the oredigger issue 20 - march 24, 2014

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T H E O R E D I G G E R Volume 94, Issue 20 March 24, 2014

The student voice of the Colorado School of Mines

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Sports 7

Opinion 8

Features 4

News 2

Snowball Festival

headed to Denver

for 2014

Nicolas Cage

stars in lacklusterWicker Man

Minds at Mines

asks favorite mov-

ie of the year?

Orediggers fall

to Metro State in

RMAC Finals

Emily McNair

Managing Editor

The disap pea ran ce of fl igh t

MH370 has left the world in shock.

In such an interconnected world, it

seemed impossible to lose something

as large as a Boeing 777. However,

the unthinkable became reality on

Saturday, March 8 when 239 souls

disappeared without a trace.

At 12:41 am, the flight left the

airport in Kuala Lumpur carrying

227 passengers and 12 crew. All of

the crew were Malaysian; however,the passengers hailed from at least

twelve different countries. Two of the

passengers were traveling using sto-

len passports. Further investigation

showed that these two men were

of Iranian descent but had no link to

terrorist groups.

The flight flew on for 120 nautical

miles. At this point, the flight was to

be handed from Malaysian air traf-

fic control to Vietnamese air traffi c

control. All seemed well when the

plane signed off from the Malaysians;

however, it never checked in with air

traffi c control in Ho Chi Minh City.

Malaysian and Vietnamese offi cials

began the search for the plane at the

point of last contact. Malaysian ships

in the area did not see any wreckage,but an oil slick was reported. Later

tests showed that this oil slick was

not jet fuel.

On March 9, Malaysian offi cials

said that radar data showed that the

plane may have turned back. Offi cials

widened the search area in hopes

of recovering debris from the plane.

On March 10, Malaysian authorities

Search for missing airplane continues

The search radius for MH370 currently covers over 4800 kilometers of the southeastern hemisphere.

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further expanded the search area.

While there had been several claims

of seeing the plane, all of the leads

proved false. People began wonder-

ing if MH370 had been hijacked or a

bomb exploded on board; however,

data from U.S. spy satellites showed

that there had not been a mid-air

explosion.

On Tuesday, March 11, offi cials

began looking further into the pos-

sibility that MH370 had turned back.

Military radar showed an unidentified

object heading towards the Strait of

Malacca after MH370 had lost con-tact with civilian air traffi c controllers.

Allegations against the planes first of-

ficer come to light. In previous flights,

he had allowed women to enter the

cockpit during a previous flight. Ma-

laysia Airlines was unable to confirm

the allegations. On March 12, offi cials

expanded the search area to include

an area stretching from China to India

and the pilots last words to air traffi c

control, All right, good night, were

released to the public. Vietnam scaled

back its search efforts while a Chinese

government agency released satellite

photos that may have shown debris.

The next day, this debris could not

be found. Chinese offi cials explained

that the photos had been wrongly

released. The Wall Street Journalreported that the plane could have

continued flying for about 2200 miles.

Satellites received faint electronic

pulses from the plane that matched

this theory. However, Malaysian

Transport Minister Seri Hishammud-

din dismissed these claims and said

that the search would continue in the

South China Sea. On March 15, the

search area was expanded to include

parts of the Indian Ocean. The U.S.S.

Kidd, a U.S. destroyer, was on its way

to the Strait of Malacca to assist in

the search.

On March 15, Malaysian offi cials

confirmed that MH370 had turned

back. The plane flew west over the

Malaysian Peninsula before turning

northwest. Offi cials a lso confirmed

that the last signal from MH370 was

received at 8:11 am, which was over

seven hours after takeoff. Malaysian

Prime Minister Najib Razak told the

public that actions aboard MH370,such as the disabling of communica-

tions systems, were deliberate. Satel-

lite data showed that the plane could

have flown in one of two areas - one

area went north towards Kazakhstan

while the other went south into the

Indian Ocean. Malaysian police also

search the pilots and copilots homes.

On March 16, the search area

was expanded to include the new

corridors. The number of countries

involved in the search grew from 14

to 25. Malaysian offi cials revealed that

they found a flight simulator in the

copilots home and were analyzing it.

The next day, the number of countries

involved in the search expanded to

25. Investigators were looking into a

flight engineer who was a passengeron the plane.

On March 18, China announced

that none of the Chinese on the plane

had ties to terrorist groups. Thailands

air force said that MH370 may have

appeared on its radar shortly after its

last contact. The unidentified object

was flying towards the Strait of Ma-

lacca, which is where MH370 was

believed to have gone. Offi cials said

that this information was not shared

earlier because Malaysia never asked

for it. New information regarding the

flight path emerged. It is shown that

the change in the flight path was

entered into the cockpit computer,

which raised more suspicion that

someone on the crew orchestrated

the event.

On March 19, the FBI joined the

investigation. Malaysian offi cials said

that reports of a low-flying plane in the

Maldives were not related to M370.

Offi cials also revealed that files hadbeen deleted from the copilots flight

simulator on February 3. The German

insurance company Allianz began

making payouts in connection with

the missing plane.

On March 20, Australia reported

seeing debris on a satellite image.

The largest piece was 24 meters long.

Planes were sent to the location to in-

vestigate, but poor visibility limited the

search. China and France have since

picked up similar satellite images.

The black box on MH370 may

hold clues as to what happened.

However, the Indian ocean is ex-

tremely deep and there are few

vehicles capable of searching the

bottom.

The black box sends out an ultra-sonic ping for 30 days. This ping can

only be heard by those very close to

the crash site, so a wide search area

makes this task more diffi cult. As of

March 23, there are 16 days remain-

ing for the ping of MH370s black

box. However, after the location of the

black box has been found, it may still

take years to recover.


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Oredigger Staff

Lucy Orsi

Editor-in-Chief

Emily McNairManaging Editor

Taylor PolodnaDesign Editor

Connor McDonaldWebmaster

Lucy OrsiBusiness Manager

Arnaud FilliatCopy Editor

Katerina GonzalesContent Manager

Jared RiemerContent Manager

Karen GilbertFaculty Advisor

Headlines from around the worldLocal News

Governor Hickenlooper is ex-pected to sign a law to expand

the Medina Alert System acrossColorado on Tuesday. The sys-tem is currently only used in theDenver area. The system wasinspired by a hit and run wherea taxi driver provided the licenseplate of the driver to the police.

The system gives informationabout hit-and-runs to taxi driversand others on the road.

A car fire in Aurora spread to

a duplex early Sunday morning.No one was injured and no onewas displaced. The cause of thefire is under investigation.

Private donors have paid toinstall beer taps in the gover-

nors mansion. The price of thetaps has not been disclosed.

The taps will have three different

Colorado brews.

Matt Duchene, a player forthe Colorado Avalanche hockeyteam, is helping a local boy getan experimental drug for Duch-enne muscular dystrophy. Theboys family started a We thePeople petition to get the FDAto release the experimental drugto the boy, but, as of Friday, itonly had 65,000 of the required100,000 signatures. The Ava-lanche star tweeted about theboys plight in hopes of gettingenough signatures.

The State House has passeda bill allowing Amtrak trains togo through Pueblo. Currentlythe trains pass through La Juntaand Trinidad. The bill allows thetrains to be re-routed and thetrains will eventually go to Los

Angeles. The train should be upand running within five years.

Ramiro Rodriguez, Staff Writer

Ramiro Rodriguez, Staff Writer

South Pole- Researchers at the AmundsenScott South Pole Station have de-tected waves of gravitational energy in the oldest light detectable by telescopes. Thisis being seen as a residual marker for the exponential growth of the universe in the first

trillionths of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second of the universe, giving large amounts ofsupport to the Big Bang theory. The discovery has been confirmed to five-sigma values.

Towns across the UnitedStates are opposing the in-creasing militarization of local

police forces. Grants from theDepartment of Homeland Securityhave been funding the purchaseof heavily fortified vehicles for use

by police forces. Peter Kraska, aprofessor in the School of JusticeStudies at Eastern Kentucky Uni-versity, links the antipathy towardspolice militarization to revelationsabout the extent of governmentspying programs.

Russian President Vladimir

Putin has signed a law formal-izing Russias annexation of

Crimea.This is not being recog-nized by Ukraine, the EU, or othermembers of the G8 nations. Inresponse to this move by Putin,the EU and the US have expand-ed sanctions against Russian of-ficials, stock prices in Moscow

have fallen, two credit agencieshave downgraded Russias out-look to negative, and Visa andMastercard have ceased provid-ing services to SMP Bank andBank Rossiya.

A federal judge has orderedthe FBI to justify shielding in-formation relating to an allegedFBI plot to assassinate leaders of

the Occupy movement. Informa-tion about the plot surfaced from acivil-rights legal organization mak-ing a Freedom of Information Actrequest earlier in the year. The FBIis claiming it has this right on thebasis that the law gives them theability to shield information com-piled for law enforcement purpos-es if disclosure could cause harmor jeopardize the investigation.

Online learning platform Khan

Academy is partner ing with

College Board, the developerand administrator of standard-ized tests such as the SAT and APtests, to help lessen the incomebarriers to higher education. Khan

Academy will receive exclusive ac-cess to actual questions to devel-op a free test preparation service.

The Netherlands has becomethe first country to legalize no-

carrier SIM cards. Mobile phoneusers in the Netherlands no longerhave to be tied to a particular car-rier for their cell service or swap

out SIM cards to change serviceor travel overseas. This comesafter an announcement of the Eu-ropean Union considering a banon roaming charges between themember countries of the Europe-an Union.

Minnesota-based brewingcompany Lakemaid has devel-oped a drone based beer deliv-

ery system. The owners of Lake-maid decided to create an aerialunmanned delivery service afterwatching the 60 Minutes spe-cial on Amazons plans to have asame-day delivery service throughthe same method. The first deliv-

ery was a successfully delivered12-pack of their winter lager to anearby ice fishing shack. The Fed-

eral Aviation Administration hasissued the brewery a cease anddesist order as this is in violationof regulation relating to unmanneddrones.

MtGox, the former largest Bit-Coin exchange in the world, hasannounced it has found 200,000lost BitCoins in an older format

wallet file, worth approximately$116M. This comes after the theftof what was thought to be 850000BitCoins by hackers earlier in Feb-ruary. The discovery accounts for7% of all of the worlds BitCoins.

University of Idaho- Dr. Jason Barnesof the University of Idaho has detected thefirst liquid waves on another planetary

body. Dr. Barnes used a mathematicalmodel to analyze an image of the PungaMare on Titan taken by the Cassini probeafter seeing on the image what appeared

to be sunlight reflecting from surface liquidmuch in the same way a mirror redirectslight. The Punga Mare is a lake that has init approximately 9000 cubic km of liquidmethane, roughly 40 times the proven re-serves of oil and gas on earth.

North-Eastern Federal University in

Yakutsk, Siberia- An international team ofscientists at the North-Eastern Federal Uni-versity in Yakutsk, Siberia claim that DNAfrom a recently found well-preserved woollymammoth could be cloned. The DNA takenfrom blood from the autopsy of the foundmammoth carcass will be mixed with a fe-male elephant to attempt birthing a woollymammoth. The cloning process is expect-

ed to be diffi cult due to the splitt ing of theevolutionary path of elephants and woollymammoths tens of thousands of years ago.

University of London - A study led by DrCarolyn McGettigan, from the University of Lon-dons Department of Psychology, shows that thebrain responds differently to genuine laughter than

forced laughter. The brain can not only determine adifference, but an attempt is also made to discover

the reason for forced laughing. Research subjectswere not aware of the nature of the study and hadtheir brain activity monitored while hearing laughtercaused by seeing funny videos online and forcedlaughter. The forced laughter prompted the partof the brain associated with attempting to under-stand the mental and emotional state of others.


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Courtesy Mines Newsroom

Colorado School of Mineswill compete against nine other

schools at the National CollegiateWind Competition in May in Las

Vegas. Teams will be showcas inga lightweight, transportable windturbine that could power smallelectronic devices. Each teamsprototype wind turbine will betested in a wind tunnel and scoredfor performance, operational safe-ty, component durability and sys-tem reliability.

Nine students on the Minesteam, Zephyrus, are in the pro-

Mines to compete in windturbine competition

cess of using design prototypesto build the final turbine.

Competition advisor CameronTurner said the team has taken

an innovative path in the compe-tition by establishing a supportingbusiness plan and developing anunderstanding of wind power po-litical issues, in addition to, cre-ating a technical solution to theirdesign.

In many ways, they are dem-onstrating not only technicalcompetence, but also personalcompetence as citizens, Cam-eron Turner said. In two months,they will be presenting their work

Christopher Robbins

Staff Writer

In a few short weeks, Colo-rados largest music festival willbe setting up shop at The Parkat Sports Authority Field at MileHigh and fans of hip hop andelectric dance music (EDM) fromacross the globe will be head-ing to Denver to witness it all atSnowball 2014. With four sepa-rate concert venues in the Parkitself, the stage is set for threedays of constant music begin-ning Friday, April 4th and run-ning through Sunday the 6th.

Headlined by local favorite PrettyLights, Aussie duo Knife Party,and upstart GRiZ, as well as over60 artists from around the world.

This years Snowbal l schedule isshaping up to be one of the bestinstallments of the event since itbegan in 2011.

Hailing from just up the road inFort Collins, Derek Vincent Smith,aka Pretty Lights, is thrilled toonce again make an appearanceat Snowball for what will be the

Snowball festival coming to Mile Highthird time in the programs four-year history. Im super excited tolet people know that I wi ll be per-forming with renowned turntablistChris Karns and hip hop drum-mer extraordinaire Adam Deitch!he announced on his Facebookpage Wednesday, claiming thefestival will be a journey backto my hip hop and productionroots. Smith, whose main eventwill begin Saturdaynight at 8:40 onthe Snowball MainStage, also gave fansa small taste of whatthey can expect from

his performance inthe same Facebookpost, claiming thatsome of the tracksand remixes he has in store willmake this show super bangingand incredibly unique. In addi-tion to his Saturday evening set,Pretty Lights will appear on stageagain on Sunday night in theGroove Tent with several friendsfrom the Pretty Lights Music re-cord label at Snowballs first ever

at the American Wind Energy As-sociation meeting alongside nineother schools. I fully expect thatthe team will be amongst the best

teams at the competition.Mines will be competing against

Boise State University, CaliforniaMaritime Academy, James Madi-son University, Kansas State Uni-versity, Northern Arizona Univer-sity, Pennsylvania State University,University of Alaska Fairbanks,University of Kansas and Univer-sity of Massachusetts Lowell.

Visit the Zephyrus website andcompetition website for more in-formation.

PLM party.Making their Snowball debut

this year is Knife Party, a DJ tan-dem from Australia that has onlybeen around since 2011, buthave quickly become one of thetop performers in todays EDMscene. Snowball will mark theteams first return to the UnitedStates for quite some time, asthey have been busy perform-

ing for sold-out venuesacross Australia and theUnited Kingdom. De-spite being one of thebiggest names comingto Denver for the festival,

the duo has remainedrather quiet about theevent, only posting asingle tweet about hav-

ing a few days off to recoupafter their most recent Australiantour before coming to the U.S.Quiet or not, Knife Partys ex-traordinary success and rise inpopularity over the last few yearsshould have fans flocking to MileHigh to witness them take themain Snowball Stage at 9:30 on

Friday night.The final headliner to make an

appearance at Snowball this yearis Duke Silver, better known asGRiZ. Relatively new to the EDMand hip hop scene but rising f ast,the 23-year old Detroit native isdefinitely enjoying his growingsuccess and stated via Face-book how he is proud to be ableto headline this years Snowballmusic fest with the good homiePretty Lights and Knife Party!!

As with most other performersand fans alike, he is thrilled forthe events move to Mile Highthis year, explaining that having

a festival outside in the heart ofDenver is going to be a specialcelebration. Cant wait tofill thenight sky with beautiful music!GRiZ will get to do just that onSunday evening at 9:45 on theSnowball Stage, where he willclose out 2014s Snowball festivi-ties with the final performance ofthe event.

In addition to the headliners,Snowball will feature over 60talented artists from around the

globe. Included among these arethe Floozies, Mimosa, Brother

Ali, Busta Rhymes, and Afro-man to name just a few. Althoughmost of these 60 artists sharethe genres of hip hop or EDM,the level of variety and unique-ness between each and everyone is what will make Snowball2014 a great experience for any-one who attends. With so manydistinct styles of music on displayall weekend long, the options arevirtually limitless for how one canchoose to experience and enjoySnowball.

Single day, general admission

tickets are currently available for$50 and 3-day, general admis-sion weekend passes are avail-able for $174.50. Additionally,3-day VIP passes are availablefor $399.50.

For more information, visitwww.snowballmusicfestival.com.Connect with SnowBall via theirFacebook or Twitter.

Official hashtags for Snow-ball 2014 are #SB14 #SNOW-BALL2014 #SNOWBALL

Snowball will

feature over 60

talented artists

from around theglobe.

College Student Storage is looking for a campus manager to hand out flyers at the Schoolof Mines in April. We are offering free summer storage and some $$ if you do a good job.Must be a School of Mines student and we prefer a student that lives on campus.

If interested, please email us at [email protected] or call 303-545-9525

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Mines to celebrateGalaxE-Days April 3-5

The traditional Ore Cart Pull be-gins April 4 at around 9 a.m., whenstudents will travel on foot east on

Colfax Avenue to the state capitolbuilding where an elected offi cial

will issue the offi cial E-Days Procla-

mation. Later that day, there will bea Tesla coil demonstration at 1 p.m.in Metals Hall (in the Green Cen-

ter), field day activities including a

hot wing eating contest, mattressraces, gold panning at more begin-ning at 2:30 p.m. on the IntramuralFields, a Soap Box Derby at 3 p.m.

on West Campus Road and a con-cert featuring Sound Remedy at 7p.m. on the Intramural Fields.

On April 5, festivities begin at 10a.m. with a car show in the CTLMparking lot and cardboard boat

races down Clear Creek in boatsconstructed only of cardboard andtape. A carnival, featuring gamesand food, will begin at noon on theIM fields. The Saturday night con-

cert features 3OH!3 at 7 p.m. onthe Intramural Fields followed byfireworks at 10 p.m. at parking lot

Q.For additional information, see

the Mines Activity Council website.


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Ramiro Rodriguez

Staff Writer

The bees are in my eyes!

The Wicker Man is a 2006 hor-

ror lm written and directed by Neil

LaBute and stars Nicolas Cage. The

lm is primarily a remake of the 1973

horror classic of the same name,

though it also takes material from thesource material, a 1967 horror novel

titled Ritual. The lm was poorly

received by critics

and has been called

absurd by Cage

and actively disas-

sociated from by

the director of the

original lm, though

the lm is still

watched because

of the unintentional

humor in the acting

and plot elements.

The Wicker

Man opens to Po-

liceman Edward

Mallus (Cage) recall-

ing himself stoppinga car with two wom-

en and a young girl after he picks up

a doll the girls had thrown out of the

car. After giving the doll back, the

girl throws the doll out again and,

as Mallus picks the doll up for the

second time, a truck comes out with

no warning and smashes into the

car with the two women and young

girl. Mallus is knocked unconscious

as he tries to rescue the girl. A fade

to black later and the lm returns to

present time as Mallus receives a

letter from his ex-ancee that their

daughter, Rowan, is missing and

she wants him to come to Summer-

isle, a neo-pagan commune where

she lives, to help nd her. Without

any sort of help or plan he goes to

do this and is met with tremendous

amounts of evasiveness from the

people of the island whose local

economy is dependent on honey,

which has recently declined. Mallus

eventually nds an unmarked gravecontaining only a doll that has been

burned. He asks her teacher on the

island how Rowen

had died and the

schoolhouse teach-

er says that she will

be burned, though

quickly corrects

herself. On the day

of the ritual, which

has been men-

tioned periodically

throughout the lm,

Mallus assaults the

keeper of the inn

he is staying at to

steal her bear cos-

tume and inltrates

the ritual in thebear costume. He

sees Rowan tied to a tree about to

be burned and rushes towards her,

punching people out as he does,

and releases her. He then realizes

the entire search for Rowan was an

elaborate trap by the villagers and

he is the intended sacrice. They all

mob around him, beat him, break

his legs, and cover him in bees.

He is then put inside of the epony-

mous wicker man and is set on re

in hopes that the sacrice will restore

the islands honey production.

While the original 1973 lm was

a classic of the horror genre that

has aged surprisingly well, that can-

not be said of the remake. The lm

works far better as a comedy be-

cause of Cages over the top acting

combined with the more nonsensical

parts of the lm. This is best seen in

the most memorable line of the lm

NO! NOT THE BEES. THE BEES

ARE IN MY EYES! a line that wasnot even in the theatrical release, just

the uncut version. As a horror lm,

to say the remake falls short is an

understatement. There is almost no

suspense as the plot seems to just

happen by random chance since it

seems like the villagers plans seem

to be contingent on Mallus being in

very specic places, asking specic

questions and, in some situations,

be looking at something at specic

times. There is no surprise when the

islanders perform human sacrice

since the lm paints them as creep-

ily as possible from Maluss arrival on

the island where in the original they

were at least somewhat aable. The

remake also removes an important

element; the original shows the sac-rice to fail and heavily implies the is-

lands leader (in the original its a Lord

Summerisle and not Sister Summer-

isle) would be sacriced next for it,

where the closing of this lm is just

two women from the island seduc-

ing men to lure them on the island

for sacrice again. The only saving

grace for this lm is that Cage over-

reacts on what interviews would later

reveal to be on purpose is incredibly

entertaining. There is no other rea-

son to watch this lm than to watch

Nicolas Cage run around punching

people in a bear costume and be at-

tacked by bees.

It is the year 3043. Earth was

destroyed fteen years ago by a

powerful alien race called the Drej

and humanity has all but ceased

to exist. The only hope to save

humanity is through Project Titan,a large spaceship hidden some-

where in the universe that holds

the key to making a new Earth.

Only one person in the universe,

Kale, can turn on the Titan. The

lm tracks his quest from a scra-

pyard in the depths of space to

a nebula lled with ice. Along the

way, he must contend with back-

stabbing shipmates, love, and the

all-important Drej, who track his

every move. This is the premise of

the 2000 movie Titan A.E.

The story itself is fairly com-

monplace in the science-ction

universe. A dying species must get

to some point and do something to

bring the remaining people togeth-

er to start anew. However, TitanA.E. follows this plot in fantastic

fashion. The story is quite convo-

luted, which always keeps viewers

on their toes.

For an animated movie, the

graphics are surprisingly good.

The characters are styled simi-

larly to those in Atlantis: The Lost

Empire, although there are few

humans. The range of aliens in

this movie helps give the viewer a

sense of how alone Kale is in the

universe. Most of the aliens are

based on animals, such as the

cook, who is a cockroach. Oth-

ers are based on kangaroos and

Emily McNair

Managing Editor

Quest for Titanvultures, so none of them seem

strange at rst glance. However,

as the story continues, viewers get

a sense of how dierent each spe-

cies really is.

The environments and the

scenes showing the ship from a

distance really give this movie its

air. As opposed to the at anima-tion of the characters, the ships

look extremely three dimensional

and nebulas are quite breathtak-

ing to look at. Even the planets

are extremely beautiful, with the

bubbles of hydrogen trees lit by a

sunset and the realistic ripples in

the water.

However, the ending of the

movie was a let down. The story

ends with the creation of new

Earth or, as Kale aectionately

calls it, Planet Bob. There is no

telling of how the humans fared

on this new planet or how many

even colonized it. Additionally, the

graphics were lacking on this new

planet. What could have been a

beautiful scene was marred by thebasic gradients covering a moun-

tainous landscape. It really hurt the

aesthetics of the nal scene, which

was meant to be quite touching.

Nonetheless, Titan A.E. is

a must-see for all science ction

fans. It includes the voice talents of

Matt Damon and Drew Barrymore,

among many other well-known

names. Joss Whedon, the creator

of the acclaimed series Firey,

was even involved in the screen-

play. While this movie certainly has

its aws, the well-done storytell-

ing and good animation make it a

good movie.

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Jacqueline Feuerborn

Staff Writer

The Picture of Dorian Gray by

Oscar Wilde is an incredible book

that will force any reader to look

at themselves and the world in a

completely different light. The Pic-

ture of Dorian Gray was publishedin 1890 and was originally justa story in the Lippincotts

Monthly Magazine. It was not

until 1891 that i t was offi cially

published as a book in its own

right. Since then, however,

The Picture of Dorian Gray

has been acclaimed as a

classic and is recommended

for almost everyone to read.

This is a very dark book

with very few to no shining

lights of redemption. ThePicture of Dorian Gray tells

the story of none other than

Dorian Gray. Dorian begins thebook as an innocent and naive

character that is new to Lon-

don and society. Through-out the book Dorian loses all

of that innocence and naivety.

The main characters of this

novel are Dorian (obviously),

as well as Basil Hallward and

Lord Henry Wotton. Basil Hall-

ward is Dorians first friend in

London and he quickly be-

comes infatuated with Dorian.

In this story, Basil is an incred-

ibly moral character and seems

to be the only truly good char-

acter in the book. Lord Henry, on

the other hand, plays the devil on

Dorians shoulder to Basils angel.Lord Henry is a very witty character

and most of the best lines in the

book come from him, however, his

look out on life is very pessimistic.He takes every opportunity to in-

dulge in every hedonist activity that

he can.

Upon Dorians arrival to Lon-

The life of Dorian Graydon, he is posing for one of Ba-

sils paintings when he meets Lord

Henry. Dorian is immediately taken

by Lord Henrys view of the world.

He begins to believe that, as Henry

preaches, beauty is the only thing

in life that matters. This leads to

him wishing that he stays as young

and beautiful as he is in that paint-

ing. From there Dorian goes on

to try and find as much beauty in

the world as he can. On a trip to

see a play with Lord Henry, Dorian

becomes absolutely entranced

by Sybil Vane, a beautiful actress.

They quickly fall in love and Dorian

proposes to Sybil. However, as

soon as Sybil experiences love sheno longer wishes to act out fake

love in theaters. This revelation

leads to another: Dorian realizes

that he only loves Sybil when she is

acting. When Sybil is made aware

of this, she takes her own life.

This does not affect Dorian as

it would be expected. He decides

that a life of lust and pleasure in ev-

ery form was the perfect thing for

him. He spends the next eighteen

years indulging in everything. He

travels the world and does what-ever he pleases. Lord Henry

encourages him to enjoy de-

bauchery and all of its forms.

Basil, on the other hand, as the

voice of reason tries to con-

vince Dorian to become a bet-ter person but Dorian will hear

nothing of it. Dorian is contentin his debauchery and intends

to continue. In a last attempt

to convince Dorian to change,

Basil shows Dorian the paint-

ing he did all those years ago.

The painting has changed and

not for the better. Dorians wishto remain as beautiful as in that

painting came true. He didnt

change, however, the painting

shows all of the sins and thehorrors that they have done

to his soul. Dorian blames Ba-

sil and it leads to a terrifying

confrontation. In the very end

of the story, Dorian seems to

have realized what horrors hehas performed but he never

truly repents for them.

All in all, this is an absolutely

incredible book that is all about

the shades of gray that lives are

lived in and how beauty is not the

most important thing. This book is

a great read for anyone who wants

to look at the world differently. Itwill show any reader how their own

selfish needs and actions can harm

them. The Picture of Dorian Gray

is a truly extraordinary novel thatanyone should read it they want to

feel better about the kind of per-

son that they are. After all, no one

is quite as flawed as Dorian Gray.

Producing music under the

name of Tycho, Scott Hansen is anelectronic musician and artist from

Sacramento, California. His latest

album, Awake, was released on

March 18 of this year. It has beennearly two full years since the last

full album release, Dive, which

was unveiled in September of

2012.Tycho makes music with a

strong West Coast chillwave in-

fluence. This includes the use of

ocean sounds and song titles re-

lating to the coast, the mountains,

and the feelings associated with

these natural landscapes. Tycho is

able to produce full length albums

that captivate listeners throughout.

While it might be foreseen that eight

or ten electronic songs from the

same artist back-to-back would

become tiresome, Tycho is able

to interject the proper amount of

intriguing sounds to keep listenersengaged. Tycho is definitely on the

ambient side of electronic music

there will be no bass drops or

extended heavy beats in any of his

music. Rather, Tycho blends calm-

ing nature sounds, female voices,

and a mixture of harmonies to con-

clude with a thoughtful blend of

serenity and excitement. This mu-

sic is absolutely perfect for walking

outside on a warm spring day, or

Sarah Dewar

Staff Writer

Tycho has a giftsimply studying for an exam. While

this opinion may be a bit forward,

the style of music that Tycho cre-

ates may perhaps be the classical

music of our generation. It is mostly

lyricless, melody driven, flowing ef-

fortlessly from one song to the next.

Scott Hansen has also estab-

lished himself as a credible artist.He designs his own cover art for his

album releases as well as many ad-

ditions prints. His theme is a beauti-ful blend of saturated and warmly

sun-drenched blues and oranges.

Hansen has a very interesting blog

where he posts all of his artwork,

his music, and links to music that

inspires his creative process. Hisartwork is promoted under the

professional name ISO50, spurring

from the ISO (International Organi-

zation for Standardization) which is

the governing body on a numeric

system intended to measure pho-

tograph films sensitivity to light and

characterize film stock speeds.

This blog is worth a glance at in or-

der to gain some exposure to Han-sens artwork.

Tycho. ISO50. Hansen. This

man has a gift when it comes to

combining multiple art forms across

very different media, and synthesiz-

ing his vision into a comprehensive

product. One manifests in the form

of sound, while the other is visual.

Together, his art and his music en-

hance one another and unveil a col-

lectively enchanting composition.

Looking for the perfect way to

fulfill a chocolate craving or in anattempt to impress someone with

impeccable baking skills? Well look

no further. This is a relatively straight

forward cake recipe that is abso-

lutely mouth watering and is sureto impress even the most stubborn

critics.

6 squares (or 6 oz.) semi-sweet

chocolate

cup butter (1 sticks)

1 cups sugar

3 extra large eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

2 cups unsifted flour

1 teaspoon baking soda teaspoon salt

1 cups plus 2 tablespoonswater

3 or 4 cups whipping cream

cup powdered sugar

1 8 oz jar of cherry preserves (or

jam).Melt chocolate and butter in

saucepan over very low heat, stir-

ring constantly just until melted.

Jacqueline Feuerborn

Staff Writer

Black Forest CakeRemove from heat. Stir in sugar un-

til well blended. With mixer on low

speed, beat in eggs, one at a time,

until completely mixed. Add vanilla.

Stir in cup flour, baking soda, and

salt. Beat in remaining 2 cups of

flour alternately with water until well

blended and smooth.

Pour evenly into two 9 inch

greased and floured cake pans. (The

bottom can be lined with parchment

paper) Bake in preheated 350 de-

gree oven for 35 to 40 minutes oruntil wooden pick inserted in the

center comes out clean. Cool 10

minutes before removing from pans.

Cool completely on wire racks.

Beat the cream until stiff and add

powdered sugar until well blended.

Place one layer of cake on serv-

ing plate. Gentle poke cake all over

with fork. Top with cherry preservesallowing juices to soak into cake.

Add a layer of whipped cream.Place second layer of cake on top

and frost entire cake with whipped

cream. Shave chocolate bar over

cake. Refrigerate until ready to

serve.

Black Forest cake is a delicious, straightforward recipe.

JACQUELINE FEUERBORN / OREDIGGER

COURTESY S.P. SHEARON

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ACROSS

1Forced to join as interceptor

of Outside Broadcast Depart

ment (9)

6See 24

10Extra engineers are exces

sive (7)

11See 18

12See 22

13Good man so describes

Yorke in Caribbean Island (2,6)

15See 4

16"Golden one" (European)

managed the church, finding

obstacle (10)

19The brief argument at North

ern Ireland constituency has

been dumped (6,4)

21Employs operations (4)

24/6Uncontrolled husky ran on

as major lead (8,4)

25Tree, when warmer, pol

larded (5)

27One keeping an eye on Al's

road (7)

28State was naughty again,

having to cancel (7)

29Row producing sign of dis

tress, reportedly (4)

30It's sweet way for The Ap

prentice contestants to get re

venge? (4,5)

DOWN

1Two policemen in open prison

worked too much (7,2)

2Disappointed at the end to

concede the French touchdown

(American style) (3,4)

3First two beginnings of Green\

peace musical (6)

4/24d/23/15/424a/6's movie

people, first and last, drive away

god strangely at first, so tend to

ruin (4,5,6,4,4)

5Cartoon character Dewey

(not English) with Pat and love

less Doug disgruntled (6,4)

7 Stroke round person pos

sessing small bottom? (7)

8King, one with island fruits (5)

9To be played on mountain

peak? (7)

14Girl acts in first half? This

bulb's a clue to that! (4,6)

17I erred, say, foolishly making

a movie (4,5)

18/11What pertly gown fanci

fully worn by star? (7,7)

20Upset teacher, one half

bleary and ridiculous (7)

22/12Film tubes contain them;

they might slip over each other

(7,5)

23See 4

24See 4

26The Spanish large ancestor

(4)

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Jared Riemer

Content Manager

In what would prove to be the -nal game of the season for the No.13 Colorado School of Mines mensbasketball team, the Orediggers fellonce again to the Metro State Road-runners. After falling behind the No.1 team in the country by 16 late inthe second half, the Orediggers cutthe lead to three in the waning sec-onds only to lose by four, 86-82.

In what was another hotly con-tested game between Mines andRMAC rival Metro State, the Ore-diggers kept the game close for theopening nine minutes only to fall be-hind by 14 with just over eight min-utes remaining in the rst half. Met-ros largest lead of the game camewith 4:58 remaining, at 17 points(19-36). At halftime the Orediggerswere behind 46-33.

In the opening minutes of thesecond half, the Orediggers nevercould cut into the decit. Both teams

traded baskets and Metro kept theirlead in double gures, but with the

second stanza reaching the halfwaypoints, the Orediggers found a spark.With Metro leading 67-51 with 8:58remaining, Mines closed the lead tosix points at 79-73 with 2:23 left, and

Orediggers fall short in RMAC Tournamentwith just 11 seconds remaining, theOrediggers had cut the lead to threepoints, 82-85. However, after a freethrow by the Roadrunners, the Ore-diggers missed a three point attemptand fell just short of a comeback.

In their nal game as Orediggers,

Brett Green, Luke Meisch, Trevor

Ritchie, and Trevor Wages each

scored in double gures. Green

led the team with 16 points andve assists, and added two steals

and two rebounds. Meisch had 14points, ve rebounds, and two as-sists. Ritchie scored 11 to go alongwith one rebound, two assists, andone steal; and Wages led the teamwith eight rebounds, and added oneblock, one steal, one assist, and 11points. Brian Muller (junior) scored 12

and chipped in three rebounds. O

the bench, Caleb Waitsman chippedin seven points and four rebounds,Gokul Natesan added ve points

and two steals, and Will Carr con-tributed six points.

As a team, the Orediggers shot41.7% from the eld, 74.3% from

the charity stripe, and 33.3% fromthree. Metro shot 48.3% from theeld and 41.2% from three. The Ore-diggers were outrebounded 40-31,but won the battle in the paint with38 points to Metros 32.

COURTESY OREDIGGER ATHLETICS

Mines came within 4 points of besting the No. 1 ranked Roadrunnners for the RMAC

championship title last Saturday.

Katerina Gonzales

Content Manager

The Oredigger baseball team

drove out to Denver this weekendto take on the Metro State Universi-ty Roadrunners in a pair of double-headers. Mines won both gamesFriday 6-4 and 5-3 and played outthe remainder of the series Sunday.

The Orediggers took the rst

shot as freshman inelder Logan

Smith stole home in the rst inning

on a double steal while freshmanCody Marvel stole second base.Metro then responded by scor-ing two of their own runs o junior

righty Ben Gilman. But the bats got

to work again in the top of the sec-ond, with Logan Smith driving in

junior inelder Zach Bothwell on an

RBI single, and Bothwell scoring on

an error by Metros third baseman.

Mines increased their 3-2 advan-tage to 6-2 in the fourth inning asBothwell crossed the plate again,

this time on an out from shortstopto rst, and Marvel provided an RBI

single that scored two.Gilman settled down and did

Baseball takestwo from Metro

not allow any further runs afterthat rst inning, going seven full in-nings. Gilman allowed three walks

and seven hits, but added four

strikeouts to his line for anothersolid start. Freshman Nathan Smithclosed for him and picked up thesave while allowing two runs onthree hits, and fanned two.

Mines got right to work in the af-ternoon game, scoring three in therst. Cody Marvel drove in Charlie

Basil with a single, Zach Bothwell

walked with the bases loaded, andthen Marvel scored on a elding

error. The Orediggers added more

runs in the sixth and seventh in-nings1 in each.

Nate Olinger had a good daywith his 7-inning complete game.Olinger allowed the three runs, twoof which came o of home runs,

on ve hits, but struck out two and

only walked one. Mines played er-rorless baseball in the afternooncap.

Mines takes on New MexicoHighlands in their second homeseries of the season next Fridaythrough Sunday.

Jared Riemer

Content Manager

The ninth-ranked Colorado

School of Mines mens basketballteam squared o against Colo-rado Christian in the rst round of

the RMAC Tournament on Tues-day, March 8, and for the secondtime in four days ran the Cougarso the oor. The Orediggers shel-lacked CCU 102-57 thanks to ablistering 63.2% shooting night.

Colorado Christian took theironly lead of the game (5-4) just1:31 into the game with a threepointer. That lead lasted all of

15 seconds and, by the halfwaypoint of the rst, the Orediggers

led by 13 (24-11) and were justbeginning to pull away. At half-time, the Orediggers held the 48-31 advantage, in large due to a

62.1% shooting percentage andgoing 4-of-8 from three.In the second half, the Oredig-

gers could do no wrong. If theywere hot in the rst half, then they

were on re in the second, shoot-ing 64.5% from the eld and mak-

Orediggers dominate CCUin RMAC Quarterfnals

ing 15 of their 20 free-throws inthe half. By the midway point of

the second stanza, Mines led 76-49 and their lead was still increas-

ing. When the nal buzzer nallyrang, the score showed 102 forMines and 57 for the other guys.

From the opening tip, the Ore-diggers played inspired and red

up for what may well be the nal

game for four seniors Trevor Wag-es, Brett Green, Luke Meisch,

Clay Boatwright, and Will Carr.

Led by Meisch with 22 points,

the Orediggers had ve players

in double gures. Meisch added

eight rebounds, three assists,and two blocks in his 25 min-utes of play; while Green scored

16, grabbed six boards, and hadthree assists and a steal.

Wages scored 15 and re-corded a near triple double with

nine rebounds and seven blocks.With his nine rebounds, Wagesbecame just the third member ofthe 1000 points 1000 reboundclub at Mines, joining Joe Butkov-ich (1968-1972) and Je Rhodes

(1978-1982) in the exclusive club.

Brian Muller scored 11, had four

assists, two steals and two re-bounds, and Ritchie recordedfour assists and six points. O the

bench, Gokul Natesan chipped in10 points, four assists, three re-bounds, and three steals. Boat-wright scored six with a blockand a rebound in his four minutesof play.

The Orediggers held CCU to

just a 30.2% shooting percentageon the night and out-reboundedthe cougars 40-34. Mines shot46.7% from three and 74.2%from the line. Another key to theirvictory was forcing 17 turnoversand only recording nine of theirown, also the Orediggers assist-ed on 22 of their 36 makes on thenight.

The win was fresh o the an-nouncement of all-conference

honors. Three Orediggers werenamed rst team all-RMAC:

Green, Meisch, and Wages. Brian

Muller was a second team selec-tion, Ritchie a third team selec-tion, and Natesan was crownedfreshman of the year in the RMAC.

Erik Charrier

Guest Writer

As some readers no doubtknow, USG voted unanimously

to increase student fees to $100during Mondays joint operating

meeting. The fee increase passeddespite a unanimous no vote fromthe smaller GSG delegation. This

extremely unusual split highlightshow out of touch and self interestedUSG has become.

The split developed in the wake

of USGs budget shortfall. USG

decided that it did not have enoughrevenue to support all of its initiativesand clubs. USG then proposed an

arbitrary increase to a round num-ber without earmarking any recipi-

Why GSG voted against the fee increaseents for the money. GSG was given

the proposal in advance of the jointoperating meeting and reviewed it.GSG which is not inherently op-posed to spending money found

the proposed increase to be com-pletely unacceptable due to the lack

of justications. USG provided nohard analysis of why it did not haveenough money or where the addi-tional money would go. GSG asked

USG for clarication, was promised

additional information, and receivednothing of substance before or dur-ing the joint operating meeting.

Instead, USG only answered in

generalities. No one would say pre-cisely what groups would get theextra money or what it would beused for. Excellent suggestions that

would serve much of the studentbody, such as a better E-Days andOredigger support, came forth. But

there were no hard numbers to befound and clubs were mentioned asthe likely recipients of anything notused for its original purpose. From

the given information, it was notclear where the money would go orexactly why it was needed.

That is why GSG did their duty

to their constituents and the stu-dent body and unanimously votedagainst increasing student feeswithout proper justication. The only

novel thing about the GSG vote is

that a campus organization tried toturn down more money because itdidnt need more and was not con-vinced that the extra money would

better serve students (GSG gets

most of the graduate student fees).USG ignored this opposition and

passed the increase anyway.The real question is why USG

proposed and unanimously passeda fee increase that the entire GSG

thought was unjustied. The answeris the self interests of the members.Despite the justication put forth by

USG members that 90% of Mines

students are involved in clubs, theparticipation and benet levels vary

signicantly. The benets to the

heaviest club users far outweigh thecost of student fees while averageand uninvolved students are gettingless out of clubs than they pay intostudent fees. What is happening isthe active and connected minority

are signicantly beneting from the

exercise of their power to tax themajority.

During the deliberation, USG

made it clear that they do not con-sider the uninvolved students to betheir constituents. When USG was

asked if the fee increase benetedthe less involved, a USG repre-sentative said it was their problemfor not being involved. When GSG

suggested that student governmentmust consider all the stakeholders

even the uninvolved some of the

USG representatives were visibly

chuckling. This is not the language

of a governing body that is doingits best to serve all its stakeholders.

This is government by the active for

the active.


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Katerina Gonzales

Content Manager

Best movies of the year so farMinds at Mines

Every semester is different, and that means the amount of movies

watched per semester is different for many students. Yet, even with a

small sample size, it seems that most Mines students have been able to

chill out, relax, and see a film, whether it just premiered like Divergent,

or it has been a childhood favorite like Anastasia. We wanted to know

the best movies out there that Mines kids are watching right now, so this

week, Mines at Mines asked, What has been the best movie youve seen

this semester?

Frozen. Im a big Disney movie fan, but I

liked how this one wasnt just about finding

Prince Charming.

Kelly Dempsey

Not Divergent. I didnt think it was bad,

but the book was way better. I thought they

did too many changes.

Petra Atwood

The Wolf of Wall Street. Its just got a

cool storyline. Good acting I guess.

George Palmer

I liked Anastasia. Because it got us su-per excited and it was a great bonding ex-

perience for the girls I watch it with.

Shannon Craig

I liked Mr. Peabody and Sherman. They had

humor for kids, and then they had jokes adults

would get, and they did a good job do-

ing it.

Mitchell Paradie

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those of Colorado School of Mines or The Ore-digger. The Oredigger does not accept submis-

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all requests for anonymity in publication on acase-by-case basis. Submissions less than 300

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Editorials Policy

The Oredigger is a designated public forum.

Editors have the authority to make all con-tent decisions without censorship or advance

approval and may edit submitted pieces for

length so long as the original meaning of thep e ce s u nc an ge . p n o ns c on a ne w n

e pn on ec on o no necessar y re ec

ose o oora o c oo o nes or e re-digger. The Oredigger does not accept submis-

sions without identification and will consider

all requests for anonymity in publication on acase-by-case basis. Submissions less than 300

words will receive preference.

KenKen PuzzlesHow to play:

1) Use numbers 1-3 for 3x3 puzzle, 1-6 for 6x6 puzzle, etc.

2) The heavy-outlined sections are called cages. In the upper-left

corner of each cage is a target number and operator.

3) Use the operator with the allowed numbers for the puzzle to solve

for the target number. The numbers you enter can be read in any order

to solve for the target number.

4) You cannot enter repeating numbers in any given row or column,

however, you may enter repeating numbers in a given cage so long as

they do not repeat in a column or row.

5) There is only one real solution for each puzzle.

See 3x3 example and solution at right for beginner practice. 123

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