Jae Rhim Lee (left) of MIT’s Visual Arts Department speaks with bystanders at the Seamless Fashion Show, which showcased wearable technology. Lee’s suit was impregnated with mushroom spores designed to break down harmful artificial substances in the human body after burial, preventing them from leaching into the environment.

Beginning next fall, Bexley Hall will no longer pay taxes to the Dormitory Council.

Baker residents prepare to send a grand piano to a smashing demise six stories below in the annual Baker House Piano Drop on Drop Date yesterday.

MIT students fight the annual East vs. West Water War on Kresge Oval on Sunday afternoon. See page 11 for more photos from Orientation and Residence Exploration.

Last Friday, students gathered their books and sleeping bags to stage a “tool-in” in Lobby 7. Calling themselves the “Campaign for Students,” they protested an administration that they claim has excluded students from the decision-making process.

Undergraduate Association President Martin F. Holmes ’08 speaks with The Tech about his goals for the year and gives advice to freshmen about how to get more involved.

Steer Roast, May 2.

Hackers placed a presidential seal banner on the facade of Building 10, beneath the Great Dome, early on the morning of Jan. 20, 2009.

Paul Baranay ’11 participates in a meeting on Sunday in Burton-Conner’s Porter Room to discuss the leaked consultants’ report on dining. The meeting was hosted by the Campaign for Students.

Andrew ‘Zoz’ Brooks PhD ’07 stands in front of the weather radar dish atop the roof of MIT’s Building 54 one afternoon this February.