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Volume 130, Number 55 tech.mit.edu Friday, November 19, 2010 Athena printing changes coming Hold-and-print system may get rolled out this January By Divya Srinivasan Staff Reporter

Over the past year, Information Services and Technology, the UA, and the MIT Administration have been examining how the Athena printing system can be improved to maximize efficiency and cut costs. Several changes have already been made. Copytech now maintains printer hardware and supplies, and there is a now a centralized budget that pays for dorm printer supplies, so students don’t need to steal paper from Athena clusters or buy paper using dorm budgets. INSIDE Bigger changes to printing are being con- Changes to sidered, such as the introduction of a print Athena may quota, and switching to a system that will include more not print until the user is physically at the printer. Other changes, like adding scanners Logan P. Williams—The Tech than just Students protest the new dining plan next fall by eating food in Baker Dining yesterday evening that they had pre- to Athena clusters, are also being planned pared themselves. printing, p. 13 (see sidebar, p. 13). The initial rollout date for the changes to Athena is scheduled for IAP, when printers in all Athena More unrest over new dining plan clusters will switch to hold-and-release, and scanners will be added to select locations. Fifteen hundred sign online petition, 25 stage Baker protest Working group makes recommendations Last fall, the Institute-wide Planning Task Force suggested By Deborah Chen from students, graduate students and 500 Athena should move to a “greener” printing process to reduce Staff Reporter others in less than 24 hours. waste, also improve the use of Athena cluster space. On Thursday, roughly 25 students, 410 As a result, Dean for Undergraduate Education Daniel E. Student opposition to the pro- mostly from East Campus, brought 400 Hastings SM ’78 and Marilyn T. Smith, Head of IS&T, created 358 posed House Dining Advisory Group their own food and prepared it in the an Athena working group in March, with the help of the UA continues this week. A major new pe- Baker Dining Hall in a demonstration 301 and Student Information Processing Board (SIPB). tition launched on Wednesday eve- against the new dining plan. The stu- 300 The working group found that printing costs at MIT are ning has amassed over 1,298 signa- dents said they wanted to show that 226 around $270,000 annually, and that students have a strong in- tures from undergraduates as of early they didn’t need dining halls. terest in keeping Athena clusters at MIT. Initial recommenda- 200 Friday morning. tions included: Online petition against dining INSIDE On Thursday, stu- 132 • Implementation of a “hold-and-release” system, in which dents held an “eat- is largest yet jobs won’t print until a student visits the printer and selects The full text 100 in” protest at Baker The petition argues that the plan 69 them of the online House to show that did not “adequately consider student • Adding centrally-supplied dorm printers and library petition, p. 10 they could cook for opinion,” will “destroy the commu- $0 printers to the public system themselves. nity and culture” of both dining and • Redistributing printers to more convenient locations Grad Other On Wednesday at 5 p.m., an on- non-dining dorms, harm FSILGs and Juniors Seniors • Limiting free printing to 3,000 pages, with a nominal fee Freshmen line petition against the dining plan clubs, and “double the cost of food.” Sophomores Students for more pages. was launched at http://sayNO.mit. Addressed to MIT President Su- Source: SAYNO.MIT.EDU IS&T and the UA are currently evaluating these proposals. edu. This petition is the fourth major san J. Hockfield, Chancellor Philip L. Substantially more freshman and sopho- petition against dining this term, and Clay PhD ’78, Dean for Student Life mores signed the online petition, but even Hold-and-release model the first one conducted online. seniors and graduate students has signed The hold-and-release model for Athena printing would It gathered over 1,400 signatures Dining, Page 10 onto the petition in numbers. Athena printing, Page 13

In Short mailing list; see http://web.mit.edu/reuse for more information. The reuse list is PBE brothers haven’t been told when wildly successful and thousands of items they will be required to move out of are given away for free each year, ranging their house, since the Cambridge Li- from trivial items to pieces of equipment cense Commission has not yet evaluat- valued at thousands of dollars. ed MIT’s request to revoke PBE’s housing license. The Commission was originally Airport shuttles for $10 are available scheduled to review MIT’s eviction re- on Tuesday and Wednesday, before quest at their Oct. 26 meeting, but it has Thanksgiving. Reserve in advance at deferred consideration at PBE’s asking. http://dof-web.mit.edu/shuttles/. The Commission has not scheduled a new date for PBE. MIT is #1 in Business Insider magazine’s “America’s Best Colleges.” We scored Gonzalo Guillen, accused of stabbing 4.61/5 ahead of Stanford (4.49), Harvard a fellow Anna’s Tacqueria employee in (4.46), Yale (4.39), and Princeton (4.37). October, is scheduled for a hearing to- Go Tech! day. The Dining Plan is in the lead for APO’s “Choose to Reuse” takes place in Lobby Ugliest Manifestation on Campus. Sur- 13 today. Items can be dropped off from prise! It’s beating out the Rotting Jack-o- 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., and “free stuff” will be Lantern $287.21 to $34.87, page 11.

available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Separate- Andrew Swayze—The Tech ly, remember that ad hoc surplus items Send news information and tips to A silver RV made to look like a giant toaster appeared on the dot by Building 54 yesterday. The are frequently posted to the reuse [email protected]. owners were offering visitors free toast.

The value of End these A High school film Trading players SECTIONS humor Farm worth watching hurts the game World & Nation ��2 Opinion ��4 Comedy is all about Subsidies Easy A wants to be like What does it even Fun Pages ��6 the truth, and how They’re expensive, Mean Girls — it’s actually mean to have teams Arts ��9 sometimes you have to they benefit few, much better. when players move Sports ��16 lie to get to the truth. and they don’t even ARTS, p. 9 around so much? OPN, p. 5 work. OPN, p. 5 SPO, p. 16 2 The Tech Friday, November 19, 2010 Hero dog from fghan base is D killed by mistake in Arizona Aggressive TSA pat downs leave FLORENCE, AZ — When a suicide bomber entered a U.S. military barracks in Afghanistan in February, it was not American passengers feeling humiliated soldiers but Afghan stray dogs that confronted him. Target and two other dogs snarled, barked and snapped at the man, who detonated his bomb at the entrance to the facility but did not kill By Susan Stellin showing broad support for the full- sonable suspicion that they’ve got a worl anyone. The New York Times body scanning machines. gun,” said John Wesley Hall, a crimi- The dogs were from the Dand Aw Patan district, in the eastern Still, it remains to be seen nal defense attorney who special- Paktia province near the Pakistani border. One died of wounds In the three weeks since the whether travelers approve of the pat izes in search and seizure law.

n suffered in the blast, and months later, Target and the other dog Transportation Security Adminis- downs, especially as millions more “Here there is no reasonable sus- were flown to the United States by a charity and adopted by fami- tration began more aggressive pat people experience them for the first picion,” he said. “It’s the pure act of lies. Target — who received a hero’s welcome, including an ap- downs of passengers at airport se- time during the holiday travel sea- getting on a plane.” pearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” — went to live with the curity checkpoints, traveler com- son. But Orin S. Kerr, a law professor family of Sgt. Terry Young, 37, an Army medic who witnessed the plaints have poured in. “I would be very surprised if the at George Washington University, animals’ bravery that night and helped treat the dogs and several Some offer graphic accounts of average American would say this is said the courts have generally sup- U.S. soldiers who were wounded. genital contact, others tell of agents OK after going through the kind of ported the government’s claims in

a t iThe o glory, though, was short-lived. Target, after learning to gawking or making inappropriate experience we’re hearing about,” cases involving airport screening, get along with the Young family’s other dog in Arizona, becom- comments, and many express a said Jay Stanley, a senior policy ana- although new cases would have to ing accustomed to dog food and to using a doggie door to relieve general sense of powerless and hu- lyst with the American Civil Liberties balance the more invasive nature of herself, escaped from her yard. She was captured last week and miliation. In general passengers are Union, which has received nearly current search procedures with the euthanized by mistake. saying they are surprised by the in- 400 complaints from travelers. government’s security needs. “My 4-year-old keeps saying: ‘Daddy, bring Target home. timacy of a physical search usually Critics also question whether the “Reasonableness is a murky Daddy, get the poison out,’” Young, a father of three, said in a tele- reserved for police encounters. pat downs will survive legal scru- standard, so there’s room for a new phone interview, his voice choking with emotion. “Obviously, at “I didn’t really expect her to tiny. On Tuesday, two pilots filed a legal challenge,” Kerr said. “But the

& N & first there was extreme anger and horror. Now that a couple of touch my vagina through my pants,” lawsuit against the Department of tenor of earlier cases is pretty defer- days have passed, the anger has been replaced by sorrow.” said Kaya McLaren, an elemen- Homeland Security and the TSA, ential to the government.” —Marc Lacey, The New York Times tary schoolteacher from Cle Elum, claiming that the new screening The Electronic Privacy Informa- Wash., who received a pat down at procedures violate Fourth Amend- tion Center has also filed suit against Dallas-Fort Worth International Air- ment rights against unreasonable the Department of Homeland Se- port on Saturday because the body search and seizure. But legal experts curity, arguing that the body scan- Masked military man is scanner detected a tissue and a hair are divided over whether the courts ners violate Fourth Amendment superhero for troops band in her pocket. will find the searches reasonable. protections as well as other federal o r l d The Transportation agency has “For Fourth Amendment pur- laws. The group is weighing how to WASHINGTON — Faster than a fleeting bullet point in an so far responded to the complaints poses, you can’t touch somebody respond to the pat downs, calling for Army briefing slide. Able to leap Pentagon jargon in a single by calling for cooperation and pa- like this unless you’re checking a stronger response from the govern- bound. While he’s not a classic superhero like the Man of Steel, tience from passengers, citing polls them into a jail or you’ve got rea- ment to passenger concerns.

W he’s certainly a man of irony.

Meet Doctrine Man, an Army officer’s cartoon creation, a caped crusader whose escapades battling military bureaucracy have attracted an Internet cult following, small but devoted and expanding among troops around the globe. With winner absent, Nobel panel It is penned anonymously and posted to a Facebook page, but the comic strip can be seen taped to cubicles at the Pentagon and at military headquarters by those who identify with Doctrine Man’s campaign against large institutions flying on autopilot over won’t hand over the Peace Prize a rapidly changing and dangerous world. And, unexpectedly, Doctrine Man has become host of an un- By Andrew Jacobs aobo, 54, who is serving an 11-year prize ceremony — the bestowing of official Web forum helping young soldiers navigate the military and Alan Cowell sentence for subversion. Liu’s wife, a medal and $1.5 million in cash — system — most queries are on how to manage new assignments The New York Times Liu Xia, has been held incommuni- would probably be postponed, given and new commanders — while offering a few chuckles along the cado since news of the award broke that neither Liu nor any of his family way. BEIJING — During the depths of last month, and the government has members were likely to attend. —Thom Shanker, The New York Times the Cold War, when Soviet physicist been waging a muscular offensive to This is not the Cold War, and and human rights advocate Andrei rebrand the prize as a Western ploy China is far more international and D. Sakharov was awarded the Nobel to undermine the Chinese Commu- integrated into the global econo- Peace Prize, the Kremlin barred him nist Party’s hold on power. my than either the Soviet Union Civilian trial of terror suspect from leaving the country. But the au- Beijing’s overall response has not or Communist Poland ever was. thorities allowed his wife to collect been subtle. It has warned foreign But China, emboldened by its ris- lent no stage on torture the award in his stead. governments to stay away from the ing economic might, appears to be One of the striking aspects of the case of Ahmed Khalfan Confronted with a similar chal- Dec. 10 ceremony, and it has placed more determined than many other Ghailani, the first former Guantanamo detainee tried in a civil- lenge in 1983, Polish authorities dozens of Chinese dissidents and authoritarian countries to confront ian court, was how little the federal jury in New York City heard permitted the wife of trade unionist intellectuals under various forms of the West’s notion that Western val- about the issues that had made his case so fiercely debated. Lech Walesa to travel to Oslo on his detention or surveillance. Last week, ues are universal and to mobilize The jurors heard nothing about the prison at Guantanamo behalf. In 1991, the son of Burmese two prominent legal scholars were China’s citizens against what it Bay, Cuba, where Ghailani had been held, nor about the secret opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi blocked from attending a law confer- views as an assault on its political overseas “black site” run by the CIA, where, his lawyers say, he delivered the acceptance speech for ence in London for fear they might system. had been tortured. his mother, who was being held un- later find their way to the awards cer- “Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize The jury also was not told about statements Ghailani had der house arrest. emony to be held at Oslo City Hall. to Liu Xiaobo once again reflects made to interrogators before he was brought into the civilian But the Chinese government China’s reaction has been so the strong attempts of Western court system, statements that prosecutors say “amount to a has come up with a less magnani- comprehensively hostile that the countries to intervene in the politi- confession” of his role in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embas- mous approach to the Norwegian Nobel committee, for the first time cal process in China,” said a com- sies in East Africa, killing 224 people. Nobel Committee’s decision to give in the postwar era, said Thursday mentary that ran this month in the —Benjamin Weiser and Charlie Savage, The New York Times the peace prize to dissident Liu Xi- that the central part of the peace official newspaper People’s Daily.

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Hurricane Meteorologyand The Staff Tech Stationary Front Heavy and The Tech nation world & nation world & nation world & nation & world nation & world nation & world nation Friday, November 19, 2010 The Tech 3 12th-grade reading and math WORLD & Nati on WORLD & Nati on WORLD & Nati on WORLD & Nati on WORLD & Nati on W Bernanke to castigate China for scores rise, surprising experts Reading scores for the nation’s 12th-grade students have increased continuing its currency games somewhat since they dropped to a historic low in 2005, according to results of the largest federal test, released Thursday. Average math scores also ticked upward. By Sewell Chan has been criticized for its Nov. 3 the White House and the lame- Experts said the increases, after years of dismal achievement re- The New York Times decision to inject $600 billion into duck Congress. ports, were surprising because every year the nation’s schools are the banking system through June, Even so, by defending the Fed’s educating more black and Hispanic students, who on average score WASHINGTON — Ben S. Ber- resuming an effort to lower long- actions, calling for global rebal- lower than whites and Asians. nanke, the Federal Reserve chair- term interest rates. ancing and hinting that more fis- The black-white achievement gap dates back more than a cen- man, plans to argue Friday that a Those attacks continued Thurs- cal stimulus might be needed, tury, though researchers debate why it persists today. Researchers “two-speed global recovery,” with day. Speakers at a conference here, Bernanke’s remarks amount to an presume that language barriers pull down scores for Hispanics. the richest countries lagging be- organized by the libertarian Cato endorsement of crucial elements “It’s very good news because you have scores going up despite a hind fast-growing emerging mar- Institute, warned that the Fed’s ex- of President Barack Obama’s eco- demographic trend that pulls scores down,” said Grover J. Whitehurst, kets like China and India, is ham- pansionary monetary policy could nomic approach. a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who directed the Depart- pering the cooperation needed for lead to asset-price bubbles like But that endorsement, in turn, ment of Education’s research division in the Bush administration. worldwide economic expansion. the housing boom that crashed in could further stoke criticism by The math and reading tests, known as the National Assessment of Bernanke is expected to say 2007. congressional Republicans, who Educational Progress and administered by the Department of Educa- that currency undervaluation by Bernanke’s speech argues that say the Fed is defying voters’ skep- tion, were given in spring 2009 to a representative national sample of countries with a surplus, like Chi- U.S. unemployment is at “unac- ticism about large-scale govern- about 50,000 12th-grade students. na, is causing imbalances in global ceptable” levels, and it gingerly ment intervention in the economy Educators and school policymakers closely monitor the national growth and trade. This is a main wades into the fiscal policy debate and setting the stage for inflation assessment scores much the way corporate leaders and economists point the Obama administration roiling Washington. down the road, and by foreign of- watch for changes in the gross domestic product or employment made — with limited success — “In general terms, a fiscal pro- ficials, who fear the Fed is trying trends. when leaders of the Group of 20 gram that combines near-term to weaken the dollar to make U.S. —Sam Dillon, The New York Times economic powers gathered last measures to enhance growth and exports more competitive. week in South Korea. strong, confidence-inducing steps Bernanke, a Republican econo- The Fed released Thursday the to reduce longer-term structural mist who was first appointed by prepared text of the speech Ber- deficits would be an important George W. Bush, will reiterate his Much fanfare for GM’s offering, nanke is scheduled to deliver Fri- complement to the policies of the argument that the Fed felt com- day at a European Central Bank Federal Reserve,” Bernanke will pelled to act because inflation is so but less-than-solid close conference in Frankfurt, Germany, say. low (about half of the Fed’s target General Motors returned to the stock market Thursday with a car along with accompanying remarks He does not plan, however, to of roughly 2 percent) and unem- show on Wall Street and a congratulatory message from President Ba- that he plans to deliver as part of a express a view on extending the ployment so high (stuck at nearly rack Obama, but the shares did not deliver a big surge above the price panel discussion there. Bush-era tax cuts, the most con- 10 percent for the past 18 months of the initial public offering. For the past two weeks, the Fed tentious fiscal policy choice facing or so). Shares in the nation’s biggest automaker closed at $34.19 in heavy trading, a 3.6 percent increase over the $33-a-share price of its offering. Investors had hoped for a larger bounce on the first day of trading for the company, which was rescued last year by a $50 billion government bailout and swift trip through bankruptcy reorganization. For the first time, Ireland admits Industry analysts said it appeared that the decision this week by GM and its underwriters to bump up the stock’s target price from the original $26 to $29 range had absorbed the usual first-day rise for an it needs foreign bailout money initial public offering. “That was where the bounce was,” said David Cole, chairman By David Jolly Capital Economics in London, encouraged by this decision; it’s emeritus of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich. and Niki Kitsantonis said the size of any bailout would the beginning of the end, hope- The relatively small increase in the GM share price also meant The New York Times depend on what the examiners fully.” that the U.S. taxpayers likely captured the best return possible in their found on the books of the Irish Concerns about Ireland’s fiscal first divesture of what was a 61 percent stake in the company. Irish officials acknowledged for banks. He said that 60 billion eu- state have contributed to volatil- Too high of a jump could have left GM and the Obama adminis- the first time Thursday that Ireland ros ($82 billion) might suffice if the ity in bond markets in recent days tration open to the charge that they priced the stock too low, aban- was seeking aid from international amount was to cover only the gov- and helped to keep the euro under doning paper profits that could have gone to taxpayers instead. lenders. ernment’s financing needs for the pressure. Ireland had been reluctant to next few years but that more might In Greece, where Europe’s sov- —Bill Vlasic, The New York Times accept any bailout that came with be necessary to have firepower in ereign debt troubles first surfaced strings attached. But Thursday, Fi- reserve. late last year, the Finance Ministry nance Minister Brian Lenihan told Additionally, he said, there was presented to parliament a 2011 the Irish parliament that it would a concern that Irish banks might budget that would pave the way Traffic roundabouts spread in US be a “very desirable outcome” if have trouble rolling over their debt for further deep cuts while also Traffic is going in circles. Armed with mounting data showing that a contingency capital fund could after the European Central Bank increasing sales taxes and redou- roundabouts are safer, cheaper to maintain and friendlier to the envi- be established with the European began to withdraw the extraordi- bling efforts to crack down on tax ronment, transportation experts around the country are persuading Union, the International Monetary nary measures it used to combat evasion. communities to replace traditional intersections with them. Fund and the European Central the financial crisis. Finance Minister George Papa- There’s just one problem: Americans don’t know how to navigate Bank. Also Thursday, experts from the constantinou said that the latest them. Patrick Honohan, governor of European Union, the IMF and the measures were ambitious but at- “There’s a lot of what I call irrational opposition,” said Eugene the Central Bank of Ireland, said European Central Bank arrived in tainable. R. Russell Sr., a civil engineering professor at Kansas State Univer- in an interview on the Irish state Dublin to review the books of Irish “These are not the desires and sity and chairman of a national task force on roundabouts, sounding broadcaster RTE that “we’re talk- lenders. wishes of the Greek government,” mildly exasperated in a telephone interview. “They just don’t under- ing about a very substantial loan “I think we’re moving toward he said, “but concrete measures stand roundabouts.” for sure” and that such a rescue the next stage,” said Pier Carlo that have been agreed” with the Many are being forced to learn, though, 25 years after Clark Gris- would be “in the tens of billions” Padoan, chief economist of the European Union and the IMF, wold captured the public’s unease with roundabouts in “European of euros. Organization for Economic Co- which bailed out the country in Vacation,” spending a full day circumnavigating London’s famous Ben May, an economist with operation and Development. “I’m May. Lambeth Bridge roundabout unable to escape its inner lane. The Department of Transportation does not keep statistics on roundabouts, but experts agree that they are proliferating rapidly. They point to Wisconsin, which has built about 100 roundabouts since 2004, and plans to build 52 more in the 2011 construction season alone. Maryland is closing in on 200. Kansas has nearly 100. Obama forces showdown with Senate All told, there are about 2,000 roundabouts in this country, most built in the last decade, according to Edward Myers, a senior principal at Kittelson & Associates, a transportation engineering and planning Republicans on arms pact with Russia firm. —Andrew Keh, The New York Times By Peter Baker security aide to President Ronald gress.” The New York Times Reagan and a scholar at the Nixon Obama has no clear path to ap- Center, a research group in Wash- proval of the treaty without Sen. Jon WASHINGTON — Just two ington. “I would say it’s the biggest Kyl of Arizona, the lead Republican weeks after an election that left him gamble he’s taken so far, certainly negotiator, who declared this week Sweden seeks arrest of struggling to find his way forward, on foreign policy.” that there was no time to reach an President Barack Obama has decid- After months of quiet negotia- agreement this year on a nuclear Wikileaks chief in rape case ed to confront Senate Republicans tions blew up this week, Obama on modernization program that he LONDON — The Swedish prosecutor’s office said Thursday that in a make-or-break battle over arms Thursday escalated ratification of wanted as the price for ratification. a court in Stockholm had approved its request for arrest warrants control that could be an early test of the agreement, the so-called New The White House has only one to be issued for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for questioning his mettle heading into the final two Start treaty, into a public show- Republican supporter, Sen. Rich- on charges of rape and other sexual offenses. Assange has strongly years of his term. down, enlisting former Republican ard G. Lugar of Indiana. A survey of denied the accusations. Obama is pushing for a vote officials and assigning Vice Presi- 14 other Senate Republicans who Marianne Ny, director of the Stockholm prosecutor’s office, said on a signature issue despite long dent Joe Biden to work on it “day were considered possible support- in a statement that she had moved to have Assange extradited to odds, daring Republicans to block and night.” An allied group, the ers found none who were willing to Sweden on suspicion of “rape, sexual molestation and unlawful an arms-control treaty at the risk of American Values Network, kicked publicly back the treaty. Ten of them coercion.” The accusations were first made against Assange, 39, an disrupting relations with Russia and off a television and e-mail cam- said they were undecided or were Australian who created the whistle-blowers’ website, after he trav- the international coalition that op- paign. waiting for the same assurances as eled to Sweden in mid-August and had brief relationships with two poses Iran’s nuclear program. If he “It is a national security im- Kyl. Four did not respond, suggest- Swedish women that he has described as consensual. succeeds, Obama will demonstrate perative that the United States rat- ing that approval may depend on Ny said in a telephone interview that the court had approved two strength following the midterm ify the New Start treaty this year,” changing Kyl’s mind. arrest warrants, one applicable within the European Union and the o R l D election debacle. If he fails, he will said Obama, flanked by Henry A. Among those who agreed with other an international warrant that would be issued through Inter- reinforce the perception at home Kissinger, James A. Baker III and Kyl that the issue should wait until pol. She said she had acted because “there is a risk of him fleeing.” and abroad that his presidency has Brent Scowcroft, all of whom served next year was Sen. Bob Corker of A Swedish court will ultimately decide whether to proceed with been weakened. Republican presidents. “There is Tennessee, one of three Republi- the charges, Ny said, as well as whether Assange should be de- “It’s really high stakes,” said no higher national security priority cans to vote for the treaty in com- tained or freed on bail. Geoffrey Kemp, a former national for the lame-duck session of Con- mittee in September. —John F. Burns and Ravi Somaiya, The New York Times OPINION OPINION OPINION OPINION OPINION OPINION OPINIOn Op i n i o n OPINION OPinION 4 The Tech Mass. 02139-7029. 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OPINION OPINION OPINION OPINION OPINION OPINION OPINIOn OPinion opinion OPINIOn OpiNION - The Tech 5 Tech The etwork N — Alec Lai, a Game Game a Zyng Secretary-General UA tes & Answers The The UA President and Vice - Presi At Exec last week’s meeting, the UA Monday’s Senate meeting saw the Finally, the UA invites you to have - sub agricultural seewhy to hard not It’s At $14 billion per year, farm subsidies dent dent met with the DSL members and of HDAG student last Friday. - Min utes and slides from the meeting are ua.mit.edu at . available Open MIT150 the discussedfor advice House. The information was to passed Events Committee chair Christine Chen ’12, and we encourage comments further to be emailed to her. nouncements An- regarding the budget were Spring followed by on FinBoard allocations discussion and the - regu lation and policies of the board; an ad hoc committee may be formed to continue this discussion. Ideas included having two rounds of allocations per fund. semester and a medium events approval of Jessica Chen ’14 chair to of the vice Committee of Public - Re lations, minor updates to the - consti tution, and a lengthy events discussion on between Senators constituents. and The their conversations tended to help Senators com- improve in- munication with and proactively find benefit their constituents. that projects Thanksgiving Dinner with us on Tues day! As space is limited, please RSVP direct to free Feel form. online the with ! further [email protected] any to questions UA Upda those farmed under industrial agriculture, and those grown in the early primary state of Iowa. dismantle. to difficult persistently are sidies thin across spread are of cost subsidies The the taxpaying public — concentrated the on benefits a wealthy are few. A person income making an will average see just $70 - subsi agricultural to go bill tax yearly his of dies — hardly enough to raise a complaint who magnates farm industrial the for but — are on the receiving end, mean millions farm in Over revenue. the past 15 subsidies years, a single company, Riceland Incorporated, has been Foods given $550 million, courtesy of the American taxpayer. amount to a mere 1.2 percent of deficit, the and 2010 are just a drop in the of red debt that ink is the U.S. federal budget. But if politicians cannot muster the courage to pick even this low hanging fruit, then there serious reform. hope of more is little - We seem subsidize to We two types of crops: those farmed under industrial and thoseagriculture, in the early grown primary of Iowa. state Over-exaggeration, Over-exaggeration, when done - judi may Humor seem liberal and rebellious, it is clear from their structure that they are nothing more than special farm subsidies The are vast majority of U.S. interest pork. and crops, of handful a just on concentrated some of the most heavily subsidized crops, such as cotton and tobacco, are crops at all. A not food security foodprogram would subsidize a broad swathe sources. A of wealth transfer nutritional program would subsidize the crops of the poorest farmers. A market-fixing program would subsidize crops with positive externalities. we Instead, seem to subsidize two types of crops: - aspira of utopic most the involves contrast, employs accuracy, of cost the at which tions, the most A of stereotypical libelnarratives. - lous concoction it may be, but the freedom afforded by humour is of immense - illustra - inaccu of virtue the by sense, a In value. tive racy, comedy reveals a different truth — the hon- The opinions. own orator’s the of truth esty of humour simultaneously offends and brings others closer, which, in our world of disguise, provides a rare opportunity to un- preconceptions. glossed-over our cover ciously, is a technique of great lowing utility, one’s thoughts to be al- conveyed with exaggeration Interestingly, conviction. great the uniquetooversimplificationnot and are comic world; one only has to consider our science. have We no qualms when it comes to making assumptions in science in proximations or engineering when clarity is - ap at stake. Why might different standards be applied to communication? Of course, just as scientists must qualify too orators their calculations, their engineers and equations must qualify their theories, by their and limitations. flaws but is paradoxically more reliant on trines doc than any religion could be. Built on preconceptions, humour is nothing in the absence of context. In a world of libel and slander, humour liberates us from and yet a societyties us to of social norms. - - - If anything, the farm subsidies work hypothet the had subsidies farm if Even What comedy is not, is accurate. In fact, subsidies, it’s foreign consumers who to getdine on the American taxpayer’s A dime. quote from the Office: Congressional “Unlike tariffs, which tend Budget to harm all countries, subsidies tend to benefit the countries purchasing the subsidized - prod uctsandtoharm thecountries granting the subsidies.” at cross purposes with other policy goals. We subsidize high fructose corn syrup, but then campaign against sodas and sweets. We promote lighter milks as part of fat a low diet, but then spend to tens get people of to consume millions the excess milk fat (in one such program, the government partnered with Domino’s Pizza to hawk a 40-percent-cheesier pizza). We pour millions into combating childhood but then stock obesity, our school lunch programs with the fatty excess from subsidized agri- yields. cultural attributed to surprise; between unlikely remote ideas parallels and objects. again, sometimes humour is Then simply the - re alization that human beings have more in common than in difference. Still, it would to bethink of an oversimplification comedy solelyasform a of surprise and eccentricity. Comedy is both, and more. Of all oratorical styles,comedy is one of the most subtle and yet honest means of communication. What comedy is, is a license to spill the truth, to reveal one’s honest opinions. We struggle to evaluate the opinions of and politicians from businessmen their well kept public personae. Evaluating comedians Their is stereotypical easy. views are nottheir preconceptions are laid bare and they hidden, have more incentive to harden rather than soften their truths. one of the sleeve basic is tricks up a comic’s exaggeration — the inflation of all propor ical ical ability to improve the general welfare, tionsto effectively convey an idea. This,you downfalls major the of one is suggest, might of comedic presentations. truth is that formal However, speeches made by poli- the ticiansbusinessmencontainormore not do they Instead, comics. of those than accuracy less inaccuracy; a impor contain subtle but tant difference. Politics - word vague and cautious seeksits through which consensus, ing avoids inaccuracy. Benign statements serve as a protective layer, hiding from us true thoughts and opinions. 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25 attend Baker protest The online petition It will destroy culture within non-dining dorms by providing an influx of students who Dining, from Page 1 The premise of the protest, as explained against the dining chose to move into one of these dorms due to in an e-mail sent out to participants by initia- the lower cost, even if the culture is not right Chris Colombo, housemasters, HDAG mem- tors Michael L. Pappas ’14 and Christopher W. plan for them. bers, and faculty members, the petition de- Tam ’14, was that students would bring and It will also increase the length of inter-dorm mands “major revisions to the dining plan.” prepare their own food to eat in the Dining Dear President Hockfield, Chancellor Clay, waitlists, decreasing mobility for students who “This petition takes a different approach in Hall, sending the message to administrators Dean Colombo, Housemasters of MIT, Mem- wish to switch dorms for other reasons. that it brings all the background about dining that they are not “incapable of feeding them- bers of HDAG, and Members of the Faculty: We are particularly disturbed that the ex- into one central location, and that the website selves” and thus do not need the new dining istence of expensive mandatory dining plans creates a forum for dialogue and discussion” plan. We, the undersigned, write to voice our ob- in some dorms will result in segregation by said Keone Hon ’11, who created the website Tam said, “It’s a way for people to do some- jection to the new dining plan proposed by the wealth. Egalitarianism is a fundamental tenet with a group of 6–8 students. thing about dining that’s more than signing a House Dining Advisory Group (HDAG), which of MIT and we cannot support a plan that cre- “We’re targeting all of campus, which dem- petition, and it can be fun at the same time.” is slated to begin next fall. ates such different costs between dorms that onstrates that dining is truly a campus-wide Carrying signs labelled “IHTFP (I Hate the We have read the specific details of the pro- poorer students will be driven away and forced issue that will have implications everywhere,” Food Plan)” the protesters entered around 6 posed dining plan: to cluster together. he said. p.m. and were greeted at the door by Baker • We understand that there will be a “take MIT’s housing system, which allows stu- The petition makes three demands: That Housemaster, Course XVI professor Dava J. out” option. dents to find a home that truly suits them the plan become either non-compulsory or Newman Ph.D. ’92, and Senior Assistant Dean • We understand that the initial mandatory culturally, is one of the unique parts of our un- “significantly reduced in its level of mandatory of Students for Residential Life Henry J. Hum- commitment will decrease over time: $3800 dergraduate experience. Elevating the cost of cost”; that it be revised to avoid the “drastic ef- phreys, who invited them to sit down and dis- for freshmen, $3800 or $3400 for sophomores, living in a dining dorm forces some students to fects on dorms, clubs and other parts of Insti- cuss their concerns with the dining plan. and $3800, $3400, or $2900 for juniors and se- compromise their cultural preferences to save tute life”; and that the student body be asked, After a few minutes, the students and ad- niors. money; this is fundamentally at odds with “Do you approve of the final plan we have pro- ministrators settled into conversations at • We understand that hours will be staggered the MIT philosophy of student housing. posed?” various tables. Newman said, “The important across the system in order to accommodate “We want to send a strong message to thing is to engage students and learn their more schedules. Negative impacts on FSILGs/clubs HDAG: they’re not going far enough in the opinions. It’s nice to see everyone eating to- We still do not support this plan for the FSILGs are an essential part of the MIT things they’re willing to concede. Currently, gether and talking to each other.” following reasons, which are further detailed community; while individual students resid- the plan is portrayed as something set in stone, Humphreys said, “I think students have below: ing in their FSILGs would mostly avoid the but we hope that after we obtain really strong a right to voice their concerns. The students • It nearly doubles the cost of food. mandatory dining plan, their organizations support for our petition, that conclusion we were being effective in making their point, but • The motivation given for its launch — an would face significant effects. have to be thrown away…My hope is that the they were still respectful of the people who live annual deficit of $600,000 — is misleading and Freshmen or other on-campus members administration and HDAG members take this at Baker. most likely is not even solved by it. who are on the mandatory dining plan are petition as a sincere declaration from students Almas Abdulla ’14, McCormick Sena- • It will cause many of us to move if we refuse less inclined to forfeit a prepaid meal to attend across campus that significant revisions need tor, said, “I’ve been taking around a petition to accept the expense. This negatively impacts dinner with their FSILG, which is an important to be made. I have full faith that because they around McCormick, and from all the people both dining and non-dining dorms. bonding time for many FSILGs. are committed to serving students’ interests I’ve talked to, there is an overwhelming op- • It will hurt FSILGs and clubs, which are es- Clubs use food to attract attendees to that they will listen and resolve the concerns position to the dining plan. Many people said sential components of the MIT experience, by events; having students purchase a full dinner articulated in the petition,” said Hon, who was they would strongly consider moving out, discouraging dining dorm residents from par- plan in advance will hurt attendance at lec- formerly the president of the Association of which is a problem because McCormick is the ticipating in dinnertime activities. tures and meetings where free food is often a Student Activities. only all-female dorm, so if someone is living • It is not right for us and not right for MIT. powerful incentive. In a response to the petition, Dean for there for personal reasons and they can’t pay Our opinion was ignored by HDAG the first MIT’s strong student activities and FSILG Student Life Christopher Columbo said, “We for dining, they’d still be forced to.” time around; we demand that the plan be re- systems are significant to the undergraduate have heard very clearly that students are con- Many of the students in attendance, how- vised immediately to earn our approval. experience. The new dining plan will hurt cerned about cost, about the level of commit- ever, were residents of non-dining dorms. these integral aspects of student life by de- ment for existing House Dining residents, and Patrick A. Hulin ’14, a resident of East Campus Expense creasing participation; this effect has not about the impact on the system once the new said, “I’m here because it’s clear to me that The new plan is too expensive — after ac- been properly investigated. meal plans are put into place. Within HDAG, students don’t support the meal plan. People counting for missed meals, IAP, and lunches, we are taking a serious look at their ideas to from non-dining dorms need to stand up for it will nearly double the cost of food. Several Disregard for student opinion find a way to minimize the stress on the house people in the dining dorms. For example, all surveys indicate that current student expen- We reject HDAG’s argument that it ad- communities without delaying or stopping the my friends in Next House are considering ditures average $1700 (non-dining dorms) to equately considered student opinion by re- implementation process.” moving out if the plan is implemented.” $2300 (dining dorms) annually, while expen- sponding to questions and concerns through- Michael E. Plasmeier ’13, Vice President of When asked about the small turnout, Pap- ditures under the dining plan will easily ex- out the proposal-forming process. Baker Facilities and Services and RFP Com- pas seemed unfazed, “It’s not what I expected, ceed $5000. Our signatures to this petition are a clear mittee member, said, “The contract hasn’t but I’m happy with the outcome. I think this The high cost of the plan relative to existing indication that HDAG did not adequately con- been signed yet, and it’s not done until it’s was more productive than if we had, say, 130 costs is not clear from the information pub- sider our student opinion. HDAG never asked signed. The sooner we can work towards a so- people, because we were able to have a civil lished by the house dining website, as mis- us the only question that truly measures lution, the better. We want to move forward to dialogue, rather than just demonstrating that leading comparisons and questionable data student support: ‘Do you approve of the final meet the needs of all students.” there were things we weren’t happy about, analysis obscure the reality. Students must plan we have proposed?’ This petition is our So far, according to data (from Thursday something I think the administration is al- be given full and accurate information about answer to this question: we do not approve of night) students from every living group have ready keenly aware of. At our table, we talked costs and in this case they were not. the plan. signed the petition. The dorms with the most about dorm culture and possible ways to re- As such, we object — both to the expense We are dismayed by the argument that “ev- signatures as of 1 a.m. this morning are: model the dining plan to make it work for all and to the way the expense is inaccurately por- erything will be okay’’ in four years once the people.” trayed. system reaches steady state, since the current Baker 143 Asked about the low proportion of people students have graduated and the new students Next House 113 from dining halls in attendance, Pappas said Sustainability have “gotten used to” the plan. Even if this ar- Simmons 95 that some dining hall students may not have We also reject the argument that the new gument were true, it completely discounts the been able to participate because it was more dining plan is necessary to make dining sus- experience of those of us who are here now. East Campus 226 difficult for them to prepare their own meal tainable. HDAG sees the new dining plan as an Burton-Connor 116 for the protest without access to kitchens. First, we feel that the notion of sustainabil- opportunity to reshape students lives for “However, I think those who did come still ity needs clarification. The supporters of the the better, for example by increasing the rate Students who sign are asked to identify represent the general opinions coming from HDAG plan will gladly remind us that the cur- at which students engage in the healthy habit their year and residence, and are given the op- all sorts of different students, despite the ap- rent house dining system receives a subsidy of eating breakfast. We reject this view as tion to provide a comment if they choose. parent imbalance,” he said in an e-mail later of approximately $600,000 annually, but they paternalistic and uninformed. The party that evening. often fail to mention that the subsidy comes best-equipped to assess the needs of future Dining Protest at Baker Tam added, “It’s possible that people from from profits from other areas of dining, such students is us, the current students, and we say Thursday evening, a group of roughly 25 other dining halls were just having dinner as W20. In other words, the dining system as that this new dining plan does not fit the needs students met at Baker Dining to protest the somewhere else. In the end, at least we did a whole is self-sufficient. Many departments of present or future students. proposed dining plan. something.” have individual business units with varying levels of profitability; it is unfair to portray Conclusion house dining as a major tax on the whole In- The proposed dining plan will harm many stitute budget. of the unique aspects of MIT; it is wrong for us More to the point, we expect that the cost and wrong for MIT. to financial aid will exceed any savings from We demand major revisions to the dining eliminating the deficit, rendering any argu- plan. In particular, implementing the HDAG ments about sustainability useless. (The only proposal but “grandfathering” it in to give case in which this would not occur would be if current students an opt-out choice is not a MIT failed to increase its financial aid to reflect solution to our concerns. While this might be the higher costs under mandatory dining, in attempted to appease current students, we which case there are bigger issues in play.) We are not willing to sacrifice future students by have not seen the plan’s authors address these leaving them to deal with costs far in excess additional costs to MIT, and so we find the re- of the MIT norm. Moreover, a grandfathered peated emphasis on financial sustainability to version of the HDAG plan does not satisfy our ring hollow indeed. concerns about the effect on our dorm culture More generally, we object to the practice or on our clubs and FSILGs; it still promotes of using the supposed deficit as an unques- wealth-segregated dorms; and it is fundamen- tionable motivation for expanding the dining tally at odds with the philosophy that students system. Cries of “we have no choice; the bot- live where they find the best cultural fit. tom line demands it” are immediately suspect Rather, we demand the following: when used to justify expanding, not shrinking, • That the dining plan be revised to make the a comparatively expensive program. a meal plan either non-compulsory or significantly reduced in its level of mandatory cost. Negative impact on both dining and • That the new plan be reviewed to ensure non-dining dorms that the drastic effects on dorms, clubs, and The plan forces us to move out if we are un- other parts of Institute life cited here are avoid- willing to pay for meals that we will not eat. ed. It will destroy the community within • That the undergraduate student body be John A. Hawkinson—The Tech dining dorms by providing upperclassmen presented with the revised plan and asked the Promoters of the most recent campus dining petition late Wednesday night with a financial incentive to move out, mak- only question that truly measures student sup- plastered the door of Chris Colombo, Dean for Student Life, with signs saying ing it more difficult to develop long-standing port: “Do you approve of the final plan we have “sayNO.mit.edu,” the website of the petition. culture. proposed?” Friday, November 19, 2010 The Tech 11 Worm in Iran was perfect for sabotaging centrifuges

By William J. Broad finitive, begins to clear some of the who was. American officials have Those fluctuations, nuclear ana- programs are responsible for at least and David E. Sanger fog around the Stuxnet worm, a ma- suggested it originated abroad. lysts said in response to the report, some of that decline. So when Iran The New York Times licious program detected this year on The new forensic work narrows are a recipe for disaster among the reported this year that it was battling computers, primarily in Iran but also the range of targets and deciphers thousands of centrifuges spinning the Stuxnet worm, many experts im- Experts dissecting the computer India, Indonesia and other coun- the worm’s plan of attack. Computer in Iran to enrich uranium, which can mediately suspected that it was a worm suspected of being aimed at tries. analysts say Stuxnet does its damage fuel reactors or bombs. Rapid chang- state-sponsored cyberattack. Iran’s nuclear program have deter- The paternity of the worm is still by making quick changes in the rota- es can cause them to blow apart. The computer analysis, Albright’s mined that it was precisely calibrated in dispute, but in recent weeks of- tional speed of motors, shifting them Reports issued by international in- Wednesday report concluded, in a way that could send nuclear cen- ficials from Israel have broken into rapidly up and down. spectors reveal that Iran has expe- “makes a legitimate case that Stuxnet trifuges wildly out of control. wide smiles when asked whether Is- Changing the speed “sabotages rienced many problems keeping its could indeed disrupt or destroy” Ira- Their conclusion, while not de- rael was behind the attack, or knew the normal operation of the indus- centrifuges running, with hundreds nian centrifuge plants. trial control process,” Eric Chien, a removed from active service since The latest evidence does not researcher at the computer security summer 2009. prove Iran was the target, and there company Symantec, wrote in a blog Intelligence officials have said have been no confirmed reports of Ugliest Man on Campus totals post. they believe that a series of covert industrial damage linked to Stuxnet. $300

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Alex French Adelaide (Kerry Brooke Steere) tries to persuade Nathan Detroit (Stever Robbins ’86) to get married, after fourteen years of being engaged. MIT’s Musical Theatre Guild will be performing Guys And Alex French Dolls Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 8 p.m. in La Sala de Puerto Rico. Burlesque dancers perform “Bushel and a Peck” during the Musical Theater Guild’s performance of Guys Matinees at 2 p.m. will also be held on Saturday and Sunday. and Dolls. Friday, November 19, 2010 The Tech 13

3k pages a semester? Other Athena changes on the horizon Group considers Athena printing quotas Scanners Though initially interested in deploying multi-function printers, the Athena Working Group will be test- Athena printing, from Page 1 3,000 page quota ing out the idea of scanners in Athena clusters. The pilot scanners will be separate from printers and will In the initial recommendations, be full-featured photo and document scanners that can scan to a file directly. The working group decided use a system called Pharos, which the working group proposed a against using multi-function printers because many students need higher quality scans than the typical is currently being tested at the Stu- quota of 3,000 pages per semester multi-function scanner can provide. (There might still be pilot multi-function devices to test out scanning dent Center and at Baker House. be created in the new, compre- in general.) A student sends a job to a printer, hensive system. They determined but the printer doesn’t start print- that only 100 members of the MIT Quickstations and thin clients ing until the students goes to the community go over this quota, so Currently, there are 44 Athena quickstations on campus, and more are slowly being installed. The work- printer and presses a button or it would not affect the overwhelming group hopes it will be able to add about five more stations by IAP. swipes an ID. ing majority of Athena users. Some IS&T is in the process of experimenting with “thin clients”: cheaper, slower machines that run their soft- Currently, impatient students suggest a fee of about 10 cents ware off a remote server. The server does all the heavy lifting, so the computer that accesses the servers (the often submit jobs to multiple print- could be charged for each addi- client) doesn’t need to be very capable. ers, especially when the printers tional page. Such a system makes the quickstation computers resistant to tampering, since all their software is lo- are busy. They end up printing the The point is not to get students cated on the remote server. The machines could also be cheaper because they don’t need to speedy or state- same thing multiple times because to pay more for printing, said Oli- of-the-art — the group thinks it can save $1,500 off each computer. it difficult to remove the extra jobs. ver Thomas, Manager of the Fac- One challenges associated with the thin-client infrastructure is that the system works a lot better with The new system allows for a ulty and Student Experience at Windows than Linux. But Athena machines run Linux systems. It will take some time to determine which single queue for each type of print- IS&T. “The point of the quota and system — Athena VMware or Windows VMware — works better. er. For instance, students would be the hold-and-release piece is to able to submit a job to the black- save money by reducing waste and Looking at cost, efficiency, and sustainability and-white queue, and then go to encouraging responsible behavior, Data from the initial working group recommendations showed that about 20 percent of the paper printed any black-and-white printer to re- though even that is subservient to at the high-traffic W20 Athena cluster is never used. The hold-and-release model will not only save paper, lease the job. This improves con- reducing waste.” but also reduce wear-and-tear on machines and save toner. venience and reduces the waste There has been some concern Athena printers use only about 60 percent of the paper purchased for them; the rest disappears. The that is associated with abandoned that the introduction of the new hope is that number will decrease because the printing budget for dorm and campus printers has been documents. system could increase the num- unified. Over the summer, two pilot ber of people going over the quota Regarding cost-effectiveness of the current system, Oliver Thomas, of IS&T, said, “that the hope is that we printers started using the system — since users will start to believe that will break even this year due to input costs of licensing for Pharos, etc. The nice thing about Pharos is that one in the student center and the 3,000 pages is the baseline for “too it helps us implement policies and look for patterns that we might be able to do something about. We hope other at Baker House. The printer m u c h .” that this system will help us to better allocate our resources to tailor to student needs.” in the student center is named In response, Thomas explained “Lerman” (after former Vice Chan- that there was experimental value Future timeline cellor Steven R. Lerman ’72, who in determining the use-cases that Over IAP, if all goes well, the printers in all Athena clusters will switch to hold-and-release, and scanners was instrumental in the early days may cause a student to go over the will be added to some locations. of Athena and recently left MIT to 3,000 page quota. In the next couple of weeks, there will be a strong push for student feedback on the existing pilot pro- become Provost of George Wash- “If there were an instance where grams. IS&T and the UA hope to put forth more programs that address different configurations in multiple ington University). a student needs to print over 3,000 contexts (because dorm printers have different needs than central campus printers). The goal is that by the IS&T has been working with the pages for academic purposes, we beginning of summer, all Athena printers will have the Pharos component added to them. UA to invite student participation could start a conversation with The second phase of improvements will look into location placement of Athena clusters and quick-sta- in implementation efforts. The UA the department and understand tions. It is still under discussion, and the working group hopes to optimize infrastructure and student needs. formed an Athena Printing Com- the reasons behind such a prac- The introduction of team-spaces adjacent to Athena clusters and spaces conducive to more professor-stu- mittee on October 25 to facilitate tice. If, however, it were an abuse dent interaction are central. student communication on the of the system for frivolous reasons, Thomas believes that this phase will require significant input from both students and faculty. “We want topic. charging a minimal fee for overag- a combination of broad-base input from students and some deep participation from students. More faculty Allan E. Miramonti ’13, the chair es seems appropriate because the participation is always helpful but it is difficult to get their help because their availability is so scarce. We’d of the Printing committee, said that use of Athena printers is discour- ideally like to use their input to conduct experiments to see how we can best maximize our resources.” feedback has been “largely positive aged in such situations.” “Ultimately,” he said, “the renovation of the Athena printing system is a work in progress.” … people are actually excited about IS&T offcers resources to learn — Divya Srinivasan the idea, and while some concerns more about printing on Athena exist, people on the whole seem to and reducing paper consumption; be happy with it.” see http://web.mit.edu/printing/. The UA and the working group If you have any ideas for imple- Marking the 151st Anniversary of the Publication of have also been in discussion as to mentation or you’d like to take whether jobs should be released part in the design efforts, contact: Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” through a touch screen and key- [email protected] and board, or by swiping an MIT ID student-printing-feedback@mit. card. edu. Darwin and the Debate over Human Origins

Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, 7:30 p.m. The Broad Institute Auditorium Main St. at Ames St., Kendall Square

Apes in Our Family Tree Prof. Janet Browne Department of the History of Science Harvard University

Evidence for Gene Flow from Neanderthals into Modern Humans Prof. David Reich

Jordan T. Moldow Department of Genetics The Athena Working group hopes that by using a “hold-and-release Harvard Medical School system,” printing waste will be minimized. Right now, as much as 20 percent of printed pages are never collected. Inherited Disease and Human Evolution Prof. David Housman MIT Center for Cancer Research We get you the tickets. You get us the review. The Continuing Controversy over Teaching Evolution Prof. John Durant, Director, MIT Museum ARTS at events • movies • theater • concerts music • books • restaurants • interviews For more information please visit: http://www.darwinbicentennial.org [email protected] Free and open to the community.

14 The Tech Friday, November 19, 2010 Dell hid a plague of Gehry helps out in Chicago Fortunately, it’s not like the furniture is going to leak faulty capacitors, By Fred A. Bernstein was looking to sell it. “He didn’t have to write a check,” The New York Times After a couple of vodkas, Gehry Camins said. “We made him a part- recalled, he urged Herst, the for- ner because he brought the deal to documents reveal It’s not every day that Frank mer chairman of the Tishman u s .” Gehry designs lobby furniture for West Cos., to put together a group But if the deal was lucrative for an office building. of investors to rescue the building. Gehry, it also led to disappoint- By Ashlee Vance For example, the unsealed court But Gehry made an exception Herst got in touch with his cousin ment. Instead of bringing in Skid- The New York Times documents included a Dell study for the Inland Steel Building, a Chi- Alfred D’Ancona, a Chicago inves- more, Owings & Merrill to update from 2004 in which the component cago landmark, because he owns a tor, who then reached out to Har- the entire building, as Gehry had SAN FRANCISCO — Documents issues charged past the company’s part of it. vey Camins, the chief executive of proposed, the Camins group began unsealed Thursday in a three-year- initial forecasts. In June of that year, The story of how the architect Camins Tomasz Kritt, a real estate a piecemeal renovation. Gehry said old lawsuit against Dell Inc. have Dell expected that a minimum of 12 became an accidental real estate brokerage. he believed the superficial changes raised more questions about how the percent of its SX270 Optiplex com- developer began in the early 1960s, Camins then phoned St. Paul made the building — and him — company handled an unprecedent- puters would result in incident re- when Gehry (who grew up in To- Travelers. “St. Paul had no desire to look bad. ed number of faulty computers sold ports from customers over a period ronto) first encountered the Inland sell the building, which,” he added, “I complained. I was nasty to to governments, schools and corpo- of three years. By September, Dell Steel Building. Designed by Wal- “was not in disrepair.” them,” Gehry said. Camins said: rations from 2003 to 2005. raised the minimum incident report ter Netsch and Bruce Graham of But that changed, he said, “Frank was not happy, and right- A judge in the U.S. District Court forecast to 45 percent and noted it Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, it was “when I mentioned Frank’s name.” fully so. None of us was happy.” in North Carolina unsealed hundreds could run as high as 97 percent. completed in 1958. Gehry said he A few months later, he said, Gehry He added: “We started the reno- of documents linked to a lawsuit filed The same Dell study covered is- admired their decision to clad the flew to Chicago. They were joined vation work; we did some of the by Advanced Internet Technologies sues with the GX270 computer and building in steel without hiding that by the St. Paul people, and had “a bathrooms and updated the lobby. that had accused Dell of trying to noted that the company planned material’s imperfections. nice little meeting” at which Gehry But when the market softened and hide defects in its desktop comput- to help customers who had bought Nearly half a century later, at a talked about wanting to preserve we couldn’t get the rent we needed, ers from customers. more than 50 computers and who party, Gehry found himself talking the building. “It was critical that the renovation plan got put on hold. For instance, the court docu- had at least 5 percent of those sys- to a retired real estate developer, Frank was involved,” he said. “That There was only so much we could ments show that the City of New York tems fail. Other customers fell into Perry Herst Jr., about their shared really helped solidify the deal.” d o.” filed incident reports with Dell on the “fix on fail” category, meaning love for the building. Rumors were In 2005, a partnership led by “When the lobby is completed, 20.2 percent of a batch of 5,000 com- they would need to report issues to going around that the building was Camins and D’Ancona paid $44.5 Cohen said, ”It will still be SOM’s puters purchased during this period. Dell after their computers had bro- falling apart, and that its current million for the building and gave Inland Steel — but Frank will be A purchase of 2,800 computers by ken, the documents show. owner — St. Paul Travelers Cos. — Gehry a 2.5 percent stake. there.“ Microsoft resulted in issues with 11 Internal Dell presentations from percent of the machines; General this time and later about the capaci- Electric Co., William W. Backus Hos- tor problems suggested that employ- pital, Denison University and the ees “Don’t bring this to customer’s Montana Justice Department were attention proactively” and “empha- among dozens of other organizations size uncertainty.” that experienced similar results. Dell also provided a type of ques- The documents also show how tion and answer sheet to employees, Dell had resisted informing many which included this exchange: “Why of its customers about the extent of has Dell not taken a more proactive the problem. Despite widespread re- approach to rectifying the issue? Our ports from the field, Dell salespeople approach to this issue delivers the and technicians were encouraged to best customer experience because it keep customers in the dark about the minimizes disruption.” known defects that left computers In 2005, Dell took a $300 million inoperable. charge tied to the cost of fixing or re- As it tried to deal with the mount- placing troubled computers. ing issues, Dell began ranking cus- In regard to the Dell internal tomers by importance, putting first studies, David Frink, a company those who might move their ac- spokesman said, “The percentages counts to another PC maker, fol- were theoretical maximums and sig- lowed by those who might curtail nificantly exceeded the actual failure sales and giving the lowest priority rates. That said, Dell actively investi- to those who were bothered but still gated failures, we fixed on fail com- willing to stick with Dell. The computers that suffered a capacitor issue pany declined to recall the systems and we extended the warranties on and did what it called “proactive all the possibly affected mother- field replacements” for customers boards.” that met certain sales and failure Dell said it replaced mother- rate thresholds. In September, Dell boards on 22 percent of the 21 mil- settled the lawsuit with Advanced In- lion Optiplex computers it shipped ternet Technologies without disclos- between 2003 and 2005. ing the terms of the agreement. The “This was an industrywide is- Sarang Kulkarni—The Tech New York Times sought access to the sue and to our knowledge no other Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, speaks at the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge this past Tues- documents that had remained under manufacturer issued a recall either,” day. He announced the program “Twenty under Twenty” which would fund twenty people under twen- seal. Frink said. ty years old for two years, allowing them to pursue entrepreneurial goals. The issues with the computers Dell officials have characterized revolved around the capacitors that the Optiplex problems as an old is- dot computer motherboards. A typi- sue and noted that the company has cal Dell computer could have up to since improved its systems for han- 20 of these capacitors, which cost dling these types of problems. a fraction of a penny each and help The Dell presentations that in- regulate electrical operations of the structed employees on how to re- machines. spond to customer questions around Earlier this decade, capacitors the faulty computers included reas- made in Asia with a bad chemical surances that no data loss would oc- recipe were sold to numerous mak- cur when a PC failed. ers of televisions, PCs and other elec- The court documents, however, tronic devices. The capacitors would depicted customers complaining of bulge when they became too hot and data loss issues. cause devices to malfunction or stop “Are we just going to continue to go working altogether. through the typical support channels Dell, Hewlett-Packard Co. and to have the motherboards replaced Apple Inc. and others were aware of when they fail … or will we have a these issues and tried to pull faulty final resolution to this never-ending computers from the market and to stagnation of Dell’s reluctance/reti- fix the computers. Even while keep- cence/red tape?,” wrote Mark O’Dell, ing an eye on the problem, though, an employee with Choice Hotels, in Dell continued to receive faulty ca- an e-mail to Dell. “When will Dell pacitors from suppliers. actually take care of the problem and It waged a three-year battle to fix our system failures?” identify the troublesome components. Studies conducted by Dell Solution to Easy Sudoku and a third party showed that the from page 7 company shipped 11.8 million computers from May of 2003 to July 5 9 2 6 1 8 7 3 4 2005 that were at risk of breaking. 8 3 6 7 Henisi.4 5 1 Pat,2 cor9 sum nos doloreet elesseq uatuera esectem doloboreet, con heniscidunt at, quat dolobore diam, veliquisl el ut adip eraesto duis dolor sum ex exeros ea faci ea amcommo lorper adit nullaor at, commy nosto odolenim nostrud et laore feu facidunt alit lutetue modolor accum ea am, quamcon sequat wisl ullam, consequat. Iquat. Ut el iure feugait elit, quis adionsectet ex endre facip er accum zzrit lor sustis aut verit, sed modolor eraessim et dolore duis nisis ad minit in vendrem quatums andigna feuissed enim zzriusci tem nos dipsusto od magniat wismod tat, voluptat. Ut amcon volesequisl iure deliscillam quatetum dolorpe riusto del eriusto core facilit, qui tem nonsenim zzriustrud dolore conse molestrud modolore corpercilla feu faccum quisci blan volut iustrud minim ipsum ad magnibh esequatem qui bla con volor sectem zzrit eum nonum ese dolortisis amconullaore vulla feu feu feu feum duipsus tionsectem erci tet aci endreet lor si. What shocked customers and Dell most was the rate at which the 7 4 1 3 Magnim9 2 6 do8 doloreet,5 conulput wisi ex ex eu facincilit alit iustissed eugue vel dolore vent computers failed. 9 7 8 1 2 4 3 5 6 3 1 5 9 8 6 2 4 7 LEGAL COUNSEL 6 2 4 5 7 3 8 9 1 Turner K. Bohlen MIT students, family, employers and Stephen Giandomenico ’11 is thrust to the front of the stage during Dramashop’s production of start-ups seeking U.S. legal counsel, 4 6 3 8 5 7 9 1 2 Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. The show features 30 short two minute play, appearing campus or oﬃce consultation. Call: 2 8 9 4 6 1 5 7 3 today at 8 p.m. and tomorrow at 10 p.m. in Kresge Little Theater. 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Katesdriving scored a Kates ingfor I wl tk t te od o is next its for road the to take will MIT rebounds five added Hollingsworth early to immune was squad Neither in late away pull to continued MIT Friday, November 19, 2010 11:30 a.m.,Z-CenterCourts 10 a.m.,Z-CenterCourts 2 p.m.,Z-CenterCourts 1 p.m.,Z-CenterPool 1 p.m.,Z-CenterPool 9 a.m.,CharlesRiver 9 a.m.,DuPontGym Minh P han -