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Volume 137, Number 30 Th ursday, November 02, 2017 Future Vassar dorm to have beds, optional meal plan Students, admins compromise on kitchens, dining
By Sandhya Kalavacherla to be residential fl oors with four in the new dormitory and work- STAFF REPORTER clusters, three for student rooms ing in diff erent committees to in- and one for dorm-wide lounge fl uence the architectural design Th e New Residences Working use. Th e student clusters will com- decisions. Group (NRWG), composed of eight prise a total of 456 beds (Maseeh, During the pre-design process, students and staff members from the largest residence hall, has 490 the NRWG and the administration the Division of Student Life and the beds). Th ere will also be three disagreed on several fronts, such Offi ce of Campus Planning, met for study rooms on each residential as the kitchen spaces. Th e working the last time Sept. 20 to review the fl o o .r group requested larger, more fully- architectural plans for MIT’s new Th e dormitory features a hybrid equipped kitchens on each fl oor. dormitory on Vassar Street. dining hall and kitchen-and-pan- However, the fi nal design includes Th e NRWG originally wanted try model that is new to MIT. Stu- a dining hall and small kitchen- fully-equipped kitchens on each dents can choose to be on a meal ettes on each fl oor with one larger fl oor and 30 to 40 percent of the plan or cook for themselves us- kitchen on the ground fl oor. rooms to be singles. Th e adminis- ing the kitchen spaces and pantry Other disagreements included tration ultimately decided on a hy- supplies. the distribution of rooms. While brid dining hall and kitchen-and- Th ese updates were shared with the Architectural Principles docu- pantry model new to MIT and 26 a portion of the general student ment recommended that 30 to 40 percent of the rooms being singles. body through an Oct. 13 email sent percent of rooms be singles, the Th e dormitory is expected to by NRWG member Allan Sadun ’17 new dormitory’s rooms will be 26 open in fall of 2020, replacing the to the public dorm-of-the-future percent singles — slightly higher West Garage parking facility (W45). mailing list. than Maseeh, 21 percent of whose Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart In the email, Sadun wrote that rooms are singles. announced the dormitory’s loca- details that remain to be fi nalized “My primary complaint with tion in February, and many of its include how the dorm will be gov- the administration is not that our specifi cations, which included the erned and furnished, and how the preferences were not always cho- JOHNNY BUI—THE TECH prioritization of a dining hall and kitchen-and-pantry payment plan sen; it is that the large-scale deci- MIT students in Halloween costumes take to the ice Oct. 27 at at least 450 beds, were publicized will work. sions about the dorm were not the Johnson Ice Rink at SaveTFP-organized “Spooky Skate”, where in March. Th e NRWG was charged with made with very much transparen- Th e dormitory will be fi ve sto- implementing the concepts of the students could enter a costume contest, decorate cookies, carve and ries tall. Floors 2 through 5 are set Architectural Principles document Dorm, Page 2 paint pumpkins, and skate on the ice for free.
eta Tau joins IFC IN SHORT e last day to add half-term subjects o ered in second half following second vote of term is this Friday.
Revision of admission policies allowed MIT Medical will expand its for earlier revote after initial failed bid Urgent Care hours in Novem- ber. Urgent Care will be open By Jessica Shi Tau’s initial petition, according to from : a.m. to : p.m. seven ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR the minutes of a November 2016 days a week. meeting of the Association of In- Th e Interfraternity Council (IFC) dependent Living Groups (AILG) Relax and pet dogs at Furry admitted the MIT chapter of Th eta board, a group of alumni which co- First Friday this Friday from Tau, a professional engineering fra- ordinates with the IFC. Th eta Tau TRISTAN HONSCHEIND—THE TECH ternity, as a probationary member was initially allowed to reapply for : – : p.m. outside the Following the conclusion of the annual Pumpkin Drop on Sat- Oct. 12. admission in the spring of 2018. Hayden Library. urday night, the audience celebrates in the large fi eld of debris Robert Binkowski ’18, president But in a February 2017 AILG outside of the Green Building. of the IFC, announced the result in meeting, Binkowski announced Send news and tips to news@ an email. With Th eta Tau’s addition, that the IFC would adopt “a con- the IFC now consists of 26 member stitutional amendment to resolve tech.mit.edu. chapters. Last fall, the IFC rejected Th eta Theta Tau, Page 2 Fundraising campaign hits .B Donations to go towards New House renovations, graduate housing
By Tu-Lan Vu-Han Donations ranged from under Projects that have been realized $5 to single donation sums of more with money from the campaign The MIT Campaign for a Better than $100 million. This year’s re- include student financial aid, the World has received $3.6 billion in cord was an unrestricted single Abdul Latif Jameel World Educa- donations as of the end of the 2017 donation of $140 million from an tion Lab (J-WEL), the new Hock fiscal year, 17 months after its of- anonymous donor. E. Tan and K. Lisa Yang Center for ficial launch in May 2016. It is 76 Th e Campaign for A Better Autism Research at the McGov- percent of the way toward its $5 World is the largest giving cam- ern Institute for Brain Research billion goal. paign in MIT history. “Th e past at MIT, and the work-in-progress Over 87,000 donors have con- three years have been record set- MIT.nano. The renovations of New tributed to the Campaign. 71 per- ting, with sums over $500 million House, new undergraduate resi- SABRINA CHENG cent of the donations were from raised each year,” Aimée Jack, in- dence hall on Vassar Street, and “Course Sax” plays chamber music at MIT’s Annual Family alumni, 26 percent from parents terim executive director for com- graduate student resident tower Weekend Concert in the Kresge Auditorium Oct. 27. and friends of the Institute, and munications and events of the MIT near Kendall Square are also ex- 3 percent from corporations and Department for Resource Develop- pected to be funded by the cam- foundations. ment, wrote in an email to Th e T e c . h paign money.
CAMPUS SNAP- REVIVAL OF 200-YEAR OLD OP- BTS WITH ARTIST PUBBING AN SECTIONS Arts ...... 4 SHOTS ERA COMES TO BOSTON FROM PIXAR’S COCO EVENT? Fun Pages ...... 6 This week: cute cos- Odyssey Opera performs Donizetti’s Dean Kelley previews Posters along the tumes and Nobel laure- L’assedio di Calais, set during the Hun- scenes from upcoming film Infinite are taken down ates. NEWS, p. 8 dred Years’ War. ARTS, p. 5 about Land of the Dead at Monday & Friday morn- an LCS event. ARTS, p. 4 ings. Pin accordingly! 2 The Tech Thursday, November 02, 2017
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ARTS STAFF Editors: Nafisa Syed ’19, Ivy Li ’20; Assoc- iate Editors: Nathan Liang ’21, Torri Yearwood ’21; Staff: Josh Cowls G, Alexandra Sourakov ’18, Mariam Dogar ’20, Rona Wang ’20, New dorm to open in fall Erica Weng ’20. Dorm, from Page 1 way point or a workaround” to other NRWG member and pres- will form a Founders’ Group “to PHOTOGRAPHY STAFF accommodate student requests. ident of MIT’s Interfraternity guide the fi ner points of what Editor: Mahi Shafiullah ’19; Associate Editors: cy or student input,” Sadun wrote Vice President of Student Life Council, echoed Nelson’s com- this dorm will become.” Th ey ex- Ho Yin Au ’13, Damian Barabonkov ’20; Staff: in an email to Th e T e h. c Suzy Nelson told Th e T e ch in a ments. In an email interview pect the group to start meeting Skyler E. Adams ’16, Sarah Liu ’16, Adrian DormCon Vice President Al- phone interview that the “art to with Th e T ech , Binkowski said, in fall 2018 once construction Butterworth ’18, Tristan Honscheid ’18, Daniel lie Stanton ’18 disagreed with [this process] is a lot of listening “Student input was one of many is underway so it can include Mirny ’18, Robert Rusch ’18, Jisoo Min ’19, Mati Sadun. to fi nd a compromise that works inputs that [the administration] some members of the Class of Alemayehu ’20, Lily Bailey ’20, Johnny Bui ’21, In an email to Th e T ech , Stan- primarily for students” but also was balancing.” 2022. Adib Hasan ’21, Anselmo Cassiano, Ping Xu. ton wrote that DormCon repre- “with the city, stakeholders, and Nelson cited several ex- “Ultimately, a dorm is CAMPUS LIFE STAFF sentatives on the NRWG “con- colleagues who have real priori- amples where student input shaped by the students who live Editor: Chloe Yang ’19; Staff: Elaine Lin ’18, sistently sought feedback from ties and constraints that aff ect was crucial: the main pathway there, and we’re confi dent that Jing Lin ’18, Nina Lutz ’19, Michal Shlapentokh- the DormCon presidents on what the process.” to move through the building, that will be true for this dorm as Rothman ’19. they would like to see in the new Some of these constraints, bathroom placements, entryway well,” Stanton said.
COPY STAFF dorm.” Nelson said, included meeting structures, and the hybrid din- Th e last dorm built from the DormCon Vice President a perceived demand for a dining ing hall and kitchen-and-pantry ground up was Simmons Hall, Copy Chief: Josephine Yu ’20; Associate Copy Yuge Ji ’18 further explained in an dorm and being usable for sum- model. which was commissioned in Chief: Samuel Nitz ’21. email to Th e T ech that the MIT ad- mer conferences and occupants. According to Ji, the next gen- 1999 and opened in 2002. BUSINESS STAFF ministration tried “to fi nd a half- Robert Binkowski ’18, an- eration of DormCon leadership Operations Manager: Mindy Wu ’19; Staff: Angela Leong ’18, Aaron Zeng ’18, Catherine Looby ’19, Marissa Steinmetz ’19, Katherine Wang ’19, Justen M. Holl ’21. eta Tau becomes th IFC member TECHNOLOGY STAFF Theta Tau, from Page 1 ing members at a meeting of manager and former regent (a Although they are still con- Director: Jiahao Li ’18; Staff: Greg Steinbrecher G, the Presidents Council” was re- position analogous to president) nected with DU alumni through Ray Wang ’18, Kavya Ravichandran ’20. confl icts with the new recogni- quired for a petitioning group to of Th eta Tau, wrote in an email to the house, Th eta Tau is a SOCIAL MEDIA STAFF tion policy,” allowing Th eta Tau be admitted. New groups started Th e T ech . “completely new group” and Editor: Hannah Rudoltz ’18. to be reconsidered sooner. Th ree as associate members and could As for why they were not ad- “founded on new values,” Bogle months later, Jack Gordon ’18, advance to probationary mem- mitted last year, “it was most- emphasized. EDITORS AT LARGE vice president of the IFC, report- bership by a three-quarters vote. ly because we were a young Th eta Tau also gained chapter Senior Editor: Vivian Hu ’18. ed to the AILG that the date had Now, the progression has [group], and [the IFC] wanted us status in the spring of 2017, which ADVISORY BOARD been moved to late September been reversed. A three-quarters to prove that … we’ve fi gured ev- Bogle credited as a major reason 2 017. vote is required for a petition- erything out,” Jeremy Bogle ’18, it succeeded in gaining admit- Paul E. Schindler, Jr. ’74, V. Michael Bove ’83, Binkowski and Gordon did ing group to be admitted as a Barry S. Surman ’84, Deborah A. Levinson ’91, regent of Th eta Tau, said in an tance to the IFC this year. “We’ve Karen Kaplan ’93, Saul Blumenthal ’98, Frank not respond to requests for com- probationary member, and new interview with Th e T e h. c come a long way from last fall to Dabek ’00, Satwiksai Seshasai ’01, Daniel Ryan ment on the reasons for these groups can advance to associate Th eta Tau was established as this fall in terms of defi ning Th eta Bersak ’02, Eric J. Cholankeril ’02, Nathan decisions. membership by a majority vote a colony at MIT in April 2016. Its Tau,” Bogle said. Collins SM ’03, Tiffany Dohzen ’06, Beckett Th e “new recognition policy” after an initial period of no less founding students included for- Probationary members of the W. Sterner ’06, Marissa Vogt ’06, Andrew Binkowski referenced included than one year, according to the mer members of Delta Upsilon IFC cannot vote but can attend T. Lukmann ’07, Zachary Ozer ’07, Austin changes to Article V, Section 3 of latest published version of the (DU), and it is housed in the for- meetings and participate in IFC Chu ’08, Michael McGraw-Herdeg ’08, Marie the IFC constitution, titled “Pro- constitution. mer DU residence on 526 Beacon events and committees. Y. Thibault ’08, Ricardo Ramirez ’09, Nick cedures for Recognition of Peti- Th e process for making these Street. Th e MIT chapter of DU Th eta Tau is “super excited” to Semenkovich ’09, Angeline Wang ’09, Quentin tioning Groups.” revisions “stretched over a year was suspended by the DU Inter- be a part of the IFC, Bogle said. Smith ’10, Jeff Guo ’11, Joseph Maurer ’12, Ethan Formerly, according to the and at times delayed what we national Fraternity for two years “We think we’ll be able to learn A. Solomon ’12, Connor Kirschbaum ’13, Jessica J. 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ARTS ARTS ARTS ARTS ARTS ARTS ARTS ARTS ARTS ARTS ARTS ARTS Arts ARTS ARTS ARTS ARTS Tech The presence World-renowned pianistMartha Argerich gracesBoston Symphony Hallwithher Have you ever been lost in apiano? REVIEW CONCERT A behindthescenesofupcomingDisney/Pixar movie, Coco,withDeanKelley A long way home from NEWS MOVIE Pixar really to flexits movie begins magic. to borrowLa Cruz hisguitar. Thisis where Miguel going into the tomb of Ernesto de from Ascene themoviecemetery. shows ing to pursue his dreams, Miguel to the runs ban onmusic strict ofany Want sort. very His family, ontheotherhand, has a placed The main character, Miguel, adores music. 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