
Tiffany Ira Huang—The Tech
Yuri Lin G and Esther Jang sing the Pokémon theme song to kick off the Toons’ farewell concert for their graduating seniors in 10-250 last Saturday.
NEWS EDITOR
May 1, 2012
Graduate stipends will be increasing by 4.75 percent for the 2012-2013 school year. The recommended yearly stipend for research assistants will be $30,888 at the doctoral level, and $28,236 at the Master’s level. Graduate teaching assistants will receive $31,644.
EDITOR IN CHIEF
May 1, 2012
153 windows, 153 pixels. Two weekends ago, the front of the Green Building lit up in a colorful display of the popular puzzler Tetris. The 17x9 pixel screen spanned over 80 by 250 feet — making it the second largest screen in the nation. Appearing mysteriously on Friday night, the Tetris hack was the culmination of over four and a half years of work by an undisclosed number of hackers. With the completion of the hack came the conclusion of a dream; the idea of transforming Building 54 into a working game of Tetris has been a fantasy of hackers for decades.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
May 1, 2012
If surveys of Occupy Wall Street supporters conducted in the fall still hold true, the crowds of protesters expected to turn out Tuesday for May Day events across the country will likely skew male, young, white, college-educated, underpaid and thoroughly disgusted with the U.S. political system.
More News
World and Nation
- Shorts (left) (5/1/12)
- Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser defends drone strikes (5/1/12)
- Shorts (right) (5/1/12)
- Dispute over tiny island in Persian Gulf unites Iran (5/1/12)
- Antagonists in Syria accuse each other of subverting truce (5/1/12)
- Loyalist soldiers in Mali appear to seek countercoup (5/1/12)
- Malaysian police to investigate violence at protest supporting free elections (5/1/12)
- Weather: Rainfall to help alleviate drought conditions soon (5/1/12)
Opinion
- Notes from a women’s rights rally (5/1/12)
- PUTIN III: An unloved intellectual (5/1/12; 1 comment)
- Fixing MIT’s failures in governance (5/1/12; 8 comments)
Sports
- Gymnastics dominates (5/1/12)
- Men’s tennis beats Springfield College (5/1/12)
- UPCOMING HOME EVENTS (5/1/12)
Campus Life
- Events May 1 - May 7 (5/1/12)
- MENS ET TENEBRAE: The nuts and bolts of getting help (5/1/12)
Arts
- Arts was not published this issue.