Plans are underway for the MIT Federal Credit Union to open a branch on the first floor of the Student Center. This comes as the newly-renovated reading room opens for student use and the project to convert the former Cashier’s Office into a student lounge nears completion.

This is the second in a five-part series of interviews introducing new students to administrators and student leaders on campus. Today,

Major:

Your parents have just pulled away from your dorm, smiling and waving from the car window. And only now do you realize that you don’t have any shampoo. What to do?

William R. Dickson ’56, a retired senior vice president who supervised major building projects that tripled the size of MIT’s campus, died Aug. 14 after suffering a heart attack. He was 71.

Vernon M. Ingram, a biology professor known as the “father of molecular medicine,” died Aug. 17 from injuries suffered during a fall. He was 82.

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The following incidents were reported to the MIT or Cambridge Police between August 3 and August 24, 2006. This summary does not include incidents such as suspicious activity, false alarms, or medical shuttles.

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