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Four robots sprawl out onto the field during the 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I) competition. Each contestant was allowed to have two drivers, so many created a secondary “bother bot” which would prevent their oppo...

An empty chair at the New Tech Barber in the basement of the Student Center on the afternoon of May 4. The New Tech Barber is scheduled to be evicted this Friday because of unpaid rent.

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, addresses a packed Kresge Auditorium on Thursday afternoon at the inaugural event of The Dalai Lama Center of Ethics and Transformative Values, a venture under MIT’s Of...

Melissa A. Gymrek ’11 is seen here 400 yards away from the finish line on Boylston St. during The 113th annual Boston Marathon on Monday April 20, 2009. The 26.2 mile event brings together runners and spectators from ...

A Cambridge Bomb Squad officer attempts to disable a device placed on Kresge Field on the morning of April 24. The device was, in fact, a cherry-bomb-shaped concrete block advertising for this weekend’s annual DTYD pa...

John P. Holdren ’65 (left), director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, delivered a presentation as part of Monday’s forum on clean energy. The forum, sponsored by the MIT Energy Initiative, w...

The bomb-shaped concrete block advertising DTYD, showing damage from an attempted detonation by the Cambridge Bomb Squad.

A large black fake bomb made from concrete appeared on Kresge Oval in the early hours of Friday, April 24 adorned with the letters “DTYD,” to advertise the Dance Till You Drop party put on by the Burton Third Bombers.

A Cambridge Bomb Squad officer attempts to disable a device placed on Kresge Field on the morning of April 24. The device was, in fact, a cherry-bomb-shaped concrete block advertising for this weekend’s annual DTYD pa...

Students are seen collecting pieces of the dropped piano as mementos after Baker House’s annual Piano Drop, which took place on Thursday, April 23 to commemorate Drop Date.

The piano used in this year’s Baker House Piano Drop on April 23 is seen on the roof of the dormitory being prepared to be released.

A piano is seen falling from the roof of Baker House on Thursday, April 23 during Piano Drop. Piano Drop is hosted by Baker every year to commemorate Drop Date.

MIT varsity pistol coach Will Hart Jr. meets with his team after the 8 a.m. meeting where it was announced that pistol would no longer be a varsity sport at MIT, despite the team’s reputation as one of MIT’s most succ...

Jennifer E. Lai ’10 of the Association of Taiwanese Students hands out bubble tea to prefrosh during the CPW festival on April 16 in Johnson.

Prefrosh play a game of Twister hosted by East Campus at the CPW festival on Thursday night in Johnson.

Prospective student Robert Haussman takes part in an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) demonstration as part of the CPW festival on April 16.