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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Rose-Hulman Scholar The Rose Thorn Archive Student Newspaper Winter 1-29-2018 Volume 53 - Issue 16 - Monday, January 29, 2018 Rose Thorn Staff Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.rose-hulman.edu/rosethorn Recommended Citation Rose Thorn Staff, "Volume 53 - Issue 16 - Monday, January 29, 2018" (2018). The Rose Thorn Archive. 1184. https://scholar.rose-hulman.edu/rosethorn/1184 THE MATERIAL POSTED ON THIS ROSE-HULMAN REPOSITORY IS TO BE USED FOR PRIVATE STUDY, SCHOLARSHIP, OR RESEARCH AND MAY NOT BE USED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE. SOME CONTENT IN THE MATERIAL POSTED ON THIS REPOSITORY MAY BE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT. ANYONE HAVING ACCESS TO THE MATERIAL SHOULD NOT REPRODUCE OR DISTRIBUTE BY ANY MEANS COPIES OF ANY OF THE MATERIAL OR USE THE MATERIAL FOR DIRECT OR INDIRECT COMMERCIAL ADVANTAGE WITHOUT DETERMINING THAT SUCH ACT OR ACTS WILL NOT INFRINGE THE COPYRIGHT RIGHTS OF ANY PERSON OR ENTITY. ANY REPRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ANY MATERIAL POSTED ON THIS REPOSITORY IS AT THE SOLE RISK OF THE PARTY THAT DOES SO. This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspaper at Rose-Hulman Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Rose Thorn Archive by an authorized administrator of Rose-Hulman Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY • THEROSETHORN.COM • MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 2018 • VOLUME 53 • ISSUE 16 Thaddeus Hughes Opinions Editor Spectre and Meltdown are two recently discovered CPU security flaws that affect nearly all processors made in the last 20 years. Photo Courtesy of E Hacking News Page 4: Silver screen and local stage, it’s all good The Rose Thorn Page 5: Do-Ho Suh at the Indy Museum of Art Page 6: Government Shutdowns Do Not Work Meet Tuesdays Page 7: Rose track & field honors Senior Class of ‘23 O259 5:15pm Lauren Wiseman News Editor Lauren Wiseman News Editor Small Words will be releasing their full length debut in the first half of this year. Photo Courtesy of Small Words on Face- book The RDC winter production features time- less humor and societal satire. Photo Courtesy of Rose Drama Club The five members of the pop/punk band My Sweet Fall have been playing since 2011. Photo Courtesy of My Sweet Fall on Facebook Classifieds 2 Teams of 2-5 people $5 per person or $20 for a team of 5 WHEN Prizes awarded to top three teams Friday February 2nd 7:30-8:30pm All Proceeds go towards WHERE Happiness Bag, Inc. in Lake Room, Union Terre Haute The Rose Thorn Advertise with The Rose Thorn Contact : Looking for General Staff Writers, [email protected] Business Managers and a Website Man- ager For more information contact Nolan Hughes • [email protected] Alpha Chi Sigma Saturday February 3rd Teams of up to 7 $3 per person Lake Room 8pm Saturday February 3rd: 12:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Comedian Winners will receive prizes Sam Comroe Sign up in the Union! 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Blake Powell • Sports Editor Jared Gibson • Staff Writer THE VIEWS EXPRESSED herein are those of their respective authors Emma Oswood • Flipside Editor Thomas Hall • Staff Writer and with the exception of the Staff View do not necessarily represent Evelyne Maquelin • Copy Editor Morgan McDonald • Staff Writer the views of the staff or the Rose-Hulman community. Dr. Thomas Adams • Faculty Advisor Timothy Wynia • Staff Writer News 3 Marc Schmitt Editor-in-Chief Trump Administration Imposes Solar Panel Tariff The price per watt of commercial and residential solar has steadily declined as solar panels have precipitously fallen in price. Graph Courtesy of Atlas China manufactures roughly 71 percent of all solar modules. The remainder of solar modules are also produced in Asia. Graph Courtesy of Atlas Greatest floor 2018 Marc Schmitt Editor-in-Chief Journalism Isn’t Always Black and White. Write about what Each floor was required to reenact a short scene from a space- matters. related movie. Can you guess what this one was? Photo by Emily Roberts Write for the News Section. The Rose Thorn Tuesdays, O259 5:15pm The Percopo 2 team won the 2018 Greatest Floor competition. Image Courtesy of Dara Nafiu Entertainment 4 Academy Award Analysis A Prediction of the Oscars Lauren Wiseman take the Oscar for his role in Three Bill- Cinematography, to me, is pretty open boards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. With an and shut. The Oscar belongs to Roger A. Dea- News Editor SAG Award, Critics’ Choice Award, and the kins for Blade Runner: 2049. He is a bril- With it being winter quarter, I don’t have Golden Globe firmly in hand, Rockwell has a liant cinematographer, and the visuals for time to watch all of the Oscar-nominated mo- lock on the Oscar. The only other person who Blade Runner: 2049 were stunning. If it goes tion pictures. In fact, I have seen exactly could sneak in and take it is Willem Dafoe to anyone else, it will be a huge upset. It is three of the 39 films. What I do have time for for The Florida Project, but it will still most worth mentioning, however, that Rachel is reading FiveThirtyEight to learn how to likely go to Rockwell. Morrison is the first woman nominated in predict how the Academy Awards will go. Where Golden Globes are important for the cinematography category, which is fan- Normally, I don’t care about the Oscars, but Best Supporting Actor, the SAG Awards are a tastic. because I like procrastinating, I thought I better indicator for Best Supporting Actress. Editing could go a number of ways, but would to try and predict which films would As with Rockwell, Allison Janney has picked because Baby Driver took home the Critics’ win based on what awards they have accumu- up a Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice Award, Choice, I assume Paul Machliss and Jona- lated already. For this, I am only doing the and the SAG Award for her role in I, Tonya, than Amos will take the Oscar as well. categories pertaining to the production of a so the Oscar seems securely in her grasp. While The Shape of Water won the Crit- motion picture. I will not be look- ics’ Choice for production design, I ing at short films, documentaries, think Blade Runner: 2049 stands or foreign films. a good chance as well. However, According to Walt Hickey and del Toro’s imagination being real- Gus Wezerek from FiveThir- ized onscreen will most likely end tyEight, a Best Picture win can up sweeping that category at the usually be pulled from the Academy Awards. “Guilds”: Directors, Producers, The award for costume design is a and Screen Actors. Among the toss-up between Mark Bridges for nominees, The Shape of Water his work on Phantom Thread and and Three Billboards Outside Consolota Boyle for Victoria & Ab- Ebbing, Missouri each have a dul. Ultimately, though, a film “Guild” award to their name. De- about fashion is going to surpass pending on which movie the Di- Boyle’s historical pieces. rectors Guild Award goes to, that The Oscar for makeup and hair- could be a deciding factor. That styling will find its way into the being said, although Guillermo del hands of Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Toro’s unorthodox love story is a Malinowski, and Lucy Sibbick for spectacle, it will lose out to Three Darkest Hour. Anytime you turn Billboards Outside Ebbing, Mis- an Oscar-winning actor into a Brit- souri. Let the judging begin! ish Prime Minister, you win the Oscar for best hair and makeup. It Speaking of del Toro, he has so Photo courtesy of denofgeek.com far been the choice for Best Direc- worked for The Iron Lady. tor. Directors Guild of America is Even though there are three Acad- more than likely to determine the winner, If an animated picture cleans house in emy Award-winning heavyweights in the run- but with del Toro being the only winning di- the awards leading up to the Oscars, they ning for Best Original Score, Alexandre rector so far, I think it would be safe to say have a better chance of winning the Academy Desplat will take the Oscar for his work on he could snatch this one up.