Congratulations to Hall Daily on his Retirement!

Hall Daily, Caltech's Director for Government Relations, is retiring after a long tenure on the job.

Back in my undergrad era, Hall Daily was also the advisor for The California Tech (our student newspaper), of which I was a writer and co-editor. I learned a ton about journalism from Hall. He too someone who was someone who Autumn Looijen and I purposely earmarked as getting one of our free copies of Legends of Caltech III. He was an awesome advisor, and I owe a lot to him for my communication and journalistic skills. My experience with The Tech was probably more important for my career than any math or science class I ever took.

The California Tech wins college newspaper prizes

Here's something that (back in the day) I never thought would happen: The California Tech has actually won some prizes for quality work. It's come a long way...

And for those of you who aren't aware, back in the day I was a co-editor of this paper. We made some improvements back then and we definitely had our style, but it was also that style that would have made it essentially impossible to win these awards. (Granted, if we were more serious, it would have been a lot less fun to work on the paper.) There is still more work to be done, but The Tech is actually pretty decent nowadays.