Category Archives: 04 (April) 2013

The April 2013 Issue of Frankly Speaking.

A Puzzle by Midnight Math: April

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Imagine you have n points evenly spaced around a circle. Choose one of these as the starting point, p0. Take a pen and draw a line skipping m – 1 points so that you connect p0 to pm.

Continue doing this without lifting the pen (so next you connect pm to the point m points later, and so on). Eventually you get back where you started.

Perhaps you have drawn an n-pointed star (the classic way of drawing a 5 pointed start is with n = 5 and m = 2).

Why can you never get a six pointed start this way? What other values of n will never result in a star?

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The Duchess and the Dominatrix: April

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DutchessDominatrixI’m graduating soon, but I have a crush on an underclassman. Should I go for it?
—Waffling Wendy

At this point in the year, you have at most seven weeks before you leave Olin. That does not mean you cannot start a new relationship, but it does mean you need to go into any potential relationship being very honest and clear about what happens after you graduate. Is this a short fling? Would you try to keep it going long-distance? Discuss those issues with your crush and decide together whether to go for it or keep it merely friendly.
—Duchess of Deportment

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Being Deliberately Creative

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Let me get one thing straight: I do not consider myself a creative person. This, coming from the guy who gets the phone passed to him to come up with engaging lesson plans for 5th graders or snazzy names for stuff. I do comics, have bucket lists of story ideas in progress; I have created 3 languages with respective worlds, have served as a writing consultant, and just do random sketches in general (from monsters to startups – yes you can sketch start-ups) which are utterly irrelevant to other people’s lives.

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Errata from Frankly Speaking: March Issue

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Last month’s Build Day article was credited to Trevor Hooton, but should also have been credited to his co-author Thomas Dugger.

In the Honor Code Rewrite article, Victoria Coleman was listed as pertaining to the Honor Code Rewrite Committee, but it should have been Victoria Preston.

The article “Useless Words from Kelsey’s Collection” included a definition for ‘trichotillomania’. The characterization under “useless words” was not intended to minimize the condition, and Frankly Speaking apologizes for any distress caused by this categorization.

Editor in Chief Announced

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Frankly Speaking is proud to announce that the search for the replacement for Kelsey Breseman, current editor in chief, has been happily concluded this past Monday.

Breseman shocked more than a few staffers when she announced the appointment of Nick Tatar, a staff member with whom most students will be familiar through his involvement with the Office of Student Life.

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