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Former UA Vice President Jessica H. Lowell '07 wrestles current UA Vice President (and Tech Campus Life columnist) Ruth F. Miller '07 in the mud pit at Senior Haus' Steer Roast. The match ended in a narrow victory for...

Assistant Coach Vanessa M. Cox (left) and Laura C. Watson '08 (right) play against each other in the MIT women's lacrosse Alumni Game on Saturday, May 5 on Briggs Field.

New York Times columnist David Leonhardt (right) and MIT Economics Professor Jonathan H. Gruber '87 speak with a group of students following Leonhardt's talk on Wednesday, May 2. Leonhardt spoke to a group of students...

A fire beneath the Longfellow Bridge on Tuesday evening shut down the bridge and partially destroyed communication lines providing Internet access to MIT's Boston-side fraternities, sororities, and independent living ...

Rachel C. Grey ’98 (right) and Alan F. deLespinasse ’94 tinker with a xylophone after this past Sunday’s performance by the Time Table Percussion ensemble. After the concert, which featured pieces by students Cynthia ...

Students climb over the wreckage of the Baker House piano drop in search of salvageable parts.

Philia (Kathleen McEnnis ’07) explains her one talent to Hero (Jonathan A. Gray ’10): being lovely. MTG’s production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum runs for the next two weekends in Kresge Little Th...

A piano is captured in the last fleeting moments before it crashes to the ground.

A piano is completely destroyed after plummeting six stories from the roof of Baker House in the annual Piano Drop.

Pseudolus, right, (Timothy I. Abrahamson ’06) convinces Hero (Jonathan A. Gray ’10) to shut up and do what he’s told. MTG’s production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum runs for the next two weekends i...

Proteans (Armen Babikyan, right, and Nicole M. O’Keeffe ’09, left) paint a pretty little picture of leads Hero, Philia, and Pseudolus. MTG’s production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum runs for the ne...

Workers prepare for Baker House’s annual Piano Drop.

Pseudolus (Timothy I. Abrahamson ’06) reluctantly pays two Proteans (Nicole M. O’Keeffe ’09, left, and Armen Babikyan, right) money that may or may not have obtained legitimately. MTG’s production of A Funny Thing Hap...

PANDAS CAN’T FLY—This unfortunate stuffed panda was selected for the test drop in Baker House’s Annual piano drop.

Last Friday several MIT Community members attended a candlelight vigil in memory of the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings. On April 16 Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 people before taking his own life in the deadliest ca...

Manufactured traffic crosses the Mass. Ave bridge during Sunday's filming. The camera was located at the end of a long truck-mounted boom (attached to the black truck, center) so that the camera could be positioned ov...