kavya U. Joshi—The Tech
Komal Patel (left, a junior at Simmons College) and Sanjay Divakaran ’08 dance during the Bhangra portion of MIT South Asian Student’s Annual Milan Garba-Raas Dance Festival on Saturday, Oct. 11.
STAFF REPORTER
October 14, 2008
Last Friday night, the MIT Energy Night lit up Cambridge as students, faculty, and enthusiasts alike flocked down Massachusetts Avenue toward the MIT Museum. Forty MIT energy projects populated each and every corner of the museum, displaying topics from sustainability to efficiency.
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
October 14, 2008
Although MIT’s undergraduate population is almost half female, only about a third of the undergraduates in the most popular course, VI, are female, according to statistics released by the Office of the Registrar on Oct. 3, 2008.
NEWS EDITOR
October 14, 2008
To spend down its large budget surplus, the Dormitory Council will not tax the dorms this semester.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
October 14, 2008
Paul Krugman PhD ’77, a professor at Princeton University and an Op-Ed page columnist for The New York Times, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science on Monday. Krugman was formerly a professor at MIT and used to teach 14.02 (Principles of Macroeconomics).
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- Finance Students Keep Their Job Prospects Alive (10/14/08)
World and Nation
- U.S. Investing Quarter Billion to Bolster Banks (10/14/08)
- Government’s Taking Stakes In Banks Is Historic Shift (10/14/08)
- Obama Lays Out Costly Plans To Help Many With Fiscal Ills (10/14/08)
- Fires in Southern California Leave Two People Dead (10/14/08)
- Struggling for Religious Identity in A More Modern, Secular Turkey (10/14/08)
- Shorts (left) (10/14/08)
- Weather: Fronts, Friends, and Forecasting (10/14/08)
- Shorts (right) (10/14/08)
Opinion
- Opinion was not published this issue.
Sports
- Eleven Teams Compete in Head Of the Zesiger Regatta Friday (10/14/08)
- Women’s Rugby Team Defeats Rhode Island College 69-0 October 5 (10/14/08)
- Women’s Tennis Defeats Smith College, Score 8-1 (10/14/08)
- Upcoming Home Events (10/14/08)
- Scoreboard (10/14/08)
Campus Life
- IHTFO(utfit) (10/14/08)
- Talk Nerdy To Me (10/14/08)
- Underground Inquiry (10/14/08)
- Ramblings from Hell (10/14/08)
Arts
- Arts was not published this issue.
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