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.