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A banner announcing Bad Ideas appeared in Lobby 7 Saturday morning. The annual IAP competition celebrates unwise and misguided plans and contraptions.

Team Krotus competes in the annual East Campus Freshmen Dogsled Race.

Julie B. Norman, director of the Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming and Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, speaks at an emergency meeting of the Undergraduate Association yesterd...

As part of Bad Ideas weekend, students in East Campus baked 10,000 cookies.

Rush hour traffic and pedestrians cross the railroad tracks that border MIT’s campus where they intersect Massachusetts Avenue. The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority is considering upgrading these rails for commuter...

Situation for Noon Eastern Time, Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Stepping through her shadow: Natalie Portman clears the way for her darker side in Black Swan.

Andrew L. Dorne ‘14 swims the 200m butterfly in this Saturday’s dual meet against Tufts University. Dorne placed sixth and the Engineers went on to win the meet 200 to 98, maintaining their undefeated status.

Hackers installed a red backlight and the shadow of a phoenix behind the clock adorning Maseeh Hall’s west tower. This fall, the Phoenix Group will help populate Maseeh Hall. Barely visible in daylight, the hack was o...

The Security and Emergency Management Office conducted a drill Thursday on the 4th floor of W20 with members of MIT’s Campus Community Emergency Response Team. In the simulated drill, an explosion took place in the Ed...

About 50 potential bidders attended a Q&A meeting Monday about the City’s urban planning study on the future of Kendall and Central squares. The city has budgeted about $200,000 for the study.

Four printers around campus will be a part of a pilot hold-and-release system, requiring students to swipe their ID cards to complete a print job.

Printer “python” (W20-575) now requires students to swipe their IDs in order to complete print jobs. Python is one of the four Athena printers that changed over this past Friday to the new Pharos “hold-and-release” pr...

Peter Dourmashkin, outgoing lecturer and an associate director of the Experimental Study Group, poses with the textbook he used while teaching 8.012 at ESG. After a 28-year tenure with ESG, Dourmashkin, who was also o...