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MIt’S MarvelOuS MarChINg BaNdAt what other school does the marching band put on a beach-themed half-time show in their swim gear? SPO, p. 16

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Why yOu ShOuld jOIN the uaThe UA has practically no leverage, and that’s the challenge� Can you be the one to get stuff done? OPN, p. 4

IN ShOrtThe final exam schedule for the fall se-mester has been released by the Regis-trar’s Office. Find it online at http://web.mit.edu/registrar/classrooms/exams/finals/index.html.

FredFest III, East Campus’ annual mu-sic festival, will be occurring tonight at 7 p.m. in the East Campus courtyard.

The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch, in its tenth year, will take place this week-

end on Kresge Oval. The MIT Glass Lab will be selling glass pumpkins Saturday, Sept. 25, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., following a preview event tonight.

The nomination of Subra Suresh, the Dean of Engineering, for director of the National Science Foundation was ap-proved by a committee of the U.S. Senate yesterday. The nomination will now go to the full Senate.

Send news information and tips to news@tech.mit.edu.

PBE suspended by IFC for hazingFrat is banned from campus for four years, brothers must move out

By Joanna KaoStaff RepoRteR

The Phi Beta Epsilon (PBE) fraternity was closed and given a four-year suspension by the Inter-fraternity Council (IFC) on Tues-day for violating no-tolerance policies on hazing, according to a

statement by IFC president Ryan Schoen ’11.

“An (IFC) Judicial Board reviewed allega-

tions of hazing occurring during the Phi Beta Epsilon (PBE) new member program, and found the fraternity responsible of such charges,” Schoen said in the state-ment.

PBE first received a sanction from the IFC on Monday, Sept. 6, when it was barred from rushing new members. Now that PBE has been suspended, all members living in the house on 400 Memo-rial Drive will have to move out. In his statement, Schoen said he expects they may be able to stay until the end of the semester. It is unclear what will become of the house, which is owned by the PBE Corporation.

“The FSILG Office fully sup-ports the student-led IFC Judicial Process,” said Marlena Martinez Love, the director of FSILGs (fra-ternities, sororities, and indepen-dent living groups). “I support

the decision reached by the IFC Judicial Committee in the find-ings and sanctioning of PBE. The FSILG Office continues to work closely with the IFC in address-ing these important issues and working to uphold the values of and strengthen our FSILG com-munity.”

According to the IFC state-ment, PBE may be readmitted in the fall of 2014 if they work closely with the FSILG office and the IFC to ensure safe practice. Until then, they are not allowed to “rush, accept new members, hold events, or participate as an organization in any activities.”

PBE respondsAdam D. Doroski ’11, president

of PBE, said he is aware of the ru-mors going around campus, but said most are exaggerated or just plain false. “[People think] some-body was injured, people were embarrassed or whatever — but I can assure you that no one was in-jured,” Doroski said. “No specific event took place where someone was hurt or anything happened that wouldn’t be legal or other-wise.”

In a statement released by PBE to the tech, the PBE Corpo-ration president Steven C. Car-hart ’70 said that he believes that “the decision reached by MIT is

Barnhart ’88 is acting Dean of Engineering

By John A. HawkinsonNewS editoR

MIT has appointed Cynthia Barnhart PhD ’88 as acting dean of the School of Engineering, while it waits patiently to see if the current dean, Subra Suresh ScD ’81, will be confirmed by the United States Senate as the next director of the National Science Foundation.

Barnhart was appointed to the role on September 8, though MIT did not choose to announce the appointment until Sept. 21. Barn-hart was most recently serving as an associate dean for academic affairs within the School, a role she will continue to have. MIT spokesmen did not explain the delay.

Suresh is now on sabbatical, MIT said, as he awaits Senate confirmation. He was nominated to the NSF director position by President Barack Obama in June. His nomination was approved by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

yesterday, Barnhart said. It now goes to the full Senate.

Barnhart said her strategy over the coming months would be to continue the existing priorities for the School. MIT is divided into five schools, under which depart-ments fall.

If Suresh’s appointment is con-firmed, Barnhart expects that she would continue to serve in the Dean’s role, and her title would shift from acting dean to interim dean. At that time, a formal search process will begin to look for a new Dean of Engineering. Provost Rafael L. Reif will make the final appointment.

Barnhart detailed three priori-ties for the school: “Bringing down the barriers”; focusing on educa-tion; and increasing diversity.

“Here at MIT, we’re really good at interacting with research and education across units,” Barnhart said. “At MIT and in the School, we’re working really hard to make sure those multidisciplinary con-nections can be made.”

Barnhart cited the faculty’s continuing attention to diversity. Last year for the first time, the School of Engineering hired more female faculty than male faculty, with 10 women and 9 men faculty

Sam RaNge—the tech

Cynthia Barnhart PhD ’88 is acting as the dean of the School of Engineering while the United States Senate de-cides whether to confirm Subra Suresch ScD ’81, the current dean, as the next director of the National Science Foundation� Suresh, who was nominated by President Obama in June, is on sabbatical as he awaits his con-firmation�

MIT prestige key at Career FairJobs in hand, companies flock to fair as recession slowly lifts

S^3 adds hours and tweaks process for readmission

By Derek Chang

Student Support Services (S^3) is increasing its hours and has tweaked its readmission process, following a review of the program during the 2009-2010 academic year. Two deans are now available to help with new walk-in hours, provided 9–10 a.m., Monday through Friday, and the office will be open on Tuesdays until 7 p.m.

The changes come as S^3 makes it a priority to improve the accessibility

of its services, following recommenda-tions from staff during a review process last year. Associate Dean David Randall, who manages S^3, said that S^3 should serve as “a hub of resources, referrals, and information across the MIT com-munity,” and that this ideal is reflected in the changes.

A revamped website was launched yesterday, providing more detailed de-scriptions about the services offered at

INSIdeNext steps for PBE? p. 11

By Deborah Chen

MIT students remained in high demand with recruiters at yester-day’s Career Fair, where more than 330 companies came to campus, up 50 from the previous year.

“We feel this is the best place to recruit,” Leonard Cabeceiras, Cor-porate Recruiter at Vecna Technol-ogies, said. “This is our biggest col-lege recruitment event of the year.”

“We have a very high hir-ing standard, and I spend a lot of time searching for super-strong engineering candidates,” Calvin

Yang S.M. ’98, VP Engineering for Room77, a hotel search-engine startup, said. “I think MIT has a much higher concentration of such top candidates compared to other places. So, if we only had the budget to go to one campus, it would have been MIT.”

As the recession slowly lifts, companies are looking to recruit more students, said Madalyn S. Berns G, a second-year Master’s student and Career Fair Employer Relations director. “Big companies might not have hired as much in previous years, but now they can fill

those positions,” she said.Companies at the Fair echo these

sentiments. Cabeceiras says Vecna, a 90-person company, is looking to hire five new graduates this year.

John C. Whaley ’99, CTO and founder of MokaFive, a virtual-desktop company, believes the re-cession presents a unique oppor-tunity for growth. “The downturn challenges companies to create a revolutionary, new product. People are more likely to try something new. It can actually be a positive

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Republican spells out policy agenda in “Pledge to America”

By david M. HerszenhornThe New York Times

WASHINGTON — House Re-publicans will issue a legislative blueprint Thursday called “A Pledge to America” that they hope will catapult them to a majority in the November elections. Its goals in-clude a permanent extension of all the Bush-era tax cuts, repeal of the newly enacted health care law, a cap on discretionary federal spending and an end to government control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

With control of the House, the Republicans said they would seek to immediately cancel any unspent money from last year’s $787 bil-lion economic stimulus program, to freeze the size of the “nonsecurity” federal work force and to quickly slash $100 billion in discretionary spending. But the blueprint, with echoes of the 1994 Contract With America, does not specify how the spending reductions would be car-ried out.

While the agenda is drafted broadly, offering bullet points of

overarching objectives rather than detailed proposals — and any legis-lation championed by Republicans in the next Congress, of course, could be subject to a veto by President Ba-rack Obama — the document repre-sents the most concrete presentation of Republican goals so far this year. Aides said it was intended to show that the party was prepared to govern and that in many cases legislation had already been drafted for many of the proposals in the plan, although specific bill numbers were not cited.

The blueprint was also clearly intended to provide fresh ideas to answer assertions by Obama and Democrats that Republicans simply wanted to return to the policies of the Bush administration. Still, many of the proposals represent classic Re-publican ideals of small government and low taxes pursued for genera-tions by George W. Bush and other party leaders.

Among the specific policy points is a proposal to allow small business-es to take a new tax deduction equal to 20 percent of their income. Aides said the proposal was first put for-ward as part of the Republican alter-

native to the Democrats’ economic stimulus plan, at a projected cost of $50 billion over 10 years.

While the document emphasizes a goal of long-term fiscal stability, including reductions in the deficit and a “path to a balanced budget,” it offers no specifics about changes to big entitlement programs, including Social Security and Medicare, that would be required to achieve such stability.

In the document, to be officially unveiled at a news conference at a hardware store and lumberyard in Sterling, Va., House Republican leaders also seek to seize on the an-ger and frustration that many voters seem to feel about Washington these days.

“In a self-governing society, the only bulwark against the power of the state is the consent of the governed, and regarding the policies of the cur-rent government, the governed do not consent,” the Republicans wrote in the introduction. “An unchecked executive, a compliant legislature and an overreaching judiciary have combined to thwart the will of the people.”

Obama presses Chinese prime minister to let currency rise

Pakistani gets 86 years for attacking U.S. questioners

A Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted of trying to kill American soldiers and FBI agents in Afghanistan was sentenced to 86 years in prison Thursday in U.S. District Court in Manhat-tan.

The case of the scientist, Aafia Siddiqui, a former MIT student, had attracted wide attention, particularly in Pakistan, where she was widely portrayed as a heroine.

In Karachi, Peshawar and Lahore, word of the sentence prompted protests from religious parties, which announced plans for nationwide demonstrations Friday. Outside Siddiqui’s house in Karachi, dozens of protesters chanted anti-American slogans.

Siddiqui’s lawyers had requested a sentence of 12 years; fed-eral prosecutors had pressed for life imprisonment.

The judge, Richard M. Berman, said “significant incarceration” was called for, and he expressed concern about the likelihood of recidivism and difficulty of rehabilitation for the defendant.

In 2004, she was described by Robert S. Mueller III, the direc-tor of the FBI, as “an al-Qaida operative and facilitator.” And an indictment charged that when she was arrested in 2008, she was carrying instructions on making explosives and a list of New York landmarks, including the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building.

—Benjamin Weiser, The New York Times

Rebels’ second in command has been killed, Colombia says

CARACAS, Venezuela — Colombia’s security forces killed the second in command of Latin America’s largest rebel group in an elaborate bombing raid in the country’s remote Macarena moun-tain range, the government said Thursday, dealing a major blow to a four-decade insurgency that had re-emerged with new vigor in recent months.

Colombian military officials said the multiday air and ground operation killed the field marshal known as Mono Jojoy, the nom de guerre used by the 57-year-old military mastermind who over-saw some of the main offensives of the group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. About 20 other members of the group were also said to have been killed.

“The FARC are crumbling from within,” said Rodrigo Rivera, Colombia’s defense minister, in announcing the operation.

The raid followed an unusually bloody stretch in Colom-bia’s slow-burning war of attacks and counterattacks, which had claimed the lives of dozens of guerrillas and more than 50 members of security forces since Colombia’s new president, Juan Manuel Santos, was inaugurated in August.

—Simon Romero, The New York Times

FDA to restrict a diabetes drug citing heart risk

In an unusual coordinated announcement, European and U.S. drug regulators said Thursday that Avandia, the controversial diabetes medicine, would no longer be widely available.

The drug’s sales will be suspended entirely in Europe, while U.S. patients will be allowed access to the medicine only if they and their doctors attest that they have tried every other diabetes medicine and that patients have been made aware of the drug’s substantial risks to the heart. Patients now taking Avandia may continue to do so.

Dr. Steven Nissen, a Cleveland Clinic cardiologist whose stud-ies highlighted Avandia’s heart attack risks, said that the decision brought an end to “one of the worst drug safety tragedies in our lifetime,” adding that it was “essential to fully investigate what went wrong with the regulatory process to prevent this type of tragedy from endangering patients in the future.”

—Gardiner Harris, The New York Times

By david E. SangerThe New York Times

UNITED NATIONS — President Barack Obama increased pressure on China on Thursday to immedi-ately revalue its currency, devoting most of a two-hour meeting with China’s prime minister to the issue and sending the message, accord-ing to one of his top aides, that if “the Chinese don’t take actions, we have other means of protecting U.S. interests.”

But Prime Minister Wen Jiabao barely budged beyond his familiar talking points about gradual “re-form” of China’s currency policy, leaving it unclear whether Obama’s message would change Beijing’s economic or political calculus.

The unusual focus on this single issue at such a high level was clearly an effort by the White House to make the case that Obama was putting U.S. jobs and

competitiveness at the top of the agenda in a relationship that has endured strains in recent weeks on everything from territorial dis-putes to sanctions against Iran and North Korea.

Democrats in Congress are threatening to pass legislation before the midterm elections that would slap huge tariffs on Chinese goods to undermine the advantag-es Beijing has enjoyed from a cur-rency, the renminbi, that experts say is artificially weakened by 20 percent to 25 percent.

Obama’s aides said he was em-bracing the threat of tariffs and new trade actions against China at the World Trade Organization to gain some leverage over the Chi-nese but was also trying to head off any action that would lead to a destructive trade war.

Jeffrey Bader, the senior direc-tor for Asia at the National Secu-rity Council, told reporters that

the two men engaged in “a lengthy discussion about the impact and the politics of the issue.”

While the United States has been pressing China for years to lift the strict controls on its currency, which keep Chinese exports com-petitive and more factory workers employed, U.S. voters and law-makers have only recently seized on exchange rates as a potent po-litical issue. Obama pressed much harder Thursday than during a visit to Beijing last year, perhaps because a Chinese commitment several months ago to allow the value of the currency to rise has resulted in a change of less than 2 percent.

The meeting with Wen came as the United States appeared to lean toward its longtime ally, Japan, in an increasingly heated standoff between China and Japan over who has claim on territory near the South China sea.

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Although today is officially the second day of autumn, it will feel more like summer, with temperatures in the 80s (°F) for the next two days. A warm front associated with a low pressure system current-ly located west of the Great Lakes will bring warm air from our south today, making it feel more like late August than late September. High temperatures will continue through the end of tomor-

row afternoon, after which a cold front will pass through, knocking temperatures back down to more seasonable lev-els in time for Sunday and the beginning of next week.

The frontal passages will bring a slight chance of show-ers over the next couple days, but any rain should be light and brief. Hot weather with periods of sun and clouds along with moderate winds should make this weekend a good one for outdoor activi-ties. Enjoy the nice weather while it lasts!

extended ForecastToday: Partly cloudy, high 82°F (28°C). Winds southwest

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Tuesday’s article about the Class of 2014 council incorrectly reported that Jonathan Chien ’14, Oliver R. Song ’14, and Jean Xin ’14 are publicity co-chairs. Chien is the sole publicity chair. Song and Xin are social co-chairs.

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unknown. The caption for a photo on the front page of Tuesday’s is-

sue incorrectly stated that Undergraduate Association Presi-dent Vrajesh Modi and Vice President Sammi Wyman presided over Monday’s UA Senate meeting. It is the UA speaker, Jonte D. Craighead ’13, who presides over the Senate, not the UA Presi-dent or Vice President.

Tuesday’s story about the parkour and free-running event at Boston City Hall Plaza mistakenly referred to one of the com-petitors as “Patrick Carter.” His name is Patrick Bryan.

The value of involvementStudent government is a learning experience, but only if you participate

By Ethan SolomonoPiNioN ediTor

Last semester in these pages, I implored the student body to participate in, or at least care about, student government. In the wake of last week’s Undergraduate As-sociation election results, it’s again time to talk about the worth of the UA and student government in general. Freshmen may still be unfamiliar with the workings of the vari-ous student policy-making organizations — the UA, Dormitory Council, the Interfra-ternity Council — just to name a few, but that’s all the more reason why new MIT students should start this year with an open mind about student government.

Students are often skeptical of the UA’s ability to enact real change, and rightly so. The MIT administration has, time and again, proven that it will consider student input — often quite seriously — but the final call on policy can be made irrespec-tive of student opinion. So why should we concern ourselves with what the UA does? Doesn’t it seem like the significant time

and effort we would put in to student gov-ernment will only pay off as “recommenda-tions” to the real policymakers? Perhaps. But that’s okay. Because the real value in student government is the process, not the result.

The key is in what the UA, and other student organizations, can teach you about managing power differentials. The UA is in a unique position — it must somehow represent student interests faced with MIT massive administrative bureaucracy (which provides for the existence of the UA in the first place). And MIT’s administration often has interests which clash with what stu-dents might consider “best.” Consequently, UA officials are tasked with the challenge of getting what they want from a position with virtually no leverage. And that’s not a bad thing — like everything else at MIT, being faced with a challenge is an enormous op-portunity to learn.

So, it might be helpful to think of stu-dent government at MIT like an experi-mental sandbox. You, either as an active participant in the UA structure itself, or in

a more passive role as a voter, or just some-body who cares about and thinks about ways MIT could be made better, can ex-periment with different modes of partici-pation and see what works best (refer to the “Campaign for Students” movement versus the UA Senate as different experiments in reaching the same outcome). At worst, you don’t get what you want, and varsity sports get cut or the dining program gets com-pletely revamped. At the end of the day, you’re still going to one of the world’s best universities. You haven’t lost your right to health care coverage and you haven’t been shipped off to war. You can afford failure.

Learning how to try and climb the “power mountain” between your position as a student and the positions of those making the decisions at the top is an ex-tremely valuable lesson. Definitely one of those things that will help you out later in life, no matter what you end up doing. But the only way you can start to learn these things is by putting in a little bit of energy to get involved in some way or another. You can be sure it will pay off tremendously.

Q: What is UA updates and answers?A: We’ve upgraded the old UA update to include

answers to common student questions and concerns. So, if you have any, send something towards ua-ques-tions@mit.edu.

Q: The UA? What does it do for me?A: The Undergraduate Association (UA) repre-

sents the undergraduate student body, ensuring that students have a say in campus decisions, whether it’s defending our interests or developing our aspirations. We also work on projects that have a direct impact on student life: allocating funds to student groups, pre-serving the Trader Joe’s shuttle, purchasing the print-er on the 1st floor of the Student Center, and much more.

Q: Well, I think something needs to change.A: Then consider joining some committees in your

area of interest! Talk to your senators, or even come talk to us directly at the UA Office (W20-401). Don’t hesitate. We’ll be glad to give you more information!

Q: Got a website, too?A: Yep, ua.mit.edu. You can also apply directly for

a committee at ua.mit.edu/join!— alec Lai,

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ConCert And Album review

Jazz artist plays for the big bandOrquestra de Jazz de Matosinhos explores jazz beyond the ensemble setup

By samuel MarksonAssociAte Arts editor

Meet OJH, the Orquestra de Jazz de Matosinhos, and the latest sonic shift for renowned guitarist and Berklee alum Kurt Rosenwinkel. The last time I wrote about Rosenwinkel I was writing about his 2009 classics album reflections — itself a some-what unusual shift for an artist who’s more (in my mind at least) associated with the typical small ensemble jazz setup. Here he’s playing his own stuff, but arranged for big band by band leader Pedro Guedes and pia-nist Carlos Azevedo.

It’s a risky move, but it does open up some opportunities. Frankly, I usually avoid big band groups, and excessive through-composition and over-arranging leaves a piece feelings scripted and square. It’s hard

to get cohesion between that many people, and when you’re just a third trombone, it’s a whole lot easier to phone in a performance than when your musical voice is more ex-posed, as with a smaller combo. The flip side is of course that the composer gets a much bigger sound palette the number of interactions that can be made increases ex-ponentially, and this can be a real boon to the sound. It’s the office of the arranger to bring this to fruition. Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don’t. When they do, the music is polished yet intricate, com-plicated yet coherent. When they don’t, it sounds square.

OJM does fall in the better end of that spectrum, and in general I was happy with both the latest CD by the collaboration and by their live performance at the BPC. While Guedes, Azevedo err occasionally on the

side of traditionalism, which can sound square, their enthusiasm for the music spe-cifically that of Rosenwinkel’s evident. In the live performance particularly, the band really began to open up as the concert went on, sounding a tad square at first but ending with such a triumphant finish that I forgave that easily. Rosenwinkel warmed up too, and by show’s end his characteristic fluidity was in full form.

In general I would have liked to see more openness in the compositions, which don’t leave as much space for open improvisation as Rosenwinkel’s original works, and I sus-pect that his typical fans might feel similarly. That said, there is exciting exploration be-ing done here if you’re willing to listen for it. Guedes and Azevedo are occasionally spot on in their arrangements, and that is an art form in itself.

In general, I recommend the album and the group both to fans of the big band and to anyone who’d like to see what it can do. If the OJM continues their collaborations (which it seems likely)I’m very excited to see what they come up with, and how they learn to exploit the large group setup.

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Primordial nightA Far Cry performs works by Xenakis, Mozart, Purcell, Cornelle and Bartók

By sudeep AgarwalastAff Writer

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s new conductor-less resident orchestra, A Far Cry, presented a thoughtful synthesis of works spanning five hundred years ofWestern music in their program entitled Primordial Darkness during the museum’s Sunday af-ternoon concert series on September 19th.

Certainly the program promised to be difficult for both audience and ensemble, beginning with Iannis Xenakis’s Analogique A et B. scored for magnetic tapeand orches-tra, the ensemble is presented with the

unique challenge of reproducing and imi-tating what is, for all intents and purposes, random noise.

Although the full setup of Xenakis’s work was lost in the ISGM’s tapestry room, the in-tellectual brunt of Xenakis’s work resound-ed well after the end of the work. Although it doesn’t sound like high praise, it really should be: to play as an ensemble is one thing; to play completely disparately takes real talent.

Consider the premiere of Richard Cor-nell’s New fantasias, a work in four move-ments that re-invents its textures and dra-matic narrative within every microcosm, yet

maintaining the rich poise of a late-Roman-tic orchestral sound world (think, maybe, Mahler eighty years later); a tall order for the relatively small ensemble. Far Cry’s premiere of the work presented spare, muted mo-ments that gave way to fiery Handelian tone-painting; sonorous, brooding imitations of weary travel were posed in stark contrast driven folk melodies and dance music.

Sunday’s premiere presented New Fan-tasias as a world in which Cornell’s ideas thrived in its dynamism.

So given the considerable talents and thoughtfulness of the ensemble, it seemed awkward and unnecessary to provide ex-

planations for both of these works. Prior to Xenakis’s work, the audience was warned that much of what was to be performed may not sound like music in the traditional

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The Godfather of suspenseA look at The Birds and the Hitchcock classics

By Emily NardoniStaff WRItER

What makes a movie great? What is it exactly that elevates a film from its usual status as a means of entertainment of en-tertainment to that of a cultural hallmark deserving of modern audience’s attention? Frankly, who gives a damn?

The history of cinema is rich in films worth celebrating. Some are memorable for their cultural significance or how they defined an era, others for their pioneering film-making techniques or artistic excel-lence, and still more for their influence on a genre of film itself. Modern movies stand on the shoulders of a long and highly varied tradition that has sought to showcase hu-man creativity for a century. The purpose of this column is to celebrate this tradition, highlighting some of the films and film-makers that have contributed in their own right to its impact both on cinema and on culture in general. As they say, one can’t ex-plain the present without an understanding of the past.

This week, I would like to take a closer look at one of the classics of suspense that spawned from the abundant directorial tal-ents of the widely acknowledged “Master of Mystery” — Alfred Hitchcock. the Birds (1963) stands as one of Hitchcock’s most well-known films for its simple but well-ex-ecuted plot, careful manipulation of the au-

dience’s emotion, and elegant presentation of its characters’ response to the unknown.

The movie’s premise is straight forward: The birds of a small, quiet town start acting up for no apparent reason. It begins with a couple of seemingly innocuous — al-beit strange — behavioral oddities: A bird swoops down and pecks someone on the head, or forcibly flies into a door. Soon these singular events escalate into what appears to be a full-fledged attack that no one can explain nor escape.

But a Hitchcock film is never as much about the plot as it is about its characters. the Birds serves largely as a means to psy-choanalyze its hero and heroine, their re-lationships with the people close to them, and the general human reaction to uncer-tainty. In fact, it takes nearly an hour of film for the action with aviary creatures to really pick up. The first part instead focuses on the beautiful Melanie Daniels —the archetypal icy blonde so often portrayed in Hitchcock’s movies, played by Tippi Hedren — and her chance meeting with Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), who she then follows to the small waterfront town of Bodega Bay where he lives on weekends with his mother and sis-ter. You learn everything about the charac-ters through their direct actions and their interactions with each other, most notably through dialogue. We become acquainted with their strengths and weaknesses — Melanie’s boldness, Mitch’s breezy confi-dence, his mother’s strained overprotective tendencies.

Having established these vivid portraits, the film next watches how these charac-ters react to external forces. It is a defining feature of Hitchcock’s films to explore the personalities of his characters, how their relationships define who they are, and how their true nature are by out-of-the-ordinary circumstance. As Vertigo (1958) is about hu-man obsession, the Birds is at its core about

how people respond to chaos. It’s this deep-er level of fear that truly makes his films so terrifying — fear of ourselves.

Hitchcock’s films have been most influ-ential on the genre of suspense and more widely on film-making in general for the creative techniques they use to tell their stories, as the Birds superbly demonstrates. A key part of this is the way suspense is built slowly in ordinary settings involving often mundane elements of everyday life, until by the end of the film the audience finds itself terrified of something as commonplace as a flock of seagulls. Perhaps a more famous ex-ample is the shower scene in Psycho — that the brutal murder to takes place in a shower has long been acknowledged as one of the scariest and most influential movie scenes in all of cinema. The way his movies violate people’s comfort zones and make the audi-ence re-think the ordinary breach the di-vide between the movie-goer and the film, and permanently left their mark on the way audiences view what is scary.

Another key element to Hitchcock’s filmmaking is his use of cinematography to draw the view into the story and leave maximum impact. Most of his films are shot from the perspective of the audience as voyeur — of a secret observer. Events unfold as if you’re in the room with the characters, and you usually know as little as they do about what’s going to happen next. There’s often something particularly

unique about the way he tells his stories; for instance, Rear Window (1954) is shot entirely in a single room, and Rope (1948) in a single apartment with the appearance of having been shot in a single take. the Birds has absolutely no background music whatsoever, which makes the flapping and screeching of the birds particularly disso-nant. There’s a heavy reliance on facial ex-pressions, emphasized by an abundance of close camera shots.

A great example is the scene in the Birds where Mrs. Brenner enters her friend’s house. As she enters she sees the broken cups in the cupboard; the camera follows her closely as she walks noiselessly down the hallway, until finally she reaches a room. She walks into the doorway and we see a shot of confusion on her face, then the camera cuts to what’s directly opposite her in the room: a dead bird crashed against the windowsill. We see another shot of her concerned face, then a shot more rightward into the room as her gaze moves to a disheveled bed; her face again, and then more rightward to a pair of bloodied legs on the floor. Shock and hor-ror are etched on her face before the camera finally shows a full view of the body, cutting to a zoomed in frame of his gouged out eyes before Mrs. Brenner falls back in horror and runs outside. The entire scene is silent — her face says it all — and is in my opinion, the most suspenseful part of the entire film.

It’s that sort of creativity and attention to detail that makes the Birds worth talk-ing about today. Alfred Hitchcock’s notori-ety (both by name and by face — he has a cameo in most his movies) stems both from his distinct vision and numerous pioneered film-making techniques, and his influence is still felt today in both the genre of sus-pense and the many films that have been based on his work (Disturbia, anyone?). It’s the type of thing I highly recommend you see for yourself.

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sense; Cornell’s work was introduced as a description of the vitality of the night time. As true as these statements may have been perhaps personal reflections or historical notes would have been more appropriate. As it stood, the overall effect of these pas-sages was one of apology for works and per-formances that needed none.

Sunday afternoon’s performance also in-cluded works by Mozart, Purcell and Bartók. Rarely performed, Purcell’s Old Bachelor (Z. 607) lacked the fundamental impetus of the other works. Although certainly a ca-pable performance, many of the movements

lacked the dynamic contrast and nuance necessary for Purcell’s suites. In contrast, Mozart’s Serenata Notturna (K. 239) was pre-

sented with characteristic wit and joviality. Original ornamentation by members of the

ensemble was appropriate, yet unobtrusive; of particular note, members of the ensemble performed newly composed cadenzas in the final Rondo movement, ranging from simple re-statements of the original theme, to ex-tended intermezzi that recalled turn of the century jazz more than Mozart.

Bartók’s Divertimento for String Orches-tra (Sz. 113) was a true highlight of the entire afternoon, crackling with a primal energy inherent to Bartók’s folk song, displaying the facility of ease with which the ensemble is able to maneuver the vibrant textures of the string orchestra.

The question, of course, has been, and continues to be how classical music will sur-

vive in the coming decades. Beyond the mu-sic, Sunday afternoon’s performance pro-vided a promising answer. Program notes by Kathryn Bacasmot were refreshing in their treatment of the significant music presented during the concert. More importantly, now in its fourth year, the commitment A Far Cry shows to educating both audience and social change (the ensemble partners with other non-profits and proceeds from con-certs are donated to homeless shelters in the Boston area) seems inherent to their clear position as one of the rising ensembles in Boston and the United States and provides a promising future to the establishment of young ensembles.

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the result of a procedural process that was deeply flawed, was based on an evidentiary record that was wholly inadequate, and it reflects insufficient thought to the broad policy implications of the action taken to all of the stakeholders im-pacted by this decision.”

“We respect the Institute’s deci-sion. We are dismayed by the re-sult, and we strongly disagree with it,” said Nicholas W. Leonard ’11, the PBE New Member Educator.

“The guys in the house are just shocked, and for the most part, they just cannot believe what has happened,” Doroski said.

On Wednesday the day after news of the suspension broke, PBE brothers were seen all over cam-pus wearing their fraternity letters, and they received an outpouring of support over Facebook from many in the MIT community and PBE alumni.

PBE alumni have rallied around the brothers. “We have been in constant physical proximity and electronic communication to sup-port them in dealing with this in any way we can. And our view is that if there is anything we can do to shelter them from dealing with any of this, then that’s what we are going to try to do,” Carhart said in a phone interview.

He added, “Our absolute high-est priorities are to protect the academic opportunities for our undergraduates and give them as stable a living environment as we can, and kind of as a distant sec-ond, we would like to say respect-fully that we urge people not to feel that something terrible has gone on here because we don’t think there is any reason to feel that way.”

Other alumni that were con-tacted declined to comment, de-ferring questions to Carhart.

The fraternity was scheduled to undergo a routine review tomor-

row by the Association of Indepen-dent Living Groups (AILG), an or-ganization that represents FSILG alumni in conversations with the MIT administration. However, with their suspension, their sched-uled review has been cancelled.

“Since the PBE undergraduate organization has been suspend-ed, the accreditation process at PBE has been suspended as well,” said John R. Covert, MIT AILG Accreditation Coordinator. “The PBE alumni organization remains a member of the AILG, and AILG alumni/ae volunteers will be glad to assist PBE alumni in preparing for the establishment of a new PBE undergraduate organization at an appropriate future time.”

It is unclear what PBE plans to do in the upcoming days, weeks, or months, but is exploring its op-tions.

“We’re taking things slowly be-cause obviously PBE is in some sort of trouble right now so we’re trying to sort through the mess,” Doroski said.

“We’re in a variety of discus-sions with MIT, which I guess I’d like to prefer not to characterize,” Carhart said. “We’ll hopefully have constructive discussions.”

When asked if PBE members would consider joining another fraternity on campus, Leonard said, “Fraternal bonds last a life-time. No brothers currently have any intention of pledging another fraternity at MIT.”

“I mean, at the moment, we never really transitioned back into fraternity life,” said Doroski. “We’ve been dry ever since Rush, we’ve been not holding any parties, it’s been very mild. We’re all extremely well-behaved at this point. It’s still the beginning of the semester, so everyone’s getting into the swing of things. For the moment, everyone’s focusing on their academics.”

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lice assist MIT Police with victim of an assault on Mass. Ave. Sept. 8, 6:20 a.m., Bexley Hall, 52 Mass. Ave., laptop stolen from room. Sept. 5, 12:00 p.m., a male suspect, est. age 20, riding a small BMX bicycle

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Sept. 4, 11:30 p.m., Theta Chi, 528 Beacon St., Boston, laptop and camera stolen from room.

Aug. 30, 11:04 p.m., Ibrahim Zaoui, 34, of 449 Broadway, Everett, arrested on charges of armed assault with intent to murder, operating to endanger, and assault & battery with a dangerous weapon (car) after he used his cab as a weapon to strike a bicyclist, age 17, on Mass. Ave. at Albany St. Zaoui claimed he was being harassed by a group of cyclists and couldn’t get away. Two knives were found on his person. Criminal history: none.

Aug. 30, 7:40 p.m., Stata Ctr., 32 Vassar St., bike stolen. Aug. 30, 7:07 p.m., Eric J. Goldberg, 41, of 53 Dana St., Cambridge, Assoc.

Professor of Medieval History, arrested on a charge of assault & battery after an altercation during an argument. Criminal history: none. Comment: Goldberg is, in addition, Assoc. Professor–On Leave, Williams College (most selective college in US).

Aug. 27, 10:00 a.m.–10:20 a.m., Human Resourc. Bldg., 400 Main St., two laptops stolen.

Aug. 27, 9:30 a.m., Koch Biology Bldg., 31 Ames St., bike stolen. Aug. 27, 9:00 a.m., McNair Astrophysics Bldg., 70 Vassar St., laptop stolen. Aug. 26, 1:30 p.m., Engin. Sys. & Policy Bldg., 1 Ames St., bike stolen. Aug. 25, 3:00 p.m., Zesiger Sports Ctr., 120 Vassar St., wallet stolen. Aug. 25, 12:30 p.m., Bldg. 3, 33 Mass. Ave., money stolen. Aug. 24, 1:35 p.m., Brain & Cognitive Scis. Bldg., 43 Vassar St., research

laser stolen. Aug. 23, 3:00 p.m., PDT, 97 Bay State Rd., bike stolen. Aug. 22, 9:00 a.m., Aero/Astro Lab, 125 Mass. Ave., laptop stolen. Aug. 22, 2:23 a.m., Whitaker Biol. Engin. Bldg., Rear 21 Ames St., suspi-

cious activity around bike racks; three persons issued trespass warnings. Aug. 21, 7:50 p.m., Nuclear Reactor Lab, 138 Albany St., suspicious activ-

ity around bike racks; three persons issued trespass warnings. Aug. 21, 4:30 p.m., Stratton Student Ctr., 84 Mass. Ave., bicycle stolen.

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members hired in the year ending June 2010, Barnhart said, calling that a significant milestone.

Barnhart discussed about plans to grow interdisciplinary programs within the School of Engineering, especially the new undergraduate degree in Engineering, popular-ized by Course II-A. Barnhart noted Course XVI, Aero/Astro, as the sec-ond department to offer the Engi-neering degree, and said that Course X, Chemical Engineering, will very likely be next. Course II-A is “the fastest-growing program in the fast-est-growing department,” she said.

Barnhart has continued her own research throughout her tenure as associate dean, and will do so as act-ing dean. Barnhart is director of the “Transportation@MIT” initiative, which brings together the School of Engineering, the School Architec-ture and Planning, and the Sloan School of Management to focus on sustainable transportation.

The Transportation@MIT center has been integrating on-demand mobility solutions with public trans-portation options, letting people use rea-ltime information communi-cations and control to improve the transporation experience.

For instance, the Future Urban Mobility program brings together computer scientists, urban plan-ners, transportation scientists, and operations researchers to address problems in urban mobility.

Barnhart would like to do more testing around Boston, not just in Singapore and Portugal, where they have done a lot of work. While it sounds a lot like NextBus, which predicts the arrival times of local campus shuttles and the No. 1 bus, it could be much more experimen-tal. Barnhart wants to establish a Boston-based mobility lab focusing on local transportation and mobility issues and solutions, and integrat-ing the research results from MIT’s ongoing transportation projects in other parts of the world.

Getting the resources to do that is her top priority in her role as director of Transportation@MIT, she said.

“I’m an operations researcher — an optimizer,” she said. “I work mostly on developing mathematical models of transportation systems.” She has worked to optimize the schedules and operations of rail-roads, airlines, overnight package delivery services, and intermodal transportation.

Barnhart, who goes by Cindy, lives with her husband in Wellesley, Mass. They have two daughters: One is a freshman at Colby College, and the other is a sophomore in high school. Barnhart and family hosted 18 girls from the Wellesley High field hockey team to dinner last night.

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The next big development in the case will come Monday when the Circuit Court of Appeals hears oral argument. The sides will argue whether the court should continue to suspend the ban on federally funded human embryonic stem cell research. The court is expected to rule next week.

The government encouraged the university to file a friend-of-the-court, or amicus curiae, brief, instead of trying to join the case as a formal party.

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the office and increasing awareness of S^3’s services.

Randall was especially posi-tive about the new Tuesday hours. “This change is especially exciting because the extra hours are avail-able when students are generally not busy with classes,” he said.

S^3 also made changes in stu-dent readmission, so that read-mitted students could adapt more easily to social and academic chal-lenges. The readmission applica-tion now requires students to plan their course load for each semes-ter until graduation. The advisor who reviews the application and writes a recommendation must also comment on the student’s planned academic schedule.

“The changes encourage stu-dents to have a more substantive relationship with their advisors during the readmission process,” explained Randall.

Deadlines for readmission ap-plications are two weeks earlier than in the past, allowing students to receive a reply earlier and easing the visa application process for in-ternational students. S^3 also aims to be proactive about working with readmitted students throughout the semester.

S^3 also combined leave of ab-

sences and voluntary withdraw-als into one category. Randall noted that there was much over-lap between the two programs, so removing one form of absence would increase efficiency without harming students’ ability to with-draw as needed.

Many of the other changes in-volved refining the internal pro-cesses within S^3 and did not directly impact the services that the staff provided for the students. Most notably, S^3 is now under the umbrella of the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education, as part of the Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Program-ming, Previously it had been part of the Division of Student Life.

S^3 has also formulated its mission statement and confidenti-ality agreement to reaffirm its du-ties and responsibilities. The new confidentiality agreement states that S^3 “will not share informa-tion disclosed during meetings,” but that sometimes “information needs to be shared with MIT fac-ulty or staff, parents, or health care providers” with the consent of the student. The changes in the writ-ten policies do not describe actual changes in S^3 operates; they sim-ply clarify and make explicit some long-held S^3 policies, Randall said.

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thing,” Whaley said.With the growing number of op-

portunities comes an increasingly competitive job market. Cabecei-ras emphasizes that to stand out, students have to be willing to “take additional responsibilities and set out to prove themselves.”

The brand namePotential employers hold con-

tinue to hold the MIT degree with high regard. Whaley said his com-pany has had “good luck” with MIT graduates in the past, and that the quality of the pool is “quite higher.”

“MIT kids understand technol-ogy better,” Whaley said. He added that a resume from MIT immedi-ately “attracts attention, even if it doesn’t have the highest GPA.”

Gerzain V. Rosas ’13 is confident in the value of an MIT education. “Even though job prospects might be down, the skill sets gained from MIT are invaluable,” Rosas said.

Many MIT alumni at the Career Fair are now involved in start-ups, agreeing that their experiences at MIT deeply influenced their cur-rent paths.

Nicholas Edelman ’08 from Room77 said that he chose a ca-reer and lifestyle that “reflects the intensity and intellectual rigor of MIT.” He also said that MIT fosters in its students “all the qualities needed to be an entrepreneur.”

Lisa Danz ’10, who works for OPower, an energy software com-pany founded in 2007, said OPow-er likes MIT students because they share a similar worldview to the company.

According to the MIT Entre-preneurial Research Center, about 25,600 companies founded or co-founded by MIT alumni were still existence in 2006, having gener-ated revenues of $2 trillion. Start-up companies founded by MIT alumni include Roomba, Texas In-struments, and Raytheon.

TurnoutBoth students and recruit-

ers were extremely pleased in the turnout of the Career Fair.

“We had far more candidates than we expected; we needed more manpower to read the re-sumes,” Yang said.

Gerzain V. Rosas ’13 said, “It matched and surpassed my expec-tations. I felt like it was a reward-ing experience I could learn from.”

Recruiters emphasized the im-portance of the human element in finding a job. Dhanvi Reddy ‘09 from Vecna said communication skills are “extremely important.” He also advised prospectives to “ask the right questions and show you’re genuinely interested in working for the company.”

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Five MIT athletes named NEWMAC Players of the Week

The women’s tennis pair of Lau-ren C. Quisenberry ’14 and Julia C. Hsu ’14 became the first repeat win-ners of the conference award this year for MIT, earning the honor for the second straight week after a strong performance at the ITA New England Regional Tournament. Quisenberry and Hsu advanced to the quarterfi-nals before falling to the first-seeded pair in the tournament from Middle-bury.

Alisha D. Lussiez ’12 took the honor for women’s soccer as the En-gineers flew out of the gates to a 5-1 start. Lussiez led MIT to an unde-feated week, scoring the lone goals in 1-0 victories over UMass Dartmouth and Clark. She now has seven goals on the year, and leads the conference in goals, points, and game-winning goals.

The men’s soccer team also had an honoree in midfielder Matthew A. Monheit ’14. In a 3-0 week for MIT, Monheit posted two goals and three assists. He earned the assist on what proved to be the game-winning goal and followed with an insurance tally in a 3-1 win over Emmanuel, then two assists in a 6-0 decision against Wheelock before scoring the game-winning goal in a 2-1 victory over Springfield.

The men’s cross country team produced the final award winner, Paul D. Welle ’11. Welle finished fourth overall in a field of nearly 300 runners at the UMass-Dartmouth In-

vitational on Saturday. He navigated the 8k course in 24:51 in a meet fea-turing some of the top squads in New England, including all seven NEW-MAC teams.

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Sailing hosts Midweek Tech Invite

Hanna Vincent ’14 and Hannah Sparkman ’12 propelled the Engi-neers sailing team to a victory at the

Midweek Tech Invite, a fun and educational race hosted by MIT on Tuesday afternoon. The pair raced to a sixteen point total and edged the second place

boat by a single point for the overall victory.

Neil Forrester ’12 and Leo Zhon ’14 finished in third with a total of 25 points, while Tevis Nichols ’12 sailed with Grace Yang ’14 to a fifth place finish on thirty points, ten clear of their next opponents. The final Engi-neer boat, sailed by Jacqueline Soe-gaard ’12 and Iris Xu ’14, finished in 12th.

Fourteen teams competed in the afternoon event, all from local area schools including MIT, Northeast-ern, Wellesley, Harvard and Tufts. Sailors assembled on the docks of the MIT Sailing Pavilion for six high quality races in technical dinghies. The breeze oscillated between SW and WSW at 10–14 knots with an oc-casional swamp and capsize. There were no boat rotations, just non-stop racing while coaches assisted all par-ticipants in the back half of fleet dur-ing the races.

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they already love to do. Much of their music is self-arranged, and the overall attitude, according to marching band president Lauren M. Jozwiak ’11, is that “[they] don’t take themselves too seriously”. Music director Sarah Don adds, “and we are al-ways looking for new members.”

What makes MIT a special place is that the stu-dent body, like the MIT marching band members, “don’t take themselves too seriously”. At other schools, people could not tolerate a marching band that wore capes and did beach-themed half-time shows. We are part of a culture that embraces things that are clever, eccentric, and entertaining. Whether we actively take part in a group like the marching band, or go hacking, or drop things from

high places just for fun, we know that here those things will be appreciated, or at least tolerated.

With that being said, seriously consider going to the next football game (the next home game is on Saturday, October 2nd) with your friends and paint “GO TECH” on your stomachs, or learn how to say the Beaver call in Esperanto, or show up in a suit of Cardinal Red chain mail. Do something crazy to show your Beaver pride, because this is the only place where that will be socially accept-able.

We may not all be sports fans, but I believe we could all use a break from psetting to do some-thing we will never be able to do again: Be crazy college sports fans. We can all learn a lesson from the MIT marching band, and get out there and show our MIT pride while having fun doing it.

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By Carlos Greaves

Student life at MIT can only be described as, well, different. So much about our campus cannot be found at any place else: East and West Campus dorm dynam-ics, the notion of “IHTFP”, and the famous hacks are just a few examples.

Our football culture is no ex-ception, as I discovered this past Saturday.

Growing up in Texas, I am used to attending the games of peren-nial BCS powerhouses such as the University of Texas Longhorns and the Texas A&M Aggies, so in com-parison, football games at MIT are nothing like they are back home (probably doesn’t come as a big surprise to most people). Large state schools tend to have huge stadiums that seat tens of thou-sands of fans, hordes of tailgaters, and national TV coverage — none of which can be found at an MIT football game.

What may be surprising, though, is that while we have far fewer fans at the games than other schools, there were still students

covered in body paint, an an-nouncer enthusiastically calling every play, and cheerleaders pep-ping up the crowd, just like at any football game. So what makes our games so special? Well, aside from

the unique cardinal-red and steel-gray body paint color scheme (okay, maybe it was just red and gray), one thing you won’t find at any other college football game in the country is a marching band quite like the Engineers’.

Before Saturday, my image of a college marching band was a massive group of horn, wood-wind, and percussion players, all playing with military precision,

adorned in perfectly matching outfits complete with tall plumed hats, and marching at half time with meticulous coordination.

Our marching band is about 20 strong at best, and the only matching attire they wear are red capes and striped hats. Their halftime show consisted of play-ing Beach Boys hits and the Jaws theme while standing in bathing suits in the long jump sand pit. I can safely say I have never seen anything like it.

There were a few other quirky moments that kept the crowd en-tertained. After the “beach show,” the band performed what they call the MIT drill, which consists of yelling to the crowd, “Give me an M! Give me an A! Give an S! Give me another S!”, and so on, for all thirty-four letters of “Massachu-

setts Institute of Technology,” and then yelling, “what does that spell? M-I-T!” Needless to say, they have a pretty good sense of humor.

Shaymus W. Hudson ’12, a marching band member and a junior in Materials Science, said that, when the marching band performs, “It’s a show. People find it entertaining.”

I also discovered the marching band performs not only at football games, but also at MIT basket-ball, lacrosse, field hockey games, and has even performed on the ice during a break at an hockey game. The band also goes carol-ing around Christmas time, and delivers band-o-grams around Valentine’s Day. Other traditions include singing the Engineers Drinking Song on the elevator ride down from their rehearsal space

in the student center on their way to games, and doing the Beaver Call at sporting events, which goes like:

I’m a Beaver,You’re a Beaver,We are Beavers All.And when we get together, we do the Beaver call.e to the u, du/dx, e to the x, dx.Cosine, secant, tangent, sine,3.14159.Integral, radical, mu dv.Slipstick, sliderule, MIT.GO TECH!Most members of the band

have some previous playing expe-rience, and find that the low time commitment combined with the crazy antics of the band allows them to have fun doing something

Saturday, September 25

Sailing: Commonwealth Invite 9:30 a.m., Charles River

Women’s Soccer vs. Springfield College 1 p.m., Steinbrenner Stadium

Men’s Soccer vs. WPI 4 p.m., Steinbrenner Stadium

Men’s Water Polo vs. Fordham University 7 p.m., Z-Center Pool

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Sailing: Commonwealth Invite 9:30 a.m., Charles River

Men’s Water Polo vs. Fordham University 11 a.m., Z-Center Pool

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Benjamin A. Lewis ’13 scores in the second quarter against two Brandeis defenders on Wednesday. The Engineers defeated Brandeis 2-1.

At MIT, the quirky marching band steals the showPerforming in bathing suits, caroling during the holidays, the band is the school’s spirit

One thing you find at any other college football game in the country is a marching band quite like the Engineers’.

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