If you watched the Dec. 19 broadcast of the CBS television show "NUMB3RS," you may have noticed the script included the arrest of a fictional Harvey Mudd College graduate student. Not only do we not have suspected felons in our midst, we don't have any graduate students, either!

We could suspect script-writing foul play on the part of the show's advisers, some of whom hail from our rival Caltech (a.k.a. CalSci in the show). After all, there could still be some resentment of HMC pranksters "borrowing" their cannon a few years ago. Or perhaps that we trounced them in a recent global cyberbattle.

Maybe it was HMC's good friend Bill Nye ("The Science Guy") who inserted us into the plot. He has a regular gig on the show as CalSci Professor Bill Waldie, whose character—appropriately for a friend of Mudd—manages the combustion lab. He was our commencement speaker last year and we tried to treat him right. Maybe the hors d'oeuvres at the reception didn't agree with him.

We're not complaining, mind you, because we're big fans of "NUMB3RS" and the way it demonstrates the critical role mathematics plays in our world today. In fact, HMC President Maria Klawe is co-chair of the executive steering committee of the Los Angeles chapter of Math for America, a "NUMB3RS" sponsor.

In any event, it's nice to have our name on national television again. We just wish "NUMB3RS" accurately portrayed our very brilliant UNDERGRADUATES doing what they really do—solve problems in order to make the world a better place.