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Recently released data from DSL provides the much-awaited breakdown of MIT’s student life fee. $1.1M goes to DAPER.

The figure lists the number of votes for each suggestion and plots the percentage of the votes in favor. The only suggestion on the website not included is “Freshman Programs” because there was a misstatement in the U...

Charlie Zien ’10 poses in front of one of the many jalopies that line the streets of downtown Havana on June 29.

Pearl Jam will tour Australia in November.

Michael Moore stands outside of Goldman Sachs headquarters in Manhattan. Wall Street is among the targets of Moore’s new film, Capitalism: A Love Story.

Center, the market value of MIT’s endowment in real dollars (not inflation-adjusted); market value includes new gifts added each year.

Left, MIT’s endowment investment return versus the Standard & Poor’s 500 index from 2000 through 2009 (present).

Right, sources of research revenue on the MIT campus (excluding Lincoln Laboratory and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology). Health and Human Services revenue has been a significant component of inc...

Mark Abrahams, editor of Improbable Research, concludes the Ig Nobel Lectures, held this past Saturday in a very crowded 10-250.

Candidates for Freshmen Class Council use their pages on the Undergraduate Association website as a primary means of informing voters of their platforms.