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, November Elections are Caltech wins "the big coming. Proposition one!" First soccer game and Student , ate Perspectives. win in five years. see pages 1,4,5,7 see page 6 THE CALIFORNIA TECH VOLUME C, N UM BER 7 PASADENA, CALIFORNIA FRIDAY , OCTOBER 30,1998 PHYSICS TEACHERS AWARD GOODSTEIN Pumpkins, Prufrock, Parties OERSTED MEDAL ~ BY T ECH STAFF COURTESY OF MEDIA RELATIONS ~ Most of the Caltech Community is on ;;, campus for holidays such as Easter, Thanks- The Califomia Instilule of ;;'" giving, and Valentines Day, howeve r, the Technology is pleased to an ~ festivities for any of those celebrations don't <- nounce thai David Goodslein compare to Caltech at Halloween. has been awarded the 1999 Oer First off, there is the world famous sted Medal by the American Millikan Pumpkin Drop Experiments, Association of Physics Teachers. hosted every year by the members of Dab The medal is to be presented at ney House. Dabney Scientists have been the Association 's annual meet dropping liquid nitrogen cooled pumpkins ing in Anaheim next year. in hopes of producing a 'blue flash' for sev Goodstein teaches Ph2a at eral years. The last time the flash was seen Caltech, where he has been on was in 1988. The members of Dabney the faculty for more than 30 House are usi ng a different technique this years. In 1995 he was named the year in hopes of seeing the blue flash. Frank J. Gilloon Distinguished The pumpkins have gone through vari Teaching and Service Professor. ous stages of freezing all through out His book, States of Matter, Halloween week.
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