Phillip L. Clay PhD ’75 is stepping down as Chancellor. Clay has been Chancellor for 10 years and will return to MIT as a faculty member after a one-year sabbatical.

Sol LeWitt’s “Bars of Color within Squares” is a place of contemplation for a freshman.

Students sit atop a plinth in the corner of Lobby 7 as pedestrians walk past on Nov. 5, 2009. The Class of 1954 is sponsoring a student contest for designs to sit atop the pedestals, which were left unfinished after Lobby 7 was designed in 1939.

MIT-EMS responds to an emergency call during the Jan. 12 blizzard. A woman unaffiliated with MIT was struck by a falling tree branch.

David W. Miliband SM ’90, former British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, visited MIT Monday and will be speaking on Afghanistan this Wednesday in 34-101 at 4 p.m. Miliband also spoke on Afghanistan at his Compton Lecture last March, pictured in this Tech file photo.

Free food is often found at events around campus. There are several free food lists, the largest being freefood@mit.edu.

W. Eric L. Grimson PhD ’80 sat down with prefrosh over CPW to talk about his days as an undergraduate, what he’s doing now as chancellor, and his plans for the future.

Several of Walker Memorial’s student groups, pictured in this December 2010 file photo. The Walker Memorial Assessment Team is evaluating the feasibility of using Walker as a space for Music and Theater Arts, which could mean students groups will need to find new homes.

A hazardous materials decontamination tent was set up in the Westgate parking lot on June 7 in response to a New House bomb scare. Cambridge and MIT police eventually determined that there was never any threat to campus safety, and that harmless construction materials were mistaken for pipe bombs. Nobody required decontamination.

Shortly after 9/11, MIT dedicated the “Reflecting Wall,” representing a piece of the WTC exterior. Community members left flowers and prayers, as seen in this Sept. 18, 2001 file photo.