Professor of Biology Luk Van Parijs has been dismissed after admitting to fabricating and falsifying research data, MIT announced yesterday.

The Association of Student Activities plans to allocate office space this fall for the first time since the fall of 2001. Allocations were to take place in the fall of 2003 but were not completed.

Thanks to this year’s late start, final exams for 72 classes will be held on the afternoon of Friday, Dec. 16, interrupting reading period. However, the last day a test can be given during classes will not change.

The following incidents were reported to the Cambridge and/or MIT Police between Oct. 19 and Oct. 25. This summary does not include incidents such as suspicious activity, false alarms, general service calls, medical shuttles, or isolated incidents of theft.

Wishing MIT provided more software and services for your personal computer? Need to use software on Athena at home? This week, we introduce some lesser known computing services supported by MIT.

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