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WEATHER, p. 2 MIT’s Oldest and THU: 32°F | 12°F Largest Newspaper AM Snow Showers. FRI: 19°F | 10°F Snow Shower Chance. thetech.com SAT: 23°F | 12°F Sunny. Volume 140, Number 45 (ursday, January 28, 2021 JOANNA LIN ! THE TECH Snow melts outside the entrance of the Broad Institute Jan. 27. Spring semester to proceed as planned IN SHORT Undergraduates returning to campus should register to O!-campus seniors near MIT may request access to on-campus facilities receive pre-departure COV- ID-!" testing kits. By Kristina Chen (e decision came after “seeking families Jan. !, with Barnhart, Vice with the O-ce of the Vice Chancel- EDITOR IN CHIEF advice from public health experts Chancellor Ian Waitz, Vice President lor to assess and approve requests. Students living in the Boston and consulting with our Covid-#' and Dean for Student Life Suzy Nel- Once approved for access, seniors area may receive one CO- Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart Monitoring and Decision teams,” son present, along with other stu- will be issued Covid Pass and will be VID-!" test per week at MIT PhD ’** wrote that the spring se- who said delaying the dates “would dent and Institute leaders. required to maintain twice-a-week Medical. mester move-in and in-person in- likely not reduce risk signi$cantly.” In an email to undergraduates testing and daily health attestation. struction start dates would not be Barnhart also wrote that MIT Dec. #., Barnhart wrote that seniors Barnhart explained that the ex- Independent Activities Pe- delayed in an email to undergradu- Medical will mail a pre-departure living near MIT would be able to re- ception for seniors was “informed riod concludes on Jan. !". ates Jan. !!. Barnhart previously COVID-#' testing kit to eligible un- quest access to campus in the spring by the fact that, to date, we have outlined contingency plans that dergraduates in the U.S. (e goal of for “research and academic activi- seen no transmission of the virus on Interested in joining !e Tech? would delay these dates in a Jan. #/ the program is to identify students ties such as thesis work, UROPs, and campus in classroom or laboratory Email [email protected]. email. who test positive “before they depart in-person instruction required for settings,” and by how MIT’s “test- MIT will proceed with the origi- so that they can isolate and recover degree completion.” ing, contact tracing, and student Send news and tips to news@ nal Feb. #+–#/ move-in dates. (e prior to traveling to campus.” Seniors may request access support systems withstood” the up- tech.mit.edu. $rst day of in-person instruction will An information session on the through thesis, research, or depart- tick in cases experienced by MIT in be March #, also as planned. Spring was held for students and ment advisors, who will then work November. Full Spring grading policy announced, students can choose to grade one subject under emergency PE/NE Sophomore Exploratory and Junior-Senior P/D/F, Graduate P/D/F options are also available By Shelley Choi Sophomores, juniors, seniors, and Graduate P/D/F option are also avail- throughout the semester to com- party online proctoring” for exams ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR graduate students can, however, ac- able, though they cannot be used pensate for the elimination of Spring unless “all other options have been cept a grade of D to “ful$ll a require- to ful$ll departmental and Institute Break: March )–*, March !"–!+, April exhausted.” Chair of MIT Faculty Rick Dan- ment for graduation.” requirements. #,–!", and May ,–'. “No required For subjects with $nal exams, no heiser and the Academic Policy A letter grading system was de- (e Emergency Academic Regu- meetings may be held and no assign- assignments can be due and no tests and Regulations Team (APART) an- signed with “extra &exibility” due to lations and Recommendations con- ments may be due” during these days. can be held after the “last test date,” nounced the full grading policy for the COVID-#' pandemic. tain three sections: Class Meetings Instructors are encouraged to May #.. For those without $nal exams, Spring !"!# in an email to the MIT Like Fall !"!", all students can and General Regulations; Scheduling announce if their classes require at- the deadline for assignments “due community Jan. !#. Both undergradu- elect one subject to be graded as PE/ of Classes and Midterm Exams; and tendance in advance of Registration the last week of classes” is on the last ate and graduate subjects will be NE by Drop Date April !'. Sopho- End-of-Term Assignments, Final Ex- Week Feb. *–#!, as well as to “survey day of classes, May !". An ex camera graded on an A, B, C, D/NE, F/NE ba- mores may additionally designate ams, and (eses. their classes” to identify students in $nal examination may be held with sis, with the exception of D/NR and F/ one subject as Exploratory, then ei- All instruction must be “delivered “remote time zones” in order to ac- the permission of the Chair of the NR for $rst years. ther accept the letter grade awarded remotely during the $rst two weeks” cordingly schedule recitation sec- Faculty. Students should be permit- No academic credit can be re- or change the class to listener sta- from Feb. #) to !). Several three- and tions and o-ce hours. Instructors are ted “unrestricted use of resources” in ceived for D/NE/NR and F/NE/NR. tus. Junior-Senior P/D/F option and four-day breaks have been scheduled further advised not to “utilize third- these exams. YEAR OF COVID HACKER LOVE SECTIONS Arts . .3 A documentary on the administration and lies that got us here. A perfect K-drama to “start up” for the tech and romance enthused. ARTS, p. 3 Fun Pages . .4 ARTS, p. 3 ! T01 T120 T0345678, J793748 !*, !"!# WEATHER Established 1881 Storms ahead Publisher Nathan Liang ’21 By Maria is bringing both excite- Geogdzhayeva and ment and anxiety to folks. Editor in Chief Renbin Liu Much of California’s cu- Kristina Chen ’23 mulative precipitation Business Manager As IAP comes to a so far is less than half of (omas Wang ’21 close, Boston is expected the average amount. (is to see some snow in the storm is the strongest Managing Editor next few days, with the one for much of North- Ivana Alardín ’21 temperatures dropping ern California so far this towards the weekend. rain season and will Executive Editor Watch out for the wind bring helpful precipita- Áron Ricardo Perez-Lopez ’20 chill on Friday. Get out tion, but it has also raised NEWS STAFF your best gloves and concerns for areas with mittens, maybe $nd a burned scars from the News Editors: Kerri Lu ’23, Wenbo Wu ’23; Associate News Editors: Shelley Choi ’23, spare carrot, and try not wild$re. Concentrated Grace Song ’23, Nicole Chan ’24, Srinidhi to spend too much time precipitation in a short Narayanan ’24; Staff: Rujul Gandhi ’22, Margaret outside – unless you’re period of time may lead Rodriguez ’22, Edwin Song ’22, Kylee Carden ’23, building a snowman. to mudslides in these lo- Richter Jordaan ’23, Cami Mejia ’23, Jennifer (e snow showers cal regions and have re- Ai ’24, Mauricio Barba da Costa ’24, Daisy may have folks excited in sulted in evacuation or- Wang ’24; Meteorologist: Sarah Weidman ’21. the Boston area, and the ders of which people are PRODUCTION STAFF storm in the West Coast reluctant to comply. Editors: Joanna Lin ’22, Kevin Pho ’22, Ana P. Reyes Sánchez ’22, Chloe McCreery ’23; Associate Editors: Arun Wongprommoon ’23, Extended Forecast William Xu ’24; Staff: Yichi Zhang G, Jonah Darnel ’22, Nicole Teichner ’22, Caroline Today: Chance of snow showers. High near 32°F Bao ’23, Arthur Reiner De Belen ’23, Dean (0°C). Northwest winds around 9-14 mph. Fanggohans ’23, Kimmy McPherson ’23, Ronak Tonight: Partly cloudy. Low around 12°F(-11°C). Situation for Noon Eastern Time, Thursday, January 28, 2021 Roy ’23, Olivia Schirm ’23, Lydia Patterson ’24; Northwest winds around 14-16 mph. Illustrators: Gloria Lin ’21, Max Yu ’21, Raphi Tomorrow: AM snow showers possible. High Kang ’23, Camille Uldry Lavergne ’23. near 19°F (-7°C). Low around 10°F (-12°C). OPINION STAFF Northwest wind around 18 mph. Editor: Jen Fox ’21. Saturday: Sunny. High near 23°F (-5°C). Low around 12°F(-11°C). Northwest winds around SCIENCE STAFF 7-13 mph. Associate Editors: Isabel Barnet ’22, Anushka Sunday: Mostly sunny. High near 30°F (-1°C). Ray ’22; Staff: Jocelyn Shen ’22, Albert Liu ’23, Low around 22°F (-6°C). Northeast winds 5-8 Seung Hyeon Shim ’23. mph. SPORTS STAFF Editors: Ben Kettle ’22, Suleman Thaniana ’23. ARTS STAFF Solution to drivers Editors: Lior Hirschfeld ’21, Liane Xu ’23, Erika from page 4 Yang ’23; Associate Editor: Lulu Tian ’22; Staff: Vyshnavi Vennelakanti G, Johnson Huynh ’21, 3 9 1 2 4 7 5 6 8 Max Langenkamp ’21, Lani Lee ’21, Sharon 6 8 4 9 5 3 2 7 1 Lin ’21, Nyssa Miller ’21, Rona Wang ’21, Leah Yost ’21, Alana Chandler ’22, Rajiv Movva ’22, 5 7 2 6 1 8 9 4 3 Vaishnavi Phadnis ’22, Victoria Dzieciol ’23. 9 4 6 7 8 2 1 3 5 PHOTOGRAPHY STAFF 8 2 7 5 3 1 4 9 6 Editors: Ethan Sit ’21, Kevin Ly ’22; Associate Editors: Maxwell Yun ’21, Assel Ismoldayeva ’22; 1 3 5 4 9 6 7 8 2 Staff: Mahi Shafiullah G, Ether Bezugla ’22, Sophia Fang ’22, Shinjini Ghosh ’22, Alex Li ’22, 7 1 8 3 2 4 6 5 9 Kevin S.