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.
Elite universities reconsider their ROTC bans
WASHINGTON — Administrators at Harvard, Brown, and other elite universities are softening their resistance to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps more than four decades after the military scholarship programs were driven from campus in the face of fierce antiwar sentiment.
Silence over drunk prefrosh continues
The Department of Residential Life is investigating a Campus Preview Weekend incident during which a prospective freshman was found intoxicated and unconscious outside McCormick, according to Bexley housemaster Robert M. Randolph. “[It]appears she may have gotten the alcohol … in Bexley,” Randolph wrote in an e-mail to the <i>bexley-residents</i> mailing list.
Michael S. Feld
MIT Professor of Physics Michael S. Feld, who made fundamental contributions in the field of laser science and later applied physics to solving biomedical problems, died on April 10, after an eight-year struggle with multiple myeloma. Feld, who directed the MIT George R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory since 1976, was 69.
Ashdown residents fight loading dock proposal, favor trees
MIT Real Estate plans to replace trees west of Ashdown with a loading dock and dumpster, despite disapproval from the Ashdown House Executive Committee (AHEC). According to an email to Ashdown residents from AHEC chair Matt D. Haberland G, MIT hopes the changes will “attract new industrial tenants.”
Police Log
<i>The following incidents were reported to the Campus Police between March 10 and April 19. The dates below reflect the dates the incidents occurred. This information is compiled from the Campus Police’s crime log. The report does not include alarms, general service calls, or incidents not reported to the dispatcher.</i>