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Volume 131, Number 22 tech.mit.edu Tuesday, April 26, 2011 Should MIT go vegan? PETA VP spars with MIT Debate Team

By Jingyun Fan ing meat is unethical under environmental, energy, and News Editor all circumstances. animal-cruelty reasons. Instead of the suit and “Vegetarianism is simply Bruce Friedrich, the vice- tie typi- a matter of aligning your val- president of policy and gov- INSIDE cal of vice ues with your actions,” Fried- ernment affairs for People presidents, rich said. Opinion for the Ethical Treatment of Friedrich “How many people be- Animals (PETA), debated column from was dressed lieve that animals should the ethics of eating meat Bruce Fried- simply in be legally protected from with the MIT Debate Team rich, PETA VP. tan khakis abuse?” Friedrich asked. The on Monday night in 10-250. p. 4 and a red majority of the audience in Nicholas Chornay—The Tech Shireen S. Rudina ’13, the de- dress shirt. 10-250 raised their hands. Shireen S. Rudina ’13 of the MIT Parliamentary Debate Team debates the ethics of eat- bate team’s vice president of He started the debate with Americans almost unani- ing meat with PETA Vice President of Policy Bruce Friedrich. The two presented their oppos- tournaments, argued against a speech arguing that a veg- ing arguments Monday night to a packed 10-250. Not surprisingly, neither was convinced to Friedrich’s proposal that eat- etarian lifestyle is ethical for PETA debate, Page 12 concede the point.

Joichi Ito named new 45 student teams compete for $15K Media Lab Director MIT Global Challenge added to annual IDEAS Competition By Deborah Chen “There’s definitely a lot of energy and the opportunities the competitions Staff Reporter potential here.” offered. This year marks the 10th anniversary “The IDEAS Competition is awe- Forty-five teams competed for of the MIT’s IDEAS Competition, and some,” said Archit N. Bhise ’13 of Inno- $15,000 last night in the final round of the first year of the MIT Global Chal- Health, “It’s a great opportunity to get MIT’s Innovation, Development, En- lenge, which was created by the Public feedback, and with the funding, we can terprise, Action and Service (IDEAS) Service Center and the MIT Alumni go back to India and deploy our project Competition, spelling out their vision Association as a tie-in to MIT150. One in more places to really get it working.” to make the world a better place. The of the new features of the MIT Global InnoHealth is a partnership with the annual competition focuses on inno- Challenge allows registered users to Indian NGO Society for Nutrition, Ed- vation in the realm of public service. vote for their favorite teams online, with ucation, and Health Action (SNEHA) Teams entered projects in fields rang- the top five teams receiving $5000 each. to develop a web-based system to ef- ing from health care and education to The two competitions will reward up to ficiently direct hospital patients to the food production, with many focusing $150,000 in funding to the various win- best facility for their needs in Mumbai, on the challenges of world poverty and ning teams. This year, turnout was up 20 India. international development. percent from previous years, according Coyin Oh ’14, a member of Grub- “I’m really excited by the diversity to Kate Mytty, program coordinator. Cycle, said, “I really liked that the com- in the types of projects this year,” said petition gives us a chance to create Raj Melville MBA ’77, a returning judge Projects courtesy of the MIT Media lab from the Deshpande Foundation. Many teams were excited about IDEAS, Page 11

Joichi “Joi” Ito was named as the new director of the MIT Media Lab in an announcement yesterday. He will be the fourth director of the Media Lab, founded in 1985. Ito In Short will take over the directorship from Franklin H. Moss PhD Broad Institute extension approved The fall class schedule is ’77, who has held the position for the past five years. Early last week, the Broad Insti- Fein. available online at http:// Despite having attended both Tufts University and the tute Board of Directors authorized “I thank all who have contributed student.mit.edu/catalog/index. University of Chicago, Ito holds no college degrees. He plans to construct a Broad Institute to its success thus far, and look for- cgi. Start planning your classes! studied computer science at Tufts and physics at UChi- extension. Alan Fein, executive vice ward to sharing further updates in cago, but ultimately left academia, citing as his motiva- president and deputy director of the the coming months.” Freshmen must declare their tion: “I once asked a professor to explain the solution to a Broad Institute, delivered the news —Pearle Lipinski major this Friday, April 29, if problem so I could understand it more intuitively. He said, in an email sent to the Broad com- they plan on declaring this year. ‘You can’t understand it intuitively. Just learn the formula munity last Friday. According to the so you’ll get the right answer.’ That was it for me.” email, the Planning Board of the City Free breakfast every day this Ito has held key leadership positions in internet organi- of Cambridge approved the external week on the Student Center zations like the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names appearance of the building on April steps from 8:30–10 a.m. to cel- and Numbers (ICANN) and Creative Commons. Through 12. The transcript of the meeting is ebrate Wellness Week! his funding and support for a number of issues, he has es- not yet available. tablished himself as a great advocate of internet freedom and The extension will be built at 75 Bon Appétit, the dining privacy. Ito also sits on the board of directors of the Mozilla Ames St. in the empty lot behind company that will continue to Foundation, WITNESS (a human rights organization), and the Broad Institute’s central 7 Cam- supply meals to MIT cafeterias Global Voices (a blogger network focused on free speech). bridge Center campus. The exten- in the fall, will be giving info MIT Provost L. Rafael Reif said that Ito is “the right per- sion would consolidate the functions sessions about their food this son to lead the Media Lab today,” calling him “an innova- of three existing Broad buildings coming week in each dining tive thinker who understands the tremendous potential — located at 320 Charles St., 301 hall. Sessions will be held at of technology and, in particular, the Internet, to influence Binney St., and 5 Cambridge Center Next on April 26 at 8:30 p.m.; education, business, and society in general.” — which have leases expiring in the McCormick on April 27 at 8 On his blog, Ito expresses that he is “happy and hon- next 3–4 years. The new building will p.m.; and Simmons on April 28 ored” to be the new director and is delighted to have finally have more total space than all of the at 8 p.m. They are expected to “found [his] tribe.” buildings being replaced. An April last one hour. “Everyone was super-smart, driven,” and “working on 7 application to the Planning Board very cool stuff,” he wrote in the blog. “They weren’t afraid proposes 250,000 square feet of gross The inaugural Service Cup to try anything.” He describes feeling “at home” in the floor area at the 75 Ames building, was awarded to the Sigma lab, as it is a “place where [he] can focus … but still have including ground floor retail/restau- Alpha Epsilon fraternity for their a tremendous ability to work with the team … [to] impact rant space. help with Habitat for Humanity, the world in a substantial and positive way.” Ito says he is According to Fein’s email, tax-ex- the Museum of Science, and Big looking forward to doing outreach for the Media Lab by in- empt bonds are on sale this week to source: elkus/manfredi architects Brothers/Big Sisters. troducing his network of colleagues to the lab through the finance the project. The proposed Broad Institute ex- Internet and encouraging sponsors to visit MIT. “This project is a collaborative tension will have 250,000 square feet Send news information and Ito’s blog can be found at http://joi.ito.com/. effort involving many Broadies and of lab, office, and ground floor retail tips to [email protected]. —Jessica J. Pourian it is now becoming a reality,” wrote space.

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worl Conventional wisdom, and the laws and constitutions of The New York Times they go in this repression? That is school students accused of scrawl- many states, has long held that the pensions being earned by cur- the question.” ing anti-government graffiti on a

n rent government workers are untouchable. But as the fiscal crisis BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Syr- As in 1982, when it crushed an wall, galvanizing demonstrations has lingered, officials in strapped states from California to Illinois ian Army stormed the restive city Islamist revolt and killed at least that have spread from the Mediter- have begun to take a second look, to see whether there might be of Dara’a with tanks and soldiers 10,000 people in Hama, the mili- ranean coast and eastern regions loopholes allowing them to cut the pension benefits of current and helped detain dozens in towns tary again showed its willingness to dominated by Kurds to the steppe employees. Now the move in Detroit — made possible, lawyers across the country Monday in an es- use force to repress its own people. of southern Syria, where Dara’a is said, because Michigan’s constitutional protections are weaker calation of the crackdown on Syria’s Although there were rumors of dis- located. — could spur other places to try to follow suit. five-week-old uprising, according to cord among soldiers, the leader- Residents said at least eight tanks atio The mayors of some hard-hit cities have said that the high residents and human rights activ- ship is still dominated by Assad’s drove into the town before dawn, costs of pensions have forced them to lay off workers: Oakland, ists. They said at least 25 people had minority sect and its deployment with anywhere from 4,000 to 6,000 Calif., laid off one-tenth of its police force last year after failing to been killed in Dara’a, with reports of to Dara’a illustrated that a crucial troops, although some estimates win concessions on pension costs. Elsewhere there is pension bodies strewn in the streets. bastion of government support re- put the numbers in the hundreds. envy: some private sector workers, who have learned the hard The military’s move into the mains loyal — in stark contrast with Water, electricity, and phone lines way that their companies can freeze or reduce pensions going town seemed to signal a new, har- Egypt, where the military’s refusal to were cut, making firsthand accounts forward, resent that the pensions of public sector workers en- rowing chapter in a crackdown that fire on protesters proved decisive in difficult and the numbers impos- joy stronger legal protections. But government workers, many of has already killed nearly 400 people. President Hosni Mubarak’s fall from sible to verify, and nearby border

& N whom were recruited with the promise of good benefits and pen- Until now the government has been power. crossings with Jordan were reported sions, say that it would be unfair — and in many cases, very likely hewing to a mix of concessions and The official Syrian news agency sealed. Snipers took positions on illegal — to change the rules in the middle of the game. brute force, but its actions Monday said Monday night that the military the roofs of mosques, residents said, —Michael Cooper and Mary Williams Walsh, indicated that it had chosen the lat- had entered the town at the request and a mix of soldiers and armed ir- The New York Times ter, seeking to crush a wave of dis- of citizens to hunt what it called “ex- regular forces went house to house sent in virtually every province that tremist terrorist groups.” to search for protesters. has shaken the once uncontested Dara’a, a town of low-slung “There are bodies in the streets Sales of new homes increase in rule of President Bashar al-Assad, buildings with 75,000 inhabitants, we can’t reach; anyone who walks orld 45. has become almost synonymous outside is getting shot at,” said a res- March but remain slow “The government has decided with the popular revolt that has ident of Dara’a who gave his name The market for new homes is so depressed that even a re- to choose the path of violence and posed the greatest challenge to four as Abdullah, reached by satellite bound last month did not keep it from being the slowest March repression,” said a Syrian analyst in W decades of rule by the Assad fam- phone. “They want to teach Syria a on record. Beirut, who asked to remain anony- ily. Protests erupted there in March lesson by teaching Dara’a a lesson.” Buyers signed contracts in March at a seasonally adjusted an- nual rate of 300,000, an 11 percent increase from the month be- fore but down from 384,000 in March 2010, the Census Bureau said Monday. In March 2005, when a lack of income or savings was no de- terrent to getting a dream home with granite countertops and a NATO strikes Gadhafi office walk-in pantry, families and investors flocked to real estate at an annual rate of 1,431,000 houses. The millions of homes built during the boom have created a compound, Italy joins the fight drag on the current market as owners surrender them to foreclo- sure. Builders cannot compete against relatively new construc- By David D. Kirkpatrick reported that a widely publicized that as many as 45 people were tion offered by banks for large discounts. The New York Times government pullback had given slightly injured. The March sales numbers modestly exceeded analysts’ expec- way to renewed shelling by Gad- A government spokesman, tations but nevertheless did not impress. TRIPOLI, Libya — NATO war- hafi’s forces from outside the city. Moussa Ibrahim, said later that “Still miserable,” said Joshua Shapiro, chief U.S. economist for planes struck Moammar Gadhafi’s The initial withdrawal over the three people had been killed and MFR Inc. compound here early on Monday weekend after a nearly two-month 45 were injured, 15 of them seri- —David Streitfeld, The New York Times and also bombed a state television siege had bewildered some rebels. ously, by the airstrikes. He did complex in an escalation of the Also on Monday, Italy, after not elaborate and turned down a air campaign to aid the rebellion weeks of declining to participate request to arrange for interviews Walmart tests service for against his four decades in power. in direct bombing raids, said for with the wounded. The attack on the compound the first time that it would begin Ibrahim declined comment on buying groceries online was the third since air raids began striking select military targets in whether Gadhafi was in the com- Walmart has begun testing an online grocery delivery service, in mid-March, but the strike at the Libya. pound at the time of the attack, called Walmart to Go, in the San Jose, Calif., area. television complex was the most In Tripoli, at least two large but he said the Libyan government The company has been expanding its online options, includ- significant broadening yet of the bomb blasts thundered in the city considered the attack “an attempt ing a nationwide rollout of a service that lets customers order NATO air campaign, suggesting just after midnight, and journalists to assassinate the leader and uni- merchandise (not food) online and pick it up in the store the that nonmilitary targets would be escorted to the compound by gov- fying figure of this country.” same day. While that program is aimed at getting shoppers into hit in an effort to break down the ernment officials saw firefighters “He is well,” Ibrahim said of stores more frequently, this one creates a more convenient way instruments of Gadhafi’s broader hosing down the smoldering re- Gadhafi. “He is healthy. He is in to buy from Walmart. control. mains of an office complex where high spirits.” Gadhafi, who has Walmart declined to make executives available for interviews A senior Libyan government of- Gadhafi works and meets visitors. made infrequent appearances in about the grocery test, which started Saturday. In early March, ficial said that the strike knocked The explosions sent cement and Tripoli since the uprising began, asked about the possibility of an online grocery ordering ser- state television off the air for about debris flying more than 50 yards. was conducting business as usual vice, Steve Nave, senior vice president and general manager of a half hour. There were no signs of armaments, on Monday, meeting with govern- Walmart.com, would not discuss specifics. In the port of Misrata, 130 miles and Libyan officials said that no ment officials and tribal elders, —Stephanie Clifford, The New York Times east of Tripoli, the capital, rebels one was killed, although they said Ibrahim told reporters at the scene.

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High near 67°F (19°C). and The Tech nation world & nation world & nation world & nation & nation world & nation world & nation world nation Tuesday, April 26, 2011 The Tech 3 First major poll finds Egyptians WORLD & Nati Prison break by Taliban hopeful but still divided Egyptians are looking forward with extraordinary confidence and enthusiasm to their first free and fair elections this fall after the leaders sets hundreds free defining revolution of the Arab spring, according to the first major poll since the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak. But they By Taimoor Shah counting his escape from Sarposa ability to organize such an elabo- remain deeply divided over the role of Islam in their public life. and Alissa J. Rubin Prison, where he had been held for rate operation, even after they were The poll, conducted by the Pew Research Center and based on The New York Times 28 days. “Last night was the night driven largely underground in Kan- face-to-face interviews with 1,000 Egyptians, is the first credible that my dream was made true.” dahar and Helmand provinces, and survey since the revolution lifted many restrictions on free ex- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — He spoke by phone from Spin- despite police and prison guards, pression. It is also the first to directly address Western debate over Taliban leaders carried out an au- baldak, near the Pakistani border. prison visits by NATO mentors, and whether the revolution might drift toward Islamic radicalism. dacious plot Monday to free nearly The Afghan government called sophisticated NATO surveillance in The poll found Egyptians remarkably bullish on their revolution 500 fighters from southern Afghan- the breach a disaster. The prison Kandahar. and, in its aftermath, their future. Nearly two-thirds said they were istan’s largest prison, leading them break called into question the ex- The prison break comes after satisfied with their country’s direction, and six in 10 were optimis- on through a tunnel dug over more tent of the gains made against four recent attacks by the Taliban, tic about the future. Although open political elections would be than five months and equipped the Taliban in 18 months of hard in which they used suicide bomb- a novelty in Egyptian history, most had some degree of faith that with electricity and air pipes, which fighting in Kandahar province, ers, often disguised as police offi- they had won democracy. Forty-one percent said a free and fair suggested that the insurgents re- and whether any progress will be cers or soldiers, to penetrate secure choice in the next election was very likely, and 43 percent said it WORLD & Nati main formidable and wily oppo- sustainable once NATO troops buildings, including an Afghan was somewhat likely. Only 16 percent said it was unlikely. nents despite recent setbacks. begin to reduce their numbers as army corps’ headquarters in Lagh- The poll also found about 30 percent of Egyptians have a favor- The plan was so closely held that planned this summer, members man province and the Ministry of able view of Islamic fundamentalism and about the same number one young Taliban fighter who got of Parliament, tribal leaders, and Defense headquarters in the capi- sympathize with its opponents. About a quarter have mixed views. out said he knew nothing of it until Western officials said in interviews. tal, Kabul. —David D. Kirkpatrick and Mona El-Naggar, The New York Times a fellow inmate tugged his sleeve to Some worried that the jailbreak Members of Parliament and wake him in the night and led him might strengthen the Taliban in others were scathing about the to the 3-foot-wide tunnel, which the coming weeks as the spring lapses. Some questioned whether Labor board plans to sue two ran more than half a mile from a fighting season begins. Having so the prison guards or police officers hole in a cell’s floor, under secu- many fighters back in circulation were bribed not to notice the tun- states over union rules rity posts, tall concrete walls and a — possibly including hard-core nel’s construction. The National Labor Relations Board has told state officials that highway, and came up in a nearby commanders — also threatened to “It’s a big achievement for the it will soon file federal lawsuits against Arizona and South Dakota house. From there, a waiting car undermine efforts to bring Taliban Taliban and shows a big failure and in seeking to invalidate those states’ constitutional amendments took the fighter a few miles away, fighters over to the government weakness in the government,” said that prohibit private sector employees from choosing to unionize where he hailed a taxi to safety. side, Afghan officials and former Muhammad Naiem Lalay Hamid- through a procedure known as card check. “I was just praying to God that Taliban said. zai, a Parliament member from In a letter sent on Friday, the labor board told those states that it he would free me,” said the fighter, There is no doubt that the inci- Kandahar and chairman of the in- would invoke the Constitution’s supremacy clause in asserting that on Allah Mohammed Agha, 22, re- dent demonstrated the Taliban’s ternal security committee. the state constitutional amendments conflict with federal laws and are pre-empted by those laws. One federal official said the lawsuits would be filed in the next few days. The Arizona and South Dakota constitutional amendments were WORLD & Nati promoted by various conservative groups worried that congressional Democrats would pass legislation allowing unions to insist on using Yemen’s opposition accepts card check in organizing drives, meaning that an employer would have to recognize a union as soon as a majority of workers signed pro- union cards. Under current law, private sector employers can insist deal for transfer of power that secret ballots be used when unions are trying to organize. Unions like using card check because it makes it easier to win By Laura Kasinof ment was based on the condition also agreed to participate in a uni- unionization campaigns. Organizers can gather signature cards The New York Times that the protest demonstrations ty government with Saleh, which quietly until they get a majority of workers, making it more difficult would stop immediately. would govern during the 30 days for an employer to mount an opposition campaign. Congressional Yemen’s opposition coalition The proposal, which was put before he leaves office. The oppo- Republicans blocked passage of the card-check bill. on Monday accepted a proposal together by the council in con- sition had initially objected to this —Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times for a transfer of power, bringing sultation with the United States provision. the country closer to a resolution and the EU, was presented to the The agreement, however, also of months of political turmoil and Yemeni government and the op- signals a deepening rift between Netflix profit up as people flock to countless demonstrations calling position last week. It was seen as the political opposition and the for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to probably the last effort to solve the street protesters who had already its on-demand service on step down. political crisis that had brought rejected the Gulf Cooperation Netflix posted a first-quarter profit of $60.2 million Monday and “We have accepted the gulf Yemen, an already fragile country, Council’s proposal. said it had added 3.3 million subscribers in the United States in proposal on condition that the closer to chaos. The protesters do not trust three months, its fastest rate of growth yet. protests are allowed to continue An economic crisis looms, and that Saleh will leave office as the “It took us four years to get to 3.3 million subscribers,” Reed WORLD & Nati until Saleh leaves office,” said Mo- violence between armed gunmen mediated settlement required, Hastings, the company’s chief executive, said in an interview Mon- hammed Qahtan, a spokesman for and security forces in outlying and they do not think that he and day evening. “Now we did it in one quarter.” the coalition, which is known as provinces has increased over the his family should be granted im- Hastings said the online streaming business “is just racing the JMP. “Leaders of the JMP met last week. At least 120 protesters munity, which is called for in the ahead.” But earlier in the day, in a letter to shareholders, the com- with the American ambassador to- have been killed since the uprising agreement. pany cautioned that its torrid pace of growth may be tempered in day, and he confirmed for us that began in February, according to Witnesses said that the protest the months ahead. It said it expected to add between 1.2 million the protests can continue through Amnesty International. demonstration in Sanaa, the capi- and 2 million subscribers in the next three months. Netflix shares this month; this is why we agreed If the two sides formally agree tal, had grown since the president declined about 5 percent in after-hours trading. to the proposal.” to the proposal, the president announced that he had accepted At the end of the first quarter, Netflix had 22.8 million subscrib- However, when Saleh an- would leave office after 30 days the proposal, and protesters were ers in the United States, giving it as big a footprint as the biggest nounced, on Saturday, his accep- and a presidential election would angered by Saleh’s comments in American cable operator, Comcast, which reported 22.8 million tance of the plan from a six-nation be held 60 days later, in accor- an interview with the BBC that subscribers at the end of last year. regional bloc known as the Gulf dance with Yemen’s Constitution. members of al-Qaida had infiltrat- —Brian Stelter, The New York Times Cooperation Council, his agree- The political opposition has ed protest camps. Iranians discover new cyberattack

TEHRAN — Iran has discovered a new hostile computer virus on designed to damage government systems, an Iranian official who heads a cyberdefense agency said in comments reported Monday. Haley Barbour, Mississippi In comments published by Iran’s semiofficial Mehr News Agen- cy, the official, Gholam-Reza Jalali, said the Stars virus had infil- WORLD & Nati trated government systems but was being decoded. governor, won’t run for president “Fortunately, our scientists have successfully identified the Stars virus, which has now been sent to laboratories,” said Jalali, a By Jeff Zeleny is required.” experience as an advantage, telling senior Revolutionary Guard commander. The New York Times The decision by Barbour, 63, audiences, “I saw the sausage fac- He said no conclusions had yet been reached about the virus’ provided the biggest shake-up yet tory up close,” but his aides braced aim. In its initial state, it mimics a regular executable file. WASHINGTON — Gov. Haley of the 2012 presidential race. His for intense scrutiny. In recent days, Jalali admitted that the powerful Stuxnet virus Barbour of Mississippi had hired departure adds another layer of un- Barbour founded the Wash- discovered last year did indeed infect computer systems related to a campaign manager, lined up in- certainty to the wide-open fight for ington lobbying firm now known the country’s nuclear program but said that it was discovered be- fluential Republican activists in the party’s nomination and set off a as BGR in 1991 with Ed Rogers, a fore causing serious damage. Jalali said that the threat from Stuxnet early-voting states and secured scramble among other candidates close friend and fellow Mississip- had not yet been completely dispelled and cautioned that further commitments from donors across seeking to sign up his donors and pian who had worked with him in attacks were anticipated. the country, but he surprised them supporters. the Reagan White House. The next —William Yong, The New York Times all Monday by announcing that he Throughout the spring, Barbour year, Lanny Griffith, who worked in was abandoning his effort to join has been traveling to Iowa, New the administration of the first Pres- the Republican presidential race. Hampshire, and South Carolina, ident Bush and also hailed from Rivet flaw suspected in jet’s roof

In a telephone call to support- testing his support among Repub- Mississippi, joined them. They WASHINGTON — Federal investigators said Monday that they on ers, followed by a brief statement, licans who cast the first votes. He formed the foundation of a pow- had discovered flaws in the riveting of the roof of the Southwest Barbour said he lacked the “abso- recruited a team of operatives in erhouse firm with close ties to the Airlines plane that tore open in flight on April 1, a finding that -ex lute fire in the belly” that a candi- those states, along with national Republican establishment. perts said probably showed manufacturing defects. dacy would require. He apologized campaign strategists, and rivals ex- Barbour left the firm in 2004 The National Transportation Safety Board, in an interim re- W for flirting with a presidential bid pected him to join the first Repub- when he became governor of Mis- port, said that a laboratory examination of intact sections of the over the past six months and then lican debate next week in South sissippi, but associates say he is a roof found rivet holes on one layer of the plane’s skin did not line backing away, but said he had con- Carolina. frequent visitor to the office when up properly with an underlying layer. The board also said that it o cluded that he was not ready to But his candidacy faced many he is in Washington. Since his for- found paint from the exterior of the plane had bled through into dedicate himself to the “all-con- challenges. As a lobbyist, for ex- mal departure, reports have shown the inside. Experts said that suggested the aluminum skin had not R

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IDEAS, from Page 1 something from prototype to full implementation. It’s really neat to start something and follow it from the beginning to the end.” Grub- Cycle is a project that seeks to cre- ate a waste management system in Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya, and empower local entre- preneurs at the same time. “The idea is that local entrepreneurs can earn money by collecting waste, feed it to the worms, and then sell the pupae to factories that will turn it into animal feed,” Oh explained. “We calculate that a person can earn up to $8/day, which is pretty significant increase from their pre- vious earnings,” she said. Other teams focused on topics like food production and education. Straw Chopper — a group working on a machine that will allow farm- ers in India to more easily supple- ment their income through the pro- duction of mushrooms — hopes the IDEAS Competition will allow them to put their idea to the test. “We just started this project 5–6 weeks ago, and it’d be really great if we could make a working proto- William Yee—The Tech type, get it to India and show peo- Team Maa-Bara members Ogheneruno E. Okiomah G (right) and Elisha R. Goodman G (left) explain their project to the IDEAS Competition ple how to use it,” Lusann W. Yang judges during the IDEAS poster section on Monday, April 25. Okiomah and Goodman’s project focuses on a farming system to help people grow G, a project member, said. clean food in the oil-polluted land in the Niger Delta. Aakriti Shroff ’13, of the Indian Mobile Initiative — a project that Judging Criteria “These projects need to have a will teach Android programming Each team pitches their plan to significant social or environmen- and entrepreneurship to university 3–5 judges, who rank the project tal impact,” Melville said, “We ask, students in India — was also en- based on three criteria: innovation, ‘Will it make a real difference, and thusiastic about her team’s project. feasibility and impact. do the teams have a well thought- “India is right on the cusp of inno- “We want people to think out plan?’” vation, and being right in the mid- about a problem in a new way The final decision of the win- dle of it with the students is really and really have a catch-all ‘aha’ ners is then made by the core staff exciting. We want to get feedback factor, a gut sense of novelty,” and competition sponsors. The top through this competition and just said Lars H. Torres, Program Ad- five teams in the community voting spread the word about our project.” ministrator of the IDEAS and competition will also receive $5000 Global Challenge. each. Even The Tech needs tech support Henisi. Pat, cor sum nos doloreet elesseq uatuera esectem doloboreet, con heniscidunt at, quat dolobore diam, veliquisl el ut adip eraesto duis dolor sum ex exeros ea faci ea amcommo lorper adit nullaor at, commy nosto odolenim nostrud et laore feu facidunt alit lutetue modolor accum ea am, quamcon sequat wisl ullam, consequat. Iquat. Ut el iure feugait elit, quis adionsectet ex endre facip er accum zzrit lor sustis aut verit, sed modolor eraessim et dolore duis nisis ad minit in vendrem quatums andigna feuissed enim zzriusci tem nos dipsusto od magniat wismod tat, voluptat. Ut amcon volesequisl iure deliscillam quatetum dolorpe riusto del eriusto core facilit, qui tem nonsenim zzriustrud dolore conse molestrud modolore corpercilla feu faccum quisci blan volut iustrud minim ipsum ad magnibh esequatem qui bla con volor sectem zzrit eum nonum ese dolortisis amconullaore vulla feu feu feu feum duipsus tionsectem erci tet aci endreet lor si. and we’re lookingMagnim for some. do doloreet, [email protected] conulput wisi ex ex eu facincilit alit iustissed eugue vel dolore vent A COurSe FOr everyOne summer2011­ Summer plans? Look no further. LEGAL COUNSEL MIT students, family, employers and Royal Bengal TUFTS SUMMER SESSION 2011 start-ups seeking U.S. legal counsel, Boston’s only authentic BengaliCuisine restaurant First Session May 25–July 1, 2011 campus or office consultation. Call: 313Mass.Ave., Cambridge Second Session July 5–August 12, 2011 James Dennis Leary, Esq. Open Daily Except Monday (617) 491-1988 321-544-0012 11:30 am–11:30 pm T: Red Line, Bus#1–CentralSquare Twelve-Week Session May 25–August 12, 2011 Lunch Buffet $7.95 > Over 250 day and evening classes 10% Discount on $15 >Affordable Tuition Reasonably Priced Dinners (or more) order with MIT ID. >Outstanding Faculty >Convenient Subway Access Free delivery for orders over $10. Your summer starts here. Take-out, platters, and catering available. http://www.royalbengalrestaurant.com/ http://ase.tufts.edu/summer

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PETA debate, from Page 1 lieves that a person who eats meat studies. ceptable even in regards to organic dle-ground than my arguments in and a person who does not recycle As the debate went on, both or grass-fed meat products. this debate,” she said. mously agree on this point, Fried- is unethical, Rudina disagreed. She sides became increasingly involved “How many people would During the cross-examination, rich said, claiming that this showed argued that just as a person who ne- with the concept of “black or white” choose to spend an afternoon slic- Rudina was cut-off by a member of that people view animals to be an glected to recycle once is not uneth- ethics. Friedrich brought up a fa- ing chickens’ throats open on a hu- the audience who objected to her “ethical good.” ical, neither is a person who makes mous situation proposed by phi- mane farm?” Friedrich asked. “No arguments. Friedrich pointed out that more the environmentally less-efficient losopher Peter Singer: in a situation one!” He has been a vegan since “This extends way beyond dogs power is needed to produce meat- choice of eating meat. She further where a man must veer and crash 19 87. or cats” he interrupted loudly, shak- based food compared to plant- disagreed that humans owe a moral his car in order to save a girl on the This public debate is part of a ing his head. Both Friedrich and based food. The vast majority of responsibility towards animals. street, most people would conclude series of debates about meat eth- Rudina refused to respond to him calories that we feed to an animal “In order to be given moral con- that an ethical man is compelled to ics that Friedrich has been having and Friedrich asked the audience- is expended for them to simply ex- sideration, [animals] must be ca- sacrifice his expensive car in favor on campuses of “top universities” member not to continue with his ist, Friedrich said. As a result, he as- pable of taking moral consideration of a human life. However, in an es- including Harvard, Yale, and the statement. According to Boortz, serts that “if we are eating meat, we University of Chicago. the man who interrupted may have are basically stomping on the Earth ‘Every time we sit to eat we can make the “Doing public debates are a been a local animal rights activist. in combat boots.” decision that we are choosing the side of great way of letting people see what A large group of activists were Friedrich then proceeded to debate is like and allow them to in the audience, though it is un- show a sequence of videos from fac- the oppressed over that of the oppressor.’ look at how to approach certain in- clear how they heard about the tory farms. The films showed chick- —Bruce Friedrich teresting issues” said Julia A. Boortz event, Boortz said. Friedrich had ens on industrial farms with their PETA Vice President of Policy ’12, president of the debate team. apologized to the debate team for beaks clipped off to prevent them “The philosophy of a debate tourna- the presence of the activists. Ac- from pecking each other to death, of others as well,” Rudina said. She sentially equal choice where the ment … involves being put on a side cording to Boortz, Friedrich said along with several birds strung up- encouraged MIT students to ques- man could buy a car or donate the that you do not necessarily believe that he did not know the activists side-down by their feet on their way tion the scientific robustness of cash towards a charity and save in personally.” Boortz added, “It is a would be at the event and did not to the slaughterhouse. Friedrich’s claims that plant-based hundreds of lives, the decision is great educational experience.” like to advertise similar events to Rudina countered that Friedrich food is fourteen times more ener- not nearly as unanimous. Rudina was chosen to be the local activists because he believed did not provide an adequate defini- gy-efficient than meat, because of Friedrich refused to concede his devil’s advocate for the tourna- it contributed to a negative debate tion of ethics. While Friedrich be- the complex nature of statistical position that eating meat is unac- ment. “I am definitely more mid- atmosphere.

After debating MIT’s Parliamentary the animals are treated fine on the farms, Debate Team, Bruce Friedrich, PETA Vice but the animals are brought from the same President of policy and government affairs, breeders where the males are tossed into sat down with The Tech to discuss his views the grinders and when their egg production on the ethical treatment of animals. decreases, they have their throats slit open The Tech: What is your most compelling while they are completely conscious. reason for being vegetarian or vegan? TT: So you are saying that humane ani- Bruce Friedrich: When people eat meat, mal-products are possible, but are not com- they are entering into a mercenary rela- mercially available right now tionship where they are paying people to BF: The only non-vegan product that mutilate animals, coop animals in their could be done acceptably is eggs. With milk, own excrement, ship them in all manners you are talking about manipulating an ani- of weather and to chop their throats open mal’s reproductive function, taking their often while they are still conscious. This babies away from them and slaughtering causes animals to suffer [in a way] that the animals at a fraction of their natural life would warrant cruelty charges many times span. All of that involves unnecessary suf- over were these protected animals such as fering on the part of the animal. dogs or cats. There is no integrity in that. TT: What about animal husbandry, is Again, it is a mercenary relationship. How that acceptable? many times in our lives do we pay others BF: No, that is still manipulation of the to do things that we ourselves wouldn’t do animal’s reproductive system. It may entail because we have ethical objections? Every less abuse, but it is still abuse. time we sit to eat we can make the decision TT: So is it the cruelty and misery that is that we are choosing the side of the op- most important? pressed over that of the oppressor. BF: Any time you eat meat, you are eat- TT: So if I were a farmer or a hunter, ing the corpse of someone. This isn’t differ- would that be acceptable to eat meat then, ent from doing that to a dog or cat; people if I killed the animal myself? in this room would never eat a cat. It is com- BF: That is a different discussion from pletely irrational to say that I won’t eat a dog what is the strongest argument for MIT or a cat, but I will eat a pig or a chicken. students not to eat. You could not person- TT: But who is to say that it is unethical ally deal with all the meat in grocery stores, to eat a dog or a cat? the dining halls, the restaurants. All these BF: Because you are eating someone animals are gratuitously abused. In terms of instead of something. And that is a side hunting, the discussion is if you choose to discussion. You could make the case that be merciful and compassionate or to sup- everyone is just wrong in their objection to port misery and cruelty. A lot of hunters eating dogs and cats. But my point in the choose to do the things that causes suffer- whole debate is that I don’t have to change ing and misery; they could be hunting with what they currently believe. I just have to binoculars and a camera instead of hunting convince them to align their beliefs with with lethal weapons. their actions. TT: I’d like a really straight forward an- TT: What if people, instead of align- swer: Is it possible to have humane meat? ing their actions with their previous be- BF: A lot of meat eaters say humane liefs, align their beliefs with their previous meat is possible and they use that as their actions? rationalization. For the same reason that we BF: I think if you ask people at the end would not raise dogs and cats to eat them, of the debate if cruelty to animals is wrong, we understand that they are someone in- none of them are going to change. I don’t stead of something. We shouldn’t do that think people are going to change their ethics with animals. to be unethical. They may continue to live in TT: So to rephrase, humane meat is not violation of their ethics. I think it is very un- possible. likely that people will change those beliefs BF: Humane meat is not possible. It is a because they are so ethically inarguable. contradiction in terms. In fact, if you google TT: What do you think about the eth- humane meat and my name, you will get the ics of doing animal testing for science and Huffington Post article I wrote about it. medicine? TT: Just to get more of a clarification on BF: Just as someone would recoil about your position, I know that you are vegan; are doing animal research on human beings. humane animal-products possible? Animals are not test tubes with whiskers BF: Yeah, if you rescue a chicken. But that and fur, and they should not be used as a is literally 0 percent of the eggs in grocery means to an end. It is my understanding stores. All of the eggs commercially avail- that MIT’s research is especially cruel and able are where the males are tossed alive heinous. Someone sent me some articles Nicholas Chornay—The Tech into grinders because they are a different and I didn’t read it. But even if those articles PETA Vice President of Policy Bruce Friedrich presents his view on the ethics of breed. Even in places like Polyface farms, were not true … eating meat during a debate on Monday, April 25, in 10-250.

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team beats Colgate University By Matthieu Talpe lin ’13 also scored points with a strong New Hampshire landscape. The C The MIT Heavyweight Men’s Crew swept Colgate Uni- team representative performance in the B category, as did and D categories tackled two loops of versity in two races Saturday morning in the Charles Riv- Maria A. Berezina G and Kristine D. the course first. Unfortunately, mar- s Sport er Basin. The freshman eight, stroked by Michael R. The MIT Cycling team competed in Johnson G in the C category. shaling mistakes led the front pack of Klinker ’14, started off the day’s action. The its final regular-season race weekend The Frat Row Criterium followed women C, including MIT’s Berezina Engineers’ firepower proved too much for April 16–17 and contin- the ITT. The famed criterium lost part and Diana Siegel G, off course, stop- the Colgate Raiders, as MIT took a lead at ued to extend its lead in of its personality when the organizers ping their race early from what would the start and extended it throughout the the Eastern Collegiate discarded “carnage corner.” In previ- have been top finishes. In the men’s C race. MIT won with a time of 6 minutes 14 Cycling Conference ous years, the 180° downhill-to-up- seconds, 30 seconds ahead of Colgate. The ahead of the conference hill, gravel-filled turn had splintered It was another freshmen race next weekend in Hanover, championships. Thecountless fields, crashed out many successful weekend N.H. against Dartmouth College and the University of four-race weekend con- riders, and generally been the single s Sport Wisconsin. sisted of two races held at Dartmouth most defining spot of the course. With of racing — MIT The varsity four, stroked by Matthew J. Pegler ’11, faced College on Saturday and two races a new four-corner criterium, many of a tougher challenge from the Colgate four, which was organized by the University of New the races were won in mass sprint fin- dominated with stroked by James Clinton, a member of the Canadian un- Hampshire on Sunday. ishes. A notable exception was Quinn, der-23 team. The Engineers took a small early lead off the Saturday’s early morning indi- who crossed the finish line alone in numbers and sheer start, but this lead was quickly eroded. The lead changed vidual time trial (ITT) featured a 3.75- the women’s A race, successfully rid- strength. hands several times, but no crew ever had an advantage of mile course with a 524-foot climb in ing away from Dartmouth’s Elle An- more than a few meters. Coming into the final 20 strokes, Hanover, N.H. Starting on the banks derson in the final laps. MIT fielded race, Steven Ji ’11 won the field sprint Colgate led by a fraction of a second, but a strong final push of the Connecticut River, cyclists rode cyclists in every field (except for intro and placed 11th overall. The women’s by the Engineers put their bow in front as they crossed the through Dartmouth’s campus, out categories) and, notably, had seven A and B field raced three loops of s Sport line. MIT won with a time of 6:41.95 by an official margin and up half a mile of dirt road to the starters in the men’s A race. Highlights the course, and the trio of Martha W. of one foot. ridge overlooking Hanover. Zachary of the many scoring performances Buckley G, Matsumoto, and Quinn —Lucas Goodman, Team Representative A. LaBry G was the quickest MIT rider include Michael J. Frankovich G and used their numbers and team tactics in the hill-climb time trial with a time Samuel W. Hickey G placing third and to ride away from the field and fin- MIT Men’s Tennis overtakes fifth, respectively, in the men’s B field, ish 1-2-3, respectively. In the men’s The Cycling team and Samuel M. Nicaise G scoring his B race, only 7 seconds separated first first points in a mass-start race with a place from 12th, as the pack finished Wheaton College 6-3 continued to extend seventh-place finish in the men’s D. with a sprint up the course’s steepest This Saturday, the MIT Men’s Tennis team won their Sunday’s races were held two hours climb. Frankovich placed fourth, and s Sport 11th match overall, beating Wheaton College 6-3. MIT its lead in the away in Strafford, N.H. The rainy con- female teammate Laura R. Ralston won four of the six singles matches and two ECCC ahead of the ditions did not deter MIT from com- G — a usual podium finisher in the of the three doubles matches. Ken Van Til- peting in and crushing the morning women’s A field — outlasted most of burg ’11 and Curtis L. Wu ’14 were the top championships. team time trial event. MIT women’s the men’s field by placing 11th. The singles winners for the Engineers, earn- teams topped all female categories, winning move in the men’s A field was ing second and fourth place, respectively. of 11 minutes 43.87 seconds, finish- while the MIT’s men A team (Michael initiated by Harvard’s Stuart McManus Wheaton’s Neall Oliver was a standout for ing eighth in the men’s A field that L. Garrett G, John J. Rhoden G, LaBry, at the base of the last climb, 79 miles the Lyons, winning first singles and first also saw six MIT riders place in the and captain Spencer D. Schaber G) into the 80-mile race. Bry headed the doubles. However, it was MIT’s depth that helped the top 30. Zachary W. Ulissi G scored in finished second. MIT’s second male MIT contingent with a 15th place fin- Engineers come out on top on Saturday. Larry Pang ’13 the men’s B field, also placing eighth. A team of three (Joseph P. Near G, ish and teammate Rhoden right be- s Sport and Wu won second doubles, and Edwin M. Zhang ’14 Team captain Katie J. Quinn G con- Andrew C. Lysaght G, Adam P. Bry G) hind in 18th place. and Andrew C. Cooper ’13 won third doubles. Coming tinued to assert her dominance in the completed the 9.6-mile course a mere All in all, it was another successful into the match, the MIT Men’s Tennis team was rated female field, finishing first in 12:45.30, 0.23 seconds away from fourth place. weekend of racing during which MIT seventh in the region and 23rd nationally, and they leave more than 15 seconds ahead of peren- The overcast conditions finally dominated with numbers and sheer as the top seed for Saturday’s NEWMAC tournament, nial rival Anna McLoon of Harvard. gave way to sunny blue skies, drying strength. Quinn now holds the series which will be held at home. This was Wheaton’s first loss Teammates Yuri Matsumoto G and the roads just in time for the fourth jersey as the overall conference female in league-play, and they will be second seed heading into Christina M. Birch G rounded out the and last event of the weekend. The leader, and the MIT Cycling team leads the tournament. top places with respective third- and anticipated road race featured a 19.9- the ECCC points with 1567 points, 570 —Sarah Weir fourth-place finishes. Shaena R. Ber- mile course through the undulating more than second-place Harvard. s Sport

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TEAM representative in three, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5. O’Neal took Hsu and Diskin, who played a tough Thursday, April 28 s Sport the first set in the tiebreaker and match with both teams attacking Baseball vs. UMass Boston 4 p.m., Briggs Field Last Wednesday MIT Women’s then lost the second set. She took the net. They lost in the tiebreak Tennis had a long match against the match in the third set tie break, 9-8(2). Dohlman and Rees also had Sailing — Midweek Tech Invite #2 4 p.m., Charles River Brandeis University. The number winning 7-6(4), 2-6, 10-7. Diskin lost a tough match but pulled it out in one team of Lauren the first set but took the second set the tiebreak with 9-8(2). This gave C. Quisenberry ’14 in a tiebreaker. She ended up losing MIT the lead 2-1. Wu and Hsu both and Candace L. Wu the match in a third set tie break 5-7, took care of business and won their Be the rst to know about what’s happening at MIT. ’14 lost 8-3 to their op- 7-6(5), 10-3. This gave MIT the win matches 6-0, 6-0. Quisenberry also ponents. The number with a score of 6-3. had a decisive match, winning hers s Sport two doubles team of 6-1, 6-2. Dohlman played a tough The Tech is looking for news writers to... Julia C. Hsu ’14 and Bi- In singles, Wu match and lost 6-0, 6-1. Trinity P. anca M. Dumitrascu ’13 dominated Leonard ’13 in exhibition played interview students, the court and won their match 8-4. destroyed her well and defeated her opponent administrators, and The doubles team of Melissa A. Dis- opponent 6-1, 6-1. 8-2. Diskin came back after losing kin ’11 and Katharine A. O’Neal ’14 the first set. She took it to a third set faculty... defeated their opponents 8-5, giving where she won 3-6, 6-1, 7-5. Rees MIT a 2-1 lead. Saturday was senior day for the played a long match but ended win- cover new In singles, Wu destroyed her op- team, who honored their four se- ning 6-2, 6-1. This gave MIT the win ponent 6-1, 6-1, while Quisenberry niors Sonya Makhni ’11, Jenny C. of 7-2. campus policy... s Sport made quick work of her opponent Dohlman ’11, Diskin, and Jennifer This spring season, MIT has and nd out how MIT and won 6-2, 6-3. Dumitrascu lost A. Rees ’11, after which the match gone undefeated, which has not 6-2, 6-2, making the score 4-2. The against Simmons commenced. happened for years. They have one connects to the rest of rest of the matches were longer and Quisenberry and Wu dominated more away match next weekend the close in competition. Hsu came the court and defeated their oppo- against Trinity. world. e-mail [email protected] and say you want to write news. s Sport

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