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Established 1881 WEATHER, p. 8 MIT’s Oldest and THU: 84°F | 63°F Largest Newspaper Mostly sunny FRI: 76°F | 62°F Chance showers tech.mit.edu SAT: 74°F | 62°F Chance showers Established 1881 Volume 135, Number 18 Thursday, August 6, 2015 3 of New House’s 6 houses will ‘FSILG village’ plan remain closed next semester gets tepid response Displaced students to be housed at the Hyatt hotel Distance from campus, legal risk, low 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 A faiLure of aid DeadLine GettinG CLoser? RocK innoVation EVen the Best SECTIONS Opinion . .2 Have Red Cross relief Don’t worry, it’s flexible. FUN, p. 3 Tame Impala puts a new struGGLE Fun Pages . .3 efforts worked in Haiti? twist on a familiar sound. PresidentiaL techdoKU A mathematical adven- Arts . .6 OPINION, p. 3 ARTS, p. 6 ture. Weather . .8 Right on time for the debate. FUN, p. 4 Sports . .12 ARTS, p. 8 2 The Tech Thursday, August 6, 2015 Five years after the American Red Cross Established 1881 ION Chairman efforts to rebuild Haiti IN Will Conway ’16 Editor in Chief Summer investigation raises doubts about post-earthquake relief Leon Lin ’16 By Claire Lazar munities.” Further, it points out that while by subcontracted organizations that re- OPINION EDITOR the organization boasts that it has reached ceived third-party funding. The American Business Manager 132,000 Haitians through its housing proj- Red Cross wrote, “Please note that our con- Fiona Lam ’17 Following the January 2010 earthquake ects, that number counts people who at- tracts with the great majority of our part- Managing Editor that killed over 200,000 Haitians and left tended seminars on “proper construction ners, while permitting us to disclose this Anthony Yu ’16 more than a million homeless, donations techniques,” received temporary rental as- information to Congress, do not permit us flooded in from governments, financial sistance, and were housed in temporary to disclose the information to the media or Executive Editor institutions, and individuals around the shelters that begin to disintegrate within donors.” Yet don’t donors have the greatest Tushar Kamath ’16 world. U.S. households donated a total of three to five years. In their investigation, stake in understanding the impacts of their more than $1.4 billion, and the American Sullivan and Elliott narrowed in on a de- dollars, since they selflessly drew pieces of NEWS StAFF Red Cross raised the most of any charity for velopment project in the neighborhood of their paychecks that could have been used News Editors: Patricia Z. Dominguez ’17, the cause: nearly half a billion dollars in the Campeche in Haiti’s capital. The multimil- on themselves, their children, or any other William Navarre ’17, Katherine Nazemi ’17; span of a single year. lion-dollar plan was to feature hundreds of cause that mattered to them? OPINION OP OPINION Assoc iate News Editors: Alexandra Delmore ’17, The aid was intended to do more than permanent homes, none of which ended up Unfortunately, hundreds of millions of Drew Bent ’18, Sanjana Srivastava ’18, Ray just address emergencies. The American being built. They reported that many resi- dollars into the American Red Cross’s Haiti Wang ’18; Staff: Stan Gill ’14, Kath Xu ’16, Rohan N Red Cross, well known for its work in di- dents continue to live without electricity, relief efforts, it seems that detailed infor- Banerjee ’18, William A. Rodríguez ’18, Jennifer saster relief, came with a big agenda and basic sanitation, or access to drinkable wa- mation may not even be internally avail- F. Switzer ’18, Amy Wang ’18; Meteorologists: O the good intention to help rebuild Haiti, the ter. According to the investigation, a former able. NPR and ProPublica obtained some Vince Agard ’11, Roman Kowch ’12, Shaena poorest country in the western hemisphere. official who worked on the project said, “Ev- of the American Red Cross’s assessments Berlin ’13, Casey Hilgenbrink ’15, Ray Hua In a January 2011 luncheon in Washington, Wu ’16, Costa Christopoulos ’17. erything takes four times as long because of its own health and water projects, which the organization’s CEO Gail McGovern said it would be micromanaged from DC, and “found the charity failed in many cases to PRODUCTION StAFF that a fifth of the funds raised would “pro- they had no development experience.” monitor its own spending, oversee its proj- Editors: Justine Cheng ’17, Colleen vide tens of thousands of people with per- ects and even know whether the projects PINI Madlinger ’17, Lenny Martinez ’17, Vivian manent homes...where we develop brand- “The charity built six were successful.