
Annie Jiao
President L. Rafael Reif talked with students during dinner at Simmons Hall last Thursday evening. The visit coincided with Simmons’ 10th anniversary, celebrated over the weekend and with the unveiling of a 144”, twelve-panel digital display on the west wall of the dining hall.
STAFF REPORTER
October 2, 2012
How has crime at MIT changed in the past two years? In 2011, the MIT Police received six reports of rape and 22 reports of liquor law violations referred for disciplinary action on MIT’s campus, according to the 2012 MIT Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, released on Friday by the MIT Police. These are the highest numbers since 2007. In 2010, there were three reports of rape and 38 reports of liquor law violations on campus at MIT.
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October 2, 2012
Software company 10gen, developer of the popular MongoDB database platform, announced last week that it will be offering two free online courses on MongoDB, using the edX platform.
NEWS EDITOR
October 2, 2012
Released approximately two weeks ago, the features views on edX from the faculty and highlights from the Faculty/Staff Quality of Life Survey conducted in the spring, in addition to continued coverage of MIT 2030 developments — such as the establishment of the Provost’s Task Force on Community Engagement in 2030 Planning — and graduate student housing difficulties. The Tech recently covered faculty involvement on MIT 2030 at http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N39/mit2030.html.
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World and Nation
- Shorts (left) (10/2/12)
- Greek government proposes deep cuts to foreign lenders (10/2/12; 1 comment)
- Shorts (right) (10/2/12)
- Romney broadens attacks against Obama beyond the economy (10/2/12)
- Fighting spreads through Aleppo as city services vanish (10/2/12)
- US advises states to expand Medicaid or risk losing funds (10/2/12)
- Chinese Communist Party still unsettled over charges (10/2/12)
- Weather: Weather will alternate between rain and sun (10/2/12)
Opinion
- The arrogance of freshmen (10/2/12; 11 comments)
- CORRECTIONS (10/2/12)
Campus Life
Arts
- Arts was not published this issue.