
Annie Jiao
An audience enjoys a show hosted by the MIT Stand-Up Comedy Club in the Simmons MPR last Friday evening. The show, sponsored by the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences’ DeFlorez Fund for Humor, was the culmination of an IAP course in stand-up comedy taught by professional stand-up comedian Mehran Khaghani.
NEWS EDITOR
March 5, 2013
The search for the new Dean for Undergraduate Education, the successor to Dean Daniel E. Hastings ’78, is “well under way,” according to search committee chair Graham C. Walker.
STAFF REPORTER
March 5, 2013
Last semester, the freshman class’ passing rate for the math and science General Institute Requirements (GIRs) was 96.3 percent. According to Julie B. Norman, the Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, this pass rate is similar to previous years’ numbers. Of the 203 students who received fifth-week flags, 15 dropped the subject they were flagged in, and 39 did not end up passing.
March 5, 2013
This past Thursday, MIT’s Dormitory Council approved a $23,000 budget that included about $15,000 for CPW, consisting of about $5,000 from Admissions, $5,000 from Housing, and $5,000 of its own money. The budget also included $4,000 for a 30-person DormCon retreat at Endicott House — an overnight retreat that includes chef-made meals. The space is popular with student groups and dorm governments for retreats. The retreat would be attended by the 12 executive members, 11 dorm presidents, and “plus ones” of any attendee, according to DormCon president Edward A. Mugica ’13.
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March 5, 2013
MIT’s undergraduate tuition will increase by 3.24 percent for the upcoming academic year (2013-2014), according to an announcement made by the MIT Corporation last Friday.
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World and Nation
- Shorts (left) (3/5/13)
- Britain braces for more Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants (3/5/13; 2 comments)
- Shorts (right) (3/5/13)
- Kerry criticizes Iran, Russia for shipping arms to Syria (3/5/13)
- HSBC net profit fell due to record fine for settling laundering charges (3/5/13; 1 comment)
- Supreme Court justices worry about a flood of cases (3/5/13)
- Massacre of Syrian soldiers raises risk of widening conflict (3/5/13; 1 comment)
- Weather: National Severe Weather Preparedness Week (3/5/13)
Opinion
- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (3/5/13)
- We could be so much more (3/5/13)
- The unquestioned assumption of online education (3/5/13; 4 comments)
- CORRECTIONS (3/5/13)
Sports
- INJURY SPOTLIGHT : Anterior cruciate ligament (3/5/13)
- UPCOMING HOME EVENTS (3/5/13)
- SPORTS SHORT (3/5/13)
Arts
- Arts was not published this issue.