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Tim the Beaver gets the crowd excited before the annual Latke-Hamentashen debate, held this year on Wednesday, March 4 in 26-100. The placard on his chest reads “MIT” in Hebrew.

The “On the Shoulders of Giants” display was vandalized during the week of Feb. 2; a cardboard cutout of President Abraham Lincoln (pictured here) was replaced with a cutout of “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin.

The “On the Shoulders of Giants” display was vandalized during the week of Feb. 2; a cardboard cutout of President Abraham Lincoln was replaced with a cutout of “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin (pictured here).

Per Bad Taste tradition, audience members pelt the stage and each other with paper during the nth Annual Concert in Bad Taste, put on by the Chorallaries of MIT on Saturday night.

The MIT/Wellesley Toons make a guest appearance at the nth Annual Concert in Bad Taste, performing “You Whore,” a parody of Jason Mraz’s “I’m Yours.” Left to right: Leslie S. Nachbar ’10 (in mask), Samantha Guergeneno...

Tess E. Wise ’10 parodies the recent dining protest in Lobby 7 in a skit making fun of east and west campus stereotypes during the nth Annual Concert in Bad Taste, put on by the Chorallaries of MIT on Saturday night.

Students line up in front of 26-100 on Saturday night for the MIT Chorallaries’ nth Annual Concert in Bad Taste, an event where political correctness gets thrown out the window. The line was started last Wednesday eve...

Benjamin N. Nield ’12 counterattacks against his opponent in the foil competition. Nield finished 11-1 en route to helping the MIT foil squad place first. Nield himself finished in second place individually.

Andrew ‘Zoz’ Brooks PhD ’07 stands in front of the weather radar dish atop the roof of MIT’s Building 54 one afternoon this February.

Paul Baranay ’11 participates in a meeting on Sunday in Burton-Conner’s Porter Room to discuss the leaked consultants’ report on dining. The meeting was hosted by the Campaign for Students.

The Undergraduate Association’s Executive Board led a discussion about the future of dining at MIT during an emergency UA Senate meeting the evening of Monday, Feb. 16.

Professor Noam A. Chomsky lectured on Tuesday, Jan. 13 about the ongoing Israeli incursion into Gaza. Chomsky asserted that Israeli provocation was at the root of the continuing conflict with Palestinians and Hamas.

Millions of visitors congregate around the National Mall in Washington, D.C. yesterday. The crowds stretched from Capitol Hill to beyond the Washington Monument.

Inauguration viewers in 10-250 rise to their feet as President Barack Obama begins to recite the oath of office. For more photos from inauguration day events, see page 8.

Parisians watch President Barack Obama’s inaugural address outside a packed Carr’s Irish Pub in downtown Paris yesterday.

Hackers placed a presidential seal banner on the facade of Building 10, beneath the Great Dome, early on the morning of Jan. 20, 2009.