Institutional Wisdom Watch

Media Lab: Imaginative techno-brats celebrate 10th birthday. Free Legos for everyone!

N. Negroponte: Striped-shirt visionary brings home the Media Lab bacon. Writes columns, too.

S. Immerman: Mustachioed administrator turned re-engineering wizard. "Ignore that man behind the curtain."

Neal Dorow: Claims he couldn't tell if Kappa Sig had beer at party. Who spiked his punch?

Nobel Prizes: Institute seems to be on a roll. Please, sir, can we have some more?

Ig Nobel: Silly legal dispute moves Nobel parody to Harvard. Guess they were running out of real science Nobels.

Counterpoint: ZBT debrothers frat reviewer; Counterpoint nixes campus free speech story in favor of Playboy pix.