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Volume 135, Number 31 Thursday, November 12, 2015 No Established 1881 WEATHER, p. 2 MIT’s Oldest and thU: 54°F | 48°F Largest Newspaper Afternoon rain fri: 56°F | 40°F Breezy tech.mit.edu sat: 49°F | 36°F Breezy Established 1881 Volume 135, Number 31 Thursday, November 12, 2015 No. 3 in arts, humanities? Dean hopes ranking spurs interest At a school where STEM majors outnumber others 19 to 1, writing classes are tailored for STEM mindset By Divya Gopinath on a standardizedEstablished survey. 1881visibility and support,” Nobles “Although we recognize that added. “I hope these rankings will MIT was recently ranked third we are writing disciplines, we are encourage MIT students to take globally for arts and humanities mindful that we are at MIT,” said a closer look at what they should and first for the social sciences by Melissa Nobles, the dean of the avail themselves of. The word is out the Times Higher Education World School of Humanities, Arts and So- now. Take advantage.” University Rankings. cial Sciences, acknowledging that The arts and humanities at MIT The rankings are intended to MIT is better known as a science are divided into two main institu- evaluate “world class universities and engineering school. “We want tions: the School of Humanities, across all of their core missions: to appeal to MIT students, and tai- Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) teaching, research, knowledge lor our courses to thinking about and the School of Architecture and transfer and international outlook,” the intersections between the arts Planning (SA+P). (MIT is also home according to their website. Fac- and the sciences.” to the List Visual Arts Center and tors that go into the decisions are All of MIT’s humanities and arts various other centers related to the staff-to-student ratio, institutional departments are small compared to humanities.) income, research income, research those at schools like Harvard and Currently, of undergraduates productivity (i.e. number of papers Stanford, but that allows the aver- who have declared a major, 3.5 per- LENNY MARTINEZ—THE TECH published per student at high-level age MIT studentEstablished close access to fac -1881cent are enrolled in either SHASS or A banner hung in Lobby 7 on Tuesday to commemorate the journals), international-to-domes- ulty and relatively small class sizes, SA+P. The figure for graduate stu- release of the post-apocalyptic role-playing game Fallout 4. The tic student ratio, industry income, Nobles said. game had been in the works since 2009. and institutional reputation based “What I want is the continued Humanities, Page 14 MIT researchers recognized at 2.00 students capture balloons for Pokémon-themed 2016 Breakthrough Prizes project ceremony Approximately 60 students — as part of their first project, tume donned by the class instruc- in the 2.00 Introduction to De- dubbed “Pokécapture.” tor, Professor Maria Yang. MIT researchers Edward Boy- Prize in Life Sciences, which in- sign class gathered in Lobby 7 The Pokémon theme was visi- The 12 teams each had two den, Larry Guth, Liang Fu, and cluded an award of $3 million. on Monday night to demonstrate ble everywhere, from the balloons weeks to make a balloon-captur- Joseph Formaggio and his team An associate professor of media their solutions to capturing three stamped with a picture of Bibarel ing apparatus using basic materi- were honored at the 2016 Break- arts and sciences,Established biological engi- 1881“TechBeavers” — helium-filled (which is, appropriately, the Bea- through Prize ceremony. The neering, and brain and cognitive balloons suspended in the air ver Pokémon) to the Pikachu cos- Pokémon, Page 13 event was held at NASA’s Ames sciences, Boyden was honored Research Center in California this for his work on the development past Sunday. and implementation of optoge- Boyden was one of five scien- tists awarded the Breakthrough Breakthrough, Page 13 Award tries to make stars out of scientists On stage at Breakthrough ceremony: MacFarlane, Pharrell, Russell Crowe By John Markoff through Prize is that if scientists are NEW YORK TIMES viewed as celebrities — as cool as movie and rock stars — then more MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — young students will aspire to be sci- Movie stars. Red carpet. Awards. entists (and if the cool factor isn’t It’s a familiar script. Except that enough, there are $22 million in the event here Sunday night was prizes handed out each year). far from New York and Hollywood, Yuri Milner, a Russian investor, and the boldfaced names were Silicon Valley mogul and theoreti- gathered not to celebrate movies or cal physics dropout, established the music, but life sciences, physics and prize with Silicon Valley’s digerati, mathematics. The idea behind the Break- Science stars, Page 13 Volunteer to help with Splash IN Short Security on Nov. 21–22. You Drop date is next Wednesday, can sign up at http://esp.mit.edu/ LENNY MARTINEZ—THE TECH Nov. 18. This is the last day to can- security_2015. MIT Ridonkulous performs during Kappa Alpha Theta’s philanthropy event Go for the Gold. Go for cel subjects from registration or the Gold, a series of “Minute-to-Win-it” style games, replaced KATwalk as the sorority’s signature event. change a subject from Credit to Send news and tips to news@ Proceeds from the event all went to Court Appointed Special Advocates, a national network of volunteers Listener status. tech.mit.edu. who advocate on behalf of children in foster care. A new taKE on an OP-ED’S resPonse tricK or treat? BrooKLYN is SECTIONS Weather �����������������2 Exactly what did Mads Gilbert say about DAYLIGht saVinG OR Grow UP? trULY reLataBLE Fun Pages . .3 9/11? OPINIoN, p. 6 Arizonans and Hawai- With Halloween Our review of the Opinion . .4 ians celebrate. worKinG on an F-1 Visa comes the annual movie starring Saoirse Arts . .8 CAMPUS LIFE, p. 11 nostalgia. Ronan. Campus Life . .10 What you need to know about the CAMPUS LIFE, p. 10 ARTS, p. 8 Sports . .15 DHS’s new proposal. OPINION, p. 6 2 The Tech Thursday, November 12, 2015 WEATHER Atlantic Ocean gets 130°W 125°W 120°W 115°W 110°W 105°W 100°W 95°W 90°W 85°W 80°W 75°W 70°W 65°W 60°W November hurricane 40°N By Vince Agard derive their energy from the heat of STAFF METEOROLOGIst the sea surface, which remains warm later in the year due to the ocean’s Although autumn is in full swing great heat capacity. Kate is far from 35°N here in New England, the Atlantic the latest tropical cyclone to form in 988 hurricane season is still in session. the Atlantic basin: Twice in recorded 1030 In fact, the Atlantic basin is currently history a tropical storm has formed experiencing its fourth hurricane of on Dec. 30 and lasted into the next 2015, as Tropical Storm Kate was offi- year (one of these, Alice in 1954-55, at- 30°N cially upgraded to hurricane status on tained hurricane status). Wednesday morning. A weak Catego- Closer to home, a strong storm 1023 ry 1 hurricane with sustained winds that produced both blizzard and tor- 1018 of 75 mph, Kate is forecast to weaken nado warnings in the central United and become a post-tropical storm lat- States on Wednesday will pass to the 25°N er today as it moves out to sea without north of our area today. However, impacting any major land areas. those extreme conditions will not be 1026 Although hurricanes are warm- materializing at the Institute. Instead, season storms, they often form well expect rain showers this afternoon after the summer season has con- and evening before a cold front passes cluded. This is possible because they through later tonight. Situation for Noon Eastern Time, Thursday, November 12, 2015 Extended Forecast Weather Systems Weather Fronts Precipitation Symbols Other Symbols Snow Rain Today: Rain in the afternoon and evening. High 54°F (12°C). Winds S Fog High Pressure Trough Showers at 10–15 mph. Thunderstorm Warm Front Light Tonight: Rain ending overnight. Low 48°F (9°C). Winds becoming W Low Pressure Haze Cold Front at 10–15 mph. Moderate Compiled by MIT Hurricane Meteorology Staff Tomorrow: Partly cloudy and breezy. High 56°F (13°C). Winds W at Stationary Front Heavy and The Tech 10–20 mph. Tuesday: Sunny and breezy. High 40s°F (9°C). Solution to Money from page 4 Solution to Crooked Students who have from page 5 experienced gender-based violence turn to a friend FOR SUPPORT. 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