$100K finalists dine at Metcalfe’s Boston home
For the past some 15 years, Robert Metcalfe ’68, co-inventor of Ethernet and founder of the digital electronics manufacturer 3Com, has invited finalists in MIT’s iconic $100K entrepreneurship competition into his historic Boston home — settled quaintly in the Back Bay among rows of picturesque brownstones — for his traditional dinner with the competition’s remaining team members.
Student groups wait for checks
The Student Activities Finance Office, which is responsible for processing reimbursements and checks for student groups, is running several weeks behind schedule.
Anna Tang to go to trial this month
Anna Tang, the former Wellesley student accused of stabbing Wolfe B. Styke ’10 while he slept in his Next House room in October 2007, will go to trial later this month.
Physics concert charges up 54-100
“There are going to be real musicians here tonight!” declared physics professor Christoph M.E. Paus — harnessing the energy in the room.
Lobby 10 cameras return — for one week.
As of late last week, two video cameras have returned to Lobby 10, overlooking it from both sides, just as they were present during three weeks in February.
There’s a little Neanderthal in us all, DNA says
Neanderthals — extinct for 30,000 years — live on today in the DNAof many people because the Ice Age brutes probably mated with prehistoric humans, scientists said yesterday.
Freshmen set to crowd MacGregor
CORRECTION APPENDED The incoming freshman class is so large that eight lounges in the MacGregor high rise will be converted into doubles starting fall of 2010.
Textbook data available sooner
To comply with a national law, MIT will make textbook information available before the pre-registration deadline in coming terms, according to a presentation delivered at April’s faculty meeting by Vice Chancellor Steven R. Lerman ’72.
Squeezing in more freshmen
In this article, Karen Nilsson tells <i>The Tech</i> that the Class of 2014 will have about 1,300 students, <b>which would represent an increase of 222 over the Class of 2013’s size of 1078 freshmen,</b> according to Registrar statistics. That increase is about <b>four times as large </b>as was projected earlier this year.
Cable channel revisits 1992 student murder
On Monday at 8 p.m., New England Cable News (NECN) will run an hour-long documentary about the 1992 murder of Norwegian student Yngve K. Raustein ’94.
Roche will file opposition brief
Biotech company Roche will file an opposition brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in <i>Stanford University v. Roche Molecular Systems, et al.</i>, the intellectual property case that Stanford and MIT have both asked the Court to hear, as have other 40 peer institutions.
Water main repaired
For three days, residents of Boston and surrounding communities have been advised to boil their water following a major water main break Saturday morning. Cambridge residents are not affected because the city receives its water from a different source.
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK As memes go mainstream, lols
Last weekend at ROFLcon, I was online without being on the internet. The guest list read like a printout of my browser history.
Some professors say finance reform bill misses point
As Democrats close in on their goal of overhauling the nation’s financial regulations, several prominent experts say that the legislation does not even address the right problems, leaving the financial system vulnerable to another major crisis.
Scam artist targeting MIT community
MIT Police are alerting the MIT community to a scam artist tricking unsuspecting members of the MIT community.
After 25 years, Nilsson will retire from MIT
Karen Nilsson, the senior associate dean for Residential Life, will retire early and leave her position on June 30.