Volume 129, Issue 19

MIT’s Oldest and Largest The Weather Today: Sunny High, 62°F (17°C) Newspaper Tonight: Light Rain, Low 41°F (5°C) Tomorrow: Rain, High 45°F (7°C) Details, Page 2 http://tech.mit.edu/ Volume 129, Number 18 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, April 10, 2009 MIT Will Eliminate Some Varsity Sports Alumni By Shreyes Seshasai not yet been decided. The sports to be years; the cut amounts to a sharp 24% varsity athletics, Soriero said; every STAFF REPORTER cut are due to be announced by the reduction in spending out of general single area of DAPER will bear the Faced with a staggering budget end of April, said Julie Soriero, direc- Institute funds. DAPER’s current an- cuts. Donations cut, MIT’s athletics department is tor of athletics. nual budget is $12.9 million. After this year, varsity sports will preparing to relinquish the Institute’s Student-athletes held a demonstra- DAPER is currently working with not be cut further: the cuts are a one- claim to the most varsity sports of any tion in Lobby 7 on Tuesday afternoon senior administration to explain the time deal meant to make it easier for Shrink university by cutting some of those to raise awareness of the importance decision to alumni, said Soriero. Dean MIT to focus on the sports that will sports. of athletics to MIT’s culture. for Student Life Costantino Colombo continue. Omar Abudayyeh The sports to be cut have not been DAPER has been told to cut its was unavailable for comment. The decision will come before STAFF REPORTER chosen. How they will be chosen has spending by $1.45 million over three The cuts will not fall entirely on admitted students will have to decide The total monetary value of whether to attend MIT or not, al- alumni donations to Institute’s larg- though it will likely come after Cam- est alumni giving funds has de- pus Preview Weekend. creased. Although about the same Members of the cut teams will be number of people are giving, they’re notified before the decisions are made giving less money. public. The Alumni Association will report actual figures over the coming Students learned about cuts too months; the fiscal year ends on June late to stop them 30. The Student Athletics Advisory In light of decreased donations, Committee has known about these the Alumni Fund is working to di- planned cuts since last week, when rect incoming funds to priority ar- DAPER administrators presented eas, which include the David H. their plans to the committee, said Ju- Koch Institute for Integrative Can- lie C. Andren ’10, chair of the com- cer Research and the MIT Energy mittee. SAAC told team captains after Initiative. “We are working as hard that meeting, and some team captains as possible to maximize gifts,” said told their members. Theresa Lee, interim director of the The committee was not previously Alumni Association’s Alumni Fund. aware that varsity teams would be cut. When someone gives MIT mon- It meets with administrators once a ey, the first $100,000 of their gift is month. credited to the Alumni Fund; so ac- SAAC members have been meet- tual donations from alumni to MIT ing with team captains to get their exceed the money reported by the feedback, which will be presented to Alumni Fund. administrators in a report. High-yield donors seem to be “We understand the feedback we giving less. The William Barton STEVE HOwland—THE TECH get from teams won’t necessarily de- Rogers Society Fund, which consists Over 100 students attended Tuesday’s information session by DAPER at the Johnson Ice Rink on the of donations to the Alumni Fund decision to cut varsity teams at MIT. A Q&A followed a presentation on the necessity of the cuts. Varsity Sports, Page 12 from those who contributed more than $1,000 in the current fiscal year (current students and alumni less Big Jimmy Scholarship Fund Exceeds $100k Mark than 9 years from graduation have a lower qualifying amount), will By Annelies Abeel decades, Big Jimmy patrolled the Mark C. Feldmeier ’96 talks af- and “Jimmy ice cream” that he dis- likely not raise as much money as in The kids have done Big Jimmy hallways of East Campus and Senior fectionately about Big Jimmy, who tributed among “his” kids. previous years. good. House, where he became a surrogate was one of the first people he met Night watchmen don’t make a As of April 7, the Society’s fund The James E. Roberts Sr. Memo- father and a legend for generations of when he first came to MIT as an un- lot of money, but Jimmy did what he had collected $27 million from rial Scholarship Fund, an MIT schol- students. dergraduate student in 1992. He used could to make the students’ lives bet- 3,219 donors for the 2009 fiscal year, arship fund that gives need-based Since the beginning of 2009 the to see Jimmy huffing and puffing ter. “Where he could have thought of which ends on June 30. Last fiscal aid in the name of the beloved night fund has received over $18,000, through the corridors of East Cam- himself, Jimmy thought of others,” year, $44 million was collected from watchman, has just surpassed the bringing the fund’s total to $100,128. pus, with a trash bag through his belt said Andrew E. “Zoz” Brooks PhD 4,777 donors, according to the MIT $100,000 mark. Those who knew Big Jimmy re- loop, collecting empty soda cans. ’07, a former Senior House GRT who Alumni Association website. Four years after the sudden death member him as kind and reliable, Jimmy would redeem the cans for helped create the Big Jimmy Fund. In at least one area, gifts are actu- of Roberts (everyone called him Big someone who put his students first cash and use the money to buy ingre- The fund’s money comes from ally up. The Sloan School of Man- Jimmy), students and alumni con- and did whatever he could to keep dients for his famous “Jimmy Chili.” tinue to donate in his name. For two them well. Or he might buy the “Jimmy pizza” Big Jimmy, Page 14 Alumni Donations, Page 14 D’Amelio Finally Fired MIT has fired Joseph D’Amelio, the MIT Police Officer arrested for drug trafficking in mid-March, MIT announced on this week. Since D’Amelio’s March 14 arrest, MIT has fired one officer and suspended another without pay, both in response to those two officers throwing out issues of The Tech on March 17. It took two weeks to fire one of those officers, but it’s taken three to fire D’Amelio. The difference appears to relate to D’Amelio’s maintaining his in- nocence, whereas the other officers admitted guilt. It’s been quite clear that MIT was going to terminate D’Amelio’s employment, but administrative processes were not completed quickly. Those administrative processes will be part of the scope of the new campus police review panel. The panel’s charge includes reviewing not only police policies, but also police disciplinary systems. MIT has named two additional members to the review panel this week: Deborah Fisher, Institute Auditor; and Blanche Staton, Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Students. That brings the membership of the panel to eight. Seven of the members are high-ranking MIT officials and professors; the eighth is the Cambridge police commissioner. The review panel has not yet met, nor has it announced a schedule or a time frame for deliberations. MIT has said that no students would OMARI STEPHENS—TECH FILE PHOTO serve on the panel. The panel does not have a chair, MIT said, but the In 2006, members of the mural group Tats Cru ﬁnish a mural in honor of the late James E. “Big Jimmy” panel reports to President Susan J. Hockfield and Executive Vice Presi- Roberts, former night watch man for the Senior House and East Campus dorms. The mural was cre- dent Theresa M. Stone SM ’76. The panel does not report to Provost L. ated in the Stata Ampitheater and displayed at the 2006 Steer Roast as a memorial and to publicize Rafael Reif, as had been previously announced. the Big Jimmy Scholarship Fund. —John A. Hawkinson Comics Our arts editor CAMPUS LIFE World & Nation . 2 watched this It’s Sexual Assault Awareness Opinion ��4 jazz band twice Week. Please pay attention. Comics / Fun Pages ��6 Campus Life ��8 Arts ��9 Page 6 Page 9 Page 12 Sports . 16 Page 2 THE TECH April 10, 2009 WORLD & NATIO N High Court To Hear Case Alleging CIA to Close Its Overseas Anti-White Bias in Job Promotion By Adam Liptak THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW HAVEN, CONN. ‘Black Site’ Prisons Frank Ricci has been a firefighter here for 11 years, and he would do just about anything to advance to lieutenant. By Scott Shane to the ceiling, confined in small dent Barack Obama banned coer- The last time the city offered a promotional exam, he said in a THE NEW YORK TIMES boxes and held in frigid cells. cive interrogations and ordered the sworn statement, he gave up a second job and studied up to 13 hours WASHINGTON Panetta said the secret detention CIA program closed. Panetta said a day. Ricci, who is dyslexic, paid an acquaintance more than $1,000 The CIA said Thursday that it facilities were no longer in opera- that the CIA had not detained any to read textbooks onto audiotapes.

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