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R OSE -H ULMAN I NSTITUTE OF T ECHNOLOGY T ERRE H AUTE , I NDIANA Friday, March 16, 2007 Volume 42, Issue 20 News Briefs Rose hosts national track meet By Kyle Kamischke Christina Davis and Fred Webber Cameron wrong Photographer / Staff Writer about ‘Jesus Tomb’ riday and Saturday, March 9 and 10, over Stephan Pfann, a scholar at the Uni- F2200 people attended versity of the Holy Land in Jerusalem, has the National Collegiate Ath- recently come forward and claimed that letic Association (NCAA) James Cameron’s “The Lost Tomb of Je- Division III National Track sus” was wrong when it translated text on Meet here in Rose’s SRC. Matt an ossuary purportedly belonging to Mary Sinclair, Assistant Director Magdalene. The film suggests that the text for Recreational Sports and found, which was read as “Mariamene e Athletic Facilities, said 1500 Mara,” which translates into “Mary the paid spectators, 400 athletes, master” or “Mary the teacher,” is the final 150 coaches, 70 meet officials resting place of Mary Magdalene since and 100 staff attended the Mariamene was a rare name. Pfann ana- event. lyzed the inscription and reportst that Ryan Schipper, a senior civ- the ossuary doesn’t read “Mariamene.” It il engineer, competed in the instead is composed of two names in two pole vault. “I tried to prepare different forms of hand writing. He feels for the meet by letting my that it says “Mariame kai Mara,” which body rest for a few days and translates to Mary and Martha. This im- by getting mentally ready,” plies that more bones were added to the described Schipper. Schipper ossuary later. Pfann also said that Camer- had a great deal of support on’s documentary “fiddled” with facts to both before and at the meet. make their story work. “My parents drove down from Fort Wayne to watch the meet. Only one of my eight siblings Google to change was not able to attend because of an SAT test. The support privacy standards that I got from the track team, family, and friends that came On Thursday, Google Inc. announced down was really a big help to that it will be implementing new privacy motivate me.” Schipper was measures to makes its searches more enthusiastic about the com- anonymous. The company plans to re- petition. “I think it was a great move important identifying data informa- opportunity to have the best tion from its system every 18 to 24 months. jumpers in the nation com- This time period is meant to comply with peting at the facility that I use Christina Davis and Andrew Carlson / Rose Thorn laws around the world that order how long almost every day.” The NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships was held this past weekend in search engines must keep their search in- Qualifying to compete in the SRC fieldhouse. Ryan Schipper was the sole representative athlete from Rose-Hulman. formation. Authorities will still be able to the national meet is a feat in force Google to keep data beyond its set itself. According to Larry Cole, Around the middle of the the incoming guests. This af- exclaimed senior mechani- length of time. Privacy experts are very the Track and Field coach, week, all students that use the fected residents in Blumberg, cal engineer Aaron “Monkey” happy with the company’s precautions “only the top 12 to 14 athletes parking lots on either side of Mees, Scharpenberg, Deming, Markowitz. and others are glad that the search engine in each event qualify for the the SRC were required to move and the Apartments. “Finding is the first to mention how long it will re- NCAA meet.” their vehicles to make way for a parking spot was awful,” Continued on Page 3... tain data. The reason for the privacy an- nouncement is based on a subpoena by the U.S. Justice Department the company received and fought against which re- Math conference presents new ideas quested search information of its users. Chris Casillas presentations are the students or the Copy Editor main [invited] speakers. There are End of analog T.V. a growing number of these confer- he Rose-Hulman Undergradu- ences across the United States being date announced ate Math Conference was host- funded by the Mathematical Associa- Mark your calendars for midnight on Ted this past weekend by the tion of America (MAA),” commented February 17, 2009. That is the date that all Department of Mathematics. Allen Broughton. “We are one of the oldest owners of analog televisions that received Broughton, Department Head and places hosting [the conference], and signals through antennas will no longer Professor of Mathematics, Ken Mc- we’ve been doing it a lot longer than receive a signal. The only way to continue Murdy, Assistant Professor of Math- funding has been available.” receiving a signal is by purchasing a digital ematics, and with the assistance of The conference featured Rose stu- converter box for which the price is cur- Terri Moscan, the department secre- dents who were involved with the rently unknown. Every household, whether tary, organized the conference. The math club and Pi Mu Epsilon. These it needs a converter or not, will be eligible conference was held to highlight the students introduced student speak- to receive two $40 coupons towards the accomplishments of undergraduate ers and kept the sessions on time. purchase of two converter boxes from the mathematicians. They were also hosts at the student government. Registration for the coupons The goal of the conference was for party after the presentations on Fri- will be between January 1, 2008 and March undergraduate students to present day. Christina Davis / Rose Thorn 31, 2009. Coupons will be distributed until their project, thesis, or research work. Dr. Jerry L. Bona speaks to attendees about the $1.5 billion set aside for them runs out. “The only people allowed to make the Continued on Page 3... the math of tsunamis. News Entertainment Opinions Sports Flipside A sculpture of a house YouTube, Cartoon, 5 sayings that Women’s basketball “In the rear?” Flow My Tears, the have to go, Top 4 of the “In the rear.” Policeman Said week Page 3 Pages 4 - 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 2 PUZZLE & CLASSIFIEDS The Rose Thorn Across 1 Wiki defines it as a false backronym for warehouses at riverfronts, I just Crossword think dwarfs by Jim Sedoff 3 A takedown term in boxing 4 A kitten is cute, but this is cuter unless it’s a wolf’s 6 On this day 9-Down gets krunk 10 Important flying aspect of sailboats, just don’t “fall” over 11 The newest sorority on campus, don’t worry pandas don’t bite…hard 13 Comes in lemon, lime, apple and would have been great Wednesday 15 Some schools claim that 5-Down rounds to this number not 2-Down 17 Could be one of Jupiter’s moons or an important CS program component 18 A Mexican pocket gopher 19 A hypothesis which makes “zero” sense 22 The rivers run this in 9-Down on 6-Across and the snakes hate it 23 Charlize Theron, how many eras does it take to make two ____ ? Her: it fluctuates. Down 1 The Japanese celebrated this spin-off of Valentine’s Day on Wednesday, also Rose’s 2nd color 2 Indiana mysteriously rounds 5-Down to this number 3 A single new fly tennie, or a breakdance move like a head stand 4 Could be a precious metal element or a military exercise camp 5 Hopefully you celebrated this day on Wednesday 6 Last month it was okay to do this on Speed Lake, now you’d be better off fishing 7 Think Anjou or Bartlett in a nice white wine or chocolate cake 8 Some of its species are poisonous, but don’t throw out that healing green bottle just yet 9 Home of a department store tower and annually dumps green dye on 6- Across 12 Most of us don’t have this in our dorm rooms, unless Squishy is flushable 14 Could be the name of liqueur and lemon or what happens to milk forgotten on the counter 16 This Mike Wallace CBS News show could also be convincingly called “One ___” Check out the answers on our website: 20 A masculine “the” for Jean-Claude’s camera 21 It could be an IBM mainframe feature, or just a simple math inequality www.rose-hulman.edu/thorn acronym Classifieds 4-7 bedroom houses For sale House for rent 4-7 bedroom houses.