Lori Berenson paroled from Peruvian prison after 15 years
Lori Helene Berenson, a former MIT student and political activist imprisoned in Peru, was granted parole yesterday. Berenson, who withdrew from MIT as a sophomore in 1988, has served 15 years out of a 20-year prison sentence for aiding the leftist guerilla group Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, or MRTA (Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru). She is now 40 years old.
Tang trial postponed to June
The trial of Anna Tang, accused of stabbing her ex-boyfriend in 2007, has been postponed once again, until June 22 and 23.
Roche files Supreme Court brief
Biotech company Roche filed its opposition brief yesterday in <i>Stanford University v. Roche Molecular Systems, et al.</i>, the intellectual property case that Stanford and MIT have both asked the Supreme Court to hear. Download it from our website at <i>http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N23/scotus/05_Roche_Brief_In_Opposition_To_Cert_Petition.pdf</i>.
Around 64 percent of admitted students choose MIT
A similar fraction of students accepted their offers of admission to MIT this year compared with last year, about 64 percent, according to admissions director Stuart Schmill ‘86. The enrolled class of 2014 will have around 1,070 students and a demographic makeup similar to the class of 2013, he wrote in e-mail. The admissions office is working to select “a small number” of students to admit off its waitlist over the next week and a half, wrote Schmill.
Corrections
An article last Friday about dorm crowding reported a number that was relayed to <i>The Tech</i> in error. The class of 2014 will not have “around 1,300” students. According to Dean of Admissions Stuart Schmill ’86, MIT is planning to enroll 1070 students for the class of 2014, the same target for last year’s incoming class.
FROM THE EDITORS Freshman class size target remains at 1070
Friday’s rank one article paraphrased Senior Associate Dean for Residential Life Karen Nilsson as saying the class of 2014 “might” have around 1,300 students, over 200 more than the class of 2013.
$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.