
William yee—The Tech
MIT Executive Vice President and Treasurer Theresa M. Stone SM ’76 speaks at the UA Senate meeting Monday evening, as UA President Vrajesh Y. Modi ’11 and Senate Speaker Jonté D. Craighead ’13 look on. At the meeting, Craighead and Modi fielded proposals for restructuring the UA.
STAFF REPORTER
March 29, 2011
From March 16 to March 17, students cast ballots not only to elect the next Undergraduate Association’s (UA) president and vice president, but also to respond to the dining referendum sponsored by UA Senator Shuang Chen ’13 of Simmons Hall. A vast majority elected Allan E. Miramonti ’13 and Alec C. Lai ’13, the only official running ticket, to the presidency; likewise, a majority of students expressed mild to strong disapproval of both the new dining plan recommended by the House Dining Advisory Group (HDAG) as well as the process by which HDAG proposed recommendations for the plan.
EDITOR IN CHIEF
March 29, 2011
As the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the Pacific brought the world’s third-largest economy to its knees, millions of people around the globe watched with baited breath to see whether Japan’s damaged nuclear reactor, Fukushima I, would be the next Chernobyl. Two days later, a blog post entitled “Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactors” went live on , a site which was registered that same day. Only hours later, Jim J. Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money called the post — after it was reproduced at — the “best piece on the nuke issue,” via Twitter. The original author of the post? Josef Oehmen, a researcher at MIT’s Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI).
March 29, 2011
MIT took the top spot in nearly all science specialties and many engineering specialties in U.S. News and World Report’s (USNWR) recently-released 2012 graduate school rankings. MIT was ranked first in overall engineering and ranked third behind Stanford and Harvard for business.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
March 29, 2011
Doctors with private financial conflicts of interest dominated some of the panels that wrote guidelines on cardiovascular health in recent years, according to a medical journal study released Monday.
More News
- Police Log (3/29/11)
- Disaster-struck Japan faces power gap for months (3/29/11)
- UA might see drastic changes (3/29/11)
- UA and Class Council Spring 2011 Election Results (3/29/11)
- Student shuts down laptop thief (3/29/11)
- Ethnic clashes fuel debate over US plan to leave Iraq (3/29/11)
- IN SHORT (3/29/11)
- CORRECTIONS (3/29/11)
World and Nation
- Libyan rebel advance halted outside Gadhafi’s hometown (3/29/11)
- Egypt’s military confirms Mubarak travel ban (3/29/11)
- Indiana Democrats end standoff and return to State (3/29/11)
- Facebook prepares for lobbying push in Washington (3/29/11)
- Blast at Yemeni arms factory follows government’s retreat (3/29/11)
- Shorts (left) (3/29/11)
- Shorts (right) (3/29/11)
- Weather: Pleasant week ahead, temperature set to rise (3/29/11)
Opinion
- Editorial: EDITORIAL Lessons learned from dining (3/29/11)
- Congress: do not take a hatchet to foreign aid (3/29/11)
- Voodoo Innovationomics (3/29/11; 3 comments)
- Think you know the Muslim Brotherhood? (3/29/11; 7 comments)
Sports
- Party like it’s 1875? Red Sox ready for 2011 season (3/29/11)
- Lacrosse gets conference win (3/29/11)
- Cycling races in Philly (3/29/11)
- Women’s Tennis sweeps Mills College in California (3/29/11)
- SPORTS SHORTS (3/29/11)
- MIT wins NECVA title (3/29/11)
- UPCOMING HOME EVENTS (3/29/11)
Campus Life
- MIT’s funniest stand ups, in competition (3/29/11)
- Afterhours with John Gabrieli (3/29/11)
- WARNING: MAY CONTAIN NUTS Kickin’ back (3/29/11; 1 comment)
- Hacking the curve: do less, but do it better (3/29/11)
- Institute Double Take (3/29/11)
- Events: Mar. 29 - Apr 4 (3/29/11)
Arts
- Arts was not published this issue.