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WEATHER, p. 2 FRI: 51°F | 35°F MIT’s Sunny and breezy Oldest and Largest SAT: 58°F | 43°F Newspaper Partly sunny SUN: 59°F | 52°F Mostly cloudy Volume 130, Number 47 tech.mit.edu Friday, October 22, 2010 Altercation at Anna’s results in stabbing Dining Employee stabs another in broad daylight in front of Student Center reform to By Joanna Kao STAFF REPORTER continue An employee of Anna’s Ta- queria was non-fatally stabbed right above his navel by another HDAG says UA bill Anna’s employee outside the Stu- dent Center) around 4:20 p.m. on is too late to stop it Wednesday. After the stabbing, the suspect left, heading towards By Deborah Chen the Kendall T Station. The suspect STAFF REPORTER has not been found as of 6 p.m. yesterday. It is unclear whether he In spite of the emergency UA bill has since contacted his family or last week, which urged the House his coworkers. Dining Advisory Group (HDAG) The crime took place as many to reform their proposal in light of people walked by, including a “overwhelming student opposition,” campus tour group. HDAG decided yesterday that it will The police have not released move forward with its plan to imple- either the name of the suspect or ment a mandatory seven-day, all- the victim. you-care-to-eat breakfast and dinner The victim was transported to a program in the current dining halls local hospital. His wounds are not for fall 2011. life threatening, according to MIT “The core structure of the plan, Police. as defined by the HDAG recom- According to a statement from mendation is not going to change,” the Cambridge Police, both em- Division of Student Life spokesman ployees got in an argument while Tom Gearty said. “If we are to have working and took the argument SARANG KULKARNI—ThE TECH a vendor for 2011, we have to move outside, where the stabbing oc- Police talk to passers-by after the stabbing of an Anna’s Taqueria employee. A witness heard the victim forward.” curred. say through an interpreter that the suspect was the victim’s cousin� Torance Harrison, a witness, Response to UA Bill was taking a break outside and works at Sharon’s Hair Salon in and the assailant followed suit. victim did not speak English, but Last week’s UA emergency Senate was on the phone when he heard the building basement. The victim had lacerations on his he heard the victim say through a meeting resulted in a bill that called one Anna’s worker say to other: Harrison said that the victim face from the belt. the HDAG process “not transparent, “I’m gonna stab you.” Harrison took off his belt to defend himself, Harrison also said that the stab Stabbing, Page 6 respectful, thorough, or fair.” The bill urged Chancellor Philip L. Clay PhD ’75 to “intervene by halting the RFP [Request for Proposals] process,” in light of a petition and UA survey that Protein folder wins National Medal of Science revealed students strongly opposed the dining plan. Professor Susan Lindquist honored for her work on the ways proteins assemble But Clay told Dean for Student Life Chris Colombo to go ahead with By Divya Srinivasan ed “for her studies of protein fold- ing, and mathematics.” the RFP process this week, The Tech STAFF REPORTER ing [the process by which a protein President Obama extolled the has learned. Gearty said that at this is arranged into its three dimen- achievements of this year’s recipi- point, the new dining plan is inevi- MIT Professor Susan L. sional structure because of internal ents. “Their achievements have table. “While it’s an ongoing conver- Lindquist was awarded the Na- bonding interactions], demonstrat- redrawn the frontiers of human sation, it’s not about whether or not tional Medal of Science by Presi- ing that alternative protein confor- knowledge while enhancing Amer- we’re going to have a new dining dent Obama last Friday. She recalls mations and aggregations can have ican prosperity,” he said. plan,” he said. her unexpected introduction to profound and unexpected biologi- Lindquist’s ground-breaking re- Gearty said was “disappointed by research: cal influences, facilitating insights search in protein folding has shown the tone of the bill.” “I didn’t think it “I went to the University of Il- in fields as wide-ranging as human that varied protein conformations was constructive,” he said. linois for college and at the time I disease, evolution, and biomateri- can yield unexpected effects in Cameron S. McAlpine ’13, Baker didn’t have any grand goals. How- als.” fields ranging from human disease Dining Chair and member of the ever, I took a course in Biology and The National Medal of Science to evolution. Among many accom- HDAG committee, said that the UA John Drake said, ‘Gee, would you was created in 1959 by Congress. plishments, her lab has developed is making its demands too late in the like to try some research?’ I didn’t Awarded annually by the National yeast models to better understand COURTESY OF THE WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE process. do very well, honestly, but I got the Science Foundation for the White protein-folding transitions in neu- Professor Susan Lindquist of “The bill came too late. Because bug.” House, the Medal was created to rodegenerative diseases and to test the Whitehead Institute was we’re in the middle of the request- As it turns out, that research recognize “individuals who have possible therapeutic strategies. awarded the National Medal of for-proposal process, having such “bug” earned Lindquist the honor made outstanding contributions to After hearing the news of her se- Science by President Obama on a radical change would force us to of receiving the nation’s most pres- the biological, behavioral/social, lection, Lindquist, a member of the Friday� Lindquist is one of six MIT completely start over from the begin- tigious scientific award. and physical sciences, as well as faculty members to have received ning,” he said. Lindquist’s work was highlight- chemistry, engineering, comput- Lindquist, Page 7 this honor� The RFP Committee is tasked with writing a proposal that will be sent out to potential dining contractors. were pulled multiple times Andy Wu ’11, Baker House presi- IN SHORT in the early morning hours IFC investigates but doesn’t remember that being chanted. dent and HDAG member, said that The 46th Head of the Tuesday in both parallels He said that alcohol was present, but it was while there was some disagreement Charles Regatta takes of East Campus, as well as Kappa Sigma personal alcohol belonging to Kappa Sigma about pushing the plan forward, it place this weekend in the Media Lab and Senior members who were 21 and over, and that the seemed that “the overwhelming ma- Cambridge. First races be- House. Those incidents are Kappa Sigma is under investigation by event was “completely within IFC risk man- jority of HDAG was strongly in favor gin at 8 a.m. Saturday and under investigation by the the IFC for an event involving pledges that agement policies.” Loebner said he believed of the current plan, and the few dis- Sunday. Parking in Cam- Campus Police. Seperately, took place on Sunday, Oct. 10 at Burton the IFC would not pursue the issue. senting opinions were discussed and bridge will be a complete MacGregor has seen mul- Conner. IFC President Ryan Schoen ’11, also a quickly dismissed.” zoo, so don’t plan on driv- tiple fire alarms, but those At an event with pledges present, Burton Kappa Sigma, said that he has not heard Under the HDAG proposal, stu- ing in Cambridge at all. See have resulted from actual Conner residents heard chanting of “Drink whether there will be a hearing, and that the dents living in McCormick, Baker, http://hocr.org for details. fires; Dennis Collins, MIT’s motherfuck, drink motherfucker!” House- IFC Bylaws require the hearing to take place Next and Simmons would be re- Director of Housing, held a master Merritt Roe Smith broke up the event, within 120 days of the complaint. Schoen quired to purchase a seven-day all- Fire alarms in dormito- meeting with MacGregor and a complaint was lodged with the IFC. said the complaint “certainly did not include you-care-to-eat breakfast and dinner ries have been going off residents last night to dis- Kappa Sigma President Keith T. Loeb- anything about encouraged drinking.” meal plan. frequently. Fire alarms cuss fire safety. ner ’11 said he was present at the event, — John A. Hawkinson HDAG continues, Page 7 TALKING BACK: “It GetS Better” WORKS MITWIT EVAN ZIPORYN’S SECTIONS PAUL KRUGMAN And it’s because of the ordinary people Party time! 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