MIT Announces Tuition Hike, Required Student Activity Fee

President Charles M. Vest announced Friday that tuition and fees for the academic year 2002-2003 will be $28,230, an increase of 4.7 percent from last year.

Seventeen With MIT Ties Earn NAE Membership

The National Academy of Engineering [NAE] elected 74 new members last week, including 17 with ties to MIT.

Berenson Denied Appeal By Peru's Supreme Court

Peru’s Supreme Court yesterday upheld the 20-year prison sentence against former MIT undergraduate Lori H. Berenson.

Introduction to Undergraduate Majors at MIT

Freshmen Get Advice On Choice Of Major

Multiple choice questions can be tricky. When each option looks equally likely to be the correct answer, they can be downright scary. Now consider having 22 choices instead of the usual four or five.

WORLD AND NATION

Mediators Seek Truce to End Fighting Between Factions

Bush Administration Undecided On Course of Action With Iraq

Economy Is Reversing Course, According to Business Analysts

Body Count Mounts in Gruesome Georgia Crematory Investigation

Detained Jordanian Student Claims Law Enforcement Agents Abused Him

News Briefs

News Briefs

Weather: Early Warnings of Drought

COLUMNS

Labor Rights and MIT Apparel

Searching For Ourselves

How Much Ado is Too Much?

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Don’t Blame the UN For Hunger in Iraq

ARTS

CONCERT REVIEW: Regina Carter and Stefon Harris -- Violinist and Vibraphonist Jazz It Up

DANCE REVIEW

FILM REVIEW ***: Believe It Or Not! -- Thriller Features Giant Moth and Richard Gere

FILM REVIEW ***: Storytelling -- Misanthropic Solondz Sticks to His Guns

MUSIC REVIEW: Electronic Music for the Masses -- Deep Dish: Global Underground 21 - Moscow

RESTAURANT REVIEW: Vinny’s At Night -- Food and Fun, Sicilian Style

THEATER REVIEW: Stone Cold Dead Serious -- The Strange Redemption of a Geek’s Dysfunctional Family

SPORTS

Men s Epee Top Squad At Duke

Men s Hoops Earns Win Despite Injuries

Figure Skating Team Takes Medals at Competition

Women s Track Eighth at Championship Meet

MIT Olympic Update

COMICS

crass rat

integral force

mat and solar

one screw loose

pooplets & pooplings

slackerbeat

PHOTOGRAPHS