Osler's Razor

Wandering the campus of Cal Tech last week, I happened to pick up the school newspaper, the Tech. Wow! What a bizarre read...

First of all, Cal Tech (ranked as the best university in the world) is on NCAA probation for athletic rule violations. Really. For a division III team that plays in a league with Pomono-Pitzer and Citrus College, it's a little hard to believe.

More inscrutable, though, is the Tech's humor page-- it's like a scrambled version of the Family Circus.

Then there is this: The Freshman class at Cal Tech includes "a blacksmith, an individual who created a measurement system consisting entirely of Froot Loops®, and a young woman from Iowa who designed her own wetsuit." I get the first two, but why in the heck is someone in Iowa even wanting a wetsuit? Hmmmm....