‘Don’t
Worry’ Captures 6.270 in Nail-Biter
In one of the most grueling finals ever, spanning four
hours of competition, Don’t Worry, created by Brian Lin ’01 and Fred
S. Lee ’01, narrowly defeated Maximus, designed by Sameer R. Dhond
’01, David S. Bailey ’02, and Eric A. Dauler ’02, to claim the 6.270
Autonomous Robot Design Competition crown.
MIT to Help
with Cambridge Schools
MIT will be asked to take a larger role in the
Cambridge public school system under a “charter of responsibility”
to be developed between the Institute and the city.
Physics
Reading Room May House TEAL Program
Administrators and members of the Physics Department
met yesterday afternoon to discuss the feasibility of the Physics
Reading Room as an alternate location for TEAL, the controversial
freshman physics program originally proposed to be housed in the
fifth floor reading room of the Student Center.
Naughty
by Nature May Perform in Second Concert
The Class of 2002 has been in negotiations with
musical band Naughty by Nature to possibly headline a spring concert
in March. The concert would be in addition to MIT’s annual Spring
Weekend.
Students
Work to Raise Quake Funds for India, El Salvador
Long after a destructive earthquake rocks the Richter
scale and well after initial emergency relief efforts end, there
remains the sizable task of rebuilding toppled communities. One new
student-based humanitarian aid group is raising money for
organizations that not only provide emergency relief but also
eventually shift over to long-term disaster reconstruction
work.
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