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Established 1881 WEATHER, p. 2 MIT’s Oldest and FRI: 67°F | 51°F Largest Newspaper Partly sunny SAT: 72°F | 53°F Sunny tech.mit.edu SUN: 72°F | 50°F Sunny Established 1881 Volume 133, Number 41 Friday, September 27, 2013 Small offices for profs Posters responding to BC murals controversy appear during renovations Courses 14, 18 move to cramped spaces By Omar Ibarra full professors had big offices; every- STAFF REPORTER bodyEstablished is taking a pretty big cut 1881 in terms of real estate,” said Staffilani, who now After being relocated into smaller of- shares an office with a colleague. fices due to renovations of their build- “Professors that are not retired usu- ings, the Mathematics and Economics ally do not share offices, but these are Departments are optimistic, though very special circumstances,” continued frustrated with their situation. Staffilani. “It is a consequence of the Currently the departments are situ- fact that we really don’t have any spare ated in buildings E17, E18, and E19, hav- room here.” ing moved from the Math and Econom- One other consequence of the move, ics headquarters in Buildings 2 and particularly for professors who were in E52, respectively. According to math employment before the computer age, instructor Joe Lauer, “It’s a bit smaller is the droves of paper that they lost in and more cramped than the old space, the move. “Over the years some pro- but that’s fine; in general I don’t think fessors accumulated piles and piles of we need much space to work.” old papers and old calculations,” said The renovation was undertaken as Staffilani. “It took a lot of time for them part of the MIT 2030 initiative to im- to goEstablished through all that amount 1881 of stuff prove the framework of the Institute. and find what to keep; these people re- The projects are expected to be com- ally had to work hard, and the depart- pleted by summer 2015 for Building 2, ment was really supportive, providing and 2016 for Building E52. staff to help them clean out.” RACHEL E. AVILES—THE TECH Full professors were probably the Professors were not the only ones Posters have appeared around campus in response to the ongoing controversy surrounding hardest hit by the move according to Burton-Conner murals. math professor Gigliola Staffilani. “All Offices, Page 14 Rush 2013 sees more students rushing, over 50 MIT hosts community meeting about Title percent of freshman men pledging IX, professors win MacArthur Grants The first week of the academic year marked According to Anil, the increase in rush Title IX concerns MacArthur Grants another successful Rush period, according Establishedto yields are due to the IFC1881 being better prepared Earlier this week, posters related to MIT professors Dina Katabi and IFC Rush Chair Haldun Anil ’15. Of the 451 for the Kresge Kickoff, the first event of Rush the removal of Burton-Conner murals Sara Seager, were two of the 24 recipi- bids MIT fraternity chapters issued to 381 stu- every fraternity has a table on Kresge Oval. were displayed around the MIT cam- ents of the MacArthur “Genius Grants.” dents, 330 have accepted their bids, account- “There was a concerted effort to make sure pus. Barbara Baker, the Title IX Co- Katabi is a professor in the Department ing for more than half of the male freshmen that it was widely publicized,” said Anil. The Coordinator for MIT, wrote an email of Electrical Engineering and Com- population. (Not all students issued bids were IFC made use of both physical and digital to the Burton-Conner community puter Science, and much of her work freshmen.) These numbers are an increase media when advertising and did their best to in response to concerns about these focuses on wireless data transmission. over 2012 when 440 bids were issued to 375 spread the word in person as well, which Anil posters, encouraging residents to at- She and her colleagues recently de- students, yielding 324 pledges, and 2011 when said contributed to a “critical mass” atten- tend a community meeting to “discuss veloped a method of tracking human 455 bids were offered to 369 students, yield- dance at the Kresge Kickoff. MIT’s policy against sexual harass- movement through walls, which they ing 321 pledges. Historical records show that Rush isn’t over however, Anil says. “Rush ment and misconduct in compliance call Wi-Vi. the number of bids issued has remained fairly is a year-long experience … most houses are with Title IX,” among other topics. Seager, a professor of Planetary constant over the years but that the number of willing to recruit new members even as the se- MIT recently selected Sarah Science and Physics, was recognized students receiving bids has increased steadily mester progresses.” Rankin to fill the newly-created posi- for her contributions to the study of since around 2009. —William Navarre tion of Title IX Investigator. The posi- exoplanets, which are planets outside tion is a two-year appointment and of our solar system. One project she is falls under the Dean for Student Life, leading is ExoplanetSat, which aims to and responsibilities include report- build nanosatellites that are responsi- ing case findings to various Deans at ble for monitoring individual stars. MIT. Rankin served for seven years as The Fellows each receive a five-year director of the Office of Sexual Assault grant of $625,000 from the MacArthur Prevention and Response at Harvard Foundation. University. —Stephanie Holden a.m. – 6 p.m. It is open to for a double major. IN Short the public, and the cost is The MIT Bike Show and $5 at the door. IAP Externship appli- Market Festival will take cations are due before place on Sunday from 11 Add date is next Friday Wednesday, Oct. 9 at a.m. – 3 p.m. at 32 Albany St (the lot between Mass — the last day to add noon, and applications for Ave and Main). The event classes, drop classes with- the Externship Assistance will feature a bike auction, out appearing on your Fund (to help offset the quick bike tune-ups, raf- transcript, change classes cost of an unpaid intern- fles, and smoothies. Check to P/D/F, and change from ship), are due at the same out bikeshowmarket.wee- Listener to Credit status. time. Get more informa- bly.com. You can find add/drop tion at alum.mit.edu/ forms at web.mit.edu/reg- students. The First Annual Memo- istrar/forms. Next Friday HENRY TAREQUE rial Collier Cornhole is also the last day for June Send news information A particularly exuberant Zumba dancer lets loose during MIT RecSports’ fourth annual Larg- Tournament will take and September 2014 de- and tips to news@tech. est Outdoor Zumba Class on Tuesday, Sept. 24 in front of the Z-Center. place on Sunday from 11 gree candidates to apply mit.edu. UnconVincinG A GourMet DUMPLinG house? draKE: BACK with A so-caLLed SECTIONS World & Nation . .2 Does Chinatown’s famous restaurant PerforMances swaGGer APOLOGY? Opinion . .4 live up to the hype? ARTS, p. 9 Battle of the Year Drake flaunts his confident Krasnoslobodtsev’s Arts . .7 disappoints, even down A niGht of stars style on his new album public apology was an Fun Pages . .13 to the dance scenes. Nothing Was The Same. insincere one. Sports . .15 ARTS, p. 10 Boston Ballet kicked off its 50th season ARTS, p. 7 LETTERS, p. 4 on Boston Common. ARTS, p. 8 2 The Tech Friday, September 27, 2013 Two more militant attacks D unsettle Kenya Russian court orders NAIROBI, Kenya — Only days after heavily armed assailants stormed a crowded mall and killed scores of people in the capi- Greenpeace activists held tal, militants killed three people near the border with Somalia, Kenyan officials said Thursday, putting this country even -fur ther on edge. By Andrew Roth the Prirazlomnaya oil platform in and the United States. The U.S. cap- WORL According to Kenyan police officials, there were two attacks, THE NEW YORK TIMES the Pechora Sea on Sept. 18 to pro- tain, Peter Willcox, was formerly the first Wednesday night on a group of police officers on a foot test oil and gas drilling in the Arctic. master of the Rainbow Warrior, an- N patrol in Wajir in which a bystander was killed. Militants struck MOSCOW — A Russian court or- Russian border guards responded other Greenpeace ship, which ex- again early Thursday, raiding a police camp in Mandera, killing dered Thursday that 10 Greenpeace by helicopter and seized their ship. ploded and sank during a protest two police officers and setting fire to a dozen vehicles. activists, including a U.S. ship cap- A spokesman for the Russian Inves- against French nuclear testing in the The Kenyan authorities immediately blamed al-Shabab, the tain and a photographer who was tigative Committee, which opened a Pacific in 1985. Somali militant group that has claimed responsibility for killing accompanying the group, be held criminal investigation of the Green- In remarks Wednesday, Presi- more than 60 shoppers in the mall. in custody for two months while the peace activists Tuesday, said the dent Vladimir V. Putin seemed in- Rono Bunei, the Mandera police commander, said the at- authorities investigate whether a protest constituted an “encroach- tent on defusing a potential diplo- ATIO tack in Mandera was under investigation, “but obviously it demonstration at an offshore oil rig ment on the sovereignty” of Russia. matic incident over the arrest of the leads to suggest that either the al-Shabab or their sympathizers in the Arctic was an act of piracy.

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