With more than 80 clubs last year, it would be impossible to list them all here. This is a list of a few of the most active in 2012-13. Check out these clubs and many others at Club Fair, this Friday, September 13th from 3:30-5pm in the O.
Newsies’ Next New Newsboy
Whoever said that you work best when stressed has obviously never been to a Broadway audition. The following is… what I recall of… my first and only Broadway audition:
I suppose it all began Friday, February 15th. There was an open dance call in Boston for the Broadway musical Newsies. This part of my audition story is not new, however, so I am going to just skip over it for now—ask me about it some other time if you’d like. The only thing you need to know is the outcome: from the 150 or so people auditioning, they asked me and about 10 others to come to NYC that summer for another callback.
A Puzzle by Midnight Math: September 2013
Midnight Math is run by Kevin O’Toole ’15.
Have you ever wanted a slice of pizza with no crust? Do you usually feed your crust your dogs?
Find a way of cutting a circular pizza into finitely many congruent pieces such that at least one piece has no crust.
More formally, find a set of simply connected regions (X1, X2…Xn) such that:
- The intersection (X1 U X2 U… Xn) is the unit disk, D, on ℝ2.
- For each i, j < n there is a rigid, possibly orientation-reversing transformation of the plane which converts Xi to Xj
- For some i, λ(Xi ∩ ∂D) = 0, where λ is the Lebesgue measure*, and ∂D is the boundary of the unit disk, D.
Welcome to Frankly Speaking
Welcome to the fifth volume of Frankly Speaking, Olin’s student-run, monthly newspaper.
The ongoing mission of Frankly Speaking is to foster communication between students, faculty, staff, the greater Olin community, and beyond, through publishing many types of content created by anyone with a desire to be printed.
Frankly Speaking has been publishing monthly issues of the paper since Fall 2010, but we need your help to continue publishing. First and foremost, a paper cannot be published without content, and we rely primarily on Olin students to submit content each month. We’re looking for writing of any skill level on topics you are passionate about. The Frankly Speaking editors will help you refine your writing to a point where you are proud to see your classmates and friends reading your work on publication day.
Additionally, we need you to join Frankly Speaking. Many of the Frankly Speaking staff graduated last year, leaving several open positions on the paper. We need enthusiastic, passionate students to fill the following rolls for this upcoming academic year:
Editor – reads, edits articles, helps with layout. Must be able to spell and edit.
Layout editor – uses InDesign to lay out paper. Must be willing to learn InDesign.
Website manager – keeps FS’s website up to date.
Business manager – FS sells ad space and sometimes gets emails about it! Respond to ad requests and ask local businesses to sponsor FS with food!
Staff Illustrator – sometimes we have these awkward spaces and they have to be filled with drawings. Can you draw things at the drop of a hat? Be a staff illustrator!
Contributor – the bread-and-butter of the paper.
Everyone is a contributor! Come to the meeting this weekend with your article ideas or send them to:
submit@franklyspeakingnews.
Boston Incident Reactions
Slater Victoroff
“Boston bombings represent a sorrowful scene of what happens everyday in Syria. Do accept our condolences.” The bombings in the Boston marathon were a tragedy, and I truly wish that those few that were killed or injured in the explosion hadn’t been. I don’t mean to trivialize the pain and suffering that these events have put people through, but I think there’s some important context to be considered here.
Oliners After Graduation
Where do they go after Olin? Self-Reported Statistics
The “Top Employers” and “Top Graduate Schools” tables are from the PGP website, http://www.olin.edu/pgp. They represent data collected from surveys and in person by the Office of Post Graduate Planning up to March 19, 2013.
Honor Board Mad Libs
Cases before the Honor Board are wide and varied. They range from personal differences to academic dishonesty to misuse of public materials. Above all, the Honor Board is a place for Olin Community members to work out their differences safely and confidentially. Fill in the blanks below to create your own Honor Board case.
If your results are particularly amusing, feel free to send them to hbmadlibs@gmail.com for possible future publication.
Extremely Accurate and Serious Horoscopes
Aries (March 21 – April 19): You have a future in the news. With the news.
Taurus (April 20 – May 20): The soul is a squeegee. Yours is dry and crisp.
Gemini (May 21 – June 20): Follow the road with fewer tracks when you’re looking for peace. Follow the crowds when looking for a party.
Cancer (June 21 – July 22): Life is like an adventure novel, just longer.
Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22): The next few weeks will require much racing. Trust not the flower, for the thorn is sharp and deadly.
We Need You to Build Olin
It should take twice Olin’s population to achieve everything that we manage to accomplish in a year. Somehow, astoundingly, despite our limited size and the vastness of our collective responsibilities, the Olin community manages time and time again to successfully coordinate and run our programs, organizations, think-tanks, and events, all the while continuing to invent, discover, and thrive. Our campus teems with activity and our establishment thrums with diligence, the happy product of our collective vision for a prosperous Olin. Working together, giving of our time, effort, insight, wisdom, enthusiasm, and energy, we keep our College advancing along its exceptional trajectory.
A Candid Conversation with Oscar Mur Miranda
I accidentally scheduled Oscar’s interview for a holiday, but characteristically, he was already planning to be on campus. The bench under the window of his office was, as always, covered with functioning breadboarded circuits. He wore his usual easy grin and silk tie.
A native of both Spain and Puerto Rico, Oscar came, as he describes it, “home” to Boston in 1990. He earned his degrees at MIT, then came to Olin in 2005. At Olin, Oscar teaches Electrical Engineering, Design, and International Development.
