A basement electrical fire forced residents of the Westgate apartments to evacuate the building around 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Westgate President Giorgia Bettin G said that nobody was injured.

All five of MIT’s Independent Living Groups have finished the Independent Activities Period rush, with mixed reactions among rush chairs about the recruitment period.

This June, Associate Professor Dante Anzolini, music director of the MIT Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, will leave MIT after having served the eight-year maximum a professor has as a non-tenured faculty member. For the next MITSO director, the position will no longer be tenure-track, but instead a regular, full-time position.

Who turned the weather machine on?

As Harvard University president Lawrence H. Summers faces a no-confidence vote and the university’s governing board considers whether to remove him from office, some of his biggest supporters on the faculty are questioning his ability to lead the divided university.

Years before climate change, greenhouse gases, or oil addictions broke into the popular consciousness, Donald R. Sadoway had a gut feeling: He did not want to spend his life studying oil.

WORLD AND NATION

Philippines Did Not Enforce Alerts of Deadly Landslides
U.S. Warns Iraq About Political Factions With Sectarian Plans
Hopes For Survival of Trapped Mexican Miners Becomes Slim
Nigerian Oil Production Partially Shut Down By Attacks, Prices Rise
Talks in Russia on Enriching Nuclear Fuel for Iran Seem to Be at Standstill
Briefs (left)
Briefs (right)
Weather

OPINION

Institute Wisdom Watch by The Tech editorial board
Knocking the Keg Ban Down a Peg
A Better Way to Tax
Letters to the Editor
Corrections

SPORTS

Men’s Hockey Loses To Bryant, Unbeaten Streak Ends at Nine
Olympic Drama Comes From The Competition Not Hyped-Up Stories
With Four Injured, Women’s Basketball Loses 34-41
Upcoming Home Events