<p>I think Caltech is becoming the Wm Hung of teams. Here's link to latest article:
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-plaschke29jan29,1,6860576.column?coll=la-headlines-sports%5B/url%5D">http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-plaschke29jan29,1,6860576.column?coll=la-headlines-sports</a></p>
<p>Well, most of the good college basketball players will be working for Caltech grads 15 years down the line so, I'm not too worried ;)</p>
<p>During the handshake line after one loss a couple of years ago, the opponents were dismissively greeting the Beavers with, "Great game, now go find a cure for cancer."</p>
<p>One of the players on that team, Gustavo Olm, finally fired back.</p>
<p>"When I do find a cure for cancer," he said, "I ain't giving it to you."</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>The team is playing Occidental at home this wed. nice to support caltech players. Oxi is having great season, and unless something from chaos theory occurs, could be disheartening. What's probability of a win?</p>
<p>Hey, he was nicer to Caltech than Sports Illustrated!</p>
<p>poor guys... It seems that those reporters want the whole world (US, at least) to know about Caltech BB team...</p>
<p>Hmm...maybe they could put their waterboy into the line-up...lol</p>
<p>And who will carry the DHMO, pray tell?</p>
<p>I've heard that teams opposing MIT tend to go with the "Don't hate me, you're going to be my boss some day" handshake line talk -- and I'm willing to bet Caltech's basketball team gets a lot of that too.</p>
<p>The MIT cheerleaders have briefly (albeit semi-seriously) considered instating the "It's all right, it's okay, you're gonna pump our gas someday" cheer... but figured it's a little too close to reality for a college basketball game. ;)</p>
<p>Wow this is because of that SI article for sure. This is lame, but in the eyes of the general public, caltech is just a bunch of nerdy losers who suck at sports. No one really looks up to caltech like they do for harvard and yale, they look down on the loser asian kids they can beat up. I cant think of a single person who graduated from caltech who is really important figure. (im sure there are people like that though). oh well the stereotype is furthered and humiliated once again.</p>
<p>(seriously, i cant. i mean harvard has had a ton of presidents etc. princeton has a bunch of important people, yale has had the last 3 us presidents. stanford has condi rice and grover cleveland, but i cant think of a single important person who graduated from caltech-help me!)</p>
<p>Recently: the founder of Intel (Gordon Moore), the founder of Compaq, the inventor of Mathmatica, are three people that come to mind who are certainly very "important" in industry.</p>
<p>As you know, Caltech is a giant in science. We have, overall, a dozen physics Nobel Laureates... and Linus Pauling -- the only person ever to win two Nobel Prizes. The ratio of Nobel prize winners to total alumni is the highest at Caltech of any university in the world.</p>
<p>Obviously we're not as much into politics as Harvard and Yale, but we did have as an alumnus John M. Poindexter, National Security Advisor to Ronald Reagan (the Condi of the Reagan years). Amusingly, the former Prime Minister of Iceland (Steingr</p>
<p>Caltech NOTABLE ALUMNI</p>
<p>In addition to 17 Nobel Prize-winning scientists, Caltech has over 20,000 living alumni and has produced leaders in almost every field imaginable.</p>
<p>Following is a brief sampling of notable former Techers.
* Moshe Arens, former Israeli minister of defense and foreign affairs
* Arnold O. Beckman, founder and chairman emeritus, Beckman Instruments
* David Brin, science-fiction writer (Startide Rising; The Postman; Foundation's Triumph)
* Frank Capra, film director (It Happened One Night; Lost Horizon; It's a Wonderful Life)
* Chester F. Carlson, inventor of Xerography (photocopying)
* James E. Hall, founder and president, Jim Hall Racing
* Steingrimur Hermannsson, former prime minister, Iceland
* David Ho, director, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center; 1996 Time magazine Man of the Year
* Alan P. Lightman, theoretical physicist-cum-novelist and essayist (Einstein's Dreams; Dance for Two; Good Benito)
* Sandra Tsing Loh, writer/performer (Depth Takes a Holiday; Aliens in America; If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home by Now)
* Ruben F. Mettler, retired chairman and CEO, TRW Inc.
* Gordon E. Moore, chairman emeritus and cofounder, Intel Corp.
* Arati Prabhakar, former director, National Institute of Standards and Technology
* Allen E. Puckett, chairman emeritus, Hughes Aircraft Co.
* Simon Ramo, cofounder, TRW Inc.
* Joseph Rhodes, former state representative, deputy secretary of commerce, and member of the Public Utility Commission, Pennsylvania
* Benjamin M. Rosen, chairman of the board, Compaq Computer Corp.
* Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut; former U.S. senator
* T. A. Wilson, chairman emeritus, Boeing Company
* Dean E. Wooldridge, cofounder, TRW Inc.
* Mark S. Wrighton, chancellor, Washington University, St. Louis</p>
<p>that's taken from their website... I've never even heard of most of these people though.</p>
<p>Let's not forget these alumni are all coming from a comparatively tiny school.</p>
<p>Thanks! (though i havnt heard of any of pacific_fleet's people either)</p>
<p>i think that any Nobel Prize winner had done for the world a lot more than any (well, at least a great deal) of our presidents (im not taking into account those presidents who did recieve this prize, and presidents that would most certainly have recieved it, had they lived to
the right time)</p>
<p>Perhaps a brush-up in history is in order. You Caltech folks can probably supply the names of many graduates who have done notable things, whether or not they have household names. The Stanford board could clarify that the president who graduated from that university was Herbert Hoover, while the University of Denver will likely be reluctant to give up their famous alumna.</p>
<p>To give you an idea of the size, Stanford and Harvard 7 times as large as us, and Yale almost 6 times as large. Furthermore, almost no one goes to Caltech with the goal of getting into politics -- remember, we're a scientific institute.</p>
<p>Yes. That is true. Condi was provost of Stanford, while she graduated from Denver.</p>
<p>So we have a National Secruity Adviser and Stanford doesn't ;-)</p>
<p>I might be wrong about this, but I believe Boeing Aircraft Company was founded by 3 Caltech alums.</p>
<p>BB team is legitimate, "scrappy, tenanicious team, engaged coach"
<a href="http://www.d3hoops.com/releases.php?release=45430%5B/url%5D">http://www.d3hoops.com/releases.php?release=45430</a></p>