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ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY • THEROSETHORN.COM • MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2018 • VOLUME 54 • ISSUE 12

Evë Maquelin Editor in Chief

Last Wednesday, students, professors, and staff members gathered in the Lake Room to hear from a panel of professors on the ethical responsibili-ties of engineers and scien-tists. Drs. Rebecca DeVasher, Emma Dosmar, Daniel Hartner, and Kevin Sut-terer formed the panel.

This event was a part of a series on Mary Shelley's Frank-enstein sponsored by the Indiana Humanities, a non profit that funds humanities education throughout the state of Indiana. For the first event, members of the Rose-Hulman Humanities and Social Sciences Department handed out 300 free copies of the 200 year anniversary edition of Frankenstein, hoping to spark a discussion about the role of sci-ence in society.

Using the science fiction novel as a case study, last week's panel discussed everything from the finer points of Dr. Franken-stein's career to more fundamen-tal issues such as what it means to be a scientist.

To start off the panel, Dr. Caroline Carvill posed the ques-tion: Was Dr. Frankenstein a good scientist? In general, the consensus was no, but first it was important to discuss what it meant to be a good scientist, or even what it meant to be good.

Dr. DeVasher kicked off the dis-cussion saying, "One side of 'good' is technical competency...[but] one of the things that's re-

ally important in science is to fully think through what it is that you're doing... not just the initial step but what the unintended consequences might be...So I would argue Dr. Frankenstein is not incredibly technically compe-tent in the full process of his cre-ation even though he got it to work."

Dr. DeVasher's sentiment

was largely echoed among the other panelists, though Dr. Sut-terer offered up, "If I were to take the character of Victor Frankenstein as a good scientist I would say 'oh my gosh he's like a perfect scientist for entertaining reading!' because, uh, he's a

mess! ... I wouldn't be very im-pressed with this guy in real life." He also mentioned, "[Dr. Frank-enstein] did a lot of things the

wrong way. And on top of that when he finally figured out how wrong it was... he wasn't willing to ask anyone else for help." Dr. Dosmar agreed saying, "One of the things I think about when I think about a good scientist is being able to admit when you're wrong or when you don't know something."

Towards the end of this dis-

cussion, Dr. Hartner brought up something he deemed may be "polemical" by stating, "I don't think in a certain sense [Dr. Frankenstein] is a scientist at all... There is a fundamentally social element to science...He's slaving away by himself in an at-

tic not talking to any-body...He may be an inter-esting technical tinkerer of sorts, but I'd say he's not

really a scientist in that sense at all."

From there discussion delved deeper into the philosophical side of engineering ethics, cover-ing difficult questions such as "when does the chance of a bad outcome outweigh the chance of a good one?" or "what is science?". Frequent callbacks were made to the tale of Dr. Frankenstein and his creature (not monster!), but much of the conversation re-mained general. For a full re-cording of the panel, contact the Thorn at thorn@rose-hulman.edu

The next event in the Frank-enstein series will take place March 13, 2019. There, a panel will discuss the ethical gray areas that face engineers and scientists today, as well as ideas and prac-tices that may be going too far.

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“You do n ’ t want to s i t in the fro nt . Middl e i s better . That ’s where t hey d irect t he sound,” sa id a voic e as a cou-ple o f fr iends a nd I entered Hatf ie l d Hal l Au ditor ium around 7:15 F rid a y n ight (Dec ember 1 4) .

“You don ’ t get the whol e pictu re in t he fro nt , ” said an-other voic e. H eed ing the ir ad-vic e, we mad e our way to the fourth ro w.

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By 7:27 the nu mber of peo pl e had increased twen-tyfold , enou gh to more or l ess f i l l t he grou nd f loo r o f the au-ditor ium. Althou gh most of those in at t enda nce were cur-rent st udent s , anx ious to watch their fr iends embarra ss themsel ves for 5 minutes , fac-ul ty and staf f , too, at tended , inc lud ing Dr . Ca rlot ta Berry and Dext er Jord an who would act as 2 of t he evening ’s 4 judges.

As everyone set t led down into t he ir seats , t he l ights dimmed and out o nto t he stage wal ked our hos ts: Ez en-na CMadu a nd Jemes ia Jef fer -son. After t hanking us for su p-port ing the ta lent s how a nd the c har ita ble organizat ion whic h benef its fro m the pro-ceeds , the Ro se -Hul man Aca -

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Bes ides the acts , t he en-tertainment fo r the night in-c luded a dance l esso n at inter-mis sio n for “Juju on that Beat .” Hosts Ez enna and Je-mes ia ga ve a s hort tu toria l on how to perfo rm t he da nce, and then invited t wo audience members to jo in them for a second round of t he s ong.

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The sho w ended wit h t he hosts announc ing the to p three acts . In th ird p lace was a soot hing vocal performa nce from Aresa a nd Jenna who had the audienc e sway ing to a catchy tune as soo n as the f irst cho rus hit .

In seco nd was My Mind is Elsewhere. In f i rst p lace wa s Sydney Lars on who truly bl ew the audienc e away wi th “Lo ve on t he Bra in” by Rihanna, a song t hat requ ires a tremen-dous a mount of po wer, range , and cont rol f rom the s inger . In a perfo rmance tha t demo n-strated her a bi l i ty of a l l 3 of thes e qual i t ies , S ydney Lars on remind ed the aud ience of the emot ional pot ency t hat songs of th is cal iber have.

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This past Tu esday , Stras-bourg , a h isto ric Frenc h c ity s i tuated near t he bo rder wit h Germany, was t he vic t im of an-other t erro rist at tac k: a gun-man o pened f ire in a Christ mas market in the middle of town, ki l l ing t hree peo ple and in jur-ing anot her t hirt een. Over 350 Frenc h pol ice of f icers and sol-diers were mo bil iz ed t o f ind t he suspect , who excha nged gu nf ire wit h his pursu ers before f l ee ing in a tax i .

Frenc h aut hor it ies rais ed the cou ntry ’s nat io na l secur ity to i ts highest level , “emergency terror at tac k” statu s. Pol ic e formed a perimet er a round t he c ity in an at t empt t o prevent the gunman ’ s esc ape. However, they were unc erta in a t the t ime i f t he su spect had le f t the c ity or not . They id ent i f ied the gun-man as Cher if Chekatt , a 29 -year o ld man on Fra nce ’s “Fic he S” watc hl ist .

The ma nhu nt co nt inu ed u n-t i l Thursda y night , when pol ice of f ic ers reco gnized Chekatt in the streets of Stras bo urg ’s Neu -dorf d istr ict . They a pproac hed him a nd tr ied to qu est ion him, but they were ans wered o nly wit h gunf ire . The o f f icers in-volved retu rned f ire and k i l led

the sus pect . Chekatt had a major cr imi-

nal bac kground and was cons id-ered rad ical iz ed , wit h 27 prev i-ous convict ions for va rious ro b-

beries and vio lenc e in Franc e, Germany, and S wit z erland . In a l l three count ries , he i s wel l -kno wn to t hose autho rit ies , but his s tatus as a “rad ical Is la m-

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As i f t he horr i fy ing s hoot ing in Stras bou rg were not enough, the country of Fra nce has been embro iled in prot est s for f ive cont inuous weekends , and this most rec ent weekend has seen the emergence of t he gile ts jau nes , o r y el lo w v est pr o tes-tors . These protest ors co me from al l co rners o f F rance and s low traf f ic .

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compl ex or ig ins , but ma ny a s-cr ibe t hes e protests t o be ing in res pons e to an increa se in fuel taxes . S ince t he prot ests began in mid -November , e ight peo pl e have d ied fro m a var iety of causes . Acc ording t o Inter ior Minist er Christo phe Casta ner , the most rec ent d eath was pos-s ible t he res ul t of a car acc i-dent in a tra f f ic c irc le , which are occu pied a l most constant ly

by protesto rs . Casta ner sa id , “Traff ic c irc l es must be f reed and the s ecur ity of a l l must aga in bec ome the rule . ”

In an at t empt to increa se this “sec urit y of a l l ,” 69,000 secur ity fo rces were introduced to control t he cro wds. This comes aft er two weekends of vio l enc e, in whic h prot estors vandal iz ed la rge po rt ions of Paris , inc lud ing t he A rc de Tri -

omphe. This va ndal iz at ion was met with 8 ,000 pol ic e of f icers , 14 armored vehic les , and water cannons who were s ent to guard the remaining pro pert y .

During the protest t h is past weekend , pol ice u sed tear gas to su bdue t he protest ors . Pol ice reported that 115 people were detained a nd ta ken into custo-dy. Pol ice a lso est imate that nearl y 3 000 peo ple were at prot ests t his pa st weekend , whic h t hey say is less tha n hal f of the prot estors who came out a week a go. Des pite these smal ler numbers, the prot estors are more co mmitted to the ir dema nds.

These prot ests have posed a ser ious probl em fo r Pres ident Emmanu el Macron, whose po p-ularity i s s p ira l ing d ownwards . In an at tempt to placa te protes-tors wit hout ta king away the fuel tax h ike , Mac ron rais ed the nat io n ’s minimu m wa ge by 100 euros , but he did not re instate the tax o n t he wealt hiest c i t i -zens , a tax he s las hed when his presid ency bega n. This onl y re-info rced the bel ief he i s t he “pres ident of t he r ich . ”

Some prot estors were cyni-cal of Mac ron ’s o l ive bra nch measu res . L ionel Fra isse, a re-t ired state a gency worker , c la imed Macron ’ s wage increase was meant “ to put t he peo ple to s leep.” He encoura ged t hose who were prot est ing by say ing, “ the mo vement must lose ne i-ther i t s vigor nor i ts legit ima -cy.”

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Protesters clash with police, causing traffic accidents and vandalizing several Paris establishments.

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Entertainment 4

Lauren Wiseman Staff Writer

While on trial for war crimes and crimes against hu-manity, Nazi officer Adolf Eich-mann stated that he was only following orders. This fascinated social psychologist Stanley Mil-gram, whose life story was por-trayed in the 2015 docudrama Experimenter. Written, produced, and directed by Michael Almereyda, Experimenter follows Milgram through his series of experi-ments, featuring most promi-nently his radical behavior ex-periment and the fallout that en-sued. Along the way, Milgram gets married and starts a family, but he cannot seem to shake his initial infamy. Experimenter only re-ceived limited release, which ex-plains why I never really found out about it. However, a movie that features some dark psychol-ogy experiments? I cannot get enough of that, so I was more than interested in this film. Ulti-mately, Experimenter was a film that started out with a lot of promise, but ended up being passable, and forgettable. As I mentioned, the film starts out with a lot of promise. The opening scene is excellent, and really all of the scenes where they are conducting the radical behavior experiments are great. The cinematography for those scenes specifically are creative, framing facial expressions and moving between locations in flu-id motions. There are great cam-eos from John Leguizamo, An-ton Yelchin, and Tony Edwards

in this sequence. As these experiment se-quences weave in and out of the story, we have Peter Sarsgaard as Milgram guiding viewers through the story. Periodically, Milgram addresses the camera directly, and that was a fantastic choice. The film uses these breaks creatively, sometimes as a means to explain the psychologi-cal concepts under the guise of explaining the concepts to the participants in the study and other times as a way to give backstory. Between Sarsgaard’s dry delivery, his stoic demeanor, and his dark gray suit, it all felt like an echo of Rod Serling’s opening narration for The Twi-light Zone. Which, given that was what Almereyda was going for, it looked like he had accom-plished his goal. What these audience-addressing breaks also accom-plished was bridge the line be-tween drama and documentary. In any other movie, this would be a lazy way to give exposition, but it worked really well for this movie. Perhaps the thing that worked the best for the movie was just how far it leaned into its low budget. One scene in partic-ular was beautiful in its creativi-ty and ingenuity. Milgram and his wife Alexandra (Winona Ry-der) are off to see a colleague, Solomon Asch. They drive to Asch’s house. Ryder and Sarsgaard are seated in a car, and the background is just a screen. The production didn’t even try to make it a green screen effect—they dug up a technique used in films for dec-

ades and just put a car in front of a screen that played footage of a road winding behind their car. The effect continued when they reached Asch’s house—which was also a projection on a screen. When the Milgrams en-tered the house, it was like a the-ater stage: the scene was project-ed behind them, and they sat in chairs on the stage. It made me giddy, because it felt like a filmed theater performance and worked in the favor of the film overall. For everything that worked for the movie, not every-thing could work for the movie. It is incredibly dry, and honestly, if I sat down to watch it on a Fri-day night, I would have checked my phone and checked out. For every effect that worked cheaply, some effects were distractingly fake, like the beard Milgram grew for his later career. Perhaps what worked against it the most was the last

third of the movie. The first two-thirds were full of the more in-teresting aspects of Milgram’s life and took more time to focus on those, so the last third was fighting to tell the rest of Mil-gram’s story and make it inter-esting at the same time. A lot of the creative filmmaking from the first two-thirds felt absent in the last third, making the last third of the film feel like it was di-rected by someone else. If you are interested in psychology, this is probably a film you should check out if you haven’t already. If psychology is not your thing, if you are looking for a film that will hold your at-tention the entire time and leave you thinking about it for days, this is not your movie. Experi-menter is not a bad film, I would probably catch it on TV, but I don’t see myself watching it again anytime soon.

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This book was recom-mended to me by a friend after talking to him about certain things I’ve been noticing: lack of energy, lack of focus, and always feeling tired. Being a student at Rose-Hulman, we are faced with an enormous amount of work to go through each week, despite it being essential for understand-ing the material and doing well in the class, it can force us to sacrifice certain things that are critical for our own well-being. We joke about being sleep de-prived because we trying to get our work done, but sadly, we truly are unaware of the devas-tating consequences of not get-ting enough sleep, and for that, I believe that this book is one of the most important books I have come across. Why we sleep, was written by professor Matthew Walker who is a sleep scientist teaching at UC Berkeley. In this book, he

discusses the importance of sleep in different species and the early detection of how the amount of sleep affects our physical and mental health,

while also providing modern practices that could help us im-prove our sleeping habits. Alt-hough sleep is still somewhat a mysterious phenomenon, Dr. Walker shares his own research findings into understanding the necessity of sleep for humans

and other animals. While listen-ing to the book on Audible, I was trying to come up with at least one example of something that could possibly not get affected

by how much sleep I am getting each night, but I failed misera-bly. To my surprise, sleep is so intertwined in our biology, be-cause it affects almost every-thing in our bodies. From you heart, your mental stability, your attention and memory, all

the way to your sexual desires and fertility. Being just one hour short on sleep a day could do some serious damage to your immune system and could possi-

bly leave you more prone to catching/developing diseases.

One important aspect about sleep that is highly ad-dressed in this book is that we could never compensate for lost sleep, which is a terrifying truth. Let’s say one night you had a lot of work to do and decided to sleep later than usual so you could get more done, so you sleep for about 5 hours and wake up to get ready for your 8 am class. What is unclear to you at the moment is that the ineffi-cient amount of sleep your body just received is crippling your brain to solidify the new infor-mation you are trying to com-prehend and restore important memories from past experienc-es. Therefore, your brain will not be able to correctly store the re-ceived information and you will not be able to recall them on the exam. This is just one example of how our sleeping behaviour could affect our daily lives, and in the book there are more seri-ous discussions on how the amount of sleep we get could affect our life-span.

Why We Sleep addresses the strong connection of insuffi-cient sleep with developing mental illnesses and diseases that lead to a shorter lifespan by providing genuinely frightening scientific information about the importance of getting enough sleep, which is why I think this book a universal must-read.

“[This book] addresses the strong connection of

insufficient sleep with developing mental illness-

es and diseases that lead to a shorter lifespan…”

I hope you have a wonderful Christmas break! Feel free to send any question or comments about the content of this page to bimadk@rose-hulman.edu

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Lifestyle 5

The Jean. Born in America and popularized around the world to be one of the most recognizable articles of clothing has transcended all levels of fashion and function. From farmers to fashionistas everyone can find a use from a good pair of jeans.

Having said that there has been an age old tradition that has been arti-ficially replicated in many different realms of fashion.

Traditionally Jeans would be worn in and over time they would have the rips, creases, and distresses develop into the body of both the wearer and the Pant. This would cre-ate a canvas full of the body type of the weares as they would fit them per-fectly and look as natural as can be.

This has been replicated by many fast fashion companies such as H&M and forever 21 by them offering cheap distressed knockoffs that have are as

cheap as can be lasting no more than a few wears before the rips enlarge and the pants eventually become un-wearable.

This has started a new way of

denim purists that purchase high quality raw denim and wearing it in and having the material naturally wear in to the user with use. This movement has also developed a few guidelines to obtain the perfect pair and we on the lifestyle page have tak-en the time to outline a few of the key guidelines.

One of the largest cosmetic bene-fits of wearing raw denim is the loss of color through the wear of the pants. The color in the pants begins to chip away over time revealing the lighter blue and eventually white cotton in the soul of the jean. These creases reveal themselves in the way they are folded every day due to the way one naturally conducts their life and they gain more and more character every time you put them on.

If you wish to buy raw denim you may have to save up a little bit more than if you were taking a visit to your local mall. These pairs of jeans are made to last and are commonly much

more expensive than their fast fashion counter parts. They also through dif-ferent types of manipulation can be form fitted to your exact body type

past different lengths and widths on a pair of jeans.

The biggest factor that comes to wearing raw denim is the first wash. This is the defining moment of the jeans life and can only be done after weeks of wearing them without any washing. After this period of wearing the jeans you must enter the washing process.

This is different from the tradi-tional process as they must be soaked in water and then left out to dry in-stead of going into a washing machine like many of your other pieces of clothing.

You will definitely not want to wash these pants very often as they will lose all of their character. Having said that they will get absolutely dis-gusting and bacteria will literally eat away at the crotch of your jeans if you take to much time to wash them. If you really cant take the time to

wash your jeans you could put them

in the freezer to kill some of bacteria

but this opens the door to a whole

host of problems I recommend you

just be like a regular person and wash

them every few months just to stay

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Standout Performers Ryuji Aoki

John Czarnecki

Standout Performers Ally Bromenschenkel

Debie Gedeon

RHIT SPORTS SCHEDULES Track & Field Swimming & Diving Basketball

Jan 12: @ RHIT

Jan 19: @ RHIT

Jan 26: @ RHIT

Feb 3: @ Bloomington, Ill

Feb 10: @ Greencastle, Ind

Feb 17: @ Anderson, Ind

March 3: @ Ada, Ohio

March 10: @ Birmingham, Ala

March 17: @ William Welch Complex

March 24: @ St. Louis, Mo

March 30: @ Springfield, Ohio

April 7: @ Greencastle, Ind

April 14: @ Greencastle, Ind

April 20: @ William Welch Complex

April 27& 28: @ William Welch Complex

May 4: @ Bloomington, Ind

May 11: @ Berea, Ohio

May 24—26: @ La Crosse, Wis

Dec 1&2: @ University Of Ken-

tucky

Jan 11: @ RHIT

Jan 12: @ Bloomington, Ill

Jan 18: @ Valparaiso, Ind

Jan 19: @ Grand Rapids, Mich

Jan 25: @ Franklin Community

Middle School

Feb 2: @ RHIT

Feb 14-16: @ Vigo County Aquat-

ic Center

Men Women Dec 5: Mt. St. Joseph

Dec 8: Translyvania

Dec 13: Boyce

Dec 15: Manchester

Dec 22: Millikin

Jan 2: Hanover

Jan 5: Earlham

Jan 9: Franklin

Jan 12: Bluffton

Jan 16: Anderson

Jan 19: Defiance

Jan 23: Mt. St. Joserph

Jan 26: Translyvania

Jan 30: Hanover

Feb 2: Bluffton

Feb 6: Franklin

Feb 9: Earlham

Feb 13: Anderson

Feb 16: Manchester

Dec 1: Defiance

Dec 5: Mt. St. Joseph

Dec 8: Transylvania

Dec 15: Manchester

Dec 18: Chicago

Jan 2: Hanover

Jan 5: Earlham

Jan 9: Franklin

Jan 12: Bluffton

Jan 16: Anderson

Jan 19: Defiance

Jan 23: Mt. St. Joseph

Jan 26: Transylvania

Jan 30: Hanover

Feb 2: Bluffton

Feb 6: Franklin

Feb 9: Earlham

Feb 13: Anderson

Feb 16: Manchester

Basketball 1 2 Final

Manchester 22 26 48

Rose-Hulman 28 34 62

As the winter break approaches the Men’s Basketball

team are tied for first in the conference. They were

able to beat Manchester University this past weekend

to bring them up. Their record has improved to 6-4

overall and 3-1 in conference.

Manchester Rose-Hulman

38 Rebounds 41

5 Assists 10

13 Turnovers 16

10 Pts Off Turnovers 10

Sports 7

Senior Bailey MacInnis has recently become the first student athlete in

Rose history to win Google Cloud Academic All-American awards in volley-

ball. She has been able to gain herself a spot on the third-team Google

Cloud Academic All-American Team. This is her second year in a row being

a member of the team. The team consists of 21 players. MacInnis along

with her teammates on the Rose Volleyball team made it to the NCAA Divi-

sion III Tournament for the second time in its history at Rose.

Hailey Hoover

Sports Editor

All-American Honor

Rose’s Peter Venema has the honor of being named the HCAC’s Diver of

the Week. Peter won the 3-meter diving competition when the team com-

peted at the Transylvania. His score of 421.85 was enough to get him the

win. He also had a score of 377.10 points to win second in the 1-meter div-

ing. His total score of the weekend got him ranked first out of all the com-

petitors at the Invitational. So congratulations to Peter Venema!

Photo by Rose-Hulman Athletics

RHIT Men’s Basketball

RHIT SPORTS BOX SCORES

Photo by Rose-Hulman Athletics

Basketball 1 2 Final 3 4

Manchester 2 8 21 8 3

RHIT 11 12 51 15 13

RHIT Swimming & Diving Hailey Hoover

Sports Editor

Hailey Hoover

Sports Editor

RHIT Women’s Basketball

Hailey Hoover

Sports Editor

The Women’s Basketball team was victorious against

Manchester. Ally Bromenschenkel led the Engineers

with 24 points and 18 rebounds. The teams record

now stands at 7-3 overall and 4-0 in conference play.

Manchester Rose-Hulman

31 Rebounds 52

5 Assists 9

17 Turnovers 15

4 Pts off Turnovers 11

Flipside 5

The World’s Hardest Sudoku

This puzzle was devised by Arto Inkala, a Finnish mathematician, and is

specifically designed to be unsolvable to all but the sharpest minds.

Sourced from the Telegraph.co.uk

Only five more days until we get to escape back home for two weeks, then come back excited until Rose kills our spirits in the new year!

Please send an email with questions, concerns, or content to my right ear or the Thorn Flipside Editor <thorn-flipside@rose-hulman.edu> Disclaimer: The Flipside is

purely for fun! Any uncredited work above can be attributed to me, Rithvik Subramanya.

Happy National Maple Syrup Day!

“I do whatever Dr. Chiu tells me to do.”

-Dr. Brackin

“Is that about ten seconds loud?.”

-Dr. Bryan

“She might be a lesbian but that’s okay, because I have

my sunglasses on.”

-Anonymous

“Look at those curves.”

-Dr. Minevich

Did your prof say something hilarious or just great out of context? Did you hear something amusing on your jaunt about the fine halls of this institution? We want to hear about it! Send your quotes with who said it to: thorn-flipside@rose-hulman.edu or fill out this nifty google form: https://goo.gl/forms/bB339sx6GHohggYt1

WACKY PROF QUOTES

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Decent Joe of the Week

1. Moon Shoes

2. Thigh High Uggs

3. Chegg Membership

4. Inflatable Weapons

5. One of the cats that roam across campus

6. Rose Garden Ice Cream

7. Original JNCO Jeans

8. Lawn Darts

9. Tuition Gift Card

10.Pogs

11.Tickle Me Elmo Extreme

12.An E-Z-Bake Oven (not allowed in dorm

rooms)

13.Bionicles

14.Leftover Career Fair Swag

15.Fake Job Offer

16.Photoshopped Transcript

17.New Freshman Backpack

18.A Rob Coons Saint Candle

19.Wireless Number Pad

20.Wireless DVD Drive

21.A Chromecast

Fact of the Week

In honor of Wright Brothers’ Day on December 17th.

If you point a laser pointer at a plane or its flight

path, you can receive up to five years in prison!