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Admissions video ‘recreates CPW in Lobby 10’ Ambitious goals at State of the Institute By Janelle Mansfield “more successful in more ways than I Staff Reporter could have imagined.” She credited its success to the large amount of partici- In her Monday morning State of the pation, and encouraged the audience Institute address, President Susan J. to visit the MIT Idea Bank (http://idea- Hockfield spoke about MIT’s prepara- bank.mit.edu/) to share their feedback tion for the future in four main areas: about the event. attracting and retaining high-quality students, faculty, and staff; digital “Innovation cluster” learning technology; encouraging the One of the main items on Hock- growth of this region’s “innovation field’s agenda for MIT’s future is cluster”; and making strides in the area “fostering” the “innovation cluster” of advanced manufacturing. in Kendall Square and around Cam- Hockfield’s address was followed bridge. This is part of the “MIT 2030” by a question-and-answer session with framework — a set of goals MIT hopes Provost L. Rafael Reif, Chancellor Eric to achieve within 20 years. MIT hopes L. Grimson PhD ’80, and Treasurer and to develop the property around Kend- Executive Vice President Terry Stone all Square and recruit high-tech com- SM ’76, during which questions cen- panies. Hockfield noted that “Kendall joseph maurer—The Tech tered mainly on budget concerns. Square has more biotech and IT firms Admissions Counselor Chris Peterson directs a new MIT Admissions video — a tour of MIT led Hockfield began her speech by re- per square mile than anywhere else on by Tim the Beaver set to, and incorporating motifs from, the song “Pure Imagination.” capping MIT150, MIT’s 150th anniver- sary celebration, which she said was Hockfield address, Page 14

Reporter’s Notebook New off-campus places! In Short A community reception will be held this Thursday from 3:30 Thousands come together p.m. to 5 p.m. in the lobby of E62 to mark the departure of Execu- tive Vice President and Treasurer Terry Stone SM ’76. in Occupy Boston protests

Add Date is this Friday. How By Kit Haines The Tech estimates. many classes will you add to your While there is a general consensus schedule? Last Friday at 6 p.m., several hundred among protestors that things need to people were already milling about Dewey change, what exactly this change entails The Nobel Prize in Physics will Square by South Station in Boston. A man is yet to be determined. They call this oc- be announced, at the earliest, to- with buttons lining his hat took the mega- cupation a discussion of, by, and for the morrow morning. Keep your ears phone to start the chant, “Whose city? Our people: “Our country is owned by the top peeled in case an MIT researcher city!”; Dan, it was explained to me, was an one percent. We are the 99 percent. Join the wins! old face at protests in the city. conversation!” Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street pro- As people started filtering into Dewey The MIT Global Education & tests — thousands of protesters have been Square, drumbeats resonated throughout Career Development office has camping out in New York City since Sept. 17 the air, providing some entertainment for revamped their website. Check it — Occupy Boston has gathered thousands the growing crowd. People held signs high out at http://gecd.mit.edu/. Christopher A. Maynor—The Tech of people who also want to join in on the with slogans that became iconic of the Oc- discussion about economic equality and cupy Boston movement: “We are the 99%,” Veggie Galaxy, a vegan diner and bakery, is Did you miss the MIT State of now open in Central square. democracy. The occupation, which started “No war but class war,” “United Against Wall the Institute address? See the last Friday in Dewey Square, had drawn al- Exam season is starting up again! But if you de- online archive video at http:// most 2,000 people that evening at its peak, Protests, Page 12 cide to take a study break and get out of the bubble, mitne.ws/qswC1U.

Retail, Page 10 Send news information and tips to [email protected]. Nobel Prize comes a bit too late Recipient dies 3 days before award announced By Lawrence K. Altman humously. And so the Nobel committee, and Nicholas Wade which had believed Steinman to be alive, faced The New York Times a quandary. On Monday morning, one of Steinman’s When a representative of the Nobel Foun- daughters, Alexis, saw the email from the No- dation could not reach Dr. Ralph M. Steinman bel Foundation and contacted Rockefeller by telephone Monday to deliver the thrilling University, where her father had worked. The news that he had been awarded a Nobel Prize president of the university, Marc Tessier-Lavi- in Medicine for his breakthrough work in im- gne, immediately called the chairman of the munology, he sent him an email about the Nobel Prize committee to inform him. honor. Then, the committee, at the Karolinska In- But Steinman would never see the message stitute in Stockholm, scrambled to figure out nor learn of the prize. He died of pancreatic what to do. As heartless as it might seem, would cancer on Friday, three days before the phone the prize for Steinman have to be revoked? call from the Nobel committee. He had been “This is a unique situation — Steinman died battling the deadly disease for four years, using hours before the decision was made,” Göran a treatment he devised to try to prolong his life, K. Hansson, secretary of the Nobel commit- kit Haines essentially turning his body into an extension tee for physiology and medicine, told Swedish Occupy Boston protesters organize into small groups for discussion. By 8 p.m. on of his research. Friday, approximately 2000 people had arrived at Dewey Square for the event. But Nobel Prizes cannot be awarded post- Nobel prize, Page 13

“Good guy Tech MLB Postseason calls keeping track of Red sox SECTIONS World & Nation ��2 Nick Myers and Carlos Greaves pick obama”? the past collapse! Opinion ��4 apart the upcoming season. SPO, p. 16 Not so fast. The Tech Model Railroad Club Only the worst-case Fun Pages ��5 president is not the Institute double take is one of the MIT’s oldest scenario could bring Campus Life ��8 bipartisan figure he may and most unique clubs. them down. Did it? Sports ��16 seem. OPINION, p. 4 New Tech photographers show off mad CAMPUS LIFE, p. 9 SPORTS, p. 16 skillz. CAMPUS LIFE, p. 8 2 The Tech Tuesday, October 4, 2011 Dozens of arrests reported in D central Syria Emails reveal White House BEIRUT — The Syrian government said Monday that it had arrested dozens of people in a central Syrian region that has become a flashpoint in fighting between defectors and secu- concerns about Solyndra rity forces waging a brutal crackdown on a six-month uprising. The military said this weekend that it had retaken Rastan, By Eric Lipton and from private investors, including cans have emphasized. The emails,

worl a restive town on the corridor between Homs and Hama, two Matthew L. Wald one Democratic campaign contrib- though, do provide new evidence of Syria’s largest cities. It reportedly deployed more forces The New York Times utor who wrote to the White House of a concern by lawmakers that the

n Monday in Talbiseh, near Homs, another town that has defied the day before President Barack broader loan guarantee program government authority for months in a revolt that has shaken WASHINGTON — Some White Obama’s May 2010 visit to Solyndra might be troubled. the four-decade rule of the Assad family. Since the summer, House officials were so concerned to urge officials to reconsider the An Solyndra investor, in an residents say, both Rastan and Talbiseh have appeared vir- last year about the financial health trip. email sent to the White House in tually occupied, with tanks and soldiers guarding the towns’ of Solyndra, a solar equipment The Solyndra loan, which was late 2009, asked why the govern- entrances. manufacturer that had received completed in September 2009 and ment had been willing to offer the “The defectors were the main reason behind the war on federal loans, that they warned that could cost taxpayers a half-billion solar startup so much money. atio Rastan,” said a resident there who gave his name as Hassan. a presidential trip to the company’s dollars, has come under congres- “One of our solar companies “Only women were allowed to leave their homes. The men California factory could prove a sional scrutiny since the company with revenues of less than $100 were detained immediately.” Though he was unable to give major embarrassment, newly dis- declared bankruptcy last month. million (and not yet profitable) an estimate on the number detained, the Syrian news agency closed emails show. The business is also under investi- received a government loan of SANA said arrests numbered “in the dozens.” The emails, gathered as part of a gation for possible fraud by the FBI. $580 million,” the investor, Brad —Anthony Shadid, The New York Times congressional investigation into the Obama, on Monday, defended Jones of Redpoint Ventures, wrote Energy Department loan program, the government’s investment, say- in December 2009 to Lawrence Report on Medicare cites offer new insight into just how wor- ing that “hindsight is 20/20” and H. Summers, then the president’s

& N ried administration officials were the fact that the program involved chief economic adviser, referring prescription drug abuse about the $528 million loan to risk was generally well known. In to Solyndra. “While that is good for Solyndra — which is now in bank- an interview with ABC News, he us, I can’t imagine it’s a good way WASHINGTON — Medicare is subsidizing drug abuse by ruptcy — and other government also said that the overall portfolio for the government to use taxpayer thousands of beneficiaries who shop around for doctors and efforts, amounting to $16 billion in of loan guarantees was “doing well.” money.” fill prescriptions for huge quantities of painkillers and other loan guarantees to promote clean In releasing the new emails, The investment, Jones said, narcotics far exceeding what any patient could safely use, con- energy. Democrats said they were seeking demonstrated broad problems with gressional investigators say in a new report. The warnings came from both to demonstrate that there was no the government loan program. “The orld The investigators, from the Government Accountability Of- inside the White House — an of- evidence of political favoritism to- allocation of spending to clean en- fice, said Medicare officials had been slow to recognize and act ficial in the Office of Management ward Solyndra, whose investors in- ergy is haphazard; the government on the evidence of abuse, which is to be presented at a Senate and Budget wrote that the visit clude a foundation run by a major is just not well equipped to decide hearing on Tuesday. could be “embarrassing in the not W fundraiser for Obama, a connec- which companies should get the “Our analysis found that about 170,000 Medicare beneficia- too distant future” — as well as tion that congressional Republi- money and how much,” he wrote. ries received prescriptions from five or more medical practi- tioners” for 14 types of drugs that are frequently abused, said Gregory D. Kutz, director of audits and special investigations at the accounting office. The medications were obtained through Part D of Medicare, TransCanada pipeline foes allege which provides coverage for prescription drugs. The drugs most commonly abused by Medicare beneficiaries included power- ful prescription painkillers like oxycodones and hydrocodone products. Oxycodones include OxyContin and Percocet. bias in State Department emails Sen. Thomas R. Carper, D-Del., said: “Federal dollars in- tended to address the health needs of the elderly and the poor By Elisabeth Rosenthal the billion-dollar project. the Earth. are instead being used to feed addictions or to pad the wallets The New York Times The written exchanges provide While the emails refer to mul- of drug dealers. This is clearly unacceptable.” a rare glimpse into how Washing- tiple meetings between TransCan- Carper called the hearing as chairman of a Homeland Secu- A State Department official ton works and the access familiar- ada officials and assistant secre- rity and Governmental Affairs subcommittee. provided Fourth of July picnic ity can bring. The 200 pages are the taries of state, he said, such access —Robert Pear, The New York Times invitations, subtle coaching and second batch of documents and was denied to environmentalists cheerleading, and inside infor- emails released so far. seeking input, who only had one 4th Tibetan monk self- mation about Secretary Hillary They also offer insight into the group meeting at that level. Rodham Clinton’s meetings to a company’s strategy, not revealed Environmental groups argue immolates in anti-China protest Washington lobbyist for a Cana- publicly before. TransCanada lob- that the pipeline, which could dian company seeking permission byists exchanged emails with State carry 700,000 barrels a day, BEIJING — A young Tibetan monk set himself on fire Mon- from the department to build a Department officials in July about would result in unacceptably high day in a remote western town to protest Chinese policies — the controversial pipeline that would their intention to drop their re- emissions and disrupt pristine fourth monk from Kirti Monastery to self-immolate this year, carry crude from the oil sands of quest to operate the Keystone XL ecosystems. according to a Tibet advocacy group based in London. Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. pipeline at higher pressures than Wendy Nassmacher, a State De- The group, Free Tibet, said in a news release that the monk, Emails released Monday in re- normally allowed in the United partment spokeswoman, disputed Kalsang, set himself ablaze at 2 p.m. in a vegetable market in sponse to a Freedom of Informa- States to win political support, but that the emails showed a pro-pipe- the town of Aba, known in Tibetan as Ngaba. Kalsang was hold- tion Act request filed by the envi- then suggested they would reapply line bias. ing a picture of the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled religious leader, ronmental group Friends of the for the exception once the project “We are committed to a fair, at the time and called for religious freedom, the group said. Se- Earth paint a picture of a some- had been cleared. transparent and thorough pro- curity officers extinguished the flames. the group said, but the times warm and collaborative re- “You see officials who see it as cess,” she said in an email. monk’s condition was unclear. lationship between the lobbyist their business not to be an over- “Throughout the process we have Free Tibet did not specify the sources of its information. for the pipeline company, Trans- sight agency but as a facilitator of been in communication with in- There was no immediate comment from Chinese officials, and Canada, and officials in the State TransCanada’s plans,” said Damon dustry as well as environmental no mention of the self-immolation in China’s state-run press. Department, the agency respon- Moglen, the director of climate groups, both in the United States —Edward Wong, The New York Times sible for evaluating and approving and energy projects for Friends of and in Canada.”

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Hebrew graffiti. a statement that the images of the peared there. anarchists together with younger people frustrated by poor job on The attack followed a series of damage were “shocking” and had Last month, Jewish settler prospects. similar assaults on mosques in the “no place in the state of Israel.” Asher Palmer, 25, was killed along “Rants based on discontents are the first stage of any move- West Bank as part of a campaign Defense Minister Ehud Barak with his baby son when their car ment,” said Michael Kazin, a professor of history at Georgetown by radical settlers to exact a price said the “criminals” involved want- overturned on a West Bank road University. But he said it was unclear if the current protests would WORLD & Nati from local Palestinians or from the ed to upset Jewish-Arab relations. last month. The police said the lead to a lasting movement, which would require the newly un- Israeli security forces for violence The president of Israel, Shimon crash occurred after Palmer was leashed passions to be channeled into institutions and shaped against settlers, or action by the Peres, and the country’s chief rab- struck on the head by a stone, and into political goals. authorities against illegal build- bis visited the mosque in the after- that they believe it was thrown by —Erik Eckholm and Timothy Williams, The New York Times ing in Jewish outposts in the West noon in a show of solidarity, along Palestinians. Bank. with leading clerics from other Jews and Arabs live in a patch- More than a dozen states restrict Monday’s arson attack was in faiths. work of villages and towns in the village of Tuba-Zangariya in Sheik Fuad Zangariya, the Galilee, where the last major dis- access to voting booths Galilee, where calm had prevailed imam of the mosque, told Israeli turbances occurred in 2000. Then, for years. television that the village had al- Israeli Arabs rioted along with Pal- Since Republicans won control of many statehouses last No- The mosque was seriously dam- ways maintained friendly rela- estinians in the West Bank, Gaza, vember, more than a dozen states have passed laws requiring vot- aged, according to police spokes- tions with neighboring Jewish and East Jerusalem at the outbreak ers to show photo identification at polls, cutting back early voting man Micky Rosenfeld. Images communities. of the second Palestinian intifada, periods or imposing new restrictions on voter registration drives. showed burned carpets and holy By evening, the atmosphere in and Israeli police officers shot and With a presidential campaign swinging into high gear, the ques- books and charred walls. the village was tense but calm. killed 13 Israeli Arab citizens. tion being asked is how much of an impact all of these new laws Later, about 200 villagers began The police said an investigation Arab citizens make up some 20 will have on the 2012 race. to march from the village along a was under way. There have been percent of Israel’s population of State officials, political parties, and voting experts have all said on road in the direction of Rosh Pina, no charges in the previous cases of more than 7.5 million. that the impact could be sizable. Now, a new study to be released Monday by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law has tried to tally just how many voters stand to be effected. WORLD & Nati The center, which has studied the new laws and opposed some of them in court and other venues, analyzed 19 laws that passed US budget crisis forcing and two executive orders that were issued in 14 states this year, and concluded that they “could make it significantly harder for more than 5 million eligible voters to cast ballots in 2012.” big cuts in foreign aid —Michael Cooper, The New York Times

By Steven Lee Myers to undermine a foreign policy de- Marshall Plan that helped rebuild Companies to pass on more of The New York Times scribed as “smart power” by Presi- European democracies after World dent Barack Obama and Secretary War II, the administration has been health costs to workers WASHINGTON — America’s of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, able to propose only relatively mod- budget crisis at home is forcing the one that emphasizes diplomacy est investments and loans, and even Companies next year will push more health care costs onto first significant cuts in overseas aid and development as a complement those have stalled in Congress. their workers, who may see an increase of nearly 11 percent in what in nearly two decades, a retrench- to U.S. military power. It also would “There is a democratic awak- they have deducted from their paychecks for health insurance, ac- ment that officials and advocates begin to reverse the increase in for- ening in places that have never cording to an annual study by Aon Hewitt, a large Chicago benefits say reflects the country’s diminish- eign aid that President George W. dreamed of democracy,” Clinton consulting firm. ing ability to influence the world. Bush supported after the attacks of said Friday. “And it is unfortunate As companies struggle to control costs in a tough economy, the on As lawmakers scramble to trim Sept. 11, 2001, as part of an effort to that it’s happening at a historic time 2012 annual employee premiums are expected to jump on average the swelling national debt, both the combat the roots of extremism and when our own government is facing 10.6 percent, to more than $2,300. That figure has nearly doubled Republican-controlled House and anti-American sentiment, especial- so many serious economic chal- since 2005, when workers at larger companies paid on average the Democrat-controlled Senate ly in the most troubled countries. lenges, because there’s no way to $1,192 annually per employee and paid about 17 percent of the WORLD & Nati have proposed slashing financing Given the relatively small for- have a Marshall Plan for the Middle company’s costs, according to Aon Hewitt data. for the State Department and its re- eign aid budget — it accounts for East and North Africa.” The employee share projected for next year is a contribution lated aid agencies at a time of des- one percent of federal spending With the administration and of 22 percent of the $10,475 employer cost of the health plan. This perate humanitarian crises and un- overall — the effect of the cuts could Congress facing a deadline for still year, workers are paying 21.3 percent of the total cost, or $2,084 of certain political developments. The be disproportional. deeper cuts in spending, govern- the $9,792 total company-paid premium. proposals have raised the specter of The State Department already ment programs across the board “The reality is that employers, particularly in this economy, are deep cuts in food and medicine for has scaled back plans to open more face the ax, from public education doing everything they can to get net company cost levels that they Africa, in relief for disaster-affected consulates in Iraq, for example. The to the military, but proposed cuts to can budget for and afford,” said Jim Winkler, a managing principal places like Pakistan and Japan, in spending trend has also constrained the State Department and foreign with Aon Hewitt, a unit of the Aon Corp. “Employers are shifting political and economic assistance support for Tunisia and Egypt, aid come on top of an $8 billion re- costs to employees to be able to afford to offer benefits.” for the new democracies of the where autocratic leaders were over- duction in April, the single largest —Bruce Japsen, The New York Times Middle East, and even for the Peace thrown in popular uprisings. While cut to any one department under Corps. many have called for giving aid to the deal that kept the government New military chief faces The financial crunch threatens these countries on the scale of the from shutting down. economic challenges

WASHINGTON — After his Senate confirmation as chairman on of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey knew he had some catching up to do before being sworn in last Friday as the na- Popular African contraceptive might tion’s highest-ranking officer and the principal military adviser to the president and secretary of defense. WORLD & Nati The gap in his training was not the geopolitics of the Middle double women’s risk of HIV infection East, a perpetual source of American security concerns. Even before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Dempsey was among the few se- By Pam Belluck traceptive has biological properties likely be the same for all women. But nior officers who had spent significant time immersed in Muslim The New York Times that may make women and men they stressed that concern is great- culture, having served for several years as an adviser to Saudi Ara- more vulnerable to HIV infection is est in Africa because the risk of HIV bia’s security forces. Since 9/11, he has had two tours in Iraq and The most popular contraceptive particularly troubling. transmission from heterosexual sex has been the acting commander of American forces across the for women in eastern and southern “The best contraception today is is so much higher than elsewhere. Middle East and Central Asia. Africa, a hormone shot given every injectable hormonal contraception The study, which several experts —Thom Shanker, The New York Times three months, appears to double the because you don’t need a doctor, said added significant heft to previ- risk of HIV infection among users, it’s long-lasting, it enables women ous research while still having some Greeks move to slash 30,000 according to a large study published to control timing and spacing of limitations, has prompted the World Monday. And when it is used by HIV- birth without a lot of fuss and travel,” Health Organization to convene a public jobs positive women, their male partners said Isobel Coleman, director of the meeting in January to consider if are twice as likely to become infect- women and foreign policy program evidence is now strong enough to ATHENS, Greece — After marathon talks with foreign audi- ed than if the women had used no at the Council on Foreign Relations. advise women that the method may tors, the Greek government said Sunday that it had reached a contraception. “If it is now proven that these con- increase their risk of getting or trans- deal on how to slash its unwieldy public sector, by putting 30,000 on The findings potentially present traceptions are helping spread the mitting HIV. workers on a scheme that would lead to early retirement for some an alarming quandary for women AIDS epidemic, we have a major “We are going to be re-evaluat- and dismissal for others, in a bid to meet conditions set by foreign in Africa. Hundreds of thousands health crisis on our hands.” ing WHO’s clinical recommenda- lenders for the release of crucial emergency loans. of them suffer injuries, bleeding, Injectable hormones are very tions on contraceptive use,” said The government also completed a draft budget for 2012, which W infections and even death in child- popular. About 12 million women Mary Lyn Gaffield, an epidemiolo- is expected to be presented in Parliament on Monday and voted birth from unintended pregnancies. between the ages of 15 and 49 in sub- gist in the World Health Organiza- on by the end of October, and conceded that it would miss a def- Finding affordable and convenient Saharan Africa, roughly 6 percent of tion’s department of reproductive icit-reduction target of 7.6 percent of gross domestic product. The o contraceptives is a pressing goal for all women in that age group, use health and research. The injectable deficit is projected to equal 8.5 percent of GDP this year. international health authorities. them. In the United States, it is 1.2 is “something that a woman can do The deficit shortfall had been expected because of delays in R

But many countries where preg- million, or three percent of women privately herself and it doesn’t need the implementation of reforms and a deeper-than-expected re- l nancy rates are highest are also using contraception. While the study to be remembered to be taken every cession, with the Greek economy forecast to contract by 5.5 per- ravaged by HIV. So the evidence involved only African women, sci- day. It’s also a relatively inexpensive cent this year. D suggesting that the injectable con- entists said biological effects would method.” —Niki Kitsantonis, The New York Times 4

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The following incidents were reported by the Campus Police between August 31, 2011 and September 18, 2011. The dates below reflect the dates the incidents occurred. This information is compiled from the Campus Police’s crime log. The report does not include alarms, general service calls, or the area incidents not reported to the dispatcher. Veggie Galaxy, Sep 8 Bldg. 13 (105 Rear Massachusetts Sep 12 Bldg. 10 (122 Memorial Dr.) 11:00 a.m., Sector one takes report of harrassing/ Ave.) 5:12 p.m., Report scooter sto- Bicycle left unlocked in hallway stolen. annoying emails. Redbones van len. Reporting party believes he Sep 13 Bldg. W16 (Kresge Auditorium, 48 Sep 15 Bldg. W35 (Zesiger Sports Center, 100 left the keys in the ignition. Report Massachusetts Ave.) 10:32 p.m., Re- Vassar St.) 12:20 p.m., Larceny of gym taken. port of a fight in progress in Kresge lot. bag, wallet, and car keys from the track set up shop Sep 8 Delta Upsilon (526 Beacon St.) 3:12 Units respond to assist, issue trespass area. Retail, from Page 1 p.m., Backpack was stolen from warnings to all parties. Sep 16 Bldg. W20 (Student Center, 84 Massa- common area of fraternity. Report Sep 14 Bldg. 33 (125 Massachusetts Ave.) 4:03 chusetts Ave.) 7:04 p.m., Laptop was you’ll notice there are a few things taken. p.m., Report of a small fire in a car in stolen, report taken. right off campus that have changed Sep 9 Bldg. W20 (Student Center, 84 Mas- the hangar area. Fire extinguished, all Sep 16 Bldg. W1 (Maseeh Hall, 305 Memorial since last semester. sachusetts Ave.) 9:19 p.m., Sector units clear. Dr.) 11:37 a.m., Report of suspicious • Leisure Station in Kendall four checks on person. Sep 14 Bldg. W20 (Student Center, 84 Mas- activity. Square is now closed on Sundays. Sep 9 Bldg. 16 (21 Ames St.) 3:44 p.m., Sto- sachusetts Ave.) 1:15 p.m., Violation of Sep 16 Bldg. W20 (Student Center, 84 Massa- • Area 4, a restaurant doubling len folding table. restraining order. chusetts Ave.) 4:57 a.m., Homeless per- as a bakery/coffeehouse and a bar/ Sep 9 Bldg. 3 (33 Massachusetts Ave.) 11:00 Sep 15 Bldg. W20 (Student Center, 84 Massa- son issued trespass warning. oven, is now open in Tech Square a.m., Report of parents not being chusetts Ave.) 11:58 p.m., West car off Sep 16 Bldg. W20 (Student Center, 84 Massa- near Building 46. able to locate student. Same found with one subject. Subject issued tres- chusetts Ave.) 12:10 a.m., West car off • Shaw’s/Star Market has an ex- and all OK. pass warning. with one subject. Subject issued tres- panded their selection of school sup- Sep 9 Bldg. 8 (21 Ames St.) 8:44 a.m., Items Sep 15 Bldg. W20 (Student Center, 84 Massa- pass warning. plies and kitchenwares. You can also get a sticker from customer service to missing from office. chusetts Ave.) 11:44 p.m., West car off Sep 17 Bldg. W45 (West Garage, 125 Vassar put on the back of your MIT ID for an Sep 10 Bldg. W79 (Simmons Hall, 229 Vas- with one subject. Subject issued tres- St.) 4:40 p.m., Reporting party states extra five percent off everything. sar St.) 9:53 p.m., Party reports being pass warning. parties on roof of West Garage are • All Asia, a popular bar and harassed by his former friend. Sep 15 Bldg. W45 (West Garage, 125 Vassar harrassing pedestrians walking by. No live music venue, is slated to move St.) 7:25 p.m., Party reports his car was trespassing issued, all parties released Sep 12 Bldg. NW35 (235 Albany St.) 5:55 into the building that was formerly broken into and GPS was stolen. Re- and set on their way. p.m., Unlocked bike was stolen from housed by CCTV at 675 Massa- port taken. storage area. Report taken. Sep 18 Bldg. W31 (Du Pont Gym, 120 Massa- chusetts Avenue. Last term, MIT Sep 12 Bldg. 50 (Walker Memorial, 142 Me- Sep 15 Bldg. W45 (West Garage, 125 Vassar chusetts Ave.) 8:15 p.m., Reports bor- announced that it plans to rede- morial Dr.) 3:53 p.m., Report of sto- St.) 10:00 a.m., Reporting party states rowed bike was stolen from bike racks velop the property All Asia currently len A/V equipment from area. window was smashed and GPS was at Building 1. Bike was locked with a occupies. Sep 12 Bldg. N10 (155 Massachusetts Ave.) taken. Report taken. cable-style lock. • Veggie Galaxy, a vegan diner 1:09 p.m., Two suspicious males are Sep 15 Bldg. W89 (Campus Police, 291 Vas- Sep 18 Bldg. 50 (Walker Memorial, 142 Me- and bakery, is now open in Central attempting to sell items at construc- sar St.) 1:00 a.m., Reporting party fell morial Dr.) 11:07 a.m., Larceny of square. tion site out of their truck. Units re- asleep and laptop was stolen. cellphone. • Blick’s Art Supplies is now open spond. Trespass warning issued. Sep 15 Bldg. E14 (75 Amherst St.) 2:55 p.m., Compiled by Joseph Maurer. in Central Square near the T-stop, re- placing Pearl Arts and Craft Supplies. • The Redbones food truck, serving southern style BBQ, will now stop in Cambridge on Sundays until Nov. [email protected] 23 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. right outside Harvard at Memorial Drive and we’re seeking to Flagg Street. • Economy Hardware is still not open, despite plans to reopen last build our forces spring. —Stan Gill Tuesday, October 4, 2011 The Tech 11 Can evolution explanations be found in slime?

By Carl Zimmer network of tentacles that was nearly infectious bacteria. When the amoe- By contrast, the so-called acel- growing — extending tentacles that The New York Times identical to the actual highway sys- bas find a pathogen, they devour it. lular slime molds do not form slugs. can extend as far as several yards. It tem on the Iberian Peninsula. These sentinels then drop away from Instead, two cells merge, combin- pulsates to pump food from its ex- Most of the aliens that come out “If some countries started to the slug, taking the pathogen with it. ing their DNA into a new single- tremities to its core, and it can even of Hollywood don’t really look alien build highways from scratch, I They then die of the infection, while celled organism that just keeps crawl to search for food. at all. They may have pizza-size eyes would recommend to them to follow the slug remains healthy. or roachlike antennae, but their the slime mold routes,” Adamatzky When the slug is ready to make oddities are draped on a familiar hu- said. a stalk, more amoebas must die so manoid frame. Despite their name, slime molds that others can live. They climb on If you want to find life forms that are not related to bread mold or top of one another and transform SPERM DONORS truly seem otherworldly, your local the black mold that grows in damp their insides into bundles of cellu- forest is a much better place than houses. They belong to a separate lose. Eighty percent of Dictyostelium Earn up to your local cineplex. It is home to lineage that evolved from ordinary cells die this way, allowing the survi- creatures that are immensely old, soil amoebas. vors to climb up their lifeless bodies fundamentally bizarre and capable By analyzing the DNA of differ- and become spores. per month of startlingly sophisticated behavior. ent slime mold species, researchers David Queller and Joan Stras- They are the slime molds. are reconstructing their evolution- smann, a husband-and-wife team Slime molds are a remarkable ary history, which turns out to reach of Dictyostelium experts at Wash- lineage of amoebas that live in soil. back about a billion years. Since all ington University in St. Louis, have Invest minimal time While they spend part of their life known slime molds live on land, that found that some strains of the slime Make a real difference in the lives of families as ordinary single-celled creatures, suggests that they were early pio- mold are natural-born cheats. If they Receive free health and genetic screenings they sometimes grow into truly alien neers, arriving hundreds of millions are mixed with other strains, they forms. Some species gather by the of years before animals or plants. are more likely to end up as spores APPLY ONLINE: thousands to form multicellular “They may be as old as the ter- than as dead stalk cells. bodies that can crawl. Others devel- restrial ecosystem,” said Sandra “Clearly this is not just a weird op into gigantic, pulsating networks Baldauf, an evolutionary biologist at thing,” Queller said. “Those muta- SPERMBANK.com of protoplasm. Uppsala University in Sweden. tions happen all the time.” - convenient Cambridge location While naturalists have known Slime molds first came to scien- Research by Queller and Stras- of slime molds for centuries, only tific fame in the mid-20th century smann has revealed some reasons now are scientists really starting to with the work of the Princeton bi- the slime-mold world has not been understand them. Lab experiments ologist John Tyler Bonner. Bonner overwhelmed by these cheats. For are revealing the complex choreog- learned of a North American species one thing, most of the amoebas that Legatum Lecture raphy of signals in some species that of slug-forming slime mold called form a slug are closely related to one allows 20,000 individuals to form a Dictyostelium discoides and began another. single sluglike body. to raise them in his lab, studying “They’re helping relatives,” Stras- The pulsating networks that some them as a simple analog of animal smann said. Even if the slime molds Mother teresa, Ceo: slime molds form are giving other embryos. die to form a stalk, many of their scientists clues to solving difficult Today, biologists no longer think genes are passed on to the next gen- UnexpeCted prinCiples for praCtiCal leadership mathematical problems. In 2000, of Dictyostelium as an embryo: It eration through their kin. Japanese researchers placed Phy- is more like a society of amoebas To help relatives, Dictyostelium sarum polycephalum — the name that come together for a common needs a way to recognize them. Re- SPEAkER: means “many-headed slime mold” cause, for which some will sacrifice searchers at Baylor College of Medi- — in a maze, along with two blocks themselves. cine in Houston recently figured out of food. It extended its tendrils down The organisms respond to star- part of the way the slime molds tell Ruma Bose the corridors of the maze, bending vation by rushing together by the kin from strangers. The amoebas Co-CEO, Sprayology around curves, reaching dead ends thousands into a single blob. The make a pair of proteins on the sur- and then backing out of them. After blob stretches out into a slug-shaped face of their cells, which fit snugly to- Serial Entrepreneur, Investor, Philantropist & Author four hours, the slime mold was feast- mass about one millimeter long gether — like “patches of Velcro,” as ing on both blocks of food. (one twenty-fifth of an inch), which one researcher, Gad Shaulsky, put it. Andrew Adamatzky, a researcher then crawls like a worm toward light. Shaulsky and his colleagues re- Wednesday, October 12 at 5 pm at the University of West England, Once it reaches the surface of ported in July that if these proteins has been watching slime molds the soil, the slug undergoes another cannot link to each other, amoebas MIT Stata Center, 32-155 since 2006, finding inspirations in transformation: Most of the cells cannot fuse. “They completely ig- their growth for designing computer turn into a stiff stalk, while the oth- nore each other,” said Adam Kuspa, software. One of his favorite hobbies ers crawl to the top and form a sticky another Baylor biologist. Complimentary books will be is challenging slime molds to build ball of spores. They stick to the foot Dictyostelium belongs to one highway systems. In 2010 he and of an animal and travel to a hospi- of the two great branches of slime given to the first 50 attendees! his colleagues placed a slime mold table place. molds. 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Other groups came ahead of ical Orchestra came to Boston to time — in shirts — to put forth bring musical encouragement to Organized protest groups their own specific complaints. the protest. Although only a small come together A half-dozen people from the number were present, they played Many of the protesters partici- T Riders’ Union were angered by their music as loud as ever. pating in Occupy Boston are also what they called the “classist” be- part of other Boston-area activist havior of the MBTA. According to Protest attracts curious movements. the group, while the MBTA servic- onlookers Take Back Boston, a joint pro- es all of the Greater Boston area, Not everyone who participated test covering Hyatt hotel layoffs, the train lines avoid the poorer in Occupy Boston were protest authors@mit presents: Verizon union disputes, and Bank areas of the city, which are instead veterans. There were many new of America foreclosures, began serviced by busses. faces as well. at 2 p.m. at Boston Common and Critical Mass Boston, an orga- Visiting after work on her daughter’s advice, Kaitlyn was Jim Ottaviani simply interested in seeing what was happening. Although she wasn’t sure she was ready to spend the night, she was curious about FEYNMAN “joining the discussion.” Social networking played a big role here. Salma, a resident of Thursday, Oct. 6th Medford originally from Morocco, had read about the protests on kit Haines Twitter and decided to make an A protester at Occupy Boston 5:30 pm, 4-370 appearance. Students from the tries to capture what he sees as Wentworth Institute of Technol- the absurdity of the state of the ogy had heard about the protest nation by being absurd and ironic on Facebook. Please join us as we himself. There were even those who welcome Jim Ottaviani dressed up for the occasion. there was a lack of traditional me- to the MIT campus to A man who went by the name dia coverage of Occupy Wall Street. “Boston Scooterdude” scootered “Everyone here is a CEO, a discuss his new up and down the sidewalk with his Community Excellence Organiz- graphic novel about legendary physicist and MIT graduate Richard Feynman. kit haines Scooterdude, angry with the lack of media coverage for Occupy Wall Street, tries to spread the message of the protests in New York. He can often be found riding or windsurfing his scooter around Boston. Presented by authors@mit, ended its march in time for the oc- nized bike group that “reclaims a lecture series co-sponsored cupation in Dewey Square. the streets of Boston for bikes” by the MIT Libraries & the MIT The Boston coalition of Jobs on the last Friday of every month, with Justice, a national network also made an appearance. Rid- Press Bookstore. seeking to empower workers and ing through Dewey Square, they communities, set up a booth for were met with supportive cheers Open to the public and the protesters, marking a stop sign from the Occupy Boston protest- wheelchair accessible. Join us! with “Stop Corporate Greed” in a ers. Critical Mass, consisting of nearby flower pot. They were tak- hundreds of bikers, stopped traffic Event Info: (617) 253-5249, or ing donations, signing people up as they took to the streets, slowing on their email lists, and selling down and pausing in the square. kit Haines web.mit.edu/bookstore/www Members of the Rude Marching Orchestra, a radical marching the newspaper Justice, produced Many of the bikers seemed fasci- band from New York, supported the protesters at Occupy Boston on by the Socialist Alternative — a nated by the protest and mingled Friday by making music that everyone could hear. national activist organization. with the protesters before taking Jeremy, who connected with Jobs off. Still others came back later to sign, “It’s all about Free Speech, er, and every one of them is just with Justice at the protest, was join the protest. and Free to be heard!” He attend- as important to me as the CEOs wearing one of their small stickers Emma, one of the riders, said ed the protest because he believed on Wall Street, and that is how it should be,” said Scooterdude. One man in a suit and top hat was hoping irony would carry the message better. His sign read, “More Prisons Less Schools.” With his sign and costume he hoped to “capture some of the absurdity of the state of the nation.” The Protest Chaplains didn’t arrive until later, dressed in white robes holding a cardboard sign inscribed with “Blessed are the poor.” The Chaplains said their goal was to bring “spiritual, emo- tional, and mental support to the protesters.” Marisa Egerstrom, one of the Chaplains, added, “People of all faiths are invited and welcome to talk with us and join us in the protest.” Over 200 people had attended the first Occupy Boston planning meeting on Tuesday. Since then, the crowd grew at subsequent evening planning sessions. By Friday, almost 2,000 protesters split up into organizational groups: legal, medical, tactical, media, and food. In a “general assembly” meeting, protestors spoke out with a people’s microphone; the crowd repeated the speaker, propagating the message. Hand symbols were used to show support or dissent for ideas, and to save voices for cheers as groups made announcements. With everyone able to stand and speak, Kaitlyn explained, “It was a chance to be part of something bigger.” One speaker summed it all up nicely: “No one slogan captures Occupy Boston. … It is a discussion, and everyone has a voice.” Tuesday, October 4, 2011 The Tech 13 Directors to award Steinman prize despite death

Nobel prize, from Page 1 began tailoring an experimental vac- only after it has become advanced. receptors turned out to be made by to someone who is deceased.” cine against his own tumor. The idea About 20 percent of patients with the same family of genes as those in The Nobel committee was not Radio News after the situation came was to use the principles learned in pancreatic cancer survive one year the fruit fly, known as Toll-like recep- able to make contact with any of the to light. “News of his death was not the experiments on mice and in the after detection and four percent after tor genes. three winners before the announce- made public. We had no idea, nor laboratory to produce immune cells five years, according to the American Hansson, of the Nobel commit- ment was made, Hansson said, add- did they know at his place of work.” derived from his dendritic cells, a Cancer Society. tee, said Nobel Prizes have been ing that the committee normally The foundation’s nine-member class of cells that he discovered in Nussenzweig and other doctors awarded posthumously twice before: makes personal contact with the board of directors met Monday 1973. said it was impossible to determine in 1931 for literature to the poet Erik winners before going public with the afternoon and consulted lawyers After a piece of Steinman’s can- whether Steinman would have sur- Axel Karlfeldt, and, 30 years later, to news. concerning the interpretation of the cer was removed, a colleague, Dr. vived as long without his self-tailored Dag Hammarskjold for peace. Annika Pontikis, a spokeswoman statutes of the Nobel Foundation is- Michel Nussenzweig, grew it in the experimental treatment. “The situation was a little differ- for the Nobel Foundation, said she sued in 1974. The statutes hold that At the time of his death Stein- ent then because the committee was did not know whether the board had the Nobel Prize is not to be given Steinman’s award man was working to develop a gen- aware that the recipients were dead,” discussed how to check whether fu- posthumously. But if a person who eral method for making a vaccine Hansson told Swedish radio. “The ture recipients were alive at the time is announced as a prize winner dies was made in that would not need to be tailored practice now is not to award the prize of their election. before receiving it at the Nobel cer- good faith on the to each patient and that could be emonies on Dec. 10 — the anniver- used against cancer and certain in- sary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the assumption that fections. Other vaccines based on Swedish industrialist who endowed he was alive at the dendritic cells are being tested in pa- the prizes — the award remains tients, researchers said. valid. time of his election. Provenge, a vaccine against ad- Because Steinman’s award was vanced prostate cancer, was based made in good faith on the assump- laboratory to produce enough mate- on Steinman’s work with dendritic tion that he was alive at the time of rial to send to at least 20 researchers cells. It was approved by the Food his election, he should receive it, the at Rockefeller University and at least and Drug Administration last year directors decided. five other laboratories around the and is sold by the Dendreon Corp. of The drama seemed to overshad- world. Steinman organized the work Seattle. (Nussenzweig said that nei- ow the fact that Steinman was award- among the researchers who devel- ther he nor Steinman had any con- ed one-half of the prize, and two oth- oped the experimental vaccine. nection to Dendreon, financial or er immunologists shared the other Steinman received standard che- otherwise.) half. They were Dr. Bruce A. Beutler motherapy for his cancer as well as Scientists who knew Steinman of the University of Texas Southwest- the experimental vaccine, which and his work said the Nobel commit- ern Medical Center in Dallas and the other doctors at Rockefeller Univer- tee made the right decision. Scripps Research Institute in San sity injected under his skin, Nussen- “All I can say is that the work Diego, and Dr. Jules A. Hoffmann of zweig said Monday in a telephone deserved the prize,” said Susumu France. All three scientists were hon- interview. Rockefeller University’s Tonegawa of the Massachusetts In- ored for discoveries of essential steps institutional review board approved stitute of Technology, who himself in the immune system’s response to the experiment. won the prize in 1987 for his work on infection. “Ralph believed strongly that immunology. But it was Steinman who actually it would work,” Nussenzweig said. Honored along with Steinman used his discoveries in the laboratory “Obviously, it did not work or he were Hoffman, who was born in Lux- to try to save his own life. His career- would be here now, but possibly it embourg, and Beutler, an American. long quest had been to develop a prolonged his life.” The research, he In 1996, Hoffmann discovered the vaccine against cancer for humans, added, will continue. cell receptors in laboratory fruit flies having shown 20 years ago that such Pancreatic cancer is among the that are activated by pathogenic bac- a treatment could be effective in most aggressive malignancies, in teria or fungi. Two years later, Beutler mice. part because it arises in a gland deep identified the cell receptors in mice Four and a half years ago, after in the abdomen that is hard for doc- that respond to a substance in the he was found to be jaundiced from tors to feel with their hands and be- coat of bacteria and that can trigger a spreading pancreatic cancer, he cause usually it produces symptoms septic shock if overstimulated. These 14 The Tech Tuesday, October 4, 2011 Royal Bengal Kendall to see future growth Boston’s only authentic BengaliCuisine restaurant 121735 client 1 23:45 02/01/01 kev 65 Dolev 313Mass.Ave., Cambridge Hockfield address, from Page 1 vanced Manufacturing Partnership, Q&A session, Reif stated that the In- Open Daily Except Monday (617) 491-1988 Hockfield is working on a national stitute is in “good shape” financially T: Red Line, Bus#1–CentralSquare the planet,” and invoked some of level to develop an idea of what fu- — in fiscal year 2011, MIT reported 11:30 am–11:30 pm MIT’s corporate neighbors, which ture manufacturing in America will a 17.9 percent return on the endow- Lunch Buffet $7.95 10% Discount on $15 include Pfizer, Novartis, ZipCar, and look like. She said that innovation ment, bringing it from $8.5 billion to Reasonably Priced Dinners (or more) order with MIT ID. Google. at MIT will help shape “the future $9.9 billion dollars. 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Since federal This space donated by The Tech 425, half of which are MIT-related. would house nanoscale materials funding is likely to decline, said the Hockfield calls these firms an “excit- research. provost, MIT needs to “diversify [its] ing backdrop” to the Institute and MIT is acknowledged for having sources of research funding,” in- hopes to continue to “amplify inno- top-tier faculty and staff, but Hock- cluding international partnerships. vation potential” and create a “more field — who is serving as a freshman According to Hockfield, the at- “I FEEL LIKE lively and vibrant neighborhood.” adviser this term — said that un- mosphere at MIT after MIT150 is Cambridge is currently considering dergraduate classes also bring their “more focused, more committed to an MIT proposal for the develop- brilliance to the Institute. While our core values and our mission.” ment of the Kendall Square area. the freshmen are “pinching them- The Institute has been reminded of selves” that they got in, Hockfield its roots and what originally made it A FISH Digital learning, said, she also “can’t believe we’re so great, such as the “power of thinking manufacturing fortunate to have them [at MIT].” in the long term,” she said. WITH NO WATER. Another focus of the speech was Hockfield also cited the opening Hockfield gave several exam- ” digital learning technology — name- of the 460-bed Maseeh Hall as a way ples of past leaders at MIT who ly, OpenCourseWare. OCW content, the Institute is expanding its student have exhibited great forethought, –JACOB, AGE 5 which is visited two million times body. The growth in undergradu- such as Richard C. Maclaurin, the per month, has “revolutionized digi- ate enrollment is “an important president of MIT during its move DESCRIBING ASTHMA tal learning” according to the slide- act of service to the nation and the to Cambridge, and George East- show at the address. Hockfield said world” by providing MIT graduates man, the then-anonymous donor the main question now is “how [to] with strong math and science back- who financed the move. Eastman enhance residence-based educa- grounds, said the president. once said, “The future of technology tion by bringing in technology.” should be big.” Hockfield added, Hockfield also brought up MIT’s Economic growth “we can only hope this generation role in the future of manufactur- The State of the Institute address will be as visionary about technol- ing. Appointed by President Barack came with a backdrop of continuing ogy,” as Maclaurin and Eastman Obama as the co-chair of the Ad- economic uncertainty. During the were. 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SPorts Sports Sports Sports Sports Sports Sports Sports Sports Sports Sports Sports Tech The MLB postseason:MLB AL/NLDS Tech The Terry Francona’sfuture of team the and the firing, A diehard fan’s musings on collapse, the September uncertainty and helplessness The State of Red Sox Nation: exactly what only five did,winning they games collapse fortheteam to miss out ontheplayoffs. Sept. 9declaredlished that itwouldtake ahistoric point, and our “Your New Home Team” pub - article for example,Red Sox, had a 9-1/2 game lead at one Wild Card teams holding leads. comfortable The of September, allsix division leaders andboth with setbeginning be beall atthe to seemed The field hasing postseason finally decided. intheMLB been stances playing out in another era, when Red Sox Fenway Park. 1.94 and was unhittable ERA virtually outside of great Rivera who, held a at years 34 oldin2004, forthe wouldsimply neverconfused season, be year Proctor, oldScott ownerofa7.14 onthe ERA tation ofEllsbury’s three-run shotwas that 34- en route to the World Series. The otherinterpre- to topple the great used squad Mariano Rivera late-inning magic that theswashbuckling 2004 Red Soxthese had secret of the same reserves tic interpretation ofEllsbury’s heroics was that justcoby afewnights Ellsbury ago. Theoptimis he had given upa14th to Ja inning homerun - Yankees. The name was familiarSox to Red fans; Proctor Scott was onthemound forthe victory, celebrationphoric at homeplate. that sent into Reimold homeandtheOrioles eu- runs, fivethe year home with soft linedrive hita watchedthey Andino, as Robert batting on .263 to theprecipice ofdefeat. ofvictory brink Then, into right-center theRed Sox bring from the watched asthey upended Nolan Reimold’s shot championships. Thisentirebelief system was to rally from improbableworld win deficitsand steadfast that support empowered theRed Sox their was theirunyielding faithintheRed Sox, ceptional, infallibleinthefaceofadversity. It surelysome that believed theRed Sox were ex a game at Fenway Park that wasout; notsold were justifiable. fans These havebeen to never and2010, 2009, minor failures in2006, but they and2007.successes of2004 Sure, there were Red Sox fanshave only knownthetremendous eration ofRed Sox fans, itwas different. These heartbreaking losses. However,- foranewgen succumbedsquads to bad luck andendured 1978, or1986 possible went moment, awry. everything cardthe wild playoff upforgrabs.spot At the last theTampain thestandings with Bay Rays with Red Sox entered thefinal night tied season ofthe all ofNew England last Wednesday night. The Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Milwaukee vs. Brewers Diamondbacks Arizona Series Division League National ers in4. to make itto thenext round. Prediction: Brew- asthoughat they seems least have what ittakes “whatnot be made Milwaukee famous,” but it Diamondback offense at bay. The Brewers may homerandGallardoting atwo-run keeping the againstwin the Diamondbacks, Fielder with hit continuing astheBrewers putGame upasolid 1 recordseason at home. This streakbe to seems the Brewers have achievedafantastic regular win theseries. Prediction:win Brewers in5. the distance andultimately thehometeam will rotation. starting superior shouldgo series This dueto their close mondbacks keep theseries will Brewers have more heavy hitters, but theDia- tough divisions. very two Thein after winning ups oftheDivisional playoffs.Both teams come Apparently because that’s jinxed theSox, we After six months and 162 games, the teams play- It is tocurious imagine same these circum- By were thetimeOrioles celebrating their For some, it was the same feeling of 1946, sensation ofhelplessness gripped A terrible Therebe to seems magic in Miller Park as This isoneofthemore interesting match- — years whentalented Red Sox By Zach Hynes Spor Sports Staff ts st aff ’ s predictions for the the for ’s predictions —Nicholas Myers —Carlos Greaves - - ing case of`schadenfreude. emerged andwere- anoverwhelm experiencing vacation home for Red Sox fans. Now, had they was oncenomore than aclimate-controlled Field, smartphones. orwithout with “TheTrop” surprising just to find Rays fans at Tropicana outcome. Several years ago, itwouldhave been the scoreboard at Tropicana even showedthe ontheirsmartphonesbeforeof which arrived the outcome oftheRed Sox-Orioles game, news nel to find Rays fans at Tropicana Field cheering magic ofsatellite television. Ichanged thechan - worse, watch the events unfoldlive through the Yankees game on one of any number of sites or uptheirlaptopstion to open andfollow theRays- thesame miserablefans wouldnotfeel obliga- just fine. ing into Bostonbaseball well October, he’ll do says ordoes. Aslong asthefansare still watch- time, care noonewill much too about what he umpire whohas incurred hiswrath. However, in an face-to-face with ashegoes ing himonTV the pregame ontheradio, interviews andwatch - next guy, listening to himtalkabout hislineupin April evenings andhotAugust nights the with England isgoing spending to be alotof rainy game asFranconaredevery fleece did? New Red Bulldrink for breakfast, thesame orwear Dustin with Pedroia,cribbage eat bacon and caliber player. ling, andletJacoby grow Ellsbury into anMVP- steroid allegations, Curt with - Schil coexisted Cora, revived David through Ortiz slumps and Dustinwith Pedroia when the fans wanted Alex managed Manny Ramirez forfour years, stuck fans hasFriday. ever known,leftofficeon He the only manager that this generation of Red Sox Boston was almost assurreal. Terry Francona, Boston. What over unfolded thenext fewdays in the Rays to theplayoffsSox andthe Red back to walk-offrun to home Longoria,sendingEvan - Now he’s gone. Will thenext manager play Moments later, Proctor Scott coughed upa the face ofadversity. face the exceptional, in infallible werethat Sox Red the surelySome believed Philadelphia Phillies vs. St. Louis Cardinals St. Louis vs. Phillies Philadelphia staff. the matchups predictions andsome by Tech round onFriday. Here’s ofthepostseason at alook lies, Brewers, andDiamondbacks, began thefirst ners, theYankees, along with Tigers, Rangers, Phil- dinals onthefinal day.two Those Wild Card win - nine-game lead andbeing overtaken by theCar leading Braves suffered a similar fate, blowing a complete. In the National League, the Wild Card- probable Rays comeback made theSox collapse a ninth-inning an im- meltdown coupled with thenext day,Rays drew onegame even with left; the entire month. Theirlead disappeared asthe happening. Prediction: Phillies in4. as many years. It ishard to make acase against that to andlooks playseason inhisthird World in Series team, was re-acquired from the Rangers in the off World ofthePhillies’Lee, whowas part Series 2009 a great andHalladay. Lee bullpen with starting nosigns to be ofthemlettingseems up. They have and there in achieved clubthe mosthistory wins lies had an absurdly regular good They season. eptitude. Prediction: Phillies in3. and theCardinals indueto squeaked Atlanta’s in- reason thePhillies have thebestrecord inbaseball asitdidallyear.teams inthepostseason Therea is adelphia’s rotation starting easily dominate will all St. issimply outmatched Louis inthiscontest. Phil- the Braves squandered a 7.5 game lead. However, lously astheRays, card earning the wild spotafter 102-60. Irest my case. But thePhil seriously, - The Cardinals comeinto theplayoffs asmiracu- —Carlos Greaves —Nicholas Myers sports - Football losesFootball on last-minute field goal Sport goal scoredgoal by UMass Dartmouth’s ond mark, because ofa45 yard field updownagainended at the23sec game. Unfortunately, theEngineers point lead —theirfirst lead inthe version to give theEngineers aone- Hessels ’14 scored atwo-point con- scored a touchdown. Benjamin D. foranimpressive yards,rushed 84 Engineers were unable to holdonto UMass Dartmouth onSaturday, the ing inthehalf, Rankin challenged inthegame.MIT With 1:14 remain- often by theEphs’ attack, but kept S.Dylan Rankin ’12 tested wouldbe from Philip Vestergaard. Goalkeeper maining in the first half on a header 13an early lead with minutes re - earlier inthehalf, Williams grabbed capitalize onseveral opportunities play,CAC struck first. After failing to contest standing at 3-1-1inNES in theirway. Men’sMIT was hoping Soccer to headinglosses into theweekend, Team first stillseeking goal Sept. 12 since 1-0straight, to Williams Men’s soccer drops fifth - After aclosely-fought game at The Ephs, whoentered Saturday’s Having suffered four straight New York Yankees Tigers Detroit vs. Tampa Bay Texas Rays vs. Rangers Series Division League American Yankees in5. troit fans, sports happy Iwouldbe proven to be wrong. Prediction: theTigersenough to carry past theYankees, but forthesake- ofDe at good getting guys onbase.very Idon’tthinkVerlander be will out forhim, though, astheYankees have big some hitters andare shoulders pitcher ofstarting Justin Verlander. He has hiswork cut tunately, this year’s team lacks to rest depth and seems some on the playoff contention appearance.Series after theirWorld 2006 Unfor combined! Jokes aside, it is great the Tigers to see back in serious haveLions already more and 2009 won games this year than in 2008 that matter, Michigan fans in general. the brightsports side, On the pullthe Rangers through. will Prediction: Rangers in5. fairly evenly matched, butforsentimental partially reasons, Isay Soxknock offthe forthe Red Wild Cardtwo teams spot. These are you’ll recallmemory) three won games in a row over theYankees to frompetition the Rays who (if you haven’t repressed it from your heartbreaking loss inthe2010 World Series, butfacestiff com- they relief pitcher Mark Lowe. to look They after themselves a redeem but are hurting the recent in the bullpen, with especially loss of high-powered offense. Prediction: Yankees in 4. extendwill the series, but the Tigers can’t the Yankees’keep up with the Yankees are likelygames uptwo to be intheseries. Verlander the ALDS.willmeet again in two Game These 3, but by thatpoint Sabathia, theTigers lost theirbestchance oftaking anearly lead in prevail. Prediction: Rangers in5. willultimatelyclose but the The RangersRaysseries will the keep power that hitting, acategory theRangers dominated allyear long. Without dictated be anacepitcherby foreither team, will thisseries and Texas’ pitching depth is much more impressive than Tampa’s. tember. However, the Rangers are a much better team than last year being ninegames intheWild behind Card at- thebeginningofSep squeaking past theRed Sox onthefinal after season game ofthe By Zach Hynes It has arough been couple ofyears forDetroit fans, sports orfor The Rangers have withplenty afantastic of offense big hitters, When the rain wiped out therainWhen theGame 1matchup wiped ofVerlander vs. The Rays come into theplayoffs inthemost unlikely fashion, s Spor Wallace ’15, whohad last quarter, Justin R. With 1:23leftinthe win. a season-opening third straight loss after 31–29. This was MIT’s a late lead andfell William stood College tionally-ranked Ephs of loss forMIT, thena- fortunately, a1-0 with brenner Stadium. Un - on Saturday at Stein- regain momentum SHort aff st ts - - managed asack. in one-point conversions andalso W. Gilliland ’12 was three-for-three and Wallace scored oneeach. Peter two-point conversion), and Wenzel touchdowns two (anda team with of the young team. Hessels the led showed thestrength andversatility (217offense passing/166rushing) team, but MIT’s strong, balanced Dartmouth’s hurt the one certainly sive 115. Three turnovers to UMass ’15 Goldsberry L. received amas ’14 for217 passed yards, andBrad underclassmen. John Wenzel C. performance, among especially the Edgar Osols. offensive firepower in order to do so. have will clear they to re-ignite their the conference tournament, but it is to regainopportunity for position played,be theEngineers have the conference remaining schedule to Saturday. With much of their in- matchup Babson next with College in-conference foracrucial paring Regina onWednesday before pre- things around at home against Salve the Ephs, but to noavail. each against shotsongoal put two midfielder K. Jonathan Tebes ’14 Kabelac E. Forward ’12 Zachary and ing more than four each goals game. onaprolificthe season pace,scor five straight beginninggames after haveneers heldscoreless been for for lack ofopportunities. The Engi- that continued to struggle, ifnot on aheader from range. close liams and made a remarkable save a relentless Matt Kastner from Wil- MIT’s team saw anincredible The Engineers will try to turn will try The Engineers Indeed, itwasoffense theMIT Tuesday, October 4, 2011Tuesday, October —Shri Ganeshram —Nicholas Myers —Nicholas Myers —Carlos Greaves —Carlos Greaves - - -