging scene, a climactic sword-and- and uphill (mostly downhill) until the end of dagger fight, and many, many stabbings. If the play. It’s not Shakespeare’s most down- you’ re a fan of both Shakespeare and Taran- beat ending, but it’s pretty close. tino, I would recommend seeing King Lear The acting in Lear is something of a mixed on the basis of the fight scenes alone. Even if

bag, with Ensemble veterans, newcomers, you’re not, the story is emotionally involving Sarang Kulkarni—The Tech and outsiders all putting forth compelling and the cast is full of talented performances The Earl of Gloucester (Joshua J. A. Walker ’12) leads King Lear to shelter during a performances. Of special note were the three worth seeing, if you’ve got an evening free. storm in the MIT Shakespeare Ensemble’s production of King Lear.

Sarang Kulkarni—The Tech Goneril (Mali MacConnell), King Lear’s oldest daughter, shares a passionate kiss with Edmund (Christopher D. Smith ‘12) in an act of Sarang Kulkarni—The Tech infidelity. The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble is currently performing King Cordelia (Allison M. Schneider ’13) and her father King Lear (Timothy Otte) patch up their relationship Lear, with shows running every day through Oct. 30. after the king realizes the folly of his ways.

Sarang Kulkarni—The Tech The Earl of Gloucester (Joshua J. A. Walker ’12) wal- lows in sadness and despair after being blinded by Sarang Kulkarni—The Tech Cornwall. The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble’s King Lear The fool (Jacob L. Austin-Breneman ’13), King Lear (Timothy Otte), and Kent (Brianna S. Conrad ’11) journey will be running today and tomorrow at 8 p.m. in La Sala

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An insider’s criticisms of HDAG WANT TO UA Dining Chair fed up with HDAG, new dining plan SAVE LIVES? Resignation, from Page 1 Become an EMT! new dining plan this fall, which cul- Trepman’s statement on HDAG minated in an October 14 resolution Apply for MIT’s IAP Class now and learn the skills needed to be by the UA Senate urging Chancellor I am very frustrated with the morning, regardless of whether a certified Emergency Medical Technician and work on MIT’s Phillip L. Clay PhD ’75 “to intervene way HDAG has handled student or not they actually eat it. Ambulance. by halting” the approval process for feedback and the lack of general From a financial and lo- the new plan. student input incorporated into gistical standpoint, HDAG’s For more info and to apply go to: The bill, which was passed unan- the plan. I feel like the decision plan does not make sense. The http://ems.mit.edu imously, described the HDAG pro- has been made, and that the ad- housemaster membership on cess as “not transparent … not thor- ministration is just going through the committee makes the plan Apply by Oct 29 ough [and] … not fair.” It was met last the motions to appear as if they inherently biased towards din- week with the announcement from care about student opinion. At ing halls for each individual HDAG that it would continue with the recent HDAG meeting, I house. This creates an inher- the new plan. brought up many suggestions ent problem with sustainability On October 21, HDAG reiterated on how to improve the proposed and cost because it forces stu- that the new plan, which introduce a plan to align better with student dents to pay the overhead costs mandatory breakfast and dinner din- desires and to make it more cost- for five separate dining halls for ing program in dorms with existing efficient. Yet these valid argu- two meals a day, seven days a dining halls, would not be halted. ments were not even considered, week. This requires a high level Freshmen will be required to and once the RFP is sent out, the of commitment for meals in or- purchase 14 meals a week, while plan will be essentially unalter- der for the dining halls to reach sophomores must purchase at least able. A survey is being planned necessary utilization/full capac- 12 meals and juniors and seniors by HDAG, but its purpose is to ity. This limits choice, which is must purchase 10. The projected alleviate student concerns rather supposed to be one of the key costs of the three plans are $3,800, than to get student feedback, so principles of the HDAG propos- $3,400, and $2,900, respectively. honestly it’s just a waste of time. al. In addition, with the opening In a meeting yesterday with Modi HDAG has this sense of pater- of Maseeh Hall, more than half and Wyman, Dean for Student Life nalism and feels that it is their job of beds on campus will require Chris Colombo said he would re- to regulate and ensure that stu- a dining plan, further limiting lease a request for proposal (RFP) dents eat a normal three meals choice. for a dining vendor by Monday at every day. College students It has been largely argued the latest, according to Modi. The are adults that can take care of that having house dining is im- content of the RFP will align fully themselves. HDAG forgets about portant to create community with the dining plan formulated by the majority of MIT that still will that apparently, according to HDAG. not be on a dining plan even HDAG, these dorms currently “The core structure of the plan, once this plan is finalized. And lack. Even if MIT didn’t have an as defined by the HDAG recommen- even without a restrictive din- incredibly strong sense of com- dation is not going to change,” Divi- ing plan, MIT students continue munity within houses, the fact sion of Student Life spokesman Tom to perform at high levels. (One that many students form com- Gearty told The Tech last week. “If of HDAG’s arguments is that munities through Greek life has we are to have a vendor for 2011, we the plan will improve academic been ignored. This plan is an at- have to move forward.” performance). Because HDAG tempt to create what is deemed The UA’s recent bill came too late thinks that students should eat a as appropriate college culture, in the process, Baker Dining Chair full breakfast, they are requiring thereby diminishing what makes Cameron S. McAlpine ’13 said. “Be- that all students living in dorms MIT unique. cause we’re in the middle of the re- with dining halls at least pay for a —Paula C. Trepman ’13 quest-for-proposal process, having continental-plus breakfast each Former UA dining chair such a radical change would force us to completely start over from the be- ginning,” McAlpine said in The Tech last week. sponded that they did not prefer the tions for the new house dining plan. The bill also cited a UA campus- new dining plan. Other student members of the com- wide survey with 665 respondents in Colombo created HDAG in mittee have expressed support for which 92 percent of participants re- March to formulate recommenda- the plan.

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5 Penn Plaza • 21st Fl • New York, NY • 10001 212.819.8120 4x7 Friday, October 29, 2010 The Tech 13 North of campus, Novartis will expand across the street $600M project may lead to new complex in place of Analog Devices building on Mass. Ave. Novartis, from Page 1 Tech Square, Kendall Square, and other parts of Cambridge, which the parking lot adjacent to N42 on total 1.2 million square feet. the corner of Windsor and State In an open letter to MIT Presi- Streets; the former Analog Devices dent Susan J. Hockfield last week building, at 21 Osborne Street; and (see pg. 6), Cambridge City Coun- the parking lot between the Analog cillor and former mayor Kenneth Devices building and Mass. Ave. E. Reeves criticized MIT’s stew- Novartis may or may not de- ardship of properties between the molish the Analog Devices build- campus and Central Square, high- ing, which was vacated about a lighting the empty retail space at year ago, Novartis spokesman Jef- the Central Square Theatre, and frey Lockwood said. Novartis may complaining that the Novartis deal or may not build a single building had not been mentioned to the city covering the parking lot and the government in advance. Steven Analog Devices building. Novar- C. Marsh, managing director for tis will not demolish N42, a short real estate at the MIT Investment brick building with parapets and Management Company, is respon- cupolas. sible for these arrangements, and Novartis’s lease will last at least Reeves targetted him in his letter. 60 years, according to MIT. Con- According to Reeves, new retail struction is scheduled to begin establishments of Central Bottle sometime in 2011, though there and Flour, which are now tenants are no design plans yet, and an ar- of Novartis, had failed to negoti- chitect has not been selected, said ate leases from MIT in similar Novartis spokesman Jeffrey Lock- space,because MIT asked $45 per wood. square foot, twice as much as No- Melissa Renee Schumacher—The Tech The expansion takes place vartis. Novartis might demolish the Analog Devices building, on Massachusetts Avenue between Albany St. and just across the street from Novar- Marsh declined to speak to The Smart St., to make room for a new building with twice the footprint. tis’ existing facility, that includes Tech, saying in a statement that buildings at 186 Mass. Ave (the gay MIT “will continue to work closely News Office said. ing 32) cost around $300 million The IS&T computing helpdesk club Paradise), as well as 220 and with the [Cambridge City] Council, The new complex is expected to (estimates vary); and the new Da- will relocate from building N42 to 250 Mass Ave. (the former NECCO the city administration, and our add 300 new jobs, Novartis said. vid H. Koch Institute for Integrative buildings E17 and E19, the News factory). Those comprise about neighbors.” The $600 million investment is Cancer Research (Building 76), Office said. Some other IS&T staff 585,000 square feet, Lockwood Hockfield is in the process of substantial. For comparison, the which is just being completed, cost in N42 will move to buildings W91 said. Novartis also has facilities in replying to Reeves’ letter, the MIT Ray and Maria Stata Center (Build- about $250 million. and W92. Got any plans for the weekend? Read this. How to have a great Halloween at MIT Halloween, from Page 1 option for them to relax on a Satur- day night,” says Craig Broady ’12, a packaged costumes prices fall be- member of SaveTFP. “We had 530 tween $20 to $50 dollars. Costum- people show up last year, and we ers can also buy hats, colorful wigs, are hoping for a even bigger turn and masks to put together their own out this year.” costumes. The “(n+1)th Annual Pumpkin For those who won’t get a Drop” will happen on the dot below chance to check out the store, the Building 54, the Green Building, at Central Square store manager says 11:59 pm on the 30th. Organized that these iParty Halloween pop- by First West of East Campus, also up stores will return the same time known as “Pi-e-stickmen,” the event next year around the Cambridge involves two dozen pumpkins being and Boston areas. dropped from the tallest building in Another option is the Garment Cambridge. There will be a live DJ District on Broadway Street. Since from First West playing his mixed 1986, the two-story retail store has tracks during the drop. offered thousands of articles of vin- tage clothing and, of course, Hal- Off-Campus Events loween costumes. Many of the MIT off-campus The first floor is home to Boston fraternities will host parties on Fri- Costume, Boston’s biggest costume day or Saturday night. Most of these store, which provides a large selec- parties are invitation-only. The first tion of rental and retail costumes. party to kick off the weekend is on Aside from the popular Alice in Friday night at 10 p.m. at the Zeta Wonderland, Iron Man, and Lady Beta Tau house on Manchester Gaga outfits, the store also offers Road in Brookline. everything from parade animals, Saturday night is packed with mascots, historical costumes, and parties hosted by Zeta Psi, Skull movie characters. People can spend House, Pi Lambda Phi, Chi Phi, Phi from $25 to $300 dollars to rent any- Kappa Theta, Sigma Nu, etc, all of thing from feathered Indian Chief- which are private, invitation–only tain hats to a full body Darth Vader parties. suit that comes with a sound en- Alpha Delta Phi, located on 351 abled breathing device. Massachusetts Ave, is one of the few Furthermore, the second floor fraternities offering a public party. offers a variety of retailed vintage “The theme this year is a Post clothing and shoes from the sixties Apocalyptic gathering at the safe (800) 792-9099 · [email protected] to the nineties. Garment District house that is ADP,” said Bryan Me- also offers costumes for rent. jia–Sosa ’14, an ADP brother. “We will set up a Rubens’ tube, which On-Campus Public Events will coordinate a row of small SaveTFP will be holding the an- flames to the sound waves from the nual Spooky Skate on Saturday night party music.” from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m at the Johnson “The parties are all close to- Ice Rink. gether,” says Julian Gonzelas ’14. Solution to Crossword Solution to Hard Sudoku Solution to Easy Sudoku A campus Halloween tradition, “You can see your friends dress up from page 11 from page 10 from page 10 Spooky Skate offers MIT students ridiculously. It’s hilarious. Great- hours of ice skating with free skate est part of Halloween is seeing the 9 5 3 2 1 6 7 8 4 2 1 7 3 8 5 4 6 9 rentals, along with pumpkin carv- weird stuff people will do.” 7 2 1 8 4 9 3 6 5 3 8 5 4 6 9 7 1 2 ing, food, and a costume contest. Aside from fraternity parties, This year, the event will have live student can look forward to the 4 8 6 3 7 5 2 1 9 4 9 6 7 2 1 8 3 5 music DJ’ed by Horizon Music Club, Halloween Rave at Boston Com- 8 4 9 7 6 3 5 2 1 5 2 4 8 1 6 9 7 3 a Halloween themed photo booth mon on Friday from 7 p.m. to 10 run by the Technique Yearbook and p.m. Harvard Square stores will 6 7 5 1 2 8 9 4 3 6 3 9 5 4 7 2 8 1 Copytech, and a limited edition be offering Halloween-themed 3 1 2 5 9 4 8 7 6 8 7 1 2 9 3 5 4 6 Spooky Skate Love Your Beaver T- giveaways throughout the week- shirts raffle. end. Details on the Harvard 1 3 4 9 8 7 6 5 2 7 6 2 1 5 8 3 9 4 “For people who want to have Square Scare Events are at http:// 5 6 7 4 3 2 1 9 8 9 5 3 6 7 4 1 2 8 fun on campus other than attend- www.harvardsquare.com/Home/ ing parties, Spooky Skate is a great Articles/Harvard-Scare!.aspx. 2 9 8 6 5 1 4 3 7 1 4 8 9 3 2 6 5 7 14 The Tech Friday, October 29, 2010

Campus Friday, October 22 1 Police to 7:45 p.m. increase patrols Recent string of 3 robberies near Tuesday, October 26 campus thought 4 9:55 p.m. Tuesday, to be connected October 26 Four robberies, from Page 14 10:10 p.m. that robberies in 2010 declined 18 percent from the five-year average. (The report can be found on http:// www.cambridgema.gov/CPD/ publications/BridgeStat.cfm.) In response to the recent rob- beries, MIT police have increased 2 patrols in the area, Sergeant Cher- Friday, yl Vossmer of the MIT Police said. October 22 Vossmer advises people to be aware of their surroundings, to 8:20 p.m. avoid using cell phones or ear buds, and to walk with a “don’t Joanna Kao, Copyright 2010 Google; Map data copyright 2010 Google, Sanborn mess me attitude” when alone Four recent robberies have occurred in the areas just north of the MIT campus, probably committed by the same suspects, police say. The first outside at night. two robberies, last week Friday occurred within 45 minutes of each other, and the next two on Tuesday night within 15 minutes.

Supreme Court will look at Stanford v. Roche today Alarms at MacGregor annoy The Supreme Court will consider a petition to accept Stanford Uni- versity v. Roche Molecular Systems at today’s conference. MIT and uni- New fire alarms are more sensitive, Housing says versity advocacy groups filed briefs in the case — concerning technol- ogy transfer from universities to private industry last spring. Before considering the petition, the Court had waited to hear from the United States Solicitor General, who filed his brief in September. The Solicitor General strongly supported the side of MIT and Stanford, arguing that the lower court decision in favor of Roche “creates serious uncertainty” about the ownership of patents and “frustrates Congress’s efforts to foster scientific research and development.” Roche filed a reply brief with the Court on October 12, saying the Government’s brief reformulated the question in a way “untethered to the facts.” “There is no reason for this Court to review a limited decision on an unusual factual record in search of an issue that is not presented here and may never be presented at all. Indeed, the govenrment cannot iden- tify even one other case that the ruling below would affect,” Roche said. The Court typically selects only about one percent of petitions, but the chance for selection is higher when the Solicitor General asks them to accept a case. — John A. Hawkinson

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Meng Heng Touch—The Tech Frustrated at the frequent fire alarms in recent weeks, students in MacGregor. students display a count of the number of days since the last fire alarm in the window. There have been two fire alarms at [email protected] Macgregor in the last 10 days, including one at 1:30 a.m. [email protected] W20-483, 617-253-1541 W20-483, 617-253-1541 Fire alarms, from Page 1 system installed over the summer. Collins says that “there is a nor- MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (although no trouble was found) mal adjustment period with any and the second caused by a faulty new alarm system” and that “the smoke detector, both in the base- sensitivity of the smoke detectors ment, he said. is different from their old system, The two fire alarms in McCor- [which requires] the residents to MIT-China Educational mick were “caused by burnt food” ensure they do not create smoke according to, William H. Radochia, that will set off the building wide MIT’s supervisor of fire protection. alarm.” Technology Initiative Burnt food also triggered As of last Wednesday, Collins is three out of the four fire alarms in working to “brainstorm on ways to MacGregor; the fourth alarm was assist the students to adjust to the Sample CETI Locations Teach in CHINA, Hong Kong, Taiwan this summer! caused by “a contractor who stirred differing system,” he said. Dalian University of Technology up dust while servicing a refrigera- All fire alarm activations on Sichuan University All expenses paid! tor,” Radochia said. West Campus have been dealt with Dennis Collins, MIT’s direc- and cleared by the MIT Campus Kunming University of Science & No language skills needed to apply! Technology tor of housing, attributes the in- Police and theHenisi. Cambridge Pat, Fire cor De sum- nos doloreet elesseq uatuera esectem doloboreet, con heniscidunt at, quat dolobore diam, veliquisl el ut adip eraesto duis dolor sum ex exeros ea faci ea amcommo lorper adit nullaor at, commy nosto odolenim nostrud et laore feu facidunt alit lutetue modolor accum ea am, quamcon sequat wisl ullam, consequat. Iquat. Ut el iure feugait elit, quis adionsectet ex endre facip er accum zzrit lor sustis aut verit, sed modolor eraessim et dolore duis nisis ad minit in vendrem quatums andigna feuissed enim zzriusci tem nos dipsusto od magniat wismod tat, voluptat. Ut amcon volesequisl iure deliscillam quatetum dolorpe riusto del eriusto core facilit, qui tem nonsenim zzriustrud dolore conse molestrud modolore corpercilla feu faccum quisci blan volut iustrud minim ipsum ad magnibh esequatem qui bla con volor sectem zzrit eum nonum ese dolortisis amconullaore vulla feu feu feu feum duipsus tionsectem erci tet aci endreet lor si. Qinghai University creased frequency of the alarms partment. Apply Online Now @ in MacGregor House to the higher Campus PoliceMagnim have do not doloreet, re- conulput wisi ex ex eu facincilit alit iustissed eugue vel dolore vent Huazhong University of Science & Technology (Wuhan) sensitivity of the new fire alarm sponded to inquiries from The Tech Zhejiang University regarding their investigation of fire http://web.mit.edu/mit-ceti/www/ alarms at East Campus and Senior Anxian Middle School LEGAL COUNSEL House. Last Tuesday, alarms were Nanjing Middle School MIT students, family, employers and deliberately pulled Tuesday morn- YuanZe University (Taiwan) Application Deadline: October 31 start-ups seeking U.S. legal counsel, ing twice in each East Campus campus or office consultation. Call: parallel, once in Senior House and James Dennis Leary, Esq. once again in E14, between the MIT-CETI: [email protected] 321-544-0012 hours of 5 and 6 a.m. Friday, October 29, 2010 The Tech 15

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