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Established 1881 WEATHER, p. 2 MIT’s Oldest and TUE: 65°F | 45°F Largest Newspaper Showers, then wind weD: 55°F | 37°F Mostly sunny tech.mit.edu thU: 56°F | 45°F Mostly sunny Established 1881 Volume 134, Number 17 Tuesday, April 8, 2014 Harvard College sophomore dies after falling from building Housemaster says that the death ‘was not an accident’ By William Navarre Sun was working toward a Bach- his injuries are too severe for him to STAFF REPORTER elor of Arts degree in Economics, ac- recover,” the email read in part, not- cording toEstablished his LinkedIn profile, which 1881 ing that he “likely only has a matter of Andrew Sun, a Harvard College lists science, economics, and basket- hours left.” sophomore, died 4 a.m. Monday at ball among his interests. His profile Sun was surrounded by fam- Massachusetts General Hospital after also lists him as a member of Harvard ily members at the time of his death: falling from a building in downtown College Faith and Action, a student his father, mother, and aunt were all Boston the day before, The Crimson group, and captain of his intramural present, The Crimson reported. reported in an online article that basketball team. Harrington also visited Sun in morning. What brought Sun to the top of the the hospital, telling The Crimson that The fall took place just around building is unclear. “people kept coming and coming” midnight Sunday morning, accord- “Very sadly, from all we under- while she was there. “I was so moved ing to a Boston.com article, which stand at this point, this was not an ac- and proud by the maturity they also reported that Sun fell seven sto- cident,” Anne Harrington, co-house- shared in their grief.” ries off of a building at 240 Atlantic master of Sun’s dormitory, told The Harvard College Faith in Action Ave. in Boston. Crimson. “We are all grieving today.” held a prayer and worship event open The building, located near the Sun died after being put on life to all members of the Harvard com- New England Aquarium, is nearly 4.5 support Sunday afternoon, having munity, The Crimson reported. Presi- miles from Sun’s dormitory in Cam- undergone surgery that morning, dent of that group Shaun Y.S. Lim told bridge and is more than seven stories accordingEstablished to an email The Crimson 1881 The Crimson the event was “really tall, housing several eateries, invest- said was sent to house tutors in Sun’s powerful,” adding that it’s a “tough ment firms, and other businesses. dormitory. “Andrew’s doctors said time for the community.” SARAH LIu—THE TECH Late-night T service starts strong Phunk Phenomenon, a professional dance crew in the Bos- ton area, performed at Footwork, an annual dance showcase held by MIT’s Ridonkulous this past Friday in La Sala of the Stu- Fate of pilot program in the hands of after-hours passengers dent Center. By Austin Hess yearlong pilot program whose con- later. EDITOR IN CHIEF tinuation beyond next March will According to the MBTA, the pro- likely depend on the number of pas- gram will cost approximately $16 The MBTA’s extended late night sengers who use the services during million, although sponshorships Chemical engineering professor hours of service, which began March the later hours. The MBTA had pre- from private organizations like the 28, mean that the T and certain bus viously introduced late-night buses Red Sox, Dunkin’ Donuts, and the appointed associate provost routes will now run for nearly 90 min- in the NightEstablished Owl program, but aver 1881- Boston Globe will cover $1.5 million utes longer on Friday and Saturday age nightly ridership declined from of the cost. Nevertheless, the Globe’s Karen K. Gleason ’82, a “strengthening MIT’s industrial nights. The final trains from down- about 2,000 people at its start in 2001 reporting indicates that MBTA offi- chemical engineering profes- engagements.” town stations will leave at about 2:30 to 655 in 2005, after which it was cials still expect the extended service sor, began her appointment as As associate provost, a po- a.m. during extended hours, accord- no longer offered, the Boston Globe to be a net loss. associate provost last Monday. sition in the Institute’s senior ing to the MBTA’s website. reported. During the extended hours of the The appointment was an- leadership, Gleason will over- According to the Boston Globe, The extension affects 15 key bus first two nights of the program, the nounced by Provost Martin A. see space planning and reno- 18,000 people used the T during the routes and the Red, Orange, Green, Red Line was the most heavily used Schmidt PhD ’88, who wrote in vations at MIT. approximate times of the extended Blue, Mattapan, and most of the Sil- line at non-transfer stations with an email that he was “thrilled” She succeeds Schmidt, who hours during the first two nights of ver Lines according to the MBTA’s over 4,600 riders, followed by the and that her significant indus- the program. website. The RIDE service for dis- try experience would help in Gleason, Page 12 The additional service is part of a abled passengers will also operate MBTA, Page 11 Taxi riders don’t fear cold: data Contest seeks best maps, visualizations By Martine Powers Last November, the city handed over a BOstON GLOBE big chunk of that data — comprehensive cab data from May to December 2012, or 2.3 For years, Boston’s Department of million taxi rides — to the Massachusetts In- Transportation has collected GPS data on stitute of Technology. In a competition that every taxi pickup and drop-off throughout ended in February, MIT offered two $4,000 the city. It is an astonishing accumulation prizes for the student groups that came up of raw numbers on how Bostonians get with the best interactive visualization and around, ripe with opportunity for analysis. the best prediction model for taxi demand at Until recently, there was a problem: spots around the city. There was no one to dive into it. “It was ba- The winning maps provide a sweep- sically sitting on a hard drive waiting to be ing look at the taxi pickups and drop-offs looked at,” said Vineet Gupta, director of throughout an average week, a kind of MRI policy and planning at the Boston Transpor- tation Department. Taxi, Page 14 vicing this week on Monday, Tuesday and IN Short Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Campus Preview Weekend begins this the E62 lobby. SARAH LIu—THE TECH Thursday and runs through Sunday! Dario Garcia-Dominguez ‘15 plays a movement from Beethoven’s Sonata No. 30 in E Send news information and tips to Major, Op. 109 as a part of the Emerson Fellowship Student Recital Series. Balfour is on campus for Brass Rat ser- [email protected]. RUEDA DE casino UPPercUT worD is Born FRUstrations SECTIONS World & Nation . .2 Beavers and groundhogs and squirrels. 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Marks, a spokes- Officials said that determining year sentence if he is convicted of premeditated murder in man for the Navy’s 7th Fleet, which the nature and source of the signals N the shooting of Reeva Steenkamp, a glamorous model and KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — is overseeing U.S. naval participation might take several days, and that law graduate, on Feb. 14, 2013. Even as they celebrated the discov- in the search. But the process is slow there was still no proof of the plane’s He has denied the charge, saying he believed he was ery of underwater signals that may and deliberate. whereabouts. shooting at an intruder in his luxurious home when he fired have come from Malaysia Airlines At the same time, the batteries in The signals picked up by Ocean four rounds from a handgun through a bathroom door, only Flight 370, the authorities involved Flight 370’s black boxes were expect- Shield occurred over the course of to discover that Steenkamp, 29, was locked inside. in the search cautioned Monday that ed to expire this week. The closer to about 5 1/2 hours late Sunday in the The runner may take the stand for the first time on Mon- they were still far from confirming expiration, the weaker the pings are. northern part of the current search ATIO day. News reports said the defense planned to call a patholo- the location of the airliner and solv- If the searchers aboard Ocean zone, northwest of Australia, offi- gist, Jan Botha, as its first witness.