Tami Forrester—The Tech
Hackers dressed The Alchemist this week as Walter White, the protagonist in AMC’s crime drama Breaking Bad, which held its series finale this past Sunday. The show revolved around White’s struggles as a cancer-stricken high school chemistry teacher who turns to producing and selling methamphetamine in order to ensure his family’s financial future before he dies.
NEWS EDITOR
October 1, 2013
Tensions have escalated in the controversy over the removal and modification of certain interior wall murals in Burton-Conner and the manner in which students were notified. Last Friday, a variety of posters appeared around campus referring to the controversy, spurring reactions from both students and faculty.
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STAFF REPORTER
October 1, 2013
Under new procedures announced by Professor Robert P. Redwine at the Sept. 18 faculty meeting, complainants may now appeal decisions of the Committee on Discipline (COD) in sexual-assault cases. The COD is a standing committee of the faculty charged with “investigating complaints against students’ academic [and non-academic] misconduct.”
THE BOSTON GLOBE
October 1, 2013
CAMBRIDGE — To the legions of students who have been tutored and molded and prodded toward a top college most of their young lives, it would be an absurd question: How many of you had to explain to your parents what MIT is?
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World and Nation
- Shorts (left) (10/1/13)
- US government is shutting down in fiscal impasse (10/1/13; 1 comment)
- Shorts (right) (10/1/13)
- Al-Qaida plot leak has undermined US intelligence (10/1/13)
- North Carolina governor assails suit on new voting laws (10/1/13)
- Turkey announces proposals aimed at mending relations with Kurds (10/1/13)
- Weather: Another sunny week (10/1/13)
Opinion
- EDITORIAL: Identifying the concerns (10/1/13; 2 comments)
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Burton-Conner housemaster response to front page photo of ‘postering’ (10/1/13; 9 comments)
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The posters regarding BC murals are troubling (10/1/13; 5 comments)
- The ‘how,’ ‘what,’ and ‘why’ of reporting hazing (10/1/13; 9 comments)
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Why the Career Fair, like MIT, is unique (10/1/13; 5 comments)
- For science’s sake, emphasize the scientific method (10/1/13; 2 comments)
Sports
- UPCOMING HOME EVENTS (10/1/13)
- MIT beats WPI in a 2-0 victory (10/1/13)
- MIT men’s soccer team won 3-2 over Babson on Saturday (10/1/13)
Campus Life
- THE NATURALIST’S NOTEBOOK: Moth hunting in Brazil (10/1/13; 2 comments)
- THE SECRET LIFE OF RESEARCHERS: Reading for fun (10/1/13)
- SKETCH YOUR LOOK: Don’t shirt the issue (10/1/13)
- Events Oct. 01 – Oct. 07 (10/1/13)
Arts
- Arts was not published this issue.
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