
Biyeun M. Buczyk—The Tech
East Campus warriors blare their vuvuzelas during the annual East vs. West Water War on Kresge Oval yesterday evening. The water war is a time-honored Residence Exploration (REX) tradition.
STAFF REPORTER
August 30, 2011
Last Friday, Governor Deval L. Patrick declared a state of emergency in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and called 500 National Guard troops in preparation for the landfall of Hurricane Irene, to be joined by 2000 more on Saturday. The City of Cambridge activated Code Red phone alerts — which sent pre-recorded messages warning of the threat to all landlines and to opted-in cellular phone lines — and email and text messaging alerts were sent out to the MIT community announcing the Sunday closure of MIT and encouraging the community to stay indoors.
NEWS AND FEATURES DIRECTOR
August 30, 2011
Applause erupted in the standing-room-only 6-120 yesterday at 3:58 p.m. as Zachary A. Weiner, creator of popular webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (SMBC), entered the room for a Q&A session packed with questions touching on topics from fellow web comic artists to the merits of Star Wars vs. Star Trek (for the record, Weiner prefers Star Wars). The free event, sponsored by the MIT Lecture Series Committee, concluded with a signing session of the new SMBC compilation, Save Yourself, Mammal!: A Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Collection, and went an hour over its anticipated 4–6 p.m. runtime.
August 30, 2011
The start of 2011 Freshman Orientation and Residential Exploration (REX) marks the third year in a row that a REX/Rush/Recruitment agreement between the Dormitory Council (DormCon), the Interfraternity Council (IFC), the Panhellenic Council (Panhel), and the Living Group Council (LGC) has not been signed.
More News
World and Nation
- Shorts (left) (8/30/11)
- Obama taps jobs expert as top economic adviser (8/30/11)
- Shorts (right) (8/30/11)
- Airlines resume service after storm, but snarls remain (8/30/11)
- Wikileaks leaves names of diplomatic sources in cables (8/30/11)
- Gadhafi wife and relatives leave Libya for Algeria (8/30/11)
- Finance Minister chosen as Japan’s next prime minister (8/30/11)
- Weather: Weather: Impacts of TS Irene on New England (8/30/11)
Opinion
- GETTING OUT OF THE RED The 1.5 MRC Force (8/30/11; 2 comments)
- If I were President (8/30/11)
- Why Senator Brown is wrong (8/30/11; 5 comments)
- CORRECTIONS (8/30/11)
Campus Life
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Arts
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