Established 1881 WELcoME PreFrosh! WEATHER, p. 2 MIT’s Oldest and Fri: 74°F | 50°F Largest Newspaper Sunny Sat: 70°F | 57°F Chance of showers tech.mit.edu SUN: 57°F | 51°F Showers likely Established 1881 Volume 132, Number 19 Friday, April 20, 2012 Postdoc LN2 ice cream returns for CPW found dead in jail cell Established 1881 Arrested in Colo. for arranging sex with minors By Anne Cai NEWS EDITOR Yaron Segal, arrested on March 28 for allegedly arranging a sexual en- counter with minors, died on Friday, April 13. An Israeli national, Segal was a postdoc in MIT’s Photovoltaic Re- search Lab (PVLab) and had received Established 1881 JOSEPH MAURER—THE TECH his PhD in physics from Yale last year. The residents of East Campus Second West make liquid nitrogen ice cream Thursday evening outside of the Z-Center during their annual Segal was found unresponsive in CryoFAC event� They served several exotic ice cream flavors, including green tea, sea salt, and lemon� his cell, hanging from a homemade noose, at the Federal Correctional Institution in Englewood, Colorado, at 12:49 p.m. last Friday, according to John Sell, the facility’s spokesperson. Craighead/Walsh win by a hair There is an ongoing investigation re- Hope for garding the circumstances of his death. UA insider ticket wins closest race in recent memory In light of his death, all three counts Alcator C-Mod of indictment against Segal were dis- By Ethan A. Solomon sociation (UA) president and vice Tallapragada/Yang’s 667. The UA missed on Tuesday, and the criminal EXECUTIVE EDITOR president last Friday. uses a preferential voting system The U.S. House of Repre- case was closed. Craighead and Walsh fended in which students rank tickets; sentatives Committee on Ap- “He was well-respected among In what was the closest election off a strong UA-outsider campaign weaker tickets are successively propriations met Wednesday his peers as a brilliant, creative, and in recent memory, Jonté D. Craig- waged by Naren P. Tallapragada eliminated and those votes go to to discuss the energy and wa- head ’13 and Michael P. Walsh ’13 ’13 and Andrew C. Yang ’13, taking ter appropriations bill — the Segal, Page 21 were Establishedelected Undergraduate As1881- 683 first-place votes compared to UA Election, Page 20 same one that proposed to cut funding to MIT’s Alcator C- Mod for fiscal year 2013. Alcator C-Mod is MIT’s IN Short OBitUarY tokamak reactor, a toroidal plasma confinement fusion Drop date is next Thursday. Make sure device that is a critical part of you get your forms signed by your advi- Phyo Kyaw ’10 fusion research at MIT. It is one sor before then! of only three such machines in Remembered for his smile the United States. Summer housing applications are due A recommendation from next Wednesday. the Department of Energy sug- gested cuts for the domestic April housing lottery results are avail- fusion program for FY 2013 — able today. including Alcator. A statement to the committee from Chair- Attention Freshmen! You’ve got one man Rodney Frelinghuysen more week to declare your major! You suggests that Alcator may not must declare a departmental major or be cut for next year. declare Undesignated Sophomore by “Funding for American in- next Friday. novation and competitiveness also receives priority treat- MIT’s American Red Cross Team and ment,” Frelinghuysen said, Network will be sponsoring a blood “Within science research, drive on Monday from 1–6 p.m., Tues- funding for the domestic fu- day from 8 a.m.–6 p.m., and Wednesday sion program is restored to TIAN ONG from 1–6 p.m. in La Sala at the Student last year’s level, and the inter- Center. For more information, visit Friends share memories of Phyo N. Kyaw ’10 on April 7 at a memorial service and release balloons over the Charles River to symbolize their loss� national fusion program is in- http://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/. creased to come closer to our By Jingyun Fan at Cambridge-based Soane Asian nation of Myanmar. In his commitments.” The MIT Bookstore will hold a loading CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Labs. Kyaw received an SB in freshman year, Phyo joined the The budget for nuclear en- dock sale tomorrow and Sunday. chemical-biological engineer- Experimental Study Group and ergy will remain at last year’s Phyo N. Kyaw ’10, 23, died ing, Course 10B, in 2010. became a brother at the Sigma level of about $90 million, he Check out MIT’s student groups at the on Dec. 27 in a traffic accident “Clearly you don’t want this Nu fraternity. He gradually got said. Activities Midway on Saturday from while riding his bicycle at the to happen to anyone,” said his involved with other commu- While this statement does 1–3 p.m. in the Johnson Athletic Center. intersection of Vassar Street friend Ye Yao ’11. “But … why nities, like Camp Kesem — a not guarantee that C-Mod and Massachusetts Avenue. At did it have to be him?” summer program for children will be around next year, there Send news information and tips to the time of his death, he was Phyo came to MIT in 2006, seems to be a chance. 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Facebook page 2 The Tech Friday, April 20, 2012 Romney campaign set to D expand for fall election Dozens killed in wave of BOSTON — Mitt Romney’s nondescript base camp on the outskirts of the North End of Boston has until now seemed too large for his presidential campaign — roughly 15,000 square feet attacks across Iraq of space on the first floor has sat largely empty and unused, even during Romney’s first presidential bid in 2008. By Tim Arango of health, Majeed Hamad Amin. He and wounding five others. WORL But that cavernous area, which once housed a Roche-Bobois THE NEW YORK TIMES was unharmed, but two bystanders Nearly four months have passed furniture store, will soon fill with the speed of a hot high-tech were killed, an official said. since the withdrawal of the U.S. mili- N startup as Romney, now the presumptive Republican nominee, BAGHDAD — A string of deadly Some bombs were directed at tary, and despite the attacks Thurs- prepares for the general election. His staff of 87 full-time employ- explosions and other attacks shook Shiite Muslims, who make up the day, security has not deteriorated, as ees will balloon to more than 400 people in the coming weeks, Iraq on Thursday, with bombings majority of Iraq’s population and are many analysts contended it would. aides said, and his convention team of 55 will nearly triple to 150 in Baghdad and the northern city of frequently the victims of what is left By some Iraqi government measures, full-timers by the actual event in Tampa, Fla., in late August. Kirkuk resulting in the most fatalities. of the country’s Sunni insurgency which have been widely reported by In short order, the campaign will need to raise money aggres- Overall, nearly three dozen and its main group, al-Qaida in Iraq. the news media, March was one of sively, build up offices in swing states, reach out to conservatives people were killed and more than A hotel in Kadhimiya, a Baghdad the least violent months since 2003, ATIO and moderates and hone its anti-Obama message while intro- 100 wounded, according to security neighborhood that is home to an when the U.S.-led war began. ducing Romney to large swaths of the country. officials. important Shiite shrine, was struck But according to statistics cited Romney has sold himself to voters as a problem-solver and By the standards of Iraq — where by a car bomb. The attack killed two by the United Nations, violence has an experienced executive, and some of those skills will be put to attacks occur daily, although at a people at the hotel, where Shiite pil- actually remained steady, and simi- the test in a matter of weeks as he transforms his insular, tight- much diminished rate compared grims from Iran often stay. lar to the levels over the past three knit political team into a full-scale national campaign prepared with the height of the war — the In Samarra, north of Baghdad, years. In March, according to those to compete with President Barack Obama’s vaunted political op- wave of violence Thursday was not two car bombs hit a checkpoint statistics, 294 people were killed in eration. Romney’s headquarters, for instance, looks spendthrift extraordinary. But it was a reminder, guarded by members of a local Awak- attacks, slightly higher than in Febru- & N compared with Obama’s campaign office, at the prestigious ad- after weeks of relative calm, that an ening group, part of the movement ary and comparable to many months dress of One Prudential Plaza in downtown Chicago. organized insurgency remained ac- that is made up of former insurgents last year. —Ashley Parker, The New York Times tive.