IN SHORT
Come to the Wellesley College Blue Notes’ concert next Saturday, March 15th at 7 p.m. and help support the Collier Memorial Fund! The concert will be held in Wellesley’s Jewett Center. More info on the group can be found at https://www.facebook.com/wcbluenotes, and any questions can be directed to ekapnick@wellesley.edu.
77 crosswalk sees timing adjustment
Urban Studies and Planning lecturer Ezra H. Glenn felt like he was waiting longer this year to cross the street at 77 Massachusetts Avenue, so he emailed Cambridge’s planning office “at the risk of sounding like a crank” and found that, indeed, ten seconds had been added to the length of the green light for vehicles.
February FNL released
The January/February Edition of the MIT Faculty Newsletter opens strongly with Prof. Hal Abelson PhD ’73, Nathan Matias G, and Ethan Zuckerman’s open letter to President L. Rafael Reif regarding Tidbit alongside Reif’s response.
Putin intends to cripple Ukraine
MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin has left little doubt he intends to cripple Ukraine’s new government, forcing it to make concessions or face the de facto partition of areas populated predominantly by ethnic Russians, from the Crimea to Odessa to the industrial heartland in the east.
CORRECTIONS
In an article about the MIT men’s volleyball team in the Friday, Feb. 28 issue of The Tech, the headline incorrectly implied MIT had an upcoming match with Juniata College. New Paltz, MIT’s opponents in the match covered by the article, were in fact the ones scheduled to face Juniata.
NEWS BRIEFS
An email sent Sunday from Burton Conner housemaster Anne E.C. McCants to the dorm’s residents notified the recipients of the most recent in a series of thefts to occur in the dorm. According to the email, a male claiming to be an MIT security employee gained entrance to the Conner 5 Lounge and left with a PS4 gaming system after the student who confronted him went to notify the police.
Demolition of Bexley awaits Corp. approval
Four months after the Department of Facilities and the Division of Student Life recommended the demolition of the dormitory, the future of Bexley Hall and 50 Massachusetts Ave. has yet to be determined.
Faculty briefed on shortage of 500–600 grad dorm beds
The Graduate Student Housing Working Group continues to solicit feedback on a January draft report, which says that the unmet demand for on-campus graduate student housing totals approximately 500–600 beds.
CORRECTIONS
In the caption to the front page picture of Alcator C-Mod in the Tuesday, Feb. 25 issue of The Tech, Massachusetts State Representative Jay Livingstone was incorrectly referenced as a Massachusetts Congressman. We regret the error.
Fraternities, sororities, and ILGs by 2013 GPA
The Division for Student Life released its Fall 2013 grade report for fraternities, sororities, and independent living groups on Wednesday. The average GPA for sorority sisters in the Fall 2013 semester was 4.46. The average GPA for fraternity brothers was 4.33. The average GPA for members of independent living groups was 4.44. The average GPA for all FSILGs was 4.38. Between Spring 2012 and Fall 2013, pika fell from 1st place to 25th place. In the same time, Tau Epsilon Phi rose from 14th place to 1st place. MIT has 39 FSILGs.
CORRECTIONS
In the Friday, Feb. 21 review of Garden at the Cellar, the listing of the restaurant’s times was incomplete. They are also open for lunch Monday through Friday 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. and for brunch on Saturdays and Sundays during the same hours.
Alcator C-Mod experiment operates with restored funds
In a large, press-filled event at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) Monday, scientists and legislators celebrated the restoration of funding to Alcator C-Mod. The ceremony began with the press of a giant red button, signifying the restart of nuclear fusion experiments at the facility.
Ex-MIT professor Moniz is the man in the middle
Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz is known around his department for a quick wit, a leader of a vast bureaucracy who draws quotes from Monty Python skits and chuckles self-deprecatingly at the attention paid to his unusual Colonial-style hairdo.
Novartis AG to buy out Cambridge cancer drug firm, CoStim Pharma
The Swiss drug giant Novartis AG, moving to establish itself as a top player in the hot field of cancer treatment known as immunotherapy, on Monday said it had snapped up two-year-old CoStim Pharmaceuticals Inc., a venture-backed Cambridge biotech using research from Boston academic labs.
East Boston attacks leave women wary and on edge
Denise Nguyen has heard all the safety tips: Don’t walk alone at night. Be aware of your surroundings. Travel in pairs.
CORRECTIONS
The story in Tuesday’s issue about President Reif’s message to the MIT community in response to the legal situation involving Tidbit incorrectly stated that Hal Abelson sent a draft of the letter to Reif, Barnhart, and Morgan before soliciting signatures throughout the MIT community on Thursday, Feb. 13. In fact, Abelson sent the administrators the draft shortly after sending it to CSAIL members on that date.
East Campus Housemasters to retire at end of the semester
Thomas J. and Kate Delaney, the East Campus (EC) Housemasters, are stepping down from their roles at the end of this semester. Kate Delaney, a lecturer in the Department of Literature, and Tom, a lecturer in Comparative Media Studies / Writing, have been Housemasters for EC since 2006. The Delaneys will be retiring at the end of this semester.