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WEATHER, p. 7 WED: 89°F | 72°F MIT’s Mostly cloudy Oldest and Largest THU: 89°F | 71°F Newspaper Chance showers FRI: 88°F | 65°F Chance showers Volume 130, Number 30 tech.mit.edu Wednesday, August 4, 2010 Media connect MIT New security cameras for W20 to WikiLeaks probe McDermott court gate, 6C, will see more security By Yuliya Preger But really it looks like some STAFF REPORTER On July 29, the span of MIT monitored by security camer- people just answered e-mail as broadened to include the sector of W20 (the Student MIT students, alumni, and af- ly benign” discussion in January. Center) where students await filiates have been caught up in the Clark’s initial e-mail and the en- shuttle vans. There are also recent brouhaha about disclosure tire thread were quite innocuous, plans to install cameras at the of classified military documents by and began asking, “Can anyone McDermott Court vehicle en- Private First Class Bradley E. Man- recommend a hard-to-pick-but- trance between East Campus ning. not-insanely-expensive padlock?,” and Building 66, and also in The New York Times reported addressing his inquiry to the mail- the Building 6C courtyard. Friday that Army Intelligence in- ing list and carbon-copied to sev- Thomas W. Komola of vestigators were said to be focus- eral MIT individuals and to Man- the Security and Emergency ing on Manning’s acquaintances in ning. Management Office said that Cambridge, but it appears that in- The storage unit had no con- the W20 camera will prove vestigators were only here around nection to Manning. helpful in tracking illegal Friday, June 18, and have not fo- Some of the MIT people appear dumping of materials at the cused on those people in some quite concerned about any asso- nearby loading dock. The time. ciation with Manning, especially Campus Activities Complex, The association with MIT with the recent suggestion by Rep- which manages the Student JOHN A. HAWKINSON—THE TECH people appears to be grossly over- resentative Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) Center, requested the camera Cameras were installed at the Tech Shuttle stop outside the Student Cen- blown, and one 23-year-old recent that Manning deserved the death after noticing trash, includ- ter on July 29� The cameras were installed to discourage dumping of trash in graduate who was interviewed by penalty. ing televisions and propane the nearby dumpster reserved for single-stream recycling� Army Intelligence said that the Others who were e-mailed by tanks, in a dumpster reserved only correspondence he had with Manning in the same thread were for single-stream recycling. for a brief period of time,” in Manning was an e-mail discussion more blasé. Max Van Kleek ’01 According to Komola, the line with the security office’s Locations of cameras installed at on a large MIT mailing list where said in an e-mail, “Sadly I have no presence of a recording de- policy on ID card access MIT known to The Tech: Danny J. B. Clark asked for advice closer connections to manning =} i vice can serve as a deterrent point data. In the course of a •Parking garage elevators and basement on security and theft prevention love being close to controversy but to future incidents in that criminal investigation, “The corridors of Building 32 (nonfunctional) in a storage unit at nearby Metro- not in it :).” area. Thus, the W20 camera MIT Police Department is the •Building 18, (Chemistry) 30 cameras politan Storage Warehouse in May. Van Kleek was not visited by the doubles as a security resource sole entity that may request •Outside the hazardous waste storage Manning was carbon-copied on FBI or Army intelligence, he said, for students waiting for the and use this information,” facility in Building 12A (uncounted) •Outside E52’s bicycle racks (uncounted) the original e-mail and participat- but pointed out he now lives in shuttle van, though it will not and “a written request must •Outside MIT Medical 4 cameras ed in the thread. England. be continuously monitored. be signed and presented by •Corridors and stairwells of Building 2 4 cameras The student said that thread Christian J. Ternus ’11, who also The footage obtained by the Chief of MIT Police.” See •Main corridor of Building 4 1 camera was the only communication he the cameras will be “kept con- http://web.mit.edu/semo/ •Outside W20, by shuttle van waiting area 2 cameras had with Manning since an “equal- WikiLeaks, Page 8 fidential and only available security_policies.html. 2007 sodium drop Revised campus Dinner@Dorms dead Confusion about the logistics of the “Din- lawsuit against ner at the Dorms” orientation event was re- shuttle routes extend solved this week as Residence Exploration (REX) organizers announced that for the sec- TEPs is dismissed, ond straight year the event would not be held. hours and frequency Dinner at the Dorms was the innova- tion of a REX committee eager to encourage probably settled By Joanna Kao Shuttle, bringing its total to three freshmen to explore and meet the residents of STAFF REPORTER schedules and routes — morning, dorms outside of the ones they were temped By Jessica Liu tice of a settlement this past midday, and evening. EZRide is in. The activity offered them the chance to eat STAFF REPORTER May, and therefore acted to Starting next Monday, August run by the Charles River Transpor- dinner in one of the dorms they had ranked close the case after 60 days. 9, the Tech Shuttle schedule and tation Management Association. in their top three during the housing selection The Tau Epsilon Phi so- The case was dismissed route will change, and the North- The morning service, running process, especially one they had not been as- dium drop case, a civil suit without prejudice, mean- west Shuttle’s route will be replaced every 10 minutes, begins at 6:20 signed to during REX. filed by two river clean-up ing the plaintiffs could sue by the EZRide Shuttle, which runs a.m. at North Station, arriving at According to Diandra D. Drago ’11, the REX volunteers against two MIT again for the same cause. from North Station to Cambridge- Kendall Square by 6:34 a.m. This contact for Dinner at the Dorms, the success graduate students and a In September of 2007, port by way of Kendall Square. begins nearly an hour earlier than of REX was judged by the number of freshmen former undergraduate, has Thomas Soisson and Kath- This change stems from recom- the current Northwest Shuttle who switched dorms at the end. been dismissed. mendations from the MIT Parking schedule. Morning service contin- By 2007, Dinner at the Dorms had strayed The court received no- TEP sodium, Page 8 and Transportation department ues through 10:34 a.m. at Kendall from its original intent of encouraging explo- and a graduate thesis written by Square. ration and become an event where freshmen Aimee K. Beasley ’08 in 2009. Ac- The midday schedule, with primarily consorted with residents of their IN SHORT cording to Lawrence R. Brutti, who shuttles running every 20 minutes, temporary dorms. MBTA Red Line service will be replaced by buses this runs the MIT Parking and Transpor- will run from 10:44 a.m. to 3:04 Financial concerns contributed to the can- weekend on Saturday and Sunday, between Park Street tation office, the new plan will allow p.m., starting from Kendall Square cellation of the event last year; the price tag and Kendall. Plan on an extra 15 minutes for your trips. MIT to increase shuttle frequency and ending at Sidney Pacific. It would have been about $10,000 higher than and passenger capacity, continue does not go to North Station or the previous year. This year, similar financial The Kendall Band musical instruments from the Kendall T NextBus tracking, and use one less Cambridgeport. concerns, difficulty in arranging sufficient ear- station are still being worked on by a group of MIT students bus for six hours each day, while The evening schedule runs from ly returns, and a departure from the original under the leadership of Michael J. Tarkanian ’00, who is get- keeping the cost to MIT identical. 3:04 p.m. to 7:24 p.m. from North intent of the event contributed to its cancella- ting married this weekend — Congrats! This is unrelated to There will continue to be four Station to Fort Washington Park in tion. the service diversion. full-time MIT drivers, with each Cambridgeport every 10 minutes. Cost would have necessitated the central- Bulletin boards in the Infinite Corridor are being rede- driver still working the same num- Not all stops on the current ization of the event in Johnson or the Stratton signed as part of the MIT150 project, celebrating MIT’s ber of hours, but their working Northwest Shuttle will be on the Student Center. Had it been centralized, Din- 150th Anniversary, which takes place in spring 2011. As hours will change. The current new EZRide Shuttle route. The ner at the Dorms would not, in fact, have been a result, during the month of August, boards and display Northwest Shuttles will become Kendall Square stop will be in the held in the dorms. cases throughout the Infinite are being replaced, hence the Tech Shuttles. same location as the current North- It remains unclear what activity will take its corridor’s current bare appearance. The architect is David J. The EZRide will be adding a west Shuttle stop — in front of E38 place, if any. Silverman , who oversaw construction of the Stata Center.