NEWS BRIEFS
Leland Cheung MBA ‘10 recently announced a bid for Massachusetts’ lieutenant governor position, under the Democratic Party. Cheung, a graduate of MIT’s Sloan School of Management and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, is serving his second term on the Cambridge City Council. According to the Boston Globe, Cheung is planning on investing six figures into his upcoming campaign. He stated in an interview with the Globe, “I think I have an opportunity to help the Democratic ticket in November.”
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: 2016 Ring Premiere is true to tradition
Last Friday evening, I joined my fellow members of the Class of 2016 as we came together to watch the unveiling of this year’s Brass Rat design. Before the doors even opened, we already had a class-bonding experience — waiting outside Kresge in freezing temperatures.
FROM THE ARCHIVES:
Editor’s Note: This article originally ran 11 years ago in Issue 3 of Volume 123 of The Tech on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2003.
News Briefs
Jeremy L. Rubin ’16 has sought help from the Electronic Frontier Foundation after receiving requests from the New Jersey attorney general’s office for documents and code related to a hackathon project he worked on with three other MIT students.
MIT add/drop system moves to digital format
A new online application was introduced to the MIT community on January 27, allowing students to add, drop, and change courses via their own electronic submissions. A number of key forms are also expected to go paperless in the near future.
Mixed feelings about death penalty for Tsarnaev
He lost his right leg and endured more than 20 operations. Shrapnel remains in his heart and elsewhere in his body, remnants of the Boston Marathon bombings that killed three and injured more than 260.
CORRECTIONS
An article in Tuesday’s issue of The Tech about Chancellor Cindy Barnhart PhD ‘88 neglected to include her graduation year.
William Ware, MIT alum, engineer, dies
Willis H. Ware, an electrical engineer who in the late 1940s helped build a machine that would become a blueprint for computer design in the 20th century, and who later played an important role in defining the importance of personal privacy in the information age, died Nov. 22 at his home in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 93. His death was confirmed by his family.
2.00B, Toy Product Design, cancelled for this semester
Toy Product Design, 2.00B, has been cancelled this Spring 2014 but will be offered again in Spring 2015. Other courses, most prominently 2.007, Design and Manufacturing, will count toward the requirements fulfilled by 2.00B.
Early Sophomore standing numbers released
This year, 316 freshmen were offered early sophomore standing. This is 28.4 percent of the class, an increase from last year’s 25.9 percent. Additionally, 158 students chose to accept early sophomore standing so far, up from 134 acceptances last year.
Gaggle cops 134th Managing Board elections
Some have said that if one were to count total number of medals won by The Tech’s Managing Board in the Winter Olympics up to now, it would be the equivalent of a small tropical country that had never seen snow before in their lives.
Martin Schmidt named MIT provost
President L. Rafael Reif on Monday announced the appointment of Martin A. Schmidt PhD ’88 as provost, the most senior academic position in the administration.
Cynthia Barnhart named MIT chancellor
MIT’s new chancellor, and the first woman to hold the post, is Cynthia Barnhart PhD ‘88, President L. Rafael Reif announced on Monday. As chancellor, Barnhart oversees student life and education.
The Tech’s 2013 Year in Review
A special insert in this first issue of The Tech’s Volume 134, our Year in Review provides perspective on 2013. For the issue, visit http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N65/.
CORRECTIONS
To clarify an article about the format of 3.091 published in the Wednesday, January 29 issue of The Tech, 3.091 is returning to a lecture format for the Spring 2014 semester. No decisions have been made on whether to continue the online assessment format for Fall 2014 and beyond. A full report on the class will be submitted late February.
DOJ to pursue death penalty for Tsarnaev
The Department of Justice said Thursday that it will seek the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the alleged Boston Marathon bomber, citing the
Terror strikes, four are slain, Boston prevails, and MIT remembers
Tragedy struck Boston, Cambridge, and MIT this year with the bombing at the 117th Boston Marathon on Monday Apr. 15 and the shooting death of MIT Police Officer Sean Collier that Friday. The events that unfolded halted Boston’s daily operations and thrust the city and Institute into the national spotlight.