Established 1881 WEATHER, p. 2 MIT’s Oldest and WED: 17°F | 2°F Largest Newspaper Snow/wind THU: 17°F | 3°F Partly cloudy tech.mit.edu FRI: 17°F | 12°F Sunny Established 1881 Volume 133, Number 63 Wednesday, January 22, 2014 CPW events restricted to before 1 a.m. Established 1881 No CPW events can take place 1 to 6 a.m. By Rosa Ruiz STAff REPORTER Prefrosh at this year’s Campus Preview Weekend (CPW) will be the first to experience a new policy restricting late night events: CPW events must now end by 1 a.m. and can begin again at 6 a.m. Spontaneous events, such as an impromptu movie showing, can still take place, but will not be listed in the booklet. For the past couple of years, the rule has been that all events with an end time past 3 a.m. must have a safety plan to get prefrosh home, but there had been no set end time. Established 1881 According to the Student Activities Of- fice (SAO) Student Organization Handbook, BRUNO B. F. FAVIERo—THE TECH “All events must end no later than 1 a.m.” The Around 2 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 19, there was an accident on Memorial Drive and Mass. Ave. allegedly involving a taxi and a Institute-wide policy was implemented in the SafeRide Boston All shuttle. 1990s around the same time as a rash of vio- lent events at large parties, which included two shootings and a stabbing. The Campus Police and Campus Activities Complex (CAC) ini- tially banned all large late-night parties, and Mystery Hunt coin found in Courtyard presumably eventually reached the 1 a.m. rule, according to Assistant Director of Admissions Random Hall team wins Alice in Wonderland-themed hunt in 38 hours and CPW Coordinator Katie A. Kelley. In past years, a lack of communication be- By William Navarre Average team hourly puzzle submission rate tween the SAO and the CPW advisory commit- STAff REPORTER tee, which consists of various representatives 5 6PM Fri 6AM Sat 6PM Sat 6AM Sun 6PM Sun from groups involved in CPW, including the This year’s MIT Mystery Hunt — themed CAC, SAO, and FSILG (Fraternity, Sorority, and “Alice in Wonderland” — began Friday Established 1881 Independent Living Groups) offices, led to the with a Kresge Kickoff at noon and officially CPW committee approving events at all hours. ended Monday afternoon after a wrap-up 4 Although the 1 a.m. policy was mentioned ceremony in 26-100. The team “One Fish, last year during a meeting of the committee, Two Fish, Random Fish, Blue Fish” of Ran- it was too close to the date of the weekend, dom Hall won at 2:30 a.m. Sunday after so CPW went on as planned. However, when about 38 hours of searching. the policy was brought up again at one of this The winning team’s name “One Fish, 3 year’s meetings, the committee agreed to put Two Fish, Random Fish, Blue Fish” was it into practice in order to be consistent with purposefully based on a work of literature Institute policy. Students were not consulted to parody last year’s winning team, whose before the decision was made. name was the full text of the book Atlas “The process surrounding the decision Shrugged, according to team leader Adam 2 demonstrates an unacceptable lack of collabo- P. Rosenfield ’08. Rosenfield said that Ran- ration with student leaders and the student dom last won in 2005 and that, while the body as a whole,” wrote DormCon president Eli team is happy to have won and looks for- H. Ross ’14 in an email to The Tech. “The policy ward to planning next year’s hunt, the team choice was made and then simply relayed to values having fun over winning. 1 relevant groups—many of which would have “The Internet has always been a huge had valuable input into the earlier discussion part of our problem solving strategy,” process.” Rosenfield said. They have a custom server According to Kelley, the policy is “not due to Mystery Hunt, Page 10 Source: MIT Mystery Hunt 2014 INFOGRAPHIC BY WILL CONWAY CPW, Page 9 IN Short Online registration for Spring semester opens for all news Briefs campaign. campaign will be more cific goals of the campaign students on Monday, Jan. 27. Register at registration.mit. The launch will follow ambitious than its previ- will be announced in its edu. 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FUN, p. 6 2 The Tech Wednesday, January 22, 2014 Former Virginia governor and D his wife are indicted States cutting weeks of aid Former Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia and his wife, Mau- reen, were indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on charges of accepting some $140,000 in loans and gifts in exchange for pro- to the jobless moting the business of a political patron. The 14-count indictment filed by the U.S. attorney for the East- By Annie Lowrey last payment Dec. 28. Starting Jan. 1, ting back on support for the jobless. WORL ern District of Virginia included charges of bribery and fraud re- THE NEW YORK TIMES the maximum period of unemploy- The state’s unemployment rate has lating to the McDonnells’ relationship with Jonnie Williams Sr., ment payments dropped to 26 weeks plummeted to 7.4 percent from 8.8 N the chief executive of Star Scientific, a maker of dietary supple- RIEGELWOOD, N.C. — Last July, in most states, down from as long as percent, the sharpest drop in the ments, who hoped to use the governor to promote his products. North Carolina sharply cut its un- 73 weeks. country. The indictment accuses the McDonnells of lying on loan employment program, reducing the With that move, the country’s Nationally, economists expect the applications by failing to disclose money advanced to them by maximum number of weeks of ben- safety net for jobless workers has un- economy to respond much as North Williams. Once a rising Republican star, mentioned as a pos- efits to 20 from 73 and reducing the dergone a sudden transformation, Carolina’s has. But statistics don’t tell sible running mate for Mitt Romney in 2012 and an aspirant for maximum weekly benefit as well. from one aimed at providing modest the full story. North Carolina still has his party’s 2016 presidential nomination, McDonnell has taken a The rest of the country is now fol- but sustained protection to workers nearly 350,000 listed as officially un- ATIO spectacular fall since details of his connection with Williams sur- lowing North Carolina’s lead. A fed- weathering a tough labor market to employed, and many more, includ- faced last spring. eral program supplying extra weeks one intended to give relatively short- ing those living in depressed rural McDonnell, who last summer announced that he was return- of benefits to the long-term unem- term aid before spurring workers to areas, have given up even looking ing the gifts and loans, has long maintained that he never did any- ployed expired at the end of 2013, accept a job, any job.