Cleveland State University EngagedScholarship@CSU The Cauldron Archives Publications Fall 12-8-2015 The Cauldron, 2015, Issue 14 Elissa L. Tennant Cleveland State University Abraham Kurp false, [email protected] Abby Burton Cleveland State University, [email protected] Morgan E. Elswick Cleveland State University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cauldron_archives Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, and the Communication Commons How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! Recommended Citation Tennant, Elissa L.; Kurp, Abraham; Burton, Abby; and Elswick, Morgan E., "The Cauldron, 2015, Issue 14" (2015). The Cauldron Archives. 14. https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cauldron_archives/14 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Publications at EngagedScholarship@CSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Cauldron Archives by an authorized administrator of EngagedScholarship@CSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. P6 Basketball takes on The Q P14 OP: Planned Parenthood shooting THE CAULDRON CSU’s Alternative Student Newspaper Dec. 8, 2015 2 Index » What’s brewing this week Senior design projects Browns commentary Holiday performances Groups of senior Engineering students presented The NFL regular season has four weeks left, but Holiday-themed performances this year at proposals for their capstone design projects Friday, with an abysmal record and a shattered roster, the PlayHouse include "A Christmas Story" and "The Dec. 4. P3 Santaland Diaries." P10 Browns are basically finished. P8 Dec. 8 to » Weekly Calendar Staff Dec. 14 » » Editor-in-Chief Stress Busters at the Library, RT 100, All Day Elissa Tennant Tues » Feast of the Immaculate Conception, FT 102, 3 p.m. Managing Editor Dec.8Sept. 25 Poetry Reading, MC 122, 6 p.m. Abe Kurp News Editor Abby Burton Stress Busters at the Library, RT 100, All Day Alumni Holiday Open House, 3 p.m. MM 101 Arts & Entertainment Editor Wed » Morgan Elswick Dec.Sept. 926 Sports Editor Gregory Kula Stress Busters at the Library, RT 100, All Day Opinion Editor Thurs »»Retirement Readiness, PH 104, 12 p.m. Sara Liptak Dec.Sept. 1027 Law Holiday Reception, LB, 3 p.m. Cover Designer Steven Pitingolo Web Editor StressViking Busters Knit Clique at the Meeting, Library, MC RT 105,100, All2:30-3:30 Day p.m. Women's Soccer vs. Valparaiso @ Krenzler Field, 7 p.m. Francesca Gariano Fri » CISP Coat Drive, MC 411, All Day » Volleyball vs. Loyola @ Woodling Gym, 7 p.m. Advertising Manager Dec.Sept. 1128 Sarah George Business Manager Men's, Women's Swimming, Intrasquad/Alumni Splash Bash @ Robert Giorgiana Lascu WrestlingF. Busbey CSU Natatorium, Open, Woodling 9 a.m. Gym, 9 a.m. Sat Men’s Basketball vs. Ohio, Wolstein Center, 1 p.m. Faculty Advisor Sat » Volleyball vs. UIC @ Woodling Gym, 4 p.m. Dr. Edward Horowitz Dec.Sept. 12 29 Women's Cross Country, All-Ohio Championship @ Cedarville, TBA Distribution Mark Heller Fall Commencement, Wolstein Center, 1 p.m. Staff Writers & Photographers Sun »» Men's Tennis, Ball State Invitational @ Muncle, Ind., All day Amara Alberto, Johnny Cook, Lisa Hammond, Matthew Dec.Sept. 1330 Johns, Roman Macharoni, Dan McCarthy, Becky Raspe, Megan Sheldon, Cameron Tolbert, Elisabeth Weems Mon LevinMen's Lasagna Golf, Telich Lunch, Sun UR Life Atrium, Financial/CSU 12 p.m. Invitational, Cleveland, Mon » All day through Tuesday Dec. 14 Contact The Cauldron at [email protected] Want your event featured on our calendar? Send the event name, date, time and location to [email protected]. For letter to the editor submission guidelines, visit www.csucauldron.com. Submission deadline is every Saturday prior to the event by 5 p.m. THE CAULDRON 3 News CSU’s Alternative Student Newspaper Dec. 8, 2015 » Engineers present senior design proposals Fenn Tower Ballroom while others is going to have eyes and see how displayed their projects in the many people are in line and how long they’ve been waiting and can tell Washkewicz College of Engineering. people, ‘The average wait for pizza is StudentsFoxes’ Denwere allottedon the ten first minutes floor of the After their presentation, faculty and answer questions from the crowd of advisorsfive minutes.’” in the crowd made comment engineeringto present facultyand andfive advisors minutes who toand asked questions meant to observed each presentation. improve and expand upon the project, The four-person team of senior suggesting the team create a network Electrical Engineering majors Taylor of cameras or hook the devices up to Barto, Kevin Candow, Evan Dispenza the Internet so they become part of a and David Pendleton presented central system. second-to-last in the Foxes’ Den. Now that the project proposal is Their project involves monitoring presented and approved, the Helios and tracking people through cameras team will begin work on the project — a project they have dubbed Helios timeline they developed, which will — which can recognize and identify certain people and determine their Photo by Elissa Tennant movements. culminate in a senior design final Senior Electrical Engineering majors Kevin Candow, David Pendleton, Taylor Barto and They are not being sponsored presentations,presentation in a May.panel of alumni and Evan Dispenza present their project on Dec. 4 in the Foxes' Den. by an outside company and have localEach engineer year judges after determines the thefinal By Elissa Tennant spearheaded their own project. top three projects, which receive a cash prize and are honored at a Senior Engineering senior design is a senior design program and oversees Design Symposium and Awards longstanding tradition at Cleveland operations. "Senior Dinner. State University. On paper, it’s simply “It’s a capstone course that all of our But aside from monetary incentives, two academic courses required senior students have to do before they design really the Helios team agreed the best thing for graduation as an Engineering graduate,” he said. “And essentially we to come out of senior design is the student. But to the students who go out to [organizations] and we ask practical experience in engineering, are completing their senior design them to provide a real-world problem personifies teamwork and project management. projects, it’s much more. that needs to be solved.” Pendleton said he has already Every year, senior undergraduate The projects can be sponsored engaged spoken with professionals in the Engineering students are divided into and suggested by companies or engineering industry who encouraged groups to complete a project meant completely spearheaded by students, learning." him to continue learning all he can to give them real-life experience in but sponsorships are preferred. about his senior design topic to Pawlaczyk spends much of his time advance his career and expand his of Engineering website, senior design securing project sponsors, a feat he opportunities. istheir “the field. culmination According ofto students’the College Pendleton explained the reasoning “They told me that if I can learn engineering education.” “We market it as a win-win,” he said. behind their project choice. more about image processing to “It’ssaid ais win not for as the difficult students as —it theymay getseem. “We want to make something that keep doing it because it’s a form of this real-world opportunity, they get can be used by a multitude of different technology that keeps popping up in "It's a capstone exposed to a company, they may get industries and customers so it’s not all these different industries that you hired by that company — and then would never think would use a camera course that all on the company’s side they get access he said. “Let’s say there’s a marketing to monitor everything,” he said. to this talent that’s at a premium and just tailored to one specific industry,” Pawlaczyk agreed, stressing the of our senior they hear new ideas from students their customers go besides their store importance of senior design as a way about things they may never have withinfirm that a mall.wants Our to devicefigure outis able where to to gain practical experience in the real students have thought of.” world. to do before The senior Engineering students people.” presented their fall proposals Friday, trackBesides [and] monitormarketing the andflow ofdata those engaged learning,” he said. “Our they graduate." Dec. 4. mining applications, Barto said the students“Senior aredesign going really out personifies into the Because the course is divided project has practical application community and they’re solving real- into two semesters, these proposal for many industries, including live world problems that companies are presentations are meant to act as a entertainment. dealing with and they may not have the culmination of the fall semester and “You can pull up your cell phone time or the resources to solve them, Paul Pawlaczyk, director of external if you’re in a baseball stadium and but they see this as an opportunity to affairs and communications for the a culmination of the spring semester. you want to get nachos but you don’t engage with our students.” College of Engineering, manages the theSome final presentationsstudents presented held in inMay the are want to wait in line,” he said. “[Helios] THE CAULDRON CSU’s Alternative Student Newspaper 4 News Dec. 8, 2015 » MSA holds fundraiser for Syrian refugees By Dan McCarthy A sold-out fundraiser, sponsored shifts setting up, signing in and seating each time a gift was made, saying multinational foreign intervention. by Cleveland State University’s over 150 attendees. Dinner tables set “Amen/Amin” together after each American airstrikes, Russian donation. airstrikes and French airstrikes raised more than $90,000 for Syrian Beginning in the spring of 2011, currently bomb Syrian cities.