PRANKS This will sound like something out of Scooby-Doo (“What are you kids doing with my pallet of sod?”) or Sherlock Holmes (“The Case of the Kidnapped Cannon”), but here it is: we sometimes build community by playing pranks. Very complicated, labor-intensive pranks that are reversible, do no harm, and we would cop to them if nec- essary. Examples: students wedged a friend’s Volkswagen Beetle into a hallway in East Dorm. Students dressed as construction workers, carrying “official” documents requesting its repair and removed a massive cannon from Caltech’s campus. Students removed the furniture in the Dean of Students Office, set down a layer of fresh sod, and replaced the furniture. We’re hoping you’ll understand.
THE HONOR CODE “Every student is responsible for maintaining his or her integ- rity and the integrity of the college community in all academic matters and in all affairs concerning the community.” That’s our Honor Code. Students wrote it and watch over it, students are bound by it and live it every day. Professors return graded tests and assign- ments in open mailboxes. Students take closed-book, timed exams in their dorm rooms. Everyone has 24-hour access—via coded key pads—to our computers and many labs, studios and shops. If you break the Honor Code, you and your peers wrestle with the consequences. It’s living proof that you’re an adult, responsible to yourself and to your community. What a smart, sensible, sane way to live.
DIVERSITY Diversity has a real tangible meaning here. We know: you know all about it, it’s been beaten to a flavorless pulp. But at HMC, diversity has an almost existential importance to us. Why? Because science abhors sameness. The work we love would come to a halt if every scientist thought the same way, came from the same community, operated under the same assumptions. Science moves forward when someone approaches a problem in an unexpected way, applies new knowledge to an old truth, proposes a new vision of the way the world is arranged. And that happens only if the scientific community is, for lack of a better word, diverse. So we take it seriously. Our Office of Institutional Diversity provides funding for cultural programs sponsored by student clubs and hosts the Summer Institute, an intensive two-and-a-half- week residential experience that offers selected students an early introduc- tion to HMC. And we offer a network of student groups and campus resources dedicated to global awareness, cultural pluralism and personal achievement.
Asian-American Resource Center (CC) The Asian and Pacific Islander Sponsor Program at Mudd Chicano/Latino Student Affairs Center (CC) International Place (CC) The National Society of Black Engineers Office of Black Student Affairs (CC)
Office of the Chaplains (CC) People Respecting Individuals’ Sexualities at Mudd (PRISM) Queer Resource Center (CC) The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers The Society of Women Engineers
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