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TUESDAY, FEB 2, 2021 | VOLUME 56 | ISSUE 13

Gamestop Stock Soars

Jonathan Kawauchi

World News Editor

Massachusetts Secretary

of State Bill Galvin called for a

30-day suspension of GameStop

stock trading after the retailer’s

share prices rose to its highest

recorded price on the public

market.

“It’s dangerous not only to

the investors, but it’s dangerous

to the marketplace,” Galvin stat-

ed last Wednesday on CNBC.

The recent interest surround-

ing GameStop stems from an in-

ternet community’s recent heavy

investments in the company’s

shares after two major invest-

ment firms had shorted the

stock. The reddit community r/

WallStreetBets, known for past

major financial involvements

such as the exploitation of a bug

in the stock trading app Robin-

hood which resulted in the gen-

eration of an infinite amount of

investments, has once again

grabbed media attention for

reckless involvement in the fi-

nancial trading scene. GameStop,

the most prominent US brick

and mortar gaming retailer, has

been on the decline as games

companies and distribution have

continually shifted towards an

online medium. With the addi-

tional financial strain of COVID-

19, investment firms Citron Re-

search and Melvin Capital bet

that the company stock would

continue to drop, known as

shorting. WallStreetBets, cur-

rently composed of over 3.5 mil-

lion members, noticed that these

firms had created a massive

shorting investment, shorting

more share equivalents than

GameStop actually has, and de-

cided to collectively buy-in and

trigger a ‘short squeeze’.

While there is no singular

reason for this collective action,

some of the listed reasons in-

cluded a general nostalgia for the

franchise, a general resentment

of actual Wall Street investors,

and the small possibility of the

company finances stabilizing due

to the new generation of con-

soles.

The game store’s stock price,

which was less than $3 last

spring and $18 a few weeks ago,

surpassed $380 on Wednesday

morning. While the total losses

suffered by the firm are un-

known, it has been confirmed

that both firms have dropped

their positions. The Citron man-

aging partner Andrew Left con-

firmed in a video on Wednesday

that the firm’s position was cov-

ered when GameStop traded at

$90 at a loss of 100%. Melvin

Capital has received a $2.75 bil-

l i o n i n v e s t m e n t f r o m

firms Point72 and Citadel to

help it weather the losses from

t h e i r s h o r t p o s i t i o n i n

GameStop. According to data

from financial-analytics from S3

Partners, GameStop short-sellers

have lost more than $5 billion.

The news has also drawn

attention outside the reddit so-

cial media sphere. Billionaire in-

vestor Chamath Palihapitiya

tweeted that he bought call op-

tions on GameStop. By February

19, if GME stocks are trading

above $140, Palihapitiya could

pay $575,000 for 5,000 shares of

GameStop at $115 per share. Tes-

la CEO Elon Musk has further

contributed to the media hype

train by tweeting ‘Gamestonk’

with a link to the WallStreet-

Bets page, which resulted in a

sudden spike in shares.

Despite billions of dollars

being involved, individuals of

WallStreetBets seem to have lit-

tle regard for the consequences

of their actions on others or

themselves.

“WHAT IS AN ACTUAL RA-

T I O N A L S E L L I N G P O I N T ,

(ABOVE 200? 500?) SO I DONT

HAVE TO WATCH THIS TICK-

ER EVERY SECOND UNTIL

FRIDAY/MONDAY????” one user

wrote in a Reddit discussion

Tuesday afternoon as GameStop

soared. “I HAVE NO IDEA

WHAT I’M DOING,” adding that

they had other things to do.

“hey mom i can’t come up for

dinner,” another user wrote. “i’m

bankrupting a 10 figure hedge

fund with the boys.”

The impact on financial

firms has raised concerns that

investors are taking excessive

risks. Federal Reserve Chair Je-

rome Powell was asked whether

the federal government’s moves

to support markets through the

pandemic is helping to push

stock prices too high. Powell

downplayed the role of low in-

terest rates and pointed to inves-

tors’ expectations for COVID-19

vaccines and more stimulus from

Washington for the economy as

drivers of record stock prices.

As GME prices continue to

rise, smaller online investors

seem to be moving to new ven-

tures of other heavily shorted

stocks. AMC Entertainment

shares, the theater chain suffer-

ing immensely in the wake of the

pandemic, saw a surge of 301% in

stocks prices with #SaveAMC

trending on Twitter.

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Financial track of r/wallstreetbets user u/DeepF*ckingValue, most prominently known as the largest GME shareholder within the online community.

Since investing, they have netted over $17 million from GameStop shares.

Image Courtesy of Reddit

New Positive Cases from Past 7 Days

3 Students

0 Employees

0 Contractor/Affiliate

Surveillance in Total…

Total Tests Performed

Since May 2020 — 36,337

Total Positive Cases

Since May 2020 — 169

Remember to continue following campus guidelines and

performing self-checks. Nearly all information on new campus

policies and changes can be found in the Rose Ready document.

Most up-to-date version here —

Rose Ready Guide ,Version 16.0 (January 14, 2020)

Additional information can be found on Rose-Hulman websites.

COVID-19 and Campus: Quick Updates As of Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021... (Data from Rose-Hulman COVID-19 Dashboard )

Janine Dias Staff Writer

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Black Widow Captain America Doctor Strange

Falcon Groot Hawkeye

Hulk Iron Man Scarlet Witch

Spiderman Thor Wasp

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Cyberpunk 2077 Full Review

Matthew Supp Flipside Editor

C y b e rp u nk 2 0 7 7 i s probably one of the most talked about video games of the last five years. It is a game that developers CD Projekt Red had in the works for roughly 9 years prior to its re-lease. I am not the one to talk about the development of the code involved, or about the build of the game itself. In-stead, I will talk solely about fluidity of the mechanics, g a m e p l a y , a n d s t o r y .

Before that though, I will start by saying that I have played around 85 hours on an Xbox Series S, the purely digi-tal version of the new genera-tion of Xbox consoles. I have heard adverse things about the game on other consoles. For instance, the Xbox One line and PS4 have had lots of is-sues, not only with the graphics but also with the gameplay itself. If you are cu-rious as to how the game runs on PC, I recommend reading the Issue 10 article from Aidan about his first impressions.

Now to the juicy part. First, the fluidity. What I mean by this is how well the game flows, regardless of what it is you are doing. Whether it is playing the intricate main story line, driving a stupidly fast car through the winding streets of Night City, or just

trying to find the coolest com-bination of clothes, the game is as smooth as can be. I have had no bugs or disruptions that inhibit my ability to play the game I want to. The very few things I have seen in terms of fluidity have to do with tex-tures overlapping, or a car get-ting stuck underneath another one. However these are things that happen in every open world or large-mapped game, like Skyrim or Grand Theft Auto V.

Next on my list, the game-play. There is a ton of custom-ization with how you play this game. If you want to use a baseball bat to take on the scum and villains of the city, by all means do so. If you want to add blades to your forearms like some kind of cyborg mon-ster, you go for it. The sheer amount of weapons and ways to use them fills this game with replayability and makes no two save files the same. The clothes are another story entirely. Even if you wanted to, you probably could not find all the clothes there are to find in the city. I find it better to find clothes that not only fit my aesthetic liking, but al-so fit my character’s personali-ty. However if you really wanted to, you could combine clothing pieces and find that the outfit you land on is in-credibly dumb looking, yet provides you with the best ar-mor out there. And the vast-

ness of the items that you can pick up along the way is quite something. You will find that you may not need hardly any of them besides the combat explosives and quick heals, but they give you a really cool glimpse into the background of the game.

Now for the story. There are three basic character builds to choose from, aside from the intricate character customization in the start of the game. You can choose from Corporate, Nomad, and Street Kid when the game begins. Each one provides a different look into the clashing social classes. I chose to play Corpo-rate, or Corpo, on my first run of the game, however I plan on playing through each life path after finishing. I have read that this decision has very lit-tle overall impact in the game’s story, however they each give you slightly different perks and voice lines. Okay, now for the actual story. Basi-cally, you are trying to survive by whatever means in a world that doesn’t favor you being there. Whether it comes from thieving, killing, or sabotag-ing, you do what it takes to get your rep up and to do what is right. After a mission gone wrong, you are intro-duced to my favorite character in the game, Johnny Silver-hand, who is played by none other than Keanu Reeves. He, practically as a figment of

your imagination, leads you through the “steel hellscape” that is Night City. The main problem is that this figment is slowly taking over your con-sciousness and will inevitably kill you. That is, if you can’t find the right people to help. Johnny will guide you in one direction, you will take up an-other direction, and your con-tractor/mercenary will lead you in another direction. All with the intent of getting Keanu out of your head and saving your life. You have the option to play through these as quickly as the game allows or, like me, take your sweet ol’ time and rack up a bunch of money and resources through the various types of side mis-sions.

This was a big review, I know, but I could honestly go on for much, much longer. This game has its drawbacks and bugs, as does any huge open world game. However, I believe that in a few years, af-ter either a remastered version or a more polished version is released, that this game will be regarded very highly. All in all, there is a ton of variability in the way you can play this game, and the replayability seems very high. If you are willing to look past the minor bugs that appear while play-ing, this is a game that you will love to play.

Not-so-Nationally Recognized Colin Beach Rose News Editor

Back du ring my f irst

year he re at Rose - Hulman,

my third ever day of c las-

ses fe l l o n Lab or Day . I

though t i t was o dd to have

school on a nat io nal and

federal hol i day , es pecial ly

one of the more wel l -

known ones , bu t I f igure d

it w as bec ause we sta rte d

the ac ademic year weeks

later th an othe r u nivers i-

t ies . H owever , th e same

fee l ing of o ddity ca me back

to me l ate r that y ear fo r

E a s t e r . R o s e d o e s n o t

str ic tly le an to o ne re l igi on

in a ny means , but I was not

used to t reat ing Easter as

just a nothe r week end be-

tween classes , wi th what

seemed to be l i t t le recogni-

t ion from the camp us com-

munity . Addi tional ly , the

t imeframe mea nt I was un-

able to retu rn ho me and

celebra te with my family ,

which meant a lot to me

(as wou ld for o thers) . I

hadn’ t been able to go

home for a Christm as cele-

brat ion e ithe r bec a use we

were st i l l in c lasses unti l

four days before the hol i-

day . My connect ions to l i fe

outs ide R ose had taken a

major hi t .

The fee l ing came back

once more th is p ast week

on ML K Day and w as bui l t

upon af ter some fe l l ow stu-

dents expressed th e same

disappo intme nt . A fede ral

hol iday whe re mos t o ther

schools woul d ge t the day

of f f rom classes – for the

purpose of a l lowi ng t ime

to ref lec t o n th e day ’s

meaning and impo rtance –

was no t bei ng trea ted the

same here at Rose . While

Rose does exh ibit i ncre di-

ble d ivers i ty amo ng i ts

c a m p u s c o m m u ni ty , a nd

the c ommemorative events

provi ded sha re e xcel lent

ins igh t o n the w orl d, ma ny

students bel ieve th ere was

more tha t coul d ha ve been

done . No ma tte r th e event

being held , day or nigh t , a

majority of stu de nts are

surely busy in c lass or

swamped with h o mework,

making a ttendance and cel-

ebrat ion much mo re d i f f i -

c u l t . Th e p a nde m i c , o f

c o u r s e , m a k e s c a m p u s

gathe rings and reco gni tio n

harde r , but the M LK Day

commemorati on l a st year

w a s s t i l l a n i g h t t i m e

speaker when stu dents are

o f t e n b u s i e s t . C o n v o c a -

tions l ike those du ring my

freshman year di d a much

bette r job at sett ing as i de

t ime dur ing the day and al-

lowing stu dents to reco g-

niz e the im po rta nc e of

s p e a k e r s ’ m e s s a g e s a n d

global movements , but in-

volvement was st i l l l im-

ited .

C e l e b r a t i n g h i s t o r i c a l

and re l i gious da tes means

giving stude nts th e t ime ,

not just the o ppo rtunity ,

to pu t the mea ning of the

day into ful l focus . Limited

observat ion of ML K Day is

e s p e c i a l l y p r o m i n e n t i n

these t imes of u nnatu ral

divide i n the country . The

importance of the day has

s a d l y b e e n d e b a t e d b y

some s ince i t was a dvoca t-

ed fo r f ol lowi ng Martin

Luther King, J r . ’ s assass i-

nati on (i t d id no t b ecome a

recognized nati ona l hol i-

day unti l f i f tee n yea rs afte r

h i s d e a t h ) . M L K D a y

stands f or a numbe r of is -

sues – no t just ra ce and

equal ity – and no t p roperly

observing the day shows a

certa in d isregard or lack of

inte rest i n th ose issues

that the day rep resents .

Said o ne s tude nt , “ I t ’ s an

important day f or many.

The Civi l Ri ghts Act of

1964 didn’t come e asy .” I t

is unde rsta nda bly di f f icul t

to a djust the de manding

schedule of a Rose - Hulman

academic ye ar , bu t the re

are certai nly be tte r ways of

informi ng the stude nt body

and help ing them c elebrate

the dates symbolic of l i fe

and love .

Good Monopolies Glody Mutebwa Opinions Editor

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Men’s Basketball Caleigh Kintner

Sports Editor

The Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech-nology volleyball team relied on a bal-anced team performance to defeat Manchester University 25-20, 25-20, 25-17 in the 2020-21 season opener at Hulbert Arena on Saturday. Elizabeth Canon led the Fightin' Engi-neers with seven kills. Brookelyn Co-rona, Allie Fults and Kate Wood each had five kills for Rose-Hulman. Sophia Harrison paced the squad with 14 assists, and Kylie Rathbun added eight assists. Katryna Dahlberg recorded 18 digs, Canon had 10 digs and Sophia Koop added 10 digs to lead the Fightin' Engineer defense. Corona and Koop each had two solo blocks to lead an effort that included seven block solos and six block assists. Rose-Hulman relied on a strong finish to claim set one, after scoring three straight points to turn a 19-17 edge into a 22-17 lead. The Fightin' Engineers claimed three of the last four points to secure set two, then pulled away late in the final set to earn the sweep. Rose-Hulman stands 1-0 on the season, while Manchester dropped to 1-6 af-ter competing in several fall season matches. The Fightin' Engineers are scheduled to travel to Franklin College on Wednesday.

Women’s Volleyball

Caleigh Kintner

Sports Editor The intricate ballet begins at sunrise and ends after dark, a complicated series of move-ments requiring the utmost precision for what has long been a very simple task — getting tennis players to and from the courts so they can practice ahead of a profes-sional tournament.

There is a strict routine to enforce social distancing: a series of knocks on hotel doors every five minutes,

checking and rechecking that hallways are clear and that people are where they must be, whether that is in a van, or on the court, or the gym, or a dining pod, and then a thor-ough cleaning of their trail. The whole process, moving every available player to and from training in waves, can last almost 16 hours.

Alarms not going off or a little dawdling can cost players their precious daily chance to emerge from their rooms and prepare for the Australian Open, the first major tourna-ment of the year, scheduled to start on Feb. 8.

“The amount of planning is amazing,” Kevin Anderson, the veteran South African, said of the regimen, which began early last week, soon after a fleet of players arrived in the country on specially chartered flights. “You don’t see anybody.”

This is what happens when you try to bring more than 1,200 people, including hundreds of athletes, from overseas to a country that has largely rid itself of the coronavirus, and that will go to great lengths to assure that it does not return to the community.

After months of intense, police-enforced lockdowns throughout the country, Australia has averaged just 11 daily cases the past two weeks. The limited number of travelers al-lowed in from overseas each day has accounted for most of the positive tests. In other words, in a country of more than 25 million people, community spread is largely nonex-istent.

The effort to keep things that way, while holding the Open and multiple warm-up events, has been bumpy. Ten people arriving on three of the chartered flights for the events, including one player, have tested positive for the coronavirus.

That prompted health officials to order all 72 players on those planes to stay in their hotel rooms for 14 days.

One of those 72, Paula Badosa of Spain, tested positive Wednesday, seemingly dashing any hopes that players from those flights who have repeatedly tested negative since landing might be released early from the hard lockdown. Badosa, 23, flew to Australia from Abu Dhabi, on the same flight that transported Bianca Andreescu’s coach, Sylvain Bruneau, who tested positive for the virus shortly after landing in Melbourne.

All of the players had expected to be able to spend two hours practicing at a tennis cen-

ter and 90 minutes in a gym every day during the two weeks leading up to the competi-tions. After the 72 players learned they were being locked down, organizers faced a mini-rebellion.

Melburnians, who were subject to a strict 111-day lockdown from June to October that closed schools and businesses and prevented them from leaving their homes for more than an hour each day, have reacted angrily. Ticket sales came to a standstill. Politicians denounced the decision to hold the competitions.

Tennis Australia has pressed on, adhering to a series of protocols aimed at keeping the community safe amid the influx of foreigners. And nothing represents the lengths to which the organization will go to stage its tournaments better than the elaborate puz-zle of getting players from three hotels to two tennis centers while minimizing the risk of spreading infection, either to one another or to the locals.

The strict process of moving the hundreds of players and their coaches through four different stops each day and keeping practice groups separate has not been an easy ad-justment for players. In normal times, they set up hitting sessions with their fellow players on the fly, Anderson said.

Also, while the players have existed in bubblelike environments at tournaments since the sport returned in August after a long shutdown, they did not have to deal with such strict restrictions at the previous two Grand Slams, the United States Open in New York in late summer and the French Open in Paris in early fall.

Covid-19 was circulating in those communities, so the sport’s traveling circus did not present the kind of risk to those cities that they do here. In those cases, the players seemed to be more at risk than the public.

Twice last week she had to be on the court at 8 a.m., which doesn’t sound bad, but she is not a morning person, and that court time meant a knock on the door at 7:45, which meant rising at 6:30 for coffee, a bite to eat, a pre-training session with her physiothera-pist in the adjoining room — a warm-up that involves jumping rope and stretching with elastic bands — then gathering all her equipment so she could be ready for the knock on the door and to take the court as soon as she reached the tennis center.

Players who miss the window lose their slot and their chance to practice that day. And by Friday, the tournament organizers realized that they needed to redraw the schedule so players like Vekic could have fitness sessions when they arrive at the tennis centers, rather than being sent immediately to the courts for practice.

At Melbourne Park, the site of the tournament, and Albert Reserve, a nearby training center, each player practiced with one preselected partner for the first week. The group-ings would grow to foursomes for the second week.

A marshal oversees each group, monitors the players’ movements and tells them when to move from one area to the next.

Officials have set up a series of individual fitness pods on a low floor of a parking garage, and there are fitness tents equipped with cardio machines, medicine balls, kettle bells and other equipment next to some of the courts. When the players are moved to their next stations, a cleaning crew descends.

Then there is an hour to eat in another isolated location, before the van ride back to the hotel and a trek back to the room that is just as choreographed and regimented as the departure.

Australian Open Tennis Practice

Credit: The New York Times

Caleigh Kintner

Sports Editor

Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech-

nology shot 55% from the field

and committed just five turnovers

in the game to easily defeat Hano-

ver College 86-62 in men's basket-

ball action on Saturday afternoon

at Hulbert Arena.

Junior Samvit Ram and fresh-

man Dillon Duff scored 16 points

each to lead a balanced scoring at-

tack. Ram had a career-high in scor-

ing with a 6-9 performance from the

field and 4-6 from three-point

range. Duff was 7-10 from the field

and 2-3 on the free throw line in the

performance.

Other Fightin' Engineers in double

figures included Terry Hicks with 12

points on 5-6 from the field;

and Jackson Kabrick with 10 points

on 4-4 from the field with five re-

bounds. Senior Craig

McGee orchestrated much of the

offense with nine assists and no

turnovers in the contest.

Other key offensive contributors in-

cluded Zach Callahan with eight

points on 4-4 from the field; Isaac

Farnsworth with seven points;

and Jacob Back with six points on 3-

3 from the field.

Rose-Hulman relied on one historic

statistic to jump out to a 47-27 lead

at the half. The Fightin' Engineers

committed no turnovers in the first

half, marking the first time in over 20

years that Rose-Hulman has played a

half of basketball without a turno-

ver. Combine 63% shooting from the

field and 13 first half points from

Ram, and the lead reached 20 by the

break.

In the second half, the offensive run

continued with Rose-Hulman push-

ing the lead as high as 30 points mid-

way through the second half. Ty

Houston led the Hanover attack

with 13 points.

Rose-Hulman improved to 3-1 with

the victory, while Hanover dropped

to 2-2. The Fightin' Engineers are

scheduled to return to action on

Thursday with a home matchup

against Mount St. Joseph.

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Is Rose Hulman headed

down the wrong path? EB Kneeczar Screwj The more time I spend on campus, the more I get the feeling that it is possessed. Possessed by what? By the ghosts of students past, the ghosts of students present, and the ghosts of students yet to come. Yes this is a slight allusion to that one no-name guy’s story about some meaningless holiday, however that does not mean that there is no truth in my words, let me explain. I have spent my time here brooding in my room, slaving away at the hours upon hours it takes to code when you have no experience. I have spent my time here scouring over dozens of research paper abstracts, trying to find which ones have free pdfs. And I have spent my time here attempting to find peace amongst a seemingly endless stream of moodle assignments. I feared my time here would be fruitless; my efforts would prove to be in vain. But alas, a miracle occurred! I was lolling to sleep one night when out of the blue, a whisper found its way into my ear: “Why is your room set at 55˚ dude, that is way too cold.” I sat upright and was face to face with what appeared to be a hologram. Before I could react, the thing moved towards me and touched my forehead. The next thing I know I was transported back to the year 1884, the tenth anniversary of RHIT. I looked around for something that I recognized and finally found the plainness of what I knew to be Deming Hall. I peered inside to find students bustling about, debating over which side of the civil war was right. I blinked and the next place I saw was now, the current RHIT. It appeared the same as it always had, yet for some reason it felt warm-er, more welcoming, most likely because it was the middle of September. It felt good and freeing, but at the same time, it reeled me in and made me want to stay. But my ghost pal wasn’t having that, and took me to the year 2158, a year in which the US was now the New United Empire. I saw things you wouldn’t believe: 67% of students were girls, and our football team just beat Alabama for the 75th year in a row. We had 15,000 students and about half of them were interplanetary students. It was incredible, yet something felt off. I asked the ghost thingy if this was the future. He looked at me, smiled, and gestured for me to follow. We went to what I thought was the KIC/BIC. Except this building was massive. Twenty stories high and eight stories wide, it was the epitome of Rose Hulman using its endowment. We opened the doors to a huge array of makerspaces, each designed specifically for the competition teams using them. We took the elevator to the top floor and walked until we came to a very grandiose door. As we neared, it slowly opened, as if expecting an apparition and his companion to arrive. But the doors opened for another. Walking from behind us was the body of someone I recognized. I knew in my soul that this couldn't be, yet my eyes refused to deceive me. It was none other than Patsy Brackin, head of the Engineering Design Department, looking as lively as ever. Even though I was in a kind of dreamlike trance, I could feel a cold sweat running down my spine. I rubbed my eyes to make sure I wasn’t tripping, and when I moved my hands, I was back in my room, face to face with the ghost. “That’s the future if you don’t turn your damn temperature up. The AC becomes too expensive for Rose to handle, so they grant Dr. Brackin emergency powers. She used these powers to remain a part of the faculty and out-teach her tenure. She then used her EngD minions to fix her mortality, so that she could reign over the school forever.” I sprang out of bed and turned the temperature up to a nice 69˚, hoping that it would change the future for the better.

The State of the RHIT

Rose Hulman is entering crunch time. It is that time of

the quarter when students truly begin to see the

detrimental affects of procrastination. It is now when all

hopes are driven to their breaking points, all dreams

crushed in the jaws of reality, all goals seemingly getting

farther and farther away, and the realization of time

itself is as daunting as ever. Will the students find

salvation? Will they fight? Or will they perish like a dog?

Oh, and also the lake is frozen over again so it’ll make the

cool whoom whoom whoom sound when you skip rocks.

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