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Report: Beekeepers of Clark have the Prettiest Eyes

  • Robbie Franklin
  • Oct 17, 2017
  • 1 min read

For students keeping track of the results of the student-led research that inundates our emails with requests for participation, the findings of one project in particular should prove to take Fall Fest by storm. A recent Clark University study on eye attractiveness has determined that the prettiest eyes on campus belong to the students who are members of the Beekeepers of Clark club.

The study, a LEEP project authored by Beth Holt (‘18), used a weighted score based on eye color, size, and similarity to Steve Buscemi’s (yes, actually) to objectively measure eye beauty. Holt has dubbed the metric she designed as the IRIScore. Results of the study gave members of the Beekeepers of Clark the highest cumulative IRIScore of any group on campus, which was far from the author’s hypothesis predicting that the Calligraphy Club would have the prettiest eyes. Holt eventually concluded, however, that beauty must be in the eyes of the bee holders.

 
 
 

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Hipster Quote of the Week:

" The message at the end of “The Tortoise and the Hare” isn’t that ‘slow and steady wins the race’, but actually a well-remembered quote from the 1977 Disney classic “A New Hope”: “Great kid! Don’t get cocky”. Bullshit that the hare was gonna lose that race if he didn’t choose to stop for a nap and a snack and whatever else he did. Bullshit that the tortoise was going to catch up in any capacity if the hare didn’t slow down for him. Maybe that platitude makes sense, but definitely not in this situation.

 

A race is a sheer contest of speed. No other skills go into that. The tortoise and the hare aren’t making miniature wooden horses and getting judged on the craftsmanship of their products alongside their finish time; they are moving from one point to another. In no universe does slow and steady win that race. Slow and steady wins no races, except for races where the point is to go as slow as possible. Even in cases where slow and steady could be considered a possible alternative to fast, such as the aforementioned miniature-wooden-horse-making competition, someone who can do similar quality work at a much faster pace still wins that competition.

 

Slow and steady does not win the race. Not being too full of yourself does.."

 

~Nick Gilfor

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