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Maseeh MHEC votes to Macklemore performs at MIT’s SpringFest 2013 secede from DormCon Decision comes at end of a meeting, passes with 4-3 of the dorm’s executive committee By Anne Cai votingEstablished member at large Austin 1881 D. Fathman ’15 Editor in Chief voted in favor of seceding. Treasurer Joseph A. Abadi ’15, secretary Logan J. Mercer ’15, Maseeh’s House Executive Committee and freshman representative Maggie O’Grady (MHEC) emailed the Dormitory Council ’16 (a Tech copy editor) voted against the mo- (DormCon) last night to withdraw Maseeh tion. Maseeh’s full house government has 23 from DormCon, citing budget-related and other members, and the dorm currently has a representation concerns. A 4-3 vote of Maseeh 462-resident capacity which will be expanding Exec passed the motion Sunday night. Previ- next academic year. ously, Bexley had been for years the only dorm “It’s been a decision in the works since Mas- not in DormCon, and it stopped paying its eeh was founded,” said Fathman. “The decision yearly $1,200 tax to DormCon in 2008. was made mostly by [Goggil],” said Delgado, “I’m very sad to hear that Maseeh has cho- who declined to comment further. Deniz Oktay sen to secede,” wrote DormCon president Ed- ’16, a ground floor representative in Maseeh ward A. Mugica ’13 in an email to TheT ech. “The legislature, said that “exec talks about these is- secession email sent to DormCon did not enu- sues,” not the broader house government. merate any specific concerns, so I am unable to “This is the first I’ve heard about the deci- respond to any such concerns.” DormCon has sion,”Established wrote Maseeh Housemaster 1881 Jack Carroll funded campus events that they believe ben- in an email to The Tech around 7:40 p.m. last efit residents of all dorms, said Mugica, adding night responding to an inquiry. that DormCon has also helped fund events like The decision was an abrupt one near the Baker’s Piano Drop, Burton Conner’s DTYD, end of Sunday’s MHEC meeting. “We had and Senior House’s Steer Roast. about four minutes left at the MHEC meeting, “We hope that Maseeh … might consider and Clay, our president, brought this up out returning to DormCon in the near future,” of nowhere,” said Brandon E. Avila ’16, one of wrote Mugica, “and we further hope that other Maseeh’s 2nd Floor representatives. Goggil dormitories consider the positive impact their then motioned for a vote, which was seconded, respective memberships in DormCon have and then the motion passed 4-3. “At this meet- had on their dormitory communities.” ing, it all happened within about 90 seconds,” Michael Y. Cheung Of Maseeh’s seven-member executive com- continued Avila, saying he doesn’t know if the Macklemore performed last Friday, April 26, during SpringFest 2013. Organized by mittee, president Clay V. Goggil ’14, vice presi- subject had been thoroughly discussed at oth- the UA Events Committee, the concert took place in Johnson Ice Rink, with Ra Ra Riot dent Keanu A. Delgado’15 , parliamentarian performing as the opener. Bruno B.F. Faviero ’15 (a Tech news editor), and Maseeh, Page 8 Established 1881 MIT Open Ballroom Competition FBI agents pore over bombing suspect’s trip to Russia in 2012 Officials investigate Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s visit to Dagestan

By Scott Shane Rogers, R-Mich. and chairman of the On Saturday, the Russian inves- and David M. Herszenhorn House Intelligence Committee, said tigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta The New York Times on ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday. reported that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had But Rogers said “the big unknown” re- sought to join the Muslim insurgency FBI agents are working closely with mains what happened in Russia. in Dagestan and had been in contact Russian security officials to recon- Investigators believe it is likely that with several rebels who were killed by struct Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s activities the Tsarnaev brothers were self-rad- Russian authorities in late spring of and connections in Dagestan during icalized and got their bomb-making 2012 while he was staying in Makhach- his six-month visit last year, track- instructions strictly from the Internet. kala, the regional capital. ing meetings he may have had with But they are still exploring the possi- Tamerlan Tsarnaev left Dages- specific militants, his visits to a radi- bility that other people in Russia or the tan in July 2012, just two days after a cal mosque and any indoctrination U.S. were critical influences, if not ac- shootout between militants and the or training he may have received, law complices, and officials say it may be police in which several militants were enforcement officials said on Sunday. weeks before the full picture of their killed, including William Plotnikov, At the same time, the bureau is plot is clear. 23, a Russian-born Canadian, and like also still looking for “persons of inter- Officials said they were still -ex Tsarnaev, an amateur boxer. Investiga- est” in the United States who may have amining the conduct of the Tsarnaev tors are trying to determine whether played a role in the radicalization of brothers’ mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, Tsarnaev and Plotnikov met, one of- Tsarnaev, 26, and his younger brother and Tamerlan’s wife, Katherine Rus- ficial said Sunday. Dzhokhar, 19, before the Boston Mara- sell, 24, who converted to Islam when thon bombing on April 15, Rep. Mike she married him in 2010. Bombers, Page 10

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worl The Greek Parliament late Sunday approved a controver- The New York Times In addition to the five who were equate medical care. sial plan to dismiss 15,000 civil servants by the end of next year convicted, two defendants were The wealthy, ailing patients who

n as part of a new package of economic measures asked for by PARIS — Five people were acquitted of charges of fraud and were to receive the organs flew to Greece’s foreign creditors: the International Monetary Fund, convicted Monday in Pristina, the abuse of authority. All had denied Pristina for transplant operations the European Central Bank and the European Commission. capital of Kosovo, in connection any wrongdoing. at a clinic called Medicus. It was The $3.7 billion approved Monday in Brussels was originally with an elaborate organ-traffick- The case has shaken Kosovo, a founded by a well-meaning Euro- to have been disbursed in March but was delayed after negotia- ing network that lured poor peo- mostly Muslim country of two mil- pean philanthropist who helped tions stalled over the creditors’ demands for civil service cuts. ple to the country and then sold lion that broke away from Serbia local doctors during the war in The May installment is dependent on further action by Athens, their kidneys and other organs to after the Balkan wars of the 1990s Kosovo in 1999, but prosecutors atio including an overhaul of the tax collection system. wealthy transplant recipients from and has been struggling to shed a said it was later transformed into The Greek government’s latest measures passed in a vote Israel, the United States, Canada culture of lawlessness and corrup- an illegal organ transplant hub by held shortly before midnight with 168 votes in the 300-seat and Germany, charging as much as tion. This month, Kosovo and Ser- Dervishi, a surgeon and professor House. $130,000 for each organ. bia reached an agreement that the at Pristina University Hospital. A last-minute amendment allowing local authorities to hire The defendants, all Kosovars, Kosovo government hopes will ac- Ratel said the Dervishis were young Greeks for less than the minimum wage of 586 euros a were tried before a panel of judg- celerate its integration into the in- aided by Dr. Yusuf Sonmez, whom month fueled angry protests by the political opposition. But the es sent by the European Union to ternational community, including he called a notorious international inclusion of measures intended to ease some of the financial handle the case. A special prosecu- membership in the United Nations. organ trafficker. Sonmez is a fugi-

& N burden on homeowners, including a 15 percent reduction in tor for the union, Jonathan Ratel, According to the indictment in tive and may be in South Africa, a new property tax, clinched the support of lawmakers in the called the case a landmark because the case, traffickers in the network Ratel said. three-party ruling coalition. doctors had been convicted. promised payments of as much as The big breakthrough in the case —Niki Kitsantonis, The New York Times Dr. Lutfi Dervishi, a urologist $26,000 to poor people in Turkey, happened in November 2008, Ratel and the director of the clinic at the Moldova and Russia to persuade said, when a young Turkish man Syrian prime minister escapes center of the trafficking ring, was them to travel to Kosovo and do- was found at the Pristina airport, sentenced to eight years in prison. nate an organ. weak and shaking, with a large sur- His son Arban Dervishi was sen- They were asked to sign false gical scar on his left abdomen. The

orld assassination attempt tenced to seven years and three documents saying they were do- man told the police that his kidney BEIRUT — In the latest reported attack on a high-ranking months. Dr. Sokol Hajdini, the nating to a relative for humanitar- had been stolen. When the police Syrian official, Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi survived what ap- chief anesthesiologist at the clinic, ian reasons. Two dozen donors raided the clinic, they found a frail peared to be an assassination attempt Monday in an upscale was sentenced to three years. Two W were taken in by the scheme; many elderly Israeli man who had paid neighborhood of the capital, Damascus, when a car bomb ex- other defendants received one- were never given any compensa- $90,000 for the kidney. ploded near his convoy, according to state-run media and opposition reports. The reports said that a bodyguard was killed in the attack, which took place in Mezze, a central district where many senior officials live. The prime minister was reportedly unhurt, After Boston Marathon bombing, although state media said others had been injured. Video on state television showed a car reduced to a charred skeleton and, nearby, a bus with its windows shattered. The assault fit a pattern of attempts to attack high officials. US ties with Russia improve Less than two weeks ago, another official — Ali Balan, the government’s chief coordinator of emergency aid distribution By Ellen Barry but he said cooperation between have complained that Russia has to civilians — was killed by gunmen with silencer-equipped The New York Times the countries’ counterterrorism not been forthcoming with intelli- weapons at a restaurant in the same heavily guarded neigh- and intelligence services had im- gence it gathered on him. borhood, close to buildings housing government and military MOSCOW — After President proved to new levels as a result of Russia has sought to ratchet up institutions. Barack Obama and President Vlad- the Boston bombing. cooperation with the West on glob- In July, an explosion at a security headquarters in the Syrian imir V. Putin of Russia spoke by “This aroused praise from Pu- al terrorism, a project that could capital killed or wounded several key aides loyal to President telephone Monday, a top Russian tin and Obama, and their satisfac- provide new flows of information Bashar Assad, who has been fighting a growing revolt that be- official said cooperation between tion,” Peskov told the Interfax news and quiet longstanding complaints gan with street protests in March 2011 and has escalated into the leaders’ intelligence services service, adding that cooperation about its often brutal counterter- a bloody civil war with insurgents battling for positions across had “noticeably intensified in the on intelligence “on the whole pro- rorism tactics in the North Cauca- the land, including the outskirts of Damascus. past few days,” though he said Rus- motes mutual confidence in bilat- sus. Yuri Ushakov, a top Putin aide, State television in Syria called the attack a “terrorist explo- sia had not been able to provide eral relations.” said the two presidents Monday sion” that was “an attempt to target the convoy of the prime valuable intelligence about the The White House offered a more “reached a practical agreement on minister.” Terrorist is the word used by the authorities to depict suspects in the Boston Marathon reserved account of the two lead- most active contacts” between Rus- their armed adversaries. bombing, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar ers’ conversation, noting “the close sian and U.S. intelligence services. The television said the prime minister was “well and not Tsarnaev. cooperation that the United States He said the conversation — initiat- hurt at all,” Reuters reported, but his condition could not im- Putin said last week that the has received from Russia on the ed by the U.S. side — focused on in- mediately be independently confirmed. Federal Security Service was un- Boston Marathon attack.” tensified cooperation “in the con- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is based able to provide “information which Ten days after it was revealed text of the recent Boston bombing.” in Britain and draws information from a network of opposition had operative value” about the that the suspects were young men Over the weekend the newspa- sources inside Syria, said initial reports showed that a body- Tsarnaev brothers, “due to the fact with roots in Russia, U.S. investiga- per Novaya Gazeta reported that guard had been killed. that the Tsarnaevs had not lived in tors are still pushing for more infor- during his six-month stay in Rus- Al-Halqi has been part of an effort by Assad to wage an en- Russia for many years.” mation about the six months that sia in 2012, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was ergized diplomatic campaign to persuade the United States Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry S. Tamerlan Tsarnaev spent in the seeking to join the Muslim insur- that it is on the wrong side of the civil war. Peskov, repeated that phrase after violent southern region of Dages- gency and had been spotted with —Anne Barnard and Alan Cowell, The New York Times the two presidents spoke Monday, tan last year, and some lawmakers known militants.

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E-mail [email protected] For more information, email [email protected] S 8 The Tech Tuesday, April 30, 2013 Maseeh votes to secede from Dormitory Council Maseeh’s House Executive Committee votes 4-3 in about ‘90 seconds’ to leave DormCon Maseeh, from Page 1 “Over $4,000 a year of your Maseeh then that money is reallocated to oth- sponded that some dorms with ef- strongly discuss it with your entire taxes were being spent for other er dorms for things like CPW events,” fective CPWs have difficulty funding dorm.” er meetings previously. Avila doesn’t dorms in ways that did not benefit said Goggil. “It feels like DormCon them, and it’s advantageous to MIT think members considered the im- you, and this coupled with lack of just reallocates money from large as a whole if those dorms are funded. Previous secessions from plications of leaving DormCon, say- advocacy for Maseeh residents from dorms to other dorms, and my resi- For example, Random Hall is a small DormCon ing that “most of us thought it was a DormCon lead us to our decision dents are paying for events that they dorm that has “a lot of people who Bexley Hall has been the only hasty decision.” to secede,” wrote Goggil. (The Tech don’t attend.” like running events” and needs out- dorm without a representative on “The only benefit [of being part of side funding to support those events, DormCon for decades and does not ‘The only benefit [of being part of DormCon] I can see is that we get a said Random representative Jacob B. consider itself a member. Histori- thousand dollars for CPW,” said Gog- Hurwitz ’14. “CPW is supposed to be cally, Bexley does not have a house DormCon] I can see is that we get a gil, pausing. “Whoop-de-doo.” more about MIT than about individ- government, and it stopped paying thousand dollars for CPW. Whoop-de-doo.’ Concerns over the budget ual dorms. The money should go to the yearly $1,200 tax to DormCon in Clay V. Goggil ’14 were discussed at the most recent dorms which have people who want Fall 2008. Maseeh Hall, President DormCon meeting on April 18. “We to run events,” continued Hurwitz. “Mostly we were quite disap- can fund things that dorms would pointed when we found out we “[Goggil] told us that this was go- notes that at the $5 per person tax not be able to or want to fund them- According to wouldn’t be funding the yearly ing to happen whether or not we vot- rate, Maseeh’s 462 residents would selves, like promoting cross-campus DormCon retreat, which is an inte- ed for it because that’s in his capacity pay $2,310 toward that particular or cross-dorm events,” said Mugica, Goggil, the largest gral event for the MIT undergradu- as president,” said Avila. “So the vote tax.) according to their meeting min- ate community,” said Bexley resident was sort of a formality, but he was “[The decision] has been a long utes. Small dorms have less money issue for Maseeh is Kristjan Eerik Kaseniit ’14 sarcasti- ready for Maseeh to leave DormCon time coming,” said Goggil. “The de- than larger ones, Mugica said, and DormCon’s budget cally. “[W]e simply can’t figure out no matter what we had said.” Mas- cision to secede from DormCon was “DormCon can help redistribute what to do with the money from eeh’s house constitution does not list thrown around even before my ten- money to allow smaller dorms to do allocation. house taxes on our own.” Essentially, this power specifically, with relevant ure [as Maseeh president].” After this things effectively.” Bexley isn’t “missing anything” from sections saying only that the presi- semester, Maseeh won’t be a voting According to the minutes, Baker CPW isn’t the only area of fund- not being on DormCon, Kaseniit dent meets and interfaces with par- member of DormCon, said Goggil, president Andrea Gutierrez Marty ing, DormCon treasurer Phoebe J. said. ties external to Maseeh Hall” and “is but will continue to send a represen- ’14 said that the reallocation sys- Whitwell ’15 pointed out at the meet- Dormitories have considered an advocate for students in the dorm tative “to at least get the information tem is unfair to larger dorms, and ing, citing Steer Roast as an example leaving DormCon before, for various to the House Team, outside entities, they provide.” Michael E. Plasmeier ’13 (also from of an event that would not happen reasons. In December 1976, Burton etc.” The house constitution also only The largest issue for Maseeh is Baker) added that the allocation is without DormCon funding, but House, Baker House, and MacGregor broadly states that MHEC “makes DormCon’s budget, said Goggil. “arbitrary.” Additionally, “it is worri- “benefits the whole community.” House threatened to secede from statements of executive intent to Each dorm pays a tax of $5 per resi- some for smaller dorms to be living When the subject of secession DormCon to form a “West Campus guide the dorm.” dent, and DormCon reallocates the outside of their means by requiring from DormCon was broached at the alliance,” citing policy differences. Residents were informed by Gog- money. “Maseeh puts in a lot more outside funding to run their CPW meeting, Mugica advised the dorm Jessica Pourian and Stan Gill con- gil in an email yesterday evening. money than any other dorm, and events,” said Goggil. Mugica re- representatives that “you should tributed reporting.

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