
John A. Hawkinson—The Tech
MIT President L. Rafael Reif spoke last night before the Cambridge City Council in favor of MIT’s zoning petition for Kendall Square. It was the first time Reif had spoken before the council. He was accompanied by faculty luminaries like former chancellor Phillip L. Clay, Phillip A. Sharp, Robert P. Weinberg, and others.
NEWS EDITOR
April 2, 2013
On Friday, March 29, MIT filed a legal memorandum to “partially oppose” the March 15 motion by the Estate of Aaron Swartz to publicly release documents related to Swartz’s criminal prosecution. The documents, originally provided to the U.S. Attorney’s Office by MIT for pre-trial discovery, are kept confidential by a Protective Order. According to MIT’s memorandum, the U.S. Attorney’s Office required a Protective Order on the documents beginning November 2011 due to “sensitive information” they contain.
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
April 2, 2013
MIT “failed abysmally” in promptly notifying the community after receiving a false Feb. 23 report of a gunman on campus, MIT Chief of Police John DiFava said at the last faculty meeting, following an internal review of the events on the day of the scare. But the police response on the scene was “superb,” DiFava said.
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April 2, 2013
Early morning last Wednesday, March 27, Mass. State Police responded to reports of a body in the Charles River under the Harvard Bridge. The body was pulled out of the river around 9 a.m. The Suffolk County DA is investigating the death.
April 2, 2013
Just behind Harvard, MIT took second place in the 2012 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, winning $20,000 for the math department and $800 for each of the three team members. The prestigious contest is 12 questions and 6 hours long, and is administered every December to undergraduate students studying in the U.S. or Canada.
More News
- IN SHORT (4/2/13)
- Health law provision for small business is delayed (4/2/13)
- American woman gang-raped in Brazil (4/2/13)
World and Nation
- Shorts (right) (4/2/13)
- Connecticut legislators agree on sweeping gun control laws (4/2/13; 2 comments)
- Shorts (left) (4/2/13)
- US sees North Korea blustering, not acting (4/2/13)
- Low-cost drugs in poor nations get lift in court (4/2/13)
- Cold and breezy, then back to normal (4/2/13)
- Ruling sets stage for pension battle in bankrupt city (4/2/13)
- Gorbachev criticizes Putin and his restrictions (4/2/13)
Opinion
- Sustaining MIT’s fraternities (4/2/13; 19 comments)
- CORRECTIONS (4/2/13)
Sports
Campus Life
- IN GOOD COMPANY: Multiple moods (4/2/13)
- ASK A-THEIST: Do science and religion conflict? (4/2/13; 11 comments)
- Events Mar. 2 – Mar. 8 (4/2/13)
Arts
- Arts was not published this issue.