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Volume 129, Number 45 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, October 16, 2009 DSL Releases Break- down of Student Life Fee; UA is Surprised By Jessica J. Pourian dent services. Staff Reporter The $22 is split into $14 for stu- After several years of inquiry dent government and activities, and from the Undergraduate Associa- $8 for athletics, Dean for Student tion and The Tech, the office for the Life Chris Colombo told The Tech Dean for Student life released the in June. breakdown of the student life fee last The distribution of the $22 came Tuesday. as a surprise to the Undergraduate The student life fee increased Association, which hastily revised to $272 this year, up $22 from last its budget in response last week, ac- year’s $250. This is the third year in counting for additional funding. a row that the fee has been increased. Undergraduate Association Pres- Both undergraduate and graduate students pay this fee to support stu- Student Life Fee, Page 9 Where Does the Student Life Fee Go? $1,200,000 Meng Heng Touch—The Tech $1,150,000: DAPER (Z-Center) Ece Gulsen G receives an influenza vaccine at MIT Medical’s student-only flu clinic in the Student Center on Thursday. All 1000 doses reserved for the day were used. $600,000: MIT Medical/Mental Health Services $1,000,000 $325,000: Graduate Education Dean $100,000: Student Life Dean $800,000 Dining Plans Awaiting Task Force; $393,000: Student Activites $35,000: Fall Festival $100,000: Spring Weekend $50,000: Assisting Recurring Cultural $600,000 and Diversity Events Dean Says No Changes This Year (ARCADE also gets $25K from the Dean for Graduate Education) By Maggie Lloyd It is estimated that the Institute Student Life plans to meet with $100,000: Large Events Fund Staff Reporter will release this report by the end of the housemasters of the four dorms $400,000 $108,000: Club Sports Changes to MIT’s dining sys- the month or the beginning of No- with dining halls to hear their re- tem will have to wait another few vember, according to Dean for Stu- sponse to the Task Force’s final $150,000: Undergraduate $200,000 Activites months—at least. Competing pro- dent Life Chris Colombo. recommendations, said Karen A. $60,000: Class Councils posals released last spring from the Colombo said he has looked over Nilsson, Senior Associate Dean for $90,000: Undergraduate Assocation Blue Ribbon Dining Committee and both dining committees’ propos- Residential Life. (This $90K covers nearly 30% of the UA’s budget; MIT’s General Institute Budget the UA Dining committee await the als and met with the leadership of The UA committee is concerned $0 covers the rest.) final report from the Institute-wide the committees over the summer to with two of the Task Force’s recom- Source: Tom Gearty, Division of STudent Life Planning Task Force before discus- review their proposals, which were Recently released data from DSL provides the much-awaited sions concerning them can continue. released at the end of last term. Waiting for Dining, Page 11 breakdown of MIT’s student life fee. $1.1M goes to DAPER. MAS.967 Pushes Phone Medical Tech., Payments Rotberg Brings Smartphones to Developing World By D.C. Denison for a patient being tested for tuber- The Boston Globe culosis. It’s an unlikely medical device: The software, created by a non- a sleek smartphone more suited to a profit organization called Moca, is nightclub than a rural health clinic. one of nearly two dozen cellphone- But it’s loaded with software that based projects that have sprung from allows health workers in the remote NextLab, a course at the Massachu- northernmost Philippines province setts Institute of Technology. It’s of Batanes to dramatically reduce taught by Jhonatan Rotberg, who the time it takes to get X-rays to a radiologist — and to get a diagnosis MAS.967, Page 10 In Short ¶¶Stephen D. Immerman has been grabbed from behind while stopped appointed President of Montser- to tie his shoe, and two suspects, both rat College of Art, a small residen- “dark-skinned black males, 5'7"–5'9", tial art college in Beverly, MA. Im- approximately 15 years old” attempt- merman has been at MIT in various ed to remove his backpack. The as- positions since 1979. sailants were unsuccessful in taking the backpack and fled east on Vassar Aaron M. Thom ¶¶An attempted robbery took place St. towards Main St. On Tuesday evening, Elephants walked down Memorial Drive in front of Killian Court on their way last Friday at the intersection of Mass to the TD Garden in Boston, where they will perform in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Ave., and Vassar St. at 11:12 p.m., Send news information and tips to Circus this Fall. the MIT Police said. The victim was [email protected].

Comics Parents taking Ar t s World & Nation ��������������������������2 you out for din- Built to Spill Dig Further Down Opinion ����������������������������������������4 ner? But don’t Page 5 Arts ����������������������������������������������5 know where to Byrne, Bikes, Buenos Aires, Oh Comics / Fun Pages ��������������������7 go? See inside. My!: A Review of Bicycle Diaries Sports ����������������������������������������12 Page 7 Page 5 Page 6 Page 2 The Tech October 16, 2009 Wo r l d & Na t i o n For Colorado Boy, 6, Harrowing H1N1 Vaccine Is Fresh Balloon Ride Never Began By Dan Frosch and Monica Davey Fodder For Opponents The New York Times FORT COLLINS, Colo. For hours on Thursday, people around the country were gripped by By Jennifer Steinhauer “Nationally right now there is a “I wonder if the people dissemi- television images of a homemade, silvery balloon careening through the The New York Times tremendous amount of attention on nating this false information about skies near here, whooshing over fields and trees and yards with a 6-year- People who do not believe in vac- this vaccine,” said Dr. Thomas Farley, this vaccine realize that what they are old boy believed to be inside. cinating children have never had much the New York City health commis- doing could result in some people los- A search party was readied — on foot, on horseback, in helicopters sway over Leslie Wygant Arndt. She sioner. That focus has given vaccine ing their lives,” said Dr. Jonathan E. with infrared sensors — to scan the aircraft’s path of more than 60 miles, has studied the vaccine debate, she opponents “an opportunity to speak Fielding, the director of the Depart- some fearful that the boy might have fallen from his perch. said, and came out in favor of having out publicly and get their message ment of Public Health for Los Ange- In the early afternoon, the balloon landed near Denver International her 10-month-old daughter inocu- amplified that they didn’t have at les County. The comments of vaccine Airport, but the boy was not in it. At last, near dusk, the boy was found, lated against childhood diseases. But other times,” he said. dissenters, which he said “politically hiding in a box in his family’s garage attic, fearful his father would be there is something different about the Barbara Loe Fisher, president of come from the left and the right,” angry at him for touching the flying machine his father had built in their vaccine for the H1N1 flu, she said. the National Vaccine Information were frequently, he said, “not just backyard. “I have looked at the people who Center, an advocacy group that ques- counterproductive but downright dis- “Quite frankly, I couldn’t stand,” the boy’s father, Richard Heene — are against it, and I find myself tak- tions the safety of vaccines, said the graceful.” whose family (including three young boys) has appeared on a reality ing their side,” said Wygant Arndt, swine flu has “breathed new life” into Web sites, Twitter feeds, talk radio television show on ABC, “Wife Swap,” and been interviewed by local who lives in Portland, Ore. “But then the cause. “People who have never and even elevator chatter are awash media in Denver for their love of chasing stormy weather — said of the again, I go back and forth on this ev- asked questions before about vac- with skeptics decrying the vaccine, moment his youngest son, Falcon, reappeared inside the family’s home in ery day. It’s an emotional topic.” cines are looking at this one,” Fisher largely with no factual or scientific Fort Collins. “I just hit the floor with my knees,” Heene said, as Falcon, Anti-vaccinators, as they are said. basis. The most common complaint chomping pizza and occasionally grinning, stood among reporters in the often referred to by scientists and The increased interest is frustrat- is that the vaccine has been newly family’s front yard. “He scared the heck out of us.” doctors, have toiled for years on the ing to health officials, who are strug- formed and quickly distributed with- By nightfall, questions were emerging about the public costs of the margins of medicine. But an assem- gling to persuade an already wary out the benefit of clinical trials; in saga, which briefly interrupted departures from the Denver airport, and blage of factors around the swine public to line up for shots and prevent fact, the swine flu vaccine was made about how Falcon had managed to stay hidden in the attic of the garage flu vaccine — including confusion the spread of the pandemic. Accord- using the same techniques as season- even as authorities twice searched the family home. over how it was made, widespread ing to a CBS News poll conducted al flu shots over the last two decades, speculation about whether it might last week, only 46 percent said they and a small number of clinical trials be more dangerous than the virus were likely to get the vaccine. The were conducted this year to deter- Report Says Bans on Smoking itself, and complaints among some nationwide poll, which has a margin mine the adequate dose. health care workers in New York of sampling error of plus or minus 3 There are also claims that the Reduce Heart Disease about a requirement that they be vac- percentage points, found that while 6 vaccine contains adjuvants — some- By Pam Belluck cinated — is giving the anti-vaccine in 10 parents were likely to have their times added to make vaccines more The New York Times movement a fresh airing, according children vaccinated, only 46 percent effective — although they have not Bans on smoking in places like restaurants, offices and public build- to health experts. said they were “very likely to.” been used in this one. ings reduce cases of heart attacks and heart disease, according to a report released Thursday by a federally commissioned panel of scientists. The report, issued by the Institute of Medicine, concluded that ex- posure to secondhand smoke significantly increased the risk of a heart Holiday Travelers Who Wait to attack among both smokers and nonsmokers. The panel also said it found that a reduction in heart problems began fairly quickly after a smoking ban was instituted and that exposure to low or fleeting levels of second- Book Flights May Pay More hand smoke could cause cardiovascular problems. “Even a small amount of exposure to secondhand smoke can increase By Michelle Higgins In recent weeks, some flights have in his online Holiday Travel Guide, blood clotting, constrict blood vessels and can cause a heart attack,” said The New York Times risen even more. From New York, a “holiday travel procrastinators do so at Dr. Neal L. Benowitz, a professor of medicine, psychiatry and biophar- Procrastinators were rewarded last round-trip American Airlines flight their own peril this year, and practical maceutical sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and a year when they finally got around to to Chicago that cost $354 on Sept. 14 travelers should be shopping now and member of the panel. booking flights for holiday travel. was $540 on Thursday, a 52 percent buying before the end of October.” Back then, airlines were not prepared jump, according to Yapta.com, which Anne Eddy is kicking herself for for the sharp falloff in travel and of- tracks fares. waiting. In August, she paid $313 for At Goldman Sachs, Huge fered last-minute deals to fill up empty A JetBlue flight to Orlando that a round-trip flight from Providence, planes. was $524 on Sept. 24 was $614 on R.I., to Houston to take her son Dun- Profits and Huge Bonuses This year? Dilly-dallying, even Thursday, and a Continental flight can to Rice University, where he is a By Graham Bowley waiting just a few days, could carry a from Newark to San Francisco that freshman. A week later, she paid $632 The New York Times NEW YORK steep price tag. was $504 on Sept. 18 was $770. — roughly double — to buy him a While many ordinary Americans are waiting for an economic recovery, Fares, though still lower now than That does not count all the extra ticket home for Thanksgiving. Goldman Sachs and its employees are enjoying one of the richest periods at this time last year, are rising with fees — some added just for holiday “I felt behind the game,” said in the bank’s history. Goldman executives are perplexed by the resentment each passing day, a trajectory that be- travel days — that airlines are charg- Eddy, a health care administrator from directed at their bank and contend the criticism is unjustified. But they find gan more than a month ago. ing this year. The professional crystal- Needham, Mass. Determined to get themselves in the uncomfortable position of defending Goldman’s blow- In the last week alone, overall fares ball gazers on fares agree fliers should ahead of it, she immediately booked out profits and the outsize paydays that are the hallmark of its success. for Thanksgiving travel rose 6 percent, not wait to book their tickets. another flight for him at Christmas. It For Goldman employees, it is almost as if the financial crisis never according to Bing Travel, part of Mi- “Travelers should be shopping was $309 round-trip. A recent online happened. Only months after paying back billions of taxpayer dollars, crosoft’s search engine. Ticket prices now,” said Joel Grus, who tracks search showed that if she had waited Goldman Sachs is on pace to pay annual bonuses that will rival the record for the most popular itinerary, depart- airfares at Bing Travel. “If a price any longer for the Thanksgiving res- payouts that it made in 2007, at the height of the bubble. Top producers are ing Wednesday, Nov. 25, and returning seems good to them, they should get ervation, she might have had to pay expecting multimillion-dollar paydays. Sunday, Nov. 29, are up 10 percent in it.” “Bottom line,” said Rick Seaney, more than $800 — if she could get a the last week. chief executive of Farecompare.com, seat at all. We a t h e r A Wet and Windy Weekend Situation for Noon Eastern Daylight Time, Friday, October 16, 2009

By Vince Agard 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 Staff Meteorologist 40°N So far this week, we have seen a departure from the sunny, enjoyable au- tumn weather of early October for cloudy skies and chillier temperatures. This weather has been more reminiscent of late November than mid-October, 995 but those looking for a reprieve will have to endure a few more days of cold. In fact, a bit of storminess will be added to the equation, as two low pressure 35°N systems will bring wind and rain to the Boston area over the weekend. 1029 The first of the two storms affecting our weather is a Nor’easter passing to our East off the Atlantic coast on Friday. This storm will bring periods of 1025 rain coupled with strong winds, which could blow leaves off of trees and cre- ate poor drainage flooding in urban areas. While the worst conditions of the 30°N weekend will likely occur on Friday, a second storm is likely to impact New 1025 England toward the end of the weekend, bringing continued wind and rain to the area through Monday.

Extended Forecast 25°N Today: Windy with periods of rain, High 44°F (7°C). NE winds 20-30 mph. Tonight: Remaining rainy and breezy, Low 39°F (4°C). Tomorrow: Breezy with a chance of rain, High 50°F (10°C). NE winds 12- 20 mph. Sunday: Rain likely, Highs in the high 40s °F (9°C). Monday: Rain possible, Highs in the high 40s °F (9°C).

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Q Q Q Q Warm Front Light Low Pressure Haze LLLLL Cold Front Moderate Compiled by MIT Hurricane Q Q Meteorology Staff L L Stationary Front Heavy and The Tech October 16, 2009 The Tech Page 3 A Woman, Her Son and His Father, the Priest By Laurie Goodstein was a priest. The New York Times “I’ve always called him Father O’FALLON, Mo. Henry — never Father, never Dad,” Parents With three small children and her said Nathan, at home between hos- marriage in trouble, Pat Bond attend- pital visits. “I always felt he picked ed a spirituality retreat for Roman religion over me.” Catholic women in Illinois 26 years The relationship between Bond ago in hopes of finding support and and the priest is hardly unique. While comfort. the recent scandals involving the Ro- Weekend What Bond found was a priest — man Catholic Church have focused on a dynamic, handsome Franciscan friar the sexual abuse of children, experts * in a brown robe — who was serving say that priests who have violated as the spiritual director for the retreat sexual and emotional boundaries with and agreed to begin counseling her adult women are far more common. on her marriage. One day, she said, as Clergy members of many faiths she was leaving the priest’s parlor, he have crossed the line with women pulled her aside for a passionate kiss. and had children out of wedlock. But 15 % O F F Bond separated from her husband, the problem is particularly fraught for and for the next five years she and the the Catholic Church, as Catholics in Everything in the store priest, the Rev. Henry Willenborg, many countries are increasingly ques- carried on an intimate relationship, tioning the celibacy requirement for with this ad or valid college ID according to interviews and court priests. documents. In public, they were both Bond’s case offers a rare look at leaders in their Catholic community how the church goes to great lengths October 16-18 in Quincy, Ill. In private they func- to silence these women, to avoid large tioned like a married couple, sharing settlements and to keep the priests in *% off full-price, in-stock items only. Not valid online or on prior purchases, gift cards, or rentals. Offer valid 10/16/09 thru 10/18/09 at Harvard Square only. Cashier instructions: F3, F3, 1, “15% College Discount.” a bed, meals, movie nights and vaca- active ministry. She has 23 years of tions with the children. documents, depositions, correspon- Eventually they had a son, setting dence, receipts and photographs relat- off a series of legal battles as Bond ing to her case, which she has kept in repeatedly petitioned the church for meticulous files. child support. The Franciscans ac- Those files reveal that the church quiesced, with the stipulation that she was tight-fisted with her as she tried sign a confidentiality agreement. It is to care for her son, particularly as his now an agreement she is willing to cancer treatments grew more costly. break as both she and her child, Na- But they also show that Willenborg than Halbach, 22, are suffering from suffered virtually no punishment, Harvard Square cancer. continuing to serve in a variety of With little to lose, they are ea- church posts. 1 Brattle Square ger to tell their stories: the mother, a The church entity Bond dealt with Second Floor once-faithful Catholic who says the is the Order of Friars Minor, common- 617-864-2061 church protected a philandering priest ly known as the Franciscans, whose and treated her as a legal adversary, members were known as mendicants and the son, about what it was like to because they survived on handouts SHOP THE WAY YOU WANT online ems.com | phone 888-463-6367 | stores 64 locations grow up knowing his absentee father from the communities they served.

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They are a tool to learn as many interesting facts as possi- Chairman from its applicants in lieu of a single, long essay. ble, in a way that scales to more than ten thousand applications. Austin Chu G For applicants, the essays are a chance to tell MIT who they Still, if applicants really enjoy writing, this change is hardly Editor in Chief are. Essays can reveal interesting bad news. The new format asks for 600 words over three short Nick Bushak ’10 character traits that sometimes essays — 100 more than was required in any previous year. And Business Manager Editorial get buried among the important prospective members of the Class of 2014 can look forward to Mark Thompson ’11 but repetitive activities, teacher recommendations, grades, and three chances to stand out — two more than before. Managing Editor test scores that pepper every application. Further, the 200-word essay is still an effective measure of Steve Howland ’11 Dean of Admissions Stuart Schmill ’86, whose staff reads an applicant’s ability to be concise, an important skill at an en- those essays, said they prefer shorter essays, which are more gineering school where people like to get to the point. Besides, Executive Editor likely to be densely packed with useful information. In contrast, MIT Admissions has and uses other ways to figure out whether Michael McGraw-Herdeg G when applicants must fill 500 words, each word is less precious you’re a good writer — test scores and teacher recommendations, News Staff and conveys less about the candidate. Tight word limits force ap- to name two. News and Features Director: Arkajit Dey ’11; plicants to forego rhetorical embellishments and focus strictly on The “long essay” format may very well be a dated concept Editors: John A. Hawkinson ’98, Jeff Guo ’11, Natasha Plotkin ’11; Associate Editors: Emily content. that is no longer an effective way to select students for a science Prentice ’11, Elijah Jordan Turner ’11, Pearle Schmill contends — and we agree — that the primary purpose and engineering university. Lipinski ’12, Robert McQueen ’12; Staff: Daniela of an application essay is not to be a “test” of writing ability. Still, we won’t really know until we hear from Admissions Cako ’09, Joyce Kwan ’10, Omar Abudayyeh ’12, Ziwei Hao ’12, Jessica Lin ’12, Meredith Lis ’12, To be sure, some applicants may be world-class essayists about their experiences with this year’s incoming class. If the of- Maggie Lloyd ’12, Ana Lyons ’12, Camille Z. who got a chance to shine when presented with a 500-word blank fice finds that multiple short essays let applicants express them- McAvoy ’12, Natasha Nath ’12, Sandhya Rawal page. But just as a resumé should not be written in conversational selves more effectively, across more character dimensions, then ’12, Zeina Siam ’12, Aditi Verma ’12, Joy E. Lee ’13, Meghan Nelson ’13, Jessica J. Pourian English, application essays should not be evaluated as traditional this is the right change for MIT. ’13; Meteorologists: Cegeon Chan G, Garrett P. Marino G, Brian H. Tang G, Angela Zalucha G, Elizabeth Maroon ’10, Vince Agard ’11. An article last Friday, “MIT’s Endowment Over the Past Ten Years” contained several er- Production Staff rors. MIT’s endowment payout is expected to drop in fiscal year 2011 (July 1, 2010 through Staff: Alexander W. Dehnert ’12, Divya Chhabra June 30, 2011), not the current fiscal year (FY2010). The payout dropped twice in the 2000s ’13, Joanna Kao ’13, Connor Kirschbaum ’13, — from FY2003 to FY2004 and from FY2004 to FY2005 — not once, making the projected Aislyn Schalck ’13. drop in FY2011 the third in history, not the second. MIT now plans to reduce its budget by Opinion Staff $118–$128 million over two years instead of $150 million over three years as originally Editors: Joseph Maurer ’12, Ethan Solomon planned (not a revised $150 million over two years). ’12; Staff: Florence Gallez G, Alejandro Rogers Corrections An article Tuesday about the new edition of Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. B. G, Gary Shu G, David Weinberg G, Keith A. Cormen PhD ’93, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein PhD ’92 incor- Yost G, Josh Levinger ’07, Aditya Kohli ’09, rectly claimed that Cormen implemented every algorithm in the new book. Cormen imple- Daniel Yelin ’10, Ryan Normandin ’13. mented every algorithm in Parts I-VI and every new algorithm in the third edition. Sports Staff Cormen is chair of the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College, not Editor: David Zhu ’12; Staff: Aaron Sampson “Darthmouth.” “Darthmouth is what James Earl Jones’s voice comes out of,” Cormen said. ’10, Michael Gerhardt ’12, Nydia Ruleman ’12. Arts Staff Editor: S. Balaji Mani ’10; Associate Editors: Maggie Liu ’12, Samuel Markson ’12; Staff: Sudeep Agarwala G, Rosa Cao G, Bogdan Fedeles G, Joanne Y. Shih ’10, Kevin Wang ’10, Sun K. Kim ’11, Emily Nardoni ’13. UA Update Photography Staff Editors: David M. Templeton ’08, Andrea Robles The Executive Committee prepared the Undergraduate Associa- response.pdf. ’10; Associate Editors: Vibin Kundukulam tion’s “Response to the Institute-wide Planning Task Force Prelimi- The UA Fall Semesterly Budget and Finance Board Appeals were ’11, Sam Range ’13; Staff: Vincent Auyeung nary Report” based on undergraduate feedback from the UA web- approved at Senate last Tuesday. The Election Code was amended G, David Da He G, Perry Hung G, Maksim site. This report was approved by the Senate on Tuesday, October through a bill to ensure that elections results, including vote tallies, Imakaev G, Sheng-Ying Aithne Pao G, Arthur Petron G, David Reshef G, Melissa Renée 13, 2009. The Coordinating Team of the Planning Task Force; the are publicly released by 10 p.m. on the day following the end of the Schumacher G, Martin Segado G, Noah Spies Chancellor, Executive Vice President, Provost, Chairs of the Insti- election. Additionally, an ad hoc Committee on Alumni Relations G, John Z. Sun G, Scott Johnston ’03, Martha tute Committees, and Chairs of the Task Force Working Groups; was formed; students interested in joining this committee should e- Angela Wilcox ’08, Peter H. Rigano ’09, Eric D. received a copy of the final report this week, and the report is pub- mail [email protected]. 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RESTAURANT REVIEW Eating Out with Mom and Dad Sick of Baker D? Parents to the Rescue!

he Scenario: Your parents have just arrived on cam- he Scenario: It’s Sunday morning, and your folks are pus, pleased to see that you haven’t gained all of the Staff writer Tracy Kambara packing up and leaving soon. Brunch is the perfect “freshman fifteen” in a month and a half of college. weighs in on where to eat meal for this last day, big enough to keep them full on T You show them around campus, stopping by the Stu- T their journey home but delicate enough to be eaten in dent Center and emphasizing that this is where you eat on a the morning. Your parents have already spoiled you through- daily basis. Eventually, you hear the five magic words from this Family Weekend. out the weekend, so you’re looking for an affordable option in your parents, “We’re taking you out tonight.” Without miss- he Scenario: Although your parents are excited to vis- a part of town they haven’t already seen. ing a beat, you slyly say, “Well, there is one place I’ve always it you, they also want to explore the tourist hot spots wanted to try out…” around Boston. To avoid trudging around 2.5 miles The Destination: T of old churches and graveyards of the Freedom Trail, Masa The Destination: you cut to the chase and begin to hit a few key spots: Boston 439 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116 Atlantic Fish Company Common, Faneuil Hall, and the North End. Lunchtime strikes, (617) 338-8884 761 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116 and you can smell the pastas, pizzas, and parmigianas wafting Boston’s South End neighborhood probably has the (617) 267-4000 through the narrow cobbled streets of Boston’s own Little Italy. highest concentration of restaurants serving weekend Seafood is to Boston as engineering is to MIT; around brunch, many at unbelievably low prices. Masa is no ex- here, you’ll find it everywhere, and it’s made us world famous. The Destination: ception, with a wide variety of south-of-the-border Ameri- Located across the street from the Prudential Center in Back La Famiglia Giorgio’s can fusion brunch dishes for about $10 each. On Saturdays Bay, Atlantic Fish Company is a fish and lobster lover’s dream 112 Salem Street, Boston, MA 02113 until 3 p.m. and Sundays until 11:30 a.m., Masa also serves come true, complete with a raw bar serving fresh clam and (617) 367-6711 a special prix-fixe Brunch Fiesta for only $7.95, which in- oyster. And for your seafood-hating little brother, they have a As the name suggests, La Famiglia Giorgio’s is a family- cludes a bread basket, a starter, an entrée, and tea or cof- limited selection of steak and chicken entrées as well. friendly restaurant good for lunch or dinner, with more group fee. When I first visited Atlantic Fish Company with Dad, I first table settings than two-person tables. Inside, the atmosphere Never one to pass up a good deal, I opted for the Brunch noticed the interior décor: heavy wood accents and seascape is warm, cozy, and proudly Italian, from the picture of the Fiesta with the plantain empanada for my starter and hue- murals add a nice touch to the white tablecloth setting without Pope to the giant countryside fresco covering one wall. vos rancheros for my entrée. Rather appropriately, the screaming “Ahoy matey!” You won’t find an aquarium, neon The menu is typical of most Italian restaurants, contain- bread basket contained blue cornbread, complete with three lighting, or any pieces of flair at this establishment. All around ing pages of appetizers, pastas, chicken, veal, fish, pizzas, memorable spreads (apricot habanero, cranberry chipotle, me, tables were filled with either business professionals or and calzones, in addition to an extensive wine list. The most- and my favorite, molasses butter). The plantain empanada young twenty-somethings accompanied by their parents. used word on the menu is probably “family,” with everything was starchy and sweet, and the pastry crumbled under my Our waiter was warm, friendly, and spoke with a thick Ital- being “family-portioned” or “family style,” and in a para- knife as I attempted to scoop up as much of the delicious ian accent. He rattled off a long list of the day’s fresh catch graph about the restaurant, it claims that all customers are cinnamon cream cheese as I could. The huevos rancheros and recommendations, adding to the already-large menu and part of the “family.” was filling, but could have been improved by swapping the making my decision that much harder. We immediately or- My friend and I split a caprese pizza and Saltimbocca grilled flour tortillas to toasty corn tortillas and by adding a dered clam chowder, as Dad had been dying to try the only pasta, and sure enough, we could have fed a family of four. scoop of guacamole in addition to the pico de gallo and sour New England specialty he knows. Rich, creamy, and loaded The pizza, topped with Mozzarella cheese, rich tomato sauce, cream. The Sante Fe Eggs Benedict, with perfectly poached with clam, it comes as no surprise that their chowder is award- and a pinch of chopped basil, had a fresh home-baked taste eggs served atop biscuits instead of the usual English muf- winning. (the difference is in the crust: not too doughy, with a satisfy- fin, was a favorite in my group as well. For my main dish, I finally chose the Pan-Seared Scal- ing crunch). The Saltimbocca pasta sauce was light with a Service and presentation are perhaps Masa’s two biggest lops, served with pistachio-basil pesto linguine and artichoke strong taste of white wine, served with soft mushrooms and weaknesses. Although we were quickly seated thanks to our hearts. I was thoroughly impressed with the tender, perfectly- prosciutto over ziti, cooked al dente. We asked to take our reservation through OpenTable, it took a good fifteen min- cooked scallops, as I’ve had one too many overcooked, tough, leftovers home, as did every other family in the restaurant. utes for our order to be taken and another long wait to get our sorry excuses for seafood in my life. Dad was a little disap- Service is very friendly and attentive without being over- check at the end. The restaurant was not even at full capac- pointed they didn’t have crab legs (his favorite), but was more bearing. In case you missed the clues, the waiters are caring ity, making me wonder how hectic it must get on Thursday than satisfied with his Grilled Swordfish Steak. We finished and seem to share in the importance of family. Salsa nights, when they serve $1 tapas. Many dishes came the meal with a cup of excellent coffee, strong enough to pull La Famiglia Giorgio’s offers a 20 percent off student and out of the kitchen messy; I first mistook the asymmetrical me out of a food coma without keeping me up all night. teacher discount on most entrées, so make sure to bring your placement of the empanada with the streak of cream cheese Sure, Legal Seafood might be closer to your parents’ hotel ID and present it when you place your order. Feeling rich to be artistic, but then I realized that it was just the result of room. But why settle for a chain restaurant experience (that after our meal, my friend and I walked around the block and hurried and poor presentation after comparing it with my you could have in states as far away as Florida) when you can into Mike’s Pastry, where we spent our savings from lunch friends’ plates. enjoy a bigger, better selection of seafood in Boston proper on gelato and Italian sweets. It’s hard to go wrong with Ital- But all in all, for under $10 with tip, I can’t complain for one night only? And another tip: as you and your parents ian food in the North End, but if you are with your family, much. Even its nearby competitors such as Aquitaine and “walk off ” your dinner from Atlantic Fish Company, stroll skip the overpriced tourist traps and the romantic restaurants Union Bar and Grille can’t outdo Masa in terms of value; down nearby Newbury Street, mention how cold it’s been get- with wine pairings listed under every dish. Instead, head their prix-fixe brunch options are more expensive for rough- ting lately, and they may just treat you to a winter coat, too. over to La Famiglia Giorgio’s where they keep it all in the ly the same amount of food. For a New England take on Now there’s a lesson in optimization. family. Southwestern fare, Masa will not disappoint.

Concert Review GOOGLE, ANDROID Win seven $ figure contract porting a life Built to Spill Dig Further Down saving mobile application to Google Android OS. Martsch and Co. Showcase New Songs, Favor the Old Send CV to: [email protected]

By S. Balaji Mani sway that ultimately dissipated as the song dimin- chorus of “Nowhere” was a blistering attack of Arts Editor ished to a close. dirty guitars, appended with a rhythmic hiccup at START-UPS Built to Spill The rest of the set featured mostly songs from the word “fuckup.” Accountalent The Middle East Downstairs, Cambridge, MA the band’s earlier nineties releases, except for a The only other new song appeared in the en- Management Corp. October 11, 2009 stunning performance of “Wherever You Go” (a core set. While it not as pleasing as some of the gem from 2006’s You in Reverse). With minimal other songs throughout the night, Built to Spill Consultants and CPAs uilt to Spill, just days after the release stage banter, save from Martsch’s shy “thanks” ev- closed with an extended version of a recent fa- to over 350 start-ups of their seventh LP There Is No Enemy, ery few songs, Built to Spill took time in between vorite, “Goin’ Against Your Mind,” which played stopped by Cambridge for a three night songs to discuss and prepare what to play. With a at full volume and got some members in the • Business Formation run at The Middle East Downstairs last catalog dating back to 1992, Martsch took the op- front row to dance wildly. The studio version is and Plans B • CFO services weekend. After seventeen years and a handful portunity to explore the full breadth of the band’s a decidedly long 8-minute journey, but the free- of different lineups, songwriter Doug Martsch repertoire. A devoted fanbase created a calmer, re- spirited improvisation in the live setting showed • Taxes is still at the helm, looking aged but adjusted. laxed atmosphere, and the fans allowed the band that Martsch and his bandmates were celebrating www.accountalent.com 978-621-0759 The “well-groomed” five-piece took the stage on some downtime to tailor a well-rounded set. a great weekend in Cambridge. The song faded Sunday, warmed up after two nights in the same Bassist Brett Nelson (not to be confused with out to loud applause, concluding a near 2-hour venue, opening with a powerful version of “You bandmate Brett Netson) mainly hid off to the side, set. Martsch modestly walked off stage behind his Were Right,” a tune from 1999’s Keep it Like a providing a tangible groove for the band. It was bandmates after a shower of praise from the audi- Secret. The song pulled the audience back and clear that Martsch took each song, which are all ence. Built to Spill continues to tour in support of forth through a dynamic maze, always climax- his compositions, very seriously. He connected There Is No Enemy, and will play their last gigs in ing with Martsch’s accusation, “you were wrong/ with the audience through focusing his attention Washington in November. when you said/everything’s gonna be alright.” on the vocal delivery and The song benefited from the controlled -layer keeping his eye on his ing of three guitars. Most notably, guitarist Brett guitar at all times. An Eating Disorder Treatment Netson’s overdriven leads cut through the mix array of guitar pedals en- Treatment of Adults Suffering from at times to reveal a deeper counterpoint against circled him, and he care- Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa Martsch’s riffing. fully switched between Eager to continue playing through new mate- sounds at different sec- Informed clinicians refer their clients to rial (though the last night of every three night run tions of every song. The Laurel Hill Inn. LHI provides the most is always reserved for “old stuff”), “Hindsight” band’s stage performance effective treatment and deploys the highest appeared early in the first set. The contemplative demonstrated their drive staff-to-client ratio in New England. We piece shows Martsch in a more reserved but hope- to faithfully reconstruct provide extensive programming in a highly ful light. The orchestration is lush and focused the songs. They success- structured and supervised non-institutional on cleaner guitars. In the live setting, washes of fully executed “Nowhere therapeutic setting. Evening, day, and residential treatment as well as [email protected] sound dominated to further the chord progression. Nothin’ Fuckup,” a song weekly support groups in West Medford and West Somerville. Call The song is also slower and generated a shoegaze dating back to 1993. The Linda at 781 396-1116 or visit www.laurelhillinn.com. Page 6 The Tech Ar t s October 16, 2009 BOOK REVIEW Byrne, Bikes, Buenos Aires, Oh My! Musings from Off the Stage and On the Streets By Charles Lin art, architecture, music, politics, and anthro- ity. “It would be flattering to think,” he writes guitar while a model house burns.” SENIOR EDITOR pology. In Berlin, he narrates ebb and flow of from the Australian Outback, “that the dome These and other oblique references are as Bicycle Diaries East and West before and after the Wall. His full of stars out here and the little critters scur- close as Byrne ever gets to incorporating his David Byrne primary mechanisms often evoke the primal rying around on the ground have put me, the former life as the Talking Heads’ front man. Viking Adult textures: disco music and the aroma of food human ant, in my place, and I’m having an Readers hoping for a glimpse into David September 17, 2009 wafting into East Berlin; the weight of always epiphany about my holy insignificance. But Byrne the touring rock star will be sorely dis- $25.95 being watched from hastily disguised Stasi being that I’m mere yards from a crappy con- appointed, for it seems Byrne’s passions have hidden cameras. In America, he poignantly crete-block motel room and a humming mini- shifted. At its heart, Bicycle Diaries speaks t the core of Bicycle Diaries, David paints the decay of the American industrial fridge, I doubt it.” of Byrne’s desire to understand community, Byrne’s foray into cycling fan-(non)- city, using the language of highways as scars, Byrne is at his best in his sojourns to the how people interact — what defines aesthet- fiction, is the notion that being ona suburbia as glut, and city centers as decaying Philippines, where he researches a concep- ics and perceptions of art, success, happiness, Abike provides a unique viewpoint of the flesh. tual album on the life and personality cult of and modern life. For Byrne, cycling offers a world. Through offerings that are captivating Throughout his diary entries, Byrne is un- Imelda Marcos, wife of the former dictator. means of connecting disparate nodes, finding and thought provoking, Byrne dispenses his in- abashedly intellectual, yet he lets his curiosity He explores the notions of power and ma- the commonality of street markets and con- sights from eyes perched above the cars and pe- wander without being too academic. Much of nipulation during the reign of Marcos and the crete edifices in cities around the world. And destrians. Being on a bike probably helps, but the potentially numbing pedantry is massaged Western exploitations of the Philippines. In as much as we may want to scoff and consider the real trick is being David Byrne. How else out by his humor and singular mastery of all Manila, he marvels at street cover bands that Byrne’s musings the typical spewing of a pro- could you explain diary entries from Buenos that is ironic and esoteric. On biking in the perform perfect reproductions of American gressive Manhattan bicycle nut (which he is), Aires bike rides that devolve into meditations aftermath of the NYC Marathon, he writes, hits and the country’s fascination with Kara- he offers a simple message, telling us not to on canine hierarchy and lewd dog behaviors? “The streets ran bright yellow with Gatorade oke — including an attempt to rope him into neglect the primal connections with the world Byrne, who takes a folding bike on many — it looked like the marathoners had all peed Karaoking old Talking Heads songs. Of him- that modern life deprives us of and cycling of his travels, lets his mind wander as he themselves after taking a lot of vitamins.” self, he writes, “someone programs ‘Burning provides. pedals through urban landscapes across the The writing is also surprisingly lucid and Down the House,’ maybe in the hopes that I He also wants us to wear a helmet and en- world. Cycling in turn is both his muse and Byrne’s command of observation pays divi- will sing, but I just stare at the screen as a courage our local government to install more backdrop for his variegated expositions on dends in tiny moments of humor and humil- guy that looks like 80s Bon Jovi poses with a bike lanes.

Concert Review 18th century in England during the reign of period-appropriate straight-tone with tinges William and Mary (the English, for some rea- of vibrato. He soared without restraint into son, never jumped on the castrato bandwag- the very highest of his register for ad libitum Reviving the Masters on). Henry Purcell, the court composer at the ornamentation and smoothly transitioned time, decided to write unreasonably high parts through the passaggio at the bottoms of hair- for some tenors in his choir, forcing grown raising melismatic runs into a startlingly Andreas Scholl Performs the Works of Vivaldi, Händel men to sing in their pre-pubescent upper regis- rich baritone. Scholl’s mid-range, however, ter, the falsetto (remember Robin Williams as seemed to stagnate, somehow unable to af- By Sudeep Agarwala (resulting in extraordinarily large lung capac- Mrs. Doubtfire?). Grown men, most often with fect the drama of Vivaldi’s setting. Spinosi’s STAFF WRITER ity) and, perhaps most importantly, the larynx rich bass or baritone voices, were trained to orchestra worked as well as accompaniment Period Instrument Orchestra failed to develop: the adult male (castrato in sing so high that they shared the range of boys, as it had center-stage, again, displaying a Jean-Christophe Spinosi, conductor Italian) retained his pre-pubescent range and sounded like boys, and often replaced boys, unique ability to shift dynamic and mood at Andreas Scholl, countertenor flexibility. Subsequent training developed creating an adult male part that sang higher moment’s notice, providing surprisingly sen- Symphony Hall, Boston, MA the pre-pubescent voice into a mature, fully- than the tenors: the countertenor. sitive counterpoint to Scholl’s. October 11, 2009 developed, yet eerily pristine, alto or soprano Conflating castrati with countertenors be- The program continued with another vi- voice part. gan in the late nineteenth century when inten- brant orchestral interlude, Vivaldi’s Sinfonia point of clarification: the practice of While castrati were originally used exclu- tional castration for the purposes of musical in b minor, “Al santo sepolcro” (RV 169) (a castrating pre-pubescent boys that sively for ecclesiastical music (the Sistine Cha- performance was deemed barbaric. Slowly, all startling two-movement work rife with stun- showed promise in singing started in pel, for instance, had one of the most famous the European countries, and now the world, ning chromaticism and a startling fugue) A the sixteenth century somewhere in castrato choirs until the early twentieth centu- outlawed the practice; the last famous castra- and concluded the first half with two Händel Italy. In the absence of the testosterone-secret- ry), castrati gained in popularity and were used to, Alessandro Moreschi, died in 1922. Only arias, “Dall’ondoso periglio...Aure, deh, per ing gland, limbs elongated, ribs kept growing extensively for major roles in opera during countertenors remain to sing music written pieta” from Giulio Cesare and “Se parla nel the Baroque and for the castrato voice by some of the world’s mio cor” from Giustino. Again, Scholl and Classical periods. greatest composers (Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Spinosi were almost prescient of the other’s Successful cas- Händel, Mozart, to name a few). motivations throughout the music, presenting trati were wildly This is exactly what countertenor Andreas a clear, united thesis of both works. Problems popular, stealing Scholl did on Sunday, October 12, in a col- with Scholl’s middle range, however, plagued the celebrity of laboration with Jean-Christophe Spinosi and these arias more than the initial cantata, par- any given stage, the Period Instrument Orchestra at Boston’s ticularly in the first aria: An over-zealous or- guaranteeing full Symphony Hall. chestra and restrained soloist obfuscated the SPERM DONORS Up to houses for any The program featured various works by melody of Caesar’s aria. Se parla nel mio cor, a month! given opera, com- the Baroque composers Vivaldi and Handel. however, found Scholl more at home, high- NEEDED $1100 manding small Spinosi’s ensemble began the performance lighting his incredible range, flexibility and fortunes for solo with Vivaldi’s Overture to La fida ninfa; razor impeccable articulation. Healthy MEN in college or with a college degree wanted for our recitals and (per- sharp dynamic contrasts in the opening Allegro Sunday’s performance concluded with sperm donor program. haps confusingly) lolled into an indulgent, lugubrious Andante Vivaldi’s Filiae maestae Jerusalem, a stark Minimal time commitment were often objects movement that culminated in a refreshing Alle- setting of the Catholic Stabat mater sequence, of great sexual gro closing movement. Mr. Spinosi’s complete depicting Mary at the crucifixion of Christ; Help people fulfill their dreams of starting a family. desire. control over the ensemble manifested itself in Spinosi led an appropriately dour orchestra Receive free health and genetic screenings. In contrast, sparkling precision and jeweled articulation. accompanying an inconsolable Scholl in a the countertenor Mr. Scholl joined the ensemble for Viv- meditation on sorrow and sacrifice. Scholl, APPLY ONLINE: voice part was aldi’s secular cantata, Cessate, omai ces- performing with score for this lengthy canta- formalized in sate. Scholl’s tone was impeccable, warming ta, appeared more comfortable with his mid- www.SPERMBANK.com dle range for this work. A gloomy introduction gave way to the chill- Made possible by the Council for the Arts at MIT ommonwealth Chool ing setting of the Stabat mater text. C S As before, ad libitum ornamentation relieved tedium of repeated verses while showcasing Scholl’s incredible Free tickets for MIT students! articulation, range and facility in ex- pression. A magnificent melismatic Amen movement concluded the work on an uplifting (and much-needed) Boston Chamber Music Society Picardy third resulting in an almost Sunday, October 18 at 7:30pm immediate standing ovation from the audience. Sanders Theater, Harvard Square Although, theoretically, Sunday’s concert used countertenor as ersatz castrato, there’s an argument to be 2 tickets per MIT student ID made that not much imagination is Photo by Layla M., Class of 2011 needed to envision what this music would have sounded like in its origi- SHARP MINDS & GENEROUS HEARTS nal incarnation. The countertenor Anime: Film & Discussion timbre is somehow fragile, more nu- “The Girl Who Leapt through Time” Small, challenging classes led by inspiring anced its delineation between a boy Wednesday, November 4 at 7:00pm faculty. Meaningful service to others. soprano and female soprano in ways Independent projects each year. Deep and that can’t necessarily be articulated. Almost certainly, it’s not the same as Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts durable friendships. The highest levels of 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston a true castrato’s voice; that form of intellectual and artistic expression. singer, sound, even method of train- ing are all lost to the ages. But with 1 ticket per MIT student ID Fall Open House, Sunday, October 18, 3–5 p.m. Scholl performing, does that really www.commschool.org/learnmore matter? 151 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02116 (617) 266-7525 The Handel and Haydn Society; sponsor of Mr. Scholl, Mr. Spinosi, Pick up tickets @ the Office of the Arts (E15-205) and the Period Instrument Orchestra; continues its season on November 6 Monday - Friday - 2:30 - 5:00pm - in person only best private school and 8 with performances of Mozart’s http://web.mit.edu/arts/see/freetickets/index.html Piano Concerto No. 21 and Haydn’s Boston magazine, September 2009 “Farewell” Symphony. October 16, 2009

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Steal My Comic by Michael Ciuffo

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CB Logo (Black & White) October 16, 2009 The Tech Page 9 Life Fee Now Up $22; on Agreement Reached Sword’s In December Meeting Student Life Fee, from Page 1 Student Life Fee Communty Lecture Series Point ident Michael A. Bennie ’10 wrote By Year to the UA Senate that the announce- Year Student Life Fee ment “has a MAJOR impact on our 2002-2003 $200 On Sword's Point — fall budget. Our funding has in- 2003-2004 $200 creased by $35,000 over last year (a 2004-2005 $200 Problems and Challenges little over a 13 percent increase to the 2005-2007 $200 annual UA budget).” 2006-2007 $200 in Interfaith Dialogue Bennie said that “the first $20,000 2007-2008 $236 will primarily be passed on to stu- 2008-2009 $250 dent groups,” and “the remainder, 2009-2010 $272 Thurs. October 22, 8:30am Breakfast* $15,000, will be used for the insti- tutionalization of Student-Faculty ary funds made available through the W11—Religious Activities Center Dinners. This immensely popular fee. program allows five students to take The fee was first raised in 2006 (corner of Amherst and Mass. Ave.) a faculty member out to dinner and to fund construction for DAPER. It serves as a valuable form of informal was raised again in 2007 to account advising.” for inflation. Prior to 2007, there was “no Budget Issues Lead to Increase mechanism” for increasing the fee, MIT Interfaith Dialogue Program The fee has increased for two Cummings said. Departments would main reasons, said Peter D. Cum- just ask for more funding and the fee mings, Senior Director for Finance would be increased by a dollar or so. Speaker for the Division of Student Life: It was “a very incremental way of Dr. Hubert Locke — Dean Emeritus-Daniel J. Evans summer athletics support and other doing things” said Cummings. School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, budget cuts. a moral leader, author, Holocaust scholar, In 2007, the Department of Ath- How The Fee is Split authority on police and urban affairs. Dr. Locke's letics, Physical Education, and Rec- Today, the fee is split up through life’s work has focused on “Justice in Society." reation (DAPER) instituted a $40 fee a series of meetings with the UA, to support summer access to Athlet- GSC, Colombo, and Dean for Grad- *RSVP — [email protected], x3-3511 ics facilities. The Graduate Student uate Education Steven R. Lerman Council strongly opposed the fee, ’72. This year’s increase of $22 was and successfully lobbied for its re- agreed to at a meeting of the Aca- Questions: [email protected] moval, but that left DAPER with less demic Council last December. But, Website: studentlife.mit.edu/rl/addir_fellows money. there was no clear agreement on “It’s a convenience issue” said how the increase was to be distrib- All are invited. Breakfast will follow the program. Cummings, noting that not everyone uted until DSL’s announcement last who attends MIT is just here for the week. academic year. Money from the student life fee is Addir is a word in Ancient Sumerian which means “bridge”. In the Addir Fellows Program “Graduate students get 12 month divided between MIT Medical, DA- we aspire to build bridges of dialogue and understanding. The Addir Fellows MIT Interfaith leases” for housing, he said, and PER, the Dean for Student Life, the Dialogue Program is sponsored by Office of Dean for Student Life and MIT Hillel in suddenly not being able to use the Graduate Education, undergraduate cooperation with the Board of Chaplains. athletic facilities is a “big interrup- activities, and student activities. tion.” Their lifestyle, at least in terms MIT Medical’s portion goes to- of the time they spend on campus, is wards supporting Mental Health “fundamentally different” than that services and DAPER’s portion goes of the undergraduate population. towards the Zesiger Center. The second reason for the in- The dean’s portion of the fee is crease is to combat budget cuts, left for discretionary funding. Cummings said. The undergraduate activities With the recent economic down- portion encompasses the UA and turn, the “opportunity for receiving the class councils, as well as the any increases are going to be gone for UA Finance Board (Finboard). Stu- a very long time,” Cummings said. dent activities includes events like Raising the fee now is “preemptive spring weekend and fall festival. to protect our base of funds.” This The student life fee was insti- money will allow groups that “need tuted in 2002 to support the newly [discretionary] funding” to get it if opened Z-Center. “We weren’t going they need it. to charge a membership fee for stu- For instance, Cummings said, if dents” Cummings said. The admin- an athletic team were to do very well istration instead decided to have a and make it to playoffs, MIT has no student life fee for students that in- money set aside for the team to take cluded DAPER and other things and a trip. only charge faculty and staff mem- “Teams aren’t budgeted for play- bership. offs” Cummings said. Traveling is The fee is covered by financial only possible through the discretion- aid for students who qualify. Student Life Fee Breakdown, 2002 vs. 2009 2002-2003 2009-2010 DAPER $80 $115 Medical $60 $60 Student Activities, $40 $39.3+15+10 Undergraduate Activities, = $64.3 and Student Life Dean Graduate Education $20 $32.5 Total $200 $272 source: Peter D. Cummings, Tom Gearty; Division of Student Life

This space donated by The Tech Page 10 The Tech October 16, 2009 NextLab Facilitates Worldwide Change With Phones MAS.967, from Page 1 resource-constrained countries, aka said. “That gets you thinking about echocardiograms, and other medi- ial programs to bring innovation developing countries, aka low-in- how you can leverage this.” cal imagery.” to developing countries, has four was sent to MIT by Telmex, one of come countries.” Using Rotberg’s course as a sound- Cellphones are well suited to cellphone-related projects in the Latin America’s largest telecommu- And when Rotberg settled into ing board, the Moca team decided to what is known as telemedicine, net- works. That’s not surprising, given nications companies, to bring cel- his research and teaching position focus on facilitating cellphone com- works that connect remote locations that the center’s director, Iqbal lular technology to the “90 percent at the Media Lab, he made a dis- munication between health workers with sophisticated medical diagnosis Quadir, founded Grameenphone, a of people” who fall outside of the covery: The same device that pow- in rural areas and doctors, who tend and advice. But social entrepreneurs company that introduced low-cost marketing plans of most phone com- ers teenage texting in the United to be in cities. are also using cellphones to enable cellphone service to Bangladesh in panies. States can be adapted to help farm- Last summer, Moca conducted a remote commerce and promote lit- the 1990s. Talking about his Telmex job, ers in Mexico and illiterate women small pilot program in Batanes, us- eracy. “For cellphones, it’s really only Rotberg made a peak with his hands. in India. ing cellphones to send X-rays to ur- Dinube, a NextLab spinoff that the beginning,” Quadir said, “be- “We were dealing with the very top “Cellphones are inexpensive, per- was tested in Mexico last summer, cause cellphones are becoming com- of the pyramid,” he said as he sat in sonal, connected, and everywhere,” provides payment services to people puters. Think about it: What are the his office at MIT. “We spent most of he said. “They are also the perfect who don’t have access to traditional limits of computers? Actually, there’s our time trying to sell more phones Trojan horse for social development, “We started with X-rays, banks. no end to it.” and products to the middle class and because you don’t have to convince but there’s no reason “One of the powerful things about To stay ahead of this rapidly the upper middle class.” anyone to buy one.” cellphones in Mexico is that there is evolving technology, Rotberg re- So three years ago, funded by a In NextLab, Rotberg challenged we can’t also transmit a 75 percent penetration rate,” said cently launched what he refers to as grant from Mexican investor Carlos students by asking, “Can you make Jonathan Hayes, a cofounder of version 2.0 of NextLab. The spring Slim’s foundation, Telmex sent Rot- a cellphone change the world?” And ultrasound videos, Dinube. “But only 25 percent of the semester course, hosted by the MIT berg to MIT to research methods students have responded, creating echocardiograms, and other population has a bank account. So Center for Transportation and Lo- for using cellphones to help “the nearly two dozen projects and three a cellphone-based system can fill a gistics, will be focused on creating start-up ventures that have been medical imagery.” huge, important gap.” a mobile phone-based platform for a working with communities in devel- Two other NextLab projects broad range of projects. G DOC oping countries like India, Vietnam, show the mobile phone’s range: “The magical part of this technol- IN K and Mexico. ban doctors for screening. CelEdu offers cellphone-based ogy is that if we build something in D SA A L “It really kind of jumps out at Leo Anthony Celi, a physician games and quizzes that have been one location, we can just tweak it and O E you, the positive impact you can who recently completed a mas- used in India to teach basic literacy use it in another,” Rotberg said. L 2 Days have with cellphone technology,” ter’s degree at MIT, has made three skills. Zaca — developed by stu- It’s safe to assume, he added, that said Zackary M. Anderson ’09, a trips to the Philippines to field-test dents at MIT, Harvard, and Tufts there will be more opportunities for a t Only! e r recent MIT graduate who was on a Moca. — helps farmers make deals with leveraging cellphone technology. T o team that started Moca, a nonprofit “The Philippines actually ad- buyers using their cellphones, by- “There’s no question that the h st e k passing expensive middlemen. The cellphone footprint will expand, and M oo that is developing mobile software opted cellphone texting way ahead IT Press B to improve health care access in less of the US, so there’s already a plat- cellphones also provide current that phones will get cheaper, and that wealthy countries. form in place that we can lever- crop prices and advice on growing computing power will grow,” he said. “The next billion people who will age,” he said. “We started with X- practices. “The only question is, will we rec- announcing: mit_2873-74:Layoutbe getting online will be using 1 10/2/2009 cell- rays, but 11:38 there’s AMno reason Page we 1 can’t MIT’s Legatum Center, which ognize that this is an opportunity for The Fall 2009 phones, not computers,” Anderson also transmit ultrasound videos, supports a variety of entrepreneur- social good?” LOADING DOCK SALE! 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imagination at work ge.com/careers October 16, 2009 The Tech Page 11 72% of Students Give Vote Against Dining Proposal on UA Site Waiting for Dining, from Page 1 to the UA’s updated response to the Task Force ideas (available at http:// mendations: meal plan changes and web.mit.edu/ua/docs/updated_task- financial aid food allotment. force_response.pdf), over 500 com- According to UA Dining com- ments on the recommendations were mittee chair, Adam S. Bockelie ’11, submitted and close to 750 students the least popular Task Force option gave a “thumbs up” or “thumbs his committee is facing is the re- down” vote on at least one recom- placement of the $300-per-semester mendation. House Dining membership with a “Opposition is particularly fierce $600-per semester system. The $600 because the existing $300 system payment would be used as a declin- does not provide most students with ing balance to pay for meals, but the an overall benefit,” the UA response 50 percent discount would no longer said. “For most students, the $300 fee exist. is far more than the money ‘saved’ As of last night, this recommenda- with the fifty percent discount. The tion had a 12 percent approval rating proposed $600 fee is a declining bal- on the UA website, where students ance system without a discount, so can give a “thumbs up” or “thumbs the overall cost to students who eat in down” vote to the Task Force recom- dining halls regularly would be about mendations (28 out of 218 voted in the same.” favor; 190 against). As far as implementation of these Secondly, Bockelie said, there has recommendations goes, Colombo been positive feedback from students said, “I do not anticipate any changes towards reducing the food allowance to house dining for this year.” in financial aid from $4,510 to $3,000 Bockelie said that the UA Dining per year to more closely match the Committee met for the first time this average student’s yearly food spend- term on Wednesday night, and is just Henisi. Pat, cor 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. ing. Students with a meal plan would beginning to define their goals for Magnim do doloreet, conulput wisi ex ex eu facincilit alit iustissed eugue vel dolore vent still receive $4,510 yearly. the term. That plan has received a net 70 percent approval rating on the UA site (142 out of 202 voted in favor; LEGAL COUNSEL 28 against). MIT students, family, employers and Feedback has played an im- start-ups seeking U.S. legal counsel, portant role in the development of campus or office consultation. Call: these recommendations. According James Dennis Leary, Esq. 321-544-0012 The Tech does many things to get a story. MIT Sport Taekwondo

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MIT Cycling Wins goal in the 74th minute to close the scoring. MIT (7-4-1, 3-1-1 NEWMAC) outshot Coast Sc o r e b o a r d Collegiate National Guard 32-3. Goalie Katy Olesnavage ’11 made one save Women’s Soccer Track Championship to pick up the win while Coast Guard sophomore Tuesday, October 13, 2009 Mary Mills had 14 saves in the loss. Coast Guard The MIT cycling team won 22 medals during (2-10, 0-5) has dropped six straight. U.S. Coast Guard Academy 1 its bid for the 2009 Division-II Collegiate Track The Engineers return home this weekend to host MIT (6-4-1) 7 Championship, successfully defending itts 2008 ti- Smith College on Saturday, October 17, at 1 p.m. at tle. Guo-Liang Chew ’10, Matthew C. Steinbrenner Stadium. Blackburn G, Martha W. Buckley G, —Mindy Brauer, DAPER Staff Women’s Tennis Nick C. Loomis G, Michael L. Garrett G, Yuri Matsumoto G, Laura R. Ral- Tuesday, October 13, 2009 ston G, Zachary A. Labry G, Timothy Wheaton College 6 J. Humpton ’10, and Jose H. Soltren MIT Defeats WPI, MIT (2-4) 3 all competed at the championships for MIT. MIT earned a silver medal in the Collegiate Remains Perfect in Sprint, the only co-ed event at the championships. In addition, Garrett placed 5th in the Men’s Om- NEWMAC Play Women’s Volleyball nium and Ralston placed 12th in the Women’s Om- The Women’s Volleyball team defeated Worces- Tuesday, October 13, 2009 nium, the competition for best overall rider across ter Polytechnic Institute 3-1 in a NEWMAC match Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1 all divisions. Tuesday evening. With the 14-25, 25-12, 25-18, —Michael Garrett, Team Member 25-19 victory, MIT remains unde- MIT (18-4) 3 feated at 6-0 in NEWMAC play and improves to 19-4 overall. Women’s Soccer Sinks The match started slowly for Coast Guard, 7-1 MIT with a subpar performance in the first set. The opening set win p c o m i n g o m e v e n t s Alisha D. Lussiez ’12 and Emily Kuo ’13 had by WPI was its first over MIT since U H E three goals each leading MIT to a 7-1 win over 2000, a span of nine straight matches. However, Friday, October 16, 2009 Coast Guard in a New England Women’s and Men’s the Engineers were able to bounce back and take Rifle vs. John Jay College, Mass. Maritime Academy, Wentworth College Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) control in the following three sets, winning all 6 p.m., duPont Gymnasium match on Tuesday. three in comfortable fashion. Lauren R. Hernley ’11 gave MIT MIT had a balanced offense propelled by Alex- Saturday, October 17, 2009 a lead just 1:32 into the match before andra T. May ’10’s double-double of 13 digs and 10 Men’s and Women’s Crew — Head of the Charles 9 a.m., Charles River Coast Guard tied it in the 28th min- kills. Alyssa L. Rothman ’13 notched 43 assists and Women’s Volleyball vs. Eastern Connecticut State University ute. Jennifer Li ’11 and Kelly E. Schulte ’12 collected 15 10:30 a.m., Rockwell Cage It took MIT just 1:08 to regain the lead as Kuo and 10 kills respectively. Women’s Volleyball vs. UMass-Boston 1 p.m., Rockwell Cage scored her first goal of the game giving MIT a 2-1 Katie K. Spielbauer ’13 chipped in with 14 digs Women’s Soccer vs. Smith College 1 p.m., Steinbrenner Stadium lead at halftime. while Anna D. Dikina ’11 added 12. Barden E. Clee- Women’s Volleyball vs. St. Lawrence University Lussiez took a pass from Merricka C. Living- land ’10 was strong at the net with four blocks and 3 p.m., Rockwell Cage stone ’13 increasing the lead to 3-1 in the 52nd 11 kills. Men’s Water Polo vs. Fordham University minute. Lussiez scored again in the 61st minute This Saturday the volleyball team will host an 5:30 p.m., Z-Center Pool before Kuro scored a pair of goals, both assisted all-day tournament in Rockwell Cage with Eastern by Andrea Y. Park ’13, just over three minutes apart Connecticut State University, UMass-Boston and Sunday, October 18, 2009 for a 6-1 lead. St. Lawrence University. Men’s and Women’s Crew — Head of the Charles Sarah C. Vega ’13 assisted on Lussiez’s third —Paul Dill, Team Coach 9 a.m., Charles River

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