Tom Mannion (left) and the much-beloved Davey (right).

November 16th, 2025, 10pm – 11pm, Hameetman Conference Room

On a late September morning, a caravan of first-year students and faculty packed into SUVs and drove about 30 miles down Highway 101, windows down, the smell of salty ocean air rushing through the cars.

One afternoon, a father gave his young son an antibiotic for a routine throat infection. Days later, something changed. The child became withdrawn, stopped making eye contact. Within weeks, doctors diagnosed him with autism.

They call it the American Dream, but no one talks about the weight it places on your shoulders.

When I took over the Tech Editorship in April 2023, I only knew one thing about journalism: it was going to stop happening at Caltech unless somebody stepped up to lead it. With a dream of remedying the post-pandemic admin-student animosity but zero reporting experience, I was in for a daunting task. Then Richard Kipling emailed me and offered to buy me a coffee.

Richard Kipling, former director of the Los Angeles Times’ Minority Editorial Training Program and longtime adviser to The California Tech, died this November 10 at age 81.

The ’60s were a wild time. Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. Counterculture swept the nation. The Peace Corps mobilized.

How can clay from the Appalachian Mountains, Kilkenny stone from Ireland, and porcelain made in the Song Dynasty come together cohesively? In “the eight directions of the wind” at The Huntington, lauded author and artist Edmund de Waal explores how art made from these materials, among many pieces of porcelain and poetry, connects histories across borders and through time.

The California Tech is at once delighted and horrified to announce that we have, as of October 2nd of this year, been cited in another publication. Namely, by the National Association of Scholars (NAS), a conservative 501(c)(3) founded in 1987 for the preservation of “Western intellectual heritage.”