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Volume 126, Number 62 MIT’s The Weather Today: Sunny, blustery, 19°F (-7°C) Oldest and Largest Tonight: Clear and cold, 8°F (-13°C) Tomorrow: Clouds, breezy, 32°F (0°C) Newspaper Details, Page 2 Volume 126, Number 62 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Wednesday, January 17, 2007 MIT Cable Expands, Au Bon Pain Launched in Zesiger; 14 Channels Added Construction For Subway Begins By MeiHsin Cheng Networks Come as Surprise to Students STAFF REPORTER A new Au Bon Pain location By Nick Semenkovich tion service, said Randall W. Win- opened at the Zesiger Sports and Fit- MIT Cable expanded to include chester, team leader of MIT Cable ness Center last Thursday, Jan. 18. 14 new basic cable channels, despite Television. Subway, a popular sandwich vendor, previous announcements that only “We realized in November that is set to open in the Student Center in three channels would be added. The the subscription service was no lon- September; renovations have begun new channels were added without re- ger viable,” Winchester said. “In at Lobdell Food Court on the second moving C-Span 2, Bloomberg Tele- light of a proposed rate increase for floor, according to Director of Cam- vision, or MIT Weather When You this year, we chose to end the sub- pus Dining Richard D. Berlin III. Want It, which were originally slated scription service.” Plans for both the Subway and to be replaced. The canceled service opened up Au Bon Pain were first announced in The changes will be reflected in channels 48–61, bringing in the long May 2006. an additional $1.50 per month cost to awaited Sci-Fi Channel and Comedy “The initial reaction seems to be housing, effective next term, accord- Central, among others. very good,” Berlin said of the Au Bon ing to Undergraduate Association Cable-storm had strongly advo- Pain. The Zesiger Center has been Vice President Ruth Miller ’07 (also cated for changes to MIT Cable. The home to two other food vendors in a Tech Campus Life columnist). group formed in Spring 2006 and is the past, according to Berlin, though The expansion was made pos- comprised of the Undergraduate As- those two “didn’t work out.” Judging sible with the termination of MIT’s sociation, Graduate Student Council, from the business that Au Bon Pain subscription TV service. “We had a Dormitory Council, MIT Cable Tele- received on Thursday and Friday, Ber- block of channels open up,” Miller vision, and Housing. lin said, it is getting “twice as much said ’07. “We were originally going “It’s just a remarkable project business as the other ones did.” to replace three channels, but we got bringing together a lot of people Au Bon Pain is still experimenting extra space from canceling the sub- from student government and the with its hours of operation, accord- scription TV service.” (See page 13 administration,” Winchester said. “I ing to Berlin. “If there’s demand, they for a full listing for MIT’s new basic don’t think I’ve ever seen a group will be open as long as the [Zesiger] cable channels.) of students and administrators work Center allows,” Berlin said. Currently, MIT’s canceled subscription ser- together so closely and act so quick- Au Bon Pain is open from 8 a.m. to vice offered basic digital cable for ly.” 7 p.m. The vendor was also open last $14 per month, with optional Pay- Following a survey in September weekend, but the weekend schedule Per-View Events and premium chan- of last year, Cable-storm selected has not yet been worked out. Dining nels such as HBO for additional fees. Comedy Central, the Sci-Fi Chan- Marketing Specialist Anne W. Wilson Not counting the MIT Cable office, nel, and the Discovery Channel to said that the schedule will probably 39 people were subscribed to the ba- replace three existing channels, C- change once the spring term starts. sic package, with 11 subscribed to Span 2, Bloomberg Television, and Having Au Bon Pain, which was HBO. MIT Weather When You Want It. interested in having a location on the Given the small numbers and an “The 14 new channels come with MIT campus, was described by Ber- DAVID HE increase in fees for 2007, it made Au Bon Pain Store Manager Biodun Akande serves Leif G. Francel ’10 little sense to continue the subscrip- Cable, Page 13 Dining, Page 10 at the chain’s new location inside the Zesiger Center. Sleepless Puzzle-Solvers Hunt For Coin Final Panhel Exec Board Dr. Awkward Team Wins Mephistophelean Competition, Finishes Early Sunday Morning By JiHye Kim held during the Independent Activi- Awkward team recovered the coin on Position Filled, Goals For STAFF REPORTER ties Period, it attracts a wide range Sunday, Jan. 14 at 2:14 a.m. It is the “Nur einzelne Zahlen erlaubt!” of people including current MIT team’s first win since 2000, according This statement, which translates students, alums, and national puzzle to Eric Berlin, one of approximately into the full name of Sudoku in Ger- champions, even those who are not a 45 members of the winning team. Upcoming Year Laid Out man, was part of MIT. The puzzle that secured the win By Nick Bushak program for each sorority, as a “way the title of The ultimate goal of the hunt is to for Dr. Awkward was a puzzle that STAFF REPORTER of getting professors involved and Feature one of over be the first team to recover the famous involved manipulating the answers The Panhellenic Association has understanding what chapters do for 100 mind-boggling puzzles that Mystery Hunt coin, which typically from other puzzles in the law and selected Angela P. Wu ’08 as the vice campus.” were used in this past weekend’s cannot be achieved until every puzzle president of recruitment for the com- Larsson also claims that “keeping annual MIT Mystery Hunt. Usually has been solved. This year, the Dr. Mystery Hunt, Page 9 ing year, filling the last Panhel Execu- up a good relationship” with the Inter- tive Board position after it was left fraternity Council is important for the open in the original vote in November. coming year, especially with the move The biggest challenge facing the in- to fall recruitment. coming executive board is the move Teejana Beenessreesingh ’08, the to fall recruitment scheduled to take incoming executive vice president, place this year. Recruitment has taken also has a set of goals for the incoming place in the spring since 2002. executive board, including a greater The new Panhel executive board outreach of Panhel members beyond will assume duty in early February. the Boston community. “I feel that As the new president of Panhel, Panhel, being the biggest women’s Annika S. Larsson ’08 says that her organization on campus can help to goals for the coming year include make a huge impact on the interna- continuing improvement of relation- tional level also,” said Beenessreesi- ships between sororities and both ngh. alumni and faculty. She has suggested instituting a faculty-member advising Panhel, Page 10 William H. Orme-Johnson MIT NEWS OFFICE MIT Professor Emeritus of Chemistry William H. Orme-Johnson, heralded for his four decades of contributions in the field of inorganic FRED GAY—THE TECH biochemistry, died Jan. 1 after a long illness. He was 68. Michael Fauntleroy Stopheles (Daniel J. Katz ’03) shows off the 2007 Mystery Hunt coin in Hunt HQ on “Bill (called by all, O.J.) was a giant in the field of bioinorganic Sunday. chemistry,” said JoAnne Stubbe, Novartis Professor of Chemistry and professor of biology. “Contributions that his lab made in the mid ’70s set the stage for many of the experiments carried out by the bio-inorganic community today.” NEWS World & Nation. 2 A native of El Paso, Texas, Orme-Johnson received his BS and PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. He was a member of the biochem- Former President Paul E. Gray Remem- Opinion . 4 istry faculty at the University of Wisconsin at Madison for 15 years. bers Early Years at MIT . .Page 10 Arts . 5 In 1980, Orme-Johnson joined the MIT faculty in the then-relatively One Broadway Re-opened . .Page 13 Comics / Fun Pages . 6 new research area of biological chemistry; he was an MIT professor of chemistry for the next 18 years. Much lauded for his research, Orme- McCormick Tower Flooded . .Page 13 Sports . 16 Orme-Johnson, Page 10 Page 2 THE TECH January 17, 2007 WORLD & NATION UN Says Aids Effort UN Reports That Iraq Death For Children Falls Far Short By Lawrence K. Altman THE NEW YORK TIMES Toll Topped 34,000 in 2006 Some countries are making progress in treating children with AIDS and preventing others from becoming infected, but the overall global By Sabrina Tavernise through the Interior and Health min- Shiites, virtually unheard of in the response is “tragically insufficient,” UNICEF said Tuesday. THE NEW YORK TIMES istries, he said it did not have a sys- early years of the war, has become “Children affected by AIDS are now more visible and are taken BAGHDAD tem in place for compiling a compre- the all-consuming driver of the con- more seriously in global, regional and national forums where they had The United Nations reported on hensive figure. flict here. received little consideration before,” the UN children’s agency said in Tuesday that more than 34,000 Iraqis Despite the criticism from the Military commanders have ac- a report. Better testing to find children with HIV, the AIDS virus, and were killed in violence last year, a Iraqi government, the United Na- knowledged that they underestimat- simpler formulations of the antiretroviral drugs that combat the infec- figure that represents the first com- tions said it used all official sources, ed the seriousness of the sectarian tion have increased the number of children under treatment, UNICEF prehensive annual count of civilian most of which relied on counts of killings, which took off across the said.
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