Dreamers face uncertain futures despite temporary protection
Dreamers Ian Bouche ’21, Jose Gomez ’17, Johan Villanueva ’20, and Avital Vainberg ’21 discuss their experiences as DACA students.
Court battle against MIT for excessive Supplemental 401(k) Plan fees continues
Two years ago, suits were filed against MIT and other universities about excessive retirement plan fees.
MIT releases findings on relation to slavery, founder William Barton Rogers was a slaveholder
Green found that 11 of the 18 racialized images within the first 30 years of The Tech and the first 15 years of Technique depicted black people as waiters, even though research has shown that black people during that time period in Boston had a variety of occupations.
MIT Concourse team restores Kendall T Station’s musical installation
Concourse team restores and maintains the Kendall Band, continuing the work of the Kendall Band Preservation Society and preserving the magic of Paul Matisse's installation for Kendall Station visitors.
MIT announces consensual relationships policy
The new policy broadly bans any consensual sexual or romantic relationship between MIT faculty, staff, graduate student, or undergraduate student when one party holds authority over the other.
MIT chef talks food, family, and feeding students
Brian Dagnall, Director of Culinary Operations for MIT Dining: "I love food, so everyday I wake up, I roll out of bed, and I’m doing what I love."
Tuition waiver taxes unlikely to make it into final Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, admins say
Goldston said that generally there was “reason for optimism about the graduate student tax” because it is only present in the House, not Senate, version of the bill.
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act may increase grad student taxes by $10,000 or more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, set to go before the House of Representatives for a floor vote, has caused widespread concern on campus, specifically regarding Section 1204, which may add previously excluded qualified tuition reductions to graduate students’ taxable income. According to President L. Rafael Reif and the Graduate Student Council, this could increase the taxes of each of MIT’s nearly 7,000 graduate students’ by $10,000 or more.
When systems biology fails to predict the biology of people
Ayyadurai’s understanding of biological health does not translate to an understanding of healthcare policy, which is geared towards ensuring widespread accessibility to medical services, and necessitates the tackling of essentially social topics such as insurance risk discrimination and whether health care itself is a universal right.
Reflecting on Noam Chomsky’s 66 years at MIT
Despite receiving offers from numerous major universities over the years, Chomsky never thought about leaving what he called “a very special place.”