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Volume 128, Issue 14 Happy Spring Break! MIT’s The Weather Today: Mostly sunny, very windy. Oldest and Largest High 40°F (4°C) Tonight: Windy and chilly. Newspaper Low 25°F (-4°C) Tomorrow: Sunny, breezy. High 43°F (6°C) http://tech.mit.edu/ Details, Page 2 Volume 128, Number 14 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, March 21, 2008 Bexley Withdraws From Dormcon Dean of Admissions Residents Say $1,200 Tax Bought Them Nothing, But Dormcon President Disagrees By Valery K. Brobbey Replacement Picked; CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Bexley Hall has decided to stop paying its yearly $1,200 tax to the Dormitory Council and will not be Identity Still Secret represented by Dormcon, effectively seceding from the organization. By Marissa Vogt candidate internal to MIT. The other Independent and sometimes an- STAFF REPORTER two candidates on the short list are archic, Bexley residents have a tra- MIT has selected its next dean of external to MIT and have extensive dition of not participating in student admissions and is expected to make experience in the admissions game, government or Dormcon. However, an announcement in the coming but their identities are a closely kept Bexley has been taxed by Dormcon days. secret. since 2001, an incongruity with It is unclear to whom the job has Hastings declined to confirm or their principles that residents only been offered. But some details about deny whether an offer has been made noticed this fall. Residents contend the selection process, including the to one of the candidates, saying only that they were never represented by name of one of the final candidates, that the selection process was “on- Dormcon and that they received no have emerged. going” and that an announcement benefits from their membership. But Three of the 20-40 candidates would be made soon. But people Dormcon’s president says that Bex- considered by the search committee involved in the search process say ley has benefited from the organi- were submitted, unranked, to Dean that MIT has extended an offer and zation’s advocacy and is part of the for Undergraduate Education Daniel is waiting for a reply. Hastings also community. E. Hastings PhD ’80 for final consid- declined to confirm Schmill’s pres- The conflict peaked last week, eration. Interim Director of Admis- when about 25 Bexley residents went sions Stuart Schmill ’86 is the only Admissions, Page 10 to the March 12 Dormcon meeting and asked the organization to stop taxing Bexley residents. Dormcon has agreed not to tax Bexley in the Alumni Pool Introduces future, but declined to refund taxes paid in prior years. “In our eyes Bexley has been Single-Sex Swim Hours part of Dormcon because they are a dorm and we represent all dorms,” Pilot Program Funded By Institute Chaplain said Sarah C. Hopp ’08, Dormcon’s By Elijah Jordan Turner On Tuesday nights from 9:30 president. STAFF REPORTER p.m. to 10:30 p.m., the Alumni Pool Katherine L. Cheney ’09, a Bex- The Alumni Pool next to the Stata is made available to women only. ley Hall resident, said that Bexley Center will be open two extra hours During the same hour on Thursday “has never been a part of Dormcon.” ERIC D. SCHMIEDl—THE TECH each week to accommodate a single- nights, the pool is open to men only. Beginning next fall, Bexley Hall will no longer pay taxes to the Dormi- gender swimming program from The program is a response to stu- Bexley, Page 13 tory Council. now until June 5. dent demand, said Director of Recre- ational Services Tim Moore. Zahra Khan G has been a particu- Faculty Consider Awarding larly strong proponent of bringing the program to MIT. 97 women and 27 men responded to a survey she Double Majors, Not Degrees gave in February about optimal times for single-gender swimming. Current Students Would Retain Double Degree Option Institute Chaplain Robert M. By Ramya Sankar complete 270 units beyond the Gen- Randolph helped to fund the incipi- STAFF REPORTER eral Institute Requirements, but all ent program. Initial costs, according Future students pursuing separate other requirements would remain the to Randolph, were around $2,500, programs in two courses will receive same. In particular, students would spent from a fund earmarked for gen- a single “double major” degree in- still need to complete the full aca- eral student needs. Much of that ini- stead of double degrees if a Commit- demic requirements of each depart- tial expense included one-time costs tee on the Undergraduate Program mental program. such as the installation of curtains to proposal is passed at the next faculty “Students are deterred by the ensure the privacy of swimmers. meeting on Wednesday, April 16. number of unit hours,” said Dean If the program continues, Ran- At the Wednesday, March 19 for Curriculum and Faculty Support dolph said, he will find additional faculty meeting, the CUP proposed Diana Henderson, in reference to the funding for the recurring costs of to change the way double degrees current requirement that students work. Under the new proposed pol- Swimming, Page 14 icy, students would no longer need to Double Major, Page 15 In Short Harvard Student Killed in Accident ¶ A Boston court will rule today A Harvard student was killed Monday in Cambridge after being on whether or not to dismiss the struck by a Shaw’s delivery truck. Isaac J. Meyers was hit 6:45 a.m. charges against Star A. Simpson while in a crosswalk at the corner of Prospect Street and Mass Ave. ’10. Simpson faces charges of pos- Meyers was dragged 160 feet while trapped be- sessing a hoax device for appearing tween the fourth and fifth axles of the truck, ac- at Logan Airport wearing a circuit News cording to a police report cited in the Cambridge board mistaken for a bomb in Sep- Chronicle. He was pronounced dead at 12:20 p.m. tember 2007. Similar accidents have occurred on both Me- Briefs morial Dr. and Mass Ave. on the MIT campus. Mi- ¶ Petitions are due today at 5 p.m. chele S. Micheletti ’00 was killed on Halloween in 1997 outside New for prospective Undergraduate As- House on Memorial Dr. after she was struck by two oncoming cars. ERIC D. SCHMIEDl—THE TECH sociation and class council candi- A Boston University freshman, Beatriz Ponce, was killed in October Jason Burgess G looks out over Killian Court, where hackers dates. placed a 20-sided die last Tuesday, Mar. 18 in memory of Gary Briefs, Page 14 Gygax, the inventor of the Dungeons and Dragons. Send news information and tips to [email protected]. ARTS NEWS World & Nation . 2 This is The Tech’s last issue Looking for a Restaurant Week High schools mislead the Opinion ����������������������������������������4 before spring break. Regular adventure? Try Grotto for high- government about their dropout It’s Friday ������������������������������������5 publication will resume on end Italian on Beacon Hill. rates because of No Child Left Arts ����������������������������������������������6 Tuesday, April 1. Behind requirements. Comics / Fun Pages ��������������������8 Page 7 Page 11 Sports . 16 Page 2 THE TECH March 21, 2008 WORLD & NATIO N Michigan Lawmakers Won’t Back Clinton Treats Remarks From New Primary By John M. Broder THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON Obama’s Pastor Cautiously There will be no new primary in Michigan. Ignoring entreaties from state party leaders and an in-person plea By Patrick Healy besides, cable television is keeping allies of Hillary Clinton said they from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., on Wednesday, state law- THE NEW YORK TIMES the issue alive. were privately pushing the issue with makers adjourned on Thursday without acting on a bill to authorize a do- ANDERSON, IND. On Thursday night, the Obama key party members to lift her candi- over of the disqualified Democratic presidential primary held in January, Ever since Sen. Hillary Rodham campaign, in an effort to shift the dacy. And at least one prominent sur- effectively killing any new vote. Clinton, D-N.Y., started running for spotlight to the Clintons, provided rogate of hers has gone off message: Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, a Democrat who supports Clinton, said president, her team has argued that The New York Times with a picture Lanny Davis, a former Clinton White in a statement that she was “deeply disappointed” that Michigan Dem- she is more electable than Sen. Ba- of Wright and President Bill Clin- House lawyer, has publicly chal- ocrats would not get another crack at a primary ballot. The Michigan rack Obama, D-Ill.: more experience, ton at the White House in 1998 at lenged Obama to answer questions contest was voided by the national Democratic Party because it was con- as first lady and senator; more spine, a breakfast meeting with religious about his views on racist speech and ducted earlier than party rules allowed. after years fighting Republicans; and leaders just hours before the Starr re- Wright. Now Michigan, like Florida, which also this week abandoned the more popular with key voter blocs, port on the Monica Lewinsky scandal Clinton, of New York, side- idea of redoing its unauthorized January primary, must find some new like women, Hispanics and the el- was made public. stepped questions from reporters way to comply with party delegate-selection rules or be locked out of the derly. The Obama campaign also provid- Thursday about Wright and elect- national convention in August. Yet this week, Clinton’s elect- ed a letter Bill Clinton sent to Wright ability. At one point, she turned away ability argument has taken on a the next month thanking Wright for from a reporter, pursed her lips and new dimension that for her and her a “kind message” and saying he was shook her head no.
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