Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Rose-Hulman Scholar The Rose Thorn Archive Student Newspaper Fall 10-20-2006 Volume 42 - Issue 07 - Friday, October 20, 2006 Rose Thorn Staff Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.rose-hulman.edu/rosethorn Recommended Citation Rose Thorn Staff, "Volume 42 - Issue 07 - Friday, October 20, 2006" (2006). The Rose Thorn Archive. 189. https://scholar.rose-hulman.edu/rosethorn/189 THE MATERIAL POSTED ON THIS ROSE-HULMAN REPOSITORY IS TO BE USED FOR PRIVATE STUDY, SCHOLARSHIP, OR RESEARCH AND MAY NOT BE USED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE. SOME CONTENT IN THE MATERIAL POSTED ON THIS REPOSITORY MAY BE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT. 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Process Engineer Mike Martin, who works 300 million n Wednesday, October 18, for ProTrans International, came to As of Tuesday, the United States passed 2006, hundreds of Rose-Hul- his first Career Fair as a recruiter. the 300 million mark for people living in Oman students filled the SRC “It’s kinda nice being on the other the country. The estimate was made as- with the intentions of landing an in- side of the table. It’s really relaxing.” suming that America was gaining one ternship, co-op, or full time job at the Tom, a recruiter from Lutron Elec- person every 11 seconds. The estimates first of three Career Fairs, which is put tronics Company mentioned that the also took into account the fact that the on by Career Services with the help of career fair is a lot more impressive country gains a migrant every 31 seconds. student volunteers. Approximately 160 than the larger universities that he Passing this mark now puts the USA in companies have signed up to attend has been to. “[I’m] impressed by the the same group as China and India with the career fair, and the SRC was full amount of effort put into this…well populations over 300 million. The Unit- of booths manned by 440 recruiters. organized, more attendance.” The ed States passed the 100 million mark Some of the companies attend- recruiters were busy the following in 1915, but didn’t reach the 200 million ing this career fair were: Bemis Com- day, interviewing prospective in- mark until 1967. It will be another 37 years pany, Caterpillar, Cummins, Delphi, terns, co-ops and full-time positions. before the 400 million mark is passed. Eli Lilly, Frito Lay, Lexmark Inter- Junior mechanical engineer Jim national, Lockheed Martin, Mara- Hammer was impressed with the thon Petroleum, Microsoft, Rock- career fair. “The recruiters seemed Element 118 well Collins and Texas Instruments. more interested in me now because When asked how he felt about the of more work experience and be- discovered again? career fair, junior computer engineer- ing a junior. I was disappointed ing major David Berdy mentioned that that Ford or Daimler Chrysler did In 2002, a team of scientists allegedly dis- “it’s really big and awesome this year. I not return.” When asked about covered the 118th element of the periodic like how there are almost no lines.” Re- any improvements, Hammer men- table but later retracted their claim. Now a cruiters were constantly talking with tioned that the organization of the new team of scientists is announcing that students and even some of the larger companies should be improved. Christina Davis / Rose Thorn they have discovered the fabled element. companies had many recruiters talk- “[I think they should] make the Rose-Hulman students try to acquire that They did it by bombarding heavy atoms ing with multiple students at a time. booths alphabetical to help find ever-so-evasive interview at Wednesday’s onto a radioactive target and searched for Many of the companies have at- certain companies, it’s difficult to Career Fair. distinctive types of radioactive decay to in- tended previous Career Fairs, and a find all them with this unclear map.” dicate the presence of element 118. To be specific, they bombarded californium and calcium ions together to form an element with 118 protons and 143 neutrons. The dis- Brotherhood without boundaries covery will not be made official until other groups are able to reproduce their findings. Fred Webber for nearly two years at that Staff Writer point, so they gave it a name. “It’s just a group of friends Firefox 2.0 hat does a group that are closer than most of friends do when groups of friends,” expli- Wthey get together cated Tom Werne, a senior almost ready and decide that they would electrical engineer. “What On Monday night, the third release candi- all like to be in a fraternity or all don’t they do together?” date for Firefox 2.0 was released. It will most similar organization together, According to junior elec- likely be the last test edition of the brows- but can’t afford it or find they trical engineer Sam Hawkins, er before its official release later this year. have little in common with Adelphia tries “to be every- There are several new features in existing groups? Both men thing that a group of friends this version compared to previous ver- and women in this year’s se- would want to be,” which sions. Most notable are the anti-phish- nior class organized groups of includes things such as sup- ing alerts which warn a user if they are their own. Women organized porting each other through visiting a website that may be attempt- an all-out women’s fraternity, homework help and rides, ing to steal private information and now known as Alpha Omi- to fun things such as par- passwords. There is also the ability to re- cron Pi. The men, however, tying. Adelphia also has a store your session if the browser crashes. decided that they didn’t want library of text books that Samuel Hawkins / Adelphia The release candidate is coming around this level of organization, members can borrow from. The members of the Aldephia brotherhood celebrate at this the same time as Microsoft’s IE 7 brows- and instead opted to form a “We do operate similar to year’s bonfire. The group was formed in the fall of 2004 by a er is nearing completion and scheduled brotherhood. They called this a social fraternity, however group of friends who found the rules of IRC too limiting. for released by the end of this month. brotherhood ‘Brotherhood,’ we strive to maintain the which in Greek is Adelphia. minimum amount of orga- ject to any rules of that sort, don’t really decide when “The majority of the se- nization possible to have a especially when it comes someone becomes a mem- Weather niors in Adelphia were all house and still have parties, to rush and bid deadlines. ber of Adelphia, it’s when from Scharp[enberg] and we but without getting a status There are no chapter meet- they have been around us Friday didn’t pledge a fraternity, and any more than a group of ings, no dues, and the parties enough and become com- Sunny 87 Hi / 61 Lo we weren’t going to let that friends,” commented co- don’t have admissions lists. fortable enough with us,” Saturday stop us from having fun,” founder Ben Braun, who is “I guess the best way to de- enumerated Braun. “I’d say Sunny 87 Hi / 61 Lo explained senior mechani- a senior electrical engineer. scribe it would be debauchery the only requirement for Sunday cal engineer Alex Voltaire, “We try to stay just below to the nth degree,” laughed Adelphia would be you have Mostly Sunny 88 Hi / 64 Lo who was with the founding that fine line” between be- Werne. “Adelphia is commit- to be able to let go and just group when it began in Fall ing a fraternity and being ment free,” explained Braun. not care,” Werne expressed. Provided by www.weather.com 2004. According to Voltaire, friends. Adelphia is not a There are no requirements Weather for Phoenix, Arizona the group had been friends part of IFC and is not sub- for being in Adelphia. “We Continued on Page 3... News Entertainment Opinions Sports Flipside Breast cancer, Hawaii has Black Dahlia (the novel), Election strategies, com- Football, “I’ll make you dot-com.” an earthquake alieums ing back for homecom- women’s tennis, ing, internet poker men’s soccer Page 3 Pages 4-5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 2 EVENTS & CLASSIFIEDS The Rose Thorn Friday Saturday October 20 21 Upcoming *Career Services Job *”Live Bands At The Interviews, all day Terminal”, 10:00 a.m., The Terminal (800 Wabash community events Ave) Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 *Quarterback Club *Volleyball, vs.