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Karis E. Stevenson ’11 is coached on the uneven bars.

Kristen D. Watkins ’11 and Jacob T. Shapiro ’11 continue to participate in gymnastics at MIT, although it is no longer a varsity sport.

The pistol team was one of the sports that lost its varsity status as a result of budget cuts.

Alexandra Jiang ’11 and Andrew K. Sugaya ’11 discuss pistol affairs.

Fariborz Maseeh ScD ’90 contributed $24 million to complete the construction in W1, which had stalled for lack of funds. Maseeh Hall is scheduled to open in fall of 2011 and will help expand MIT’s student population.

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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...

Last Wednesday’s blizzard destroyed multiple trees on campus. This branch, formerly near the intersection of Main and Vassar Streets, fell and hit a woman, unaffiliated with MIT, on the back of her neck.

Crowds gather in Lobby 7 to view the beginning ceremony of the 2011 Mystery Hunt. Codex Alimentarius won this year’s hunt in 42 hours.