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Volume 131, Number 24 tech.mit.edu Tuesday, May 3, 2011 First open house in over 30 years draws 20,000 Organizers deem it ‘tremendous success’; MIT ponders holding more frequent open houses By Ethan A. Solomon departments, student groups, and Editor in Chief MIT divisions were asked to in- dependently develop open house To the outside world, MIT can events, underscoring the largely de- be an intimidating place. Films like centralized organizational process Good Will Hunting and 21 have por- behind Under the Dome. Opera- trayed the Institute as an exclusive tions like information booths and — and sometimes snobbish — club security were, however, organized of scientists and engineers. Last Sat- on the level of the entire campus. urday, MIT set out to change all that David A. Mindell ’96, chair of by hosting its first open house in the MIT150 Steering Committee, more than 30 years, dubbed “Under was pleased with the open house, the Dome.” noting that nothing like it has hap- An estimated 20,000 visitors pened in recent MIT history. Since came to MIT for demonstrations, MIT’s last open house was over tours, and exhibits hosted by MIT 30 years ago, Mindell said that the student groups, academic depart- open house was “nothing anybody ments, and administrative divisions. on campus had done before.” He From demonstrations of the Wright said there were no significant secu- Brothers Wind Tunnel (Building rity incidents. 17), to a UH 60 Black Hawk fly-in Paul A. Lagacé ’78, open house to Briggs Field, to the Baker House co-chair, described the day as a piano drop, MIT hosted 312 events “tremendous success.” He indi- in five hours. Children especially cated that, despite the 30-year gap seemed to enjoy the day-long affair between MIT’s last open house and — and availed themselves of oppor- this one, the next open house might tunities to climb campus artwork. come sooner. Manohar Srikanth—The Tech Still, not all of MIT was open. “Everybody is excited about the Children learn the inner workings of a joystick-controlled robotic manipulator during a technology dem- Labs which could not allow visitors opportunity to do this again,” said onstration at the Stata Center during MIT’s Under The Dome open house celebration on Saturday afternoon. inside opted to bring demonstra- Approximately 20,000 attendees visited campus for the first open house in over 30 years, part of MIT’s 150th tions to public spaces. Academic Open house, Page 11 anniversary celebrations. For more photos of Under The Dome, see p. 11.

Boston celebrates death of Osama bin Laden Maseeh to have binding lottery Students moving into Maseeh “To secure RBA and to create a Hall next term will not be able to strong stable community from the enter the re-adjustment lottery. day the dorm opens its doors, the Maseeh Hall is an RBA dorm, Housemasters agreed that selec- and like McCormick, students tion of Maseeh would be binding,” who place in Maseeh in the sum- Nicholson said mer lottery will have to live in that Although the decision for this dorm. Virginia L. Nicholson ’12, coming fall is set, Maseeh’s binding Phoenix Group president, con- RBA status will be reviewed to see firms that Maseeh will still partici- if that will be changed in the future. pate in REX, but students will not “Whatever benefits are gained have the option to move into Mas- by making RBA binding, we need eeh in the re-adjustment lottery to decide if those outweigh the — which about a third of incom- benefits of participating in REX,” ing freshmen enter. The dorm will said Daniel D. Hawkins ’12, UA still hold events open to the entire Housing Committee chair. campus. —Stan Gill Stem cells still alive Courts support legality of research Greg Steinbrecher—The Tech By John A. Hawkinson In the case, former MIT professor A crowd mostly composed of college students gathered at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Com- Staff Reporter and adult stem cell researcher James mon late Sunday evening to celebrate the death of terrorist Osama bin Laden. Two days ago, President L. Sherley sued the U.S. government Barack Obama announced that bin Laden was killed by a joint ground operation of the Navy SEALs Human embryonic stem cell re- to prevent the NIH from funding hu- and the CIA. The crowd sustained itself for almost two hours with an ebullient atmosphere, chanting searchers — at MIT and elsewhere — man embryonic stem cell research, and occasionally singing. Police officers stood nearby to monitor the energetic gathering. The students can rest easy … at least for now. on the grounds that it violates a Con- seemed to be predominantly from Boston University and MIT, with sparser showings from other area After five months of waiting for gressional appropriations rider bar- two different courts, the U.S. legal ring federal funding of research that colleges. system has taken one small step to- destroys human embryos. ward permitting that research to Sherley, who is black, was denied continue. But it will be months be- tenure by MIT in 2006. This led to a fore the case is fully resolved. Friday hunger strike by Sherley and an ac- Kendall Band Preservation Society. Go make some mu- morning, the United States Court of rimonious dispute over the tenure In Short sic at the Kendall/MIT MBTA station. The MIT Awards Convocation will be held in 10-250 to- Appeals for the District of Columbia process; Sherley claimed his tenure voted 2-1 to dismiss a preliminary decision was a result of racism. He is day at 4 p.m. MIT will recognize students, faculty, and staff Already thinking about next semester? Pre-registra- injunction barring the National Insti- now a researcher at the Boston Bio- for contributions they have made to the MIT community. tion for classes opened yesterday. tutes of Health from funding human medical Research Institution, which embryonic stem cell research. does not support Sherley in this case. Amar G. Bose ’51 donated a majority of Bose Corpo- The MIT150 Brains, Minds, and Machines sympo- That injunction had been on hold Sherley, like all BBRI investigators, is ration stock to MIT in the form of non-voting shares, sium will be held today through Thursday in Kresge (stayed) while the court heard an ap- expected to fund his own research, according to an announcement from the MIT News Of- Auditorium. fice last Friday. For more, see pgs. 15, 17. peal in the case, Sherley v. Sebelius, including his salary. so researchers have been able to con- In a 21-page decision, Judge Send news information and news feedback to tinue their work during these past Douglas Ginsburg wrote: The Kendall Band has been fixed thanks to the MIT [email protected]. months. The case was argued before the three-judge panel on Dec. 6, 2010. Stem cells, Page 12

Keep the bush PREFROSH invade The Tech These aren’t just Osama bin SECTIONS World & Nation �����2 Why did the Class of 2015 pick MIT? tax cuts pumpkins laden is dead Opinion �����������������4 CAMPUS LIFE, p. 18 Contrary to what Dems Glass art master Dale If you haven’t heard, Fun Pages �������������6 say, the Bush tax cuts Breaking the code Chihuly’s work is live at the get out of that cave Arts �����������������������9 are sound fiscal policy. Boston MFA. you’ve been living in. Campus Life �������18 OPINION, p. 4 Central Square Theater does ARTS, p. 10 WORLD/NATION, p. 2 Sports �����������������20 Alan Turing. ARTS, p. 9 2 The Tech Tuesday, May 3, 2011 Bin Laden DNA match is D likely a parent or child Emblem of evil in the US, While federal officials said that analysis of DNA from sev- eral relatives helped confirm that it was Osama bin Laden who was killed in the military raid on Sunday, they have not yet icon to the cause of terror disclosed the relationships of the family members whose DNA was used. By Kate Zernike afterward he remained an elusive, He waged holy war with modern

worl Officials said they collected multiple DNA samples from and Michael T. Kaufman shadowy figure frustratingly be- methods. He sent fatwas — religious bin Laden’s relatives in the years since the Sept. 11 attacks. And The New York Times yond the grasp of his pursuers and decrees — by fax and declared war

n they said the analysis, which was performed the day bin Laden thought to be holed up somewhere on Americans in an email mes- was killed but after his body was buried at sea, confirmed his Osama bin Laden, who was in Pakistan and plotting new attacks. sage beamed by satellite around identity with 99.9 percent accuracy. killed in Pakistan on Sunday, was Long before, he had become a the world. Al-Qaida members kept Some scientific experts said on Monday that if results re- a son of the Saudi elite whose radi- hero in much of the Islamic world, bomb-making manuals on CD and ally were so accurate, at least one of the sources was likely to cal, violent campaign to re-create as much a myth as a man — what communicated with encrypted have been a close relative, like a child or parent with whom he a seventh-century Muslim empire a longtime CIA officer called “the memos on laptop computers, lead- shared half his genes. redefined the threat of terrorism for North Star” of global terrorism. ing one American official to declare atio “That would be most likely,” said Frederic Zenhausern, di- the 21st century. He had united disparate militant that bin Laden possessed better rector of the Center for Applied NanoBioscience and Medicine With the attacks on the World groups, from Egypt to Chechnya, communication technology than at University of Arizona. Trade Center and the Pentagon on from Yemen to the Philippines, un- the United States. DNA matching usually involves obtaining material from a Sept. 11, 2001, bin Laden was elevat- der the banner of al-Qaida and his He styled himself a Muslim as- blood sample or cheek swab. ed to the realm of evil in the Ameri- ideal of a borderless brotherhood of cetic, a billionaire’s son who gave —Donald G. Mcneil Jr. and Pam Belluck, The New York Times can imagination once reserved for radical Islam. it all up for the cause. But he was leaders like Hitler and Stalin. He was Terrorism before bin Laden was media-savvy and acutely image- a new national enemy, his face on often state-sponsored, but he was conscious; before a CNN crew that

& N wanted posters. He gloated on vid- a terrorist who had sponsored a interviewed him in 1997 was al- Extra tax revenue to eotapes, taunting the United States state. From 1996 to 2001, he bought lowed to leave, his media advisers and Western civilization. the protection of the Taliban, then insisted on editing out unflatter- delay debt crisis until August It took nearly a decade before the the rulers of Afghanistan and used ing shots. He summoned reporters WASHINGTON — A greater-than-expected increase in United States’ quest ended in Paki- the time and the freedom to make to a cave in Afghanistan when he tax revenue has extended by about a month, until early Au- stan with the death of bin Laden in a al-Qaida — the name means “the needed to get his message out, but gust, the federal government’s ability to pay its bills without firefight with American forces, who base” — a multinational corpora- like the most controlling of CEOs, he an increase in the debt ceiling, the Treasury Department said attacked a compound where offi- tion to export terror around the insisted on receiving written ques- orld Monday. cials said he had been hiding. globe. tions in advance. The new estimate creates a significant grace period for Con- The manhunt was punctuated in After the Sept. 11 attacks, the Although he claimed to fol- gress to consider an increase in the maximum amount that the December 2001 by a battle at an Af- names al-Qaida and bin Laden low the purest form of Islam, many government can borrow, a step that House Republicans say ghan mountain redoubt called Tora W spread to every corner of the globe. scholars insisted that he was gloss- they will not take without an agreement to curb spending. Bora, near the border with Pakistan, Groups calling themselves al-Qaida, ing over Islam’s edicts against killing Federal borrowing is still likely to hit the legal limit on May where bin Laden and his allies were or acting in the name of its cause, at- innocents and civilians. Islam draws 16, the Treasury said, so this week it will begin to take emer- hiding. Despite days of pounding tacked U.S. troops in Iraq, bombed boundaries on where and why holy gency steps to buy additional time under the cap. Those steps, by American bombers, bin Laden tourist spots in Bali, and blew up war can be waged; bin Laden de- plus the increase in tax receipts, which have reduced the need escaped. For more than nine years passenger trains in Spain. clared the whole world fair territory. for borrowing, will delay a crisis by about a month — to August from July. “While this updated estimate in theory gives Congress ad- ditional time to complete work on increasing the debt limit, I caution strongly against delaying action,” the Treasury secre- tary, Timothy F. Geithner, wrote Monday to lawmakers. Bin Laden’s sprawling compound —Binyamin Appelbaum, The New York Times stood out in neighborhood

Two years after a bankruptcy, By Salman Masood called Bilal Town, where many re- people who lived in the house but The New York Times tired and serving military officials knew others who did. “A friend told Chrysler posts a profit live, said they were not suspicious me that some tall, bearded men DETROIT — The Chrysler Group, two years removed from ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan — The of the house’s occupants and never lived in the house who said they its descent into bankruptcy, posted on Monday its first quarter- sprawling compound where Osama suspected a high-level militant lead- had come to Abbottabad from Pe- ly profit since 2006, as the company sold more cars and trucks bin Laden sheltered before his death er might be living there. shawar some years ago due to some at higher prices. stood out in its middle-class neigh- Some said they assumed the oc- enmity.” Chrysler, the only Detroit automaker to lose money last borhood on the edges of this scenic cupants mainly kept to themselves But he said his friend, who ran year, earned $116 million in the quarter, after losing $197 mil- city, home to a large Pakistani mili- because they were religious, al- into the men at a local bakery, told lion in the period a year ago. Revenue grew 35 percent, to $13.1 tary base and a military academy. though even in most devout Paki- him they appeared to be Pakistanis billion, while sales were up 18 percent. The compound is about eight stani families, men regularly social- and were always very courteous. “Chrysler Group’s improved sales and financial perfor- times the size of most homes in ize with other men. On Monday, the Pakistan army mance in the first quarter show that our rejuvenated product the area and was surrounded by Jibran Khan, 23, who lives near put up barricades to block access to lineup is gaining momentum in the marketplace and resonat- high walls topped with barbed Bilal Town, said he had seen the all roads and alleys that lead to the ing with customers,” Sergio Marchionne, the chief executive of wire. Nearby residents noticed that huge house several times and nev- house and barred journalists from Chrysler and its Italian partner, Fiat, said in a statement. “These few people ever ventured out of er imagined that bin Laden would going near it. results are a testament to the hard work and dedication of our the house, and although a senior be hiding there, assuming that a The proximity of the house to the employees, suppliers and dealers, all of whom are helping Obama administration official said wealthy person had simply decided military academy, which is about Chrysler create a new corporate culture built on the quality of the property was valued at about $1 to settle on the large piece of prop- a third of a mile away, raised ques- our products and processes, and simple, sound management million, no telephone lines ran into erty with a view of the hills that sur- tions about whether Pakistani intel- principles.” the compound. round the town. ligence agents or military officials —Nick Bunkley, The New York Times Still, nearby residents in the area Khan said he had never met the knew bin Laden was there.

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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 Last week’s tornado 40°N outbreak breaks record 1008 By Allison A. Wing between 8 a.m. April 27 to 8 STAFF METEorologist a.m. April 28. This shattered 35°N the previous record for largest As reviewed in last Friday’s number of tornadoes in one 1016 weather discussion, the tor- event, which had been 148 from 1028 nado outbreak in the southern April 3–4, 1974. part of the country was a his- The weather for the next few 30°N toric event. Yesterday, NOAA days looks decidedly quieter, released a preliminary esti- with less of a threat of severe mate on the total number of weather. Here in New England tornadoes associated with that we will experience a sequence storm. Between 8 a.m. April 25 of cloudy days, with chances and 8 a.m. April 28, there were for rain showers today, tomor- 25°N

362 tornadoes. The bulk of row, and Thursday, associated 1034 those tornadoes (312) occurred with an approaching cold front.

Extended Forecast Today: Mostly cloudy. High 65°F (18°C). South winds at 8–10 mph. Tonight: Mostly cloudy, chance of showers. Low 55°F Situation for Noon Eastern Time, Tuesday, May 3, 2011 (13°C). South winds at 10–12 mph. Tomorrow: Rain showers. High 63°F (17°C). Low 46°F (8°C). Weather Systems Weather Fronts Precipitation Symbols Other Symbols Snow Rain South winds at 10–15 mph. Fog High Pressure Trough Showers Thursday: Chance of showers. High 58°F (14°C). Low 43°F Thunderstorm Warm Front Light (6°C). North winds at 8–13 mph. Low Pressure Haze Cold Front Friday: Partly cloudy. High 63°F (17°C). Low 48°F (9°C). Moderate Compiled by MIT Hurricane Meteorology Staff Northwest winds at 8–13 mph. Stationary Front Heavy and The Tech nation world & nation world & nation world & nation & nation world & nation world & nation world nation Tuesday, May 3, 2011 The Tech 3 Amid violence, Turkey WORLD & Nati In Arab world, Osama bin closes its embassy in Tripoli ISTANBUL — Turkey closed its embassy in Tripoli, the Libyan Laden’s confused legacy capital, on Monday, becoming the latest country to do so amid increasing violence there. Turkey’s Foreign Ministry also said it would maintain its consulate in rebel-controlled Benghazi. By Anthony Shadid tence, dictatorship and powerless- sity in Cairo, said of the attacks, “I “In light of recent changes in the security conditions in Libya and David D. Kirkpatrick ness. In recent months, it often have a vague recollection, but it and the emergence of potential security risks, we took an impor- The New York Times seemed that the only people in the was so long ago.” tant decision last night to temporarily evacuate our embassy in region who cited the name bin Lad- The United States’ pursuit of bin Tripoli,” Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey’s foreign minister, told report- BEIRUT — The words were not en were the mouthpieces of strong- Laden has long prompted suspi- ers in Ankara. uncommon in angry Arab capitals a men like Moammar Gadhafi and cion in an Arab world that remains “Of course this does not mean Turkey will cease its activity” in decade ago: Osama bin Laden was former Egyptian President Hosni deeply skeptical of U.S. support for Libya, he said. hero, sheik, even leader to some. Mubarak, evoking the al-Qaida Arab dictators and its unstinting al- Turkey, which has had strong business ties with Libya and has

But after his death, a man who once threat to justify clinging to power. liance with Israel. Doubts emerged acted as an intermediary between Western nations and the gov- on vowed to liberate the Arab world For a man who had some re- Monday over the timing of his ernment of Moammar Gadhafi, has evacuated roughly 25,000 of was reduced to a footnote in the sponsibility for two wars and deep- killing. its nationals from Libya amid the increasing chaos there. Last year, revolutions and uprisings remak- ening U.S. intervention from North Some suggested that bin Lad- Turkey began allowing Libyan citizens to stay in Turkey for at least ing a region that he and his follow- Africa to Yemen and Iraq, many en’s whereabouts had been long three months without a visa, in a strengthening of diplomatic and WORLD & Nati ers had struggled to understand. say, bin Laden’s death served as known and that the particular business relations. Predictably, the reactions ran an epitaph to another era more timing of his killing came in the —Sebnem Arsu, The New York Times the gamut Monday — from anger than anything. For many in an Arab interests of some party — be it the in the most conservative locales of world where three-fifths of the Obama administration, Pakistan or Lebanon to jubilation among Shi- population is under 30, the bomb- others. Sen. Scott Brown, a guardsman, ite Muslims in Iraq, thousands of ings on Sept. 11, 2001, are at most a In many quarters, there were whom fell victim to carnage com- childhood memory, if that. calls for revenge and anger at his seeks Afghanistan stint mitted in the name of his organiza- “The Arab world is busy with its killing, most publicly by Ismail BOSTON — Sen. Scott P. Brown of Massachusetts announced tion. Some vowed revenge; others own big events, revolutions every- Haniyeh, the Palestinian prime Monday that he had asked to conduct his annual training as a mem- expressed disbelief that the man where,” said Diaa Rashwan, deputy minister and head of the Islamist ber of the state’s Army National Guard this summer in Afghanistan. killed was in fact bin Laden. director of the Ahram Center for movement Hamas, who called him Brown, a Republican who will face re-election next year in what But most remarkable perhaps Strategic and International Studies, “a Muslim and Arab warrior.” Oth- is sure to be an expensive and closely watched race, has been a was the sense in countries like a research organization in Cairo. ers insisted that the battle bin Lad- member of the National Guard here since 1979. A lieutenant colo- Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and else- “Maybe before Tunisia his death en symbolized between the U.S. nel and lawyer for the Judge Advocate General Corps, he said in a where that the name bin Laden was might have been a big deal, but not and militant Islamists would go on, statement that doing his training as requested would help educate an echo of a bygone time of ossify- anymore.” and indeed, his organization was him on the war in Afghanistan and “better understand our ongoing ing divides between West and East, Or, as Farah Murad, a 20-year- always diffuse enough to survive mission in that country.” on U.S. omnipotence and Arab impo- old student at the German Univer- his death. He also said the training, which typically lasts two weeks, would “provide me firsthand experience for my duties on the Senate Armed Services, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs Committees.” WORLD & Nati Brown, 51, has never been deployed to a combat zone, though he completed brief assignments with the National Guard in Para- Obama finds praise for risky guay in 2005 and Kazakhstan in 2007. A Brown spokesman said in an email that Brown had done his annual training in Massachu- setts last year. operation, even from Republicans —Abby Goodnough, The New York Times

By Jeff Zeleny dential campaign. mains relatively high and the eco- and Jim Rutenberg The argument that most potential nomic recovery has yet to gain trac- The New York Times Republican candidates have been tion. Seventy percent of Americans Canada’s election looks to defy making — that Obama is a weak and in the Times/CBS poll last month WASHINGTON — President indecisive leader, incapable of han- said the country is on the wrong track early predictions Barack Obama drew praise from un- dling rapidly evolving events around and the White House is heading into OTTAWA — Canadians voted Monday in an election that ap- likely quarters on Monday for pursu- the world — suddenly became more what could be a bitter fight with Re- peared set to defy its early expectations. ing a risky and clandestine mission complicated. And the boost in stat- publicans about spending and rais- When his government fell in late March, Prime Minister Stephen to kill Osama bin Laden, a successful ure for Obama, even if temporary, ing the debt limit. Harper immediately began a campaign aimed at giving his Conser- operation that interrupted the with- comes at a moment when a number But at a minimum, Obama has vatives a majority in the House of Commons, ending the political on ering Republican criticism about his of Republicans are deciding whether been dealt another high-profile op- instability that has brought Canada four elections since 2004. foreign policy, world view, and his to commit themselves to the presi- portunity to try and position himself But with the main issue at stake being whether the Conserva- grasp of the office. dential race, and offered fresh evi- above the bitter partisan fray and of- tives would win a majority or form another minority government Former Vice President Dick dence that he might be less vulner- fer a voice of reasoned compromise without one, most political analysts forecast a dull campaign, low WORLD & Nati Cheney declared: “The administra- able than his opponents thought he — a theme consistent with his strat- voter turnout and, regardless, another government led by Harper tion clearly deserves credit for the might be. egy over the past six months of shed- in the end. success of the operation.” Former The development came at a fortu- ding Republican efforts to cast him Until two weeks ago, they were more or less right. New York City Mayor Rudolph Gi- itous time for Obama, who received as a partisan liberal out of touch with Since then, the unexpected rise of the New Democrats, a party uliani of New York said: “I admire the worst foreign policy rating of his the country’s values. historically distinguished by its lock on third place, over the final the courage of the president.” And presidency in a New York Times/ “The world is safer; it is a better weeks of the campaign has left even some of Canada’s most opin- Donald Trump declared, “I want to CBS News poll last month, with 46 place because of the death of Osama ionated commentators at a loss for predictions. personally congratulate President percent of respondents saying they bin Laden,” Obama said Monday. While two Conservative Party officials, who declined to be iden- O b a m a .” disapproved of his handling of in- “Today, we are reminded that, as a tified because they were not authorized to speak about internal As fleeting as it might prove to ternational affairs. But the long-term nation, there’s nothing we can’t do forecasts, acknowledged that it was unlikely that Harper would get be, the positive tone stood in blunt implications for the president and when we put our shoulders to the his majority, most polls suggested that he would remain as prime contrast to the narrative that Repub- his re-election were impossibly dif- wheel, when we work together, when minister. licans have been working to build in ficult to predict. we remember the sense of unity that Beyond that, however, the outcome of the election seemed to be the opening stages of the 2012 presi- The nation’s unemployment re- defines us as Americans.” anyone’s guess. —Ian Austen, The New York Times on Osama bin Laden’s burial at sea Blagojevich’s second federal

corruption trial begins WORLD & Nati CHICAGO — Rod R. Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois aimed to prevent a shrine on land who is charged with trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat that once be- longed to President Barack Obama, talked and talked and talked. By John Leland for that type of burial, and we want- tified the body, the official added. But he never really sealed a deal, criminal or otherwise. and Elisabeth Bumiller ed to make sure that it was going CIA specialists also compared pho- So went the defense presented by Blagojevich’s lawyers as his The New York Times to be done, again, in strict confor- tographs of the body with known second federal corruption trial opened Monday, more than eight mance. So it was taken care of in the photographs of bin Laden. Brennan months after a first trial ended with a jury divided on all but one in White House officials decided appropriate way.” said the various forms of identifi- a thick tangle of criminal charges against him. before Sunday night’s firefight in But some Islamic scholars and cation created “a growing sense of Aaron Goldstein, Blagojevich’s lawyer, told this new set of ju- northern Pakistan that if U.S. troops clerics were divided Monday over confidence and a growing sense of rors that federal authorities had never discovered a pot of money killed Osama bin Laden, they would whether the sea burial was ap- accomplishment.” in Blagojevich’s possession after his arrest in 2008. They had never bury him at sea in order to prevent propriate or an insult to Muslims. “There wasn’t one ‘aha’ when found a flush bank account. “They found nothing because there is his grave from becoming a shrine Several said bin Laden should have people say, you know, OK, the DNA nothing,” Goldstein said. for his followers, a White House of- been buried on land in a simple results came in,” he said. “No, this “In the end, you will have nothing,” he said. ficial said Monday. They planned grave. The sea burial, off a U.S. air- is something that was building over In many ways, Blagojevich’s new trial felt like a muted, less circus- to include all rites associated with craft carrier in the North Arabian time, and we made a decision then like replay of the last one: same courtroom, same judge, same pros-

Muslim burials, the official added. Sea, added an ambiguous coda to last night, because we felt as though ecutors, same hair. But this trial — with only a shrunken group of on U.S. officials stressed Monday a life that had been clouded in se- we were confident enough to go out curious residents here to touch Blagojevich or seek his autograph that the sea burial followed Islamic crecy over the past decade. to the American people and out to — is expected to be more challenging for Blagojevich, not least of custom. “The disposal of — the buri- According to a senior U.S. intel- the world, to say we got him.” all because of the way prosecutors have scaled back and simplified al of bin Laden’s remains was done ligence official, after members of Brennan added that the admin- their case. W in strict conformance with Islamic the Navy SEALs killed the man they istration had not yet decided wheth- Prosecutors have dropped several of the most complicated precepts and practices,” said John O. believed to be bin Laden at a com- er to release photographs of the charges — racketeering, in particular — and have reduced their Brennan, President Barack Obama’s pound in Pakistan on Sunday, CIA body. The indecision over whether case to 20 counts, including attempted extortion and bribery. In an o top counterterrorism adviser, who agents compared DNA samples with to release the photographs reflected opening statement, Christopher Niewoehner, an assistant U.S. at- added the administration had con- the profiles of several family mem- the administration’s desire to end torney, took pains to define for jurors even the most basic concepts R

sulted with Islamic experts. bers to confirm his identity, finding speculation about whether the man — governors sit at the top of the power structure in state govern- l “It was prepared in accordance a “virtually 100 percent” match. killed was really bin Laden — and ment; campaign dollars are separate from official state finances; with the Islamic requirements,” he One of Bin Laden’s wives who its fears that the pictures would in- wiretaps are approved by judges. D said. “We early on made provisions was living in the compound iden- flame and rally jihadis. —Monica Davey, The New York Times 4

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theater review May Tuesday, 2011 3, 10 The Tech Tuesday, May 3, 2011 exhibit review And then there was glass Chihuly’s latest exhibition celebrates light, dark, and color in installation art

By Kathryn Dere Arts Editor

Dale Chihuly has been working with glass for over 40 years, and his newest collection of glass sculptures is now on display at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass is not your typical art exhibition, it’s a celebration of installation art and fragil- ity at its very finest. Of course, before we give Chihuly all the credit, you should know that Arts Arts Art S he does not work alone. A dislocated shoulder from a 1979 bodysurfing accident left him un- able to hold a glassblowing pipe; since then, he has relied on a team of glassblowers to carry out his artistic plans. Chihuly classifies his role as “more choreographer than dancer,

A RTS more supervisor than participant, more direc- tor than actor.” The result of these artistic col- laborations is an oeuvre focused just as much on presentation as craftsmanship. Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass is a surreal journey — part exploration down the chocolate river to Candy Land, part moving walkway past the Crown Jewels, part diving at the Great Barrier Reef. Persian Wall greets ex- Photo by teresa nouri rishel © 2011 Chihuly Studio, All rights reserved hibition viewers at the bottom of the stairs that Chihuly’s Neodymium Reeds is now on display at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. lead to the Gund Gallery, with multiple waved discs of colored glass climbing up the wall giant sea urchin as it casts spiky shadows on option. Toward the middle of the exhibition is Room, Chihuly juxtaposes the rough fibers from the floor like smooth barnacles. Strategi- the walls; around the corner, Ikebana Boat Mille Fiori (A Thousand Flowers), a darkened of genuine Native American-woven baskets cally placed lights reflect colors of warm reds, launches the entire journey. Ikebana is the room filled with a glowing, 60-foot-long ex- with the delicately translucent, almost shell- oranges, and yellows onto the wall, reinforc- Japanese art of flower arranging, and a rough panse of colored glass. It’s a veritable library like Tabac Baskets. But compared to the rest ing the impression that we are about to enter wooden boat overflowing with bright swirls of Chihuly and his studio’s glassblowing of the exhibition, these subtler pieces are another world. and twists of glass floats on a black, mirrored techniques: Pink and orange fingers stretch perhaps at a disadvantage — they are too Inside the actual gallery Scarlet Icicle piece of Plexiglas. Chihuly attributes his inspi- upwards like anemones. Green and black fig- quiet. Is it possible, then, to find the line Chandelier assumes the role of a formidable ration for this work to a 1995 visit to Finland: ures wriggle like sea snakes anchored in the between pure sensitivity and captivating “I got the idea of throwing some of the glass sand. A twisted mass of flaming reds and yel- installation? in the river, and I wanted to see how easily the lows struggles to reach the top. The room that In Neodymium Reeds on Logs, Chihuly has Chihuly: glass would break or if it did break.” Most of houses Persian Ceiling, with its gentle blocks created a perfect end to the exhibition. Pure the glass didn’t break, and the vision of glass- of color and dappled, light-filled entirety, is luminosity comes in the form of smooth, Through the Looking filled boats coming up the river manned by almost a welcome release from Mille Fiori’s lavender-colored glass rods that almost reach Glass Finnish teenagers translated into this piece. air of unsettled magic. Above, a glass ceiling the ceiling. The peeling birch rods in which This overwhelming beginning of the exhi- supports colored pieces of glass piled on top they are inserted birthday-cake style, are an Museum of Fine Arts, Gund bition leads to expectations of complete im- of each other — undulating circular forms, an unlikely but pleasing complement. This is the Gallery mersion in a strange world that plays on not octopus, miniature humanoids. combination of nature and fantasy that we only the relationship between glass and color, Of course, the entire exhibition does not have been seeking all along. The journey has April 10 – Aug. 7, 2011 but also light and dark; merely peeking into consist purely of loud burst of color and ended, but remnants of the glass dream world the delicate world of elegant shapes is not an melodramatic lighting: In the Northwest still remain.

Michael Jordan 2010-2011 University of California, Berkeley Dertouzos Lecture Series Date: Thursday, May 5, 2010 Venue: MIT Stata Center, Building 32-123/Kirsch Auditorium Time: 4:00-5:00pm

Inference of Protein Structure and Function

Abstract: The study of the structure and function of proteins raises many problems that offer challenges and opportunities for computational and statistical research. I will overview my experiences in several such problem domains, ranging from domains where off-the-shelf ideas can be fruitfully applied to domains that require new thinking. These are: (1) the identification of active sites in enzymes; (2) the modeling of protein backbone configurations; (3) the prediction of molecular function based on phylogeny; (4) joint inference of alignment and phylogeny.

Biography: Michael I. Jordan is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research in recent years has focused on Bayesian nonparametric analysis, probabilistic graphical models, spectral methods, kernel machines and applications to problems in statistical genetics, computational biology, signal processing, information retrieval and natural language processing. Prof. Jordan has been named as a Neyman Lecturer and a Medallion Lecturer by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). He has received the ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award in 2009, the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization Prize in 2008, and the IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award in 2006. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the IMS, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the AAAI and a Fellow of the ASA. In 2010, Prof. Jordan was named to the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences.

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Manohar Srikanth—The Tech An artist directed the painting of a mural on the side- Manohar Srikanth—The Tech walk near the corner of Ames Street and Main Street out- At noon on Saturday, an organized “flash mob” convened in Lobby 7, singing and dancing to a selection of pop and side the newly-opened Koch Institute on Friday afternoon. dance music. The flash mob required advance sign-up and rehearsal attendance. A more open MIT 105 students, 95 staff volunteer tion about open house visitors, Open house, from Page 1 which is not yet available. On Saturday, families and Lagacé. “Expect to see this hap- children were ubiquitous. Min- pening more often.” dell noted that “MIT and [Presi- Mindell echoed Lagacé’s sen- dent] Susan [J.] Hockfield are timent. “We always knew that if concerned about K-12 STEM [the open house] went well, it education,” and that the open would be on the table to do on a house was a way to make science more regular basis,” he said. and technology more accessible According to Elizabeth C. to grade school students. Young, also an open house co- MIT’s annual spring repairs chair, 105 students volunteered and campus improvements hap- at least three hours to help with pened on a “faster timescale” the event. In addition, 95 MIT than they normally do in order staff members, not including to prepare for the open house, those who worked with depart- Lagacé said. Repairs to the Stu- ments to host events, volun- dent Center steps were sched- teered to staff information tents, uled to be completed by last Sat- said John M. McDonald, direc- urday; in addition to re-pouring tor of enterprise services. In- the steps, new handrails and formation tents were located at benches have been added. three locations across campus. The open house coincided with the beginning of the Cam- Paul Lagacé bridge Science Festival, an an- described the day nual week-long science and Manohar Srikanth—The Tech technology exposition hosted A team from the Research Laboratory of Electronics helped open house guests build a simple DC motor using as a ‘tremendous jointly by MIT, Cambridge City, insulated copper wire and ferromagnets in the Stata Center Saturday afternoon. success.’ and Harvard, among other insti- tutions in the area. Of the 20,000 visitors, Min- The value of the open house, dell said that — anecdotally — says Mindell, is not limited to it seemed many visitors came visitors. “The feedback we keep from further than Boston and getting is that there’s a great de- Cambridge, like the cities’ sur- sire for people on campus to feel rounding suburbs. MIT has col- like they’re part of the larger In- lected more detailed informa- stitute,” he noted.

Manohar Srikanth—The Tech An Army UH 60 Black Hawk helicopter visited Briggs Field Satur- Manohar Srikanth—The Tech day afternoon for an inspection by MIT’s Army ROTC. Children curiously watch a soccer-playing robot demonstration at the Stata Center on Saturday afternoon. 12 The Tech Tuesday, May 3, 2011 Decision influenced by definition of ‘research’ Stem cells, from Page 1 did not come as a surprise. Much of isher are likely to succeed on the that “today’s ruling is a victory for our mary judgement before Chief Judge the decision was spent on the defini- merits of their lower court case, and scientists and patients around the Royce C. Lamberth of that court. “Two scientists brought this suit tion of the word “research,” a subject thus the lower court did not abuse world who stand to benefit from the Summary judgement is a request for to enjoin the National Institutes of that consumed scores of pages in the its discretion in granting the prelimi- groundbreaking medical research the court to decide the case on the Health from funding research using briefs submitted to the court. nary injunction. they’re pursuing.” The Department basis of agreed-upon facts that are human embryonic stem cells (ESCs) One of the central questions of of Justice said that they were pleased. already before it. pursuant to the NIH’s 2009 Guide- the case is whether current stem cell ‘We conclude the Francis S. Collins, director of Casey said that the district court lines. The district court granted their research that uses stem cell lines the NIH, said in a statement that was likely to ask both sides to submit motion for a preliminary injunction, that were derived from embryos plaintiffs are unlikely he was “delighted and relieved” by briefs outlining how the circuit court concluding they were likely to succeed years ago qualifies as the same “re- to prevail because the decision. “This is a momentous decision changes the case. in showing the Guidelines violated search” as the original derivation. If it day — not only for science, but for Because the majority of the ap- the Dickey-Wicker Amendment, an does, then the research is barred by Dickey-Wicker is the hopes of thousands of patients peals court panel concluded that the appropriations rider that bars fed- Dickey-Wicker; if not, the research is ambiguous … ’ and their families who are relying on funding statute is ambiguous, Lam- eral funding for research in which legal. NIH-funded scientists to pursue life- berth will have to consider that as he a human embryo is destroyed. We The dissent by Judge Karen L. Casey said that the on the basis saving discoveries and therapies that moves forward. conclude the plaintiffs are unlikely Henderson was “unusually strong,” of Henderson’s dissenting opinion, could come from stem cell research.” Of course, if Sherley and Deisher to prevail because Dickey-Wicker said Samuel B. Casey, part of the legal Sherley and Deisher are seriously As has been true throughout this appeal the case to the circuit court en is ambiguous and the NIH seems team for Sherley and his co-plaintiff, considering appealing the three- case, MIT did not comment on the banc, then the lower court proceed- reasonably to have concluded that, Theresa A. Deisher. Sherley and De- judge panel’s decision to an en banc decision. ings will likely pause again. although Dickey-Wicker bars fund- isher are adult stem-cell researchers panel of the entire circuit court. Such ing for the destructive act of deriving who maintain that their grant pros- appeals are quite uncommon, and Next steps Case could reach Supreme an ESC from an embryo, it does not pects are harmed by the NIH’s ability are usually lost, Casey said, but he Now that the preliminary injunc- Court prohibit funding a research project to fund human ESC research. feels they could prevail. tion has been dismissed, eyes are on Either way, all involved are in this in which an ESC will be used. We Henderson wrote that by “break- Casey said that overall, he was the United States District Court for case for the long haul. Casey said that therefore vacate the preliminary ing the simple noun ‘research’ into “sightly disappointed but not sur- the District of Columbia, where the it was likely to reach the Supreme injunction.” ‘temporal bits’ [and] narrowing the prised” with the appeals court deci- case is being argued on its merits. Court, noting that Sherley and De- Ginsburg was joined by Judge verb phrase ‘are destroyed’ to an sion, noting that one cannot expect That court issued the preliminary isher would appeal there if they lost Thomas Griffith. Both judges had unintended scope … my colleagues to hit a home run every time one is injunction barring the research on at the district and appellate levels, seemed to favor the government’s perform linguistic jujitsu.” at bat. Aug. 23, 2010. and that he thought the Department side at oral argument, so their votes She wrote that Sherley and De- On Friday, the White House said Both sides have motions for sum- of Justice would do the same.

Two groups apply for MEF Emily Zhao ’12, UA Finance are the African Students Asso- Bose is pleased to o er special Board chair, reported yesterday ciation and the Southeast Asian to the UA Senate that two groups Service Leadership Network at asked for funding from the new MIT (SEALNet@MIT). The Af- savings for all students, Medium Events Fund (MEF), Fin- rican Students Association was board’s newest allocation fund. fully funded ($792.61) for their employees and retirees of M.I.T. The MEF was created earlier this fall freshmen barbecue event. semester with the intent of fund- SEALNet@MIT received $1,500 ing events that were too small for out of their requested $2010–2370 the Large Event Fund (LEF) and to host the Southeast Asian Cul- too expensive for student groups tural Night, which requires fund- ® to fund on their own. ing for dances, performances, and Receive savings on most Bo se products, including the acclaimed “The first funding period gar- food-related booths. Full funding ® nered fewer applications than we was not awarded on the basis that Wave music system, home entertainment systems, headphones, expect in future rounds, but was “they did not provide enough on on par with expectations,” Zhao the performances and they could and solutions for today’s most popular portable music devices. wrote in an email to The Tech. “In probably get groups to perform fact, because it was such a new for free.” concept and for events so far in MEF will give out funds twice the future (July–December), I was annually. The second round of not sure any groups would apply MEF will happen in either October at all. or November, according to Zhao. The two groups that applied —Robert McQueen

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Kim Vandiver SM ‘69, PhD ‘75 Laya Wiesner Community Award Everett Moore Baker Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Michelle Bentivegna ’11 Professor Krishna Rajagopal Laya W. Wiesner Award Earll M. Murman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising Christina Johnson ‘11 Professor David Darmofal SM ‘91, PhD ‘94 Gordon Y Billard Award Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching Professor Phillip Clay PhD ‘75 Professor Anette (Peko) Hosoi Karl Taylor Compton Prizes Graduate Student Council Teaching Award Yoda Patta G Frederick P Salvucci ‘61, SM ‘62 Vrajesh Modi ‘11 Goodwin Medal Shan Wu G Taylor Barton http://web.mit.edu/awards/ Tuesday, May 3, 2011 The Tech 17 A gift to MIT from an alumnus raises questions By Stephanie Strom graduates who yearn to cut their own path,” ability to transfer stock, then it would sug- In 2003, the Senate Permanent Subcom- The New York Times Susan Hockfield, the university’s president, gest it is a contribution of partial interest mittee on Investigations looked into such said in an article on its website. only, which would not be deductible as a transactions and found that, in some cases, The founder of the Bose Corp., a privately Amar Bose could not be reached for charitable contribution,” said Colinvaux, they were an elaborate way of using a char- held company that makes high-end audio comment. who recently published an article in The ity’s tax-exempt status to erase tax liabilities products, has donated the majority of the But some tax experts said the gift and the Florida Tax Review that argues that the for the other shareholders of the company company to Massachusetts Institute of Tech- lack of detail about it raised questions. laws governing charity are outdated and involved. nology, the university said last Friday. “We don’t know much about the terms inadequate. A charity involved in such a tax strategy But Amar G. Bose, who received his bach- of this gift, but it seems like it clearly falls But Erik Dryburgh, a nonprofit lawyer, would receive income from the company in elor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from into a gray area that has been of concern to said he did not see a problem with the gift. proportion to the size of its holdings of non- MIT and was a professor there from 1956 to Congress,” said Dean Zerbe, national man- “On its face, I don’t see the abuse or po- voting stock. But while that income was tax- 2001, placed some unusual restrictions on aging director of the tax consulting firm Al- tential abuses that were present in some of able, it was not distributed to the charity and the Bose shares he donated to the university. liantgroup. “The university needs to be more the more abusive gift transactions we saw in stayed at the company to be reinvested. While the shares give the university ma- forthcoming about the arrangements behind the past,” Dryburgh said. The charity did not owe taxes on the in- jority ownership, they are nonvoting and this donation so we can get a clear picture of Zerbe and Colinvaux said the gift brought come, anyway, because it was tax-exempt. thus confer no control over the company what’s going on.” to mind various tax shelters involving chari- Later, the charity would sell the non- and its operations. Nor can MIT sell the ties that came under scrutiny during the voting shares back to the company at fair shares. It will receive dividends from Bose The donation will be time they worked in Congress. market value, and the company would dis- Corp., which Nathaniel W. Nickerson, a Nickerson, however, denied that the gift tribute the income, tax-free, that had been spokesman for the university, said in an ‘used broadly to sustain was similar to those tax strategies. associated with those shares among its other email would be “used broadly to sustain and advance MIT’s “Further, it would not be appropriate for shareholders. and advance MIT’s education and research us to discuss the taxes of any of MIT’s do- In other, similar cases, charities that re- mission.” education and research nors,” he said. ceived nonvoting stakes in privately held While Nickerson said it was “a very sig- Most of the tax shelters cited by Zerbe companies through gifts of nonvoting stock nificant gift,” he would not discuss the fi- mission.’ and Colinvaux involved an elaborate strat- used large losses they had incurred on un- nancial details, including the potential val- egy in which privately held companies gave related businesses to offset taxes for other ue, saying that Amar Bose and Bose Corp. Roger Colinvaux, an associate law profes- nonvoting shares to a charity and then, after shareholders. Dryburgh wrote a paper on want to “keep details of financial matters sor at Catholic University in Washington and a time, bought them back. The transactions that type of tax shelter. confidential.” previously a staff member of the Congressio- attracted the attention of regulators puzzled In 2004, the IRS listed as “restricted” such MIT officials, in announcing the dona- nal Joint Committee on Taxation, also said by why donors would give nonprofit groups transactions and denied deductions associ- tion, praised Bose’s teaching and research. the gift raised questions for him. nonvoting shares, whose value — and thus ated with them. “Amar Bose gives us a great gift today, but “If the shares truly can’t be sold so that potential for tax deduction — is limited by This article was originally published April he also serves as a superb example for MIT there is some restriction on the university’s their nonvoting nature. 29.

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