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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 WEATHER, p. 2 TUE: 69°F | 57°F MIT’s Chance of showers Oldest and Largest WED: 70°F | 60°F Few showers Newspaper THU: 66°F | 52°F Chance of showers 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� TO eat Meat or WHY DO teachers teach? stiLL on the CYCLinG EXtends SECTIONS World & Nation � � �2 5�111 professor explains her desire to not to eat Meat search … Lead in N.H. Opinion � � � � � � � � �4 educate� CAMPUS LIFE, p. 9 PETA Vice President of A classic Tech cartoon Cycling team is leading Fun Pages � � � � � � �6 Policy chimes in on The RestructurinG woes comes to an end� the ECCC with 570 Campus Life � � � � �8 Tech ’s opinion pages� FUN, p. 5 points over Harvard� Sports � � � � � � � � �15 OPINION, p. 4 Why the attempt could have been a lot, SPORTS, p. 15 lot better� OPINION, p. 4 2 The Tech Tuesday, April 26, 2011 Governments consider cuts to D once-untouchable pensions Syria intensifies military When an arbitrator ruled this month that Detroit could reduce the pensions being earned by its police sergeants and lieuten- ants, it put the struggling city at the forefront of a growing national attacks against rebels debate over whether the pensions of current public workers can or should be reduced.
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