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Volume 127, Number 22 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Tuesday, May 1, 2007 DormCon Selects Incoming Officers By Valery K. Brobbey Associate News Editor A small crowd of about 25 stu- dents attended the Dormitory Council elections meeting that selected Sarah C. Hopp ’08 and James T. Albrecht ’08 as president and executive vice president, respectively. The meeting was held last night at the East Campus Talbot lounge. Six other DormCon positions were also selected during the meeting (see the table on page 14 for final results). Bexley Hall and Next House were not represented at the elections. “I have every confidence [the new officers] will carry DormCon through the next year with energy and enthu- siasm,” outgoing DormCon President David A. Nedzel ’07 wrote in an e- mail yesterday. “I’d like to continue to promote a good relationship between admin- istrators and [dormitory] residents,” said Hopp. Hopp plans to oversee
Brian Hemond—The Tech conversation between dormitory resi- The Ying Yang Twins, Eric “Kaine” Jackson and D’Angelo “D-Roc” Holmes, perform during the Spring Weekend concert in Johnson dents and the Housing office, as well Athletic Center on Friday, April 27. See page 9 for more photos. as to make sure “the new dorm [the current Ashdown House] gets off to a good start.” Hopp also plans to keep DormCon involved in discussing al- cohol-related issues concerning Ori- Soil From Mars May Be Tested For Signs of Life entation and Residence Exploration. By Gareth Cook Of course, it’s impossible to study nomes,” will be a part of a Mars as it is on earth. The current Ashdown House is sched- The Boston Globe the genetics of something that hasn’t lander mission in the next decade. Instead, inspired by evidence that uled to be converted to an undergradu- Since the completion of the hu- been found. But then that, Ruvkun The project represents a sharp microbes can shuttle between plan- ate dormitory after the new Ashdown man genome project, biologists have says, is the whole idea. break from the reigning philosophy ets aboard meteors, Ruvkun argues house is completed in summer 2008. been fanning out to study the genet- With preliminary funding from of life detection: avoiding an earth- it is most likely that any life on Mars No student group liaison was se- ics of virtually every imaginable life NASA, Ruvkun is working on a sen- centric view of what life might look would be related to life on Earth and lected this year, said Hopp, “to allow form: armadillo, potato, slime mold, sor designed to test the soil of Mars like. In the 1970s, for example, the thus have roughly similar DNA. The the [incoming DormCon] president to various fungi, and many, many oth- for DNA. Ruvkun hopes that the Viking lander conducted tests for project is an example of jackpot sci- decide whether they would personally ers. To this list, Harvard biologist sensor his team is working on, the signs of chemical changes that might ence — long odds, huge potential want to attend [UA] Senate, or assign a Gary Ruvkun would like to add ex- first part of a project he has dubbed be associated with life, without as- traterrestrial life. the “Search for Extraterrestrial Ge- suming life there would be exactly Mars, Page 10 Dormcon, Page 14 Biotech Outfits Scramble To Reduce Ethanol Costs By Stephen Heuser were located near the energy supply. The Boston Globe You had oil companies in Houston, If the car of the future runs on old coal companies where they get the cornstalks and scraps of sugarcane, coal. I think what we’re going to see you might be able to thank a group of now is almost a new type of com- executives sitting eight stories above pany emerge – an energy innovation the Charles River. company,” says Jeff Andrews, a ven- That’s where energy-industry vet- ture capitalist with Atlas Venture of eran Carlos A. Riva ’75 presides over Waltham, which invests in several Celunol Corp., one of a host of new “cleantech” firms. companies racing to turn farm waste Recently, privately held Celunol into potent, clean-burning ethanol. said it would merge with Diversa It might seem unlikely that the fuel Corp., a public California firm, creat- industry and big agriculture, two go- ing a 240-person national company. liaths of the red-state American econ- Diversa will buy Celunol for $115 omy, would intersect at a conference million in stock, but the resulting table overlooking CambridgeSide Gal- company will be run by Celunol’s ex- leria. But increasingly, energy analysts ecutives in Cambridge. say, the next major shift in American Several competitors, including energy is likely to come from high- East Cambridge neighbor Mascoma tech science being developed in places Corp., are jostling with Celunol to be christina S. kang—the tech like Cambridge. Oliver C. Venn ’07 explains his project to a judge at the IDEAS Competition Judging and Project “Historically, energy companies Ethanol, Page 12 Displays in the Bush Room yesterday. The awards ceremony is on May 2 at 7:30 p.m. in room 32- 123 and is open to the general public. In Short ¶ Pre-registration for Fall 2007 be- ¶ The MIT Sloan Sales Confer- gins today. 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Page The Tech May 1, 2007 World & Nation Virginia Closes Loophole That Five Muslims Convicted For Armed College Gunman By Ian Urbina The New York Times WASHINGTON Planning 2005 Bomb Attack Gov. Timothy M. Kaine of Virginia closed a loophole Monday in the state’s gun laws that allowed a mentally disturbed Virginia Tech By Jane Perlez the opposition Conservative Party Pakistan and the threat theyposed to student to buy the guns used in a shooting rampage this month that left and Elaine Sciolino and survivors and relatives of the Britain. But he made no mention of 33 dead at the university. The New York Times victims of the transit attack de- the court record showing links be- The governor issued an executive order intended to prohibit the sale LONDON manded an investigation into why tween the two groups. of guns to anyone found to be dangerous and forced to undergo invol- A jury found five British Mus- the authorities did not act on their For its part, MI5, the domestic untary mental health treatment. Under the order, their names would be lim men guilty on Monday of plan- surveillance. intelligence agency, a famously se- included a database of people banned from buying guns. ning fertilizer-bomb attacks around “Whether deliberately or not, the cretive organization, went public to In December 2005, a Virginia judge directed Seung-Hui Cho, the London, ending a yearlong trial that government have not told the Brit- defend itself, saying on its Web site gunman in the April 16 massacre, to undergo outpatient treatment. But linked the plotters with two of the ish public the whole truth about the on Monday that it had never been because Cho was treated as an outpatient and was not committed to a four men who blew themselves up circumstances and mistakes leading “complacent” in investigating the mental health hospital, Virginia did not send his name to the National on London’s transit system in July up to the July 7 attacks,” said Da- 2005 transit attacks. Instant Criminal Background Check System. 2005. vid Davis, the spokesman for the Last week, the head of MI5, Only 22 states submit any mental health records to the federal da- According to the evidence, re- Conservative Party on counterter- Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, tabase. Federal gun laws depend on the states for enforcement, and the vealed during the trial but made rorism. retired and was replaced by Jona- failure of Virginia to flag Cho has raised growing questions about the public for the first time, authorities The connection between the two than Evans, a Qaida specialist. The adequacy of background checks to scrutinize potential gun buyers. had closely monitored meetings in groups, both in Britain and in Paki- agency said the change was unre- 2004 between members of the two stan, pointed to a level of organiza- lated to the revelations from the plots but never fully investigated tion among terrorist cells here that investigation, which the authorities Bush Steps up Effort to Persuade the men who pulled off the transit initially had been seen as “home- named Operation Crevice. attacks, which killed 56 people 18 grown” and independent. That law enforcement authorities Putin on Missile Defense Plan months later. To ensure a fair trial, The two 2005 suicide bombers, knew of a connection between the By Sheryl Gay Stolberg the judge had ordered the news like four of the five men convicted two groups is especially embarrass- The New York Times WASHINGTON media not to make the information on Monday, were British citizens of ing because three days after the July President Bush, under pressure from allies in Europe to be more public until after the verdict. Pakistani origin. At least some of 2005 attacks, Charles Clarke, then forthcoming about his plans for basing missile interceptors in the re- The revelation turned a victory the men in both plots were trained the home secretary, said the attack gion, said Monday that he was intensifying his efforts to persuade Rus- for British authorities into a day of at military camps in Pakistan that “simply came out of the blue.” sia to cooperate with the United States on the initiative “so that they hand-wringing and recriminations were suspected of connections to al- The order of the judge, Sir Mi- don’t see us as an antagonistic force, but see us as a friendly force.” over whether they had missed an Qaida operatives. chael Astill, keeping the links be- Bush said he was trying to convince President Vladimir V. Putin opportunity to prevent the deadli- Britain’s senior counterterrorism tween the groups secret, was lifted of Russia that cooperation was “in Russia’s security interests,” even est terrorist attack in the country’s police officer, Peter Clarke, said that on Monday, as the jury delivered though Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates was unable to win Putin’s history. the investigation showed the links the verdicts after 27 days of delib- support during a trip to Moscow last week. Within an hour of the verdict, that these men had with al-Qaida in erations. The president spoke in the Rose Garden after a meeting with lead- ers of the European Union that produced an agreement for the United States and Europe to work together to reduce pollution, which scien- tists say leads to climate change. But the agreement did not address Senior Officer Testifies Against the enormous differences that remain between the United States and Europe over these greenhouse gas emissions, and what role govern- ments should play in reducing them. Previous Military Jailer in Iraq By Damien Cave during the investigation contained both felonies, according to Hernando Justices Back Police in Chase Case The New York Times classified material, 37 adult porno- County, Fla., court records. By Linda Greenhouse BAGHDAD, Iraq graphic videos, 122 adult porno- A state prosecutor accused Steele, The New York Times WASHINGTON A senior commander in the graphic images and an e-mail mes- a former Hernando County sheriff’s The police did not violate a speeding driver’s rights by ramming his American military’s main detention sage to an undisclosed person that deputy, of physically and verbally car and causing an accident that left him permanently paralyzed, the center here testified Monday at a mil- “appeared to be adulterous in na- abusing his 11-year-old stepson for Supreme Court ruled on Monday by a vote of 8-1. itary hearing that his predecessor, Lt. ture.” A second laptop, a Dell, con- homework errors, and of padlock- Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia said that despite Col. William H. Steele, gave com- tained the text of a secret document, ing the family’s refrigerator and food the fact that the 19-year-old driver was suspected of nothing more than puter programs and other gifts to the the investigator said. cabinets to prevent the boy from eat- speeding, the decision to force him off the road was reasonable in light daughter of a high-value detainee. The testimony once again cast the ing, according to court records. The of the need to protect pedestrians and other drivers from “a Holly- The commander, Lt. Col. Quentin ethical conduct of American jailers charges were dropped when Steele, wood-style car chase of the most frightening sort.” Crank, whose military police unit took in Iraq in an unfavorable light, even an Army reservist at the time, agreed The justices took the unusual step — a first for the court — of post- over for Steele’s at Camp Cropper in as the military sets in motion plans to give up custody of the boy. ing on the court’s Web site the 15-minute video of the chase, recorded October 2006, said the gifts, which to expand its detention facilities to Steele has been accused of nine by a camera mounted on the squad car’s dashboard. (The address is would be a breach of military law and make room for the rapidly growing violations of military law, including http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/video/scott-v-harris.rmvb ) Iraqi cultural norms, were given after ranks of prisoners captured during “aiding the enemy,” related to the Scalia said the videotape demonstrated the danger posed by the ef- Steele had moved to another assign- the new security plan. allegation that he passed an unmoni- forts of the driver, Victor Harris, to elude the police on a narrow and ment in Iraq. The detainee was said to The hearing was convened to weigh tored cell phone to detainees. He is winding Georgia road. Scalia added that the federal appeals court in be outraged by the personal contact the evidence against Steele, 51, a mar- also accused of mishandling clas- Atlanta, which ruled that Harris was entitled to a jury trial on his con- with his daughter, telling American ried reservist from Prince George, sified information and government stitutional claims against the sheriff’s deputy who forced him off the officials that Steele was trying to sup- Va., who has had prior scrapes with funds, fraternizing with the daughter road, should have viewed the tape with more care rather than accept plant his role as father. the law. In November 1993, he was of a detainee, engaging in an inap- Harris’ version of how the chase proceeded. A computer forensics expert tes- charged with aggravated child abuse propriate relationship with an inter- tified that an IBM laptop recovered and resisting an officer with violence, preter and possessing pornography. 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Sunni Ministers Threaten to Quit Arctic Sea Ice Melting Faster, A Study Finds Iraqi Government in Frustration By Andrew C. Revkin The New York Times By Alissa J. Rubin House expressed concern about a making it the highest monthly death Climate scientists may have significantly underestimated the pow- The New York Times report in The Washington Post that toll for all allied forces in more than er of global warming from human-generated heat-trapping gases to BAGHDAD, Iraq aides to Prime Minister Nouri Ka- two years. Military reporting typical- shrink the cap of sea ice floating on the Arctic Ocean, according to a The largest bloc of Sunni Arabs mal al-Maliki were involved in the ly lags at least 24 hours, so the final new study of polar trends. in the Iraqi parliament threatened arrests or removal of at least 16 army total for the month could be higher. The study, published online Tuesdayin Geophysical Research Let- to withdraw its ministers from the and police commanders, at least nine In his phone call with Bush, al- ters, concluded that an open-water Arctic in summers could be more Shiite-dominated cabinet Tuesday in of whom are Sunni, who had been Hashimi “talked frankly about the likely in this century than had been estimated in the latest international frustration over the Iraq government’s fighting Shiite militias. faltering political process,” the state- review of climate research released in February by the U.N. Intergov- failure to deal with Sunni concerns. “We’re aware of the reports, we’re ment from his office said. ernmental Panel on Climate Change. President Bush stepped in to fore- concerned about them, and those are The White House, in a statement “There are huge changes going on,” said Julienne Stroeve, a lead stall the move, calling one of Iraq’s the kinds of things we do discuss from the National Security Council, author of the new study and a researcher at the National Snow and two vice presidents, Tariq al-Hashi- with the Iraqis that will be a focus of added that “they focused on the im- Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. “Just with warm waters entering mi, a Sunni Arab, and inviting him to conversations,” said the White House portance of additional steps in the rec- the Arctic, combined with warming air temperatures, this is wreaking Washington, according to al-Hashi- spokesman, Tony Snow. But he added onciliation process and the need for all havoc on the sea ice, really.” mi’s office and the White House. that the Maliki government has taken Iraqi parties to come together to over- The intergovernmental panel concluded that if emissions of heat- The bloc, known as the Iraqi Con- aggressive enforcement actions in come common challenges they face.” trapping gases like carbon dioxide were not significantly reduced, the sensus Front and made up of three Shiite neighborhoods in the past. Gordon D. Johndroe, a White region could be end up bereft of floating ice in summers sometime Sunni Arab parties, “has lost hope in As the Sunni cabinet ministers House spokesman, said that Bush between 2050 and the early decades of the next century. rectifying the situation despite all of were threatening to withdraw on had invited al-Hashimi to the White its sincere and serious efforts to do Monday, bombs and mortars took the House, for what would be their sec- so,” the statement said. lives of at least 22 Iraqis. American ond meeting there, as part of an on- U.S. Says Raids Killed Taliban; If the Sunni group follows and Iraqi soldiers stopped a three- going dialogue with Iraq’s highest through on its threat, it would fur- pronged attack in Mosul by insur- ranking Sunni official. Afghans Say Civilians Died ther weaken a government already gents who struck at the main Ameri- If the Sunni bloc pulled its five By Abdul Waheed Wafa damaged by the mid-April pullout can military base, a police station ministers from the cabinet, it would The New York Times KABUL, Afghanistan of six cabinet ministers aligned with and a provincial government center. be a stark reflection of the difficul- U.S. Special Forces said they killed more than 130 Taliban in two the renegade Shiite cleric Muqtada At least 104 U.S. troops lost their ty al-Maliki’s government has had recent days of heavy fighting in a valley in western Afghanistan, but al-Sadr and further erode American lives in hostile actions in Iraq in April, in mustering support from a broad hundreds of angry villagers protested in nearby Shindand on Monday, efforts to promote reconciliation be- the highest of any month so far this spectrum of Iraqis. The Shiite min- saying dozens of civilians had been killed when the Americans called tween Sunnis and Shiites. year. Another 13 deaths among other isters who walked out two weeks ago in airstrikes. Also on Monday, the White allied forces have been reported, have yet to be replaced. The protesters sacked and burned government buildings, said Noor Khan Nekzad, a spokesman for the provincial police. He said none of the demonstrators were injured, but news reports said a number of protesters were hurt as the police and the army moved in to subdue the Wal-Mart Violated Workers’ Rights crowd. The American military said the fighting against the Taliban oc- curred Friday and Sunday in the Zerkoh Valley, near the Iranian border Over Labor Unions, Report Finds about 30 miles south of the city of Herat, and that the Special Forces called in airstrikes on at least two occasions. An American soldier was By Steven Greenhouse Wal-Mart provided an environment ployer in the United States seems to killed in the fighting Friday, the military said, but there were no other The New York Times for open communications and gave be able to violate U.S. labor law with reported casualties on the coalition side. In its first study of how an Ameri- its employees “every opportunity to virtual impunity, that’s a very serious Forty-nine Taliban fighters, including two leaders of the group, were can company treats its workers, Hu- express their ideas, comments and cause for concern, both with respect to killed in the first bombardment Friday, and 87 militants were killed in man Rights Watch asserted Monday concerns.” its impact on its employees, but also bombing during a second battle Sunday that raged for 14 hours, the that Wal-Mart’s aggressive efforts to “It is because of our efforts to on the conduct by other employers in military said in a statement from the U.S.-led coalition headquarters at keep out labor unions often violated foster such an environment that our the United States,” Pier said in a tele- the Bagram air base. federal law and infringed on its work- associates have repeatedly rejected phone interview. ers’ rights. unionization attempts,” he said. Wal-Mart called the study “pro- Human Rights Watch, which typi- Tovar said the report used unsub- union.” Pier said only $50 of her or- 34 Duke Business Students cally focuses on rights violations in stantiated accusations from as long as ganization’s $33 million budget came Burundi, North Korea or other foreign seven years ago. from labor unions. Face Discipline For Cheating countries, said that when Wal-Mart Two of the five organizing drives Over the last few years, the main By Alan Finder stores faced unionization drives, the that the 219-page report examined union for retail workers, the United The New York Times company often broke the law by, for took place in 2005, while the other Food and Commercial Workers, has Thirty-four first-year business graduate students at Duke Univer- example, eavesdropping on workers, three campaigns took place more than suspended efforts to organize any Wal- sity cheated on a take-home final exam, a judicial board has found, training surveillance cameras on them five years ago. Mart stores in the United States, largely in what officials called the most widespread cheating episode in the and firing those who favored unions. “Contrary to the allegations in because Wal-Mart’s counteroffensive business school’s history. “While many American compa- this report, Wal-Mart respects our makes that so difficult, union officials The final was an open-book test in a required course in March, nies use weak U.S. laws to stop work- associates’ right to a free and fair said. Moreover, union officials said with students told to take the exam on their own. But many students ers from organizing, the retail giant unionization vote,” Tovar said. “We they could put more pressure on Wal- collaborated, in violation of the school’s honor code, according to a stands out for the sheer magnitude and remain committed to compliance with Mart by mounting a sophisticated pub- ruling last week by the judicial board of the Fuqua School of Business aggressiveness of its anti-union appa- U.S. laws regarding workers’ right to licity campaign to embarrass it over its at Duke. ratus,” the human rights group wrote. unionize.” wages, benefits and overall treatment of School officials declined to identify the course, the professor or Wal-Mart Stores has more than Carol Pier, a senior researcher at its employees. the students, citing confidentiality in judicial board matters. But they 1.3 million workers at its nearly 4,000 Human Rights Watch and author of For the most part, the unionization indicated that the professor had noticed similarities in the answers by stores in the United States, and none the Wal-Mart report, said her organi- drives described in the report, at Wal- the students, who are candidates for a master’s degree in business ad- of its workers belong to a union. zation decided to look specifically at Marts in Kingman, Ariz.; Aiken, S.C.; ministration. Wal-Mart, in response, vigorously Wal-Mart because of concerns about New Castle, Pa.; and Loveland and Nine of the students face expulsion, according to the ruling, which defended its labor practices. David violations of labor laws. Greeley, Colo., grew out of discontent was distributed within the business school on Friday. Fifteen students Tovar, a Wal-Mart spokesman, said “When the largest private em- over wages and health benefits. were suspended for a year and given a failing grade in the course, nine were given a failing grade in the course, and one got a failing grade on the exam. Four students accused of cheating were exonerated. Interior Dept. Proposes Expansion of The students are likely to appeal and are permitted to attend classes while awaiting decisions, which are expected over the next month. In general, fewer than 10 students a year at the business school are found guilty of cheating, and in some years no accusations are brought Oil and Gas Drilling Along U.S. Coasts to the judicial board, said Michael Hemmerich, associate dean for mar- By Edmund L. Andrews million acres along the outer conti- coast of Virginia, starting in 2012. keting and communications at the business school. The New York Times nental shelf to oil and gas drilling. “The Outer Continental Shelf is a WASHINGTON Unless Congress objects within 60 vital source of domestic oil and natu- The Bush administration on Mon- days, most of the five-year plan will ral gas for America, especially in Washington Wants to Know: day proposed leasing out millions go into effect, though resistance has light of sharply rising energy prices,” of acres along the coasts of Alaska been voiced. Starting this year, the said Dirk Kempthorne, secretary of Who’s on the Madam’s List? and Virginia to oil and gas drillers, a Interior Department plans to offer the interior. By Neil A. Lewis move that would end a longstanding leases on about 8.3 million acres But Democrats in Congress criti- The New York Times WASHINGTON ban on drilling in those environmen- in the central region of the Gulf of cized the plans for Alaska and Vir- The woman who faces charges of running a prostitution ring in tally sensitive areas. Mexico, which Congress specifically ginia, and they are likely to extend Washington that serviced the prominent and powerful said Monday Both areas have been closed to approved for offshore drilling late the current ban on drilling off Vir- that she intended to force many of those clients to testify in her be- new drilling for many years. The ar- last year. ginia. Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia, a half. eas off Virginia are still protected by But the Interior Department Democrat, said he supported limited Deborah Jeane Palfrey is offering a simple defense to government laws that prohibit new drilling in all hopes to open up far more than that. drilling for exploration but has re- charges that the escort service she ran for 13 years by telephone from areas along the Atlantic and Pacific It would offer leases on 37 million fused to endorse production. her home in California was actually a straightforward prostitution seaboards. But Congress lifted the acres off the coast of Alaska, starting “Whatever pressing energy issue business. prohibition on Alaska’s Bristol Bay as early as 2008, in vast new areas comes before the American people, Although she promoted her business as a legal “high-end erotic in 2003 and President Bush lifted an in the Beaufort Sea, the Chukchi Sea the Bush administration always re- fantasy service,” she said it was not intended as an exchange of sex executive order in January that had and the Cook Inlet. None of those sponds with the same oil answer: for money. She told reporters Monday that her former clients, reported blocked drilling there through 2012. areas have been subject to a drill- more oil,” said Rep. Nick J. Rahall II, to include a Bush administration economics official and the head of a In the case of Virginia, adminis- ing ban, but none have been tapped D-W. Va., and chairman of the House conservative research group, among others, should confirm that when tration officials are hoping to capital- before. Natural Resources Committee. they are called to testify. ize on interest in drilling expressed Starting in 2011, the Interior De- The proposal includes measures If any sexual activity occurred, she said, it was not authorized or by the state legislature, which passed partment would also lease out 5.6 to protect against damage to coastal intended by her but undertaken independently by her female subcon- a bill last year asking the federal million acres in Bristol Bay along areas from oil spills and other ac- tractors and male clients “who disobeyed my directives, their signed government to allow exploration for the Alaska peninsula — an area that cidents. It would not allow drilling contracts and participated in illegal behavior.” natural gas in waters 50 miles or far- Congress closed off after the Exxon- within 50 miles of the Virginia shore In other words, she is stunned at allegations that sexual activity had ther from the state coastline. Valdez oil spill in 1989. If it can get and would wall off an additional “ob- taken place between the women who worked for her and the men who Both proposals are part of a approval from Congress, it would struction zone” near the mouth of the paid them about $300 for 90 minutes of whatever. broader five-year plan to open up 48 offer up three million acres off the Chesapeake Bay. Page The Tech May 1, 2007 Opinion
The April 27 article “Admissions Dean Resigns After Lying on Résumé” should have reported that former Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones was confronted about the facts of her educational background on Monday, April 23, not on Monday, April 20. Chairman The movie 21 wrapped up in Boston on April 27, not in Las Vegas, as “MIT Alumni Michael McGraw-Herdeg ’08 Corrections Inspire New Movie” incorrectly reported. The author of the book that inspired the movie Editor in Chief was misspelled as Mezich; the correct spelling is Mezrich. Marie Y. Thibault ’08 Preeya S. Phadnis is a member of the Class of 2009. She was incorrectly identified as Preeya S. Phadnis ’08 in the April 27 article “More Students May Return Early This Fall.” Business Manager Cokie Hu ’08 Managing Editor Austin Chu ’08 Letters To The Editor Executive Editor If somebody knew about this, why were they si- “partial birth abortion,” Micah Green G writes Rosa Cao G Why the Need For lent for so long? Why did it take four days for us in to ask whether anyone can possibly conceive to learn about Jones’ resignation? a medically and ethically justifiable rationale News Staff Public Humiliation? This scandal is an embarrassment for MIT. for this practice. It seems to me that roughly 45 Editors: Benjamin P. Gleitzman ’09, Kirtana The Institute’s abrupt and highly publicized The administration owes an answer to me and percent of Supreme Court justices can. Or, as Raja ’09, Angeline Wang ’09; Associate dismissal of Marilee Jones, MIT’s dean of admis- all of my fellow undergraduates, who were ad- they say in the toothpaste world, four out of nine Editors: Valery K. Brobbey ’08, JiHye Kim ’10, sions, was a disgrace. Yes, apparently 28 years mitted by the Jones Admissions Office. Dean justices prefer that a doctor, and not a congress- Joyce Kwan ’10; Staff: Curt Fischer G, John A. ago Dean Jones made a serious mistake when Hastings spoke of the Institute’s integrity in his man, determine what medical procedure is the Hawkinson ’98, Waseem S. Daher ’07, Ray C. she misrepresented her educational credentials. press release. If indeed someone in the Adminis- safest and most appropriate in the estimated 0.2 He ’07, Kristina M. Holton ’07, Hanhan Wang But look at her record of accomplishment while tration knew of Jones’ misrepresentation prior to percent of abortions that are carried out late in ’07, Jiao Wang ’08, Daniela Cako ’09, Mei- at MIT. She has won numerous awards and been this incident and did nothing until now, then the pregnancy. Hsin Cheng ’09, Gabriel Fouasnon ’09, Hannah Hsieh ’09, Diana Jue ’09, Ji Qi ’09, Yinuo Qian recognized as a national leader in the under- Institute’s integrity is already severely compro- Milan A. de Vries G ’09, Nick Semenkovich ’09, Yi Zhou ’09, Nick graduate admissions process. Several years ago mised. President Hockfield has remained silent Bushak ’10, Swetha Kambhampati ’10, Apoorva I had the pleasure of working closely with her in on many important issues affecting the under- Murarka ’10, Manisha Padi ’10, Joanne Y. helping to evaluate applications to the freshman graduate community, not the least of which is this Institute Owes Shih ’10; Meteorologists: Cegeon Chan G, class. She was dedicated, tireless, professional, recent scandal. I call upon her, the Provost, and Jon Moskaitis G, Michael J. Ring G, Roberto and compassionate. As far as I know, no one has the Chancellor to step forward and answer some Apology Regarding Rondanelli G, Scott Stransky G, Brian H. Tang ever criticized her as being unqualified. In fact, questions. We need accountability. We need to G, Tim Whitcomb G, Angela Zalucha G. her many accolades testify to the reverse. The know the truth. We need their leadership. Sudan Action
Production Staff MIT process of harsh and sudden termination Julián E Villarreal ’07 MIT has a problem: the Sudanese govern- has zeroed out everything Marilee has done in a ment is conducting a genocide, and MIT is Editor: Jessica Witchley ’10; Staff: Emily Ko 28-year MIT career. And it has resulted in frenet- helping to fund it. MIT has another problem, ’08, K. Nichole Treadway ’10. ic media coverage in local, national, and inter- Condemn the Lie, too: it has ignored an overwhelming divest- Opinion Staff national news. For most “crimes,” the statute of ment mandate from the MIT community. Editors: Barun Singh ECS ’06, Aditya Kohli limitations is far less than 28 years. Was Jones’ Affirm the Work Both the Undergraduate Association and the ’09; Staff: Josh Levinger ’07, Justin Wong ’07, “crime” equivalent to a felony having no statute The article about Marilee Jones’ resignation Graduate Student Council have voted in sup- Ali S. Wyne ’08, Krishna Gupta ’09. of limitations? Was it impossible for the MIT ad- (April 27, 2007) was degrading to all admitted port of “targeted divestment” from companies ministration to negotiate a quiet private resigna- MIT students over the past 10 years. Each of us who directly fund and work with the Sudanese Sports Staff tion of Dean Jones? Why the need for public hu- was admitted under socially responsible admis- government. Five hundred members of the Editors: Travis Johnson ’08, Caroline Huang miliation? Where is the compassion that I have sions policies that she helped to create. Dean MIT community have signed a similar peti- ’10; Ryan Lanphere ’06; Associate Editor: always attributed to the MIT family? Despite 46 Hasting’s comment that a future Dean of Ad- tion. Staff: James Zorich ’08, Albert Ni ’09. years here (as student and faculty member), to- missions would be “somebody who brings in Adding insult to injury, it seems the MIT Arts Staff day I feel estranged from a community that could the best and the brightest to MIT” was particu- Corporation and administration have set out to Editor: Jillian A. Berry ’08; Associate Editor: treat one of its own with such cruelty. larly offensive. He should have said, “continues ensure that the MIT community is too ill-in- Sarah Dupuis ’10; Staff: Bogdan Fedeles G, Richard C. Larson, Professor to bring in the best and the brightest.” Although formed to bring pressure to bear on the school. Kapil Amarnath ’07, Tony Hwang ’07, Andrew Engineering Systems Division I am sure he meant no harm, his comment and According to Tech reporting, they’ve declined Lee ’07, Alice MacDonald ’08, Tanya Goldhaber Department of Civil and Environmental the article in general give the impression that to tell us how heavily we’re invested in Sudan. ’10, Tina Ro ’10. Engineering Jones’ work, or even the students she admit- They’ve stonewalled students trying to ascer-
Photography Staff ted, might be as flawed as her resume. This is a tain what’s happening in the divestment deci- regrettable blow to the many students who al- sion-making process. Editors: Ricardo Ramirez ’09, Eric D. Schmiedl MIT Should Be Held ’09; Associate Editor: Omari Stephens ’08; ready secretly doubt themselves, having found And last week, they stopped a student from Staff: David Da He G, Stanley Hu ’00, Scott Accountable that they are no longer the “best and brightest” handing out a fact sheet about the firm that Johnston ’03, Yun Wu ’06, Gheorghe Chistol here. While it is important to condemn Jones’ handles MIT’s investments. (In a twist that ’07, Fred Gay ’07, Grant Jordan ’07, Dmitry I was astounded, just as many members of inexcusable lie, we also need to affirm the reveals the administration’s illogical and self- Kashlev ’07, Christine Moran ’07, Martin the Community were, to learn Thursday morn- positive impact her work has had on the MIT, serving response to the need for information, Segado ’07, Christina Kang ’08, Arthur Petron ing of Dean Marilee Jones’ resignation. Yet how- helping to create one of the most intelligent, di- the student was told he could have pursued an ’08, David Reshef ’08, David M. Templeton ever shocking it was to find out that she had lied verse, interesting, passionate, and collaborative “unadvertised option” to request special per- ’08, Jerzy Szablowski ’09, Daniel P. Beauboeuf about her academic background, I am left aghast student communities in the world. mission to hand out flyers.) ’10, Mindy Eng ’10, Catherine Huang ’10, at how a scandal like this could happen at MIT. Daniel J. Wendel G These assaults on information are inexcus- Bea Jarrett ’10, Samuel E. Kronick ’10, Diane Jones was wrong in lying and in hiding the truth able, particularly at an institution built on prin- Rak ’10, Aaron Sampson ’10, Jongu Shin ’10, for so long, but I find it very hard to believe that ciples of scientific investigation and reporting. William Yee ’10. the administration was ignorant of this fact for Abortion Argument The Institute owes the divestment organizers Campus Life Staff so many years. Why did it take an anonymous an apology — and a forum, and answers. We Editor: Bill Andrews ’05; Staff: Bruce Wu G, phone call to the Dean of Undergraduate Edu- Not One-Sided must have information about the extent of our Kailas Narendran ’01, Elizabeth Zakszewski cation for this information to be known? Was In objecting to a recent editorial cartoon investments in Sudan and the principles on ’06, Victor Cabral ’07, Ruth Miller ’07, Matt Jones’ background not investigated when she regarding the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision which our investments are made. The student Zedler ’07; Cartoonists: Scott Burdick G, applied to be Dean of Admissions ten years ago? upholding a Congressional ban on so-called organizers who are leading us on the divest- John David Payne G, Roberto Perez-Franco ment issue must be allowed to disseminate in- G, Emezie Okorafor ’03, Jia Lou ’07, Andrew formation — no easy task in a university with Spann ’07, Ash Turza ’08, Danbee Kim ’09. no mechanism for discussing institutional is- Business Staff sues — and not subjected to heavy-handed re- Advertising Managers: Neeharika Bhartiya strictions on speech in our community spaces. ’10, Ritu Tandon ’10; Operations Manager: We must also have action. 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Page The Tech May 1, 2007 Campus Life Scott’s Travels Under Siege on Bogdkhan Uul By Scott Berdahl sat for a second, stunned, and then got my head down now under the pressure of the rising wind. spot in one of the private vehicles leaving from Staff Columnist about me. I was okay. Then another whoosh I knew I couldn’t stay, so I packed the tent as best there to Tsetsterleg, the next town to the west, MIT undergraduate Scott Berdahl spent a year — BAM! Yelling wildly, I grabbed my flashlight I could and headed off through the woods. Gain- where we were hoping to buy horses. Will was traveling the world to see what all the fuss was and pocketknife and jumped out the door, ready ing the summit of a small ridge, I found the Bud- grinning ear to ear. “You wouldn’t believe the about. Over seven months, he traveled from for a fight. Nothing was there. I looked around dhist monument I’d seen the night before, and I night that I had,” he began. Apparently, after we Moscow to Delhi by train, bus, horseback, and and strained my ears for the slightest shuffle of wrapped myself in my tarp before lying down in had gone our separate ways the day before, he’d on foot, having his share of adventure along leaves or snap of a twig, but again, only the wind the dirt near its base for some sleep. Perhaps I’d met a beautiful Mongolian woman, the daughter the way. was to be heard. be safe there. of a wealthy copper mining tycoon, and they’d It was the middle of the night. I was sitting For lack of a better plan, I returned at last to I awoke again, this time shivering violently. fallen strongly for one another. After an evening up, awake in my tent after having fended off an my tent. I could only hope that whatever was out It was still dark, but now it was pouring and the spent in luxury, he now had her phone number intruder with a solid kick through the front flap. I there had gotten its revenge and would be satis- rain had infiltrated my tarpaulin cocoon. For and her promises to meet again after he returned listened nervously; the unearthly howls that had fied with what it had done. Whoosh — BAM! No warmth, I packed once more and started walk- from our equestrian odyssey. echoed through the forest had long since faded such luck. This time I was out of the tent by the ing down the mountain and towards the city, my After spilling all this, Will looked around away to the sound of the breeze rushing up the time the second projectile, a large stump of sorts, flashlight off so as not to draw any attention to the parking lot at the vehicles headed to various side of Bogdkhan Uul Mountain and through the came whooshing through the air. It impacted the myself. I left what food I had on a stump near towns across the county. He then turned back to needles of its trees. I thought briefly about head- ground next to the tent and rolled harmlessly to a the monument, hoping that the boy or another me. “How’d your night go?” ing back to Ulaanbaatar, but it was miles away stop. Turning my flashlight uphill, I saw the sur- one of the mountain children might make use of “Well,” I replied, somewhat hesitantly, “have through the pitch black forest filled with these … prised expression of a small boy, caught momen- it in the morning. After a few hours of blindly you ever been in a knife fight with a twelve year things. After that, getting through the outskirts of tarily like a deer in headlights. He dropped the stumbling through the forest and slipping on the old?” Mongolia’s capital city at this hour would be no rock in his hand and began running frantically wet roots of trees that sprawled out through the “What?” picnic either. down the mountainside, past me, past the tent, rocky ground, the sky turned gray, and I carefully “Oh, no, well me neither technically, I guess.” A sound caught my attention, something dif- crashing off into the night long after I’d lost sight picked my way through the sleeping outskirts of I paused and spotted an old Soviet van with the ferent from the wind. Sort of a whoosh — BAM! of him with the flashlight. Ulaanbaatar. Cyrillic text for Tsetserleg written on a sheet of Something hit my tent, bowing the poles to the He was gone, if only for the time being. I It was light out by the time I met Will at the paper hanging inside the windshield. “My tent ground and tearing a hole through the fabric. 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Photography by Brian Hemond Page 10 The Tech May 1, 2007 UA Elections Results Mars Team Sensor May Detect The following officers were elected by the Undergraduate Association Council during a UA meeting on Monday, April 23. Senate Speaker Irina Shklyar ’09 Gene Fragments Crucial For Life Vice Chair Jason C. Forte ’09 Mars, from Page into space, some of which came the moon’s surface. Senate Representative Michael A. Bennie ’10 crashing down onto other planets. The team is building a sensor To UA Finance Board payoff — and will eventually present Life on Earth appeared very quickly that uses PCR, a technique that al- Senate Representative Steven M. Kelch ’08 NASA with a difficult philosophical after the bombardment — too fast, lows for the detection of incredibly To Executive Committee decision. Ruvkun believes, to have evolved on minute quantities of DNA, to look “I admire the ideas,” said An- its own. for portions of two genes that have Treasurer Not approved as of press time drew Knoll, a professor of natural The bombardment, Ruvkun be- been found in all life whose genes Secretary General Alice A. Chiang ’08 history at Harvard University who lieves, could have brought life to have been sequenced. They play a is involved with Mars exploration. Earth from somewhere else. And if crucial role in assembling protein, a Undergraduate Representative Cokie Hu ’08*, “But the opportunities to actually life on earth came from somewhere central function in living things. If To UA Finance Board Randall C. Shults ’10 land on Mars over the next 20 years else, then perhaps it also came to life on Mars has a common origin * also Tech business manager appear to be limited, and there is go- Mars from “the same somewhere with life on Earth, Ruvkun reasons, Source: Ruth Miller ’07 ing to be a lot of competition to fly.” else,” Ruvkun then it will prob- The allure of the project has at- says. Martian ably share these tracted a high-profile team of scien- rocks have been genes. tific talent. Ruvkun, a professor at found on earth, Life on Earth appeared Still, the idea Harvard Medical School and Mas- and an analysis very quickly … too fast, is a gamble – a sachusetts General Hospital, is a of one of them “jackpot experi- highly respected geneticist. One ac- revealed that por- Ruvkun believes, to have ment,” as Ruvkun tive team member is Maria Zuber, tions of its core calls it. It would head of MIT’s department of earth, never experi- evolved on its own. yield a positive atmosphere, and planetary sciences enced superheat- result only if there and considered one of the world’s ing as it fell to were life on Mars top designers of scientific instru- earth, showing that meteors could that is related to life on earth. This ments for space exploration. Also be viable shuttles for life. At the has brought some skepticism among involved is Nobel Prize winner Wal- same time, research has shown that other scientists, who argue that ter Gilbert, a professor of biology there are microbes that have adapted it does not make sense to look for at Harvard, and a number of other to almost unbelievably extreme en- DNA before testing for more gen- This space donated by The Tech leading figures. vironments — including the radio- eral signs of life. The project’s prospects depend active cores used on nuclear power “It would not be my first choice,” on a bit of deep history. About 4 plants and the hot, crushing depths Norman R. Pace, a biologist at the billion years ago the planets experi- of deep-sea ocean vents. Astronauts University of Colorado, Boulder, enced a period of intense bombard- on the Apollo 12 mission found said in an e-mail. Pace specializes ment. Meteors came crashing down microorganisms that survived for in using DNA techniques to find mi- to the surface, ejecting more rocks years in the camera of a craft sent to croorganisms. Building such a device will be a tremendous challenge: Space, power, and weight all come at an ex- treme premium on space missions. It will be especially challenging, Zu- ber said, to ensure that fluids inside the device flow reliably — a require- ment for PCR to function — even though it is operating in the extreme Martian environment. The team is still far from having a device ready for flight and has not been approved for flight by NASA, Zuber and Ru- vkun said. An even bigger issue, Ruvkun said, is overcoming the risk of con- tamination – that the team will find microbes that hitched a ride aboard the same Mars lander that brought the experiment. The team is working on a number of engineering solu- tions to the problem, but there is also a biological answer. If the team finds DNA, they could compare it to the same two genes found in earthbound organisms. This would allow them to place the new DNA in the fam- ily tree of life. If it appears closely related to something on Earth, then it’s probably contamination, but if it appears to be a distant cousin, then the history of life will have to be re- written. Many scientists doubt that there is anything currently living in the harsh Martian environment. But Ru- vkun does not count himself among the pessimists. “Never bet against life,” he said. Solution to Sudoku from page 5
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American ethanol, the most im- breaking down the tough plant matter portant domestic biofuel, comes from into a substance that can be ferment- corn, and there’s a limit to how much ed into alcohol. Enter the science corn American farmland can produce. of biotechnology, which can design Currently just a tiny percentage of US enzymes to digest the plants and cus- automobile fuel comes from ethanol, tom-make living microbes to ferment and it can’t get much higher without the mash. Both companies have de- interfering with the food supply. veloped their own methods, and hope “If you want to get to energy in- to use their new plants to demonstrate dependence, you’re not going to get it can work at a larger scale. there from corn,” says Samir Kaul of Still, cellulosic ethanol has Khosla Ventures, a firm that has in- proved persistently hard to get right, Photo by David Templeton vested in both Mascoma and Celunol. never mind cheap enough to replace May 4-6 Better than using corn, say Kaul gasoline. Enzymes are expensive. and others, would be to make etha- And the microbes that turn the mash Senior House Courtyard nol from more profuse plant matter into alcohol must he hardy enough so – cornstalks, ex- they don’t die For all you carnivores* out there tra woodchips, as the alcohol even grasses content goes For all you pretentious music geeks such as switch- Currently just a tiny up. 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That’s a huge leap from the And further down the line, they $111 million in 2005. hope to apply genetic engineering Down the line, even if the com- more broadly to the process. Celu- panies get the process right, other This space donated by The Tech obstacles loom. Fewer than 5 per- cent of American cars sold today can burn ethanol as fuel, according to the National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition, although the substance is mixed in small quantities into current gasoline. And even people with “flex-fuel” cars, which can take both gasoline and ethanol, are limited by the pau- city of stations that pump it. “The oil companies control a lot of the distribution, and there’s not much incentive for them to play ball,” says Kaul of Khosla Ventures. For now, cellulosic ethanol re- mains a research-driven business, which is why two of the leading firms are in Cambridge. Although neither is based on science invented in the Boston area — Celunol’s labs are in Florida, and Mascoma’s are in New Hampshire — they cite the local pool of engineers, biotech experts, and en- thusiastic venture firms. “Almost half of our employees are PhDs, and this is where the talent is,” says Mascoma chief executive Bruce Jamerson, who joined the company last month from a South Dakota ethanol maker, and still commutes on weekends back to his home near Sioux Falls. Riva, an MIT engineering gradu- ate, concurs. “You have to be some- where,” he says, “and from that per- spective it’s better to be here than close to the biomass.”
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Munsell ’09 with dormitory-related information. to Nedzel. Mendoza plans to advance standards.” She acknowledged the two Vice President for Residence Exploration Preeya S. Phadnis ’09 The new executive board will be the process as far as possible before different perspectives. Residence Exploration Chairs Anikia F. Tucker ’10 sworn in at the DormCon meeting on leaving at the end of May. Some students complained that it James A. Ostrowski ’10 May 14, according to Nedzel. “Establishing a DormCon Jud- is difficult to get dormitory members Margaret K. Delano ’10 Comm is … important, and it is im- to attend meetings and elect JudComm Housing Chair Mandie D. Holmes ’08 Judcomm discussion portant that DormCon establishes a members, so they are mostly appointed Judicial Committee Chair Christopher B. Palmer ’09 Veronica Mendoza ’96, director of good relationship with Veronica Men- by the dormitory presidents. Mendoza Risk Manager James Torres ’10 the Office of Student Mediation and doza’s replacement,” said Hopp. said that she would prefer that dormi- Dining Chairs Nathan S. Lachenmyer ’10 Community Standards, also attended One student at the meeting said tories have a formal election process (to be appointed from residential dining dormitory) Source: David A. Nedzel, Outgoing DormCon President the meeting to “solidify the next steps that students were not comfortable dis- to select JudComm members. “When in the process of getting JudComms cussing disciplinary issues with other it comes time to have a hearing … running at dorms and setting up a students they live with so they prefer these people are not committed,” be- to elected. Mendoza said she would JudComm training be prepared to ded- DormCon JudComm,” according to going directly to DormCon JudComm, cause they were appointed as opposed prefer that the people who go through icate the necessary time. May 1, 2007 Sports The Tech Page 15 As in 2006, MIT Baseball Falls Short in Title Game Baseball, from Page 16 times in both the sixth and seventh Nole struck out, and Wheeler lined by hitting and walking consecu- two outs and one run already in, but innings to stretch their lead to eight out to center. tive batters, but got out of the jam Phillips grounded out to the short- to start the inning and pinch run- runs. Wheeler led off the sixth with Richard D. Kosoglow ’08 re- by forcing Nick Pecora to ground stop to end the rally and make the ner Kyle Pearce advanced to second a solo homer while Stewart J. Park lieved Loper in the bottom of the out. score 6-1. following a sac bunt. With two outs, ’10 added a two-run double. In the fourth and got into and out of After a harmless inning and a The Engineers’ season continues senior Chris Stack smoked a single seventh, Toth had a two-run single trouble. He got two outs quickly, half, the Lyons were at it again in with a road game at Worcester State to right field. to highlight the inning as the Engi- forcing a ground out and a fly out, the sixth, adding two runs to make this afternoon and a home game this As the potential tying run neers built the 10-2 lead. before allowing an RBI single by their lead 6-0. Thursday against UMass Boston at rounded third and headed for the In the eighth, Christian George Karl Olsen that made the lead 4- MIT had one last rally in the 3:30 p.m. The NCAA tournament plate, D’Annunzio fired a strike had an RBI double, Lisko had a 0. Kosoglow then loaded the bases eight inning, loading the bases with begins on May 16. from the middle of the outfield. The two-run triple, Adam Reckley had play at home was incredibly close, an RBI single and then George but when catcher Paul Groudas ’08, pulled the Bears to within one at who was blocking the plate, turned 10-9 with an RBI single. to show the umpire the ball, Pearce MIT responded with five runs was called out to signal the final out in the home half as Nole had an of the frame. RBI single, Benjamin T. Bersanti In the bottom of the eighth, ’10 added an RBI triple and Park the Engineers attempted to put the chipped in another RBI single. game out of reach by adding a pair Wheeler delivered the big blow in of runs with two outs. Nunez start- the inning with his second home- ed the two-out magic with a single run of the afternoon. to right field, while Witzberger fol- Coast Guard didn’t go quietly lowed with a single to left. Phillips despite entering the final frame then plated his second run of the tilt down 15-9. Lisko led off with a Make money, extend after another single to left scored homer before Ken Franklin and Nunez. Witzberger added his sec- Kevin Higgins drew walks off clos- ond run of the contest off a double er Nunez. Bret Nichols had a one- by David M. Nole ’09. Looking for out RBI single and Reckley added your housing and a fifth straight hit, Kevin R. Wheel- a two-out RBI single, but the Bears er ’08 flied out deep to center to end left two runners on to end the game the inning. behind by three. Turner (5-2) threw his fourth complete game in six starts, while Wheaton Dominates Final network with alumni! lowering his ERA to a career-best Unfortunately for the Engineers, 2.77. Lisowski, who struck out the NEWMAC final game between eight batters, took the loss and falls MIT and Wheaton, held on Satur- to 3-5 on the year. day in Wheaton’s Sidell Stadium, Student jobs are available in the was not only a re-match of last Engineers win semifinal shootout year’s final game but a repeat of the Wheeler was three-for-four with result. Alumni Association for the a pair of home runs, five RBI’s and In both games, MIT only four runs scored as third-seeded mananged one run against Whea- MIT held off seventh-seeded Coast ton’s Louie Bernardini, who pitched upcoming 2007 Reunion. Work as Guard, 15-12, in the NEWMAC all but one inning between the two semifinals. MIT appeared to be in games; both times they allowed ear- control heading into the eighth in- ly runs by Wheaton that proved to registration manager, registration ning with a 10-2 lead, before Coast be all the opposition needed. Guard smoked five hits and took Matthew D. Loper ’09 started staff person, Kid Tech counselor, or advantage of five errors in the top for MIT on Saturday and kept with half of the frame to score seven Bernardini in the first two innings, runs and set the stage for a wild allowing only a lead-off walk in the Tim the Beaver Mascot. For details finish. second. Coast Guard took a 2-0 lead in Things turned south for Loper in the top of the fourth without the the third, when Wheaton scored two and application submission: benefit of a hit or an error as Chuck runs in the third inning on two hits, Arena and Brian Lisko walked, one walk, one error, and two sac- Arena took two bases and scored on rifice flies. Loper was done for the http://alum.mit.edu/ne/reunions/studentjobs.html wild pitch and Mike Mitchell later afternoon after the Lyons started added a sacrifice fly. the fourth with a home run and a MIT quickly answered as Ste- hit batsman. phen C. Toth ’09 highlighted a four- Tech had one of their few chanc- run fourth with a two-run home run es off Bernardini in the top of the Applications are due to break a 2-2 tie, while Wheeler fourth, starting the inning with sin- served up a two-run single which gles by Nunez and Witzberger. The tied the game at 2-2. inning ended quickly as Phillips The Engineers scored three grounded into a fielder’s choice, May 4th! Page 16 The Tech May 1, 2007 Sports Baseball Places 2nd After Two Wins Yield Berth in Title Game By Mindy Brauer scattered three singles through the and Travis Johnson first seven innings, while Lisowski The Engineers baseball team was unscathed his first time through made it to the conference finals but the Engineers’ lineup. lost, as they did last year in this MIT (12-11) secured the game- game, to Wheaton winning run in the bottom of the college. Starting last fourth behind the excellent base- Thursday, MIT shut running of senior Jason T. Witz- out Springfield 3-0 in berger ’07. Steven M. Nunez ’09, the quarterfinals, out- who finished three-for-four on the hit Coast Guard 15-12 day, opened the frame with a single in the semifinals, but fell in the title up the middle. After Witzberger game 6-1. reached on a fielder’s choice, the all-time MIT record holder in sto- Peter H. Rigano Turner pitches gem in (Back to front) John M. Field ’08, Karlen E. Ruleman ’09, Brooks L. Reed ’09, and Xiaoyu (Sylvia) len bases swiped both second and quarterfinal Yang ’07 head back to the MIT Sailing Pavilion after competing in last weekend’s New England third during the ensuing at-bat. Team Racing Championship. MIT placed 11th overall, failing to qualify for nationals. MIT took its first step towards the Not wasting the golden opportu- New England Women’s and Men’s nity, Thomas M. Phillips ’09 lined Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) a single through the box to bring championship game with a 3-0 vic- Witzberger across the plate. tory against Springfield College on Springfield (9-20) nearly tied the Tennis Beats Wheaton To Win 9th Thursday afternoon at Briggs Field. game in the eighth, but Christopher Jay M. Turner ’08 fired his second M. D’Annunzio ’09 served up the complete-game shutout of the sea- defensive play of the season in right Straight NEWMAC Tournament son to out-duel sophomore Jimmy field to erase the threat. Pinch hit- Lisowski, who endured the loss de- ter Ryan Tatreau sparked the Pride Mindy Brauer No. 3 Springfield College, respective- his 6-0, 6-3 win in the No. 2 position. spite a great start for the Pride. with a single through the left side Daper Staff ly, in the semi-final round. Payman defeated Dohlman, 6-4, 6-2, Both of Thursday’s starters were Top-seeded MIT outlasted No. Wheaton opened the champion- in the No. 1 position which tied the dominant from the first pitch. Turner Baseball, Page 15 2 Wheaton College, 5-3, en route to ship match with a pair of 8-2 deci- match at three. Melvin C. Makhni ’07 its ninth consecutive New England sions in the No. 3 and No. 2 doubles gave the Engineers the lead for good Women’s and Men’s positions. MIT’s top tandem of Thom- following his 6-4, 6-2 decision over Athletic Conference as H. Dohlman ’07 and Eric A Beren Raymour Radhakrishnan. (NEWMAC) Men’s ’08 defeated Payum Payman and Brad In the No. 4 spot, Peden P. Nich- Tennis Championship. Dressler, 8-4, to put the Engineers on ols ’09 won the first set against Will The Engineers (13- the board. Stoddard, 6-1, but fell 7-6 in the sec- 5) and the Lyons (11-5) Ryan W. Castonia ’09 evened the ond set. Nichols bounced back with have met in the title match for the past match at two after his 6-0, 6-2 vic- a 6-2 victory to secure the title. The three seasons, with this year’s match- tory over Kyle Hudgins in the No. 6 only unfinished match of the day was up being the closest in tournament singles slot. Steady rain forced the in the No. 3 slot, where MIT’s Mark history. MIT and Wheaton posted 5-0 competition inside and following the D. Egan ’07 was leading Dressler, 2- wins over No. 4 Babson College and brief delay, Beren put MIT ahead with 6, 7-5, 5-0.
Gheorghe Chistol—The TEch Jingwen Ouyang ’08 tries to evade a tackle by a Boston Uni- versity player during the women’s rugby game on Saturday. BU won 12-5.
Patrick R. Barragan A coach from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy looks on as Rachel M. Niehuus ’07 dumps a trophy- Upcoming Home Events full of cold water on Fletcher A. Brooks, head coach of the women’s track and field team. Both the men’s and women’s teams placed first in the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Confer- Thursday, May 3, 2007 ence championship, held this past weekend at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Baseball vs. UMass Boston 3:30 p.m., Briggs Field
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