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The California Tech [email protected] Vo l u m e CXVI Nu m b e r 5 Pa s a d e n a , Ca l i f o r n i a t e c h .c a l t e c h .e d u Oc t o b e r 29, 2012 Mike Vanier voted Professor of the Month Sandhya Chandrasekaran of class as an interlude to “spice The great thing about Caltech is News Editor things up”. that there is no barrier between This year, the course has seen everybody, and people don’t Mike Vanier has been teaching a rather large increase in enrolled realize that.” CS1, the introductory computer- students, which has risen from “What I enjoyed is coming programming course at Caltech, 200 to 250. here and everyone calling for over ten years. He first began While Vanier admits that famous scientists by their as a recitation instructor in 2001, handling this logistically has been first names. It creates a nice but took over the course a few somewhat of a challenge, he is community.” years later. In 2009, he completely quite pleased with the student A unique issue that Vanier overhauled the course structure interest in the course. Discussions has encountered while teaching and implemented the current about offering CS1 in another this course is adapting to the course. term (in addition to fall term) are variability of experience his “While the old course was ongoing; in the meantime, Vanier students have. geared more towards students with has implemented a short-term fix He explains, “We often computer science backgrounds, to appease his students. get people who have been students who had not programmed He describes, “I have become programming since they were before found the material too more flexible in signing course nine years old.” abstract and theoretical. My goal conflicts. “While many of them place for CS1 has been to tailor the The lectures are very readable out of CS, some may be in the course more for beginner students in the slide forms and they are course for multiple reasons. and to teach them some interesting all posted on the website. So if Then you have people who computer science concepts. By students learn better that way, I have never ever done any and large, I would say it has been understand, but I always welcome programming before, and then successful.” them to attend lectures, too.”A people in the middle. So I have CS1 is geared for students who lot of the philosophy behind his a large range of students I have have no or limited knowledge of course is based upon his own to please.” programming. Vanier adds, “We experiences as a Caltech graduate But Vanier has come up with use the Python programming student. Specifically, he noticed, a way to handle this situation. language, which is wonderful for “that many times, professors did “For the most part, I have teaching, and is also very practical not care about how difficult their been trying to go for the low and used in a lot of research labs classes were.” Vanier strives to end. This year, I am planning to and in industry. We start from the make his classes both fair and have some problem sets geared absolute basics. We then progress doable. He reiterates, “People toward people in the high into object-oriented programming should try to have fun. Under all end, which will be completely and towards the end of the course, this pressure, people lose sight of optional, just to provide people Vanier teaches CS1, which reached its highest enrollment yet this year. we have a lot of interesting material how much fun science can be.” who can sail through the -Provided by Sandhya Chandrasekaran about functional programming, “So I encourage people to not assignments with something to generators, and more advanced overload, not put themselves in do.” Without feedback, you’re lecturing would never be expected to come concepts. Along the way, we include stressful situations.“ Vanier also Vanier attributes the numerous in a vacuum.” to a place like Caltech; we have the exercises and mini-projects.” urges his students to approach him improvements his course has seen Vanier’s enthusiasm about opportunity to give them a feeling He also tries to keep the class and the TAs if they need help. over the years to the feedback he teaching computer science has for that. In fact, one student from light-hearted and engaging by “We have seventeen TAs, and has amassed from his students. recently extended beyond his LEAD is in CS1 right now!” showing movie clips in the middle it is a shame that students “Most of the feedback we have undergraduate classes into the At the end of the day, Vanier do not make use of the gotten has been pretty positive LEAD Summer Science Camp admits that it all boils down to opportunities available to and students seem to get a lot out Program, where he co-teaches an passion. “I really love my subject, In this issue them. Students also have of it. In addition to the TQFRs, I introductory Python course to high and I try to convey that as much this idea that professors send out questionnaires on the school students with fellow lecturer as possible.” Based on his students’ are scary. But I want Moodle site. Written responses Donnie Pinkston. He elaborates, satisfaction, it is quite clear the NEWS people to call me by my are underappreciated. The why “A lot of students in LEAD come Vanier has been getting this Thiel Fellowship first name and talk to me. questions are really valuable. from backgrounds where they mindset across quite effectively. deadline approach- es 3 News briefs from around the globe Helping readers burst out of the Caltech bubble OPINION Nina examines the efficiency of the !""#$%&$'(&)! !!!!!!!!!!!!!"!!*++!#$%&'!()$*+!+,-!#$%.&!+,/'!#--0!1!+$2/3'!'$%+-&!4%$5!6$$&!+$!)(&! Techer 4 )7!!"#$!#%"$8&'!$

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! The California Tech 2 Oc t o b e r 29, 2012 Ne w s Food with Mannion! ASCIT Minutes ASCIT Board of Directors Meeting Do you like eating food? Minutes for October 25th, 2012. Taken by Allika How about free food at nice restaurants? Walvekar Ever want to tell the world exactly what you think of Officers present: Diego Caporale, Christian Rivas, said food? Pushpa Neppala, Mario Zubia, Michelle Tang, Puikei The Tech will be beginning a new column to chroni- Cheng, Allika Walvekar cle the foodie experiences of new writers every other Officers Absent: week...The Catch: They’ll be going head-to-head with Call to Order: 8:55 (due to make-up club funding) Tom Mannion who will be reviewing the same restau- rant. If you have ever thought you were more of a gour- President’s Report (Diego): Diego would like to invite mand than our resident master chef, now’s your chance any student who would like to present at TedEx to email Joseph Lima at [email protected]. Though to prove it! he cannot guarantee there will be an open spot, you Email us for a spot on the list at [email protected] should definitely try if you are interested. The main subject of the TedEx conference will be the brain.

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Editors-in-Chief Jonathan Schor articles Social Director (Michelle): Dabney Drag Show Stanford Schor is 10/26, and Fleming Frosh Party is 10/27. Page News Editor Sandhya Chandrasekaran Interhouse is 11/2. Michelle met with the Big I reps for for the Blacker/Avery and Ricketts/Lloyd so they can begin Sports Editor construction. She will be finalizing information about Amol Kamat Tech wristbands and the guest policy. Treasurer (Puikei): Received some Big I funding from the MOSH. Puikei is working with the Big T to ensure that yearbooks are printed after they receive dues.

Staff Nina Budaeva Director of Operations (Mario): Club funding took Casey Handmer Yang Hu place on 10/21. Due to unforeseen circumstances the Jonathan Ikpeazu Rebecca Lawler results will not be released until mid November. Mary Nguyen Eugene Vinitsky Caroline Yu Chris Zheng V.P. of Non-Academic Affairs (IHC Chair: Christian): IHC working on re-examining some of their resolutions.

V.P. of Academic Affairs (ARC Chair: Pushpa): The ARC retreat is 10/26 to 10/28. Pushpa is working on setting up the Honor Code survey that will be sent

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Moriah Brielle Fellows Kettner Griswold people are capable of Contributing Writer and Paul Sebexen, both age 19, tackling hard problems plan to reinvent the fields of and building big things, On June 13, Peter Thiel, health care and biotechnology and we hope to enable founder of the “20 under 20” through their work on a bench top more of them to work on scholars program, announced genome synthesis device. Spencer cool projects for two years his new 2012 class of scholars. Hewett, age 20, will be working and push the boundaries of what’s possible not just a decade from now, but today.” “ Looking to the future, Our world is suffering from a tech innovation the Thiel Foundation released the application drought. for their class of 2013. Applicants should - Peter Thiel embody the Foundation’s is your newstand objective to defend and promote “freedom in all its dimensions: In exchange for dropping out of on a mobile payment device” to political, personal, and college, Thiel Fellows each receive improve shoppers’ experience at economic…to empower 100,000 dollars and access to the the checkout line and discourage people to improve Thiel network of entrepreneurs, shoplifting. Fellow Taylor Wilson, their lives, champion investors, and scientists to bring age 18 and the youngest person organizations and their technological and scientific in history to create nuclear individuals who expose ideas to life. fusion, wishes to fight terrorism human rights abuses and Thiel’s program is founded upon while simultaneously improving authoritarianism in all its the idea that self-directed projects the diagnosis and treatment of guises, and encourages and inner motivation produce cancerous diseases involving the exploration of new solutions to problems significantly enriched uranium. According ideas and new spaces faster that the “stifling” university. to co-founder Jim O’Neill, many where people can be less In fact, Thiel was inspired by Thiel Fellows have “started and sold reliant on government Newton’s success; “In 1665 when companies, closed million-dollar and where freedom can Cambridge University closed funding rounds, won international flourish.” due to the plague, Isaac Newton entrepreneurship and scientific Applicants must used his time away to pursue self- awards, spearheaded innovative have been born before directed learning and ended up social movements, and [have] December 13, 1992 to inventing calculus. begun to transform fields like qualify. Check it out @ SFL The drive to make a difference education, software development, Teams of up to four t72 hours is what truly matters,” he said. clean energy, electric vehicles, may apply. Applications tFull Color Winners will soon be diving robotics, medical technology, and are found online at head first in their projects, which finance.” ThielFellowship.org and encompass everything from “Our world is suffering from are due by 11:59 P.M. energy to education to open source a tech innovation drought,” said (UTC–12) on December ecology. Peter Thiel. “We think young 31, 2012.

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Here’s your chance to nominate your favorite professor for the 2012-13 Richard P. Feynman Prize for Ex- cellence in Teaching! You have from now until January 2, 2013 to submit your nomination package to the Provost’s Office to honor a professor who demonstrates, in the broadest sense, unusual ability, creativity, and innovation in undergraduate and graduate classroom or laboratory teaching.

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All professorial faculty of the Institute are eligible. The prize consists of a cash award of $3,500, matched by an equivalent raise in the annual salary of the awardee. A letter of nomination and detailed supporting material, including, but not limited to, a curriculum vitae, course syllabus or description, and supporting recommendation letters should be directed to the Feynman Prize Selection Committee, Office of the Provost, Mail Code 206-31, at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 91125. Nomination packages are due by Jan- uary 2, 2013.

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Nina budaeva adapts the rest of his schedule to her album, he saw the image of the neighbors in his alley were too loud more running shorts, velvet yoga Staff Writer his studying regime. However, Joe sweet girl from the C-store night with their video games. He himself pants, bright sports bras showing is intelligent and understands that smiling at him as he subconsciously had stopped playing such games through t-shirts. He had never seen Techers are good at adapting. an overworked brain can tragically mumbled a greeting to her. when he was 11, and it was his first so many people casually dressed This increases their efficiency give out one day, and so he allows Seeing Joe march to the library shock of many when he walked for all sorts of exercise! This is one because, being well adapted, they himself some entertainment. that day when he resolved to resist through his house after dinner weird gym. have minimal energy loss to the Having resolved to never look a the Medusas (he hadn’t gotten his and found half of his housemates But no, he’s in the library, environment due to friction with Medusa in the completely absorbed by climbing the stairs to the study the surroundings. Sitting outside eye for the sake videogames. room! Now Christian became even Chandler the other day, I spotted of preserving his So, as Christian, the more confused. Why are people Joe once more, for Joe is the name valuable brain “ transfer student, first walked dressed for exercise if the only of the Techer who is fighting cells, he resorts to I looked up and my eyes rested on a well into the library, he had his exercise they’re doing for the next off the spell of the Medusas so more abstracted shaped, well dressed guy unpacking his second major shock. In the several hours is mental? Perhaps relentlessly. entertainment sacredly quiet library that they’re dressed for comfort, but Joe is living a new and improved in order to keep backpack at a table... houses tomes upon tomes of athletic clothing is not all that life. He further optimized his his being intact. great books, two girls greeted comfortable! Christian silently transportation method by adopting He is constantly him. They were leaving as he shook his head and walked into the a Roller Surfer board. He was quite updating and ” entered and what shocked him study area. proud of this innovation for now pruning his was what they were wearing. I looked up and my eyes rested his transportation is so efficient, electronic library whose contents Surfer Board yet), I remembered Both were dressed in bright neon on a well shaped, well dressed guy that even if the C-store is closed, he will never share with anyone. that I too had to go to the library. On running shorts, baggy t-shirts, and unpacking his backpack at a table he does not lose much time if No one shall see it for this is his the third floor of SFL, while twisting flip flops. As Christian proceeded he had claimed. It took me a few he roller-surfs back to his room secret, this is his own world, and my brain over one problem, I saw up the stairs to the third floor, he seconds to realize why he caught my and then logs into the website woe to anyone who tries to enter a tall guy walk into the room. He passed more people, all wearing attention. It was the way he carried isthecstoreopen.caltech.edu to and explore it. looked puzzled. He was definitely t-shirts and sports pants. himself that set him apart from the see when the C-store will reopen. Joe’s life is rather private, for if not from the area. Later I found out Strange, no one is sweaty and rest of the people in the library and This way, he minimizes the time he anyone knows all the details of his that he is a transfer student from there is no way that those girls can made it clear that he was not from must spend awkwardly socializing emotions then who knows what another institute on the East Coast. go running in flip flops, he thought. the area. It was pleasant to see, with people he does not desire to will happen! He has a secret: his So, he’s from the outside world. Being a fine athlete himself, he was so upright and elegant but with a socialize with, the way he did on favorite musician is Taylor Swift. As he walked into SFL, he a bit surprised by the number of hint of confusion. I returned to my that horrid night when the C-store He cannot describe what exactly it thought that he had taken the people dressed athletically and work so as not to stare and found closed for a break. is about her music that captivates wrong directions and accidentally who were obviously not exercising. that the problem I’d been sweating Joe has a focus and so he studies. him so much. Once while drifting come to the gym. He wanted to find He saw guys in basketball shorts, over actually had a very simple and He studies long and hard, and off into a daydream listening to a good quiet study area because the soccer warm-up pants, girls in elegant solution. Wreck-it Ralph brings hero story into modernity harrison Miller several other arcade games to try C. Riley (Chicago, Step Brothers), made by people who love video know video games, not corporate Contributing Writer to shift from bad guy to good guy, Sarah Silverman (The Sarah games. In fact, when I asked writer bigwigs trying to reach a target but along the way he learns that the Silverman Program, School of Rock), Phil Johnston about it, he said, “I demographic, put them in. But if ability to be a hero was inside him Jane Lynch (Glee, Best in Show), grew up with Pac-Man, Q*Bert, you’re a casual gamer like me, or If you’re not ready to enjoy a fun all along. and Jack McBrayer (30 Rock). They Food Fight, and Tapper. So it was you have never touched a controller movie, you should probably just Blah blah blah, heard it all do such a good job of bringing life part of who I was as a kid.” And not in your life, you will still enjoy the stop reading right now. You can go before, right? Well, not exactly. to these video game characters that only are the references abundant, movies. Don’t worry. blog about how much you dislike Disney has long been able to take I sometimes forgot I wasn’t actually they’re actually good. Some are All-in-all, I would say this is a The Tech or about how Inception is the standard, predictable hero’s tale watching real people. blatant, but many are cleverly great movie and definitely worth overrated. OK, now that all of the and transform it into something The movie is also not lacking in subtle. Without spoiling too seeing in theatres. Wreck-it Ralph wet blankets are out of the way, fresh and entertaining, and Wreck- the art department. It’s beautiful. much, I can say that people who opens in theaters November 2nd. let’s talk about Wreck-it Ralph. This it Ralph is no exception. The world They are able to create three very new Disney movie follows Wreck- of video games is such a vibrant different settings for the three video it Ralph, the oversized villain of and limitless environment that the games Ralph visits on his journey, the popular arcade game, “Fix-it creators have no trouble producing with each one more gorgeous than Felix Jr.” But, he’s tired of being the an exciting and fun story. To the last. The same goes for the music. villain; he wants to be the hero. So, accompany this excellent setting is Henry Jackman’s score is great, and he sets out on a journey through a star-studded cast, including John they brought in some serious talent to provide some additional tracks. Skrillex (yes seriously) provides the music for the dark world of first-person-shooter “Hero’s Duty,” while Japanese pop-band AKB48 wrote a catchy theme for the candy-ridden cart racing game “Sugar Rush.” Of course, being a Disney movie, there is a certain level of cheesiness that comes with the film. The movie is rife with clichés and puns that will have the five-year-old in you rolling in the aisles (We won’t talk about how exploitable the title of the game “Hero’s Duty” is). However, the movie is very aware of itself. The writers know they’re making cliché jokes, but they do it with such energy and Disney class that you can’t help but giggle at the word “duty” (c’mon. It sounds like doodie. Like poop. Get it?). For those sulky kids too cool for Miller attended a special press screening of Wreck-it Ralph, where he Disney, The video game references Disney’s genius marketing will not only have you buying the movie met the newest member of #Teamgetswole. should be enough to draw you in merchandise, but also invites you to put money into a machine. -Harrison Miller alone. This movie was obviously -Harrison Miller The California Tech Ad v e r t i s e m e n t Oc t o b e r 29, 2012 5

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One of these things is not like the others.

-gocaltech.com gocaltech.com effort in Caltech history. Of the for the Beavers. The fifth scorer The sophomore ran the 6K course Trisha Guchait’s time of 28:51 Beavers’ five races, Bhagavathi was for Caltech came from Michael in 25:24 which tops her effort from earned her the fourth best mark CHINO, CA – The 2012 cross the top finisher in four of them. Ignatowich time of 29:23. The last season by 58 seconds. Of the for Caltech while first-year runner country season came to a close at The second fastest Beaver was graduate student’s time is his best 11 races she has competed in at Alice Michael completed the course the 2012 SCIAC Championships Andy Zucker who completed effort at Caltech. Caltech she has been the squad’s in 29:29 to round the scoring for the Beaver harriers. the rolling hills course in 28:34. As a team they bested new top scorer in all but one of them. Beaver harriers. A handful of personal and school The senior concluded his career SCIAC member Chapman to finish Juliette Becker’s time of 26:24 The Caltech ladies squad also marks feel on Saturday morning at by running his best effort on eighth. The Beavers were nudged earned her second best for Caltech. bested Chapman in team scoring. Prado Park. that course. Ian Koss was the out by Cal Lutheran by three points The junior improved on her time “Like” Caltech Athletics on In the men’s race Aditya third Caltech harrier to cross the and the University of Redlands by for the 2011 campaign by nearly Facebook and follow them on Bhagavathi concluded stellar first finish line as he completed the six points. two minutes. Marlyn Moore was Twitter. collegiate season by finishing the course in 28:58. Juan Adame ran The women’s race saw Stephanie the third scorer for the Beavers #gocaltech 8K course in a personal best 27:13. a collegiate personal best 29:03 to Reynolds take top honors, once as she crossed the finish line in #beaverfeaver The time is the ninth best individual count as the fourth scoring runner again, among Caltech runners. 28:39. #hashtag This Week in Sports Quotes: Weekly Back with a Vengeance Edition/ Overheard at the Soccer Game Scoreboard Men’s Water Polo “We always play like crap against the worst vs. Pomona-Pitzer teams.” L, 18-6 Final -Pomona soccer fan after defeating Caltech 1-0 Women’s Volleyball at Cal Lutheran L, 3-0 Final “That would have been a great goal if there were Women’s Volleyball no goalie...” at Whittier -Caltech soccer fan L, 3-0 Final

Men’s Soccer “Can I get a yellow card?” vs. Embry-Riddle (AZ) -Pomona soccer player trying to intentionally delay L, 8-1 Final the game. Sportsmanship and classiness at its finest. The California Tech Hu m o r Oc t o b e r 29, 2012 8

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