Basketball Team to Kick Off the Season with Midnight Madness
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[email protected] VOLUME CXIV NUMBER 3 PASADENA , CALIFORNIA OC TOBER 13, 2010 Basketball The number of recruiters at Caltech’s career fair reflects the team to kick national economy 120120 1600016,000.00 off the season Average Dow Jones Industrial 14,000.00 100 100 with Midnight 12,000.00 8080 10,000.00 Madness 6060 8,000.00 6,000.00 By Tina Ding recruited athletes, and these ath- 4040 EDITOR -IN -CHI E F letes are not given a leg up during 4,000.00 the admissions process. Number of companies Instead, Caltech’s two basket- of companies Number 2020 This Thursday, Caltech’s men’s 2,000.00 and women’s basketball teams ball coaches contact qualified will kick off the start of the of- students who otherwise would ficial basketball season by throw- not have applied or “believed that 00 0.00 0 ing the first Midnight Madness they were not qualified based on 2007-20081 2 3 4 2008-20095 6 7 8 2009-20109 10 11 12 201013 event in Caltech history. the academic myths of Caltech,” Fall Winter Fall Winter Fall Winter Fall said Marbut. These recruited Midnight Madness is a tradi- Year tional collegiate basketball event students, typically high school seniors, are brought to Caltech Plotted above in bar format are the numbers of companies at the Fall and Winter that takes place on the first day Caltech Career Fairs from 2007 to 2011. The line graph depicts the Dow Jones Industrial that National Collegiate Athletic where they meet the team, at- tend classes, and stay with a team Average trend in this period of time. The most recent career fair, in January 2010, had Association (NCAA) allows the 51 companies recruiting Caltech students. This upcoming career fair on October 26 sport to begin practice. With the player host. “I like to call it rela- tionship building,” said Marbut. already has 78 companies signed up, and there are not enough spaces in the career fair to first tick of the clock at 12:01am accomodate all of the interested companies. of October 15th, the basketball According to Marbut, who has been coaching the women’s team Career fair data is obtained from the career fair archive on the Caltech Career Center teams will do some dunks and website, based on lists of the companies that attended each career fair, and data from drills to signify this commence- at Caltech for eight seasons, the previous men’s basketball coach this year’s career fair was provided by the Career Center Office. For full coverage, see ment, but the bulk of the event is paGE 6. celebration. Roy Dow recruited more nar- “We want to pump up the new rowly, and was “moderately suc- players on the team and get the cessful, getting one or two key Caltech community excited about students every year.” Senior and the upcoming season,” said men’s captain Ryan Elmquist was one of basketball Coach Oliver Eslinger Dow’s recruits. who initiated the efforts for this Eslinger’s more aggressive re- event. cruitment has resulted in an influx The event, partially funded by of eleven freshmen basketball Admissions initiates a Housing and Student Life, begins players in 2009 and five fresh- at 10:30pm with food followed men basketball players in 2010. by games, prizes, and giveaways Therefore, the current team of at 11pm, and climaxes with the about 16-18 players is made of fly-in visit program for highlight of the night at 12:01am two seniors, one junior, and the when the men’s and women’s bas- rest sophomores and freshmen. ketball teams will be introduced “It’s probably the youngest team in the country,” said Eslinger. underrespresented high to the Caltech community. “We need to have that extra en- Eslinger looks forward to ergy from our fans to add to the working with the sophomores and sum of freshmen recruits in the upcoming school seniors o u r s e a s o n . p a r t s The men’s team this season is “We have for a composed of much more experi- b e c o m e By Casey Jao m u c h seminar day, and live with hosts underrepresented backgrounds suc- enced players than was the team STAFF WRIT E R in undergraduate houses. On Sat- with scientific leanings and strong cessful m o r e two years ago. competi- urday they will meet members academic profiles, and invited sea- To help diversify the under- of the faculty and senior admin- them to submit credentials for s o n , ” tive as we build our graduate applicant pool, Caltech istration over dinner at the Ath- the fly-in program. The winners s a i d admissions is inaugurating its first enaeum. were selected based on their high women’s basketball Coach San- team,” said Eslinger, “I want to give the seniors a chance to have annual “Caltech Up Close” pro- While both Caltech Up Close school transcript, test scores, and dra Marbut, who recounted the gram. Thirty carefully screened and Prefrosh weekend try to get demonstrated interest in studying crowd’s excitement when the success as they finish their last season.” US high school seniors, all from students excited about Caltech, at Caltech. women’s team won their first underrepresented backgrounds, they target different audiences. “We wanted to be selective conference game in the 2006-7 The women’s basketball began recruiting eight years ago when have been invited to visit and All thirty students come from because we know the criterion is season. live at Caltech from the 14th to “populations underrepresented in pretty high for our admissions,” The men’s team this season is Marbut became the coach. Over the years, she has seen the team the 16th of October. Admissions STEM fields as a whole, includ- said Whitney. composed of much more experi- hopes that these students will all ing women, first generation fami- Despite the process similar- enced players than was the team improve with these efforts, as they go from an average loss mar- leave Caltech wanting a spot in lies, ethnic minorities, and people ity, Whitney emphasized that in- two years ago. When Oliver Es- the class of 2015. of low economic status,” said vitation to Caltech Up Close is linger started as the coach of the gin of over 70 points to an aver- age loss margin of 17 points. “It’s The fly-in program resembles Karly Brockett, associate director independent of admission to the men’s team two years ago, he ini- Prefrosh Weekend but “is specifi- of admissions who is coordinat- class of 2015. The expectation, tiated an active “recruiting” cam- not our mission to win every sin- gle game,” said Marbut. Rather, cally designed not to be a replica- ing this program. though, is that participants in the paign to reach out to academically tion of the pre-frosh programs in They are the winners of a com- fly-in program will matriculate at qualified students with experience she explains, the team aims to be competitive so that the students April,” said admissions director petitive application process for a higher rate if admitted. in basketball. However, his re- Jarrid Whitney. They will visit the thirty spots. Earlier this year, “The hard part is getting them cruitment efforts differ from that can have a sense of pride for their underdog team. classes, tour JPL, attend SURF admissions officers identified top to our campus,” said Whitney. at most other colleges-- Caltech rising high school seniors from offers no monetary incentives to In This Issue Caltech’s Nobel Peace Prize new controversy James Watson gives life advice page 3 professors page 2 Bruno Mars goes to jail for cocaine page 3 2010 Soccer lost to La Verne page 7 pages 4-5 2 OC TOBER 13, 2010 OPINI O N THE CALIFORNIA TE C H China’s crackdown on BIG Virtue? Nobel Peace Prize recipient, SHAGGY A Fig unwarranted and unjustified By Hank Charlotte What is it about bad boys that “better to reign in hell than serve makes good girls swoon? 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