The Tech - MIT's Student Newspaper http://tech.mit.edu/img/small-flag.gif The Tech http://tech.mit.edu/ http://tech.mit.edu Headlines from The Tech, MIT's Student Newspaper en-usCopyright The Tech 1881-2013 Residents of Bexley considering housinghttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/bexley.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/bexley.htmlBy Kath Xu
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Last Tuesday, Dean for Student Life Chris Colombo announced that Bexley Hall would be closed for up to three years for renovations, displacing all residents at the end of this semester. On Friday, the Bexley community collectively voiced their concerns and wishes in a letter addressed to Chancellor Eric Grimson PhD ’80 and Dean Colombo, signed by over 70 students and GRTs. Grimson and Colombo responded to the letter yesterday afternoon. In the meantime, Bexley residents were given the option of entering a housing lottery, which closed yesterday at 5 p.m., if they wanted to remain in on-campus housing next year.]]>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400News Swartz judge sides with MIT on release of case evidence http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/swartz.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/swartz.htmlBy Joanna Kao
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton ordered yesterday that some confidentiality restrictions be removed from evidence MIT had produced for the case against Aaron Swartz, which was dropped after his suicide in January. This is the first order since Swartz’s lawyers’ motion on March 15, which would have made information collected for the trial public. The judge agreed with MIT’s and JSTOR’s March 29 responses, asking that information including the names of employees be redacted. ]]>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400News International students will experience new inspectionshttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/border.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/border.htmlBy Sara Hess
STAFF REPORTER
Last Wednesday, international students received an email from Danielle Guichard-Ashbrook, director and associate dean of the International Students Office, warning them to be prepared for a new and potentially time-consuming border inspection process when re-entering the U.S. Guichard-Ashbrook stated that the new inspection process is a “direct response” to the Boston Marathon bombings.]]>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400News Plans for mixed-use development at intersection of Mass Ave. and Main St. http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/quest.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/quest.htmlTue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400News IN SHORThttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/inshort.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/inshort.htmlTue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400News Tsarnaev buriedhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/wiretwo.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/wiretwo.htmlBy Jess Bidgood
THE NEW YORK TIMES
BOSTON — The mystery surrounding the burial of the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev has come to an end. The Boston Marathon bombing suspect was buried this week at a small Muslim cemetery in Doswell, Va.]]>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400News Bomb suspect talked of jihadhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/wire.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/wire.htmlBy Ellen Barry
THE NEW YORK TIMES
KIZLYAR, Russia — It’s not every day that a well-dressed American shows up in this town, where shaggy cows meander over deeply rutted roads, so people remember Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Among the things that made the young visitor stand out, two acquaintances recalled Thursday, was his avid interest in waging jihad.]]>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400News LETTERS TO THE EDITORhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/letters.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/letters.html Editor’s Note: The Tech received numerous letters from Bexley residents after last week’s announcement that Bexley would be closing for up to three years due to structural problems. Printed here is a representative subset of those letters.]]>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400Opinion GUEST COLUMN: A new community, a new experience http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/mccants.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/mccants.htmlBy Anne EC McCants There has understandably been a great deal of anxiety on campus about how best to relocate the hundred or so displaced Bexley residents who will need to be housed in a different place come fall than everyone had been expecting. We would like to find a solution that is ‘fair,’ but of course there is no obvious fix that is fair to everyone. Relocating a number of students from a place they had settled themselves, into the midst of other people who had also already settled themselves, poses very real challenges.]]>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400Opinion CORRECTIONShttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/corrections.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/corrections.htmlTue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400Opinion GUEST COLUMN: A silver bullet for dorm overcrowding http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/wilson.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/wilson.htmlBy Saul Wilson This coming fall, due to the closure of Bexley Hall, on-campus housing will be particularly tight. Dormitories have already been told that they will likely be subject to overcrowding, with doubles turned into triples and quads.]]>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400Opinion Men’s track places 8th in NEWMACshttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/track.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/track.htmlBy Charlotte Brackett
DAPER STAFF
MIT Men’s Track and Field wrapped up competition at the New England Outdoor Championships with an eighth place finish with 36.50 points on Saturday. The Engineers finished just ahead of New Hampshire, with 35 points. Southern Connecticut State came in first place with 159 points.]]>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400Sports NEWMAC All-Conferencehttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/awards.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/awards.htmlBy Phil Hess
DAPER STAFF
A league-leading 61 athletes represented MIT on the 2013 New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Spring Academic All-Conference Team. The Engineers finished the year with a conference-high 146 selections, followed by WPI with 101.]]>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400Sports Editor's Notehttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/editorsnote.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/editorsnote.htmlTue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400Arts Time to pretendhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/cosplay.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/cosplay.htmlBy Jessica J. Pourian
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
30 percent of MIT students who responded to The Tech’s survey (427 people) have dressed up as a character from Harry Potter, Firefly, Star Trek, Star Wars, or Lord of the Rings. While many of this number are very likely casual fans who threw on a Gryffindor scarf to see the premiere of The Deathly Hallows, hidden within this statistic is a number of devoted MIT students who take costumes to the next level — cosplayers. ]]>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400Arts Tastes at MIT By Kali Xu Campus Life Editor http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/students.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/students.htmlBy Kali Xu
CAMPUS LIFE EDITOR
If you could meet one fictional character, who would it be?]]>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400Arts Professor Interviewshttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/professors.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/professors.htmlBy Kali Xu
CAMPUS LIFE EDITOR
Favorite TV show?]]>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400Arts Fandoms, the Internet, and Harry Potterhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/klink.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/klink.htmlBy Deena Wang
ASSOCIATE CAMPUS LIFE EDITOR
Flourish M. Klink, a lecturer in MIT’s Comparative Media Studies (CMS) program, has built a life around fandoms. After running her own Harry Potter fansite and being on staff at Fanfiction.net, at age 13, Klink co-founded the Harry Potter fanfiction website FictionAlley with nine others. FictionAlley was “incorporated as an educational non-profit with the mission of helping people learn to write through fanfiction,” said Klink, and it was one of the first fanfiction forums on the Internet that made writing improvement a site-wide mission.]]>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400Arts Fandom in student groupshttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/groups.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/groups.htmlBy Jessica J. Pourian
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
Fandoms come in all shapes and sizes, and MIT has a smattering of several groups dedicated to different aspects of pop culture. The Tech sat with a few groups on campus to examine where fandoms fit in at the Institute. Not all groups we wished to interview were available for comment.]]>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400Arts http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/mast.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/mast.htmlTue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400Arts Commentshttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/comments.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/comments.htmlTue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400Arts Events May 14 - May 20http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/events.htmlhttp://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/events.htmlTue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400Campus Life