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The complaint alleges that the

defendants entered into a conspiracy

to conceal the homicide which they

carried out through a succession of

intentional activities including, but

not limited to, directing the Golden

Police to leave the campus; issuing a

campus-wide announcement, before

conducting an autopsy or any labo-

ratory tests, that Rio died of a drug

overdose; intentionally not interview-

ing dormitory residents; not securing

Rio’s dormitory room and searching it

for possible evidence; not directing theJefferson County coroner to perform

an autopsy to determine the cause of

death; destroying evidence that could

have lead to the identity of possible

killers, and deliberately lying to Rio’s

Nicholas’s parents about the results of

tests that had never been performed in

order to prevent them from finding out

how their son died and the identity of

the killers.

The lawsuit alleges that in spite of

the defendants’ four-year effort to con-

ceal the facts of Rio’s death, Nicholas’s

parents pursued a dedicated personal

investigation of their son’s death, until

in 2005 they obtained scientific evi-

dence that established that Rio’s body

had been moved post-mortem and that

the death scene had been staged by hiskillers to look as though his death was

unattended.

John Nicholas, Rio’s father, said in

Fredericksburg, Texas, that the family

was relieved to finally have the lawsuit

filed. “We have anguished for years

over the false and manipulative infor-

mation given to us by these defendants.

We are confident that the results of this

lawsuit will vindicate Rio’s reputation

of exemplary campus leadership and

bring to an end the reign of oppression

and unimaginable suffering inflicted

on the Nicholas family by Chief Boyd

and the other defendants.”

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Denver attorney Dan Mahoney

announced today that the parents of

Colorado School of Mines freshman

student Rio Nicholas, who died in

the Weaver Towers dormitory on

the School of Mines campus in the

early morning hours of December 6,

2001, have filed a civil rights lawsuit

in federal court in Denver against

School of Mines officials Richard M.

Boyd, the school’s Chief of Police

and Director of Public Safety; Robert

Allen, a sergeant in the school’s police

department; Harold Cheuvront, VicePresident and Dean of Students; and

Robert “Bob” Francisco, Director of

Student Life for the school.

The federal court complaint, which

seeks unspecified damages against

the four defendants, alleges that when

Boyd and Allen, experienced police

officers, arrived at the death scene in

Weaver Towers they were presented

with sufficient reason to believe that

a homicide had likely occurred, but

that after conferring with Cheuvront

and Francisco they undertook to

conceal any evidence that a homicide

had occurred in order to protect theschool from the adverse publicity of

an on-campus homicide.

After destruction hit the city of

New Orleans by way of Hurricane

Katrina, many CSM students were left

asking, “What can we do”? ASCSM

immediately went to work to find a

way for CSM students, faculty and

neighbors to help the victims of Ka-

trina. The CSM Hurricane Katrina

Relief Fundraiser provided a way for

the entire campus to donate to the

American Red Cross.

Students Dip Deep for Katrina Alicia Jessop

Student Death Spurs Lawsuit against CSM

Rio Nicholas, a student that died

in Weaver Towers in December

of 2001

Parents sue Public Safety,

Dean C, Francisco over

death of son in 2001

Richard Boyd, Director of Public

Safety and Cheif of Police

The fundraiser began with mon-

etary donations collected at Celebra-

tion of Mines. Clubs and organizations

were then invited to collect donations

and several departments also partici-

pated.

In the end, the three organizations

that raised or donated the greatest

amount were: Pi Beta Phi, Mines

Cheerleading and Circle K.

Thanks to everyone who partici-

pated, the original fundraising goal of

$2500 was surpassed. Participants

of the CSM efforts were able to raise

$4,844. Timothy Marquez, a Mines

graduate and the company that he is

C.E.O. of, Venoco, Inc, then matched

this amount.

ASCSM would like to thank every-

one who participated in this effort for

their generosity and support.

Some current events in Iraq, in-

cluding the beginning of its former

leader’s trial, seem to be going largely

unnoticed across the United States.

The finding of former Iraqi Presi-

dent Saddam Hussein on Dec. 13,

2003 was hailed as the story of the

year by some, but nearly two years

later, details of the trial that will ul-

timately determine his fate are hard

to come by.

“I don’t know if the media is pub-

licizing it as much as they should be. I

think people might be more interested

if they showed it more,” sophomore

criminal justice major Pete Tomczyk

said.

Associate political science profes-

sor Ali Riaz said there are several

reasons why Hussein’s trial has not

been in the limelight.

The first is because of the deci-

sion to not allow cameras into the

courtroom.

“Without the dramatic visuals,

people don’t take notice...and this

trial is very complicated. The general

impression was that the trial would be

Hussien Under Radara spectacle, but it’s not moving at that

pace,” Riaz said.

Hussein’s defense team was given

until Nov. 28 to study the charges

against their client after meeting for

three hours on Oct. 19 to begin the

trial.

Riaz also said Hussein’s trial has

not been publicized because of recent

events in the United States.

“There has been so much stuff go-

ing on domestically. Right now, it’s

the FBI indictment and the Supreme

Court vacancy. Before that, there was

Katrina and Wilma.

In the U.S., there’s a general reluc-

tance to know about other countries.

It’s not just [the Hussein trial]. Look

at the earthquake in Pakistan. The

death toll is at 20,000 but we aren’t

seeing it on the news... The media is

to be blamed, because they’ve failed

to communicate,” Riaz said.

Both Riaz and Tomczyk said the

fact that Hussein was not an American

figure has played a role in the apparent

lack of exposure.

“Look how much coverage the

Michael Jackson trial received...the

Kobe Bryant trial was the same way.

We have a fascination with celebri-

ties,” Riaz explained.

Hussein’s lawyers are currently

trying to get another delay as well as

change the trial venue.

Saadoun al-Janabi, one of Husse-

in’s defense lawyers, was murdered

after the trial began on Oct. 19 and

his team is requesting time to fully

investigate the situation.

They also said they want to see

the trial moved from Baghdad to The

International Court at the Hague.

During the initial session, Hus-

sein pleaded not guilty to charges of

murder, torture and unlawful impris-

onment.

The most serious charge for Hus-

sein and his seven Baath Party co-de-

fendants is the murder of 140 Shiite

Muslims after a failed attempt to take

Hussein’s life in 1982.

If Hussein is convicted, he could

face the death penalty.

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“addicts” while watching the videos,

enjoying drink specials and Lift-Off

parties at several of Copper’s bars.

Look for a major nighttime movie

event on Nov. 12; Copper is partner-

ing with BIAS media to show movies

from Level 1, Mack Dawg and TGR.

Copper will live up to its reputa-

tion as a notable live music venue,

brining in bands to rock in Copper’s

Burning Stones Plaza on Nov. 5, 6,

12 and 13. A major act will perform

in the evening on Nov. 5 in the Cop-

per Conference Center, details to be

announced. Lift-Off’s Early SeasonDemo Center will let skiers and riders

leave the early-season skis and boards

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equipment.

The Department of Interior has

rewritten the policies that govern

protection of America’s national

parks, diminishing park protection and

boosting commercialism as priorities

for the National Park Service.

Contrary to statements by the

Department of Interior last week,

the proposed policies redefine the

overarching duty of the Park Service,

weakening references to longstanding,

legal mandates that clearly emphasize

preserving the country’s heritage.

Additional changes steer the national

parks toward greater commercializa-

tion and exploitation. The proposed

policies ease the way for increased

air and noise pollution and increased

high-impact uses previously barred

from most national parks, such as Jet

Skiing, snowmobiling, and livestock

grazing. Additionally, the draft poli-

cies dismantle protections for existing

and potential wilderness.

Eroding the existing Management

Policies further, the proposed polices

also include an explicit statement bar-

ring the public from holding the Park

Service accountable for actions taken

under the revised policies.

Longtime national park profes-

sionals and watchdog organizations

have reviewed the 277-page document

and have identified specific words,

whole paragraphs, and entire chapters

in the draft 2006 Management Policies

that retain key elements of an earlier,

damaging draft rewrite. This earlier

draft sparked nationwide controversy

when it was leaked and the author

identified as Department of Interior

political appointee Paul Hoffman, a

former head of the Cody, Wyoming,

Chamber of Commerce and aide to

then-Wyoming Congressman Dick

Cheney. (An enclosed preliminary

analysis cites specific edits made in

the proposed new policies.)

A statement by the above-men-

tioned groups is as follows:

Rewrite of Park Policies

May Cause Damage“Several key proposals in this

current draft weaken protections for

our national parklands. The changes

significantly reduce clarity provided to

park managers in the current Manage-

ment Policies about their overarching

duty to conserve park resources. The

revisions could lead to increased use

of snowmobiles, Jet Skis, off-road

vehicles, commercialization, and

grazing while weakening protections

for wilderness and air quality.”

“We are concerned that these

changes do not reflect what Americans

consistently tell the National Park

Service they want in their national

parks and we question the impetus

for this rewrite. We renew our call

for the Department to explain why

these changes are necessary and who

is demanding this rewrite. We believe

it was a fundamental mistake to issue

this proposal and urge the Department

of Interior to withdraw it.”

A view of Beatiful Rocky Mountain National Park

With the new NBA dress code set

to begin in a few weeks, BetUS.com,

an online gambling client endorsed

by former Minnesota Governor Jesse

Ventura, announced today the odds on

who will be the player to be fined the

most for violating the code. The code’s

most vocal critic, Allen Iverson, was

named the favorite with 5 to 2 odds.

The new dress code bans shorts,

sleeveless shirts, sneakers and head-

phones. It also makes business casual

attire before, during and after team

events mandatory.

“Even though Iverson said he’ll

comply with the code, he’s still our

odds on favorite,” says BetUS.com

Players most

likely to be fined

for dress code

violations

Vince Carter 6 to 1

Shaquille O’Neal 20 to 1

Tim Duncan 20 to 1

Stephen Jackson 4 to 1

Allen Iverson 5 to 2

Marcus Camby 3 to 1

Ron Artest 12 to 1

Antonio Davis 40 to 1

Lamar Odom 12 to 1

Kobe Bryant 4 to 1

NBA Dress Code

Violation Oddsspokesman Mike Foreman. “We’ll see

if he can resist his throwback jerseys

come the November 1 season opener

against the Bucks.”

Marcus Camby is the second

favorite with 3 to 1 odds and Kobe

Bryant and Stephen Jackson are both

third with 4 to 1 odds.



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303-278-7241As the evening was fast approach-

ing and children all over Golden

were frantically running around their

houses trying to put their costumes

together, the fraternities of Greek row

at the Colorado School of Mines weresetting up for their annual Nightmare

on Greek Street event.

Pumpkins were lit and candles

were placed throughout as the seven

houses put together everything from

fishing for candy to haunted houses

that proved to be scary enough to

frighten adults and children alike.

Nightmare on Greek Street is an

annual event that provides a safe outlet

for parents to bring their children for

the Halloween holiday.

One participant stated that Night-

mare on Greek Street has been a tradi-

tion for her since she was fourteen and

she now brings her young children.

Parents all over the Golden com-

munity praise this long-standing tradi-

tion at CSM.

Each guest started their evening

off with free Halloween cookies and

hot chocolate located at the Sigma Nu

parking lot and then made their wayto each of the houses in a path that

started at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon

house and ended at the Beta Theta Pi

residence.

Sorority members volunteered to

guide the families through each of the

fraternity houses and help served hot

chocolate and cookies.

An estimated three hundred chil-

dren of all ages traveled through the

chapter houses. This event is spon-

sored by the Inter-fraternity Council

and Panhellenic Association.

The IFC and Panhellenic thank all

the Greek members who volunteered

for this successful event.

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November 2, 2005

F EATURES

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At t e n t i o n : S t u d e n t s , F a c u l t y , a n d F r i e n d s o f…

PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS

WIRE via COLLEGIATE PRESS-

WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2005--After four

years of research, and with guidance

from the graduate education com-

munity, ETS is completing the most

significant overhaul of the Graduate

Record Examinations (GRE(R)) Gen-

eral Test in the test`s 55-year history.

The revamped GRE General Test will

be offered for the first time in October

2006.

Each of the GRE General Test`s

three sections -- Verbal Reasoning,

Quantitative Reasoning and Analyti-

cal Writing -- will have different types

of questions and new formats. ETS

expects the changes to increase the va-

lidity of the test. The changes will also

provide graduate schools with better

information on an applicant`s perfor-

mance, address security concerns, and

maximize technology to make better

use of computer-enabled questions.

‘’The changes to the GRE Gen-

eral Test are significant,’’ says David

Payne, Executive Director of the GRE

Program in ETS`s Higher Education

Division. ‘’The new test will empha-

size complex reasoning skills that are

closely aligned to graduate work. We`ll

include more real-life scenarios and

data interpretation quest ions, and new,

more focused writing questions. In ad-

dition, the Verbal and Quantitative sec-

tions will have new score scales. This

will improve the GRE test`s usefulness

to students and graduate schools.’’

The new GRE General Test will

be slightly over four hours long, an

increase from the current two-and-a-

Revised GRE GeneralTest to Premiere in

October 2006half-hour exam. It will also no longer

be offered in a computer-adaptive

format, where the difficulty of the test

is determined by the test taker`s right

or wrong answers. Instead, it will be of-

fered in a linear format, in which every

student takes the same exam.

Changes to the Verbal Reasoning

measure include:

-- two 40-minute sections rather

than one 30-minute section

-- greater emphasis on higher

cognitive skills and less dependence

on vocabulary

-- a broader selection of reading

passages including sentence-equiva-

lence questions

-- expansion of computer-enabled

tasks

Changes to the Quantitative Rea-

soning measure include:

-- two 40-minute sections rather

than one 45-minute section

-- fewer geometry questions

-- more real-life scenarios and data

interpretation questions

-- on-screen, four-function calcula-

tor with square-root feature

Changes to the Analytical Writing

measure include:

-- 15 minutes shorter

-- more focused questions to ensure

original analytical writing

-- 30-minute argument and issue

tasks

Each test will also contain a vari-

able section that will not count toward

a test taker`s score but will be used to

select questions for future versions of

the exam.

‘’These changes are intended to

make the GRE General Test a more ac-

curate gauge of how qualified prospec-

tive students are to do graduate-level

work,’’ Payne explains. ‘’We`ll also

offer more interpretive information to

graduate deans and faculty, including

providing access to test takers` essay

responses on the Analytical Writing

section.’’

Because the number and type of

questions on the Verbal and Quantita-

tive sections of the revised General Test

will be different, the traditional point

scale of 200 to 800 on these sections

will be replaced. The new scale will

have 40 to 50 scale points and will be

centered somewhere between 120 and

179. The final range may vary slightly,

depending on the results of field testing

that will conclude in November.

Also, unlike the current exam, each

version of the revised GRE General

Test will be used only once, and no

test takers will encounter the same

questions on different dates. Instead

of continuous testing, the exam will be

given 29 times a year worldwide. The

number of administrations in any given

region will depend on the test volumes

in that region.

The revised GRE General Test will

be administered in the ETS global

network of Internet-based test centers

and through Thomson Prometric, the

world`s largest computer-based test-

ing network.

For the latest information about the

revised GRE General Test, visit www.

ets.org/gre. Test takers can e-mail ques-

tions to [email protected] or call (609)

771-7670.

PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS

WIRE via COLLEGIATE PRESS-

WIRE)--Oct. 12, 2005--Participants

at a workshop sponsored by the

University of Pennsylvania`s Neu-

roengineering Research Lab will use

Tanner EDA s tools to help design in

three days chips for intricate neural

networks.

It is hoped that future versions

of these kinds of chips will simulate

the brain to help solve problems the

biological brain does routinely.

Workshop attendees will use Chip-

Gen, a silicon compiler for neuromor-

phic chips developed at Penn using

Tanner`s L-Comp macros, part of a

standard tool suite, which includes

L-Edit(R) Layout, DRC, LVS, Place

and Route and T-Spice Pro(R).

Tanner`s standard tool suite has

been used successfully to create a

number of highly innovative and com-

mercially successful products, includ-

ing Bluetooth products, imaging chips

used in the cameras on NASA Mars

Rovers, advanced polymer displays,

sensors and MEMS devices.

‘’Flexible and easy-to-use soft-

ware tools, such as Tanner s tools, are

critical enablers to creating entirely

new types of circuitry, such as the

neural networks that we are working

on,’’ noted Kwabena Boahen, associ-

ate professor in the Bioengineering

Department at the University of

Pennsylvania.

‘’We anticipate that the results of

this workshop will help advance the

important work in linking electronic

circuitry and neurobiology and its

applications in science and comput-

ing.’’

Co-sponsored with Institute for

Neuromorphic Engineering at the

University of Maryland, Boahen`s

lab at Penn is hosting the workshop

Dec. 3-5 with 10 participants selected

based on proposals of the chip design

and its test plan.

Participants will leave the work-

shop with a completed design that

supports efficient connectivity among

silicon neuron chips, which will en-

able larger neural networks to be built,

making it possible for neuromorphic

engineers to move beyond sensory

systems such as the retina to cognitive

systems such as the visual cortex.

More information on the workshop

is available at http://www.neuroen-

gineering.upenn.edu/boahen/meth/

fs_tools.htm.

Tanner Tools at

UPennParticipants to Go from Con-

cept to Chip in Three Days

DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE

via COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--

Oct. 6, 2005--Top blogging, media and

social networking services are teaming

up with AOL to bring the AIM service

directly into their communities, inte-

grating users` online status and giving

them one-click access to real time com-

munications whenever they like.AOL`s new partners, including

Facebook, Inc., LinkedIn Corporation,

Six Apart, Inc. and Glam.com, Inc. join

a growing list of sites and services that

are integrating AIM presence` and the

massive reach of the AOL network

to let users see when friends, family

members, colleagues and contacts are

available for text, live voice and/or

streaming video chat ( http://www.

aim.com ).

Today AOL also announced that it

is giving bloggers, podcasters, consum-

ers and small businesses the ability to

add AIM presence and one-click access

to the AIM(R) service to their Web sites

free of charge.

Called AIM(R) Presence ( http://

www.aim.com/presence ), the new program offers a free distribution li-

cense and lets sites and services publish

AIM presence by simply cutting and

pasting a line of HTML code into their

Web pages.

The program uses the familiar Run-

ning Man icon to indicate presence so

that visitors can see when others are

online and available to communicate.

‘’The AIM service should be ev-

erywhere our users are and want to

be, from blogs and shopping sites to

professional and social networking

services,’’ said Chamath Palihapitiya,

vice president and general manager,

AIM and ICQ, America Online, Inc.

‘’With the new AIM Presence pro-

gram, we are taking this commitment

to a deeper level, enabling everyonefrom bloggers and podcasters to small

businesses to tap our network`s reach

and connect with key audiences in

real time.’’

Facebook, LinkedIn, Six Apart,

Glam.com Join Growing List of AIM-

Enabled Communities.

Effective today, Facebook ( http://

www.facebook.com ), an online direc-

tory that connects people through social

networks at high schools, universities

and colleges, has selected AOL to be its

exclusive provider of instant messag-ing and presence technologies.

Facebook will build AIM presence

and the AIM service into users` profile

pages on Facebook.com, enabling them

to share online status and initiate IM

sessions from within the service.

In addition, AOL has selected

LinkedIn, a network that enables

professionals to find jobs, people and

opportunities through their existing

network of business relationships, as its

preferred provider of business profiles

for the AIM service.

In turn, AOL will be the sole pro-

vider of instant messaging services

for LinkedIn ( http://www.linkedin.

com ), which will integrate AIM pres-

ence to enable its 3.8 million users to

communicate with their connectionsin real time.

AIM users will be able to add their

LinkedIn connections to their AIM(R)

Buddy List(R) feature with one click,

and to instantly invite contacts from

their AIM Buddy List feature to con-

nect on LinkedIn.

Also announced today, Six Apart (

http://www.sixapart.com ), a leading

provider of weblogging (blogging)

software and services best known for

its Movable Type publishing platform,

TypePad service and LiveJournal com-

munity, has formalized its integration

of the AIM service within its growing

community.

Under the agreement, Six Apart will

empower its over 11 million bloggers

to share their AIM presence informa-tion on their blogs so that readers,

fellow bloggers and media can easily

be in touch.

AIM Networks



September 7, 2005

E NTERTAINMENT

November 4th

Chicken Little

Disney Pictures

Family, Rated G

Starring: Zach Braff, Joan Cu-

sack

Directed by Mark Dindal (also di-

rected The Emperor’s New Groove)

Summary: The sky is falling and

it’s up to chicken little to save the

day.

Impression: This is a simple re-

make of the 1943 classic. This will be

a simple animated family movie. You

can’t expect much here. Take the kids,

but you won’t

find anything interesting.

Jarhead

Universal Pictures

War/Drama, Rated R

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter

Sarsgaard, Chris Cooper, Jamie

Foxx

Directed by Sam Mendes (also

directed American Beauty)

Summary: Young impression-

able recruit is sent off to Iraq during

Operation

Desert Storm.

Impression: For those who have

seen American Beauty, you might

understand how excited I am to see

this film. This will be insightful,

funny, dramatic, and and all around

great movie. This is one that people

will remember for a long time.

November 11th

Derailed

Weinstein Company

Drama/Romance, Rated R

Starring: Clive Owen, Jennifer

Aniston

Directed by Mikael Håfström

Arriving ShortlyChase Hoffman

Summary: A business man (Owen)

meets a nice business woman on

their commuter train. Their friendly

meetings become flirtatious and then

sexual. Their fling takes a nasty turn

when a criminal starts flipping the

whole situation on its ear and puts

both lovers individual families in

jeopardy.

Impression: This is an interest-

ing drama. The bane of this affair is

both its intrinsic trouble and outside

trouble. I recommend seeing this if

you want to see something a little out

of the ordinary.

Get Rich or Die Tryin’

Paramount Pictures

Drama, Rated R Starring: Curtis “50 Cent” Jack-

son

Directed by Jim Sheridan

Summary: Fiddy Cent’s life story,

dog. Simple az dat.

Impression: Call me pyschic or

crazy or whatever, but I’m pretty sure

I know how this ends. I’ll give you a

clue, he doesn’t die trying. Do me a

favor, and

don’t see this 8 Mile ripoff.

Zathura

Sony Pictures

Fantasy/Adventure, Rated PG

Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Jonah

Bobo

Directed by Jon Favreau

Summary: Two brothers start play-ing a dusty old space theme board

game. The twist is that this game is

magical and the occurrences happen

literally.

Impression: This is another simple

ripoff like Get Rich or Die Tryin’ . If

you liked Jumanji, then go see this.

Otherwise, hold out.

The next two weeks is sort of like a buired treasure in a mine field. We’ve got

one of the greatest potentials of the fall coming from the mind of Sam Mendes.

But also be on the lookout for ripoffs with Zathura and Get Rich or Die Tryin’.

Also Derailed is like a gold plated, defective claymore. It could be really worth

it, or you could get your head blown off. As for Chicken Little, Disney is losing

steam. I’m beginning to suspect a downfall. Whatever your mood, follow my

advice and you shouldn’t go wrong

Featured TrailerHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Eli Martin

Over to You, EdChris Light

Harry Potter and the Goblet of

Fire, to be released on November

18th, shows our young wizards (and

witch) growing into young adult-

hood and facing new and graver

situations.Having read the book (many

times), the trailer includes many

of the parts I loved. From dragons

and mermaids, to the second com-

ing of Lord Voldemort and the dark

mark, to a touch of romance for our

heroes, Warner Brothers’ new trailer

has it all.

In tune with the last three movies,

it appears that there will be plenty of

computer effects in some scenes to

bring the magic to life, but they don’t

overwhelm the scenes or film.

The fourth film is also the fourth

year at Hogwarts for Harry and

friends, and it marks the revival of

the Triwizard Tournament, where one

student from each of the three major

schools of magic compete for a prizein gold and glory.

*Spoilers to follow.*

The Triwizard Tournament was

called off many years ago due to the

high number of student deaths.

Professor Dumbledore, Head-

master of Hogwarts, and the Head-

masters of the other schools believe

that magical control has improved in

recent years and the tournament can

be designed and held safely.

The major twist in the trailer is

when Harry Potter, played by Daniel

Radcliffe, is chosen as the fourth

contender, even though he didn’t put

his name in to be selected.

Also shown are the other three

contenders in the Triwizard Tourna-

ment, Cedric Diggory from Hogwarts, played by Robert Pattinson. Fleur

Delacour is played by Clèmence

Poèsy, and comes from Beauxbatons

school of magic. Lastly is Viktor

Krum, played by Stanislav Ianevski

hails from Durmstrang.

Unfortunately, due to the tourna-

ment, Quidditch is called off for the

season, but Harry and his friends still

have other challenges at Hogwarts,

such as classes, cruel professors,and evil looming ever closer on the

horizon.

If broom riding is your thing, don’t

fret, you will get plenty of it even

without the House teams competing.

Some might be more interested

in the social elements featured in

the trailer, including Ron learning

to dance, Harry finding a date, and

reporters hounding Harry and Herm-

ione for details on their so-calledrelationship.

The new trailer for Harry Potter

and the Goblet of Fire is quite exten-

sive, just as the movie will be, coming

in at 154 minutes.

Check it out on Nov. 18th, but be

warned, its not for the little ones. Its

rated PG-13 for sequences of fantasy

violence and frightening images.

And yes, I am a huge dork.

There was a time, just after

the Golden Era, but before the

Counterculture movement, whenthe Cold War forced America

into the warm comforts of a jazz

lounge for a cigarette. But the Red

Scare, amplified by the tirade of

a Wisconsin senator, let a draft

of paranoia into creep into the

homes of the American people.

But Warner Independent’s new film

Good Night, and Good Luck is not

actually about Joseph McCarthy,

or McCarthyism. Its focus is the

need to speak out against what is

wrong. The protagonist is Edward

R. Murrow, real life former CBS

journalist and host of the popular

news program “See It Now,” who

took the fight to McCarthy. Murrow

believes in the right thing, even

though it may be unpopular.The film includes several well-

established actors, and the urgency

of the Red Scare is presented

in soft black and white. Shown

only through archival footage,

McCarthy’s presence is heightened

by his realism, not altered by an

actor’s take on the man. Instead,

you see him as he was in his natu-

ral state, volatile and threatening.

Meanwhile, Murrow’s attacks on

McCarthy start to draw attention to

him and the station. The new con-

flict becomes testing the boundaries

of conservative journalism, as Mur-row and his colleagues draw flak

from proponents

of the status-quo.

David Strath-

airn gives an ef-

fective perfor-

mance. Murrow

is enigmatic and

intelligent. He is

driven not by his

ratings but by val-

ues of right and

wrong, something

the movie hopes

to communicate

to the audience.

The film closes

with Murrow giv-

ing his address atthe 1958 Radio

Television News

Directors Asso-

ciation conven-

tion, challenging

people to step

forward and stop

b e i n g a f r a i d .

“There is a great

and perhaps de-

cisive battle to be

fought against ignorance, intoler-

ance and indifference. This weapon

of television could be useful.” Hewas on to something there.



November 2, 2005

E NTERTAINMENT

Doomed From

the Start? Adam Eng

Can you smell what the Rock

is cookin? Sorry but this movie is

an adrenaline junkie’s movie, all

about the action. Doom is about a

sergeant played by the Rock, justifi-

ably called Sarge, whose team has

been selected to go to mars to lock

down the base and recover data.

Tempers flare as Sarge’s right hand

man John Grimm, played by Karl

Urban, is forced to deal with his

sister, played by the blonde Bond

girl in Die Another Day, Rosamund

Pike, whom Grimm has not spoken

to in ten years. It all goes down

hill as various members of the

team are taken out one by one. The

movie takes a huge shift as Sarge

reveals his true colors and only

John Grimm can save the day, with

a little help from an extra pair of

chromosomes which bring out the

In my class “The Engineer and

Scientist in American Film,” I ask

my students to see some good old

movies, and they encourage me to

see films I might never see otherwise.

Below are reviews of their recent pick,

The Boondock Saints and of mine,

Overnight .

Students’ Picks: The Boondock

Saints (1999)

As usual, I had never heard of this

film when my students first suggested

it, but this time it was not because I am

a social reject, completely sequestered

in the cocoon of motherhood and un-

able to manage a foray into a movie

theater. Nope, this time, it was because

this movie never even really made it

into theaters in the first place.

Saints received its most prominent

showing at the Cannes Film Festival,

and for complicated reasons, only

received a very limited distribution

in the United States (very limited,

as in five theaters). And yet, like so

many excellent movies before it, it has

become what’s known in the biz as a

“sleeper,” and has had terrific home

video distribution numbers. A cursory

internet search suggests that the film

is particularly popular among the high

school set. I can’t confirm this, though

I can see why it might appeal to that

age group.

The film follows two Irish brothers

who, via a series of strange events,

decide to become vigilante avengers

of justice, brutalizing, executing, and

otherwise kicking the crap out of

“bad guys”—despicable mobsters and

twisted criminals. In doing so, they become society’s new anti-heroes,

men on the lam who refuse to accept

the status quo of corruption and evil

men spreading, er, evilness across

American society.

The Boondock Saints is an exciting

film to watch: the plotline develops in

a manner only slightly simpler than

that of Pulp Fiction, the actors are

not too hard on the eyes (how-dee),

and the writing is quick and clever.

But this film doesn’t ask too many

hard questions, and may be overly

simplistic when it suggests that the

answer to violence is more violence. I

know, I know, it’s just the movies, but

one hopes for more these days.A final note: the very, very best

part about this film is Willem Dafoe’s

performance as Agent Paul Smecker.

I usually hate Dafoe: he seems to al-

ways play the same smirking bad guy,

except when he’s playing Jesus. But as

Smecker, the brilliant, gay, obsessive

lawman out to catch the Saints, Dafoe

is pure, twisted genius.

My Pick: Overnight (2003)

Actually, a student who lent me a

copy of The Boondock Saints recom-

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Jen Schneider

mended I see Overnight , and oh, am I

glad I did. Overnight is the documen-

tary telling of the making (and unmak-

ing) of The Boondock Saints, and it’slike the juiciest reality television you

could imagine. As a former reality T.V.

junkie gone straight, let me tell you

that this shot of the sweet stuff was

like a long, lovely walk down memory

lane. And it felt good, so good.

Specifically, Overnight follows

the director and scriptwriter of Saints,

Troy Duffy, as he completely self-

destructs over the course of the film’s

making and beyond. Duffy was a

bartender in Boston when his script

for the film was purchased by Harvey

Weinstein, one of Hollywood’s most

important behind-the-scenes players,

and a producer for Miramax. Wein-

stein agreed to give Duffy a huge

budget to make the film, and agreed

to become a co-owner of Duffy’s bar. Furthermore, Duffy would have

complete creative control over the

film, would have final cut (rare in

Hollywood for a new director), and

his band “The Brood” would get to

perform the film’s soundtrack.

As you might guess, deals like

this rarely happen to no-name home-

boys from bean-town. But instead of

being grateful, Duffy’s head grows

to the size of Massachusetts and he

manages to alienate Weinstein and

everyone around him before the film

is even shot. The film does eventually

get made—though not by Miramax.

But for some reason, nobody in Hol-

lywood will agree to distribute it

(Overnight suggests that Weinstein

and other Miramax execs blackballedDuffy). And so an otherwise very

good film gets shelved.

All of this is interesting commen-

tary on the often invisible politics of

filmmaking, but what is most fasci-

nating is Duffy’s utter self-destruc-

tion—the documentary ends with him

poor, bald, and unemployed, ranting to

himself on a street corner. It’s the sad-

dest of endings, and a train wreck you

won’t be able to turn away from.

best and worst of people.

This is a very cheesy action

movie but it does keep you enter-

tained throughout. The plot is de-

cent, explaining character motives

pretty well, with the exception of

the Rock whose character seems to

have a role reversal all of a sudden.

In my opinion the whole first per-

son view sequence was the worst

part of the movie. It does get you to

jump though, due to lack of periph-

eral vision. But if you like action

movies with a dash of thriller, you

might actually like this one.

The best way to describe it is

entertaining, not good. But since

the plot is surprisingly good for this

caliber of movie, a gamer might be

in heaven. So you will just have to

go see this one and make the call

yourself.

Somehow, someone fooled me

into seeing this against my better

judgment. Let me tell you, I have

not seen an action movie this bad in

a long, long time. It had everything

wrong with it. The acting sucked,

the action bombed, the plot blows,

the scenery was miserable. It’s like

someone copied a formula from

another movie, but messed up in the

transcription.

Remember how the trailers

feature a first person perspective of

a guy shooting stuff and walking

around reloading every five minutes.

The movie hardly features this scene

when the story starts wrapping up.

And that scene goes on for about

five minutes and makes these weird jumps ahead in time which defeats

the tension element of using a first

person perspective. Needless to say,

very unsatisfying.

Maybe you’re thinking, “It can’t

be this bad. What about hot chicks or

the BFG from the original game?”

My friend, there isn’t much of ei-

ther. There is one hot scientist who

doesn’t get the same amount of

screen time as the monsters, and the

BFG was shot only a couple times

during the movie. Maybe you like

seeing The Rock with his shirt off?

I don’t, but whatever floats your

boat. Well, he wears a full uniform

with about five assault rifles, a heavy

machines gun, and the BFG almost

the entire movie except when he

uses his computer with his shirt off.

Trust me when I tell you this. Youshould never see this film. Please, oh

please, see something else.

Chase Hoffman

Blade Runners Adam Eng

Halloween can mean only one

thing, time for a scary movie, and

Saw II is this years’ answer. If you

liked the first one, drop this news-

paper and go see this movie. Saw II

centers around a dirty cop, played

by Donnie Wahlberg (don’t worry, I

have no idea who this guy is either),

whose son has been forced to play

“the game.” “The game,” developed

by a terminal cancer patient dubbed

“Jigsaw,” is a devilish test of your will to survive. Players are selected

to play the game, push themselves

to their limits, conquering pain,

unraveling clues, overcoming their

deepest fears, and even facing the

daunting task of murder. Jigsaw’s

motive hopes to teach you to value

life by making it disappear right

before your eyes, and by placing

you in an ironic death trap based on

how you are mistreating others and

yourself.

This movie, like the first, gets to

you by inventing horrific ways to die.

As an added bonus, there are more

contestants, more traps, and better

twists. This intense movie will put

you on the edge of your seat, and

keep you guessing throughout the

movie. Even if you didn’t see thefirst one, don’t fret. This one stands

on its own. However, viewing the

first does give the sequel an extra

kick. This eerie, unsettling thriller

will shock you. If you can stomach

some gruesome parts, be sure to see

this one while you still have the Hal-

loween spirit.

Chase HoffmanI’ve had people tell me over and

over how much they enjoyed Saw.

After about 30 minutes of convinc-

ing, a tequila, 3 beers, and a shot of

151, I finally gave up and went to go

see Saw II. The only good thing was

that I still had my buzz at the end.

You would think an “intense”

horror flick might sober you up, but

instead I found myself drifting inthought, thinking more interesting

things like my mechanics home-

work. In every scene, each character

is reading a children’s book rated

R. Everything is predictable. Ev-

erything is so simple. Everything

is so boring. The characters only

show one emotion. There was the

forceful drug dealer, the “screw-

it-all” junkie/whore, the scared

teenager, the shifty criminal, the

angry detective, and so on and soforth. Whatever you do, don’t see

this flop.

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November 2, 2005

E DITORIALS

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Letters to the Editor

Driving Westbound on I-70 last

week, I could barely help but notice

the billboard blaring the slogan, “If

it’s illegal in 62 countries, it’s got to

be fun.” One should probably partake

in the chuckle and return to worries

about the real world, but maybe that’s

just it. As arrogant and quasi-delusion-

al Americans, we have miraculously been able to somehow separate the

universe of self-indulgence from the

burden of reality. Hey, what happens

in Vegas stays in Vegas, right? It’s an

outlet for the hard-working, up-right,

midlife-crisis-repressing sheep that

bury their head in the sand while

keeping the goal of a distant “Vegas

trip” in the background. It’s more than

a trip – it’s survivable hope.

It is certainly unwise to deal in ste-

reotypes, as anomalies exist in every

situation – money certainly can get

one’s son into Yale University. How-

ever, if a conclusion may be arrived

at, the stereotypes of the respective

situations must be considered and

evaluated.

The stereotypical American is positively entranced by the luxuries

and amenities that they see throughout

the media. The American media has

adopted and subsequently extorted

the utopian notion that every person

deserves the good life. While this

concept is beautifully imagined, it

remains fundamentally flawed. If

the rose-colored glasses fall momen-

tarily, such flaws in this notion can

be seen.

For the Baby Boomers, hard work,

sacrifice, and commitment to family

are, and have always been, non-ne-

gotiable. The background of growing

up in a post-war milieu, however, has

intrinsically installed an belief on their

children that “you deserve the good

life.” While this certainly should not

be criticized in retrospect, subsequentgenerations must realize that they have

been lead by false hope and unrealistic

expectations. As the X-Generation

matures and the fruitfulness of the

Baby Boomers accordingly declines,

the dependence of the former turns to

the Millennium generation.

Adversely, the Millennium genera-

tion is not yet well equipped to lead

the free world. Their childhood has

resulted in a laissez-faire mentality

regarding political involvement and

social progress. While belief and

conviction are ever-present, this

generation’s ability to voice such is in

scarcity seems strangely vacant.

One certainly cannot deny the no-

tion that America has developed into a

modern day Rome. One of the greatestcivilizations in recorded history was

brought down by a single flaw. To any

great republic, self-indulgence on part

of its citizens is an Achille’s Heel.

Rome formerly was dominated by

a polytheistic adoption of the Grecian

Gods and, thus, each individual’s spir-

itual chalice was filled via community

involvement. Christianity, however,

supplied Romans with individuality

and identity. To truly evaluate this

replacement, it must be judged from

a wholly objective standpoint. Ideal-

istically, a purely democratic society

is incredibly reliant on individualism,

but neither America nor Rome can be

classified as such.

America is, Constitutionally, a

democratic republic. While the former

term carries the aforementioned im- plications and expectations, the latter

term relies wholly on the intrinsic illa-

tion that community is more important

than any one individual. Within the

last thirty years, American society

has changed into the antithesis of such

a culture. Today, many Americans

feel that their personal convictions

and spiritual beliefs are supreme

to the survivability and success of

American culture as a whole. What

classifies this change as problematic

is that, due to the nature of religious

fundamentalism, Americans who hold

these priorities are unwilling to com-

promise or even listen to an alternative

perspective.

Given that the current American

generation is, arguably, one of themost intelligent generations in his-

tory, the fact that roughly half of all

Americans voted in the last presiden-

tial election is abysmal. The citizens

of America need a serious wake-up

call.

America was built on idealism and

elbow-grease – it’s sustenance relies

on the same.

The changing of a president at

a university can be a time of great

uncertainty. It can also be an uncom-

mon opportunity for the university,

that is, the faculty, students, staff

and alumni, and, yes, the Trustees, to

come together in a shared vision of the

university’s future. According to the

American Association of University

Professors, over 90% of universities

and colleges in the U.S. search for a

president with a committee composed

of the university ‘stakeholders’ listed

above. The last two searches at SCM

followed standard practice. This time,however, the Board of Trustees at

CSM decided to be the search com-

mittee in its entirety. Dr. Nyikos, the

Board President, has argued that they

need to change the rule for reasons of

expediency and confidentiality. The

reality is that the Board, seven politi-

cal appointees, wants to pick the next

CSM President.

What has transpired thus far? At

the end of last academic year, Dr. John

Trefny told the CSM community that

he would be retiring in May 2006. On

August 26th, 2005, the CSM Board of

Trustees announced that they would

act as the search committee, contrary

to standard practice throughout the

U.S. On September 6th, Trustees Ter-

rance G. Tschatschula and L. Roger Hutson met with the CSM Faculty

Senate so that the Senate could better

understand the details of the search.

As a result of that meeting, the Sen-

ate sent the Board a Memorandum

of Serious Concern. The Resolution

of the Senate is given below. The

complete text can be received by send-

ing a request to the Senate President

([email protected]):

The CSM Faculty request through

this MEMORANDUM OF SERI-

OUS CONCERN that the Colorado

School of Mines Board of Trustees

change direction and constitute a

bona fide search committee for the

open Presidential position that is

consistent with current practice. Spe-

cifically, we request that the Board of Trustees immediately reconstitute the

search committee to include voting

representatives from all major CSM

constituencies, announce details of

a search process that will include

public forums that will allow the top

candidates the opportunity to meet

with the major CSM constituencies

and affirm that the search process be

executed without prejudice, with the

sole goal of attracting the most quali-

fied individual for the position.

We asked the Board to reply by

September 22. Dr. Nyikos responded

with:

Thank you for the thoughtful and

informative memorandum. Please

convey the sense of the BOT that

while we are eager for faculty ad-vice, we are completely cognizant

of our fiduciary responsibility to the

taxpayers of Colorado to manage the

school. The BOT will select the next

president. You can provide support

and participate through nomination of

worthy persons. In the meantime, all

members of the BOT will continue our

work process as set out in our initial

public announcement.

The Senate hosted a Faculty forum

on September 28th; Trustees Coors,

Tschatschula and DeFilippo addressed

faculty questions. Student Trustee

Laurie Cornell was also in attendance

as were several past Board members

and about 150 faculty members.

Why was the vast majority of

faculty at the September 28th Faculty

Forum angered at the Board? Funda-

mentally, Board members were un-

able to provide a consistent, rational

explanation for structuring the search

committee as they propose. More im-

portantly, however, the argument over

the way in which the next Presidentwill be hired is not simply a question

of procedure. Make no mistake: at its

heart is the question of the essential

nature of the University: are we a

community working for a common

future or merely employees in some

sort of university corporation, or a

modern-day feudal state?

The Senate sent the Board a second

letter, on September 29th, asking that

the Board reconstitute the search com-

mittee so that it has representation ‘re-

flecting the richness and diversity of

the entire Colorado School of Mines

community. The restructuring of the

committee needs to be substantial,

not token.’

The Board has so far ignored us.

For over 90 years, the AAUP‘ Redbook’ has served as a guide to

university governance. In 1966, the

AAUP summarized the ideas in its

Statement on Government of Colleges

and Universities. At its core is the

concept of shared governance:

Joint effort of a most critical kind

must be taken when an institution

chooses a new president. The selection

of a chief administrative officer should

follow upon a cooperative search by

the governing board and the faculty,

taking into consideration the opin-

ions of others who are appropriately

interested.

The AAUP’s 1981 Faculty Par-

ticipation in the Selection, Evalua-

tion and Retention of Administrators

provides further detail on the role of faculty in the search process:

The Statement on Government

emphasizes the primary role of faculty

and board in the search for a president.

The search may be initiated either by

separate committees of the faculty and

board or by a joint committee of the

faculty and board or of faculty, board,

students, and others; and separate com-

mittees may subsequently be joined.

In a joint committee, the numbers

from each constituency should reflect

both the primacy of faculty concern

and range of other groups, including

students that have legitimate claim to

some involvement. Each group should

select its own members to serve on the

committee, and the rules governing

the search should be arrived at jointly.A joint committee should determine

the size of the majority, which will

be controlling in making the appoint-

ment. When separate committees are

used, the board, with which the legal

authority rests, should either select a

name from among those submitted by

the faculty committee or should agree

that no person will be chosen over the

objections of the faculty committee.

The University of Colorado has

CSM: A

Democracy or aFeudal State?

adopted the ‘Redbook’ in full. CU’s

current search to replace Elizabeth

Hoffmann is following standard

practice with a search committee

composed of trustees, faculty, stu-

dents and classified staff. In fact,

Duke, Rice, Cornell, Ohio, Indiana

and Texas are all looking for new

presidents, with a search committees

reflecting the diversity and richnessof their universities (e.g., http://www.

duke.edu/president_search/commit-

tee.html). What universities has the

Board stated are their models for

presidential searches? Metro State

University and Mesa State University.

What are the Board’s main arguments

against an orthodox search? Expedi-

ency and confidentiality mixed in

with the Board’s self-stated ‘fiduciary’

responsibility.

The search for a new university

president is about the future. We need

a president with the vision and skills

to lead the university for the next

decade, or more. Finding the right

person is a serious, time-consuming

job. If you look at the search web

pages for Tier 1 universities that arelooking for presidents, their time lines

reflect the importance of the search.

By ‘expediency’ the Board means

a search executed without serious

debate from university constituen-

cies about the future of the univer-

sity; an efficient process regulated by

groupthink focusing on an artificial

timeline. It flies in the face of reason

that the Board, with limited experi-

ence in higher education and with

remarkably similar backgrounds and

perspectives, all political appointees

by the Colorado Governor, is best able

to select the next president. To quoteWinston Churchill, ‘Democracy’s the

worst form of government, except for

all others’.

The main argument that the Board

has against an orthodox search is

fear of loss of confidentiality. This

argument is a red herring. Ninety

percent of universities searching for

new presidents face the same confi-

dentiality issues; all believe that the

benefits of an open search outweigh

the risks. The Trustees’ confidentiality

argument is made simply because they

want to control the search process to

their desired outcome. Unfortunately,

the Board has never articulated its vi-

sion of the Presidency or the future.

Dr. Nyikos did comment to the Golden

Transcript , however, that they wouldhire ‘someone from the energy indus-

try’. So much for the Board’s promise

to the CSM community to look for the

best candidates without bias.

And what of the ‘fiduciary’ argu-

ment? The essence of a fiduciary duty

is trust and openness. To the Board it

means that they need to be in control.

However, Section 5 of Article VIII

(“State Institutions”) of the Colorado

Constitution provides as follows:

‘…The governing boards of the state

institutions of higher education,

whether established by this constitu-

tion or by law, shall have the general supervision of their respective insti-

tutions [italics ours]…’. In fact, the

State contributes only 9% of CSM’s

annual operating budget. The Board,

however, is demanding total control

of the university’s immediate future.

What of the fiduciary duty, and voice,

of the other stakeholders in CSM: the

faculty that provide over $30 million

in research each year; the parents

and students who provide tuition; the

staff that work so hard to make CSM

function; the alumni who generously

support the university?

There is a saying in Chinese that,

‘If you wish to hang a man there is

no lack of evidence’. ‘The man’ the

Board wants to hang is the commonly

accepted idea of shared governance.The Board’s only answer, when their

logic fails, is that they believe they

have the power to do what they want.

In a Connected Learning Community

continued on page 9

The Editor’s Corner



November 2, 2005

E DITORIALS

continued from page 8

Presidental

Searchsuch as CSM, what is the Board

teaching you, the students, about the

nature of power? The Board should

pay more attention to Woodrow

Wilson, ‘Power consists in one’s

capacity to link his will with the

purpose of others, to lead by reason

and a gift of cooperation.’

What specifically do we, the Fac-ulty Senate, want? The search should

be consistent with accepted practice

and follow the principle of shared

governance. The search should also

follow current practice at CSM with

oversight by Human Resources (HR)

(the Board’s search is not covered by

HR guidelines). A search commit-

tee should be composed of a mix of

trustees, faculty, staff, students and

Professor (if that is your title)Dorgan,

I have just finished reading your

childish, imbecilic writing in the

October 20, 2005 edition of the

Oredigger.

That any faculty member at Colo-

rado School of Mines would write

such drivel, much less have it pub-

lished, causes me great concern.

I wonder how you ever became a

member of the CSM faculty, and ap-

parently remain so.

Norman R. Zehr

Retired Executive Director

of CSM Alumni Association

As a graduate of Mines in 1957

and past President of the Alumni

Association, I have developed some

thoughts about CSM President selec-

tion. I was slightly involved with the

last two processes and successful in

helping select John Treffney as our

current President. In my opinion, the

President’s roll is primarily that of a

businessman and not an academician.

The net profit for CSM is reflected in

the success of its graduates over the

next few years! The measurement

period is always moving forward

because of the ever increasing rate of

change to our environments. Faculty

and associated staff are not net-profit

oriented. Sometimes they develop

areas of high personal interest that

do not coincide with the purpose of

Open letter to the BOT, faculty,

and students of Colorado School of

Mines:

Without knowing all of the details

surrounding the issue of student par-

ticipation, I can only comment about

those aspects about which I’ve learned

from a recent newspaper article.

Whatever the extent of student partici- pation has been in the past, the BOT

has a valid point about respecting the

privacy of potential candidates. Those

considered and not chosen do not need

their situations made public. While I

would hope that parties which have

participated in the past could be relied

upon to respect that privacy, the more

people involved the greater the risk of

leaks. And leaks, in general, do more

harm than good.

Anybody but Guy T. McBride(deceased).

James P. Daniel

BSc. Mining 1976

former Student Body Presi-

dent (under the regime of

Guy T. McBride)

Presidential

Searchthe school. Obviously, John’s strong

academic background did not override

his seeking the goal of the school. He

was the exception and reached this

observation after helping redesign

the academic structure. My idea of

the school’s purpose is to develop

economic or academic excellence

in the field of earth sciences. My

observation of most of the academic

background Presidents’ performance

has been less than desirable. Thus, I

suggest stressing business background

over academic experience as being the

primary focus on future Presidential

candidates.

Jim Classen, Engineering

Geology 1957

alumni, perhaps in a ratio of 3:3:1:2,1,

respectively). This committee should

do what all other search committees

do at CSM: review the applicants,

make a short list, get references for

those on the short list, organize the in-

terviews and rank the top candidates.

The final list would then be sent to the

entire Board for their final selection,

thus preserving their statutory right to

select the next president.A Presidential search in which

all university constituencies are en-

gaged provides an opportunity for

the university community to affirm

our common ideals and goals, and to

create a unified vision of the future.

It is a rare opportunity that should not

be squandered.

Bruce Honeyman,

Faculty Senate

Alumni Letters

An Open LetterThe speaker at the commencement

exercises of my daughter’s gradu-

ation from U. of California, Santa

Barbara, made a strong and important

point about the grave mistake made

in the 1960 when the faculty there

caved to student pressure to change

the curricula of that school. I think

that mistake must be considered in

the case of Mines’ selecting of anew president. Students are in school

to learn, not direct. Their opinions

about organization, staffing, and

faculty should not be stiffled, but

they should not abe allowed to define

school policy, direction, staff hiring,

nor administrative selections.

Franklin P. Frederick

PRE ‘52

Last week we re-capped here the

first of the three prongs of wisdom’s

triad while adding to it, the second

prong. This week, let’s bring it all

home while we look at the last of the

three aspects which describe sophic

knowledge.

The first of the three dimensions

of the concept that is wisdom was

described as the wisdom to wait to re-

spond (physically, verbally, emotion-

ally) until all reactions had coursed

through your body and passed. The

second dimension described regarded

wisdom as the act of living in spite of

conditioned perceptions.

To complete the three-dimensional

picture demarcating the concept of

wisdom, we must first describe the

lens through which life, its moments,

and components are viewed. Every-

one views these components through a

lens and there are many, many factors

and influences that combine to define

each individual lens. Most of these

do not necessarily contribute to action

that would, in hindsight deconstruc-

tion, be thought of as either wise or

unwise.

Whether your lens is colored by

being raised within the style of French

culture or within that of the Nigerian

culture, does not preclude the pres-

ence of wisdom in your actions. One

factor describing your lens which

does however, define or alternatively

prevent the presence of wisdom or its

manifestation is one’s angle of time.

If the angle on the arc of your lens is

short-term, then the environment for

wisdom is not present and like life, it

will not take hold and root. Only with

an angle focused on the long-term will

the conditions in which wisdom might

grow, be provided.

In the short-term one can for

instance, convince oneself that pro-

tecting the world’s temperature,

atmosphere, and soil and making

businesses profitable are separate,

perhaps opposed options. But, with a

long-term lens monitoring one’s angle

of reflection, one recognizes quickly

that they are not only compatible,

they are indivisible. They are the

same option, the only option. With

short-term goggles, one also sees for

instance, one’s own self-interest as in

opposition to another’s self-interest.

It is a long-term lens that spirits away

that fallacy like dust before the sun,

allowing recognition to dawn regard-

ing the inseparable interdependence

of people’s interests, indeed of the

interests of all the world’s peoples

– that there is no such thing as self-

interest.

Many native American and indig-

enous peoples refer to this as Seven

Generations Out. Good decision

making, wise decision making they

say, occurs when what is considered

is the action’s impact on people not

today, not tomorrow but seven genera-

tions from now.

Wouldn’t that be something, huh?

In America? One more alcoholic

taking his last drink because though

the road will be hard for him, the

impact on his children’s children’s

children will be profound. Or one less

young family succumbing to the peer

pressure of the status quo and living

instead, within their budget perhaps

even as minimalists because again,

the impact later has sky-high potential.

And then again how about our “regu-

lar guy” at the helm choosing instead

of one more scheme to make himself

richer in the least valuable way to be

rich, an action and a path of actions

which makes us all and our descen-

dants for generations safer, wiser, and

in this way, very wealthy indeed.

A long-term lens. This is the third

of wisdom’s aspects.

Carole Fotino

Wisdom,

the 3rd Aspect

Courtesy of the

New York Times

In the national anguish after the

terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,

Congress rushed to enact a formidable

antiterrorism law - the Patriot Act

- that significantly crimped civil liber-

ties by expanding law enforcement’s

power to use wiretaps, search warrants

and other surveillance techniques,

often under the cloak of secrecy. There

was virtually no public debate before

these major changes to the nation’s

legal system were put into effect.

Now, with some of the act’s most

sweeping powers set to expire at the

end of the year, the two houses of

Congress face crucial negotiations,

which will also take place out of

public view, on their differences over how to extend and amend the law.

That’s controversy enough. But the

increasingly out-of-control House of

Representatives has made the threat

to our system of justice even greater

by inserting a raft of provisions to

enlarge the scope of the federal death

penalty.

In a breathtaking afterthought at

the close of debate, the House voted to

triple the number of terrorism-related

crimes carrying the death penalty. The

House also voted to allow judges to

reduce the size of juries that decide

on executions, and even to permit

prosecutors to try repeatedly for a

death sentence when a hung jury fails

to vote for death.

The radical amendment wasslapped through by the Republican

leadership without serious debate. The

Justice Department has endorsed the

House measure, and Representative

James Sensenbrenner Jr., the Judiciary

Committee chairman, who is ever on

the side of more government power

over the individual, is promising

to fight hard for the death penalty

provisions.

There are now 20 terrorism-related

crimes eligible for capital punishment,

and the House measure would add 41

more. These would make it easier for

prosecutors to win a death sentence in

cases where a defendant had no intent

to kill - for example, if a defendant

gave financial support to an umbrella

organization without realizing thatsome of its adherents might eventually

commit violence.

Any move to weaken the American

jury system in the name of fighting

terrorism is particularly egregious.

But the House voted to allow a federal

trial to have fewer than 12 jurors if

the judge finds “good cause” to do

so, even if the defense objects. Under

current law, a life sentence is auto-

matically ordered when juries become

hung on deciding the capital punish-

ment question. But the House would

have a prosecutor try again - a license

for jury-shopping for death - even

though federal juries already exclude

opponents of capital punishment.

The House’s simplistic vote for

another “crackdown” gesture can onlyfurther sully the notion of patriotism

in a renewed Patriot Act.

The

House’s

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Justin Gallas Named Harlon Hill Regional Finalist

Football5-5 O VERALL 5-2 RMAC

Colorado School of Mines senior

wide receiver/return specialist Jus-

tin Gallas (Westminster,

Colo./Northglenn) has been

named one of 26 candidates

for the 2005 Harlon Hill

Trophy which is awardedto the top football player in

NCAA Division II.

The 6-foot-1, 185 pound

Gallas follows in the foot-

steps of former CSM quar-

terback Chad Friehauf

(Brush, Colo./Brush) who

captured the award last

season.

Gallas leads all of NCAA

Division II in all-purpose

yards (247.3 ypg) and re-

ceptions per game (8.5 rpg)

and is among the national

leaders in receiving yards

per game (109.4 ypg) and

kickoff returns (31.0 ypr).

Through 10 games in

2005, Gallas has caught 85 passes, which is 10 shy of

tying his school record of

95 set last season, for 1,094 yards and

eight scores. He has also returned 39

kicks for 1,210 yards and a touchdown

which was for 100 yards.

In his stellar career, Gallas has

totaled a school-record 260 catches, a

school-record 3,457 receiving yards

and 23 touchdowns. His career re-

ceptions rank second all-time in the

RMAC and 11th in Division II and

his career receiving yards

rank fourth all-time in the

RMAC.

Gallas has gone over

100 receiving yards 16times in his career, includ-

ing eight of the 10 games

this year and has at least

10 catches in eight career

games and five games this

year, including a career

best 13 catch performance

on Oct. 29 at Mesa State.

The list includes six

players from the Southeast,

Northeast and Northwest

regions and eight from the

Southwest region. Players

are nominated and voted

on by the Sports Informa-

tion Directors at the 150

Division II football playing

institutions. The 26 initial

candidates will be placedon regional ballots and

the top two players from

each of the four NCAA regions will

advance to the national ballot when re-

gional voting concludes on Nov. 14.

CSM Football Falls at MesaThe Colorado School of Mines

football team dropped a 21-14 deci-

sion at Mesa State in Rocky Mountain

Athletic Conference action Saturday

afternoon at Stocker Stadium.

Mesa State running back Bobby

Coy scored on touchdown runs of 62

and 2 yards to give the Mavericks a14-0 lead just five seconds into the

second quarter. However, CSM junior

running back Bryan Florendo (Crete,

Neb./Crete) found paydirt from 1-yard

out with 8:40 to play in the first half to

slice the lead to 14-7 at the half.

MSC regained a 14 point lead

(21-7) as Drew Bohannan caught

a 25-yard scoring strike from Sean

McGraw six minutes into the second

half. CSM was able to cut the lead to

21-14 with 3:28 to play in the game

when senior wideout Justin Gallas

(Westminster, Colo./Northglenn)

caught an 18-yard touchdown pass

from junior quarterback Garrett Mehl

(Crete, Neb./Crete).

But the Mavericks took the ensu-

ing kickoff and ran out the clock to

improve to 5-5 overall and 4-3 in the

RMAC. The loss puts CSM at 5-5

(5-2 RMAC).

Mehl finished 19-of-30 for 205

yards, one touchdown and three picksand also ran 11 times for 109 yards.

Gallas caught a career best 13 passes

for 110 yards and a score, while Flo-

rendo ran 24 times for 94 yards and a

touchdown. Senior linebacker Jared

Heath (Highlands Ranch, Colo./High-

lands Ranch) led the defense, which

allowed just 241 yards to Mesa State,

with nine tackles.

Coy finished with 129 yards and

two scores on 23 carries, while Mc-

Graw was 9-of-13 for 91 yards and

a score. Bohannan caught six balls

for 69 yards and a touchdown, while

Brandan Charles led the Maverick

defense with a game high 10 tackles.

Cross CountryBoth the men’s and women’s

cross country teams finished third

last week at the Rocky Mountain

Athletic Conference Champion-

ships. Both were third behind Adams

State and Western State.

On the women’s side, Adams

State won with a score of 25 while

Western was second with 71. Colo-

rado School of Mines finished third

with 74 points just three points

behind Western. The women were

led by Senior HeatherBeresford

(Colorado SPrings, Colo./Lewis

Pakmer) who finished the 6k course

in tenth overall with a time of 25:07.Her tenth place finish was just good

enough to earn her All-RMAC ac-

colades. The top ten on each the

men’s and women’s side earn All-

RMAC.

CSM had two men in the top ten

also earning All -RMAC status. The

men were paced by Juniors Laurence

McDaris and Joel Hamilton (Colora-

do Springs, Colo./Palmer). McDaris

finished sixth in the 8k race with a

time of 27:30 while Hamilton was

seventh with a time of 27:40. The

men finished behind Adams State

who was first with 25 points while

Western was second with 40, the

Orediggers finished with the samescore as the women, 74.

SoccerMen’s Soccer Wins At Uccs, 4-1

The Colorado School of Mines

men’s soccer team concluded the

regular season with a 4-1 win at

UC-Colorado Springs on Sunday

afternoon in Rocky Mountain Athletic

Conference action.

CSM fell behind 1-0 at the 18:32mark as James McMonigle tallied a

goal for the Mountain Lions. However,

CSM senior midfielder Jeff Perkins

(Houston, Texas/Army) tied the score

at 1-1 as he knocked in a rebound off a

penalty kick at the 31:52 mark.

The Orediggers added three sec-

ond half tallies within the span of

seven minutes to earn the win. Senior

forward Mike Dixon (Bakersfield,

Calif./Garces Memorial) scored at the

71:20 mark, UCCS added an own goal

less than three minutes later and junior

defender Brian Law (Englewood,

Colo./Cherry Creek) scored his firstgoal of the season at the 78:24 mark

to finish the scoring.

Junior goalkeeper Kevin Gal-

loway (Colorado Springs, Colo./Air

Academy) made seven saves to earn

the win, while Chris Hovasse posted

seven for UCCS.

Women’s Soccer Tops

Johnson And Wales, 2-0

The Colorado School of Mines

women’s soccer team concluded its

inaugural season with a 2-0 nonconfer-

ence win over Johnson and Wales atBrooks Field on Saturday morning.

Junior forward Rachel Grabski

(Manitou Springs, Colo./Manitou

Springs) gave the Orediggers a 1-0

lead 13 minutes into the match on a

tally off an assist from freshman mid-

fielder Ashley Laughlin (Sevierville,

Tenn./Sevier County).

Freshman defender Caitlyn Rueg-

ger (Gainesville, Fla./PK Yonge DRS)

added a penalty kick at the 81:19 mark

for CSM’s second goal of the match.

Last week In what was a cold and

rainy game, the women’s soccer team

was unable to come up with a victory

this afternoon losing 1-0 to Bellevue

University (Bellevue, Neb.).Bellevue was the only team to

get on the scoreboard this afternoon,

scoring there first and only goal of

the game 20 minutes into the first

half. The Bruins goal came off of a

shot that bounced off of Mines goalie,

Marissa Burson. Bellevue player Pri-

cillia Flores happened to be in the right

place getting the rebound and directing

into the net.

The Orediggers out shot the Bruins

10-7 but were unable to find the back

of the net.

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M INER N OTES

Alpha Phi Omega Nat’l co-ed service frat. dedicated

to leadership, friendship & ser-

vice. Sun. 7:00, SC 236. Everyone

welcome! [email protected]

Anime Club Need to get away from reality for

a while & see a large robot step on

a school? Showings on some Wed.

nights. [email protected]

ASA

Asian Student Association. Inter-ested in Asian issues, culture, food?

You DON’T have to be Asian!

[email protected].

Astronomy ClubLike space? Star viewing & other

fun activities. Bi-monthly Wed night.

MH parlking lot @ 9 to carpool.

[email protected].

Ballroom DanceLearn to swing dance! Lindy, Shag,

and Balboa. Beginners Welcome!

Thurs @ 8:30 pm in SC-D, E.

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CCCCampus Crusade for Christ. Thurs. @

8 in SC-D. Everyone welcome, join

for worship @ 7 before meetings.

Creative Arts ClubGet involved, display art, beautify the

campus, visit to local bands & poetry

slams, etc. [email protected]

Circle K Int’lCircle K is a volunteer org. helping

people. Got tons of projects, just

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Employment

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The Army has immediate positions

available for qualified candidates

between the ages of 17-40. For

details visit your local Army Career

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Recycling, trail clean-ups, tye-dye &

plant sale, Earth Day celebration &

more. [email protected].

EWBEngineers Without Borders. Do en-

gineering projects to help struggling

people worldwide. 1st&3rd Tues.

SC-C [email protected]

FCAFellowship of Christian Athletes.Weds. 7:30 SC-D&E. All welcome.

[email protected]

High GradeLiterary Mag. Accepting submissions

for 2005 edition as well as new staff.

Submissions, ?’s: highgrade@mines.

ISOInternational Student Organization.

representing interests of internation-

als. International Office (1404 Maple

St.) Leslie 303-273-3210 or Kenny

303-215-0449

Karate ClubMon. & Wed. 6:30-7:30 Wrestling

room. All welcome, beg. to adv. 303-

215-6131 [email protected]

Kayak ClubPool sessions Mons. 8-9PM. All wel-

come, beg. to adv. mwisniew@mines.

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Kendo ClubJapanese swordfighting. Increase

concentration, reactions, self-

confidence & endurance. Weds.

7-9 pm Field House. cimedina@

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Investment ClubLearn what “Pay Yourself First”

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MSECMaterial Science Engineering

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[email protected].

Newman GroupCatholic Newman Group. Tues. 8:30

p.m. Ted Adams room (GC). All,

regardless of beliefs or affiliation, are

welcome ccooper@ mines.edu.

ORCOutdoor Rec. Center. Recreation,

equipment and lessons. Visit ORCnext to C3 store in Mines Park. Hours:

Mon-Fri 10 am-6 pm & Sat-Sun 10

am-2 pm 303-278-6202

PHATES Peers Helping Aid in Tough Everyday

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Phi Beta DeltaHonor society dedicated to recog-

nizing the scholarly achievement of

international students on the Mines

campus and American students who

have studied abroad. Meetings 1st and

3rd Mondays in SH102 at noon. For

information contact Matt Donnelly,

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Robotics ClubEvery 1st & 3rd Tues BB 206.

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Rugby No height, weight or age require-

ments. Great social life. Excellent

way to continue a contact sport.

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SBEStudents in Bioengineering. Use skills

to influence medicine & other bioen-

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including BELS minor & local indus-

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House. Belly & court dance Tues. 7-9

in SC. [email protected]

Snowboard ClubOpen to anyone who wants to make

tracks. Great benefits, competition and

parties. [email protected]

Sigma Lambda1st & 3rd Thurs. 6:30 SC 234.

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[email protected]

SHPESociety of Hispanic Professional

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Awareness and more. Every second

Friday at noon. [email protected]

Ski BumsLike to Ski? People to ski with, fun

activities & trips. Great ski deals &

a great time. [email protected]

303-877-7343

Ski TeamContinue racing in a relaxed en-

vironment or just an excuse to

go skiing more. Join Ski Team!

[email protected]

Sober Drivers Need a ride home on Fri. or Sat. night

between 9 pm & 3 am? Kappa Sigma

Sober Driver Program 303-279-9951.

Must be within 15 min. of campus.

SWESociety of Women Engineers. Hear

from speakers in industry, universi-

ties etc. on topics affecting women &

students at Mines. Weds. 12 CO 209

[email protected]

SPESociety of Petroleum Engineers, Prof.

org. Learn about the technology &

business aspects used in the petroleum

[email protected]

Did you know?

Students and Faculty can have

ads placed on this back page to

buy and sell, find roommates, find

employees, find employers, or

whatever other need. So go on get

what you need!

Found

Found iPod. Contact emartin@mines.

edu. Date lost and playlist needed to

prove ownership.

For Sale

Mission to Mars movie poster. $3 a

poster. While supplies last. Contact

[email protected]

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