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Volume 130, Number 58 tech.mit.edu Friday, December 3, 2010 Walker tenants talk Just how mentally ill was Tang? ahead of overhaul Wellesley stabber’s trial hinges on the psychological evidence Renovated Walker to consolidate Music and Theater Arts Dept.

By Isabella Wei sible changes at Walker. It remains Staff Reporter uncertain what fraction of the space in Walker Memorial will be The administration continues available for student organization to explore the option of renovat- use after the renovation. ing Walker Memorial into an aca- Walsh said this process was the demic building. The tentative plan most open and transparent that is for Walker to become the new he’s experienced in his 22 years at home of the Music and Theater MIT. “This allows for a lot better Arts department, which may dis- discussion and honest discourse in place some of the clubs that cur- terms of what each group needs,” rently occupy space in Walker. he said. Associate Provost Martin A. One third of Walker’s space Schmidt PhD ’63 said that they are is permanently occupied by stu- still in the early stages of meetings dent organizations. The building with the Music and Theater Arts currently houses the MIT Radio department to understand their Society, the Rainbow Lounge, the needs and how they might appro- Black Students’ Union, the Muddy Photos by John A. Hawkinson—The Tech; Photoillustration by Jessica Liu—THe Tech priate the different spaces in Walk- Charles Pub, the Graduate Stu- Judge Bruce R. Henry will decide if Anna L. Tang (left), the Wellesley student who stabbed Wolfe B. Styke er. According to Campus Activities dent Council, and several other ’11 (right) in October 2007, was too mentally ill to “appreciate the wrongfulness of her conduct.” Complex Director Philip J. Walsh, student groups. Each year, around a parallel process is occurring with 40 groups use Walker as a space By John A. Hawkinson what Judge Bruce R. Henry must capacity to appreciate the wrong- the Association of Student Activ- for meetings, dinners, and large News Editor decide — is how ill Tang is. fulness of her conduct or the sub- ites (ASA) and individual student events. Or rather, how ill she was on the stantial capacity to conform her groups that might be displaced by Schmidt emphasized there still Anna L. Tang is mentally ill. night of October 22, 2007, when she conduct to the requirements of the the department. is no timeline for the renovation Anna L. Tang stabbed Wolfe B. gained access to Styke’s dorm room law?” That is the test of “criminal The administration has yet to process, but added that it certainly Styke ’11 seven times, but did not and severely wounded him. She’s responsibility” in the Common- meet with every group, Walsh said will not begin this academic year. kill him. now charged with intent to murder, wealth of Massachusetts. they have made sure all relevant On these facts, all sides agree. home invasion, and assault. groups have been informed of pos- Walker, Page 14 But what both sides differ over — Did Tang lack “the substantial Tang trial, Page 17

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Junior Varsity Letters on Dining My beautiful Not so fly SECTIONS Terrorism DAPER, students and parents debate the Dark Twisted.... Far East Movement’s al- World & Nation ��2 Opinion ��4 Are we still taking al- new dining plan. OPN, p. 5 Masterpiece? bum Free Wired, which contains their single Arts ��8 Qaeda seriously? Our Fun Pages �� 10 Is wikileaks good or evil? Is Kanye’s new album really “Like a G6,” is tolerable enemy has revealed as good as everyone says Sports ��20 It exposes hypocrisy and corruption. enough, but lacks thrills. itself to be hapless and it is? Does it also put lives at risk? OPN, p. 6 ARTS, p. 8 bungling. OPN, p. 4 ARTS, p. 9 2 The Tech Friday, December 3, 2010 Microbe swaps a vital element D for a toxic one Obama seeking aid for jobless Scientists said Thursday that they had trained a bacterium to eat and grow on a diet of arsenic, in place of phosphorous –one in return for deal on taxes of six elements considered essential for life — opening up the possibility that organisms could exist elsewhere in the universe or even here on Earth using biochemical powers we have not yet By David M. Herszenhorn some Democrats say the tax cuts tiations continue. worl dared to dream about. and Jackie Calmes should be extended for everyone, at But the sense within both parties The bacterium, scraped from the bottom of Mono Lake in The New York Times least temporarily, given the contin- was that Democrats were essentially California and grown for months in a lab mixture containing ar- ued weakness in the economy. negotiating the terms of their major

n senic, gradually swapped out atoms of phosphorus in its body WASHINGTON — The Obama Senate Democratic leaders said retreat on an issue they once con- for atoms of arsenic. administration said Thursday that it they were preparing for their own sidered a slam dunk on both sub- Scientists said the results, if confirmed, would expand the no- wanted an extension of unemploy- series of symbolic votes on Friday, stantive and political levels. tion of what life could be and where it could be. “There is basic ment assistance and a variety of tax intended to demonstrate their own Senior Senate Republican aides mystery, when you look at life,” said Dimitar Sasselov, an astron- breaks for low-wage and middle- desire to end the tax cuts for the said an extension of all the income omer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and income workers as part of a deal rich. tax cuts was a foregone conclusion, director of an institute on the origins of life there, who was not with congressional Republicans to Republicans, meanwhile, ex- but that a deal on jobless aid was

a tinvolved i o in the work. “Nature only uses a restrictive set of mol- extend all the Bush-era tax cuts. pressed dismay at the posturing by possible if Democrats agreed to cov- ecules and chemical reactions out of many thousands available. But it is unclear how much le- Democrats, which they said was er the cost. Democrats expressed This is our first glimmer that maybe there are other options.” verage the White House has in the delaying the inevitable and even indignation that Republicans were Felisa Wolfe-Simon, a NASA astrobiology fellow at the U.S. tax negotiations, given the drubbing getting in the way of a potential deal insisting on finding offsetting Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., who led the experiment, Democrats took in the midterm on jobless aid for millions of unem- spending cuts to pay for unemploy- said, “We’ve cracked open the door to what is possible for life elections, the tight congressional ployed Americans whose benefits ment benefits while being perfectly elsewhere in the universe.” calendar and a threat by Senate Re- have started to run out. willing to add to the national debt —Dennis Overbye, The New York Times publicans to block any other legis- Administration officials said no the $700 billion cost of continuing

& N & lation until the tax fight is resolved. deal was at hand, and negotiators the tax cuts for the highest incomes In a symbolic nod to President from the administration and the for the next decade. Barack Obama’s pledge to let the two parties in Congress met only “This is so grossly unfair,” the Rangel censured despite pleas tax cuts on upper-income brackets briefly on Thursday. It remained House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said in expire on Dec. 31, as scheduled by possible the two parties could be a floor speech urging passage of the for mercy at House hearing law, the House Thursday approved unable to reach a compromise, in so-called middle class tax package. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., his gaze steady and his hands a bill to continue the lower tax rates which case tax rates would revert While the House bill has no clasped before him, stood silently in the well of the House of Rep- enacted during the Bush admin- at the end of this year back to their chance of becoming law, it held

o rresentatives l d Thursday as Speaker Nancy Pelosi somberly read a istration for Americans they de- pre-2001 levels, meaning an across enormous symbolism for Demo- resolution censuring him for bringing discredit to the House. scribed as “middle class.” the board tax increase. However, crats, who used the debate to ac- Pelosi issued the punishment minutes after the House voted The bill, however, has no chance the Treasury could be directed to cuse Republicans of standing for 333-79 for the censure, the most severe sanction the House can of passage in the Senate, where even keep the current rates while nego- the rich.

W administer short of expulsion.

The vote makes Rangel just the 23rd member of the House to be censured, and the first in nearly three decades. After receiving his punishment, Rangel, 80, asked for a minute to address his colleagues and told them: “I know in my heart Russia, Qatar to host World Cups, I am not going to be judged by this Congress. I’ll be judged by my life in its entirety.” Rangel and his allies had pleaded for mercy, arguing his transgressions, which included failure to pay income taxes and expand reach of premiere event misuse of his office to solicit fundraising donations, deserved the more lenient punishment of a reprimand. But that effort By Jere Longman and the Middle East and Arabic Thursday’s votes came amid failed, 267-146. The New York Times world has been waiting for a long recent news media accusations of —David Kocieniewski, The New York Times time. So I’m a happy president corruption involving six of the 24 The world’s biggest sporting when we talk about the develop- members of FIFA’s executive com- event continued its spread to new ment of football.” mittee. Two were barred from vot- corners of the globe Thursday as FIFA is an insular body, fre- ing. Some observers called for a The first killing and more Russia and Qatar were named as quently criticized for its lack of delay in the votes, saying their le- hosts of the 2018 and 2022 World transparency. Thursday’s votes by gitimacy had been compromised crime in town made by Disney Cup soccer tournaments. FIFA’s executive committee were by accusations of vote selling. CELEBRATION, Fla. — As if the Thanksgiving killing was The fallout from the announce- conducted in secret. It was impos- American soccer officials had not enough to ruin things in this subdivision that Disney de- ments in Zurich included a huge sible to discern fully the motives of hoped to prevail for 2022 with a bid signed. Now, tanks and SWAT teams? setback in soccer development for Blatter and his colleagues. that promoted the country’s diver- Here in a community built 14 years ago by Walt Disney Co. the United States, which lost its at- Some soccer officials privately sity, the potential for record atten- as the happiest subdivision on earth — and which, to be fair, tempt to host the 2022 World Cup believe Blatter is angling for a No- dance and record profits for FIFA, has been largely free from urban strife — two major crimes in despite having an apparently supe- bel Peace Prize, having now orches- and the fact that all stadiums and the span of less than a week have made even the fake snow rior technical bid. That tournament trated the awarding of the World necessary infrastructure were al- that blankets the town square every evening hour on the hour was awarded instead to Qatar, the Cup to South Africa in 2010, and ready built. seem a little less cheery. tiny oil-rich nation in the Persian soon to Russia and the Middle East, But perhaps FIFA officials felt Late into Thursday night, sheriff’s deputies barricaded sev- Gulf, meaning the World Cup will even if his chances of winning such they had sufficiently assisted the eral blocks in this neo-traditional town of 10,000 people and make its inaugural appearance in an award might seem remote. United States by giving it the 1994 miles of white rail fencing, trying to talk a despondent and the Middle East. Surely, Thursday’s votes re- World Cup. And some observers felt possibly armed man out of his home. “We go to new lands,” Sepp flected in part some murky internal that American bid officials lacked Sometime during Thanksgiving weekend, Matteo Patrick Blatter, the president of FIFA, the FIFA politics. No doubt, too, Blatter passion in explaining how a second Giovanditto, 58, was murdered, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Of- sport’s world governing body, told has some sincere interest in taking World Cup would expand the game fice said. It was the first killing in Celebration history. Reuters. “Never has the World Cup his sport’s grandest spectacle to all in the United States, which has not —Kim Severson, The New York Times been in Russia and Eastern Europe, parts of the world. fully embraced the sport.

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Mazzetti, and Dexter Filkins in what appeared to be retribution particularly concerned that Karzai In a sometimes tense hearing of the Senate Armed Services ダ熊The New York Times 猫パfor his attempt to halt a corrupt pardoned five border police of- Committee, McCain, one of the senators who is closest to the mili- land-distribution scheme. ficers caught with 124 kilograms tary, was in the remarkable spot of arguing with a phalanx of its se- WASHINGTON — From hun- It is hardly news predatory cor- (about 273 pounds) of heroin and nior leadership — the defense secretary, the chairman of the Joint dreds of diplomatic cables, Afghan- ruption, fueled by a booming il- intervened in a drug case involving Chiefs of Staff, the general who commands the Army in Europe istan emerges as a looking-glassダ熊 licit narcotics industry,猫パ is rampant the son of a wealthy supporter. and the Pentagon’s general counsel — and saying they should not land where bribery,ンダ extortion and at every level of Afghan society. The U.S. dilemma is perhaps push for the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the 17-year-old law that embezzlement are the norm and Transparency International, an best summed up in an October requires gay men and women in the military to keep their sexual the honest man is a distinct outlier. advocacy organization that tracks 2009 cable sent by Ambassador orientation secret or face discharge. Describing the likely lineup of government corruption around Karl Eikenberry, written after he Citing the results of a recent Pentagon survey of 115,000 active- Afghanistan’s new cabinet last Jan- the globe, ranks Afghanistan as the met with Ahmed Wali Karzai, duty and reserve service members, McCain said that 58 percent of uary, the U.S. Embassy noted the world’s third most corrupt country, the president’s half brother, the Marines in combat units and 48 percent of Army combat troops agriculture minister, Asif Rahimi, behind Somalia and Myanmar. most powerful man in Kandahar thought repealing the law would have either a negative or a very “appears to be the only minister But the collection of confiden- and someone many U.S. officials negative impact on the ability of their units to work together. that was confirmed about whom no tial diplomatic cables obtained by believe prospers from the drug —Elisabeth Bumiller, The New York Times allegations of briberyTHE exist.” WikiLeaks熊猫 and made available toパン trade. One Afghan official helpfully a number of publications offers a “The meeting with AWK high- explained to diplomats the “four fresh sense of its pervasive nature, lights one of our major challenges stages” at which his colleagues its overwhelming scale, and the in Afghanistan: how to fight cor- Legislators worry about privacy skimmedンダ money from U.S. devel- dispiriting challenge it poses to U.S. ruption and connect the people measures on the internet opment projects: “When contrac- officials who have made shoring up to their government, when the key tors bid on a project, at application support for the Afghan government government officials are them- WASHINGTON — Lawmakers examining the Federal Trade for building permits, during con- a cornerstone of America’s counter- selves corrupt,” Eikenberry wrote. Commission’s recommendation for a “do not track” mechanism to struction, and at the ribbon-cutting insurgency strategy in Afghanistan. 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An August 2009 $200 million a year in trucking Many also expressed concern it would undermine one of the mayor of Kabul, received a four- report from Kabul complains Presi- fees, but only $30 million is turned main pillars of the Internet’s growth — the development of free, year prison sentence last yearJOIN for dent Hamid Karzai and his attor- over to the government, accord- advertising-supported content. “massive熊猫 embezzlement.” But a ney general “allowed dangerousパン ing to a 2009 account to diplomats Even within the FTC itself, there is not unanimous support for cable from the embassy told a very individuals to go free or re-enter by Wahidullah Shahrani, then the a do-not-track effort. different story: Sahibi was a victim熊猫 the battlefield withoutパンダ熊 ever facing commerce minister. 猫パンダ—Edward Wyatt, The New York Times

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Ltes o the to Letters [email protected]. ad it and [email protected], Friday, 3, December 2010 The Tech The , and will not will and , The The - - - OPINION OPINION OPINION OPINION OPINION OPINION OPINIOn OPinion opinion OPINIOn OpiNION - The Tech 5 Tech The ech - T he —T Alejandro Ruiz ’12 Ruiz Alejandro undukulam Allison SchneiderAllison ’13 K Carol and Gary and Carol Levin n Vibi Alec Lai, UA Secretary-General UA Alec Lai, directors in the MIT Investment Man- Last Tuesday, the UA also held a If you have any further questions or tiple suggestions and ideas, which can be found in the minutes at ua.mit.edu. Also discussed was the budget and allocation for Fall Finboard 2011: 42 UAS SB2.1 was passed, which to asked split Finboard next semester into two allocations and to the give unspent UA money to student groups allocation. in the next Thanksgiving Dinner with the UA! turnout was The good, and each at table lots had of fun interacting UA members of the withtheundergraduates. took note UA The clari- that discussions led concerns, new of fied current issues, or just had fun chatting over turkey and look mashed We potatoes. study and dinners more holding to forward the future. in breaks [email protected]. email concerns, - A total of 58 letters were sent as of Wednesday eve- as part of a letter-writing campaign in response to Dean Colombo’s tes and The The Tech, As parents of a MIT student, we are most disappointed with Colombo’s latest offer. It It offer. latest with Colombo’s disappointed most we are of a MIT student, As parents emailed program Dining the modified House at displeasure my writing express to I’m of under it consists though even Advisory Dining the House Group, I do not feel that First of all, I appreciate the efforts you have made in trying for made situation fix the dining to have the efforts you of all, I appreciate First I — until find it reasonable to not help but I could proposal, the current While reading - restau seems me that to It in general. situation the dining led about think me to This feed to its responsibility it is MIT’s I also where question issues, On of the practical top Editor’s Editor’s Note: The following letters were addressed to Dean of Student Life Chris Colombo At the UA Exec Meeting at Next House At the most recent Special Budgetary agement Company, discuss the Kendall agement Square Initiative at Company, Development a Senate UA meeting on Monday. Michael Michael Owu (left) and Steve Marsh (right), graduates, represents my interests about the dining plan: I didn’t elect them. I did elect elect I didn’t plan: them. the dining about interests my represents graduates, Dean Colombo, Please, Association. in the Undergraduate representatives dorm’s my is the only It plan. dining the current to modifications real in developing withwork the UA of MIT students. and also uphold the interests to trust be to the plan sustainable I’ll way is inadequate at addressing student and parent concerns, extremely expensive, and com- expensive, extremely concerns, and parent student addressing at is inadequate off on and in students fostered always MIT odds has with at pletely the independence that — after concerns on this topic will hope truly you student to listen sincerely We campus. you why — that’s and articulate thoughtful, is smart, campus all, every on your student place! accepted them in the first as plan the dining to amendments been no significant have afternoon. There on Monday placate may plan transition and beyond. of 2014 The of the class it will members to apply it does but the issue, about a stink make to the ones with likely most some upperclassmen, plan dining The flawed. is fundamentally plan the dining the fact that address to nothing You of MIT dorms and FSILGs. the culture and will too erode inflexible, is too expensive, I don’t see the modified plan but dining how email, these concerns in your acknowledge of them. any addresses the MIT undergraduates. I think it should be said that it is no easy task and you seem be to and you task it is no easy that be said I think it should the MIT undergraduates. it. effort the best possible into putting could students price, for this $10 a meal; well would cost plan over The the price tag. saw in establishments eating in most chef a professional for them by cooked meal each have the at all of their meals and purchase restaurant go any to simply could Boston. If students seems plan concept of a dining the entire be to honest), less, even pricesame (probably contrived. incredibly food selling (mediocre) profit a decent make center, as those in the student such rants, of a in the basement food establishment any it confuses and how me as to students to to if MIT even were that, I am sure dormitory an enormous profit. not make possibly could run to prof would be able a highly restaurants several rates, exorbitant absolutely charge of a dormitory it. in the basement business itable the opportunity given rent to if they were I believe (a tradition differently done things historically has that As an institution students. of), proud quite of us are many some At possibilities. outside I think MIT consider should As a feed to learn to themselves. will have students current in the verypoint future, near fond of cooking I am in fact incredibly learned that I have hall, of a non-dining resident of kinds arriving MIT), different at bake of before and even done little (something I had the option of expanding Perhaps and hallmates. for myself basis on a regular artisan bread and in both now use and offering classes would be a better kitchens cooking of resources run?the long Parents against dining against Parents on dining with the UA Work Teach students to cook to students for themselves Teach and and copied to Monday Monday announcement on dining . reform ning. two Wednesdays ago, the main topic of dis of topic main the ago, Wednesdays two cussion was dining reform. Several members of Next House elaborated concerns, on including their cost, and food living group options, options in the proposed dining plan. There was also discussion on preserving the culture and people of Next House. Senate meeting held this Steve past Marsh, Monday, managing director for Management MITthe Investment in estate real Company (MITIMCo), and Michael Owu ’86, director for real estate joined us to talk about inthe Kendall Square MITIMCo, Development Initiative. There were - mul UA Upda Answers letters Julie Soriero Julie Carrie Sampson Moore Carrie Sampson Director, Physical Education Physical Director, Perspectives on Dining Department of Athletics / Director Head Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER) Recreation and Education, Physical Department of Athletics,

I know that some students are concerned about the changes. We in DAPER have have in DAPER We the changes. concerned about are some students that I know With all the talk on campus about student choice and dining, I am struck by I am struck by and dining, choice student about all the talk on campus With Last winter, when the SAAC executive committee and team captains were asked asked were captains and team committee executive the SAAC when winter, Last But they also know that their options are very limited right now at MIT. Such Such very MIT. at their options are now limited right they that alsoBut know Last year, the Student-Athlete Advisory com- (SAAC) executive Committee the Student-Athlete year, Last The new House Dining program reduces the hurdles for students who want to who want for students the hurdles reduces program Dining new House The As someone with a responsibility to promote health and fitness for the MIT for the and fitness health promote to As someone witha responsibility Choice is a deeply held value in student life at MIT. I am writing in defense of a MIT. at life in student a deeply is Choice held value

of many. and the campus community. We have that plan now, and we support now, plan it for the sake that have We community. and the campus been waiting a long time for a plan that addresses the needs of our student-athletes the needs student-athletes of our addresses that time for a plan a long been waiting is the right plan for the campus community, not just the varsity athletes. the varsity not just community, for the campus plan is the right compete at a level requiring a substantial caloric intake, we believe this in DAPER caloric intake, a substantial requiring a level at compete dinner. Knowing that we also have 900 club athletes on campus, many of whom many on campus, athletes 900 club we also have that Knowing dinner. need: an all-you-care-to-eat option in the residence halls and more than just just than and more halls option in the residence need: an all-you-care-to-eat how this significant student constituency does not have a choice they desperately they a choice desperately constituency does student not have this significant how implemented this fall rather than next fall. next than this fall rather implemented extremely positive; in fact, many of them wanted the all-you-care-to-eat plan to be to plan the all-you-care-to-eat of them wanted many in fact, positive; extremely general student-athlete population. The response from the student-athletes was was the student-athletes from response The population. student-athlete general plan, and then were asked to obtain feedback and ideas from their teams and the their teams from obtain feedback and ideas to asked and then were plan, students were asked to review and give input on the different ideas for the dining for the dining ideas on the different input and give review to asked were students concern about proper nutrition and even getting enough to eat on campus. These on campus. eat to enough getting nutrition and even proper concern about the undergraduate population at MIT, many of them continually have expressed expressed have of them continually many MIT, at population the undergraduate voice to be heard. Even though varsity athletes comprise between 20-25 percent of comprise between athletes varsity 20-25 percent though Even be to heard. voice to give input into the HDAG/dining process, it was a unique opportunity a unique it was for their process, the HDAG/dining into input give to new House Dining program because I believe they should have that choice. that I believe they have because should program Dining new House food accessible. is easily prehensive dining plan and a supportive eating environment. I look forward the to environment. and a supportive plan eating dining prehensive healthy that said priority, nutrition a top 39 percent only considered but athletes students — and I acknowledge that this isn’t all students — want access to a com- a to access — want students all this isn’t that — and I acknowledge students of student- survey The 75 percent showed that wellness survey of student-athletes. istration as well as to the NEWMAC and NCAA, as well the NEWMAC as to istration and health conducted a general don’t, and that “eating healthy” doesn’t mean a complete overhaul of their diet. diet. their of overhaul complete a mean doesn’t healthy” “eating that and don’t, - admin the DAPER to at-large athletes the varsity represents that a group mittee, performance. They know why it’s important to eat healthy, what happens when they when happens what healthy, eat to important it’s why They know performance. that studies show a strong link between healthy eating and improved academic and improved eating link between healthy a strong show studies that fashion, these students are often scientifically and practically oriented: they know and practically scientifically often are fashion, these students an option on our campus to support them in forming healthier habits. In true MIT In support to them in forming habits. healthier campus an option on our patterns, who tell me they want to eat better than they do, and who wish there was and who wish there they do, than better eat to me they who tell want patterns, eat healthy. Every week I work with students who are dissatisfied with their dining dining their with dissatisfied are who students with work I week Every healthy. eat persisted for years. availability, cost, knowledge, and accessibility—and that these obstacles have these have obstacles that and accessibility—and knowledge, cost, availability, numerous barriers to healthy eating on campus, including breadth of choice, time, time, of choice, breadth including on campus, barriers eating healthy to numerous ing from that input. What have we learned from the students? That they perceive they perceive That the students? we learned from have What input. that from ing - we course the nutrition/fitness developed as part taken draw of the GIR now have Education program, student input was critical. In addition, more than 300 students 300 students than more addition, critical. In was input student program, Education When we developed our health and wellness curriculum in 2007 for the Physical When we and wellness health curriculum developed our in 2007 for the Physical community, I speak with students all the time about nutrition and eating habits. habits. nutrition and eating all the time about with I speak students community, the options in the residential system. the options in the residential choice that is currently lacking on our campus: on our as one of plan dining lacking an adequate currently is that choice DAPER supports dining reform

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[email protected] [email protected]. 3 5 6 1 4 2 8 9 7 Friday, December 3, 2010 The Tech 17 Toolkit aids clubs in Tang verdict hinges on extent of becoming more MIT mental illness before stabbing Defense to challenge retraction by forensic psychologist Toolkit, from Page 1 The Toolkit is “something I’ve wanted to do for several years,” Lee Tang, from Page 1 Wednesday and Thursday of this reuptake inibitors. tion have turned to the PSB for its said. This summer, it finally became week. It will take a break today, According to Mufson, that was services, including the Department a reality as work began to aggregate Tang’s trial began in June of and testimony is expected to fin- the wrong kind of drug. “It made of Architecture’s journal, thresh- communications resources into one this year and came to a halt when ish on Monday, though closing her lows lower and her highs olds, and the MIT Undergraduate site. Lee said the PSB relied on “fo- the court-appointed forensic psy- statements may run into Tues- higher,” he said. “If anything, Research Journal. The MIT Energy cus groups of communications staff chologist, Alison Fife, changed day. Judge Henry might have a worsening it and precipitating Club also asked the PSB for advise at different levels of experience” to her opinion about Tang’s crimi- decision ready by that time, or he psychotic symptoms.” while promoting its Energy Confer- find out what its audience needed nal responsibility and revised her might take weeks. Mufson said that Tang told ence. on the site. written opinion of Tang. Fife’s On Wednesday, Tang’s psy- him she was immersed in feel- Founded in 1998, the PSB guides Now that the site has been on- change came after seeing the re- chopharmocologist and treating ings of being evil and needing departments and external vendors line for a month, Lee is pleased cords of Tang’s visits with an in- physician Michael J. Mufson tes- to be incarcerated, and that was through their projects and ensures with the overall product: “I see it as dependent psychotherapist, Lisa tified. Mufson, who began seeing why she attacked Styke. MIT’s branding standards are met. a need and it seems to be meeting Desai, from the weeks prior to the Tang eight months after the stab- Throughout the trial, the pros- “While student projects tend to that need.” stabbing. bing, diagnosed Tang with “bipo- ecution has suggested Tang has be print projects, our services focus “The Institute realized that it was In testimony yesterday, Fife lar disorder with a mixed affective been “malingering”: exaggerat- on website development, use of so- not reasonable to require engineers said she did not change her de- psychosis — a complicated way ing her symptoms to avoid con- cial media, and email marketing as and scientists, artists and admin- cision without great thought and of saying she had gone through [a sequences in the legal system. Of well,” Lee said. istrators to be expert at producing cause. “Stakes are very high,” she bipolar episode] in which she be- course, this question is central to Other offerings on the Toolkit publications and websites,” the PSB said. “This is as serious as it gets. came psychotic and delusional.” the case — if Tang could fool her include tips for creating an effec- website claims. I had been very convinced and I doctors into thinking she was un- tive Twitter or Facebook account For the record, Richard C. Ma- felt very badly for Ms. Tang.” At Wellesley, well when she wasn’t, she could (“Your username should be as short claurin was the MIT President from Fife said that Tang spoke to evade punishment for her crime. as possible,” for example), posts for 1909 to 1920; there are approximate- her “very freely” in their court- Tang had been Yesterday, defense psycholo- upcoming communications work- ly 80 GRTs on campus; “Course” is mandated interview, but didn’t diagnosed with gist Eric L. Brown testified about shops, guidelines for the proper use an “organized curriculum leading to tell her she had seen Desai four the tests he administered to Tang. of the MIT name, and the entirety a specific degree”, whereas “course” times. She also failed to men- depression and Both tests have sophisticated of MIT’s nondiscrimination clause, is a “specific subject or class,” as tion the visit the day before the began seeing ways of detecting malingering, he which must be included on all MIT defined by the Toolkit; and the red stabbing. And according to De- said. The prosecution argued that sites that “describe MIT programs and gray colors of the MIT logo may sai’s notes, Tang didn’t mention mental health Tang scored too high on measures and are intended for prospective be found using Pantone #201 and feeling suicidal or wanting to professionals there of psychological unwellness, in- students or employees.” #424, respectively. kill Styke, all things she told Fife. dicating that she might be faking That was “completely at odds with as early as Sept. some of her symptoms. Brown what I was hearing from her,” Fife said Tang scored high because testified. 2005, over 2 years she was “in great distress.” Defense attorney Robert A. before the stabbing Now on Seroquel instead of Madoff trustee sues George said when he cross-exam- Celexa, Tang seems like a normal ines her on Monday, “It’s going to While at Wellesley, Tang had intelligent woman. At lunch yes- be ugly for Fife.” Fife’s credibility been diagnosed with depression, terday, she talked to American is at issue not only because she and began seeing mental health friends about their experiences JPMorgan for $6.4B changed her opinion, but also professionals there as early as learning Mandarin and discussed because she did so purely on the September of 2005, over two getting stuck trying to read The By Diana B. Henriques bank submitted them last summer to basis of Desai’s notes. “Her first years before the stabbing. She Lord of the Rings. If convicted, she The New York Times a magistrate in France who is investi- diagnosis was correct,” George was prescribed Celexa, an antide- faces a minimum of 10 years in gating the Madoff scandal. said. pressant that belongs to a class of prison, and perhaps as much 60 The trustee who is tracking down According to an exclusive account The trial had resumed drugs called selective serotonin years if convicted on all charges. assets for the victims of Bernard L. in L’Express on July 10, the bank pro- Madoff’s Ponzi scheme sued JPMor- vided a computer disk with more gan Chase for $6.4 billion on Thurs- than 500 pages of documents to the day, contending that the bank bears magistrate. L’Express published what some responsibility for the losses of it identified as excerpts of those doc- 15th Annual victims because it continued to serve uments that showed that some bank as Madoff’s primary banker despite executives had expressed concern growing evidence that he was run- about Madoff several years before his ning an enormous fraud. fraud unraveled in December 2008. EUROPEAN CAREER FAIR “Madoff would not have been In assessing a large European able to commit this massive Ponzi feeder fund, a document identi- scheme without this bank,” David fied as an internal bank report from J. Sheehan, a lawyer for the trustee, 2008 noted the fund’s total reliance @ MIT Irving H. Picard, said in a statement on Madoff to confirm what its assets after the case was filed in U.S. District were worth from day to day. With “no Court in Manhattan. real way to confirm those valuations, January 22, 2011 The complaint was filed under fraud presents a material risk,” the seal to conform with a confidentiality report said. agreement the bank negotiated with But Madoff’s personal wealth the trustee when it first began re- and his status over several decades Connecting Continents, sponding to his document requests. as a respected leader in a regulated According to Sheehan, the law- industry were also cited in the report suit contends that JPMorgan ignored as “factors making fraud unlikely.” “clear, documented suspicions” The excerpted documents also about Madoff. included what was described as a Moreover, he said, the bank confidential report the bank made to should have spotted highly suspi- British authorities in October 2008, cious cash movements through Ma- after the bank had withdrawn nearly doff’s accounts and recognized them $250 million of its own money from as hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme. the Fairfield Sentry fund, the largest In a statement on Thursday, JP- of the Madoff feeder funds. Morgan called the trustee’s claims The report said the bank was “irresponsible and overreaching” concerned that Madoff’s investment and said it had no advance knowl- performance was “so consistently edge that anything was amiss. and significantly ahead of its peers” The trustee’s complaint “blatant- that it appeared “too good to be true ly distorts both the facts and the law — meaning that it probably is.” in an attempt to grab headlines,” the The report also asserted that bank said in the statement. “Contrary a Swiss investment manager had to the trustee’s allegations, JPMorgan made “thinly veiled” threats to a did not know about or in any way as- bank employee after learning that Creating Careers! sist in the fraud orchestrated by Ber- one of the bank’s Madoff-linked in- nard Madoff.” vestments could lose value. In the The bank intends to “defend itself report, the bank complained that the vigorously against the meritless and Swiss banker had insisted that the SUBMIT YOUR RESUME NOW! unfounded claims” in the lawsuit, price of the investment must not fall the statement concluded. and made references to “Colombian For nearly two years, Picard has interests who will not be happy” with at www.euro-career.com by used his subpoena power to obtain the bank’s actions. internal bank documents and con- A spokeswoman for the bank duct depositions with bank employ- could not immediately comment on Dec 3, 2010 ees, and the lawsuit will reflect his the authenticity of these excerpts, but conclusions from that research. But there is no sign that L’Express ever The European Career Fair @ MIT is an annual recruiting with the complaint filed under seal, published a retraction of its article. event, organized by the MIT European Club, that connects the trustee’s specific accusations are The trustee’s lawsuit against JP- employers from Europe with the most talented candidates not yet public. Morgan Chase is the second-largest that live in the US. Whether student or young professional, if There may be clues, however, to claim he has filed in the Madoff liqui- you are looking for career opportunities in Europe this event the case’s main themes in excerpts of dation so far, after a $7.2 billion claim is for you! internal bank documents that were against the estate of Jeffry M. Picower, leaked to the French media after the one of Madoff’s longtime investors. 18 The Tech Friday, December 3, 2010 Friday, December 3, 2010 The Tech 19 Chasm threatens Legislators mull Internet EU economic bloc freedom, privacy measures

By Steven Erlanger at New York University and the Cas- By Edward Wyatt sion to release the FTC report on measures affecting advertising The New York Times sandra of the economic crisis, is not The New York Times Wednesday. But he added that he revenues. optimistic about the euro zone, and believed the do-not-track recom- “There are more and more LISBON — Sara Vale Lima, sales sees no easy way out. The problems WASHINGTON — Lawmak- mendation was “premature,” and companies that are offering users manager at Eical, a Portuguese tex- of the periphery are essentially two, ers examining the Federal Trade that the commission needed to some kind of opt-out, enhanced- tile company, feels suffocated by the Roubini said: “High deficit and debt, Commission’s recommendation present “greater support for the notice mechanism, and I don’t euro. The common currency once but also low growth driven in part by for a “do not track” mechanism to proposition that consumer ex- believe we’ve seen dramatic fall- meant flush banks and easy credit, this competitiveness problem.” Cur- restrict the monitoring of Internet pectations of privacy are largely off of advertising revenues as a but these days it has laid bare a cold rency depreciation is impossible users said they supported stricter going unmet.” result,” said Daniel Weitzner, as- reality: Portugal shares the high and deflation is painful. safeguards for consumer privacy, Some Democrats in the House sociate administrator for policy at wages and prices of richer northern “If you have to reduce prices and but raised questions on how the and the Senate, however, have al- the National Telecommunications European neighbors, but not their wages by 30 percent over the next system would work. ready embraced the idea of a do- and Information Administration, competitiveness. five years, deflation is associated Many also expressed concern it not-track mechanism. On Thurs- a bureau in the Commerce De- The price of a Portuguese roll of with recession, and no country can would undermine one of the main day, Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., partment that is preparing the re- cloth, in euros, often exceeds that of accept it,” he said. “Doing the Ger- pillars of the Internet’s growth — said he would introduce a bill that port. He acknowledged that cau- a similar product made in compet- man solution of structural reform the development of free, advertis- would put in place such a system tion was required. ing countries outside the euro zone, is going to take a decade, not fast ing-supported content. to prevent the tracking of children Some companies that sell ad- like Poland, Pakistan or Turkey, by 30 enough to restore competitiveness. Even within the FTC itself, using the Internet. vertising agreed. Joan Gillman, an percent. Britain, once a big importer The only other option is for the euro there is not unanimous sup- Officials from the trade com- executive vice president at Time of Portuguese textiles, has effectively to weaken sharply.” But with the port for a do-not-track effort. mission and the Commerce De- Warner Cable, said in a statement devalued the pound, and Eical now German economy so strong and the William Kovacic, a Republi- partment, which is preparing its to the subcommittee that “do-not- sells almost nothing there. “Things American deficit so high, he added, can commissioner who was the own report about online privacy track could hinder job creation are quite difficult,” Vale Lima said. that is also unlikely. agency’s chairman during the for release before the end of the within the advertising industry Devaluation is the time-tested Economists agree that the big- last year of the Bush administra- year, said they have not yet seen and by websites that rely on ad- prescription for such ailments. But gest test for the euro is Spain, a tion, concurred with the deci- examples of enhanced privacy vertising revenues.” Portugal is shackled to a currency country with an economy twice that seems better suited to the rela- the size of those of Greece, Portu- tive strength of Germany or France gal and Ireland combined. “Spain than to southern countries like itself, isn’t off the cliff; it’s still a few miles Spain and Greece, with their ineffi- away, but moving pretty fast,” Rou- cient labor markets and tax systems bini said. “Can they do enough fis- and heavy debt. cal adjustments, structural reform, Bose is pleased to o er special The European Union and the 16 restoring growth, reducing the un- nations that use the euro face two employment rate, restoring com- savings for all students, crises. One is the immediate prob- petitiveness in time to stop falling lem of too much debt and govern- off the cliff? I’m not sure.” ment spending. Another is the more Stephane Garelli of the IMD busi- employees and retirees of M.I.T. fundamental divide, roughly north ness school in Switzerland studies and south, between the more com- competitiveness. He says the main petitive export countries like Ger- difference is between countries with many and France and the uncom- trade surpluses or deficits — be- petitive, deficit countries that have tween those that export more than ® adopted the high wages and gener- they import and those that do the Receive savings on most Bo se products, including the acclaimed ous social protections of the north reverse. ® without the same economic ethos of Germany, like the United States, Wave music system, home entertainment systems, headphones, strict work habits, innovation, more may have high debt, but no one flexible labor markets and high pro- doubts its ability to pay. The same and solutions for today’s most popular portable music devices. ductivity. is not true of southern economies, As Europe grapples with its fi- Garelli contended. “There was the nancial crisis, the more competitive, illusion of economic growth, but wealthier countries are reluctantly it’s built on sand. You can’t build an rescuing more profligate economies, economy on real estate, finance and including Greece and Ireland, from tourism.” fiscal and bank woes, while impos- The World Economic Forum ing drastic cuts in spending there. has issued competitiveness ratings Yet, even the staunchest defend- for 20 years based on increasingly ers of the euro now acknowledge that sophisticated measures, including the currency union cannot survive if government, law, ethics, infrastruc- ® its weaker members are caught in a ture, technology, debt and educa- perpetual hell of austerity budgets tion, said its lead economist, Jen- and declining incomes while the nifer Blanke. Germany ranks fifth in stronger countries are forced to tap the world of 139 countries, just after Bose Wave® music system – SoundLink® taxpayers for financial rescues. the United States. The Netherlands With the Continent facing more is eighth, France 15th, Austria 18th, competition from emerging rivals, Belgium 19th. The southern econo- including Brazil, Russia, India and mies of the euro zone are a different China — not to mention low-wage story. Ireland comes in at 29, Spain Eastern European nations out- at 42, Portugal at 46, Italy at 48 and QuietComfort 15 ® side the euro — the problems of Greece at 83. Acoustic Noise Cancelling ®headphones the euro’s southern tier threaten to Spain has the highest unem- become a vicious circle that could ployment rate in Europe, nearly 20 increase tensions and make the percent, with youth unemployment common currency untenable, some twice that. ® economists now argue. Another problem for the south Business people in the southern is that big European companies are countries call it the euro bind. Oscar migrating to the most competitive Turner, who runs a film company parts of the euro zone. Continen- in Portugal, explained, “The euro’s tal, the German maker of electronic great if you’re traveling around, but braking systems and tires, is no lon- it’s an absurd idea to have the same ger investing much in the south be- currency in a country like Greece or cause wages have risen too high. It Portugal as in Germany, which has is now building in lower-cost coun- totally different habits and culture.” tries like Hungary and Slovakia, These southern countries, some where productivity is higher com- of them relatively new democra- pared with wages and taxes. ® cies, took advantage of the euro to Ralf Cramer, a member of the Computer MusicMonitor borrow money cheaply. They lived company’s executive board, said on a bubble of credit and real es- Portugal once had production costs tate development that sent wages about one-quarter to one-fifth the and debt soaring. But they did little cost of German production. “But to improve their productivity, labor they caught up more to our level,” markets or tax systems and are now Cramer said. “So we’re not seeing paying a steep price in low growth or Spain and Portugal as lower-cost an actual decline, with no easy fix. l a b o r.” Governments have cut spend- Changing the structure of an ing. But except for Greece, under economy to make it more competi- the global gun, significant legal tive is a far more difficult problem and economic change is still lack- than establishing a permanent bail- Please direct all inquiries to the “M.I.T. Purchase Program.” ing. The imbalances plaguing the out fund, or even forcing austerity euro zone will not go away unless on countries with large deficits. The the south can cut costs, including south needs a thorough economic wages, so its companies can com- transformation, and at the moment pete. But that process, referred to by it does not have the growth — or the 1-800 -298-BOSE economists as internal deflation, is support from the north — to help it (2673) political poison. achieve that. “Europe is divided,” Nouriel Roubini, an economist said Roubini, the economist. ©2010 Bose Corporation. Patent rights issued and/or pending. 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