Is Boston a hotspot for bank theft?
According to <i>The Town</i>, the Ben Affleck crime drama released in theaters today, there are over 300 bank robberies in Boston each year. The movie poster portrays masked robbers wielding weapons in nun costumes with the tagline, “Welcome to the Bank Robbery Capital of America,” hanging ominously above them.
Corrections
Because of an editing error, the Tuesday, Sept. 14 story about tenure at MIT referred to Charles C. Mills ’12 as a “former student.” Mills is a former student of Professor Eric Hudson and is currently a junior.
Three-judge panel asks for oral arguments on stem cell ban
The Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said Wednesday that it will hear oral arguments about whether to suspend a lower court’s preliminary injunction barring federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research.
A flurry of packages at desk
Dormitory desks have recently been flooded with packages — and tense e-mails asking residents to please pick up their packages.
E62 is business school’s new home
E62, the $142 million Sloan School of Management building, has opened for classes, for the first time bringing together all the different parts of the Sloan School into one place.
Stem cell researcher to give Killian Award Lecture this month
One week from Tuesday, on September 28, acclaimed biology professor and stem cell researcher Rudolph Jaenisch will give the annual James R. Killian award lecture in 10-250.
More bids offered
Both fraternities and sororities saw more interest in Greek life this year and gave out slightly more bids.
UA leaders talk progress since election
UA President Vrajesh Y. Modi ’11 and Vice President Samantha “Sammi” G. Wyman ’11 ran together last spring with the slogan “We do things”. Their vision to improve UA interaction with students, the freshman advising system, and overall student life won them the election by a landslide margin last spring. How are their plans faring this year?
The road to getting tenure at MIT
Students are probably most familiar with the college admissions process. But a tenure review at MIT is quite different. It’s much more drawn-out and thorough, though it has some of the same elements: an application, recommendation letters, and a hierarchy of reviewers.
Many confess to crime even when completely innocent Researchers find that confessions of guilt just are not reliable, especially among mentally disabled
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Eddie Lowery lost 10 years of his life for a crime he did not commit. There was no physical evidence at his trial for rape, but one overwhelming factor put him away: He confessed.
Corrections
A New York Times wire article on Tuesday about the effectiveness of various study habits described incorrectly the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in physics. The principle holds that the act of measuring one property of a particle (position, for example) reduces the accuracy with which you can know another property (momentum, example for not that the act of measuring a property of the particle alters that property.)
Yes, more cameras
Two cameras are being installed on top of the roof of Bldg. 54. Yesterday, camera housings were installed, on each of the south corners. One is pointed at Masseeh Hall (W1), and one is pointed at Harvard Bridge. Thomas W. Komola from the Security and Emergency Management Office said the footage from the cameras would be used under the Security Office’s standard policy: access to the footage is only available at written request of MIT Chief of Police John DiFava.
Chroniclers of<br />the atomic bomb
They risked their lives to capture on film hundreds of blinding flashes, rising fireballs and mushroom clouds.
At MIT, mysteries of the tenure game
<i>A version of this story was originally published on June 11. To find out where Hudson is now, see the epilogue.</i>
IFC halts rush for two frats
Two MIT fraternities, Phi Beta Epsilon (PBE) and Beta Theta Pi, have been barred from extending bids to new members this year according to Interfraternity Council president Ryan Schoen ’11.
Calif. judge strikes down ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy
The “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy toward gay members of the military is unconstitutional, a federal judge in California ruled Thursday.