The student body awoke Thursday morning expecting the day to bring much change to campus, largely in form of a couple hundred prefrosh who arrived throughout the day. Not many, however, expected to see the Fleming Cannon turn blue.

The rainbow flag that waves outside Chandler was initially mounted on a new metal bracket on Thursday, April 5 as a part of GAYpril, the month to celebrate diversity. Two days later, the flag was found on top of a cream Ford SUV parked on San Pasqual near Ruddock House.

If writing the April cover story on Plasmonics for Scientific American wasn't enough for the prolific laboratory of Caltech physics professor Harry Atwater, they've also just published a manuscript regarding invisibility in Science.

I found out that the rainbow flag hanging above Chandler had been vandalized, it was a slap in the face. Here at Caltech, we make it our business to imagine the future. We invent new treatments for diseases, come up with new energy sources, and solve the mathematical problems of our past. How could we be so backwards?