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Many of the characters were inherently funny: a buff but sensitive astronaut named Jed Eyenite (Darin P. Goulet '97), a thpitting thucker named Sally Vader (Danton S. Char '98), an arch-browed failed villainness named Irma Geddon (Jesse J. Hawkes '99) and a nerdy Bob Marley named Cal Ipsobeat (Robert E. Schlesinger '00). Not to mention the undeniable show-stealer by virtue of costume, Hugh Jegg (Jason R. Mills '99), an enormous specimen of the ovarian persuasion who did a mean Philip Marlowe imitation...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Drinks Before, Not After | 3/11/1997 | See Source »

...puns took on a life of their own. Consider Cal Ipsobeat's confession that as an un-hip Jamaican, he thought dreadlocks (which he sports) was a lousy bagel spread. Or a crew member's observation that the gold C3PO knockoff Mike Rosoft (Geoff Oxnard '99) is Excel-lent. Or Sally Vader's encouragement to Hugh Jegg to "Just keep your sunny side up and maybe this will all go over easy!" Not to mention the endless hard-boiled detective references and Star Wars ripoffs...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Drinks Before, Not After | 3/11/1997 | See Source »

...Princeton over Cal. Cal's leading scorer, Ed Gray, is out. And Princeton likes beating PAC-10 teams in the first round (just ask UCLA...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Kansas Over Kentucky | 3/11/1997 | See Source »

Shameel Arafin '97 left Cal Tech after his junior year, abandoning the prospects of a career in electrical engineering to study literature...

Author: By Charles G. Kels, | Title: A Whole New World | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

...class at Cal Tech, only 30 percent were women, and that was the highest percentage ever," Arafin says. "Here, I can go out into Boston and party quite...

Author: By Charles G. Kels, | Title: A Whole New World | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

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