March 12, 2024

We’re not just a STEM school! On Valentine’s Day (February 14th for our unfamiliar Techers), the Caltech Arts Guild hosted it’s debut event Wine* and Cheese canvas painting and origami night hosted in the Blacker Hovse dining hall. With over 70 attendees over the course of the evening including grad students and undergrads alike, at least 10 pounds of cheese in addition to other consumables were vanquished. After the successful night, the club has since gathered more funding to continue to h

The staged reading took place in Frautschi & Mie Rehearsal Hall on March 1st. The cast, from left to right: Molly Goldstein, Wendy Worthington, Adela Paez, Peter James Smith, and the author. Not pictured, though he was essential, is stage manager Eric Han. (Kevin Delin) _“What if we could prevent miscommunication, heartbreak, and social isolation simply by cracking the universal human code? Mathematics is, after all, the language of the universe, and aren’t we stardust? Carbon-based? Aren’t we

Caltech’s innovative, industrious research apparatus hides a dirty secret: a reliance on fossil fuels. But that is set to change. Last fall, President Rosenbaum endorsed a proposal from the Caltech Sustainability Advisory Council to source carbon-free energy for Campus. This proposal allows Caltech’s facilities to electrify campus operations and begin negotiations with Pasadena Water and Power (PWP) to source green energy. Currently

Pasadena recently had primary elections and re-elected Mayor Victor Gordo. Not long before, he gave the State of the City address on February 29th at the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics here at Caltech. The State of the City speech highlighted many of the city’s accomplishments and victories over the past year. The theme of the talk was “Leaping into the future”, and to this end the city is on track to be carbon free by 2030. The city is also reclaiming the 710 highwa

To recap, I have been writing reviews on episodes of the Apple TV+ series, Lessons In Chemistry. Honestly, I don’t know why people subscribe to Apple TV+. I’ve tried watching The Morning Show—awful. I watched 93% of the 3-hour-and-26-minute-long movie, Killers of The Flower Moon—the most boring movie I’ve ever seen with the most bland acting imaginable, and then Brendan Fraser appears at the end. Why? Needless to say, my time spent watching things on Apple TV+ has been time lost, time I’

The Tech recently received an anonymous tip warning of a secret plan by H_____ M___, which may already be in progress, to steal the Caltech Beaver. Very little is known about H_____ M___; all attempts by Tech reporters to ascertain their true identity seem to be met with a powerful amnestic force. The only piece of evidence that was approved for print by Caltech’s Infohazard Repression Bureau (IRB) was a photograph of a bulletin board detailing what appear to be the fruits of a reconnaissanc

Last Saturday at 11:22am, Regular Decision acceptance letters went out to Caltech’s Class of 2028. Quick facts: Caltech received approximately 13,000 total applications for Class of 2028, comparable to Class of 2027’s 13,136 applications. This is the fourth undergraduate class since Caltech stopped accepting SAT/ACT scores. This is the second year since Caltech switched to Restrictive Early Action (REA). The total number of students accepted into the Class of 2028 has not been announc

The athletics facilities here at Caltech include 2 main gymnasiums: Scott Brown Gym and the newer Braun Athletics Facility. Brown Gym has been undergoing renovations, and after some of these renovations, the main entrance to the facilities was temporarily relocated from Braun to Brown. However, on December 5th, Caltech’s Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Office was notified that a sample of dust collected in a private office in Brown returned detectable amounts of asbestos. Calt