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Established 1881 WEATHER, p. 2 MIT’s Oldest and Fri: 52°F | 29°F Largest Newspaper Partly cloudy Sat: 45°F | 32°F Sunny tech.mit.edu SUN: 55°F | 36°F Mostly sunny Established 1881 Volume 131, Number 56 Friday, December 2, 2011 Chu visits MIT, gives Construction, Destruction by Big Pharma talk on clean energy Encourages students to get involved By Leo Zhou “transformative technologies,” rang- ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR ing from the discovery of the Haber- Bosch processEstablished (synthesis of ammonia) 1881 U.S. Secretary of Energy and Nobel to the development of vacuum tubes Laureate in Physics Steven Chu visited and transistors, as analogies to what MIT to map out his strategies to re- he believed were the right policies for store U.S. competitiveness in clean en- growth in the U.S. economy. ergy in a talk at Kresge Auditorium this Using the talk as an opportunity to Wednesday. This is his first visit to the reach out to the MIT community, Chu Institute since his Compton lecture in also announced the Better Buildings 2009. The event was sponsored by the Challenge. Part of President Obama’s student-run MIT Energy Club. Better Buildings Initiative, the Chal- In his address — “Winning the lenge calls on company CEOs, uni- Clean Energy Race” — Chu made ex- versity presidents, and state and local tensive use of historical examples of leaders to build more energy-efficient and money-saving buildings, and rec- ognizes them for their efforts. “Part of the Challenge is a ‘case competition’ to encourage energy club students to come upEstablished with solutions to these 1881 energy efficiency barriers,” said Chu. According the Department of Ener- gy’s website, the Better Building Case Competition allows college students to work on real scenarios submitted by both public- and private-sector DOE partners through a team formed SOURCE: FLICKR USER CENT. FOR AMER. PROG. ACT. by their university’s energy club. The U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven teams will be invited to present at a Chu gave a talk about clean energy Wednesday in Kresge Auditorium� Steven Chu, Page 7 MIT hosts White House manufacturing conferenceEstablished 1881 Government officials and re- the U.S. economy. The meeting KAILANG CHEN—THE TECH gional leaders in industry and aca- was part of the Advanced Manu- Top — The Analog Devices building, located between Smart and Osborne Street, was torn demia gathered at MIT on Monday facturing Partnership (AMP), cre- down to make way for a new building for Novartis AG� The Swiss pharmaceutical giant has plans to for a day-long forum as part of a ated by President Obama in June double the size of its facilities in Cambridge� White House initiative that aims to as a national effort to bring to- Bottom, foreground — Construction begins on a new Pfizer building at 610 Main Street� Pfizer, turn America’s laboratory advanc- also a pharmaceutical company, is moving research to Cambridge and has signed a 10-year lease for es into new technologies to boost AMP, Page 13 the MIT-owned property� What remains of the Analog Devices building can be seen in the background� IN Short Online pre-registration News Briefs for IAP and Spring began on Thursday at 9 a.m. If Economy Hardware the intent to upload them to you haven’t registered yet, Economy Hardware in Cen- file-sharing sites, was arraigned don’t forget! tral Square has reopened after in Middlesex Superior Court nearly a year of renovation. on Wednesday. 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WORL THE NEW YORK TIMES Last weekend, Germany and large securities purchases that Europe appeared to have After insisting for weeks that France began floating a plan to the Federal Reserve has used to bought a bit more time Wednes- the ECB is not authorized, under N FRANKFURT, Germany — hold member nations of the euro try stimulating the U.S. economy. day, when the Federal Reserve, the European Union treaty, to Mario Draghi, the president of the currency union more financially But he seemed to be saying the ECB and four other central bail out national governments, European Central Bank, laid the accountable to their fellow mem- that the ECB would use its virtu- banks agreed to free up more dol- Draghi on Thursday hinted at groundwork for a more aggressive bers by giving European Union ally unlimited financial resources lar lending to European banks. how the treaty mandate might response to the debt crisis Thurs- officials the power to vet and to keep financial markets at bay, But the stock market rally that nonetheless let the central bank day, suggesting that the bank approve their national budgets. if government leaders in the euro followed that move did not carry to do just that. He noted that the could increase its support for the Eurozone agreement to such a region agreed to do their part by over to Thursday — although suc- ECB’s mandate required it to ATIO European economy if political proposal is seen as a possible addressing the structural flaws cessful government bond auc- ensure price stability “in either leaders took more radical steps precondition to increased financ- that allowed the debt problems of tions in Spain and France did direction.” to enforce spending discipline ing by the ECB, to which Ger- Greece to mutate into a threat to indicate at least a temporary calm Typically, the ECB has seen its among members. many and France are the biggest the global economy. in the debt storm. main job as keeping a lid on infla- In the run-up to a meeting of contributors. “What I believe our economic By insisting that greater action tion. But “either direction” might European leaders late next week, Draghi, in the manner of cen- and monetary union needs is a would depend on rules to enforce mean that if inflation fell below Draghi’s remarks seemed to be tral bankers, made no explicit new fiscal compact,” Draghi said. spending discipline among euro the central bank’s official target part of a larger effort by the ECB promises Thursday. And the quid “It is time to adapt the euro area members, Draghi might at least of about two percent, the ECB & N and the region’s biggest econom- pro quo he offered governments design with a set of institutions, partly address German concerns would be required to take action ic powers — Germany and France was indirect. But his remarks illu- rules and processes that is com- that greater ECB action would to prevent deflation. That would — to lay the foundation for a minated how the ECB might an- mensurate with the requirements reward countries that have mis- be justification for the central broader rescue without seeming swer increasingly desperate calls of monetary union.” managed their finances and vio- bank to do what so many experts to compromise their principles. for the bank to escalate its inter- After government leaders take late a prohibition against financ- have been urging: buy govern- Later Thursday, the French vention in bond markets with- steps to improve the way the euro ing governments.

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