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MITHENGE David Da He—The Tech On Nov. 11, more than a hundred people gathered at the Building 8 end of the Infinite Corridor to catch a glimpse of MIThenge. MIThenge is a phenomenon that occurs twice a year when the setting sun aligns with the axis of the Infinite Corridor. The next predicted occurrence is Jan. 28, 2012 (source: http://web.mit.edu/mithenge).

Harvard walks out of Econ 10 UA draft constitution & bylaws MIT alum accused of conservative bias in intro econ course Established 1881 released for new government By Janelle Mansfield the conservative bias they felt was classroom. “It can be easy for col- Staff Reporter present in their course. lege students to exist in a bubble, After months of committee re-submitted. Two weeks later, Rachel San- and I believe that these actions have work, the UA has released a draft The new UA government will On Nov. 2, 70 Harvard students dalow-Ash, a Harvard freshman increased discussion and debate constitution and bylaws for a be substantially different, replac- walked out of class in the middle of who organized the walkout with around some of the most important revamped governing structure, ing the Senate with a UA Council their introductory Economics 10 lec- her classmate Gabriel Bayard, said issues of our time,” she said. The which President Allan E. Mira- comprised of dormitory, Inter- ture to show solidarity with the Oc- it sparked discussion both dur- university has not punished the stu- monti ’13 hopes to instate dur- fraternity Council (IFC), Living cupy Boston movement and protest ing class sections and outside the dents who walked out. ing an IAP transition period. The Group Council (LGC), and Pan- The students protested two proposed changes went to de- hellenic Association (Panhel) main causes — the alleged bias in bate at the UA Senate last night, presidents, in addition to an off- their economics class and increas- and Senate will have to approve campus representative. The IFC ing tuition and student debt. Stu- the changes within three meet- dents have also accused the pro- ings — otherwise, they must be UA changes, Page 14 fessor teaching the class, Nicholas G. Mankiw PhD ’84, of showing a conservative bias. Sandalow-Ash Established 1881believes that Mankiw, who acted as an economic advisor to George W. Bush, “was a key player in creating Classes overflowing! the very economic policies that led to financial instability and collapse GIRs too popular for their own good as well as immense income inequality,” said Sandalow-Ash. Bruno B. F. Faviero dents in the 155-seat 6-120. The students chose to walk out of Staff Reporter Other classes have more en- Economics 10 (the Harvard equiva- rolled students than they do seats lent of 14.01) because it is a large People say that attending MIT in the lecture rooms, which was a class (about 700 students) and be- is like drinking from a fire hose. In problem in the first few weeks of cause of problems students raised many classes this fall, however, the term. 18.02 (Multivariable Calcu- with the class, namely a “bias inher- only overflow was in the classrooms. lus) has 455 students with a lecture ChristopheR A. Maynor—The Tech ent in the class,” which was identi- Many freshman GIRs are almost in 10-250, 11.015J (Riots, Strikes, and Policemen and security personnel patrol all gates into Harvard Yard fied in an open letter sent to Mankiw filled to capacity. 3.091 (Introduc- Conspiracies in American History) Monday afternoon as a part of the administration’s response to the new from the students who walked out. tion to Solid State Chemistry) has has around 30 students in 4-253 — Occupy Harvard movement. No one without a Harvard ID is allowed to 382 students in the 425-seat 10-250, enter, a policy which has generated controversy on campus. Walkout, Page 14 and 8.01L (Physics I) has 146 stu- Overflow, Page 9

Orientation Committee solicits input Sikka ’13 elected In Short ESP’s Splash program is kick- Last March, the Review Commit- important aspects of orientation. Ac- ing off this weekend. Sign up tee on Orientation was established and cording to Professor Merritt R. Smith, Panhel president to volunteer and help kids get commissioned to examine and re-eval- committee chair and housemaster of around MIT. For more infor- uate MIT’s orientation program. This Burton Conner, “We need a more holis- By Ethan A. Solomon mation, see http://esp.mit.edu/ teach/Splash/ includes the Freshman Pre-Orientation tic approach to the orientation experi- editor in chief Programs (FPOPs), Freshman Orienta- ence with better coordination between tion, Residential Exploration (REX) and the REX, student life, and academics The Panhellenic Association The “Smoot” is now officially Housing, and FSILG Rush. On Nov. 10, component of orientation.” released the names of its new part of our language. The word the committee held its first public fo- Smith also mentioned the impor- executive board Sunday, elected is one of 10,000 words to be rum for students to give their input on tance of discussions with freshmen on earlier this month. Denzil Sikka added to the fifth edition of the the orientation evaluation process. The alcohol, drugs, academic honesty, and ’13 of Alpha Phi, Panhel’s current American Heritage Dictionary. committee expects to present its find- similar topics. vice president for finance and ings and final recommendations in Jan- “We must rekindle these discus- administration, will take over as Like building stuff? The regis- uary 2012 to Dean for Undergraduate sions as a way [to] keep it on [students’] president on Dec. 10. Panhel’s tration for the 100K Accelerate Education Daniel E. Hastings ’78 and minds,” said Smith, who added that new officers were elected by a program is now open at http:// Dean for Student Life Chris Colombo, talking about those topics should not majority vote of the six Panhel mit100k.org/accelerate/ who will make a final decision. end with official orientation events. delegates from their respective The primary purpose of the meet- The committee also expressed sororities. Topping Sikka’s prior- Send news information and ing was to get feedback from students ity list for Panhel is a revamped tips to [email protected]. about what they thought was the most Orientation, Page 12 Panhel, Page 15 Joseph Maurer—The Tech

The Tech has a Reality TV isn’t very real discover a lost Cambridge city SECTIONS World & Nation ��2 So why keep up the farce? new flag! language election results Opinion ��4 OPINION, p. 4 See our logo at the top Jessie Little Doe Baird Meet your new city Fun Pages ��6 of the page? It’s newer GOP Tomfoolery rediscovers the lost councillors. Arts ��8 and shinier, but you Wampanoag language. NEWS, p. 15 Sports ��16 might not have noticed. Republicans have reached a new low. ARTS, p. 8 OPINION, p. 4 2 The Tech Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Cain stumbles in assessing D foreign policy Congress turns to spending Herman Cain became badly flustered on Monday when asked to assess President Barack Obama’s policy toward Libya, raising new questions about his command of foreign policy as bills, deficit panel negotiates he lurched over five minutes from awkward pauses to halting attempts to address the issue. By Jennifer Steinhauer and another short-term spending bill their deadline to present to the full

worl Video of Cain’s appearance on Monday before editors and Robert Pear to get the government’s bills paid Congress has unnerved lawmakers. reporters at The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel went viral almost The New York Times through mid-December as both The committee’s 12 members,

n immediately after it was posted online, and drew immedi- chambers cobble together the final split among the parties and cham- ate comparisons to Rick Perry’s recent stumble in a debate WASHINGTON — As members bills and try to put to rest the im- bers, continued discussions Mon- when he froze in discussing which federal agencies he would of the congressional deficit reduc- mediate debate over spending for day, sometimes in smaller groups, eliminate. tion panel retreated to confer- 2012. in the hope of finding a compro- “President Obama supported the uprising, correct?” he ence rooms Monday to continue Throughout the year, the short- mise between party positions out- said. “President Obama called for the removal of Gadhafi — negotiations, House Republicans term bills, known as continuing res- lined last week. Added federal rev- just want to make sure we’re talking about the same thing be- and Senate Democrats were put- olutions, have proved a headache enue remains the sticking point. atio fore I say ‘Yes, I agree,’ or ‘No, I didn’t agree.’” ting their final touches on a series for House Speaker John A. Boehner, Among those searching for a com- Cain said he disagreed with the president’s approach “for of spending bills that they hope R-Ohio, largely because some of promise are Sen. Max Baucus, D- the following reasons” — then changed course. will avert another showdown the most conservative members of Mont. and chairman of the Senate Some analysts have grown sharply critical of Cain’s foreign over short-term financing of the his conference, seeking more cuts, Finance Committee, and senior policy pronouncements in debates and interviews, saying he government. have voted against them. One such House Republicans, including Rep. shows a basic lack of understanding of critical regions of the This week, the House is expect- impasse nearly led to the shutdown Dave Camp of Michigan, the chair- world. Cain himself has sometimes fed into this, and in Mon- ed to vote on three appropriations of the government this year. House man of the House Ways and Means day’s interview he said: “Some people want to say, ‘Well, as bills with significant cuts to local Republican leaders are hoping to Committee.

& N president, you’re supposed to know everything.’ No you don’t.” law enforcement as well as trims to avoid this with the next set of bills; The Democrats’ latest proposal —By Richard A. Oppel Jr., The New York Times agriculture, community develop- however, several policy items, spe- calls for an initial increase of $350 ment and other programs. House cifically a provision reviving high- billion of new revenue over 10 years, Republicans had sought deeper er limits on government-backed to be accompanied by instructions Teenagers having sex are now a cuts than those reflected in the mortgage loans, which most House to the tax-writing committees to compromise with Senate Demo- Republicans vehemently oppose, raise $650 billion more. Democrats minority crats, although many of their pri- could prove a sticking point. said their down payment included orities are reflected in the bill, in- The discussions among mem- revenue that could be raised from orld About 43 percent of unmarried teenage girls and 42 percent cluding eliminating grants to public bers of the deficit reduction com- ending tax breaks for oil and gas of unmarried teenage boys have had sexual intercourse at least transportation agencies to reduce mittee reflect the wrangling over producers, the horse-racing indus- once, according to new research from the Centers for Disease greenhouse gases. spending writ large, and the mem- try and owners of corporate jets, Control and Prevention. In 2002, the last year such a report was Top lawmakers hope the pack- W bers’ inability to reach a compro- and from changing the tax treat- published, 51.1 percent of girls and 60.4 percent of boys had age of bills will be a vehicle for mise with less than two weeks to ment of business inventories. had sex by age 19. Data for 2006 to 2010, published last month, also show that most teenagers used contraception the first time they had sex — 78 percent of girls and 85 percent of boys, up from 75 percent of girls and 82 percent of boys in 2002. King of Jordan calls for Syria’s The birth rate for teenagers 15 to 19 during the period was 39 per 1,000, the lowest ever recorded in the United States. (The rate in Canada was 14 per 1,000; in Germany, 10 per 1,000; and in Italy, seven per 1,000.) Teenage birth rates in the United leader to step down States have been declining since 1991 and vary considerably by race and ethnicity. By Nada Bakri told the BBC. “If Bashar has the in- ists outraged over the Arab League —By Nicholas Bakalar, The New York Times The New York Times terest of his country, he would step move. down, but he would also create an The minister, Walid al-Moallem, James Kanter contributed re- ability to reach out and start a new speaking at a televised news confer- Economist accepts a mandate porting from Brussels, and Neil phase of Syrian political life.” ence in Damascus, reiterated Syria’s MacFarquhar from Cairo. Other countries in the region contention that it had complied to rescue Italy BEIRUT — King Abdullah of Jor- with historically close ties to Syr- with the terms of a proposed Arab dan added his voice on Monday to ia, notably Turkey and Iran, have League peace plan by withdrawing ROME — Mario Monti, a former member of the European the growing pressure on the presi- warned Assad that he should take its armed troops from urban areas, Commission, conditionally accepted a mandate on Sunday dent of Syria to relinquish power, steps to satisfy the demands of pro- releasing political prisoners and of- to form a new government in Italy whose main task will be to becoming the first Arab leader on testers in the 8-month-old uprising, fering pardons to militants. keep the country from being dragged under by Europe’s debt Syria’s doorstep to call for a change which has now become a focal point But rights activists in Syria — as crisis. in government to end the increas- in the Arab Spring revolts that have well as a majority of Arab League Monti, 68, a respected economist who has promised to be ingly bloody political uprising there. felled autocratic regimes in Tuni- members — have said Syria has a steady hand in a time of market turbulence, said he expected The Jordanian monarch’s re- sia, Egypt and Libya. But the pub- failed to comply with the peace to move ahead as soon as he secured a parliamentary majority marks, made in an interview with lic comments about Assad by King plan, pointing to new violence in for the new government. the BBC, came as Syria’s president, Abdullah — who has faced some Syria since it agreed to the plan on Assembling a majority usually requires days or weeks of Bashar Assad, was still smarting Arab Spring protests in his own Nov. 2. Activists said that more than talks, but Italy does not have the luxury of time. Skeptical in- from the Arab League’s unexpected- country — went beyond what oth- 240 people were killed from the day vestors have pushed the country’s borrowing costs to danger- ly strong rebuke over the weekend ers have said. the plan was announced until last ous heights, putting at risk the euro currency that 17 nations with its decision to suspend Syria’s Earlier Monday, Assad’s foreign week. share. The crisis forced the resignation of Prime Minister Sil- membership. Syria also faced addi- minister said the Arab League sus- The majority of the deaths were vio Berlusconi on Saturday, turning Italy’s most complex po- tional sanctions imposed Monday pension was “an extremely danger- in Homs, a restive city in central litical shift in nearly two decades into one of its most urgent by the European Union. ous step.” But he also apologized Syria that was subjected to a major transitions. “I believe, if I were in his shoes, for a spree of attacks on foreign em- military assault days after the peace —Rachel Donadio, The New York Times I would step down,” King Abdullah bassies in Syria by pro-Assad loyal- initiative was announced.

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At a special session of the Nebraska Legislature, a state sena- but faces uphill fight tor announced Monday that TransCanada had agreed to adjust its intended route of the Keystone XL oil pipeline to avoid the environ- By Elisabetta Povoledo implement the cost-saving mea- tal pillars of the EU,” said Jean mentally sensitive Sand Hills region of the state. The New York Times sures that Italy has promised to Pisani-Ferry, director of Bruegel, “There had been discussions about this over the last couple of whittle down a mountain of debt an economics research institute in days,” said Matt Boever, a spokesman for State Sen. Mike Flood. ROME — In the news media he and boost growth. Brussels. Monti was Bruegel’s first “Moving it out of that Sand Hills region is important.” is known simply as “Super Mario.” “Mr. Monti brings credibility chairman and is now its honorary The proposed pipeline would run from Alberta’s oil sands to the But Mario Monti, the new leader and legitimacy, but also the no- president. Gulf of Mexico and was slated to pass through the Sand Hills, which of Italy’s new government, which tion that if he fails and his efforts Monti’s tenure as commis- includes the Ogallala Aquifer, a vital source of drinking water for is being formed amid a crisis that fail, everyone will be worse off,” sioner for competition coincided the Great Plains. threatens the European monetary said Moises Naim, a senior associ- with an eventful time in European TransCanada’s offer comes just days after a Nov. 10 announce- on union itself, will face a strong chal- ate in the international economics Union antitrust enforcement and ment by the State Department that it would delay a final deci- lenge in living up to his admiring program at the Carnegie Endow- control of market concentrations. sion on the $7 billion project until it had considered other routes nickname as he tries to steer his ment for International Peace in He also worked with U.S. authori- through Nebraska. country from the brink of eco- Washington, who knows Monti. ties to create the International —Dan Frosch, The New York Times WORLD & Nati nomic turmoil and through the “The bottom line is that Italians Competition Network. machinations of Italian politics. have lost their alibi once Berlus- He blocked the $42 billion The consensus in Italy is that coni is gone and the hard work merger of General Electric and Barbara Grier, publisher of President Giorgio Napolitano, starts; there are no excuses any Honeywell and fined Microsoft who nominated Monti in record more.” $650 million for antitrust vio- lesbian books, dies at 78 time Sunday to replace departing Monti, 68, is as much an out- lations. He also ordered seven Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, sider to Rome’s political palazzi German regional public banks to Barbara Grier, a founder of one of the most successful publish- had chosen judiciously, picking as he is at home in Milan, where repay more than 3 billion euros ing houses for books by and about lesbians, including a nonfiction an economist with strong Europe- he taught political economy and in illegal subsidies they received chronicle about lesbian nuns that became a phenomenon after it an credentials and longstanding is president of Bocconi University. from their regional governments drew complaints from Roman Catholic officials, died Thursday in familiarity with Europe’s power He is also at home in Brussels, in the 1990s. “He was not afraid Tallahassee, Fla. She was 78. brokers. where he spent more than a de- to take on iconic businesspeople The cause was lung cancer, said her partner, Donna McBride. It remains to be seen, howev- cade as a member of the European like Jack Welch,” General Elec- Grier became a revered figure to several generations of lesbian er, whether Monti — who has no Commission, first for the internal tric’s former chief executive, said writers and readers after founding Naiad Press in 1973 with three hands-on political experience at market and then for competition. Nicholas Levy, an antitrust law- other women, including McBride. Armed with just $3,000, they set home — can convince financial “He was really shaped by the yer at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & out to publish books, as Grier later described them, “about lesbians markets that he can overcome Ita- two portfolios he held at the Com- Hamilton, who dealt with Monti who love lesbians, where the girl is not just going through a phase.” on ly’s snarled domestic politics and mission, which are the fundamen- on several occasions. That comment referred to the lesbian-themed romance novels she had read as a girl, growing up in the 1940s, in which the hero- ine dallied with a female lover but ended up with a man, reflecting what publishers considered the only acceptable happily-ever-after WORLD & Nati outcome. Naiad Press published more than 500 books with uncondition- In Egypt, Mubarak loyalists are ally lesbian themes during the next 30 years — romance novels, histories, erotica, volumes of poetry, science fiction and self-help guides. ousted but still feared Grier’s most controversial and successful book, “Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence,” was a 1985 nonfiction work by two former nuns, By Neil MacFarquhar mocracy, just let the people be, and the surrounding province, meaning based on interviews with 50 former and active nuns who were les- The New York Times they will choose who they want,” he that for now they can run. bians like them. Nancy Manahan, one of the authors, wrote in the said. “God is great!” cried several foreword to the book that its intent was to break the silence about MANSOURA, Egypt — Mortada Two weeks before Egypt’s first former NDP members in the gal- “erotic love between women in religious life.” Mansour, the man accused of di- parliamentary vote since a popular lery, waving aloft their membership —Paul Vitello, The New York Times recting the notorious Battle of the uprising toppled Mubarak on Feb. cards from the party, which was le- Camel during the Tahrir Square 11, much of the electorate seems gally dissolved in April. protests in February, came to a obsessed with the idea that former Given the patchwork of cases High emotions and intrigue in courtroom in this provincial city to Mubarak loyalists will somehow and decisions from around the defend the right of former regime steal the government back via the country, the judges in Cairo said Iran blast on stalwarts to run in the coming par- ballot box. they would issue a blanket ruling liamentary elections. Scores of lawsuits have been shortly, but given Monday’s judg- Iran’s supreme leader presided Monday over a vast state funeral “If I had participated in the Bat- filed to block former members of ment, they were expected to allow for a founder of Iran’s missile program and 16 other members of tle of the Camel, people would be the once-dominant National Dem- former party members to run. the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps who were killed in an ex- WORLD & Nati throwing rocks at me, not hailing ocratic Party, or NDP, from running. “Feloul,” coming from the Ara- plosion Saturday, in an emotional ritual that underscored the com- me the way they are,” said Mansour, A website called “Imsik Feloul” or bic word for the scattered remnants mander’s importance and Tehran’s rising sense of confrontation perhaps Egypt’s most flamboyant “To Catch a Remnant,” tries to ferret of a defeated army, is flung at any- with the West over its nuclear program. lawyer, wheeling his black Cadillac them out. Seemingly every political body who expresses sympathy for The commander, Gen. Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, was a cru- Escalade through narrow streets rally or conference starts with ques- the Mubarak regime. Voters hunt cial figure in Iran’s efforts to build long-range missiles who was with one hand while waving the tions from the public about who for them under practically every “constantly preparing himself for the probable upcoming conflict other at well-wishers. might be a remnant — the epithet of campaign banner, not to mention with America,” according to a eulogy by a fellow senior Revolution- He denies having set loose cam- choice — and how to prevent their every rock. ary Guards commander, Gen. Hossein Alaie, that was published on els with riders who beat protest- resurgence. “The Egyptian street does not Iran’s Tabnak news site. ers in Tahrir Square, but believes In Cairo on Monday, Egypt’s want them,” said Sherif Diab, 26, a That prominent role, previously unknown outside Iran’s mili- strongly that supporters of Hosni High Administrative Court froze a thin, intense, unemployed lyricist tary circles, and the secrecy surrounding the explosion have fueled Mubarak, Egypt’s former president, ruling from the lower court in Man- who started the website, which is intense speculation that the blast was the result of sabotage, and should compete for a role in the soura that had barred all former fashioned as the Ghostbusters of not an accident as Iranian authorities have insisted. country’s future. “If you want a de- regime candidates from running in the regime remnant world. Videos of the funeral on Iranian news sites showed soldiers weeping and beating their breasts as the flag-draped coffins were carried down a boulevard, and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali

Khamenei, stood before a crowd of uniformed officers in a large on prayer hall. “During a time when Israel and America are threatening Iran, Taliban spokesman denies reports of his presence is sorely missed,” Alaie wrote. his arrest on Monday —Robert F. Worth and Artin Afkhami, The New York Times WORLD & Nati Russian rocket gives NASA a lift By Farouq Jan Mangal angrily denied their accounts. “I am name and Afghan cellphone num- and Rod Nordland talking to you on the phone right bers, and operating from Pakistan to space station The New York Times now ,” he told an Afghan reporter just across the border. who has frequently interviewed him However, many Afghan journal- MOSCOW — A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off through heavy KHOST, Afghanistan — A Tali- in the past. “I am safe and sound ists he speaks to by telephone main- snowfall in Kazakhstan on Monday morning, beginning a two-day ban spokesman whose provocative and living in a safe place.” tain that his voice has not changed trip to ferry three astronauts to the International Space Station. The and taunting media reports have of- “Those people who were arrest- at least in the past year, suggesting flight opens a new era of U.S. dependence on Russia, and eventu- ten infuriated Afghan and Western ed in Paktika do not belong to us,” he is a single individual, as he — or ally on commercial enterprises, for manned space travel, after the officials firmly denied that he had Mujahid said. “They are just some his persona — has insisted. end of NASA’s space shuttle program in July. been captured Monday. innocent civilians, and the forces of Whether persona or person, Mu- The rocket launch went off smoothly at 10:14 a.m. from the Bai- His arrest had been reported by the puppet government may have jahid is regarded even by some of konur Cosmodrome, carrying an American, Daniel C. Burbank, local officials in the Sar Hawza dis- forced the guy to confess and say he his enemies as an effective commu- and two Russians, Anton N. Shkaplerov and Anatoly A. Ivanishin, trict, in a remote eastern district in is Zabiullah Mujahid.” nicator, reacting quickly to events on the first trip into orbit by astronauts since the final shuttle flight

Paktika province, along the Paki- “As I said, I am safe and on the and using a variety of new media in July. on stan border, where the Taliban have run and always looking after myself.” to get the Taliban’s message out. The Soyuz TMA-22 capsule is scheduled to dock at the space been active. An Afghan govern- The reporter said the voice On Sunday, he sent out in a mass station Wednesday morning, in time to relieve the crew of three ment official there reported that the matched that of the man who over email with what he said was the se- who have been there since June and are due to return to Earth spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, was the past year has been the spokes- curity plan for the major council, or next week. Another crew of three astronauts is set to arrive on W among suspects detained during man for Taliban activities in eastern “loya jirga,” set to begin in Kabul on Dec. 21. joint coalition and Afghan military and northern Afghanistan. Wednesday. While officials denied Still, what might have been a triumphal year for the Russian operations. A second government Afghan officials and those with that the document was genuine, space program — 50 years after Yuri Gagarin became the first hu- o official in Paktika confirmed the the international forces operating if it was a fake, it was an elaborate man to go into space — has been scarred by mishaps and mission account. Both spoke anonymously here have maintained that Mujahid one. Its wealth of details, like private failures, which had raised the possibility that the space station R

because they were not authorized to — one of two Taliban spokesmen phone numbers of intelligence offi- would be left unstaffed for the first time in more than a decade. The l release the information. — is not an individual, but rather a cers, made it appear legitimate. The newly arrived team will inaugurate a new era of commercial space Reached on his usual cellphone persona used by a number of Tali- security plan was also posted on a expeditions to resupply the space station. D number a few hours later, Mujahid ban insurgents adopting the same Taliban website. —David M. Herszenhorn, The New York Times 4

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Colgan said ture in the 566-seat 26-100. that in 7.012, “people just stopped In 7.012, there seemed to be cha- coming [to lecture] after the first os on the first few days of school. few weeks,” and that the problem The Tech is looking for bloggers. Amelia R. Mockett ’15 said that she of seating quickly went away — a arrived to the first day of 7.012 25 sentiment that seemed to be shared minutes early and had to sit near the by many students. Logan J. Mercer back of the lecture hall, and that by ’15 is a student in 18.02, a class with Be a part of The Tech’s the time lecture started people were a similarly vanishing population. newest department. spilling out into the hallways. Na- He said that “the lecture hall is full than E. Colgan ’15 had to sit on the sometimes, so you may not be able stairs on the first day after arriving to sit next to all seven of your friends, minutes before the lecture. Many but there’s always a seat and you can students took advantage of the vid- hear the professor just as well.” E-mail [email protected] eo broadcasts of the lectures on MIT cable, which were also uploaded online, but some students were critical of the overflow room where the lecture was broadcast live. “There was no one there to keep you motivated, but only slides and a video of the professor. Many people just fell asleep,” said Colgan. When asked why so many students were assigned to these classes, Assistant Registrar Ri Romano said that “each instructor or course Arab-Jewish administrator determines how to manage enrollment in a class, in- Peacebuilding Projects cluding the size and number of Can They Make a Difference? sections.” Registrar Mary Callahan also said that “student choice is one of the driving factors in resource al- Harriet Feinberg, Middle East peace location.” She said that the depart- activist, writer, and educator. ments try to accommodate students by adding recitations to maintain the 25-student sections and “focus Presentation followed by panel discus- on individualized student learning,” sion and Q&A with Palestinian alumni and and by offering alternative classes, which in the case of biology in- instructors from Middle East Education cludes 7.013 and 7.014 in the spring. through Technology (MEET). 7.012 Professor Eric S. Lander did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Wednesday November 16th , 7 pm In large and small classes alike, Stata Center 32- 124 bulging enrollment is a direct result of high interest, and each depart- Food will be served ment determines the enrollment with student choice and quality of education in mind. Despite over-enrollment, the issue did not seem to substantially meet.mit.edu affect some students. Barbara K. Schloss ’15, who is taking 11.015J, web.mit.edu/tac/ said that extra students were pushed to sitting around the edge of the room instead of around the table in 10 The Tech Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Rainn Wilson comes to MIT to discuss Bahá’í film Documentary addresses education rights and persecution of Iranian religious group By Isabella Wei a group including an MIT alumnus. Rainn Wilson: I’m a member of jail just for trying to learn chemis- the Bahá’í Institute for Higher Staff Reporter Amnesty International arranged the Bahá’í faith, and the campaign try, for learning basic stuff that you Education? a special group of panelists con- is about raising awareness to people learn here at MIT. Can you imagine RW: It’s not really a place you Last Friday, Nov. 11, the MIT sisting of Wilson (who is Bahá’í), about what’s happening with the going to MIT and you had to check can visit because it doesn’t really community welcomed Rainn Wil- the documentary’s executive pro- Bahá’í Institute of Higher Education. a religion box? And if you were Bud- exist. It’s an underground univer- son, popularly known as Dwight ducer David Hoffman, director Jeff In Iran, Muslim authorities have dhist, or if you were Muslim, then sity. It’s literally in basements and Schrute from NBC’s The Office, as a Kaufman, and Mojdeh Rohani, persecuted Bahá’ís since the faith’s you weren’t allowed to study here or rented halls and it’s very scattered. panelist for Amnesty International’s whose story was highlighted in the inception. One of the many kinds of anywhere? You couldn’t even go to There’s not a building. If there were screening and discussion of the doc- documentary. Fatemeh Haghighat- institutionalized persecution of the community college? That’s how it is a building the Iranian government umentary Education Under Fire. joo — a former member of the Ira- Bahá’ís is [that] they’re not allowed in Iran. They used to just kill Bahá’ís, would just blow it up. It’s in people’s This event was part of the Educa- nian parliament and current faculty to go to university. To go to university throw them in jail and just kill them, garages with textbooks and retired tion Under Fire campaign, the goal member at UMass Boston — was you can only check off Muslim, Chris- but then there was a big backlash teachers, but one of the important of which, according to its website, is also on the panel. She said that until tian, Jewish, or Zoroastrian. Bahá’í against that, so this is a way that things here is graduates of the BIHE to bring attention to the Iranian gov- the Iranian government is secular, is not presented as a choice, and as they have to try and hold the Bahá’ís really need international accredita- ernment’s denial of higher education Bahá’ís will not have legal rights by Bahá’ís, we feel like that would be a down. It’s very similar to the tactics tion, and that’s how students at MIT to Bahá’ís — a monotheistic religious the constitution of Iran. lie against our faith and our integrity used by Nazi Germany before the can get involved: asking MIT to give group drawing its tenets from several The Tech was able to catch a few to make up that we’re members of war. So as a Bahá’í I learned about college credits to people who have global religions. The documentary, minutes with Wilson, and learned another religion. So there have been this campaign and thought this was a graduated from the BIHE so they Education Under Fire, focuses on about his connection to the Bahá’í underground universities set up in wonderful short film and I think that can actually have a diploma. That’s the stories of former students of the faith. Iran for Bahá’ís to get education, and the documentary is an excellent way one of the reasons why I’m here as Bahá’í Institute for Higher Education TheT ech: How did you get in- the government’s been bringing the to get the message across. well — to meet with deans of differ- (BIHE), an underground university volved with the Education Under hammer down — arresting teach- TT: What was it like growing up ent departments. Harvard and BU in Iran for Bahá’ís founded in 1987 by Fire Campaign? ers and students, throwing them in as a Bahá’í, and did you choose to be are already very interested, more in- of the faith or was it a decision made terested than MIT is, so if MIT wants by your family? to catch up with BU and Harvard RW: My family was Bahá’í when then they should get going on that, I was growing up. They became and allow BIHE graduates to enroll Bahá’ís in the late ’60s. During the in graduate programs and give them late ’60s and the early ’70s in the credits. United States there were a lot of TT: Did you ever know anybody, people that were open to spiritual or experience yourself any of the explorations. I mean you even had persecution faced by Bahá’ís in Iran? the Beatles visit the Maharishi in In- RW: I have met many Bahá’ís dia and learning the Sitar, and people whose family members are in jail became Buddhists and Sufis and ex- now, or whose family members have plored different religions other than been killed for doing nothing more their parents’ faith. That’s when my than having children’s classes or parents became Bahá’ís, and I grew having prayer gatherings. Bahá’ís are up a member of the Bahá’í faith. I left very peaceful people; they’re obedi- it for a long time when in college. I ent to their government. Obedience actually went to Tufts for a while, just to government is one of the laws of down the street from here, but about the Bahá’í faith. Bahá’ís can’t and 10 years or so ago I came back to the won’t rebel against the Iranian re- faith after a long spiritual exploration gime. Have I personally been perse- of my own and it really just made cuted? No. Thankfully we have free- sense to me and I believe it has a dom of religion here in the United Andrea Fabre—The Tech lot of answers that can help heal the States. People are pretty open-mind- Rainn Wilson from “The Office” speaks on the “Education under Fire” panel.On Nov. 11, Amnesty In- world. ed of people with different beliefs and ternational brought Wilson to MIT to talk about the persecution faced by members of the Bahá’í faith in Iran. TT: Have you ever visited that’s a great thing. Brain and Cognitive Sciences Society General Body Meeting

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Email [email protected] if you want to run for a position or have questions. Tuesday, November 15, 2011 The Tech 11 Hiding or using your name online, and who decides By Somini Sengupta out here and give me back my envisions a system in which you authentic identity, or real names. the Google executive responsible The New York Times name!” use a sort of digital passport, bear- And it is becoming a de facto pass- for the social network, said at a con- The Twitterverse took up his ing your real name and issued by a port vendor of sorts, allowing its us- ference last month that he wanted SAN FRANCISCO — The writ- cause. Within two hours, Rushdie company like Facebook, to travel ers to sign into 7 million other sites to make sure its “atmosphere” re- er Salman Rushdie hit Twitter on gleefully declared victory: “Face- across the Internet. Another side and applications with their Face- mained comfortable even with peo- Monday morning with a litany of book has buckled! I’m Salman believes in the right to don different book user names and passwords. ple using fake names. “It’s compli- exasperated posts. Facebook, he Rushdie again. I feel SO much bet- hats — and sometimes, masks — so Google’s social network, cated to get this right,” he said. wrote, had deactivated his account, ter. An identity crisis at my age is no you can consume and express what Google+, which opened to all com- Twitter, by sharp contrast, fol- demanded proof of identity and fun.” you want, without fear of offline ers in September, likewise wants lows a laissez-faire approach, al- then turned him into Ahmed Rush- Rushdie’s predicament points to repercussions. the real names its users are known lowing the use of pseudonyms by die, which is how he is identified on one of the trickiest notions about life The argument over pseudonyms by offline, and it has frozen the -ac people as diverse as WikiLeaks his passport. He never used his first in the digital age: Are you who you — known online as the “nym wars” counts of some perceived offenders. supporters using the name @Fake- name, Ahmed, he pointed out; the say you are online? Whose business — goes to the heart of how the In- But Google has indicated more SarahPalin, among many others. It world knows him as Salman. is it — and what for? ternet might be organized in the fu- recently that it will eventually allow does consider deceitful imperson- Would Facebook have turned J. As the Internet becomes the ture. Major Internet companies like some use of aliases. Vic Gundotra, ation to be grounds for suspension. Edgar Hoover into John Hoover, he place for all kinds of transactions, Google, Facebook and Twitter have scoffed, or F. Scott Fitzgerald into from buying shoes to overthrowing a valuable stake in this debate — Francis Fitzgerald? despots, an increasingly vital de- and, in some cases, vastly different “Where are you hiding, Mark?” bate is emerging over how people corporate philosophies on the issue Choose to he demanded of Mark Zuckerberg, represent and reveal themselves that signal their own ambitions. Facebook’s chief executive. “Come on the websites they visit. One side Facebook insists on what it calls

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Events Nov. 15 – Nov. 21 Tuesday (2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.) Business Etiquette — Manners, Meals, AEPhilanthropy Presents: and Mastering business interactions — 5-217 Wednesday (5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.) Mimi Ito: “Fandom Unbound: Otaku Cul- ture in a Connected World” — E14-633 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.) Jay Keyser discusses Mens et Mania: The MIT Nobody Knows — 14N-118 Thursday (5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.) Legatum Lecture: Chocolate Symposium with Kopali Organics — E62-233 (7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.) We Still Live Here — Film Screening — 1-190 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.) Genome Engineering and the Construction of New Genetic Codes — NE20 (Broad Institute Auditorium) Friday (8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.) Roadkill Buffet’s improv comedy show — 6-120 (8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.) Chorallaries Fall Concert — 10-250 (8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.) MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble — W16 AEPhi Spaghetti (8:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.) MIT Musical Theatre Guild Presents: Chidlren of Eden — W20 La Sala de Puerto Rico Saturday (7:00 p.m., 10:00 p.m.) Captain America: The First Avenger — 26- 100 Dinner (2:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.) MIT-China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (MIT-CHIEF) — 32-123 th (8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.) MIT Chamber Chorus, William Cutter, Mu- Thursday, November 17 7:30pm-9:30pm sic Director — W16 Kresge Auditorium Lobdell Dining Hall, 2nd Floor Student Center Sunday Featuring the MIT/Wellesley Toons at 8:30pm! (2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.) MIT Chamber Chorus, William Cutter, Music Director — W16 Kresge Auditorium th th Monday Tickets on sale in Lobby 10 from Monday 14 -Thursday 17 and at the door the evening of the event ($6 Student, $8 Other). (4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.) The Returns to Hospital Spending: Evi- dence from Ambulance Assignment — E51-151 All proceeds go to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.) MTA Composer Forum features John and Sharsheret. Harbison — 14E-109 Send your campus events to [email protected]. 12 The Tech Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Jaswanth madhavan—The Tech Mark Fayngersh—The Tech John Solder, regional finalist at the Siemens Competition, explains his Kresge was open for polling on Tuesday. Sloan graduate student Leland Cheung was work on modifying neurons to be activated by light. The Siemens Regional re-elected to the Cambridge City Council with the greatest number of first-place votes. competitions took place in Johnson on Friday and Saturday.

Exceptional Egg Donor Needed Orientation, from Page 1 recruitment. … it might be in the Still, the committee empha- interest of students to have in Jan- sized that no decisions have been its concerns regarding the lack uary compared to right away upon Loving couple in search of attractive, well-rounded/highly made and that they will continue of time students have to make a arrival.” to solicit input. “We have not accomplished woman under 28 to help them become parents. decision about joining a FSILG. Students at the meeting coun- reached any point of conclusion,” According to John M. Essigmann tered that January weather could said Smith. Compensation exceeding $15,000 for the right donor & travel PhD ’76, housemaster of Sim- hinder rush activities, and that The next public forum will be expenses paid. mons Hall and committee mem- first-term freshmen would miss held on Monday, Nov. 21, at 7 p.m. ber, “The classic question is, when out on support systems they could in 10-250. is the right time to have rush and find among FSILGs. —Naina Mehta Contact Dawn@ [email protected] or 858-391-8393 for more info on process & eligibility.

Professor emeritus Gobind Khorana, Nobel Prize winner, dies at 89 H. Gobind Khorana, MIT’s Alfred P. the British Columbia Research Council Sloan Professor of Biology and Chem- in 1952. Khorana stayed in Vancouver istry emeritus, died of natural causes in for eight years, continuing his pioneer- Concord, Mass., Wednesday morning. ing genetics research while raising two He was 89. daughters, Julia Elizabeth and Emily A winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Anne, and a son, Dave Roy. physiology or medicine, Khorana de- In 1960, he went to the University voted much of his scientific career to of Wisconsin at Madison, where he be- unraveling the genetic code and the came co-director of the Institute for mechanisms by which nucleic acids Enzyme Research. It was at Wisconsin give rise to proteins. “Gobind was a bril- that Khorana and colleagues worked liant, path-breaking scientist, a wise and out the mechanisms by which RNA considerate colleague, and a dear friend codes for the synthesis of proteins, lead- to many of us at MIT,” said Chris Kaiser, ing to the Nobel Prize in 1968, which professor of biology and head of the Khorana shared with Robert Holley of Department of Biology, in an email an- Cornell University and Marshall Niren- nouncing the news to the department’s berg of the National Institutes of Health. faculty. Khorana was among the pioneers of the Born in India in 1922, in a small vil- now-familiar series of three-nucleotide lage called Raipur in the region of Pun- codons that code for amino acids. jab that is now part of Pakistan, Khorana Shortly after, Khorana joined MIT was the youngest in a Hindu family of in 1970, he — along with colleagues — one daughter and four sons. In an auto- announced the synthesis of two differ- biographical note written upon winning ent genes crucial to protein building. the Nobel Prize, Khorana wrote: “Al- In a major breakthrough in 1976, they though poor, my father was dedicated completed the synthesis of the first fully to educating his children and we were functional man-made gene in a living practically the only literate family in the cell. village inhabited by about 100 people.” He retired from the MIT faculty in Khorana enrolled in Punjab Univer- 2 0 0 7. sity, where he received his bachelor’s Khorana also took pride in mentor- degree in 1943 and master’s in 1945, ing younger scientists. “Even while do- both in chemistry and biochemistry. ing all this research, he was always really Upon graduating, he received a fellow- interested in education, in students and ship from the Indian government to young people,” says his daughter, Julia E. study at the University of Liverpool in Khorana ’75. “After he retired, students the U.K., where he received his PhD in would come to visit and he loved to talk 1948. to them about the work they were doing. He did postdoctoral work at Switzer- He was very loyal to them, and they were land’s Federal Institute of Technology, very loyal to him, too.” where he met his wife, the late Esther Rajbhandary says he will remember Elizabeth Sibler. Feeling lost in a new Khorana for his drive and focus, but country, Khorana later wrote: “Esther also his humility. “As good as he was, brought a consistent sense of purpose he was one of the most modest people I in my life at a time when, after six years’ have known,” he says. “What he accom- absence from the country of my birth, I plished in his life, coming from where felt out of place everywhere and at home he did, is truly incredible.” nowhere.” Khorana is survived by his daughter, After returning to the U.K. for anoth- Julia, and son, Dave. A memorial service er postdoc position in Cambridge, Kho- is being planned. rana took a job in Vancouver, Canada, at —MIT News Office Tuesday, November 15, 2011 The Tech 13 14 The Tech Tuesday, November 15, 2011

UA changes, from Page 1 cation among the various segments dorm). By default, an undergradu- representatives, and amend Coun- tories. Dormitories can decide for of the MIT community.” ate’s vote would count towards the cil bylaws, among other things. themselves whether to contribute will have three additional repre- • Council representatives are constituency where he or she of- • The UA president may call funds. Dormitory Committees will sentatives beyond their president, tasked with “communicating the ficially lives (in the case of FSILG emergency meetings of the Coun- be allowed more freedom and flex- and Panhel will have two. business of the UA” to their respec- members who live in a dormitory), cil. Emergency meetings can also ibility than other UA committees. Here’s a rundown of some of tive constituencies. but undergraduates can request to be called by a majority of the vot- • Like now, specific policy the biggest changes the UA will see • Policy positions will be ap- change their official constituency. ing Council representatives or by work will be completed by stand- if these drafts are approved: proved via “consensus of the coun- • If an undergraduate is present signed petition of five percent of ing UA committees manned by • The primary body of the UA cil.” Policy positions “serve as the during a population vote, he or she undergraduates. undergraduates. The UA will also will be a 21-member Council, with definitive undergraduate opinion may cast a single vote of his or her • Similar to the current system, coordinate the appointment of un- membership as defined above. The on a given issue.” own, with or against however their the UA will have five principal of- dergraduate representatives to In- UA president will chair the council, • Population votes by the Coun- representative votes. Undergradu- ficers: president, vice president, stitute Committees, which address but can only vote if his or her vote cil will determine the allocation ates can also submit votes prior to chief of staff, treasurer, and secre- policy on an MIT-wide level. would change the outcome. The UA of UA funds and amendments to a Council meeting in writing or by tary (the current positions of Sen- The full text of UA bylaw and vice president, chief of staff, treasur- the constitution. Under a popula- email. ate speaker and Senate vice-chair constitution drafts can be found er, secretary, UA committee chairs, tion voting scheme, each repre- • Still other decisions will be will be eliminated). at http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N52/ and assistant vice presidents will be sentative will be able to cast one made by “person votes,” in which • Dormitory Affairs and Dormi- uadrafts/ua_council_bylaws_ nonvoting members of the Council. vote per undergraduate that he each representative on the coun- tory Funding Committees will be draft.pdf and http://tech.mit.edu/ The Council “shall strive to protect or she represents (e.g., the Baker cil casts a single vote. Person votes responsible for reviewing dormi- V131/N52/uadrafts/ua_constitu- the rights of students and serve to president would cast about 320 will be held to approve new offi- tory-specific issues and distribut- tion_draft.pdf, respectively. foster cooperation and communi- votes, one for each student in the cers, approve Institute Committee ing funds contributed by dormi- —Ethan A. Solomon

Camera in Lobby 5, intended to catch vandals Legatum Lecture Continuing its use of surveillance to combat crime and mischief, MIT’s Security Office has installed a camera in the lobby of Building 5, overlooking the wheelchair lift. ChoColate SympoSium: According to Thomas W. Komola, who manages the Security and Emergency with kopali organiCS Management, vandals had been tampering with the handicapped access lift that gives SPEAKERS: access between the street level and the first floor level. Zak Zaidman This is the third new campus camera Founder & CEO, Kopali Organics that The Tech has noticed this year, though other recently added cameras have been much more general-purpose and less tar- Jacqui Holmes geted — two cameras were added atop Lead Investor & President, Kopali Organics Building 54 this summer, one of which can be pointed by remote control, overlooking the East Campus dormitory and the “Dot”; Thursday, November 17 at 5 pm the other is a fixed camera, looking at the Sloan School, E62-233 North Court. Komola has told The Tech in the past FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC that footage from these cameras may only be used with the authorization of Chief of Police John DiFava. CHOCOLATE TASTING But Komola and DiFava have not yet responded to repeated inquiries in the past TO FOLLOW two months asking how often the footage has been used, and whether the approval process is being followed. This lecture is being hosted with the Food & Agriculture Club at MIT, MIT —John A. Hawkinson Sloan Net Impact, SEID and the MIT Laboratory for Chocolate Science. John A. Hawkinson—The Tech http://legatum.mit.edu/lectures

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New Panhel Exec board Cambridge elects new City Council Municipal elections in Cambridge wrapped up last week, with only one nonin- cumbent councillor winning a seat on Cambridge City Council. Minka Y. vanBeuze- takes office in December kom won over Sam Seidel, but all eight other councillors will return next year. The new Council officially takes office on Jan. 2, 2012. Panhel president may sit on new UA council Leland Cheung G, a first-time incumbent, took the greatest number of first-place votes, 2017 — more than 300 over the candidate with the second-greatest number of Panhel, from Page 1 Sikka added, “I’ll be ac- replace the current UA Senate. first place votes, Timothy J. Toomey. tively looking for opportuni- It is still unclear if and Cambridge uses a proportional representation voting system in which voters rank website and increased shar- ties for the Panhellenic com- when the new UA structure candidates in order of preference. Once a candidate gets a certain number of first- ing of information among so- munity to do something good will be implemented, but UA place votes, they earn a seat and the remainder of their votes go to whoever the voter rorities, specifically regarding [for the rest of campus].” President Allan E. Miramonti ranked as second. When the candidate a voter ranked second reaches that threshold, events and scholarships. She Sikka may take office ’13 is shooting for an IAP gov- votes go to the third-ranked candidate, and so on. also wants to continue to en- amidst major changes to ernment transition. The UA —Ethan A. Solomon sure smooth sorority recruit- the Undergraduate Associa- has said that response to the ment periods and “inspire tion. The UA published draft proposed changes is gener- Panhellenic spirit.” documents outlining an en- ally positive, in the UA itself But Sikka also has broader tirely new government over and among other interested Leland Cheung G goals for MIT’s sororities. “I the weekend after months of campus stakeholders. want to do something that committee work. Under the Under the new govern- Timothy J. Toomey Jr. hasn’t been done before and new UA structure, the Panhel ment, Sikka would be the first leave a positive mark on the president — along with two Panhel president to have a David P. Maher community,” she said. “I want representatives — will repre- substantially more powerful to see what ways I can indi- sent sorority members on a — and potentially more time- Henrietta Davis Winners of the 2011 Cambridge vidually contribute.” UA Council. The Council will consuming — role. Sitting on E. Denise Simmons City Council the UA Council, Sikka and the elections Panhel representatives will be Majorie C. Decker President: able to cast votes towards the Denzil Sikka (Alpha Phi ’13) allocation of UA funds and on Craig A. Kelly constitutional amendments, Executive Vice President: according to the UA’s draft Minka Y. vanBeuzekom Christine S. Lai (Alpha Chi Omega ’13) constitution. Kenneth E. Reeves Vice President of Recruitment: “If that is what my position Lauren M. Allen (Kappa Alpha theta ’13) will entail, then I will try to do Larry W. Ward the best that I can,” said Sikka. Vice President of Recruitment Programming: “I want to be a good represen- Sam Seidel Lia R. DiGiovanna (Alpha Chi Omega ’13) tative and I will do the best I Vice President of Programming: can in my position.” Matthew P. Nelson Olivia J. Papa (Alpha Phi ’14) The president-elect added that she “has faith” that Pan- Charles J. Marquardt Vice President of Public Relations: hel’s representation on the omas Stohlman Jr. ’76 Katherine L. Chasins (Sigma Kappa ’14) committee responsible for UA restructuring was sufficient to James M. Williamson Vice President of Finance and Administration: warrant the increased powers Philine F. Huizing (Sigma Kappa ’14) the Panhel president would Gary W. Mello hold. Jamake Pascual

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