Established 1881 WEATHER, p. 2 MIT’s Oldest and TUE: 67°F | 42°F Largest Newspaper Sunny WED: 65°F | 43°F Sunny tech.mit.edu THU: 70°F | 45°F Sunny Established 1881 Volume 133, Number 22 Tuesday, April 30, 2013 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 The Tech. “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 MIT Assistant Professor of Lit- Sal Khan ’98 is coming to MIT on IN Short erature Stephanie Ann Frampton May 8. The founder of Khan Acad- Wellness week continues through has won the Rome Prize. 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OPINION, p. 4 2 The Tech Tuesday, April 30, 2013 Eurozone releases next set of D loans for Greece Five are convicted in Kosovo ATHENS, Greece — Eurozone officials on Monday ap- proved the release of 2.8 billion euros, or $3.7 billion, in loans to Greece, the country’s Finance Ministry said, paving the way organ-trafficking ring for the approval of an additional 6 billion euro installment at a meeting of the currency union’s finance ministers in mid-May. By Dan Bilefsky year suspended sentences. tion and were released without ad- 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.