A nation’s response to an illegal smoke and a quip
WASHINGTON — When an illicit pipe and a foolish joke aboard an airliner touches off a national megascare, scrambling fighter jets and FBI agents, alerting all 4,900 flights in progress and unleashing a media flood, does that mean the security system works?
GSC election results
The Graduate Student Council elected officers for 2010–2011 on Wednesday night. The new officers take their position on May 5:
China’s censors tackle and trip over the Internet
Type the Chinese characters for “carrot” into Google’s search engine here in mainland China, and you will be rewarded not with a list of Internet links, but a blank screen.Don’t blame Google, however. The fault lies with China’s censors — who are increasingly a model for countries around the world that want to control an unrestricted Internet.
Will HDAG hear student voices?
As the Division of Student Life prepares to eliminate the house dining system’s $600,000 annual deficit, some undergraduates worry that the newest dining committee will neglect students’ opinions.
City council urges no layoffs
The Cambridge City Council unanimously passed two labor-related resolutions on Monday. The first requests that Harvard and MIT cease further layoffs as well as hour, salary, and pay cuts. The second requests that the Cambridge License Commission consider a regulation preventing Cambridge hotels from subcontracting housekeeping services.
Bail set for Reed, alleged rapist
Bail was set at $2,500 on Wednesday for Jason Reed, the homeless man arrested on campus last Tuesday and charged with rape. As of yesterday evening, he had not posted bail and was still in custody.
HEY PREFROSH Prefrosh look forward to a fun-filled weekend
<i>Interviews compiled by Natasha Plotkin. Photography by Andrea Robles.</i><i> </i><i>Richmond, Virginia</i>
Bill Gates, philanthropist, will give talk on April 21
Bill Gates, philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft, will speak at MIT on April 21 in an effort to motivate students and faculty to solve some of the world’s most significant problems.
Airlines, the masters of flight overbooking, have refined the practice of bumping to a science
Ryan W. Kingsbury SM ’09 is the rare flier who’s actually looking to be bumped from a flight.
Corrections
Because of an editing error, a letter to the editor last Tuesday criticizing the location of the new shuttle monitor was attributed to the wrong author. The letter was written by David A. Brescia ’11, not Andrew Freeman.
As the number of unpaid internships rises, many regulators are concerned that the practice is illegal
With job openings scarce for young people, the number of unpaid internships has climbed in recent years, leading federal and state regulators to worry that more employers are illegally using such internships for free labor.
In shift from Depression scholarship to White House policymaking, Sunshine Queen finds voice
WASHINGTON — Christina D. Romer PhD ’85 was so spooked by a momentary lapse during a long-forgotten MacNeil-Lehrer spot during the Clinton administration that she avoided doing television for a decade. Today, the UC Berkeley professor is the most visible face of the Obama administration’s economic team, from the showcase Sunday talk shows to live cable spots from the White House lawn.
MIT faces less competition for ... MIT
The battle for the letters “MIT” is fierce, but one source of competition for those letters looks out of the running, at least for now.
Undergrads may sign up for Harvard library privileges
Under a new pilot system between the MIT Libraries and the Harvard College Library (HCL), MIT undergraduates may now borrow from select Harvard libraries. Undergraduates were able to begin signing up for HCL Special Borrower cards yesterday. The cards grant access to several of Harvard’s 70-plus libraries.
Man arrested for rape in Building 2 Tuesday morning
A man was arrested early Tuesday morning on campus and charged with two counts of rape and one count of trespassing.
Assault in Building 2
A man was arrested early Tuesday morning on campus and charged with rape and trespassing.