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By Ray Wang supervision cited as proposal’s impetus Associate News Editor By Sanjana Srivastava students today lack the “handiness Established 1881 Associate News Editor skills” needed to maintain their own Up to 140 MIT students will be houses. given the option of moving into the Fraternities, sororities, and in- DeFalco also said that students Cambridge Hyatt Regency hotel for dependent living groups affiliated increasingly prefer to be closer to the fall semester, following a sprin- with MIT are spread over a much campus, and that parents want to kler pipe burst in New House. larger region of Boston and Cam- see more supervision. He cited the The relocation plan was released bridge than the campus alone, but litany of risks “in areas of safety, al- two weeks after the July 12 rupture a proposal to move multiple FSILGs cohol, and sexual assault” that have on the fifth floor of House 2 caused onto campus may shrink their range always existed without full control extensive flooding. House 2 expe- considerably. of the properties as reasons for a rienced up to four feet of flooding, The proposal describes an MIT- shift in living arrangements. and Houses 1 and 3 also suffered owned plot, potentially located Because DeFalco also believes severe water damage. in northeast or west campus, on that fraternities are a benefit to As part of the relocation, stu- which MIT would lease buildings to campus, providing connections and dents will receive a free “Any 14” FSILGs to form an “FSILG village.” communities, encouraging prefrosh meal plan, which can be used for The idea was originally presented to matriculate, and creating new any combination of breakfast, by an MIT alumnus to the Associa- cultures, he presented the FSILG brunch, lunch, or dinner at any MIT Established 1881 tion of Independent Living Groups village as a compromise between dining hall. (AILG). control over and preservation of fra- But most generous is the ar- Steve DeFalco ’83, one of the ternity culture. rangement with the hotel Hyatt alumni leaders of the initiative, The AILG applied a similar anal- Regency, located on the western tip identified the requirement for ysis to all FSILGs, and found that of MIT’s campus at a Tech Shuttle freshmen to live in dorms, the in- the sorority system is healthy and stop. MIT students who choose to troduction of meal plans, and a “de- growing. Though fraternities and move into the hotel will be placed mographic shift toward women” as ILGs are stable in size, the AILG in 400-square-foot doubles that changes within MIT that put pres- contain MIT furniture — two dress- sure on fraternities. He added that Village, Page 11 ers, two twin-size beds, and one desk, in addition to the hotel’s desk. Students will have access to the hotel’s pool and gym and will re- In Short ceive discounts at the hotel restau- Rise and Shine and Sweat! The Undergraduate students can rant. The Hyatt will provide weekly Alumni Pool and Wang Fitness start registering for Quarter 1 cleaning services. Students will still Center now opens at 6 a.m. PE classes on Wednesday, Aug. be charged $4,060, the same price Established 1881 Monday-Friday. 27 at 8 a.m. The registration pe- as a New House double. riod ends on Wednesday, Sept. 3 Freshmen will be permitted Summer housing is ending. at 1 p.m. Sign up early to get the to stay at the Hyatt, which will be Move-out date for summer classes you want! considered an extension of MIT, housing is Aug. 18. If you have a and thus an exception to the rule Daniel Mirny—The Tech fall housing assignment, check Send news information and tips House 2 of New House, closed due to water damage, stands with win- into your assignment then. to [email protected]. New, Page 9 dows taped over. Forbes Café in Stata will reopen in time for fall semester after remodel Updated café will feature salad bars and extra cash registers for reduced wait-times By William A. Rodríguez panded register area that will pave Jiménez the way for shorter wait times. Staff Reporter The café will also feature a new mosaic floor tile arrangement from The popular Forbes Family Café Artaic, a tile manufacturer headed located in the Ray and Maria Stata by MIT Sloan Fellow in Innova- Center is slated to reopen the first tion and Global Leadership Ted week of September after renova- Acworth. tions are complete, according to “The café has been very popular site superintendent Chris Luongo. with students, faculty, staff, and cu- In an interview with The Tech, rious visitors who want to experi- Luongo said that the café will see ence the Stata Center,” Senior Asso- a variety of changes, including the ciate Dean for Residential Life and addition of self-serve salad bars, Dining Henry J. Humphreys said in a deli sandwich area, and a new a news release. “The updates will seating arrangement facing the introduce some regional flavor and windows that overlook the Koch features that are distinctly MIT.” courtyard. Since the project began on June Robert Rusch—The Tech To reduce the long lines that 5, the café area has been closed off Construction equipment sits on the remains of the demolished Bexley. The demolition began only a form during lunch rush hours, few short months ago. renovations will also include an ex- Forbes, Page 9

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They Tech By Claire Lazar o p i n io n edi t or are are cartoons , andeditorial columns - - - - to gauge how much overhead was taken sponses, such asto onequestion that tried Red oftheAmerican Cross’s some with re- Sullivan, Senator Grassley was dissatisfied have continued reporting. According to NPR’s Sullivan andProPublica’s Elliott allegations.pose pattern to defenditsimpact inHaiti andop- has since answered them, continuing its hitting questions. TheAmerican CrossRed organization alist of17 andhard- detailed tor Chuck Grassley (R-IA) publicly sent the mismanagementleged offunds, andSena- into to look hearing theorganization’s al- Nolan called foracongressional (D-MN) tion by public officials. Representative Rick least onenewsconference, andcalls to ac releases from Red theAmerican Cross, at livan andElliott’s work prompted press made dubious claims ofsuccess.” ken promises, squandered donations, and pointed insiders show the charity has bro- counts ofadozen frustrated anddisap- emails top officers, from andac worried tigation argues that “Confidential memos, they hadthey nodevelopment experience.” it would micromanagedbe and from DC, takes four timesaslong because erything workedofficial who onthe said, project “Ev ter. According to theinvestigation, aformer basic sanitation, oraccess to drinkablewa- dents continue to liveelectricity, without being built. They thatreported many resi - permanent homes, none of whichup ended lion-dollar plan was to feature hundreds of Campeche inHaiti’s capital. The multimil- velopment project inthe neighborhood of Sullivan andnarrowedElliott in on a de- three to five years. In theirinvestigation, shelters that to disintegrate begin within sistance, andwere intemporary housed techniques,” received rental temporary as seminarstended on“proper construction ects, that number counts whoat people 132,000 Haitians through itshousing proj- the organization boasts that ithas reached munities.” Further, it points out that while as “very behind schedule.” behind as “very still aninternal document listedtheproject tember, after thedeath 6,000, toll passed issues that unaddressed,” go andby- Sep implementation was hindered by “internal program wrote inaMay 2011 memothat the hydration salts. But thedirector oftheHaiti plan the distribution ofsoap and oral re- epidemic prompted theorganization to in efforts Haiti. For instance, the cholera in otherfronts Red oftheAmerican Cross’s by NPR andProPublica reveals problems permanent far.”9,000 homesso haveto doit. OtherNGOs built more than years since, other charities have managed to build anything inHaiti...But still, inthe “Without question, itisextremely difficult gation, NPR correspondent Sullivan wrote, communities.” new no account, own to their according and, homes permanent charity“The built six Throughout theunfolding ofevents, Throughout months, the pasttwo Sul- All inall,NPR and ProPublica’s inves Aside from housing, theinvestigation Following therelease ofthejoint investi - of the MIT orlocal community.of theMIT all theletters received. known.The becomes makesTech nocommitment to publish in any other format now ormedium knownorlater that onThe posted be ’sTech Web siteorpublished and/orprinted not returned.be will Letters, columns, mayand cartoons also submitted, all letters propertyOnce become of The , andTech TO REACH US REACH TO found ontheWorld Wide Web at http://tech.mit.edu shouldeditor sent be to [email protected] . that call forcorrection to [email protected] to the. 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From thequasi-YOLO attitude on“Let inthecontext ofalost relation- “new self” er’s and transformation “old between self” forTamesound (mostly) awin Impala. tion throughout Currents makes thisnew bum that audibly so nostalgic, seems - varia is somewhat forgettable. But even onanal- rock soft of an ‘80s nels the spirit ballad but vocals. Thetrack “‘Cause I’m A Man” chan- other than an overused reverb on the effect tion” isanything but catchy andoffers little doesn’t work — the track “Reality in Mo- Tame Impala’s just pop with experiment er’s vocals. airy that complements lead singer Kevin Park electronic soundsandaguitar progression an expansive of assortment with blend well “Eventually” isanothertrack that this does prominent highlight of the entire album. —thesongisquite honestly themost bridge dy that converges andfunky to aneclectic keyboards with topped to provide amelo- favorite ofjazz part music. It these isduring solos, thedefining characteristic and my occasionally break off to play improvised plex sound.” key, helping to create atextured andcom- each sax isat[because] aslightly different listen carefully play “whenthey together, ofthe melody song. told meto Ben primary playedskill asthey to establish together the definitely demonstrated their technical and dynamic interplay thethree between saxophones intheband. Theinteresting cally intrigued by theinclusion ofthethree a saxophonistBen, himself, was automati- components.two pianist the whounified or saxophonists anda melody, whoadded the rhythm and beat of the piece, three ten- whoestablishedof abassist andadrummer to themusic.foot The band was composed thatI noticed hecouldn’t helpbut tap his jazz’s uniquestyle, techniques, andhistory, Nevertheless, Tame Impala has brought Thematically, thealbum spans the sing- There are instances onCurrents where The memberswould ofthe band then Currents are rather Currents is - cated to commemorating Billie Holiday’s celebrated. 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MOVIE Thursday, 6, 2015 August 8 The Tech Thursday, August 6, 2015 book review The journey of a 2010 Fields Medalist Even the best struggle

By William Loucks phenomenon to be caused by “phase mix- giving lectures about his proof before he to the publisher (there was no internet in ing” instead of the exchange of energy be- knew it existed. In narrative form, Villani’s 1889). Furthermore, Poincaré went on to Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical tween phases. Their work illustrates that book illustrates the author’s fears and pas- publish a paper proving the exact opposite Adventure is the recently released English particles within a plasma are accelerated or sions in a way that makes him seem more of what he initially claimed, and became the translation of Cédric Villani’s Théorème decelerated to match the velocity of the elec- human and less of a surreal genius. founder of chaos theory and the sponsor Vivant. Director of the Institut Henri Poin- tromagnetic waves acting on them. The book dives into Villani’s life as a fa- of one of the world’s premier mathematics caré in Paris, Villani cuts a unique figure, While this phenomenon seems compli- ther and scientist, as well as into the his- institutes. frequently wearing large spider broaches cated, the primary goal of the text is not to tory of physical mathematics. Some of the The story also includes a sizable number on his jacket lapel. He is an expert in partial explain the math behind Villani’s proof but most fascinating pieces are the short itali- of emails exchanged between Villani and differential equations and their application to describe the years leading to his break- cized anecdotes that Villani provides about Mouhot in which they converse about their to problems in statistical physics. His book through. When beginning to pursue the the world’s most famous mathematicians. damping theorem. This correspondence can recounts his frustrating but exciting journey Fields Medal — or ‘FM’ as he says — Villani The most interesting excerpt is about Henri be tedious to read; however, the emails are to winning the 2010 Fields Medal for work on did not know which problem to focus on. He Poincaré. The aside divulges that Poincaré interesting at times and shouldn’t be a de- Landau damping. only knew that he had to prove something published a paper on the stability of the so- terrent from exploring the heart of the work. Villani describes Landau damping as a amazing and that he had do it in a short pe- lar system in a prestigious magazine, won an Ultimately, Villani’s purpose is to take read- phenomenon in physics that explains a “re- riod of time — at 38 years old, he was two award for his work, and then realized that ers inside of his psyche and illustrate the fact turn to equilibrium without any increase in years away from the age cutoff for the qua- he was completely wrong! Like any rational that even the most respected professionals entropy.” In the abstract of the final proof, Vil- drennial award. One could imagine that this man with a hint of hubris, he spent all of the doubt themselves, have a family, get ner- lani and his collaborator, Clément Mouhot, timeline would put a great deal of stress on money he earned from the prize and more vous, are afraid to speak to icons, and start

Arts Arts Arts Arts assert that they have shown the damping a person, and Villani only made it worse by on ensuring all the printed copies returned with a dream.

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percell thunderstorms resulted 1006 A period of cooler tempera- in multiple tornado warnings tures is poised to begin after a being issued by the National severe thunderstorm passed on Weather Service. 1006 1007 35°N Tuesday afternoon. The storm, In the aftermath of the storm, which arrived shortly after 4 temperatures at the Institute are p.m. on Tuesday, brought heavy poised to become noticeably downpours, strong winds, and lower in the next few days, as a barrage of hailstones to MIT’s the wind pattern shifts to bring 1008 30°N

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Kendall Square Initiative Students in Hyatt will need advances with permit applications filed to do laundry in New House MIT has taken another step aspects of the proposal, in- Incoming freshmen are permitted to live in the in its six to 10 year plan for the cluding design, infrastructure, development of the East Cam- transportation, and parking Hyatt, but no REX events may take place there pus and Kendall Square area, plans, according to MIT News. recently filing its Project Review MIT anticipates that it will and Planned Unit Development invest at least $1.2 billion in New, from Page 1 Chocolate City, International ter Wesley Harris, to relay infor- special permit applications the Kendall Square Initiative. Development House (iHouse), mation down the chain. with the Cambridge Planning The Institute plans to build that first-year students must live and Spanish House — have been In the event that repairs fin- Board. a residence hall for graduate on-campus. fully or partially displaced by the ish early, the plan to transition The application includes de- students in Kendall Square, re- The plan does not come with- damage. students back to New House is tailed plans for the designs of placing Eastgate. The project out caveats, though — students Watts suggested the Hyatt as “not absolute,” Humphreys said. six proposed buildings, which also includes plans for 3 acres will have to do their laundry in an off-campus housing option to He expects that all of the affected will provide research space, 500 of connected open spaces, re- New House, since the Hyatt does explore, in addition to “currently communities will contribute to new housing units, and retail/ placing the parking lots south not have laundry facilities. Stu- vacant fraternity houses, apart- the decision. office space. The Cambridge of Main Street. dents will not be able to hold REX ment complexes, and graduate Students were asked to make Planning Board will review all —Katherine Nazemi events at the hotel or access the dorms with enough space.” a decision on their desired hous- conference rooms and ballroom. Humphreys told The Tech that ing option by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Students may also choose to the administration quickly took August 4. The Division of Student be assigned to Baker, McCor- graduate housing and FSILGs off Life is currently determining how mick, or MacGregor House on the table. Freshmen would not many students opted to stay at a first-come, first-served basis. have been allowed to live off- the Hyatt. Stata library kiosk They would then pay the rate of campus in FSILGs, and there was The list of rooms at the Hyatt their selected residence hall, and no permanent space in graduate has yet to be determined. be required to pay for a meal plan dorms such as Sidney-Pacific. Watts, who is a member of the if the residence has a dining hall. According to Humphreys and displaced cultural house Choco- to also see upgrades Before the plan was released, Director of Communications late City and will be staying in the Trey Watts ’17, the New House Matt Bauer, MIT has not had to Hyatt, expressed some of his con- Vice President, called upon the put students up in hotels in re- cerns for the fall to The Tech. “The Kiosk and café were both closed administration to consider the cent memory, while other col- biggest concern, honestly, is that extensive impact that splitting up leges in the area, including Bos- the Hyatt is pretty far away from over the summer for renovations New House residents would have ton University and Northeastern, campus. It is the best option, but on students. have housed students in the Hy- the distance does bother me a Forbes, from Page 1 center will feature video screens “Dispersing us among under- att numerous times before. The little bit.” that will highlight MIT library re- graduate dorms...is at the cost of Hyatt was “very accommodat- Watts was anxious about in- for construction. Beside it, how- sources, services, and collections, student happiness, sanity, perfor- ing” to MIT’s predicament, Hum- coming freshmen. “This is very ever, MIT Dining has provided a according to an MIT Libraries mance, and overall well-being,” phreys said. new and alarming for them,” he coffee bar serving Starbucks cof- news release. Watts said in an email to Chan- The administration has re- said. “We’re working towards fee and a selection of take-and-go Renovations are projected to cellor Cynthia Barnhart, Student ceived a preliminary timeline for holding REX events throughout meals. The MIT libraries kiosk next conclude in early September so Life Dean Chris Colombo, and New House repairs, but it has not the semester, hopefully, to pro- to the café has remained closed the Forbes Family Café can resume Residential Life and Dining Dean been made available as of August mote a sense of community.” throughout the project. Once the operations for the MIT community Henry Humphreys. “While find- 5. In the interim, students’ items He also lamented losing Forbes Family Café reopens, the once the fall 2016 semester begins. ing space in other undergraduate and furniture that were stored in Chocolate City’s common lounge. dorms may be more cost-effec- New House have been moved into “One of the biggest things for us tive, not only would the displaced Metropolitan Storage at no cost. is being able to hang out in our students have their culture es- Going forward, the Depart- study lounge. Having that lounge Can you beat this drawing? sentially stripped from them, but ment of Student Life will set up a space taken from us is going to be the culture and desires of the host webpage to keep affected parties a hassle.” dorm would also be infringed in the loop and rely on student The administration is working Join Illustrators at The Tech! upon.” leadership, in addition to New with the Hyatt to set up Wi-Fi and Three cultural houses — House RACs and the Housemas- common spaces for students. E-mail [email protected] Do you have a story to tell? Can you tell a personal story in writing or in an interview? The Tech wants to publish stories from the MIT community Sample topics:

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FSILGs oppose new ‘village’ Belcher receives teaching award Alumni-owned FSILG buildings valued at $83 mil for work with TEAL Village, from Page 1 sumed MIT ownership of the ings are out of date and improperly John W. Belcher has been tor for 8.02 (Electricity and building, and Institute oversight” kept. The DSL acknowledges that awarded the 2015 Hans Chris- Magnetism), which is taught in felt that their funding stores, even as reasons to reject the proposal, the contrast between their findings tian Oersted Medal of the the TEAL format. Students work with alumni donations, are insuffi- advocating strongly for continued and the student responses “may American Association of Phys- collaboratively in groups with cient to maintain the “19th century independent ownership. Students reflect some concern about how ics Teachers, in recognition of an emphasis on in-class prob- buildings” they live in. were even more compelled by the the survey data will be used.” Ulti- his “tireless work with TEAL lem solving and experiments. Options put forward for the latter two reasons. Most oppose mately, FSILG members are highly (Technology Enabled Active Belcher was named a design of an FSILG village include MIT’s plan to lease buildings to averse to a potential change. Learning) and Massive Open MacVicar Faculty Fellow in a cluster of small, free-standing the FSILGs’ individual housing Members of the AILG believe Online Courses (MOOCs).” 2000. He has also received structures; a townhouse-style corporations. that if the FSILG village plan ap- The Oersted Medal is given NASA’s Exceptional Scien- building that would have some Interest was lower than expect- pears to progress, and if off-cam- to recognize “those who have tific Achievement Medal and shared spaces and infrastructure; ed because proximity and super- pus restrictions like the Boston had an outstanding, wide- an MIT award given to recog- a loft-style structure somewhat like vision were less important than ban continue to pose difficulties, spread, and lasting impact on nize a “record of excellence in Burton Conner or Random Hall, the AILG predicted. For instance, the idea may become more popu- the teaching of physics.” education.” with each floor unique but con- survey responses showed that stu- lar among students. The AILG has Belcher has been an instruc- —Katherine Nazemi nected; and a re-purposed build- dents generally considered prox- also cited research indicating that ing, likely with shared infrastruc- imity to campus to be a benefit, many alumni do not consider their ture and space. but did not consider it important living groups’ relationships with Because of the implications for enough to be a deciding factor. surrounding communities to be student life, the AILG and Divi- Nearly all alumni and students positive and have concerns about sion of Student Life (DSL) surveyed responded favorably to questions long-term sustainability. Break-in at Senior House alumni and students from all six regarding organization, mainte- The DSL calculates that all MIT sororities, 29 fraternities, and five nance, and “various metrics on alumni-owned housing can be An as-yet unidentified sus- Police have found evidence independent living groups about chapter health” such as house valued at $83 million — if FSILGs pect broke into Senior House that the suspect suffered a the proposal in the fall of 2014. One conditions and finances. Most said whose buildings MIT does not own around midnight the morning “large laceration” and located response, generally the president’s, their living groups were “excellent were to move into an FSILG village, of August 3, according to a cam- a camouflage backpack, a field was taken from each of these alum- or good” — they all “perceive[d] “this equity presumably would be pus-wide email. shovel, a canteen, and dirty ni or student organizations. themselves as above average,” and available to invest in the project.” “An unknown suspect broke clothing in Senior House. Of 80 total alumni and student were “somewhat or very satisfied Far more alumni and student a second floor window...and Turco suggested that com- representatives, only five alumni with their FSILG’s present status.” organizations were interested in gained access to the building,” munity members lock doors “expressed high interest in the proj- This view was held despite the further discussion and planning Sergeant Andrew J. Turco wrote. and windows, document serial ect,” and only five students thought DSL’s finding that 57% of FSILGs than in actually moving, which “Dorm patrol discovered the numbers of electronics, and re- it was at all likely that their living have “reserves that are inadequate the DSL believes is because “many broken glass and called after the port suspicious activity to the group would be willing to move to cover even an optimistic estimate groups may be sitting on the side- intruder,” who fled toward Ames police. into an FSILG village. of current maintenance needs,” lines, waiting to see if there is a seri- Street. —William Navarre Alumni cited “tradition, as- and the AILG’s belief that build- ous proposal put forth.”

once 12 The Tech Thursday, August 6, 2015 Korman named head swim and dive coach Hopes to ‘empower’ team members ‘as students, athletes, individuals’

p ort s By Phil Hess “I am thrilled to be joining three swimmers qualify for the nation by CollegeSwimming. addition, she has served as an as- DAPER STAFF the MIT community,” said Kor- NCAA Division I Championships Her prior collegiate coaching sistant swim coach and counselor S man. “It is my goal to empower under her watch, with numerous experience includes working as an for the University of Texas/Total Dani Korman has been se- [the team members] as students, school records broken during her assistant coach at Johns Hopkins Performance Swim Camp. s lected as the Mary Frances Wagle as athletes, and as individuals to time in New Haven. University, where she helped both Korman is a 2006 graduate of ‘47 Head Coach of the MIT men’s achieve their full potential during While Korman was at Yale, the men’s and women’s teams to a Kenyon College where she was and women’s swimming and div- their time at MIT and beyond.” multiple student-athletes earned pair of top-10 NCAA finishes. Prior part of four national champion- ing teams, MIT Director of Ath- During her three years at Yale All-Ivy League honors, with the to Johns Hopkins, Korman served ship teams. She was a seven- letics Julie Soriero announced on she assisted with a team that saw team gaining CSCAA Scholar as the interim head coach of the time All-American at Kenyon July 29. Korman will be joining the improvement each year at the Ivy All-America honors in all three Carthage College women’s team and served as team captain as a Engineers after spending the last League Championships, with the seasons. She also served as the where she was named the 2008 senior. She earned a Master’s of port three years as an assistant coach 2015 squad finishing third and recruiting coordinator for the Elis, Co-Coach of the Year and led the Education with a concentration with the Yale University women’s scoring 200 more points than the with her recruiting class of 2018 team to its first ever appearance in guidance and counseling from S swimming and diving program. season before. The Elis also had being named the 17th best in the in the NCAA Championship. In Carthage in 2008. p ort s S p ort s S p ort s S p ort s S p ort s S p ort s S p ort s S p ort s S SPort s SPort s