Editor in Chief Announced
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.
Your Idea Here: Build Olin
By now, you’ve probably heard about Build Day. Maybe you’ve even been to a Pow-Wow ideation session. You can’t have missed the Big Bang, and maybe you joined a team. But maybe you aren’t quite sure what Build Day is, or how and why you should get involved leading up to May 3rd. In any case, strap yourself in and get ready for a thrilling exposé on the hottest thing since thermodynamics: Build Day!
Build Day, on May 3rd, is the culmination of a number of community-oriented semester-long projects. May 3rd has been reserved by the administration for the entire Olin community to work together on awesome projects: developed and implemented by teams of Olin students, faculty, and staff that will have a meaningful and lasting impact on our College.
An Outside Eye on Theatre
As a theatre maker in Toronto, I always find it fascinating to see the shows that come out of FWOP. This is the second time I have visited my brothers at Olin during Candidate’s Weekend, and I relish the opportunity to enjoy the spring show.
This year, there are two of them – one-acts, independent from one another but linked in many ways. Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound, and No Exit, by Jean-Paul Sartre, respectively directed by Mitchell Cieminski, and the creative team consisting of Kelsey Breseman and Ian Hoover, will be presented again on Friday, March 1st at 8pm, and on Saturday at the same time. Even though I am on my February break from my devised theatre studies in Toronto, I appreciated a thought-provoking evening’s fare at Sorenson last weekend. It was encouraging to find such ambitious plays on the roster.
Popping the Olin Bubble: March 2012 Edition
2/1 Egyptian protestors outside the presidental palace in Cairo, demand President Mohammed Morsi to leave office.
2/2 The five men accused of raping a female student in India plead not guilty.
2/3 The inventor of the Etch A Sketch, Andre Cassagnes, dies at 86.
2/4 A skeleton found under a carpark in Leicester, England are confirmed to be the bones of the English king Richard III.
Useless Words from Kelsey’s Collection
tricoteuse: one of a number of women who sat and knitted while attending public executions during the French Revolution
osculation: the act of kissing; a kiss
soucouyant: a witch believed to shed her skin by night and suck victims’ blood
ratiocination: the process of logical reasoning
trichotillomania: a compulsion to pull out one’s hair and often to ingest it
weltanschauung: world view; a framework through which to interpret the world
imbricate: having overlapping edges; to arrange so that the edges overlap
Making Our Campus Safer
Recent discussions were catalyzed by ‘It Happens Here’, (Frankly Speaking Oct 2012). Spurred by these discussions, three students approached Frankly Speaking about publishing a moderated discussion on what the Olin community can do to prevent rape. This is an excerpt of that discussion.
Green Space: March
Bikes are better than cars. They are touted for their health benefits to both the individual and the planet, but those arguments are cliche and unheeded. Though more exist, I use two facets of bicycles to justify my riding and hope that you will too.
The first is that of scale. Simply put, bikes are on the human scale. Remind yourself that power lost to wind, which accounts for 90% of a vehicle’s mechanical effort, is related to a body’s frontal area and velocity-cubed. Bikes are on the order of the ideal size, in that making a bike smaller would have little effect on the frontal area of the rider-vehicle system.
Bohemian Media for the Collegiate Soul
Desert Solitaire
Edward Abbey
A candid collection of sketches from Abbey’s days as a park ranger in Utah. It’s angsty, insigtful, and adventurous. My favorite read of the new year.
“There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount… There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.”
Bringing Olin to the World: Artisan’s Asylum
It can be difficult to transition to the “real world” of 9-5 jobs and corporate life after graduating from Olin, but one alum, Gui Cavalcanti (‘09) found that the real world could just as easily adapt to Olin.
Artisan’s Asylum, in Somerville, MA, is a 40,000 sq ft space dedicated to providing tools, classes, and resources to craftsmen, engineers, artists, and creators of all sorts in the community. With 3D printers, welding stations, ingeniously-decorated 100 sq ft “studio workspaces,” and vending machines stocked with Loctite and drillbits, Artisan’s Asylum feels like a strange cross between an MIT dorm and an industrial machine shop.
According to Gui, “Our mission is to make creative expression a way of life for our members – whether it’s starting a business, pursuing a hobby, or learning new skills.”