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Lauren Wiseman their experiences and answer any ques- them to see how the international experi- tions students might have. ence is impacting and benefiting their News Editor Night two is a little more informal, students. with “SHPE and Salsa,” cosponsored by “I also wanted to let students know Spring is right around the frigid cor- ner, and with spring comes the promise of new opportunities. One of those op- “…[There] are a wide variety of study portunities is studying abroad, a chance to experience a new culture while work- ing towards a degree. The Global Pro- abroad opportunities, including short- grams office is gearing up for the Global Expo, but with a new twist. “Last year, it was only one day, and it was for people to learn about global term faculty-led programs or single study opportunities, more faculty -led,” explained Director of Study Abroad and International Exchanges, Maria del mar quarter opportunities.” Aponte. “The way we did it [this year] was more student -run. We have six stu- the Society for Hispanic Professional En- they don’t have to go on a yearlong dents that are helping plan the different gineers. In the SRC Multipurpose room [program],” del mar Aponte continued. events.” from 6-8 p.m, students can mingle with She wanted to emphasize there are a wide On the docket are four events, spanning study abroad students and compete in a variety of study abroad opportunities, March 28-30. The first night is a poster ses- salsa (dancing) competition, as well as including short -term faculty -led pro- sion and panel discussion. For the poster ses- enjoy international food. grams or single quarter opportunities. sion, taking place from 4:30-5:30, students The third event is the international She pointed out travelling abroad can who have studied abroad made posters, ex- info luncheon. Students who are prepar- have a positive impact in future careers, plaining their experiences, motivations for ing to depart, thinking about going, or saying “Students learn strategies to make going, how it fit in their schedule, what they have simple questions are encouraged to them better students, efficient employ- learned while abroad, and how their trip sur- RSVP to get those questions out of the ees, and well -rounded people...”For com- prised them. way. Tables at the luncheon will be panies based in America that require interna- “Because I haven’t studied abroad in staffed by study abroad students who can tional travel, someone who has lived and those places,” del mar Aponte said, “I answer some of those questions. “It’s worked abroad would be a valuable asset to a can’t answer all those questions. ” The definitely very student -focused,” del mar company. hallway outside the GM room will be Aponte added. “I really do think in the world we live lined with posters and international food At all of these events, there will also be in today, being exposed to international for students to browse and learn. raffle prizes, which range from a travel vouch- students, international professors, and For students who are thinking about stud- er through the Global Programs office to engi- international visitors is going to be more ying abroad, del mar Aponte mentioned now neering paper. The students helping with the common as the years go by, ” del mar was the perfect time to start learning more. It event provided feedback to help the office Aponte said. “I really do think exploring could be very beneficial to students who are narrow down what prizes would be most cov- an opportunity…is something they really in the early planning stages, or even for stu- eted by those in attendance. should consider.” dents who are ready to depart. This event has “multi-faceted ” goals, She hopes students to see the diverse op- If students are unable to attend the according to del mar Aponte. “We want portunities at their disposal to explore the poster session but still want to learn [faculty and staff] to see what our stu- world and achieve their goals, regardless of more, there will be a panel session in the dents get from the programs. ” With advi- the country they are in. GM room from 5:30 -6:30. Return study sors and professors involved in getting abroad students will continue to discuss students their recommendations, del mar Aponte thought it would be important for
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Lauren Wiseman the first major events is on Tuesday, with a luncheon in the Hulman Memorial to those in attendance. where the Kahn Rooms will be the Union PA Room, from 11:30 a.m. until Rounding out Thursday is the News Editor epicenter for a “Price is Right” Rose-Hulman will be bustling game, hosted by Eric Liobis. The with activity this week, with some- event lasts from 8:15-9:30 p.m. thing for everyone. Weeklong cele- The grand prize this year is a “Weeklong celebrations, guest brations, guest speakers, trivia, and brand new Nintendo Switch. chances to win big prizes await stu- On Wednesday, the Attitude of dents as March ends and April be- Gratitude Timeline is up, and stu- speakers, trivia, and chances to gins. dents can stop by the Union lobby Tuesday is when the events kick from 4th to 7th hour and see off, starting with the first day of the Rose’s history. There will be Post- win big prizes await students as Global Expo. The panel and poster It notes available for students to session begins at 4:30 p.m. in the GM write out philanthropic plans for Room and adjacent hallway. Students the future and leave their mark on March ends and April begins.” can talk to others who have studied the school. Overlapping the Attitude of abroad to learn more about the inter- 1:30 p.m. In order to have enough food Disney Trivia night in the Kahn Room national collegiate experience. Gratitude Timeline is the Women and Technology Lunchtime Film series, available, students need to RSVP, but from 8:15-9:15 p.m. There are prizes That evening, Rose-Hulman is for those in attendance, it is another for first, second, and third place, as hosting Sam Brinton, an MIT nuclear which continues in the Myers Presen- tation Room from 5th through 6th opportunity to have questions an- well as popcorn for everyone. engineering grad and survivor of con- swered, whether they are considering Fourth week is just beginning, versation therapy. They bring their hour. This week, it is ‘Desk Set,’ star- ring legendary duo Katharine Hep- travel or preparing to depart. and with it comes warmer weather, story to Hulbert Arena at 6:30 p.m., Happening at the same time is sunnier skies (or next week, anyway), and their story shows the fight for burn and Spencer Tracy. The film tells the story of a broadcast net- the Attitude of Gratitude and wall-to-wall activities for Rose- LGBT+ rights is still fierce and not Acknowledge for Knowledge event. Hulman students to bust stress and yet won. Unity President Adam work’s reference librarian going toe- to-toe with the inventor of a new, effi- Students can stop by the commons have a fun time. If students want to Blackburn said, “Having Sam come to area between 4th and 7th hour to learn more, these events are posted campus, they are allowing Unity to cient organizing computer, and show- cases the banter Tracy and Hepburn write Thank You notes to the donors, on My Rose-Hulman. show the students here that there are and students who participate have a engineers out in the world that are in were known for. That night, the Global Expo con- chance to win an Xbox One or Apple the LGBT+ community.” For those Watch Series 2. unable to attend the talk, there is a tinues with SHPE and Salsa. Students can learn to dance, enjoy some inter- That afternoon, there is an artist discussion during 10th hour in the reception in Moench Hall from 4:30 Hulman Memorial Union PA room. national food, and discuss study abroad opportunities in a more casual to 6:30 p.m. Karen Rutherford, Nita Attitude of Gratitude also begins Claise, and Jeanna Dee will be dis- this week, a celebration of the school setting. Thursday, the Global Expo wraps up cussing their art and answering ques- and those who make it great. One of tions. Refreshments will be provided Ads 2
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Joseph Lee Marc Schmitt image classification problem. Highly par- allel graphical processing units (GPUs) Staff Writer Editor-in-Chief have been used to speed up deep learning Study Links Reef Bleaching to Global Warming On Tuesday, February 7, Dr. David Recent data from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Crandall came to Rose-Hulman to dis- Integrated Coral Reef Studies suggests that the dying-off of cuss the hot topic of deep learning. the Great Barrier Reef is a result of global warming. Crandall, an Associate Professor at As of now, about 90 percent of the 500-mile stretch of the School of Informatics at Indiana Uni- coral contains bleached white or dead coral. These bleach- versity, delivered the talk to a packed ing events occur because of unseasonable hot water. room with an engaged audience. He had Bleaching occurs when warm water forces coral to cast off two stated goals of explaining what has algae. This enables a calcification process, and the coral changed in deep learning and hoping to turns white. There have been three bleaching events be- attract students to Indiana University ’s tween 1998 and 2016, but researchers anticipate another graduate program in computer science. event this year. The mass deaths could be the worse of cor- The talk was part of a series hosted al dying-off ever recorded. by the Computer Science and Software The researchers are warning that such drastic destruc- Engineering department, with Dr. Mat- tion could be unrecoverable. Janice Lough of the Australi- thew Boutell, an Associate Professor in an Institute of Marine Scientist told ‘Reuters,’ “Given time, the CSSE department, giving an intro- coral can recover from bleaching but the problem comes duction. when you get repeated events. With less time between Crandall gave a similar talk in 2011, them, capacity for the coral reef community to recover di- but five years on the subject is now com- minishes rapidly.” pletely different. So what exactly has Study leader Terry Hughes said, “Many people might changed? Well, they are still trying to Dr. David Crandall, an associate profes- view climate change as a future threat to ecosystems, but solve the same problem: how can we help sor of informatics and computing at Indi- we’ve obviously been seeing it now on the Great Barrier people organize their pictures? ana University, is well known in the field Reef for almost 20 years.” The recent events may prompt What has changed is simply the the UNESCO World Heritage Committee to put the reefs amount of data researchers like Crandall of computer vision. work with. In the intervening years since on the “in danger” list. Photo courtesy of Indiana University his last talk there has been a massive ex- University of Bristol Researchers Create Artificial plosion in the number of photos people Red Blood Cells are taking. The proliferation of algorithms. smartphones and photo sharing apps like Large datasets have also been crucial Each year, blood transfusions are needed for various Instagram have dramatically increased to enabling the success of deep learning. health conditions. Every year, people are repeatedly asked the number of photos researchers have to The layers of neurons require huge num- to donate blood, because it is difficult to meet quotas for work with. bers of photos to properly train them- hospitals. However, science might have the answer to Another big change in Crandall ’s field selves to identify unique attributes. make donating blood a thing of the past. was a breakthrough with an old technolo- Without vast datasets, researchers could A group of researchers at the University of Bristol and gy. Neural networks are a machine learn- not get accurate results from deep learn- NHS Blood may have developed a method that can pro- ing technique that was thought to be ex- ing algorithms. duce red blood cells. This new method would be heavily hausted, and before 2012 had been a top- In practice, however, researchers reliant on stem cell donation. The process starts by trap- ic that would automatically remove your have found that deep learning algorithms ping stem cells before they can fully form into red blood conference paper from consideration. vary substantially in usefulness depend- cells. The cells are then cultured and immortalized, the However, in an industry competition a ing on their application. Sometimes the cells can then be “influenced” to fully become red blood team drastically outperformed by using approach yields highly accurate results, cells. neural networks. The technique was sud- as in image classification, but fail hilari- There are problems, as the method produces a limited denly popular again. ously when applied to a slightly different number of red blood cells. Another problem arises when a But how do neural networks relate to problem like image captioning. near-constant stream of donations are required to ensure deep learning? The deep learning breakthrough has there is a supply of stem cells, which eventually burn out Deep learning uses neural networks shifted much in the field of computer vi- and die. to create hierarchical representations of sion, which relies heavily on image clas- The hope now is to be able to scale the process up, and data. Each layer of neurons represents a sification. However, Crandall touched on thereby be able to produce red blood cells on a massive part of the hierarchy. Image classifica- some growing concerns. scale. If such task is accomplished, this can help patients tion problems use deep learning to break Chief among Crandall’s concerns is that would require frequent blood transfusions, patients up parts of an image into distinct pieces. that researchers often do not understand with rare blood types, and people in parts of the world Deep learning began outperforming how a deep learning algorithm produces without enough blood or have unsafe blood; as well as contemporary solutions to image classifi- its results. That deep learning algorithms serving as a beneficial part of future blood research. cation problems. Crandall gave the exam- learn automatically means that we are ple of student who, after a week of tink- not able to know what or how exactly it T. rex Could Be Reclassified ering, managed to outperform his own is learning. non-neural networked based solution That concern is amplified by exam- Tyrannosaurus rex might not be the dinosaur everyone that had taken him a year to complete, ples of deep learning algorithms that can thought it was. improving accuracy by over seven per- be manipulated by feeding altered data. Initially, the T. rex was put on a branch of the dinosaur cent. Crandall put forth an example where two tree due to the shape of the hip. This was the standard Algorithmic and computational per- identical pictures yielded starkly differ- nearly a century ago, but new research has put the T. rex formance advances enabled deep learning ent conclusions from the same algorithm. on a different branch. Theropods like the T. rex are be- to proliferate as a viable solution to the Crandall took care to emphasize leaps lieved to have evolved more recently. in performance brought by The study was conducted from the University of Cam- deep learning while still not- bridge in England, by paleontology doctoral student Mat- ing unanswered questions thew Baron. about a relatively new tech- Macalester College paleontologist Kristi Curry Rogers nology. Deep learning does said of the study, “If the authors are correct, this really not lend itself easy explana- turns our long-standing understanding of dinosaur evolu- tions, and its black box like tion upside down.” functionality means there is The new tree moves the T. rex and other theropods to still much to be discovered a branch which is an offshoot of the brontosaurus family about how they work. (Saurischia) to a branch which is an offshoot of the stego- Students who are interested in saurus (Ornithischia). studying deep learning and In spite of praise from many paleontologists, not every conducting undergraduate re- dinosaur expert is convinced. Paleontologist Paul Sereno search or pursuing graduate of the University of Chicago called Baron’s basis “weak,” school are encouraged to and went on to say it leaves the unanswered question of check out Indiana University’s “Why?” The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural Dr. Crandall delivered his lecture to a packed GM School of Informatics and History dinosaur curator Matthew Carrano commented on Computing. how hard it was to side with either theory, given early fos- room. sil records are incomplete. Photo by Marc Schmitt Gunman Opens Fire on Las Vegas Strip
Last Saturday, a gunman opened fire on the Las Vegas Strip. The gunman killed one, and wounded another, then Journalism holed himself up behind a barricade. For hours, the gun- man and police were in a standoff, which eventually ended in the gunman turning himself in. While the standoff was underway, Las Vegas police warned casino guests to protect themselves, and the usual- Isn’t Always ly busy streets of the Strip were empty for hours. The po- lice negotiated with the gunman, which NBA player Scot The Rose Thorn Pollard witnessed while staying in the Cosmopolitan hotel. He told The Associated Press, “We can hear them negotiat- Black and ing. We can hear them saying things like, ‘No one else needs to get hurt,’ ‘Come out with your hands up. We are Meet Tuesdays not going anywhere. We are not leaving.’” Currently, officials do not have more information re- White. garding the shooter, nor the victims. However, officials did O259 5:15pm say the shooting was not connected to a jewelry store rob- bery that occurred earlier in the day; they also ruled out terrorism as a motivating factor in the incident. After the situation was resolved, the Strip was reo- pened, and business resumed. Write about what matters. Write for the News Section. Entertainment 4
Evelyne Maquelin Copy Editor Dense forests, daunting canyons, and mesmerizing sunsets, all staples in Cam- po Santo’s most recent game, Firewatch. A breathtaking adventure where you take on the role of Henry the fire lookout, this game never ceases to amaze with its in- credibly detailed scenery, unique me- chanics, and moving soundtrack. But what does a fire lookout do, ex- actly? Sit in a tower and watch for fire? On the surface, yes. Stranded in a win- dowed tower overlooking one of the most beautiful regions of Wyoming, your offi- cial task is to take a break from the out- side world, admire the views, and make sure they’re not going up in flames. But that would be too easy. The Shoshone National Forest, though innocent in appearance, is a dangerous place. On a routine trip to deal with a fallen telephone wire, you come across some startling information. You, the watcher, are being watched! What follows is a summer -long adventure trying to un- veil the mystery of who is watching you, and why. Firewatch paints Wyoming with a pallet of rich colors. How the game goes about this is un- traditional in many ways. During the vast Photo courtesy of IGN.com majority of the game, you actually never see another human being. In fact, aside you have to open and slow down to read lationship you have with her. Alone in from the far -away silhouettes of two in order to complete Delilah ’s instruc- the forest, you quickly grow close to her reckless campers, the only physical con- tions. In search of a fully immersive ex- and learn more about what brought you tact you have is with the ranger that air- perience, there’s no minimap in the cor- both to summers of solitude. It adds an lifts you out of the forest seconds before ner tracking your every move, you need extra touch of humanity to the game, and the closing credits. Instead, all communi- to figure it out yourself and plot your keeps you sane as you struggle to figure cation is done by a handheld radio, and routes accordingly. This gives you plenty out what is going on. notes left in supply caches across the of time to explore the amazing, albeit Naturally, all good things come to an park. computationally heavy, graphics that end, but rarely will a game leave me with Here Firewatch really shines, in the make up this version of the Shoshone for- such an intense sense of loss as the end- way they handle dialogue and other com- est. ing of Firewatch did. Like the Last of Us, munication. Your supervisor, Delilah, Knowing they would fail if they aimed a Naughty Dog game released in 2013, the talks to you on the radio, informing you for photorealism, Campo Santo made an story stayed with me throughout the of what she sees from her tower and what interesting choice with their art style, week. Throughout the game you learn the other lookouts tell her. You respond instead choosing to go after a highly styl- about the lookouts that came before you as well, and the choices for response con- ized version of the Shoshone forest. Poly- and the forest’s history, which all wraps sistently lead to organic and realistic gon heavy and saturated with bold colors, together into a shocking, but satisfying conversations. You can talk about every- the world inside Firewatch well mimics final stretch of gameplay. thing or nothing as you ’re wandering the massive Wyoming forest. Considering In a game where it seems as though around the forest. Notifying her of inter- the number of times I would stop and nothing takes the backseat, the story esting things you find, or on occasion stare at the world rolling out in front of stands out as the true driving force, and asking for help when you ’re lost, which me, they succeeded in creating a world is one I will remember forever. Firewatch can occur with startling ease. that was beautiful, computationally feasi- has raised the bar on games, and I look The makers of Firewatch struck a per- ble, and immersive. forward to seeing what Campo Santo puts fect balance between a large open world This immersion extends into your re- out in the future. and an objective -driven experience. lationship with Delilah, as your choice in You’re given a map and a compass, which responses directly impacts the type of re-
Thaddeus Hughes Opinions Editor Shoot the Twilight Zone with the cine- matic wonder of the 21st century, add in a dash of Stanley Kubrick, George Orwell, and Aldous Huxley, and boom: you have Black Mirror. The anthology format is much like that of the Twilight Zone, but even less re- strictive since the series airs on Netflix, free of time slots. Episodes range anywhere from 45 minutes to over an hour, usually taking place in a near, but parallel future. Whereas the lessons in The Twilight Zone were ab- stract and driven by hyperbole, Black Mirror offers us grim outlooks that are just real enough. The general formula for an episode of Black Mirror is as follows: Start with a pecu- liarity, and add a current issue faced by soci- ety. Put that aside for a bit and introduce the characters, unaffected by the dilemmas they will soon face. Now that we know our protag- onists (or antagonist?), we begin exploring. Black Mirror serves as a Twilight Zone for the 21st century. Finally, wait until the last minute to pull the wool off viewers’ eyes, if at all possible. Photo courtesy of FrameRate.co.uk Take episode 6 of season 3, “Hated in the Nation”, for example. We start by following “only a joke”. The detectives are fleshed out, Throughout the episode, there is dead- the night of a journalist receiving public and the ball is set rolling. lock as to figuring out who is behind this: is backlash against her most recent article, in- Eventually, it is found that the cause of it a fluke? Is it actually a hacker? Is it an in- cluding her apparent suicide. The next day, death is actually the same, and completely side job? If it is a hacker, is it someone who we follow a rapper, who had said some fairly garish. The method chosen seems… obscure believes in democratic slaughter? As tensions offensive comments against a young produc- at first; not matching anything. As the plot escalate, and the promise of a moderately er of fan content. Another death- but this progresses, we learn that it would not be happy ending grows near, we soon learn that time, clearly not suicide or homicide, but ac- possible if not for a seemingly benevolent these incidents are just the beginning, and cident. The only thing linking the two is pub- government program, increased government the worst is yet to come. lic outcry and backlash, specifically on social spying, and a notorious twitter hashtag. media. We grow closer to the victims; even if Themes of vigilante justice, bullying, cyber we do not endorse their words, we do not security, and privacy run together and show wish their death, and even if we say so, it’s that everything has ramifications. Lifestyle 5 Whiskey Niner November Alfa Alfa The story about the Rose ham Radio Club Seun Ladipo Lifestyle Editor
As we all know, Rose-Hulman has a prolific past. Its history is well known and celebrated by its students, with events like Chauncey day and traditions such as the homecoming bonfire signifying the long standing history that gener- ations of students have upheld throughout the years. However, even with all of the aspects of the school we do know about, there are many others that have been forgotten, lost in time, or known to only a select group of people. This week I want to take the time to enlighten the readers of the Thorn about one of the most interesting clubs at this school: The Rose Radio Club, call sign W9NAA.
A photo sent to the ham radio club celebrating the last voyage of the saint mary. Photo By Seun Ladipo
these personalized cards from countless different places around the world rang- ing from other ham radio clubs in japan to a people with their own setups in their own homes. These cards range in complexity, some garnering pictures of people in groups around the world, and others hand-written notes on small piec- es of paper. The Radio club has a collection of these notes with some dating back
The radio club’s Yagi as seen from inside Moench. Photo By Seun Ladipo
If you look atop of Moench Hall, you will see a large pronged antenna. This antenna belongs to the Amateur Radio club or ham radio club. I recently learned from one of its very prominent members, freshman George Main, about one of the oldest clubs on campus. For anyone unfamiliar with Amateur Radio, it is an extremely popular hobby where groups of people use radio setups and rigs to contact each other. These contacts range from a leisurely talk between two stations at any time of the day to heated radio contests, in which there are thousands of people competing to contact each other the most times in a short period of time. The members of our
A box of all of the various qsl cards revived throughout the years. Photo By Seun Ladipo
The internals of an old ham Radio. Photo By Seun Ladipo clubs have been working hard through generations of students to uphold these traditions and push the limits of their capabilities. This club has an very large collection of different hardware and equipment. The large pronged antenna on top of Moench is actually a high frequency direc- tional Yagi antenna, which is used to send and receive different transmissions around the world. The cable that connects the smokestack and water tower also belongs to the radio club and is for high frequency communications around the world. The club also owns VHF (Very High Frequency) and UHF (Ultra High Frequency) antennas that are atop Moench. A qsl card dating back to April 4th 1933. The ham radio club is one of the most historic clubs on campus. Existing for Photo By Seun Ladipo over 100 years, they have remained through some of the darkest times of the United States. In the records of the ham radio club there is a note in which Her- man Moench himself wrote “All operation suspended in accordance with the as far as the 1930s. order of the Federal Communications Commission effective this date”. This note For anyone interested, the ham radio club is open to anyone on campus was taken on December 7th 1941, or the day that pearl harbor was attacked. looking to get involved, and they offer tests for anyone looking to get a license in There are countless logs such as these dating back over 100 years showing evi- amateur radio. In the future, they’ll try to talk to the international space station dence of world events and other moments that previous Rose students had lived and other satellites orbiting the earth. through. A Special thanks to George Main for all of the information and a peek inside Another popular aspect of amateur radio is sending QSL cards, a postcard of the office. sorts, to the places that you have contacted. Over the years, the club has received
A note by Herman Moench writtten on the night pearl harbor was attacked.
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JonTron, a YouTuber who recently caught flak Photo via polygon.com It’s your opinion. Share it! Submit via: goo.gl/bqLbeA Sports 7 March Madness Updates RHIT SPORTS BOX SCORES Blake Powell a few seconds left, Wisconsin hit a three pointer to take the lead. With two seconds left and Wis- RHIT Baseball Sports Editor consin up two points, Chris Chiozza sprints Blake Powell As expected, there isn’t a single perfect down the court and takes a leaping three point Sports Editor shot that gave the Gators the win in a 84-83 bracket this year. The last “perfect bracket” was The Engineers were hitting the ball well but fell score game in overtime. destroyed when Purdue beat Iowa State. This through on one inning of defense which lead to the bracket had the first 39 games correct which is Gonzaga has moved on to the Final Four after a dominating performance against Xavier team losing in a 11-5 score game against Earlham. now the longest streak recorded for a bracket. The team has had three games with double figures in Before this year, the highest streak was 36 in a 83-59 point game. Jay Bilas, an ESPN com- mentator, had no confidence in Gonzaga reach- hits. Rose-Hulman has fallen to 1-2 in conference games. This means that no one has ever had a play. The team will be back in action at home on perfect bracket going into the Sweet Sixteen. ing the Final Four and now he has to grow a beard because of a “twitter bet” from a parody Wednesday against Anderson University. There are 60 million to 100 million brackets made every year and none of them line up to account in respect to Przemek Karnowski; the correctly predict who will advance. center for the Bulldogs. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 FINAL The SEC has shown their dominance as a Oregon also had a dominating game as they BASEBALL conference as they had three teams in the Elite beat Kansas 74-60. There were only thirty total Eight; South Carolina, Florida and Kentucky. seconds where Oregon didn’t have the lead. The EARLHAM 0 0 7 2 0 1 0 0 1 11 The other teams in the Elite Eight were North Ducks haven’t been in the Final Four since 1939 so this is a huge accomplishment for them. Carolina, Xavier, Gonzaga, Oregon and Kansas. ROSE-HULMAN 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 5 The craziest story of the week would most As for North Carolina, making it to the Fi- likely be the way that Wisconsin lost to Florida nal Four isn’t as big of a deal as it is considered in the Sweet Sixteen. Florida had been dominat- an “off season” or “bad year” if they don’t make Standout Performers ing the game and even had a lead of 15 points it to the Final Four. Kentucky didn’t make it Conner Shipley-two hits, one run until the last few minutes. Wisconsin fought easy for North Carolina as they played one of Brian Thomas—two hits, one double and one RBI back to send the game into overtime. With only the best rematches of this season. The first Marcus Wechselberger-two hits, one double and a score match up resulted in a Kentucky win and Malik Drew Schnitz–scored two runs Monk scoring 41 points so for them to meet Stone Brogan-two scoreless innings out of the bullpen again in March was pretty intense. The game literally came down to the last second. Now North Carolina looks to make it back to the RHIT Softball Championship. Blake Powell South Carolina beat Florida in a 77-70 point Sports Editor game. This game was a tight one all game up The softball team had games scheduled this week- until the last minute where South Carolina took end to play against Illinois college and Blackburn but control and finished off the game. Florida had a the games have been postponed due to projected great tournament run as they made it to the weather complications. The team is at an overall 7-5 Elite Eight off of a buzzer beater in the Sweet record. Last weekend, the team blew out MacMurray Sixteen. However, for South Carolina, they’ve made history as this is their first trip to the Fi- College in both games in a double header; the first nal Four ever. game was 8-0 and the second game was 14-7. The The Final Four will take place on Saturday, team will be back in action this week on Tuesday April 1st, where Kentucky will play Oregon and against Millikin. South Carolina will play Gonzaga. The two win- ners will be playing in the Championship game SOFTBALL 1 2 3 4 5 FINAL The shot that ended Wisconsin’s season. on Monday, April 3rd.
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Lucinda Combs also finished fourth in the ROSE-HULMAN 2 0 1 0 5 8 javelin and Debie Gedeon finished fourth RHIT Track in the 100-hurdles. As for the men’s team, Josh Blome finished fourth in the pole Standout Performers vault, Fiacable finished fourth in discus, Cydney Ogan-.350 BA Blake Powell Hennig in the 200 and Matt Hill in the Jenny Miller-.346 BA, .528 OBP 3,000 meter steeplechase and 4x100 relay Sports Editor Jessica Will– 11 hits team. Maddie Struble-10 hits, 6 RBIs The track team traveled to Washington Fifth place finishes came from Nick University for an Invitational meet. The Keller in the hammer and Lucas Schulth- men’s team finished second in points right ies in the javelin. behind Washington University. The wom- Rose-Hulman returns to action at en’s team finished seventh overall. Eastern Illinois next weekend. Combined the two teams were able to win four events, place top three in twelve events and had twenty-two top five finish- es. Eric Fiacable won in the hammer, Josh Hennig won in the 400-meter run, and Josh Himes won shot put. Andrew Okruch won the discus throw along with a second place finish in shot put. Three other Fightin’ Engineers fin- ished in second place; Tyler McCormich in the 110-hurdles, Isaiah Smith in the 400- hurdles, and Trey Sykes in the triple jump. Although Camille Blaisdell finished in fourth place, she recorded the second fast- est 3,000 meter steeplechase time in Rose Andrew Okruch skipping rocks. If you don’t catch this ground ball, I get to go through your phone. -Hulman history with a time of 11:56:53. Photo by Rose-Hulman Athletics Photo by Rose-Hulman Athletics Intramural Standings Ultimate Frisbee Softball
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