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04/17/2025

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"Above all else, we must remember: this was the will of the American people," the Editorial Board writes."At the time of...
11/07/2024

"Above all else, we must remember: this was the will of the American people," the Editorial Board writes.

"At the time of writing, Donald J. Trump has once again ascended to the nation’s highest office, winning over 72,623,882 votes (representing approximately 50.9% of the popular vote) against opponent Kamala Harris’s 67,927,989 votes (representing approximately 47.6% of the popular vote). Trump’s victory over the incumbent vice president secures him his second and final presidential term, an end to an election cycle equal parts tumultuous and divisive.

"We write, as an editorial board, not as partisan representatives of any one group or ideology; we write not to repeat statements that have already been made by many before us, nor to incite further division in an already fractured community, nor to stoke fear of what may lie ahead—but to allow us, the people of MIT, the opportunity to reflect on this election and our role in helping shape the future of this nation and this world.

"Still, we must acknowledge a dark and undeniable reality, one that sits at the core of this very statement: former president and current president-elect Donald J. Trump—a twice-impeached convicted felon widely characterized by attitudes ranging from racism and xenophobia to totalitarianism and mythomania—is a dangerous man."

Read the full statement from the V144 Editorial Board, available online on The Tech website and in Issue No. 18.

This week's issue (No. 18) is now out for distribution across campus and on The Tech website (https://thetech.com/issues...
11/07/2024

This week's issue (No. 18) is now out for distribution across campus and on The Tech website (https://thetech.com/issues/144/18/pdf).

Graphic by Ellie Montemayor '26.

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NEWS
• Live Updates: Trump emerges victorious in 2024 presidential election (p. 2-3)
• Undergraduate Association Voting Closes for Participatory Budgeting Proposals (p. 4)
• Human Insight Collaborative holds launch event on Oct. 28 (p. 4)
• Meet 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner Simon Johnson (p. 5)
• The 2024 Election: The Institute Reacts (p. 20)

WEATHER
• Warm Beginning of November (p. 4)

SPORTS
• Sports Blitz (p. 7)
• Upcoming (and ongoing) NEWMAC Championship Tournaments (p. 7)
• Women’s Club Soccer 0-3 at Regionals (p. 7)

WORLD & NATION
• Trump returns to power, ushering in era of uncertainty (p. 8)
• “Trump’s America”: Victory signals a new kind of country (p. 8)
• Trump’s win raises questions on the credibility of the media (p. 8)
• Global reactions to Donald Trump’s election victory (p. 9)
• Trump victory to reverberate through global economy (p. 9)
• What Trump’s win means for the world’s biggest problems (p. 9)

SCIENCE
• Dr. Francis Collins presents The Road to Wisdom at the 2024 Boston Book Festival (p. 10)
• Designing a Realistic Tissue-Mimicking Bladder: Improving Imaging Devices and Opening up New Recipes for Creating Model Organs (p. 10)
• MIT Assistant Professor Ariel Furst Stars in Chemistry Shorts Documentary (p. 11)

CAMPUS LIFE
• MIT Runs on Dunkin’ (p. 12-13)

ARTS
• Boston Ballet Stuns in the 2024 Fall Experience Premiere (p. 14)
• Beyond the keys in Schubert: a dynamic between instrument and concert hall (p. 14)
• 40 years of naysayers were right about Megalopolis, Coppola’s visually ugly and thematically inept magnum opus (p. 14-15)
• Magic, tap dancing, & the electric wind instrument: MIT’s annual Family Weekend concert (p. 15)

OPINION
• The Pen and the Sword (p. 16)
• Eight more days on Kresge (p. 16)
• Daniela Rus, We Demand: No More Research for Genocide (p. 17)
• A New, Greener Leaf for MIT Committees on Climate? (p. 18)
• A Statement from the Editorial Board: What Now? (p. 19)

This week's issue (No. 13) is now out for distribution across campus and on The Tech website (https://thetech.com/issues...
08/22/2024

This week's issue (No. 13) is now out for distribution across campus and on The Tech website (https://thetech.com/issues/144/13/pdf).

Comic by Vi Trinh '27.

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NEWS
• Institute sees precipitous decline in racial minority enrollment for incoming class year (p. 1)
• Zesiger pool assault under investigation as new facility policies enacted (p. 1)
• Course 6-7 curriculum restyled as explosive rise of machine learning takes hold in academia (p. 2)
• State police respond to road rage shooting near Sailing Pavilion (p. 2)
• MIT commits to upholding anti-discrimination, harassment policies (p. 3)
• Division of Student Life to introduce new free expression policies (p. 3)
• MIT launches Philippe A. Embiricos fellowship to drive maritime innovation (p. 3)
• Former MIT-owned edX’s parent company goes bankrupt (p. 3)
• EECS updates 6-4 curriculum (p. 3)
• Duane Boning appointed as the new Vice Provost for International Activities (p. 3)

WEATHER
• Sunny Skies Welcome the Class of 2028! (p. 2)

WORLD & NATION
• DNC speakers accuse GOP of curtailing freedoms ahead of Walz speech (p. 4)
• Judge strikes down FTC rule banning noncompetes (p. 4)
• Columbia’s president steps down after months of pressure (p. 4)
• Israeli, Hamas officials see little chance for ceasefire success (p. 5)
• Bangladesh’s protesters take power, find governing isn’t easy (p. 5)
• Iran hacked Trump campaign, US intelligence confirms (p. 5)

SCIENCE
• Prof. Steven Flavell on researching neural circuits in C. elegans and being named an HHMI Investigator (p. 7)

ARTS
• Jessica Shand G performs Transmutations at the MIT Media Lab (p. 7)
• The subliminal mindf**k America: Green Day and the pitfalls of anti-establishmentarianism (p. 8-9)

CAMPUS LIFE
• Radio Silence (p. 10)
• (A Bit Of) Attention Is All You Need (To Give) (p. 11)
• The Matter Family is Back! (p. 11)
• growing pains (p. 16)

OPINION
• Linguistics for liberation or for domination? (p. 12-15)

ENTERTAINMENT
• Tech's Picks: Entertainment This Issue (p. 16)

NEWS — Ellie Montemayor '26 and Vivian Hir '25 meet with the executive board of the Latino Cultural Center who speak out...
08/20/2024

NEWS — Ellie Montemayor '26 and Vivian Hir '25 meet with the executive board of the Latino Cultural Center who speak out on ongoing concerns of declined student participation with the group and its various student-centered events, including its flagship program Sin LíMITe.

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Ellie Montemayor '26 and Vivian Hir '25 have the story.
Photo by Omar Orozco '25.

NEWS — Ellie Montemayor '26 reports from D.C. on the congressional address of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...
08/20/2024

NEWS — Ellie Montemayor '26 reports from D.C. on the congressional address of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ’75 SM ‘76 which took place on July 24 as thousands of pro-Palestinian protestors, including a small group of students representing the MIT Coalition For Palestine, swarmed the city.

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Ellie Montemayor '26 has the story.
Photo by Ellie Montemayor '26.

This week's issue (No. 12) is now out for distribution across campus and on The Tech website (https://thetech.com/issues...
08/02/2024

This week's issue (No. 12) is now out for distribution across campus and on The Tech website (https://thetech.com/issues/144/12/pdf).

Photo by Ellie Montemayor '26. Caption: Protestors listening to the main rally held on the intersection of 3rd St and Pennsylvania Ave, opposite the Capitol Building, Wednesday, July 24. Netanyahu’s motorcade was approaching the Capitol Complex at this time.

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NEWS
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ’75 SM ’76 slams alma mater in congressional speech as Washington erupts in protest (pp. 1, 12)
• Future of Latino Cultural Center uncertain as Sin LíMITe, Latino CPW events face low spring turnout (pp. 1-2)

WEATHER
• End of Summer :( (p. 2)

WORLD & NATION
• Biden details plan for term limits, ethics code for justices (p. 4)
• Harris coalition takes new shape from fraying Biden alliance (p. 4)
• Netanyahu scolds critics of war in defiant speech to Congress (p. 4)
• Hamas’ top political leader is killed in Iran, risking wider war (p. 5)
• Venezuela’s Maduro moves to silence opposition after election (p. 5)
• The latest medal results from the 2024 Paris Olympics (p. 5)

PHOTO
• Wed, July 26: D.C. erupts in protest during Netanyahu ’75 SM ’76 congressional speech (p. 6-7)

CAMPUS LIFE
• Voices, Voices (p. 8)
• Career Dilemma (p. 9)

ARTS
• Joyce Carol Oates presents Butcher at the Cambridge Public Library (p. 9)
• An Evening with David Sedaris (p. 9)

OPINION
• An Open Letter on Systemic Misgendering at MIT (pp. 10-11)
• A Nation’s Cry for Liberty: Venezuelan students at MIT speak out against election fraud (p. 10)

ENTERTAINMENT
• Tech's Picks: Entertainment This Issue (p. 12)

SPORTS — Ellie Montemayor '26 describes the June 21 parade held in honor of Boston-based basketball team Boston Celtics,...
07/20/2024

SPORTS — Ellie Montemayor '26 describes the June 21 parade held in honor of Boston-based basketball team Boston Celtics, which won their 18th championship title at this year's NBA Finals against Western Conference champion Dallas Mavericks.

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Ellie Montemayor '26 has the story.
Photo courtesy of Grace Gardner '25.

NEWS — Kate Pearce '27 signs an open letter to the Committee on Discipline in response to the slew of student interim su...
07/18/2024

NEWS — Kate Pearce '27 signs an open letter to the Committee on Discipline in response to the slew of student interim suspensions enacted across the month of May. The interim suspensions were instituted in relation to the campus pro-Palestinian movement, with most overturned by the end of that month.

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Signed by Kate Pearce '27.
Graphic by Ellie Montemayor '26.

NEWS — Ellie Montemayor '26 describes the campus experience on Independence Day, which saw campus grounds inundated with...
07/16/2024

NEWS — Ellie Montemayor '26 describes the campus experience on Independence Day, which saw campus grounds inundated with scores of spectators for the annual Boston fireworks show.

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Ellie Montemayor '26 has the story.
Photo by Michelle Xiang '26.

NEWS — Ellie Montemayor '26 and Vivian Hir '25 report on an apparent low enrollment rate for this year's Interphase EDGE...
07/14/2024

NEWS — Ellie Montemayor '26 and Vivian Hir '25 report on an apparent low enrollment rate for this year's Interphase EDGE cohort.

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Ellie Montemayor '26 and Vivian Hir '25 have the story.
Graphic by Ellie Montemayor '26.

This week's issue (No. 11) is now out for distribution across campus and on The Tech website (https://thetech.com/issues...
07/14/2024

This week's issue (No. 11) is now out for distribution across campus and on The Tech website (https://thetech.com/issues/144/11/pdf).

Photo by Kate Lu '25.

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NEWS
• Interphase EDGE hit with declined enrollment for current cohort (p. 1-2)
• In Memoriam: Minh-Thi Nguyen G (p. 1)
• MIT’s Touchstone system to be powered by Okta starting June 17 (p. 2)
• MIT introduces new guidelines for Personal Wheels (PWs) (p. 2)
• City Council approves safety audits following fatal intersection collision (p. 3)
• MIT Expands Insurance Options with New Enrollment Partner (p. 3)
• Dialogues Across Differences: Susannah Heschel, Ezzedine Fishere host panel on dialogue engagement (p. 3)
• Reports of Noam Chomsky’s apparent death refuted by family (p. 3)
• Independence Day celebrations ensue with annual Boston fireworks show (p. 7)

WEATHER
• Hot, humid conditions to headline the week (p. 2)

SPORTS
• Celtics parade attracts hundreds of thousands to the streets in celebration of 18th NBA championship (p. 3)

WORLD & NATION
• Trump widens lead after Biden’s debate debacle, Times poll finds (p. 4)
• AOC files impeachment articles against Supreme Court justices (p. 4)
• At NATO summit, allies move to counter Russia, bolster Ukraine (p. 4)
• Israel urges Gaza City evacuation, calling it a ‘combat zone’ (p. 5)
• US troops leaving Niger bases this weekend and in August (p. 5)
• What happened in France’s shock election, and what next? (p. 5)

CAMPUS LIFE
• Music Listening (p. 6)
• Last Night (p. 7)

ARTS
• Baseball as an act of joy; baseball as an act of rebellion (p. 8)
• A thrilling read about China’s race to save the imperial treasures in WWII: Fragile Cargo by Adam Brookes (p. 8)

SCIENCE
• OmicsWeb: start-up co-founded by MIT professor launches bioinformatics copilot (p. 9)

OPINION
• A Faculty Response to Prof. Michel DeGraff (p. 10)
• An Open Letter To The MIT Committee on Discipline (p. 10)
• On the 50th Anniversary Commemoration of Vannevar Bush’s Passing (p. 11)

ENTERTAINMENT
• Tech's Picks: Entertainment This Issue (p. 12)
• Crossword: Shortstop (p. 12)

CAMPUS LIFE — A scorned individual, going only by the pseudonym "An Anonymous Man," celebrates their 10-month anniversar...
06/28/2024

CAMPUS LIFE — A scorned individual, going only by the pseudonym "An Anonymous Man," celebrates their 10-month anniversary of leaving a toxic friend group and looks to the future for new friendships to come.

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An Anonymous Man has the story.
Graphic by Ellie Montemayor '26.

OPINION — Richard Solomon G puts into context the campus pro-Palestinian movement within a broader political and revouti...
06/25/2024

OPINION — Richard Solomon G puts into context the campus pro-Palestinian movement within a broader political and revoutionary narrative.

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Signed by Richard Solomon G.
Graphic by Ellie Montemayor '26.

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