<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_15110adfccdaaec1" alt="Inline image 1" width="112" height="112" class="" style="margin-right: 0px;"></div><div style="text-align:left">Hello Undergraduates,</div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left">No events were submitted to be put on the Byte this week, but we'll be restarting over IAP! (<span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">Feel free to add your events </span></span><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zVbtXskaeNY51cfNeJp0cCdbjlrkSq07OWTTqv-2X3s/viewform" target="_blank">here</a>.)</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span>Good luck with exams this week, and take advantage of the many study breaks--especially those free massages--all over campus!</div><div style="text-align:left"><div style="text-align:center"><img src="http://cdn.iwastesomuchtime.com/121120151521175.gif" width="164" height="123" style="margin-right: 0px;"></div><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><b style="font-size:12.8px">Interesting piece of history of the week </b><span style="font-size:12.8px">from our UA </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">History</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> Chair, Allan Sadun (</span><a href="mailto:ua-history@mit.edu" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">ua-history@mit.edu</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">; add yourself to the </span><a href="mailto:ua-history-interest@mit.edu" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">ua-history-interest@mit.edu</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> mailing list </span><a href="https://groups.mit.edu/webmoira/list/ua-history-interest" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">here</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> if you'd like to receive more):</span><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><i><br></i></span></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style="text-align:left"><i><span style="font-size:12.8px">"</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">In September 2007, a sophomore named Star Simpson wore an LED breadboard on her shirt to career fair, then went to Logan Airport to pick up her boyfriend and</span><a href="http://tech.mit.edu/V127/N40/simpson.html" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">got arrested at gunpoint</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">. The MIT News Office quickly released a statement calling her actions "reckless", and MIT offered no support in her</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><a href="http://tech.mit.edu/V128/N27/simpson.html" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">subsequent legal battle</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">. Students</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><a href="http://tech.mit.edu/V127/N41/protest.html" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">quickly</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><a href="http://tech.mit.edu/V127/N41/ackley.html" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">rallied</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">behind Star, but in particular, this controversy ignited the faculty, who</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><a href="http://tech.mit.edu/V127/N63/facultymeeting.html" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">nearly passed a motion</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">effectively condemning the administration's statement in a</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><a href="http://web.mit.edu/dept/libdata/libdepts/d/archives/facmin/071219/071219-minutes.html" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">heated faculty meeting</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">(certs required for this link). (Additionally, here is</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><a href="http://tech.mit.edu/V128/N17/facultyopn.html" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">a letter</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">by some faculty in support of Star.)</span></i></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><i><br></i></div><i><span style="font-size:12.8px">Star's story has resurfaced this week because of </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQdl_JdTars" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">a talk</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> that Star gave at a Freedom to Innovate conference at the Media Lab, which got retweeted by Larry Lessig, and </span><a href="https://medium.com/@starsandrobots/understandably-cause-for-alarm-1f0929be0615#.fjzikfokr" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">a piece</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> that she wrote summarizing her talk. But even without this publicity bump, this is a well-remembered story among many MIT faculty and administrators, and in certain student circles."</span></i></blockquote><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left">Best of luck,</div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Sophia Liu </div><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#999999">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</font></div><div><font color="#999999">Vice President of the Undergraduate Association</font></div><div><div><font color="#999999">Departments of Chemical Engineering and Biology</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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