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2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi spoke at MIT on Wednesday, April 4. Wong Auditorium was filled to capacity with nearly 300 students, faculty, and visitors listening to her speech on “Women’s Rights in Iran and the Islamic World.”
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ONLINE MEDIA EDITOR
Undergraduate Association President and Vice President candidates met at the Student Center on Sunday night to debate and share their platforms. The three candidates this year are Jonté D. Craighead ’13, and Michael P. Walsh ’13, Narendra “Naren” P. Tallapragada ’13 and Andrew C. Yang ’13, and Brendan T. Deveney ’13 and Mary A. Breton ’14.
NEWS EDITOR
April 6, 2012
Undergraduates who plan to live on campus this summer will have the options of living in Random Hall, Bexley Hall, Senior House, or MacGregor Hall.
SENIOR EDITOR
April 6, 2012
With all eyes fixated on her kind but piercing gaze, the overflowing room quieted as 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi stepped to the podium and addressed the audience.
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STAFF REPORTER
April 6, 2012
Was your laptop searched by U.S. Customs coming back from spring break? It could have been, without a warrant, and the government might have kept it for days, weeks, or even months while they searched it.
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April 6, 2012
Chancellor Eric Grimson PhD ’80 said that MIT will address “educational issues of health and safety on our campus” in light of Brian G. Anderson ’13’s death by opiate overdose.
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World and Nation
- Shorts (left) (4/6/12)
- Energy Department to rouse a loan guarantee program (4/6/12)
- Shorts (right) (4/6/12)
- Presidential rivals Sarkozy and Hollande trade attacks (4/6/12)
- Stock prices in China rise due to push to increase investment (4/6/12)
- Low growth in corporate earnings is expected (4/6/12)
- Syrian government assures cease-fire despite reports of widespread violence (4/6/12)
- Weather: Seasonable in Cambridge; severe weather in the South (4/6/12)
Opinion
- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (4/6/12; 1 comment)
- GUEST COLUMN: The dangers of American deprecationism (4/6/12; 2 comments)
- Missing the point (4/6/12)
Sports
- Men’s lacrosse wins by one in double overtime (4/6/12)
- UPCOMING HOME EVENTS (4/6/12)
- ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: BRENDAN T. DEVENEY, ‘13: Swimming, startups, and electronic music (4/6/12; 1 comment)
Campus Life
- Campus Life was not published this issue.
Arts
- MOVIE REVIEW: Film brings book action to life (4/6/12; 1 comment)
- MOVIE REVIEW: Have kids, not a relationship (4/6/12)
- BOOK REVIEW: The incredible shrinking argument (4/6/12; 2 comments)
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