http://tech.mit.edu/img/small-flag-inv.gif http://tech.mit.edu/ Recent photos and graphics from The Tech /V130/N38/graphics/parkour-4.html Joanna Kao—The Tech <b>Patrick Bryan throws a gymnastics-inspired trick </b>on the back of a pickup truck after learning it just ten minutes before the beginning of the competition. /V130/N38/graphics/parkour-1.html Joanna Kao—The Tech <b>Yoann Leroux executes a backflip precision </b>on a 15-foot-high fork lift. He has said that he has done the same trick at heights twice as high. /V130/N38/graphics/parkour-5.html Joanna Kao—The Tech <b>Yoann Leroux meditates on the top of a fork lift during the practice session </b>in anticipation for throwing a difficult and dangerous backflip in the preliminary competition. He also spent nearly 15 minutes placing sandpaper on various portions of the top of the lift /V130/N38/graphics/parkour-2.html Joanna Kao—The Tech <b>The top three (Jason Paul, Pip Andersen, and Marcus Gustafsson) </b>celebrate on the podium with their champagne seconds before making it rain on the crowds below. /V130/N38/graphics/parkour-3.html Joanna Kao—The Tech <b>Marcus Gustafsson of Sweden practices his flip </b>over two prop newspaper boxes filled with luggage bags an hour before the competition. /V130/N38/graphics/parkour-6.html Joanna Kao—The Tech <b>Patrick Bryan side flips off the tire </b>after running off the stairs behind him during the practice session. /V130/N38/graphics/dslappoint.html Jason U. Chiu—The Tech <b>Marlena Love is the newly appointed as Assistant Dean and Director of FSILGs</b> on campus. /V130/N38/graphics/parkour-8.html Joanna Kao—The Tech <b>Michael Turner, one of eight athletes featured in MTV’s Ultimate Parkour Challenge, does a roll </b>over a small patch of grass in City Hall Plaza. /V130/N38/graphics/pbesuspension.html Joanna Kao—The Tech <b>On Tuesday, September 21, MIT announced the closing of PBE, after the IFC placed a four-year suspension on the fraternity.</b> /V130/N38/graphics/parkour-7.html Joanna Kao—The Tech <b>Pip Andersen, who took home 2nd place, jumps from the top of a van </b>to the side of a pickup truck during the practice session. /V130/N38/graphics/waterpolowaterpolo.html /V130/N38/graphics/ciuffo.html /V130/N38/graphics/manning.html Greg Steinbrecher—The Tech <b>Ben Thompson ’13 (left) and another protester explain why they are protesting Pfc. Bradley Manning’s imprisonment </b>and impending court marshal to a group of freshmen. Thompson and about 15 others were demonstrating outside of 77 Mass Ave from about noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Manning has been imprisoned since May on charges that he leaked classified government information to the website Wikileaks. /V130/N38/graphics/uasenate.html Jessica fujimori—The Tech <b>Undergraduate Association President Vrajesh Modi and Vice President Sammi Wyman </b>preside over the first UA Senate meeting of the term Monday. The meeting focused on the budget for the year. /V130/N38/graphics/li.html /V130/N38/graphics/denim.html Arfa Aijazi—The Tech <b>Amie J. Guo ’14 browses the selection at Kappa Alpha Theta’s semi-annual Charity Denim Designer Jean sale </b>on Friday in Kresge Oval. Proceeds from the sale went to Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), a group of community volunteers appointed to speak for abused and neglected children in court.