[email protected] Vo l u m e CXIII, Nu m b e r 20 Pa s a d e n a , Ca l i f o r n i a Ap r i l 19, 2010 Caltech team takes Prefrosh Weekend Features nd 2 place to UCLA the First Student Life Saturday at Google Games Photos by Laainam Chaipornkaew By Edward Chen Google t-shirts. Overall, Caltech teams had the highest average St a f f Wr i t e r score for other university. In her introductory remarks, Several years ago, Google Kim explained that this event was representatives took students “mostly for branding, in addition from the University of Illinois to recruitment purposes.” And re- Urbana-Champaign out to dinner cruit Google did: a total of $3,000 and asked how Google can more worth of prizes were prepared to effectively reach out to university go to the top four overall teams, students. Hanah Kim, one of many the top school, the most spirited University Programs Specialists team, and the highest scoring from Google, recounted a stu- team of each category. The high- dent’s suggestion that all Google est scoring team members all won had to do was to “hold an event Nexus One phones. Google em- that highlights Google’s culture, ployees even made sure to cater to and make it a competition!” the college demographic by pro- That suggestion inspired the viding bus transportation, break- first “Google Games” between fast, lunch, unlimited drinks and Berkeley and Stanford in 2007, even free official Google Games where teams of mostly computer t-shirts. science and engineering went Teams competed against one PREFROSH WEEKEND head to head on brain teasers, another in three events: “geek lego-building challenges, and trivia”, Google puzzles and Lego video games. building. This past Saturday morning, Google puzzles included for the first time ever, a Google standard crossword puzzles to Games was hosted at Google’s nonstandard riddles. All puzzles Santa Monica office between were designed by a group of fourteen teams, each with five Google engineers and then re- students, from University of checked by another group of en- California Los Angeles (UCLA), gineers. Caltech Junior Jeremy University of Southern Califor- Above, Grape-a-Don from the Pittsburg hip-hop duo Grand Buffet performing outside Red Door Cafe on Davis said that “the puzzles were Student Life Saturday. nia (USC) and Caltech. One of cool and appropriately challeng- Caltech’s two teams took second ing... or impossible,” in an email place behind one of UCLA’s ten By Tina Ding expected to leave on Saturday Pittsburg. teams, winning Google duffel Ed i t o r -i n -Ch i e f morning. In previous years, PFW “It appeared that the events bags with Google “swag” and See CALTECH LOSES pg. 6 ran from Thursday to Saturday. were all well attended and en- IHC and Tom Mannion orga- joyed,” said Mannion. “It contin- From Thursday to Satur- nized an optional day of activities ued the great momentum created dayFrom Thursday to Saturday, on Student Life Saturday “to pre- by the prior two days of [Prefrosh over 250 accepted prospective serve and expand upon the great Weekend].” Plans for another students (prefrosh) roamed the atmosphere and tradition that Saturday’s dinner, a barbe- campus during Prefrosh Weekend accompany [Prefrosh Weekend] cue that featured grilled corn on (PFW), making their way through and to plan a weekend day for our a cob, grilled chicken, and corn party with Harvey the myriad of Prefrosh activities. students to further interact with break, was sponsored by the Activities ranged from House prefrosh and each other”, said Gnome Club, which is “basically events such as Ruddock Greens, Mannion. Approximately twenty the only fraternity at Caltech and Casino Night, Page Olympics, students signed up for Saturday one of the original living groups Mudd & Scripps and Blacker Deconstruction to in advanced, but there were about that preceded the South House, seminars about Caltech life and twenty-thirty walk-ins. whose goal is to support alumni By Rick Paul Caltech students attended the par- academics. The day also featured Student Life Saturday fea- and student life,” said Mannion. Sp o r t s Ed i t o r ty, well over the original estimate the traditional Club Fair and In- tured a scavenger hunt, free food, The Club, which inducts graduat- of only two hundred to three hun- N-Out burgers. and more House and club-spon- ing seniors and over 700 alumni Harvey Mudd, Scripps, and dred students. Although there was Unlike in previous years, the sored activities. The main cam- members, sent about twelve Caltech are once again joining a large turnout, student reactions official last day of Prefrosh week- pus-wide event with a concert by alumni to help with the dinner on forces to throw a party this term. to the party were mixed. Many end was Friday; students were Grand Buffet, a hip-pop duo from Student Life Saturday. The most noticeable difference students complained about the between last year’s party and unconventional layout. Instead this year’s will be the change of of being confined to the -vari venue. ous courtyards like most Caltech The event will be held on parties, the event was spread out the Caltech campus, with the fo- over a large open space. The lay- Caltech Selected to Compete cus being on the dance area in out will likely be improved this the RF courtyard. One or two of year as it will follow the tried and the houses will also be planning tested Caltech party layout. their own activities to add more When asked for the reasons in the 2011 Solar Decathlon diversity. In similar fashion to last behind bringing back the party By Richard Wang powered house. The contest will tainability and the future.” year’s party, there will be no con- this year, ASCIT president Adam Co n t r i b u t o r pit Caltech against nineteen other The 2011 Solar Decathlon, Khan replied, “We decided to administered by the National Re- struction. The U.S. Department of En- teams in October 2011 on the Na- have the party again because newable Energy Laboratory, is a The planning for the party ergy has selected Caltech to com- tional Mall in Washington, D.C. many students from Caltech, rare opportunity for students to is still in its preliminary stages. pete in the prestigious 2011 So- “The Solar Decathlon gives Harvey Mudd, and Scripps en- apply knowledge learned in the According to ASCIT secretary lar Decathlon. The competition, us a direct way to use our skills joyed the party last year. Harvey classroom to a variety of real- Prakriti Gaba, “The date is ten- which is sponsored by the DoE, in a real-life situation,” said Fei Mudd’s student government was world situations. Caltech students tatively set for the first or second challenges collegiate teams to de- Yang (junior ME), one of the very excited to help us put this to- week of May.” sign and build the most efficient, lead engineering students on the gether again this year.” Last year over four hundred attractive, and affordable solar- Caltech team. “This is not just a See SOLAR DECATHLON competition but a vision of sus- on pg. 6 In This Issue ’s Prefrosh Pics Neo-Nazi Encounters Brutal Violence page 2 Epic Performance page 4 Read Past the First Page page 2 page 5 Meet Professor Atwater page 4 2 Ap r i l 19, 2010 Op i n i o n /As c i t Th e Ca l i f o r n i a Te c h Neo Nazi Rally Results in Violence Opinions, by Counter Demonstrators

By James Wu carrying a confusing sign about ity, and yet proceed to beat down Where art Co n t r i b u t o r religion and the swastika. The those among them who offend crowd ran after him as he tried to their morals. This incident gave get away and pummeled him with the neo-Nazis exactly what they thou? Last Saturday, a Neo Nazi punches and kicks as he lay on wanted: the appearance of a vic- rally was held across from Los the ground, before police could timized minority, and a recruiting Angeles’s City Hall. Two people get him to safety. By Tina Ding It was the topic everyone has tool. to say something about, whether were severely beaten by counter This incident reveals some of Those that presume to hold Ed i t o r -i n -Ch i e f they were correct or not. demonstrators. One of them was the uglier parts of our society. On the moral high ground should not Remember the sexism up- a neo-Nazi, who was pulled away one hand we have the racists, the be so eager to rush down to where Wow. Take a close look at heaval sparked by a student by police bleeding from his neck supremacists, the neo-Nazis. On their enemies stand. this page. In fact, you don’t have PNGed from Ricketts for sending after being hit with a protestor’s the other hand, we have the pro- to look very close to see that ex- offending emails? Remember the sign. The other was simply a man testors who claim moral superior- cept for James’ piece on Neo Nazi amout of outcries in the Tech? Demonstration, there is actually This year, there will be two no opinion. In fact, at 4:59pm of the greatest changes I have Sunday, there was really nothing. seen here and Caltech have expe- Caltech Students, Read Past the When I started being the rienced in the last decade. Core is editor of the Tech, opinion was about to be revamped like never something that was lacking ev- before, and eco-rotation seeks to First Page to Get All Your News ery week. However, with the change a system that has gov- news release of Eco-rotation two erned student 4-year college af- of the Week weeks ago, I thought my weekly filiation for decades By Tina Ding and make a strong plea. lack of opinion days were over. Write your opinions, for they plagued by white space, the night- mare of the any newspaper group. The editors and the staff will After hearing heated debates will not only voice your concerns, Ed i t o r -i n -Ch i e f Besides, Techers are not likely to now print many interesting and and discussions in the hallways, but also records in our archives an timely news inside the paper from on the Olive Walk, on Facebook important time of great change, Note the irony that the head- glance past the first page. In the last four issues how- now on. Maintain your update on threads(two facebook groups for when there were student dissent, ing for reading past the first page what’s going on around campus pro and against were even creat- outcries, and concerns. We finally is placed on the second page. ever, we started running into the problem of having not enough by glancing inside all the pages, ed!), and essentially everywhere woke up from the apathy that de- Good news to the Caltech even if just it’s to glance at the on campus, I expected the sub- fines the undergraduate commu- community but mainly to the space to fit all the news stories of the week. As great as this means headlines. mission of opinion to be of simi- nity, so why not let it be voiced student newspaper. When I first The Tech is expanding, lar passion and fervent. here and recorded in history? started editing and putting togeth- for the Tech, I felt surprisingly worried. What about the “report growing, and improving; we’re er the Tech in the winter, I was asking you to open it and expand ecstatic for having three news them on the first page because Techers don’t read past the first your weekly intake of the paper stories. This means they would as well. fill up the first page, and at least page,” motto? that page would be aesthetically So here I stand on page 2, to The California Tech pleasing, even if the rest will be take a stand against that motto, Caltech 40-58, Pasadena, CA 91125 advertising e-mail: [email protected] editorial e-mail: [email protected]

Editor-in-Chief ASCIT Board of Directors Meeting – Minutes Tina Ding April 12, 2010 Copy Editor Officers Present: Adam Khan, Tim Black, Brian Merlob, Chris Hallacy, Addie Rice, Sarah Marzen Prakriti Gaba, Karthik Sarma Guests Present: Laura Conwill Layout Editor Hanna Liu Call to order: 2:03 pm

Sports Editor President’s report: Rick Paul - Endowment: Adam has been working with Anthony to help houses start fund-raising, etc. so that they can continue/begin building an endowment. Business Manager Gabriel Mendoza The goal is to have the money go to projects that help the house. - Harvey Mudd Party: Adam has contacted Harvey-mudd about more Staff Dannah Almasco funding for party scheduled for the beginning of May. Sandhya Chandrasekaran ZeNan Chang Officer Reports: Deboki Chakravarti - V.P. of Academic Affairs (ARC Chair): Teaching awards are coming up. Sandhya Chandrasekaran Daniel Erenrich Student-faculty lunches are also being held this term. Andrew Freddo - V.P. of Nonacademic Affairs (IHC Chair): The Tech published article about Yang Hu a new rotation system last week. Students should talk to house presidents Casey Jao and express their concerns. Pre-frosh weekend is this weekend. There are Natalya Kostandova Rebecca Lawler several events arranged for Thursday and Friday, including In-and-Out, Monorina Mukhopadhyay and dessert nights in houses. Also, the food chair, interhouse ath man, and Pradeep Ramesh stewardship chair were recently nominated. Neha Samdaria - Operations Director: Merlob has been working on more club funding this Gloria Tran James Wu week. Wesley Yu - Treasurer: There was a budget meeting this past Sunday where the BoD allocated money to events and clubs. Hallacy will be taking the new budget Circulation to financial services this week for updates. The Tech comes out late this week Aryan Safaie because of pre-frosh weekend. Student-faculty lunch funding asked for by Jordan Edward Chen Theriot. Blacker was given funding for their interhouse this weekend. - Social director: According to the email survey sent out this weekend, most Advisor students want an ASCIT formal this year. Talk still going on depending on Tom Mannion interest. Most seem to also like the idea of the San Diego trip, including travel to the San Diego beach, zoo, or sea world. - Secretary: Bulletin board will be arranged soon, and ASCIT resolutions will be The Tech is published weekly except dur- posted online. ing vacation and examination periods by the Associated Students of the California Institute of Technology, Inc. The opinions Discussion: expressed herein are strictly those of the authors and advertisers. - Dev. Team: Hallacy was elected to dev. team. (6-0-1) Letters and submissions are welcome; e- mail submissions to [email protected] as plain-text attachments, including the au- thor’s name, by Friday of the week before Scheduling: publication. The Tech does accept anony- mous contributions. The editors reserve the - Club meetings: will be arranged soon. right to edit and abridge all submissions for any reason. All written work remains prop- erty of its author. Meeting adjourned: 2:30 pm The advertising deadline is 5 PM Friday; all advertising should be submitted elec- tronically or as camera-ready art, but The Submitted by Prakriti Gaba Tech can also do simple typesetting and ASCIT Secretary arrangement. All advertising inquiries should be directed to the business manager at [email protected]. For subscription information, please send mail to “Subscrip- tions.” Th e Ca l i f o r n i a Te c h Ap r i l 19, 2010 IHC/ASCIT 3

Weekly Meeting - Fleming - April 8, 2010 Weekly Meeting - Lloyd - April 15, 2010

Present: Tim Black (chair), DK Lim (Avery), Chris Whelan (Blacker), Andrew Present: Tim Black (chair), Chris Whelan (Blacker), Andrew Price Price (Dabney), Alex Lapides (Fleming), Lucas Hartsough (Lloyd), Paul Fleiner (Dabney), Alex Lapides (Fleming), Will Steinhardt (Ricketts), Dan (Page), Will Steinhardt (Ricketts), Dan Kolodrubetz (Ruddock), Laura Conwill Kolodrubetz (Ruddock), Laura Conwill (secretary) (secretary) Absent: DK Lim, Lucas Hartsough, Paul Fleiner Guests: Peter Daily, Maria Kastas, Marie Lara, Chris Hallacy, Vivian Sun, Grace Li, Jenny Xiong, Gerry Salinas, Brian Ventura, Dan Thai, Eric Samperton Guests: Dan Thai Results of ASCIT Formal poll Housing Office Report Chris jokingly suggests to “IHC” Addie (IHC is now a verb) for suggesting there might be free food when there was not. Students are generally in Room assignments from the houses are due April 26. The unaffiliated lottery favor of formal—40% for formal, 40% indifferent, 20% against. People are numbers will be posted online and in the housing office tomorrow, April 9. The generally in favor of the trip to San Diego. unaffiliated lottery will take place May 6 and the summer lottery will be in early May. Dinner traditions Peter Daily said that waiters can log their time for waiting at the dessert night The housing office will be hiring students to work in a Summer Conference tomorrow. Some houses will be holding announcements and dinner games Assistance position. In the past, it has involved working five hours per week in after dinner. the housing office in exchange for summer rent in Caltech housing.The position is changing this year: the housing office is still looking to hire 15 people, but in Please note addition to the usual work in the houses, the position will require working two Dan hates Will because he hates Will (and would like to make this public). solid 40-hour weeks at some point through the summer: one in the housing office and one in the maintenance office. Applications will be by email; there will be a Marks/Braun directory email with the details. There have been some objections by students to the Marks/Braun board change; the IHC will talk to Peter Daily to change this. This year, people checking out for the summer will have to check out with a person rather than online. There still will be a 24-hour extension for seniors, until Alumni Weekend the Sunday after graduation at noon. Every time there is a new housing contract in If houses would like to host an event over Alumni Weekend, presidents place, you will have to check in at the housing office even if you are staying in the should email Tom Mannion by next Wednesday. same room. Wikipedia: Page is having some maintenance work done—courtyard is being painted, and The Wikipedia page on the Caltech houses has numerous inaccuracies; each borders are being painted on the doors. president will edit his house’s page as necessary. Housing is thinking about making all of the SURF summer rooms be frosh rooms. Submitted by Laura Conwill IHC Secretary Prefrosh Weekend We need a bunch of volunteers for Saturday, primarily for the barbeque and concert. Tim will email more info to the presidents. We also need to find a caterer for dinner on Saturday; dim sum was recommended.

Submitted by Laura Conwill IHC Secretary 4 Ap r i l 19, 2010 Fe a t u r e s Th e Ca l i f o r n i a Te c h Meet Professor Atwater interviewed by Vivian Yang

aging things or focus light into a cavity, for Tech: Which do you like better? example, we need very small wavelengths. Atwater: Maybe you should know that I We’re now starting to apply this to micro- was almost a lifer at MIT, that is, I went to scopes and switching devices. MIT for undergraduate and graduate school, and almost accepted a position there for fur- Tech: What else? ther research. But I’ve been at Caltech for the Atwater: Well, more recently we started to past two decades, so… get into solar energy, and we have a new so- lar cell that is more efficient at absorbing light Tech: What do you like to do outside of and converting it to energy. lab? Well, if you leave lab at all… Atwater: I play soccer! I love soccer; I’ve R. Harry Atwater, recently featured in Tech: So what kind of research in gradu- been playing since I was … [gestures to the D the media for creating highly absorbing, ate school or even before that got you into height of a small child]…this tall. Now I play flexible solar cells, has been at Caltech for plasmonics and solar energy? soccer with the physics graduate students and the past 22 years after completing his Ph.D. Atwater: In graduate school at MIT, my I coach my boys’ soccer league. at MIT in 1987. He is a Professor of Applied mentor was one of the leaders in x-ray lithog- Physics and Materials Science and was named raphy, so my research was focused on nano- Tech: Do you have any last words of wis- a Howard Hughes Professor by the Howard science technology. Also, I’ve always had an dom for a sophomore at Caltech? Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Atwater cur- abiding interest in energy since high school. Atwater: Don’t be shy about being inquisi- rently is involved in research, teaching, and It was always in the back of my mind – the tive. Don’t feel like to have to work hard and mentoring the Caltech Solar Decathalon team. importance of energy. burn out during your undergraduate years I sat down with him a couple days ago to get (you’ll have plenty of time to be a graduate to know more about his research and his per- Tech: What do you mean? student), but indulge yourself in learning. sonality. Atwater: Well, when I was a teenager, my Less is more! high school was shut down in the winter time Tech: Let’s start with an easy question. because of the lack of electricity, and this Tech: Thanks! Is there anything else you What are you famous for? made me realize that energy is a pretty impor- want might want me to write about? Atwater: [Laughs] Well, I think I’m most tant commodity. This was during the energy Atwater: Actually, yes. Caltech has a team known for ‘creating excitement’ in a field crisis, when gasoline prices went way up. En- in the Solar Decathalon, which is a student called plasmonics, which is, essentially, a ergy resources is what divides the people who project. I am the faculty advisor for this proj- field that sits at the junction of photonics and have and the people who have not. This new ect, but our job is to provide the means for the optics. solar energy technology has the potential to students to get what they want without inter- help many people who don’t have the means fering with their work. I’m very excited to be Tech:Why are they interesting? to obtain energy, and finding a way to provide a part of this project and the students have a Atwater: Basically, we study the optics of large scale renewable energy to everyone is lot of great ideas. metals. You see, light propogates through one goal of my research. That’s one of the rea- For more information about the Caltech free space at a certain speed and wavelength. sons why the size of my lab has doubled in the Solar Decathalon, please visit www.solarde- But when you go into a dielectric material, last few years. cathalon.gov. like metal, the wavelength gets shorter. This means that we can get light to travel extreme- Tech: you mentioned that you went to ly slow and concentrate the wavelength at a MIT for graduate school – how do you certain position. compare Caltech and MIT? Atwater: Well, MIT has a feel of a larger Tech: Does this mean you can see really university, and it’s very engineering oriented. small things? On the other hand, Caltech feels like a liberal Atwater: Yeah, we are getting into the nano- arts college, but it’s more science oriented. scale now. In order to localize light for im-

Looking back on Prefrosh Weekend Photos by Laainam Chaipornkaew

Clockwise from top left: Dongkook Lim and Laura Conwill having fun during prefrosh activities; Caltech Jazz Festival on Beckman lawn; Prefrosh tie-dyeing T-shirts for Dabney House PFW activities; Barbeque dinner The California Tech Fe a t u r e s Ap r i l 19, 2010 5 Who: Megadeth What: Rust In Peace 20th Anniversary Tour Where: Hollywood Palladium Why: is back! May All Our Warheads Rust in Peace When: 3/31/10

Meet Professor Atwater by David Ellefson he floor was packed with furious, tabloid article you read while you take your note to perfection. Broderick’s brutal head age of bloody, young, disenfranchised no- T grizzly looking metal heads waiting morning shit. And immediately afterward, banging complemented the delicate perfec- bodies to the nearest first-aid station. Upon for the sold out performance of the entirety Drover hit the drum solo that begins the tion to which he performed the lead realizing that Megadeth’s assault on our of Megadeth’s landmark R.I.P. album. To crowd pleasing “Skin O’ My Teeth”. work on this overly-technical song. As the bodies was terminal, we religiously flocked satiate the fans’ thirst for blood, San Fran- The twin of Mustaine and Brod- band played through the next few tracks, back to the execution grounds, to see how cisco thrash titans Exodus let it rip, with erick sounded cleaner than any noise that a the already decimated remains of the the band would close this unbelievable set. brutal lyrical content and lightning fast gui- studio could produce, while Ellefson held moshpit now turned to blood pulp and dust, The beautiful song “Trust,” opened the tar riffs. Continuing the biblically themed the bottom end rhythm with his impressive while the four performers continued their encore, and proved to us that metal didn’t mayhem, Testament came on stage next to stage presence. Next came “In My Dark- work. The band never sounded better, and always have to run at 1000 bpm for us to feel continue the blood bath. The pit was vom- est Hour.” every song that our personal misery was recognized by iting limbs and other bloody body parts as The dra- pierced our on-stage heroes. After two tracks from the evil vocals of Chuck Billy aroused our matic so- the our the bands 2009 album Endgame the sound most deviant behavior, while the epic gui- los that h e a r t s of a concert orchestra could be heard over tar work of Glen Drover tore the roof off Mustaine and ears, the PA. As this happened, we all burst into of the arena. When the dust settled and the and Brod- as the a frantic state of lunacy, for we recognized smoke cleared, sounds of ambulance sirens e r i c k t h r a s h this as the opening to the anthemic “Sym- could be heard outside as the mangled vic- switched classics phony of Destruction,” another one of my tims of metal picked up what was left of back and held us personal favorites. By now, the remains of their tattered bodies and prepared them- f o r t h helpless human flesh and waste were sopping- un selves for the main event. made my and left der the towering presence of the band, who And none of us could ever prepare for f r i e n d s us to do weren’t showing any remorse. what was about to happen… soil them- nothing “On the drums, !” An intro tape declaring martial law s e l v e s , m o r e “On lead guitar, !” came over the PA, warning us to lock our w h i l e I t h a n “He doesn’t need an introduction…on doors, stay inside, and report any suspi- b r o k e f i g h t , the bass, David Ellefson!” cious behavior. A strict curfew of seven d o w n f*ck, or “And me, I’m the old mother f****r with o’clock was to be implemented, and any in tears. f o l l y . the chip on my shoulder.” Alas, I met my violators would be shot. A dark silhouette After we We were friends again. appeared behind the Voelker drum rack, c l e a n e d con- As Ellefson alone walked on stage and and was instantly recognized as drummer up, the s t a n t l y Drover held a steady kick drum beat, we be- Shawn Drover, whose brother just left the mainstream classic “She-Wolf” set the air reminded why Mustaine and Ellefson’s gan hacking away at each other as the bass stage. Next came lead guitarist Chris Brod- for what was to come. musical brainchild is to this day considered line to “,” pounded through our erick, whose monstrously muscular figure Mustaine took the stage, greeted us with one of the best heavy acts of all time. brains. The sheer terror of the venue during dwarfed the once grand appearance of the his infamous snarl, and asked, “Do you The rhythmic epic known as “Tornado the next four minutes was a testament to the audience. Finally, the moment we’ve all know why you’re here? Do you all know of Souls,” demonstrated Mustaine’s ability band’s greatness, and as an added bonus, been waiting for: the original bassist David why?” just as he fired the opening riff to as a song writer and guitar player, and if the band ripped through a reprise of “Holy Ellefson, who recently ended his eight-year “Holy Wars…The Punishment Due,” a nothing else, how much of a badass he is. Wars…” to tickle our tainted souls one last feud with front man and co-founder Dave genre defining song that could only be Ellefson, loyal as ever, was an inspiration time. Mustaine, returned. His entrance was met compared to the likes of “Master of Pup- to us all, as he dawned his signature Jack- I’ve been to many concerts, and I have with a thunderous roar of applause from pets.” Thus began the live performance of son 5 string and let all hell break loose. Af- only a few bands I worship more than the more than ready to explode audience. the entire R.I.P. album. ter the poetic, environmentalist “Dawn Pa- Megadeth, but on that night, none of that Last but certainly not least, a God among The following track, “Hangar 18,” is trol,” and the album’s title track, “Rust in mattered. Mustaine and Co. dominated our men graced our presence in the body of 48 notorious for its extremely difficult rhythm Peace…Polaris,” the band disappeared for world and set the stage afire, so that nobody year-old , whose biography work and tedious soloing sections, but a short break. I’ll be damned if we didn’t in the greater LA area could ever mistake makes that of Jesus Christ look like a small Mustaine and Broderick executed every need it, as we marched along the pilgrim- their presence as one of music’s most im- portant and powerful acts.

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‹%H7KH0DWFK 6 The California Tech Ne w s Ap r i l 19, 2010 Solar Decathlon Selected to Congratulations! be Finalist Continued from pg. 1 school’s administration and stu- Doug Caldwell, Chief Architect Wanted! San Pedro Travel dent body have expressed strong for Boeing’s Renewable Energy Prize Awarded support for the competition, and Solutions business division, is the One or two will be responsible for the tech- several dozen students are active- lecturer for the class. Four juniors and one sopho- nical underpinnings of the house, ly involved in the project. Work- “Students who get hands-on undergraduate more have won SanPietro Travel including all aspects of systems ing through their design studio experience with real-world proj- student to be Prizes for travel this summer. engineering, mechanical and classes, SCI-Arc students pro- ects during college understand electrical subsystems, and user duced and submitted the concep- the applications of their formal part of the Donatella Bellone, a chemistry experience design. tual design which pushed Team coursework better and have more student and member of Fleming Caltech has partnered with SCI-Arc/Caltech into the final opportunities after graduation,” DELIVERY House will travel on her own to the Southern California Institute competition. said Dr. Caldwell. “Multidisci- STAFF for Italy to visit the land where her of Architecture (SCI-Arc) to form Professor Harry Atwater, the plinary projects like this expand family lived before they emigrat- Team SCI-Arc/Caltech, the only Caltech team’s faculty adviser our horizons and help develop the Tech. The ed and came to Argentina. American team west of the Mis- and director of the newly-founded teamwork and communication sissippi in the continental United Resnick Sustainability Institute at skills crucial to future success.” current students Fellow cross country team States. Despite this, the team Caltech, is also enthusiastic about Ben Kurtz (junior physics), with this position members Clara Eng (Chem E/ expects to face stiff competition the project. “The Solar Decath- one of the team members, has a Avery House) along with Stepha- from veteran American teams, as lon is a fantastic opportunity for sobering view of the task at hand. is Aryan Safaie nie Wuerth (Geochemistry/Eng- well as from schools in Belgium, Caltech students to merge science “We have quite a daunting under- and Edward lish and member of Lloyd House Canada, China, and New Zea- fundamentals with design and taking ahead of us: only eighteen and Avery House will take an ex- land. real-world economic constraints months to design, build, and move Chen. tensive bike trip along the border “We firmly believe in the in an interdisciplinary project. a fully functioning house across between France and Germany in mission of the Solar Decathlon to For the students involved, it will the country. We’re going to need You get a sweet the Strasbourg area and then con- propagate affordable, sustainable be very time-consuming but also all the help we can get.” pay. You get tinue to bike river paths in South- design and look forward to bring- a tremendous amount of fun.” Students interested in pur- ern Germany. ing the spirit of Southern Cali- Last term, Engineers for a suing the Solar Decathlon are to drive the fornia to the competition,” said Sustainable World (ESW) or- strongly encouraged to sign up Colin Ely (ME & member Reed Finlay, a graduate student ganized a series of lectures by for six to nine units of APh 100 green THINGIE of Ricketts and Blacker House) at SCI-Arc and the team project prominent Caltech professors (Section 2) this term. Classes are around campus and Anna Ivanova, (Chemistry/ manager. “Our team is extremely and other experts in sustainabil- held every week on Wednesday Blacker House) both keen stu- excited to learn all we can from ity. These lectures provide a solid 7-10 pm in Watson 104. Students INTERESTED? dents of pottery and potters them- the Caltech students and faculty technical introduction to the fields of all backgrounds and expertise Email [email protected] selves, will undertake a railway throughout this process.” relevant to the competition. They are needed and welcome. tour to see potteries throughout SCI-Arc is a renowned ar- are freely available to Caltech Next year, the class will Japan. chitecture school based in down- students upon request. likely evolve into CS/EE/ME 75, town Los Angeles. It has a reputa- This term, the team efforts which can be used to fulfill option tion for innovative design and is are organized through an inde- credit. one of the nation’s few indepen- pendent study course (APh 100) Email Fei Yang at feiyang@ dent architecture schools. The under Professor Atwater. Dr. caltech.edu for more details.

Caltech Takes Second Place to UCLA Continued from pg. 1 News Briefs and Announcements included engineers that covered the spectrum of Google products (engineers from Buzz, Picasa, Android, YouTube, advertisement The Caltech Project interfaces and Gmail were pres- ent) and who were also alumni With response rate at 60% af- from UCLA, USC or Caltech. ter five days, the Caltech Project There is no official yield for course student are striving to keep this recruitment method since it is increasing this number. This survey still in the early stages, and also strives to map the social network of because funds were diverted to the Caltech undergraduate commu- additional scholarships last year nity and was released to students on rather than to hosting a Google Tuesday, April 13th. Led by Profes- Games 2009. There is also no sor. Ensminger, students in expectation of increasing the par- An150 will be studying the out- ticipation by a certain percentage come of the survey. High response over the next few years. “The rate (>90%) is needed for this proj- goal of these Games,” said Kim, ect to succeed. Ensminger does her “is not to recruit for any one par- research in Kenya villaages, and ticular site, but it is to let students took a special interest in the Caltech know about all the different offic- community. She worked for a year es besides the main headquarters to set up this course. in Mountain View.” She also list- ed other major Google sites such as the ones in Seattle, Pittsburgh, The Student-to-Stu- New York, Waterloo and Boulder. dent (s2s) Mentoring It’s not clear yet how far Google Caltech Team competes in the Google Games in Santa Monica wants to go with expanding these Program Google Games into these other cities, but there is certainly no A student-run resource, s2s seeks statement. ing was sandwiched between two also won the team spirit award. lack of ambition in having these to provide peer support regarding The third and last round of UCLA teams. Other schools were not as out- Games. a variety of academic and non- the competition was the Lego Attendees seemed to recog- wardly spirited. “I am here to academic matters to graduate and building competition where each nize the recruiting potential of have fun,” said Caltech freshman undergraduate students at Caltech. team had a bag of Legos and was the event. Most of the UCLA Sarah Whiteman. Students who have experiences asked to construct a tower. teams showed up with custom- Students and employees had in specific issues--such as depres- The ordering of the teams ized t-shirts and costumes. One nearly filled the largest confer- sion, family problems, relationship flip-flopped from start to finish. UCLA team, the “Ninjaneers”, ence room at the Santa Monica issues, and applying to graduate By the end of the first round, had dressed up in black ninja suits site. Roughly eight Google engi- school--serve as mentors for those “geek trivia”, Caltech’s “Re- throughout the day and had used neers had volunteered their time in need of someone to talk to on an naming” team was in third place as their team cheer a performance to host, judge and be available at informal basis. Students will be able behind two USC teams. By the of ‘Seppuku’, or an honorable the event for those 70 students. to request a mentor online, or sign end of the competition, Renam- suicide of a defeated ninja-- they Kim, the director of the event, up to be a mentor. The California Tech Sp o r t s Ap r i l 19, 2010 7 Student Athlete of the Week: Hanna Dodd

Hanna Dodd, a native of Pasadena, is a freshman women’s water polo player in Page House. She is the daughter of Clint Dodd, Caltech’s Head Men’s and Women’s Swimming & Diving Coach, and Suzanne Dodd who is currently the manager of the Spitzer Space Telescope. Hanna was a water polo player at Pasadena High School and racked up Pasadena Star-News All-Area Water Polo second team honors during her junior year.

1. What is your major? Mechanical Engineering

2. People will be surprised to know . . . I marched with my marching band in the Rose Parade twice.

3. What do you enjoy doing in your free time? I enjoy surfing the web.

4. Favorite movie? Forrest Gump

5. Describe your sport in 3 words? Intense, Physical, Awesome

6. What teammate has inspired you the most? Peggy Allen

7. Favorite quote? “Pain is weakness leaving your body.”

8. Where do you get motivation from when things get tough? My friends watching in the stands

9. If you hadn’t come to Caltech where would you be now? UC San Diego

10. Who is your favorite player at Caltech, any sport? Sarah Wright

Junior Rob Rosenberg throws a pitch on Saturday

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Baseball vs. CMS L 3-15

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Upcoming Games Baseball vs. Oxy L 5-15

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