Last Show of the Season

Tune in at 4pm for the last SOTI of the season. We may be back in the fall, we may not be. Who can say?

There is no special guest this afternoon, but we will recap everything that has happened on the SOTI so far.

WMBR 88.1FM or wmbr.org. Give us a call at 617-253-8810.

Thanks for listening its been a great season!

Today's Guests: DONLAN

Who is DONLAN? What does DONLAN even mean? DONLAN is timeless. Without DONLAN, MIT is nothing.

Find out more by tuning in at 4pm on WMBR 88.1FM (wmbr.org)

Today's Guest: Karen Nilsson

Karen Nilsson is the Senior Associate Dean for Residential Life. Tune in at 4pm (yes, in 25 minutes!) to WMBR 88.1 FM (or wmbr.org) and listen to what perspective she has to offer about MIT.

Today's Guest: John DiFava

MIT's Director of Facilities Operations and Security will join us on the SOTI today at 4pm. Tune in to find out what goes on behind the scenes on the MIT campus!

Today's Guest: Stuart Schmill

Join us on the SOTI with the MIT Dean of Admissions! Tune in to 88.1 FM (or catch the webstream from WMBR.org) at 4pm to find out what it takes to get into the world's #1 Tech school.

Today's Guest: Jed Wartman

Tune in right now! Jed Wartman, Assistant Dean for Student Activities is joining us today to talk about - well, whatever we feel like! Call in 617-253-8810 with any questions you want to ask him!

Today's Guest: Anne Hunter

Anne Hunter, the person who can "get things" in course 6 is today's guest. You might have heard of her "jobslist". Tune in to WMBR (88.1FM or wmbr.org) at 4pm to understand exactly how much she hates Journey!

Schedule Update

We have a great set of guests coming to the show in the coming weeks!

9th April: TBA
16th April: Jed Wartman, Assistant Dean for Student Activities
23rd April: Stuart Schmill, MIT Dean of Admissions
30th April: TBA
7th May: John DiFava, Director of Facilities Operations and Security

As always, if there is anyone you would like to hear on SOTI, leave a comment.

April 2nd Summary

Chancellor Philip Clay was this week's guest. The playlist included songs by Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles, and Nina Simone.

Some of the highlights were
- The Chancellor was a graduate student at MIT and picked MIT over Harvard
- The Chancellor is a member of the faculty and has been teaching for a couple of decades
- The most important issue for MIT to deal with is the economy
- The best thing that students can do to aid transparency and student involvement at MIT is to improve communication between students. Perhaps through a radio show!
- The Chancellor is the best dressed man on campus

Today's Guest: Chancellor Philip Clay

The Chancellor of MIT will be today's guest on the SOTI. Tune in at 4pm on 88.1FM, or get the webstream from wmbr.org. We will explore his favorite music by Ray Charles, and he will shed some light on the person behind the Chancellor.

Today's Guest - Donna Denoncourt

Tune in at 4pm today (Thursday) for the next special guest on SOTI, Donna Denoncourt. She is an Associate Dean in Residential Life at MIT, and chair of the well known Blue Ribbon Committee on Dining.

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Summary for March 12

Dave Barber from MIT's Security and Emergency Management joined us on the show. He has been at MIT for over 20 years now, and worked in safety -> EHS -> SEM. Some of the things we talked about were

- The MIT Hack Removal Squad aka Hackbusters
- Dave's favorite hack: when they changed the Lobby 7 inscription in the 90's and he got to rappel down in order to remove it.
- Having tea on the Great Dome
- Steer Roast at Senior Haus
- Rush, 40 ft towers, rollercoasters, water slides, ziplines, etc. at East Campus
- The Caltech Cannon
- Emergency response models at MIT, stories from disaster simulations
- The current hacking climate at MIT and finding a medium between the two extreme stances on hacking

The songs played (all chosen by Dave) were
- Blue Suede Shoes by Elvis Presley
- That'll be the Day by Buddy Holly
- I Saw Her Standing There by The Beatles
- Light My Fire by The Doors
- Okie from Muskogee by Merle Haggard
- A Day in the Life by The Beatles
- Skin by Rascal Flatts

The music we didn't have time for included Bruce Springsteen, Beethoven, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zepplin, Don McLean, Eric Clapton, and Steven Curtis Chapman.

Tune in next week for our next guest!

Today's Guest

Today's show will feature Dave Barber, of hack removal fame and in charge of MIT's Emergency Response System.

4pm WMBR 88.1 FM or get the webstream at wmbr.org.

As always, do call in during the show at 617-253-8810.

Summary of March 05

This was the first show of the season. The guest, Dave Kennedy, talked about
- The Office of Student Citizenship
- His career path from being a Philosophy and English major, to Law School, starting his own law firm, being a high school mathematics teacher, to coming to MIT.
- His experience being a DJ on a late night show
- He works as a mediator for pretty much all student related departments at MIT and advises the COD (Committee on Discipline)
- He talked about his yin-yang tatoos on his forearms
- MIT's protocol for handling copyright issues with illegal downloading
- Offense 1: Takedown notice from IST
- Offense 2: Letter from Dave's office
- Offense 3: COD
- Issues with hacking
- Illegal is illegal
- MIT tries to be consistent wherever it can
- Hacking related cases are reviewed on a case by case basis, i.e there is no single blanket consequence or rule
- MIT budget cuts
- His office is in W20-5 and his email is ledave at mit dot edu

The songs played (all selected by Dave Kennedy)
-Bring The Noise by Public Enemy
-Encore, by Danger Mouse
-Left Hand Right Hand by The Murder City Devils
-Baby, I'm an Anarchist! by Against Me!
-Lazybones by Soul Coughing
-Sun God by Squirrel Bait
-The Last Song by Lync
-Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend by The Mr. T Experience
-Celebrated Summer by Husker Du
-Shade and the Black Hat by Jeremy Enigk

Tune in at 4pm today!

For our first guest, Dave Kennedy!

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Unfortunate news

Unfortunately, President Susan Hockfield has declined our invitation to be on the show this semester.

Preliminary Spring Schedule

March 5th : Dave Kennedy (Office of Student Citizenship)
March 12th : Dave Barber (MIT Security and Emergency Response, former EHS)
March 19th : Donna Denoncourt (Associate Dean, MIT Residential Life)
------------------Spring Break-----------------------
April 2nd : Chancellor Philip Clay

Do comment with any questions you want to ask, or any guests that you would like me to invite.

The State of The Institute

The SOTI is now official on WMBR radio (88.1 FM). Thursdays from 4-5pm. The first invitations for the show have been sent out, and I'll update the guest list as scheduling gets done.

If you want any particular guests to be invited, leave a comment!