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T H E O R E D I G G E R Volume 94, Issue 2 Sepember 9, 2013

The student voice of the Colorado School of Mines

w w w . O R E D I G G E R . n e t

Sports 9

Opinion 11

Features 6

News 3

Blue Knight

Group salvages

beetle kill.

Light pollution

stymiesastronomers.

Minds at Mines

asks about

Golden.

Fall sports

open their

seasons.

Dana Steiner

Staff Writer

Career Day is fast approach-

ing. For freshmen, that means

trying to gure out how to talk to

companies. For sophomores and

juniors, it means research and hard

work towards landing internships,

and, for seniors, it is an important

step in the job search that repre-

sents the capstone of their Mines

education.

The Career Cen ter prov ides

plenty of resources for students,no matter what their goals at

Career Day are. Among the pub-

lications, appointments, and info

sessions are workshops.

Workshops are one of the

easiest and fastest ways to get

informed and updated on Career

Day etiquette, proper interview

attire, and the all-important re-

sume. Fast En-

terprises of Tulsa,

Oklahoma gave

one such work -

shop, an informa-

tive presentation

entitled, “Finding

the Right Job for

You.”

Most studentswant a job, and

any paying job will

do. However, one

of the perks of a Mines education

is being among some of the most

sought-after graduates and interns

in the nation. This means students

can actually reserach jobs, apply

for ones that look interesting, and

perhaps even choose a company

that they see as desirable. This

same philosophy also applies to

employers that come to Mines

Career Day. They have a booth in a

sea of well-qualied students and

they also have to nd the right t

for their company.

A good job search begins early.

If a student values specic aspects

of a job, he or she need to be pro-

active and take the search into his

or her own hands. Thinking like a

professional will make the search

much easier. This mean s adve rti sing one-

self as a professional. Updating

all social media sites is a must.

Prospective employers may not

look at social media in the hiring

process, but if hired, Facebook,

Twitter, Ins tagram accounts may

eventually come under re. Linke-

dIn, while not the most exciting

form of social media,

is a great networking

tool if used effectively.

Add it ional ly, em-

ployers may call any

phone number listed

on a resume or ap-

plication. If applicants

do not answer im-

mediately, a voice-mai l greet ing may

mean the difference

between an interview

and an awkward, regretful mes-

sage.

How can Mines students stand

out in a competitive pool of appli-

cants? Learning to self-advertise

in all aspects can make a huge

Advice for nding the right career difference.

One of the biggest mistakes

that Fast Enterprises sees stu-

dents make at the career fair year

after year is the age-old faux pas,

“What does your company do?”

Instead of highlighting resourceful-

ness, attention to

detail and initia-

tive, it expresses

to the company

that that student

cannot possibly

be a good t for

their company.He or she does

not even know

what industry they

work in. Instead,

researching companies that are

interesting, investigating their

current projects, and knowing

something about their locations

and their advertised position can

put a student ahead of the game.

Once the company’s purpose

and goals are understood, an

application that ts those goals

makes a candidate rise to the top

of the pile of resumes.

A proper resume should have at

least ve sections to highlight the

different areas that are important

to employers. Most importantly, itmust include the applicant’s name.

Lindsey Sittko, of Fast Enterprises

said she receives numerous re-

sumes every year without names

and they must be thrown out

immediately. Even with the most

amazing resume, an employer

cannot hire a nameless applicant.

Additionall y, contact information is

vital to continuing any relation with

a company.

Other important sections on a

resume include an objective state-

ment (if applicable), education,

work experience, and accomplish-

ments and skills. In each of these

sections, students

should advertise

themselves as ef -

fectively as pos-

sible.

A recruiter may

only glance at a

resume for ve toten seconds, so

the important in-

formation needs

to stand out at

the top. Every student at Mines

receives a highly regarded educa-

tion, so the Career Center recom-

mends the very rst section after

contact information be education.

This includes major, GPA, possibly

major GPA, and any scholarships

received.

A resume should do a good job

of quantifying accomplishments. A

resume tailored to the job will show

employers that their company ts

the applicant, and the applicant

ts the company.

If starting to get nervous, pro-

spective interviewees should

remember that all those recruiters

out there at career day are hu-

man too. Professionalism, making

oneself stand out, and showing

up with a well-crafted resume will

hopefully lead to much success

for those seeking employment.

Career Day.

A recruiter may only

glance at a resume for

fve to ten seconds, so

the important informa-tion needs to stand out

at the top.

One of the perks of

a Mines education is

being among some of

the most sought-after

graduates and internsin the nation.

MICHAEL RODGERS / OREDIGGER

Colorado School of Mines wins 72-6, in the football home opener. Read more about football and fall sports on page 10.



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Oredigger Staff

Deborah Good

Editor-in-Chief

Emily McNair Managing Editor

Taylor PolodnaDesign Editor

Connor McDonaldWebmaster

Lucy OrsiBusiness Manager

Arnaud FilliatCopy Editor

Katerina GonzalesContent Manager

Jared Riemer Content Manager

Karen GilbertFaculty Advisor

Headlines from around the worldLocal News

Arnaud Filliat, Copy Editor

Jessica Deters, Staff Writer

Seattle, Washington - Sharingthoughts through the connecting of two brains may not be too far off.Recently, University of Washingtonresearchers Rajesh Rao and AndreaStocco successfully performed whatis believed to be the rst noninva-sive human-to-human brain interfacein history. Rao sent a brain signal toStocco, who was sitting at the oppo-site side of the University of Washing-ton campus, which caused Stoccoto involuntarily hit the spacebar of acomputer stationed in front of him.

Sydney, Australia - Free-fall gravity may not be as constant as expected.

Recently, a joint Australian and German research team collectively discoveredan anomaly of free fall gravity amidst an effort to portray, with enhanced detail,the gravity eld across the globe. “Our research team calculated free-fall gravity

at three billion points—that’s one every 200 meters—to create these highest-resolution gravity maps,” Dr. Christian Hirt, lead researcher on the project, toldCurtin University. These calculations led the research team to discover varia-tions of free-fall gravity are up to 40 percent larger than previously believed.

Baltimore, Maryland - Johns

Hopkins researchers recently took astep toward potentially developinga clinical drug that could assuagedown-syndrome symptoms. Accord-ing to Roger Reeves, Ph.D, profes-sor at the Johns Hopkins UniversitySchool of Medicine, most people withDown syndrome have a cerebellumthat is about 60 percent of the normalsize. Using a single-dose of a com-pound known as a sonic hedgehogpathway agonist, researchers wereable to normalize cerebellum growthin down-syndrome-like mice.

Fukushima, Japan - Two years afterthe Japanese Coast was ravaged by enor-mous tsunamis, more is being revealed re-garding nuclear power plants, namely the

Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant,impacted by the storms. Last week, theJapanese government announced its planto contribute 47 billion yen, the equivalent of $470 million, to the construction of an un-derground “ice wall” around the Fukushima

plant. The ice wall will reduce the amountof contaminated water released into thePacic. In addition to the wall, plans are in

place to develop an advanced water treat-ment system that will purify water before itis released into the ocean.

Two researchers and their pilotwere rescued from an Alaskan

volcano after their helicopter’sblades were covered in ice, strand-ing them near the volcano for morethan two days. Asked about howthey spent the two days pilot SamEgli said, “We just yakked.” The

researchers were working on re-covering some short-term volcanomonitoring equipment. Due to thefreezing ice storm they were unableto produce lift and the weather didn’tclear up after that. Luckily a rescuehelicopter airlifted them to safety on

Friday leaving the iced chopper onMount Mageik.Earlier this week Chinese state

media announced that ofcials

would be prohibited from using

government money to purchase

mooncakes and other extrava-gances like gifts, meals, and drink-ing for the festivities. This month’sMid-Autumn Festival involve tradi-tional customs and numerous gifts.Restricting the purchase of holidaytreat could be a step in China’s ght

against corruption, a small step to-wards dealing with the blurring of traditional customs and governmentbusiness. In the past it has been

custom for businessmen to use holi-days like the Mid-Autumn Festival as

a time to lavish ofcials to pave theway for future dealings. Public opin-ion on Chinese social media hadmixed feelings about the ban somesaying it was a good start and oth-ers saying it wasn’t enough.

Prince Andrew, Duke of York,

was stopped by armed ofcers in the gardens of the Buckinghampalace less than 48 hours after abreak-in. The confrontation cameafter an intruder was able to scale

a fence and get inside the palacebefore being arrested by police. Ac-cording to the Sunday Express, theencounter put the prince in dangerof being shot dead by ofcers paid

to protect him and his family. Theprince seemed to take the incidentlightly saying, “police have a difcult

job to do balancing security for theroyal family and deterring intruders.I’m grateful for their apology and

look forward to a safe walk in thegarden in the future.”

A UPS driver rescued a wom-

an trapped in a burning truck

on Friday near Los Angeles. Threepeople were injured when the driverof a Lexus CT200 slammed into theback of a stalled pickup triggeringan explosion and re that trapped a

passenger in the pickup. UPS driverLawrence Sanchez pulled to theside of the road stopping behind thecrash to shield the people from on-coming trafc with his delivery truck.

When he noticed a woman trappedinside the burning pickup, Sanchezgrabbed the re extinguisher from

his truck and started spray-ing the truck beating theames back and al-

lowing the woman to escape. Whenhe was told that he was a hero San-chez said, “these CHP guys do it ev-ery day -- they’re the heroes.”

The case for a limited military

attack on Syria has been changedand rehashed multiple times overthe last few weeks. This time theObama administration showed a

select group of senatiors videosthat make a strong case for a mili-tary strike. The footage includesbodies writhing on the oor, people

with their dilated eyes watery anddazed, and children gasping for air

with dead bodies nearby are someof the images the administrationsays are consistent with exposure tonerve agents. The videos are meantto convince lawmakers that SyrianPresident Bashar Assad killed morethan 1,400 people, including morethan 400 children on August 21 ina chemical weapons attack outsideDamascus. Meanwhile Secretary of State John Kerry met with EuropeanUnion ofcials to muster support for

a strike on Syria.

Last Wednesday, lightningkilled two horses at the Buck n’ r’ Ranch Animal Rescue inFranktown. The horses were un-able to get to safety before thestorm came in. The owners of the rescue plan to make a me-morial garden in honor of thehorses.

Utah State defeated the Air Force Academy 52-20 onSaturday. Keeton threw ve

touchdowns, matching his ownschool record.

Edward Tom of Boulder fellto his death in Grand Tetons Na-tional Park on Friday. After heavyrain and hail, he fell into GarnetCanyon. Park rangers attempt-ed to get to his location, but hadto wait until Saturday due to theweather and lingering nightfall.

Bob and Eileen Gresham n-ished restoring the West LincolnSchool in Elbert County. Thisone room schoolhouse was built

in 1913 and operated until 1945. The Gresham’s are currently try-ing to get the schoolhouse listedas a historic landmark.



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Elizabeth Starbuck

Staff Writer

Reading foodlabels intelligently

Eric Hake

Staff Writer

The Blue Knight Group is a

non-prot organization dedi-

cated to nding a use for beetle

kill. Richard Dziomba, a planning

commissioner for Summit Coun-

ty, started the Blue Knight Group

four years ago when trying to de-

termine what to do with a landll

that had been lled to the brim

with waste from beetle kill. It was

p r o p o s e d

that the ring

range used

by the sheriff

depar tment

and local po-

lice forces

be used to

create more

room for the

dead trees.

Of course

this would be

only a temporary solution. Dzi-

omba told the Oredigger, “So the

deal was the landll simply could

not accept any more wood pri-

vate or public. Summit county is

two-thirds wooded. How do you

create re breaks? How do you

let homeowners clear the land?”

He continued to say that burning

excess wood has been banned in

a state moratorium after a forest

re was started by forest service

trying to reduce re hazard by re-

moving excess trees. “So need-

less to say, all of us commission-

ers are not really thrilled about

burning,” said Dziomba. “You

know it’s dry, and what happens

if it gets out of control?”

Realizing that there had to be

a use for this natural resource,

Dziomba started the Blue Knight

Group.

This group intends to use bee-

tle kill in several ways. One way

is as a heat and energy source

and another is helping develop a

small, but already existing beetle

kill furniture industry. The beetle

kill furniture industry right now

has little exposure and is lim-

ited to weekend fairs. Dziomba

hopes to eventually establish a

warehouse and

a website that

can be used to

sell these pieces

in an efcient

way such that

sellers can put

more time into

making prod-

ucts instead of

nding places to

sell them. This

increase in pro-

duction will reduce the excess of

beetle kill trees while generating

jobs.

Dziomba’s most ambitious

idea, though, is to establish in-

dustrial boilers for local, but large

facilities requiring cheap heat-

ing and energy. The process will

start by harvesting the trees and

turning them into a compact fuel

source for boiler use. Dziomba

said, “My vision is that this op-

eration will take place at the cur-

rent landll, four tons of chips will

come in a day and four tons of

brickets will come out that day so

that it is a constant through loop

that keeps the landll from lling

up.”

This process will give the

Beetle kill fnds unexpected energy usecounty some revenue so that

they can operate a recycling fa-

cility. Dziomba went on to explain

that if too much wood is cut, the

excess can be stored on forest

service land until needed. After

the creation of the briquettes, the

fuel will be burnt in a boiler.

Dziomba is hoping to rst in-

stall these boilers

at ski resorts such

as Copper Moun-

tain and Arapahoe

Basin. He says it

makes sense to

install them at ski

resorts not only be-

cause they have an

obvious need for

heat and energy,

but also because

the dead trees on

ski park land rep-

resent a huge li-

ability “if a skier

were to hit one of

these trees when

the snow condi-

tions are bad.” The

boilers would be

placed on the side

of the building and

would tie it into

their duct system

so as to reduce the

cost of remodeling

to accommodate

the boilers.

One of the rea-

sons Dziomba thinks this effort

has been so successful already

is because unlike other biofuel

projects, the production of boil-

ers and fuel has an extremely

quick turnaround. Instead of a

large power plant that could take

years to build and even longer to

permit, boilers can be “pieced up

and shipped out.” Dziomba went

on to highlight the importance of

this quick turnaround. “Our state

has mandated that every power

company in the state has to dou-

ble their green output by 2020.

That’s six years away, how are

they going to get a plant built that

is going to double their green en-

ergy output?”

Dziomba’s long-term plan is

to propagate slowly at rst. Once

they have worked out the kinks

and know they have an efcient

and protable model in place,

they can start expanding to other

resorts. “I have already contacted

Vail and Summit County about

biomass installation. Once we

have the groundwork for one, we

can easily move from two boil-

ers to twelve more facilities,” said

Dziomba.

He has obtained funding from

grants and has a system set up

with BBVA Compass so that for

every checking account opened

at BBVA Compass, they donate

50 dollars to the Blue Knight

Group. Additionally, Dziomba has

been working with groups at Uni-

versity of Denver and Colorado

State University in Fort Collins.

Graduate students at CSU are

evaluating potential boiler de-

signs. Said Dziomba, “We have

three rms interested in designing

the boilers, but they want a check

written to them for the rest of their

time. But we don’t know how well

the boilers will perform and so

graduate students at CSU will de-

termine which design is going to

be the most effective.” MBA stu-

dents at DU are determining the

best business model for the Blue

Knight Group.

Dziomba is now looking for in-

terns Dziomba is especially look -

ing for students with an aptitude

for GIS in order to determine what

areas can be harvested cheaply

and in a way that will minimize

negative environmental impacts.

He is also needs students to

design the website, fundraise,

and work in association with the

students at CSU or DU. But Dzi -

omba said above all else, “We are

looking for activists.”

Jessica Deters

Staff Writer

New marketing techniquechanges online ads

Flashy, sometimes aggressive

advertisements bombard web-

goers when they visit sites like

Facebook, Hulu and even the

Wall Street Journal, but how do

companies know if their ads are

effective? What does effective

even mean in the context of on-line advertisement?

Datalogix, a data analysis com-

pany based in Westminister, CO,

strives to answer these questions

and help companies determine

the effectiveness

of their advertise-

ments both on-

line and ofine.

Don Hussen,

Head Measure-

ment Analyst at

Datalogix, visited

Colorado School

of Mines as a

part of the Ap-

plied Mathematics and Statistics

(AMS) Colloquium series in order

to speak about Datalogix and itsapproach to connecting advertis-

ers to top consumers.

Hussen noted that although

consumers spend 35 percent of

their time online, they spend 93

percent of their money ofine.

Datalogix collects data as to

what advertisements consum-

ers see from sites like Facebook.

They also collect transaction data

from loyalty cards or phone num-

bers used at stores. Hussen ex-

plained how that data is linked.

“I am sure you have a loyalty

card on your keys or you pro-

vide a phone number when you

go into a King Soopers,” Hussen

said. “That information can then

tie that transaction and the prod-

ucts to that particular ID. That ID

then becomes available to do a

third party match. So that’s wherethat third party transaction data

can be linked. You bring in the

advertising activity and the pur-

chasing activity from web, retail,

and phone and you pull that into

the Datalogix data-

base.”

Clear laws,

however, prevent

companies like

Datalogix from

storing sensi-

tive data such as

credit history or

social security. Any

type of sensitive

information cannot be located

with the data Datalogix collects.

“All of (the data collection) is be-ing done on what is called hash

IDs. There’s not a John Smith

who comes through here and a

John Smith who comes through

there,” Hussen said. “All the infor-

mation is resolved into a 16 digit

or 24 digit character that comes

through, and there is a way to link

that information. All of that per-

sonal, identiable information is

stored elsewhere and cannot be

linked. “When we work with this

data, we are working with house-

hold ID 1234567 got this ad and

shopped at this particular loca-

tion.”

Mining information about peo-

ple, no matter what the informa-

tion pertains to, raises concerns

especially after information about

NSA surveillance of private citi-

zens leaked last May. However,much of the reason Datalogix is in

business and able to mine data is

due to the nature of the Internet.

“Why is the internet free? Why

are consumers able to go and

get all of this great content and

be able to search around? It is

because advertisers are paying

for it,” Hussen said. “As part of

that, advertisers are asking for

better measurement, better ability

to be able to understand whether

their media is effective or not. So

when you scrub your cookies or

use your loyalty card, those are

mechanisms being used to give

you free content.” Datalogix gives

consumers the option to opt-out

of tracking.“You actually have the option

on our site to opt-out of measure-

ment,” Hussen said. “A lot of [con-

sumers opt out because] they do

not quite understand what we are

doing with the data.” Consumers

who choose to not opt-out, how-

ever, will likely experience a more

personalized add experience on-

line, as advertisements will be tai-

lored to t individual taste.

Consumers spend 35

percent of their time

online, [but] they

spend 93 percent of

their money ofine.

Sometimes the labels on foods

can seem like another language,

and to those who don’t know how

to read them, they might as well

be. Katie Nichols led a lecture this

past Thursday explaining how to

understand what a food label re-

ally means.

Nichols began at the begin-

ning of the label, highlighting one

of the most commonly overlooked

aspects of a label, the serving

size. Many people skip this and

just look at the calories, sugars

or protein and do not even see

that they may actually be getting

four times what they bargained

for. At the top of each food la-

bel the serving size is listed fol-

lowed by the number of servings

in the package. This means that

the “amounts per serving” for the

entire package are actually multi-

plied by the number of servings in

each package.

This tricky serving size busi-

ness is just a part of the market-

ing that food companies do so

well. Nichols helped reveal some

of “the lies” that food corpora-

tions promote or skew so often.

Some of the most common “lies”

include sugar in disguise and zero

trans-fat. Sugars can go by hun-

dreds of different names, and, on

food ingredient lists, food compa-

nies will use these different names

to hide the fact that there are

large quantities of sugars in the

product. A good rule to go by for

avoiding sugars and other ques-

tionable chemicals is if one of the

ingredients can’t be pronounced

or there are more than ten ingre-

dients in the food (depending on

the food), it shouldn’t be eaten.

Nichols discussed a few other

eyebrow- raising fallacies, thelast one being “zero trans-fat”.

This sounds great-- if it has no

trans-fat, then the food has to be

healthy. This is totally false. Trans-

fat is very unhealthy and many

states have even outlawed it, but

foods can still be full of other bad

things. Many foods that say this

often have to compensate with

extra saturated fat, sugar or so-

dium to make the food still taste

good.

Nichols touched over many

other helpful deciphering tools

for food labels and will be host-

ing grocery tours in the near fu-

ture. She promotes “eating close

to the ground,” as in simple,

non-processed, grown or health-

ily raised foods. Her guide gives

a list of “the Dirty Dozen”-- foods

that are best bought organic, and

“the Clean Fifteen”-- foods that

are ne bought non-organic.

Nichols maintains a blog re-

garding nutrition and health tips

and is available in the Student

Recreation Center on Thursdays

from 3:00 - 5:00 pm.

[Richard] Dziomba’s more

ambitious idea, though,

is to establish industrial

boilers for local, but large

facilities requiring cheap

heating and energy.

Blue Knight Group uses Colorado

beetle kill wood for fuel.

COURTESY GREG TALLY



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John Bristow

Staff Writer

For this past week’s Van Tuyl

lecture series, the department

of geology and geological engi-

neering’s own Welsh structural

geologist stopped by to give anenthralling lecture in European ge-

ography, North Sea oil reserves,

and how the school’s future can

be bettered through paradigm

shifts.

For most Van Tuyl lectures,

the geology department looks

outwards to geologists outside

the school to bring a different

perspective on geological issues.

Given that Trudgill had just re-

turned from his sabbatical year,

the lecture served as an amalga-

mation of original Mines thinking

coupled with a novel new ap-

proach. Trudgill began the lecture

with a bit of comparative geogra-

phy. He started off with his normal

sense of levity, bringing laughs tothe crowd. “Where is Denmark?”

he asked with a world map up on

the screen, “For a North Ameri-

can audience that could be an

important question.” After a brief

geographic comparison, Trudgill

delved into the cultural differences

between Colorado and Denmark,

a topic that would come up spo-

radically throughout the lecture.

“Danes have certain attributes,”

Trudgill said, “namely a high toler-

ance for early morning partying,”

bringing more amused grins out of

the audience.

During his time in Denmark,

Trudgill worked for Maersk, a

company usually known for its

shipping division. “Why the hell

did you go to work for a shipping

company?” Trudgill asked himself

on behalf of the audience, “aren’t

you a geologist?” Of course, be-

yond a few slides showing the

largest shipping boat in the world,

Trudgill was there to highlight the

oil and gas division of Maersk,

which is the 18th largest oil and

gas company in the world. The

company has a broad portfolio

of oil and gas development loca-

tions worldwide, unfortunately for

the company, and luckily for the

structural geologist, “they didn’t

have regional models for a num-

ber of key locations.” It was Trud-

gill’s job, along with a small army

of others to work and dene that

regional framework.

Since the Van Tuyl lecture is

limited by time, Trudgill chose to

recount a single story about nd-

ing record amounts of oil in a

place which was thought to havevery little capability for oil and gas

development. The focal area for

the story was the North Sea Rift

Basin, a Triassic and Jurassic pe-

riod rift off the shore of Denmark.

In terms of major oil and gas de-

velopments, rift basins comprise

around 30 percent of the plays.

For the North Sea rift, “there is a

signicant amount of salt in the

system,” stated Trudgill. “This can

add in a lot of complexity.” One

of the major focuses of the talk

was the increased complexity of

the system and how to approach

problems in the future. Before the

most recent resurgence in devel-

opments in the region, according

New plays in the North Sea Rift Basinto Trudgill, the mentality had been

that “exploration in the North Sea

is nished.” Recent exploration,

on the other hand, has changed

how people see the system.

While the big companies would

not touch the area beyond what

they had previously drilled, small

companies such as Lundin, a later

hero of this story, had taken a rad-

ical approach to the area.

Lundin had decided to start

searching the area for more oil,

originally by working with old data

for its portfolio, then by drilling

new wells in an attempt to get

more data. According to Trud-

gill, the rst two wells failed to

nd the anticipated Jurassic res-

ervoir, but despite this, they had

the shock of nding oil in the po-

rous basement rock. This was a

revolutionary surprise that helped

unlock the eld to more explora-

tion and development. With this

discovery, the local governments

decided to take the three majorcompanies applying to drill with

this new data and placed them in

a “forced marriage.” Lundin identi-

ed a new prospect in 2010, and

with a fairly thick pay section, they

anticipated around 100-400 mil-

lion barrels. At this point Trudgill

broke into a smile, knowing what

was coming, “This was starting to

look big.” As it turns out, the oil

was owing through the porous

basement rock along a glacial in-

duced tilt. On top of all of this, the

undiscovered reservoir was more

than amazing, “what else makes it

work is reservoir quality,” revealed

Trudgill, “those working in the

Piceance Basin and others may

want to turn away. When I say

good reservoir, I mean [redacted]

good reservoir.” Trudgill put an im-

age up on the screen of workers

pouring oil directly from the rock in

the core sample to the audience’s

amazement. With more work, the

estimated reserves were pushed

up to around 1700-3300 million

barrels. For companies besides

Lundin, the announcement served

as an eye opener. Companies

could no longer get by on basic

large models, they need to pro-

duce realistic regional models. In

regards to taking risks, Trudgill of-

fered this advice, “[if] this is as big

of a prospect as it could be, we

have to drill it.”

The lecture then took a turn

to the more current, specically

what it was that Trudgill had done

for Maersk. Since there was even

more potential for oil and gas in

the region and the company did

not have the regional models to

proceed, it was up to him to in-terpret the data and produce a

better idea of what was going on.

Trudgill decided to take a novel

approach, and instead of going

at it like before,“you have to start

from the bottom up, back at the

basement and the fabric of that

rock.” It was also crucial to look

through the data for complex-

ity that had been missed origi-

nally. One of the structures that

Trudgill is particularly versed in

that had been missed were the

relay ramps. In his opinion, see-

ing these is good for interpret-

ing the evolution of the system.

Many other parts of the original

interpretation have changed sig-

nicantly. Structures such as salt

features had been treated like

textbook examples, rather than

being granted their complexity. “I

was taught that the chalk was like

a blanket over the central North

Sea,” said Trudgill reecting on his

original knowledge, which proved

to lack the complexity needed for

the problem. Even the faults in the

system had been over-simplied.

One, named the Coffee Sail Fault

System, turned out to be many

faulting events, not just one.

Trudgill ended the lecture with

an appeal to the school, bolstered

by elements of his story. For one

slide in particular, he put up an

image of some work he had done

with a high end program called

Paleoscan, which builds a stra-

tigraphy and colors it in a way

that is readily interpretable. “You

put in some tops, let it run, go to

the pub, and come back in the

morning. It does several months,

maybe a year’s worth of work overnight.” Of course it isn’t per-

fect, but with some direction it is

still good. “I got to interpret the

most modern information on a

big, stonking work station,” said

Trudgill with a sense of pride. He

posited that if there was more em-

phasis on having good programs

and resources like he used, it may

have a novel effect on the stu-

dents at the school and their ca-

reers after their education.

On top of an appeal for more

high tech equipment, Trudgill also

pushed the audience to approach

their problems in a more Danish

light: to be happier and to work

harder.

Jordan Partin

Staff Writer

“I would like to do something with

my degree that helps other people,”

said Juan Lucena, a professor in the

LAIS department who presented

the Humanitarian Engineering work-

shop.

Lucena also said, “my life has

been very blessed and full of oppor-tunities that I would like to share with

those less fortunate. Put in a more

selsh way, I would like to work in a

job where I feel like I am doing good

for the world in a very tangible way. I

have a great (engineering) education

that I want to put to good use.”

In the past few years, Mines stu-

dents have slowly developed and

spread this mindset. The idea of

combining technical skill with philan-

thropy has created the profession of

Humanitarian Engineer, a minor that

is now offered at Mines. To begin,

Lucena gave a brief overview of hu-

manitarian engineering, hitting on its

growing demand in industry and the

fast-paced evolution of engineering

issues as a whole. The majority of the workshop was devoted to stu-

dents and humanitarian engineer-

ing experts reecting and providing

suggestions on four different ques-

tions Lucena posed to them. First,

what opportunities might a student

be missing in going to the eld of

humanitarian engineering? Second,

what chances should this student

be taking? Next, what barriers are

keeping this student from nding a

fullling job right away? And nally,

who should this student be following

as exemplars? These four questions

sparked enormous conversation

and a variety of answers. The ma-

jority of responses tended to focus

on the lack of opportunities the eld

currently has, the likely pay cut and

lack of benets a student would

have to take by choosing a humani-

tarian engineering career, and therisky decisions they would have to

make in choosing their career path

when getting into the workforce.

After all of these challenges in the

humanitarian eld were highlighted

and discussed, Lucena pointed out

the unique opportunities and ben-

ets of the humanitarian eld. He

encouraged students to keep the

re for philanthropy alive even when

working in an average engineering

job by advocating with a humanitar-

ian organization, starting their own

organization, working for NGOs, or

becoming a “change agent” within

their company by proposing and

bringing a new branch of charity to

their business. The students left

aware of the challenges ahead of them but also focused on the great

benets and fulllment available.

Colorado School of Mines has one

of the rst humanitarian engineer-

ing minors in the nation, and with

a combination of the passion and

education this school provides,

these students look to the future

with a hopeful sight of the direct im-

pact they each can make around the

globe.

Engineering for the greater good

With Earth’s population at a

7.1 billion, resource consumption

is a serious concern among the

academic community. The ever-

increasing demand for goods has

pressured manufacturers to em-

ploy new techniques to increase

production and minimize costs.Experts of all disciplines located

all across the world are answering

this call, with each bringing their

specialties to the table. Colorado

School of Mines, widely

known for its contributions

to the study of renewable

energies, is now home to

a new project. An interview

with Dr. Nanette Boyle, re-

vealed groundwork details of this

research proposal. Based in the

eld of synthetic biology, Dr. Boyle

hopes to take advantage of cyano-

bacteria for the production of fuels

and pharmaceuticals.

The term “synthetic biology”

calls on a different image for each

individual. Simply put, it is the de-sign and manipulation of biological

substances for purposeful use.

Over the past century, synthetic

biology has improved the standard

of living for many.

One of the oldest applications

of synthetic biology is the ma-

nipulation of the E. coli bacteria

for the production of human in-

sulin. The E. coli acts as a host,

and the insulin sample needing to

be replicated is placed inside the

bacteria. The E. coli then naturally

reproduces, replicating the insulin

in the process. Agents are then

added to separate the insulin from

the bacteria, resulting in a ready to

use product.

Since then, E. coli bacteria has

been used to develop vaccines,

produce pharmaceuticals and

biofuels, and synthesize enzymesfor a wide variety of uses. Boyle

states, however, that in order for

this method to work, “You still have

to provide it a carbon source.” The

carbon comes from the sugars of

certain crop plants and “that is

competing with our food supply.”

Boyle wishes to improve upon this

practice by replacing E. coli with

cyanobacteria.

Even with only a minute un-

derstanding of cyanobacteria, it is

clear that E. coli is up against ercecompetition. As mentioned, E. coli

requires sugar to fuel the process.

According to Boyle, cyanobacteria

not only produce their own energy

through photosynthesis, but are

“much more efcient at harvest-

ing light than crop plants are.” The

bacteria can generate more ener-

gy on their own than an equivalent

mass of crop plants. Boyle con-

tinues by saying, “Cyanobacteria

have a much more diverse me-

tabolism than E. coli.” The larger

metabolism allows for more pos-

sibilities with regards to generat-

ing products. As well tted as the

bacteria seem to be, applying the

methods used on E. coli is easier

said than done.

As the project is still in its infan-

cy, concrete project goals have yet

to be dened. The rst step is todesign methodology of manipulat-

ing the cyanobacteria. Once com-

plete, the future research team will

be able to work on improving the

durability of the cyanobacte-

ria, making it a viable option

in areas of extreme condi-

tions. From there, it is a mat-

ter of nding substances that

can be produced through

the cyanobacteria with only solar

and water input. These objectives

are tentative, and will develop as

progress is made.

Boyle described her interest in

synthetic engineering as starting in

graduate school. Growing up on a

farm, she has seen the advances

in crop engineering rst hand andnoted the increase in yields. She

took this interest with her to col-

lege where she worked in this eld

on projects such as the meta-

bolic modeling of algae. Boyle

expressed her excitement for this

particular study, and would like to

share it with the community. Un-

dergraduate students interested in

a future internship with this project

should contact Boyle.

Cyanobacteria couldchange the worldJames Davis

Staff Writer

Dr. Boyle hopes to take advantage

of cyanobacteria for the produc-

tion of fuels and pharmaceuticals.



f e a t u r e sseptember 9, 2013 page 5


Benjamin Elliott

Staff Writer

She saw him leaning up against

the lamppost at Altab Ali Park, whichused to be called St. Mary’s Park (yet

had looked much the same then,

minus a few newer adornments),

and froze with uncertainty. He was

smoking, bearded, and larger than

she remembered him, but still him.

Should she greet him? It had been

a long time. Maybe he wouldn’t re-

member her. Or, if he did, perhaps

he wouldn’t want to see her. Or may-

be he would, but what could she

possibly say? She took some slow

steps ahead of her, making to pass

the park on entirely, but couldn’t help

but look his way again.

He turned and glanced her way,

spotting her staring. He stared back.

Then smiled, and waved. Recogni-

tion made her choice for her- shecouldn’t turn around and walk the

other direction after he had seen her.

Well, she could, but it wouldn’t be

very ladylike. After making sure no

cars were coming, across the street

she went, stylish coat held closely

against the autumn cold. It may

as well have been winter for all the

protection the thin coat gave. The

smokey leaves crunched underfoot

in the gutter alongside the edge, and

then she was there.

“Hell-hi-o,” they said concur-

rently, mixing the words awkwardly.

Those were the only words for a mo-

ment, held still, before he dropped

his cigarette and stamped it out.

“So, you’re back,” he said.

“Only for the funeral,” she admit-ted.

“Really? Gone so soon?”

“Well, you know how it is.”

“Sure,” he said grufy, itching his

right arm with his left. “Your mum’ll

be glad to see you.”

“I’ll be glad to see her,” she con-

cocted.

“Man, last time I saw you, you

were as rough as this town was. As

this town still is. What happened?”

“I left.”

“Bloody right, you did. Hey, you

heard the one about the shrink?”

She shrugged, shaking her head.

When he asked if you’d ‘heard the

one’, you didn’t tell him you’d heard

it- he’d just get mopey, and tell it

anyway. At least, she assumed hehadn’t changed in that respect. Not

much seemed to have changed.

“So, a whole bunch of shrinks

were attending a convention. Four of

them went to dinner one night. One

said to the other three, ‘People are

always coming to us with their guilt

and fears, but we have no one that

we can go to when we have prob-

lems.’ The others agreed. Then one

said, ‘Since we are all professionals,

why don’t we take some time right

now to hear each other out?’ The

other three agreed. The rst then

confessed, ‘I have an uncontrol-

lable desire to kill my patients.’ The

second shrink said, ‘I love money,

so I nd ways to cheat my patients

whenever I can.’ The third followedwith, ‘I’m addicted to drugs and

often prescribe more than my pa-

tients are really getting.’ The fourth

shrink then confessed, ‘I know I’m

not supposed to, but no matter how

hard I try, I can’t keep a secret.’ “ He

grinned at the punchline, and she

brought out a slight respectful smile.

“That’s a good one,” she com-

mented.

“Yeah. Heard it from James over

on Copley Street.”

“Look, I’d better go.”

“Yeah? Funeral’s not until tomor-

row.” How did he know that? No, of

course he knew that.“I’m just... busy. Have some work

to do.”

“Okay. I mean, if you have time

to spend, me and some mates are

heading to the Castle.”

“Sorry, can’t make it.” She un-

comfortably began to turn away.

“You know, you never were a

great liar. Why not just say you don’t

want to be here?”

She turned back around to face

him.

“Ok, ne, I don’t want to be here.”

“Sure. Too good for us, now that

you’ve gone and moved up in the

world.”

“Yeah, that’s it.”

“Well, go bugger off to wherever

you were going. I’m sure it’s betterthan with the likes of us. With the

likes of your people.”

She walked briskly away during

that last sentence. She knew it had

been a bad idea to come back, but

her mum had insisted so pleadingly.

Of course mum had. It was to her

mum’s house, her own old house,

that she was going anyways, but

she didn’t correct the guy. Was her

own mother even her people any-

more?

“We didn’t leave! You did!” he

called after her, a parting shot she

barely heard.

She went to her mother’s house,

which was over on Asheld Street.

A small apartment, lined up in a

row with other small apartments, itspoke of brick and mortar, of old ar-

chitecture, even though it wasn’t re-

ally all that old. The painted windows

and steep roofs seemed almost a

bourgeois mockery compared the

cramped, clustering arrangement of

living spaces. She would have called

it home, only it wasn’t anymore.

Thank goodness for that.

Her mother answered the door

immediately after the third knock,

as if she had been sitting next to the

door. She was a lot shorter than her

daughter remembered her.

“Oh, honey, it’s so good to see

you!” the woman said, stretching her

arms out.

“Hello mum,” the daughter said

with half the enthusiasm, diving intothe hug while closing the door. “How

are you holding up?”

“Decently enough.” The two

stood there silently, thinking about

unsaid histories, before mum

dropped the embrace and turned

vibrantly to waddle towards the

kitchen. “Oh, honey, I was prepar-

ing some hot water for tea, but

didn’t know when you’d get here,

so I’ll need to heat it up again. My

goodness, you look beautiful! Come,

come!”

“You drink tea now?”

“Of course I drink tea. What’s an

old lady supposed to spend her time

doing, besides watch theatre on the

telly and read the paper?”

The daughter stepped ginger-

ly into the tenement. Something

smelled mouldy. She tried to locate

the source, but it didn’t seem to

be coming from anywhere singular.

She continued to the kitchen, where

her mother was trying and failing to

strike a match.

“Here, let me,” the daughter said,

taking the box from her mother.

“Oh, thank you. Those things

never did work when you wanted

them to.”

“No, they didn’t.” The daughter

struck a ame and lit the gas burner,

waving the match out after it burst

into life. “The same oven too.”“It all still works- no reason to go

throwing anything out now.”

“I guess not.”

“So tell me, tell me! What’s hap-

pening in the life of my bigshot

daughter?”

“Well, work. A lot of work. Which

almost doesn’t seem like work most

of the time. My lines are selling well...

I might even get a show in Paris one

of these days.”

“Oooo!” her mother said, eyes

twinkling. “Paris! I’ve only been once,

when you were only three. You were

a little horror then.”

“I don’t remember not being a

little horror, ever.”

“Right you are.”

“Are you still seeing that one girl,the black-haired one...”

“No. Teresa and I split three years

ago.”

“Oh. Oh dear. Well, I never did

think much of her, she was always

so haughty, so overbearing.”

“...She dumped me, mum. I’m

not over it yet.”

“Oh. Oh, sorry. That was mean of

me, your cruel mother, opening up

fresh wounds.”

“No, it’s ne. Don’t worry about

it. I mean, you probably don’t much

want to talk about Pa.”

Her mother stopped there for a

second.

“Well, I don’t see why not. All

they’ll be doing tomorrow is talking

about him.”“Mum...”

“I do miss him though.” The

kettle whistled, and was moved to

the backburner while the daughter

went to grab cups. Also where they

had always been. “I mean, he was

a mean jimmy, when it came right

down it, but I did care about him.”

“After everything he did?”

“Well, that’s the thing about it.

Maybe I shouldn’t have, but I did. I

loved your father.”

“Mum, that probably isn’t love.

That’s Stockholm Syndrome.” Her

mother poured the water out, and

pulled out some infusers.

“No, it was love. I don’t expect

you to understand, not having found

someone yet-”“I’m taking my time. Too early

and I might nd myself locked down,

for life. Like you were.”

“Oh, that is what all the young

people are saying these days, isn’t

it? They say romance is dead, and

I have half a mind to believe it. But

for all the things your father was, he

certainly was romantic.”

Her daughter had no response,

only writhing hatred. Her mother

continued.

“Self-denial is the new thing.

People stop themselves from feel-

ing anything to operate more cleanly,

perfectly. That’s what they’re saying

these days. But not me... no. I mar-

ried early because, well, if the goal

is to meet someone really special,

someone who you can’t get enough

of... isn’t it better to love them for lon-

ger? Meeting them earlier is a head

start that people who meet later

don’t ever have.”

“Not like I could marry right now,

legally anyway. Maybe in a few years.

People you meet later are usually not

the same person you would have

met now. And what if you marry the

wrong person?”

“I don’t know. Maybe there isn’t

a wrong person. Maybe love is just

forgiving all the pain and hell other

people put us through.” Her mom

took a sip of tea. “Or maybe, thereis a right person, but you’ll never be

able to tell whether or not that per-

son or this person is them. So it’s a

guessing game.”

“You’re really going to try to apol-

ogize for him, aren’t you? You can

make any kind of argument to justify

it all, and to make it seem like Pa was

the hero you saw him as.”

“This doesn’t only apply to a ro-

mantic partner. It applies to all of hu-

manity. You can love someone with-

out intending to marry them. Why

do you think parents love their kids?

Because, believe me, you put me

through plenty of crap in your day.”

“But when you said it, you meant

it about Pa.”

“He did the best he could.”“No, he didn’t. I don’t see why

you never left.”

Her mum sat quietly, not offend-

ed, but not forthcoming either.

“I had you to think about.”

“And I left.”

“I suppose you did,” her mum re-

plied. “Any case, the brute is dead

now. Doesn’t matter much after all.

Doesn’t matter when he’s six foot

under.”

After talking to her, and then

shouting after her retreating back, he

went to Castle. It was a sports pub

down on the corner between White

Church Lane and Commercial Road.

It sat on one of those thin corners

that sometimes cropped up when

city planners got a bit too busy, ortipsy, or playful. The two roads al-

most ran parallel to each other

where they met.

The pub wasn’t particularly no-

table, though it could not be said to

be trivial either. It served as a sort of

meeting place for him and his out-

t, where they could come and play

pool and tell bawdy jokes and waste

their nights away. He worked at a

warehouse in town most days, and

the time left over was just enough to

hedonistically collapse before the fol-

lowing one.

This night, like all nights, they

began appearing at around seven.

He got there a bit earlier this time,

started smoking outside. The rst

one after him was James.“Hey. You look miffed,” James

said.

“You remember Milena?”

“Who?

“She’s a fashion designer now,

was here maybe four years back.”

“The bird with the black-haired

girlfriend?

“That’s the one. Showed up on

the street today, looking all posh.

Here for the funeral apparently.”

“So that’s why you’re stroppy?

A toffed up girl comes by and ruins

your day?”

“Not just comes by. Starts acting

like she’s a stranger. Like she didn’t

run with the other kids when she

grew up here, like she just forgot it

all.”

“Don’t worry yourself. She’s a

slag anyways.”

He stared at James strangely

“No. If you knew her at all, if you’d

known her back then, you’d know

why you need to take those words

back.”

“Ok, ne, whatever. She’s not a

slag.”

“So she left here the rst chance

she could. Could you imagine leav-

ing the East End?”

“No way. This place is the best

dump on Earth.”

“True enough. Not so much a

dump these days though.”“Not completely.”

“Anyways, I don’t know why I let

it get to me. Made me feel I wasn’t

worth talking to, wasn’t worth even a

second thought. I knew this girl when

we were kids; we ran from dogs and

ate apples in the summer and shot

the breeze! And now... I don’t know.

She doesn’t want to be here.”

“Are you sure she’s not a slag?”

“Absolutely sure. Don’t say that

again.”

James shut his mouth, began

messing with his eyelids.

“Sure sounds pretty slaggy to

me.”

Without thinking, he punched

James in the face, and before he

knew it, they were ghting. It hadbeen a while since he last fought,

but he was no stranger to them.

The East End wasn’t all rough, but

he had grown up in the rough part

of it, and that meant getting into the

occasional tussle. The ght lasted

almost three minutes before anyone

tried to pull them apart, and James

leaned up against the bar’s wall si-

lently staring at him.

The warehouser simply left back

to his at rather than wait for cop-

pers to show up. He hadn’t meant

to ght James, he just had to. Get-

ting home was a relief, after not even

passing through the gate of Castle.

He slept early, though it was the right

time to go to bed for a work day. It

was the weekend now, but he justdid not feel like celebrating.

Seldom is someone ever im-

pugned during their funeral, and

never with something that hasn’t al-

ready been said thousands of times

before in planning. The man’s funeral

was, as was probable, littered with

praise.

After the funeral, as the sun be-

gan to set, she walked aimlessly.

Aimlessly eventually brought her to

the lamppost at Altab Ali Park. She

knew she should say something,

but didn’t have anything to say.

She waited for half an hour before

he came walking by though, which

gave her some time to think. She

walked over, and then noticed the

bruises.“You’re hurt.”

“Not much. Doesn’t matter. Got

mugged.”

“Did you lose much?”

“Only ve quid.”

“I’m sorry.”

“Weren’t your fault,” he said, pull-

ing out a cigarette. “Want one?”

“No, thanks.”

“You sure?”

“I quit a few years ago.”

“You quit a bunch of things a few

years ago.”

“Yeah. Listen, I’m sorry about the

other day,” she said.

“Are you really?”

“Yes. Well, I did intend the thing

about not wanting to be here. But

here is just a place. You may consid-

er yourself to be a part of the place,

but I really wasn’t trying to hurt you

with that comment. It was an over-

sight.”

“You did hurt the East End’s feel-

ings.”

“Come on. I come from here.

Anything in the East End can take a

hit, especially the place itself.”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

Continued on page 8 at East End

Oredigger Fiction Column

In the East End



f e a t u r e s september 9, 2013page 6


John Bristow

Staff Writer

There are two words sure to

elicit a special kind of fear in as-

tronomers: light pollution. While

weather and other natural phe-

nomena have cut short the star

gazing dreams of many astrono-

mers, both amateur and profes-

sional, these deterrents are pass-

ing. Light pollution on the other

hand is much more permanent.

At the dawn of civil ization, stars

peppered the skies in a way that

is hard to imagine outside of places like Death Valley and the

heart of Africa. To our ancestors

on the plains of Africa, stellar fea-

tures were more than prevalent.

On nights where the moon wasn’t

ooding the skies with its ethereal

light, the Milky Way served as a

backbone to the night and stel-

lar clouds that we can only see

today with long exposure shots

served as a haunting miasma to

the imaginations of our past.

Well into the 18th century, the

skies were still open frontiers to

the imagination. There are several

reports of notable natural philos-

ophers debating why there were

blue streaks through the Pleia-

des, a feature that can only be

seen these days with a telescope.

It was when the industrial revolu-

tion began that the stars began

to fade.

Oil and gas lights were not

much competition with the heav-

ens alone, but in great numbers,

even these lights had their effect.

By the time of electricity, in many

cities it became necessary to put

up planetariums to highlight the

stars that could not be seen. Inplaces such as New York and

London, seeing more than a few

stars is a rare sight. In even more

gaudy cities such as Las Vegas,

stars may be a gment of the

past.

This slow fade of the skies from

our viewpoint is not just limited to

the big cities. As the schedule of

humanity breaks beyond the typi-

cal day and night schedule, lights

are on much later and advertis-

ing is cranked up to higher lev-

els to attract humans like moths.

If there is only one benet from

The lack of Stars above Mines

this, it is the vision of the Earth

at night from space, a starscape

inverted upon itself. There are a

depressing few places where the

true nature of the stars can be

seen. Desolate places such as

Death Valley can serve as win-

dows to the past, provided aerial

pollution does not nd its way out

of nearby cities. Golden is fairly

lucky. The light of Denver washes

out the awe-inspiring features to

the east, but the Table Mountains

serve as barriers to an extent,

and on a good moonless night,

faint galaxies can be seen danc-ing amidst the cloudy Milky Way.

There are ways to prevent

light pollution. Every light has its

impact on the whole, and while

an errant porch light left on may

just be a d rop in the bucket, the

whole bucket is lled with seem-

ingly trivial drops. Many cities

have astronomy petitions asking

for smarter lamps that point down

rather than spread light uselessly

up. While light is necessary for

humanity, it is not necessary to

wash out the beauty of the skies.

So give a hoot, don’t light pollute.

COURTESY SITE07

They always say that Grand-

ma’s cooking is the best, and

whoever “they” are, they denitely

have it right. If ever craving an easy,

homemade meal that requires min-

imal effort, “Grandma’s Pancakes”

should be a go-to recipe. They canbe paired with anything from syr-

up and breakfast sausage for the

more traditional, to lox and cream

cheese for the adventurous. These

pancakes are so uffy, decadent

and delicious that cooks may just

forget the four homework assign-

ments awaiting them on their desk.

The recipe is simple and suitable

for anytime, from 12:01 on a Sun-

day morning to 11:59 on a Satur-

day night.

Ingredients

2 cups our

3 tsp. baking powder

1.5 Tbs. sugar

Grandma’s PancakesKaren Gilsdorf

Staff Writer

1 Tbs. cinnamon (optional)

1.5 cups milk

0.5 cups oil

1 tsp. vanilla (optional)

2 eggs, separated

Directions

Mix the our, baking powder,

sugar and cinnamon into one bowl,

and the milk, oil, vanilla and sepa-

rated egg yolks into another. Com-bine the two bowls, and then in a

separate bowl, beat the remain-

ing egg whites until they are stiff

enough to form small peaks. Fold

these into the batter with a spatula,

taking care to not over-mix the bat-

ter.

Preheat griddle/pan to 325 de-

grees fahrenheit or medium heat,

and grease with butter.

Drop 1/4 cup of batter onto

the griddle/pan, ip when bubbles

form on the surface of the batter.

Enjoy! This recipe makes

enough for ve people, or three

college-aged boys.KAREN GILSDORF / OREDIGGER

Grandma’s Pancakes are a student’s weekend go-to recipe.



f e a t u r e sseptember 9, 2013 page 7


Despite its relatively small size,

the diverse population at Mines

means there are plenty of people

here who manage to defy geek

conventions. However, there are

still some students, like senior

Mykala Miller, who appreciate what

it means to be an old school nerd

and to take on academic challeng-

es like a double major, or spend

more time reading alone than

hanging out with other people.

This week, Miller takes the time to

remind Mines that the quiet geeks

are still just as awesome as the

ones who go sprinting across Kaf-

adar, yelling at the top of their lungs

and carrying Nerf guns or dodging

slacklines.[Oredigger]: So why Electri-

cal Engineering and Computer

Science?

[Miller]: My dad is an E.E. and

my mom is a C.S. so that was what

I was familiar with.

What’s been your favorite

class and why?

Elements of Computer Systems

[because] that was the closest

thing to what I wanted to focus on.Do you have a least favorite

class?

Geek Week...Mykala Miller, Senior: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

ofthe

Thermo because it’s Thermo. Are you a geek and why?

I don’t even know what the de-nition of a “geek” is. I like cats?

What do you do with whatev-

er free time you can scrounge

up?

On the occasional time I’m pre-

sented with free time, although

I don’t really know what that is, I

improve my library. I’ve got lots of

books.If you could hang out with

any ctional character for a

day, who would it be?

There’s this author named

Brandon Sanderson and there’s

this gal [from one of his books] and

her name is Jasnah and she’s awe-

some.What’s your favorite thing

about Mines? The people, or lack thereof.

That’s why I didn’t go to CSU.What is your greatest ac-

complishment?

I digitized my family’s movie

collection and let me tell you, that

Spring Break was awful. Awful. I

think it ended up being 300 GB.How would you handle an

encounter with an army of kit-

tens on catnip?

I would get a string and would

attach it to a stick. I would attach

Jordan Francis

Staff Writer

that stick to a motor and I would

throw it far away from me. Or,

maybe a live mouse would be bet-ter than a string then I could just let

the mouse go.Which would you rather have

had: free textbooks or free rent

for all of college?

Textbooks because I live at

home.If you could be dropped into

any ctional universe, what

would it be and why?

Brandon Sanderson’s main uni-

verse. I can’t gure out the rules,

so that might be fun. Apparently,

there are rules. I just can’t gure

them out.What is your best nerd mo-

ment or story?

You would have to come and

visit my family as we eat dinner be-cause all we do is debate the natu-

ral laws of science. Or maybe back

when I had long hair and I forgot

to comb it before I went to school.Do you have any plans for

the future?

Get a job.Do you have any advice for

fellow geeks and Mines stu-

dents?

Don’t take Thermo. Just don’t

do it. Or maybe just don’t go into

Chemistry.

JORDAN FRANCIS / OREDIGGER

Mykala Miller urges students to never take Thermo, ever.

Jordan FrancisStaff Writer

Comic Corner - “The Flash: Dead Heat”

The Flash: Scarlet Speedster,

Fastest Man Alive, or to people who

don’t know DC comics too well, “that

red guy who runs really fast.” Though

the many men behind the mask (or

under the hat in one case) have all

had interesting backgrounds and

personalities to develop, through his

many incarnations, Flash is usually at

his best when he’s blazing around in

a story that can keep pace with his

impossible speed. “The Flash: Dead

Heat” (which spans The Flash issues

#108 –#111 and Impulse issues #10

– #11) is a high stakes, high speed

adventure centering around argu-

ably one of the greatest men to takeup the mantle of The Flash-- former

Flash sidekick Wally West.

The story begins with Wally West

on a date with his girlfriend, Linda

Park. Wally is saved from a serious

conversation by a timely attack from

a pair of super-speed ninjas. Wally

stops the attack, but one ninja gets

away. At this point two of the other

speedsters, Jesse Quick and Jay

Garrick, arrive to tell Wally that nearly

all known speedsters besides him-

self have suddenly and inexplicably

been cut off from their speed. Wally

interrogates the remaining ninja and

nds out that the man responsible

for the speed drop is named Savi-

tar and that he seeks to take the gift

of speed from all those whom hedeems unworthy before the ninja lit-

erally ages to death in Wally’s hands.

Wally and the gang race to warn fel-

low speedsters Max Mercury and

Impulse only to nd ninjas already

surrounding Impulse and his speed-

ster cousin, XS. Wally quickly dis-

patches the ninjas and, upon nd-

ing out that Max has been missing

for a while, searches with the oth-

ers through Max’s les for answers.

They nd out that Savitar was giftedwith super-speed when a ight of

an experimental supersonic airplane

went wrong. Savitar took speed as

his new religion and learned all he

could about it, becoming a deadly,

dangerous expert on the subject

who considers those who take their

powers less seriously to be unwor-

thy of wielding them. When

Max re-emerges, badly in-

jured from a beating at Savi-

tar’s hands, Wally and Jesse

take him to a hospital and

go after Savitar, leaving the

other de-powered speed-

sters behind. They nd

Savitar’s castle and discover

that he is leeching speed

energy off the Speed Forceand storing it in ninjas so

that most speedsters will be

unable to use it. Jesse man-

ages to break the machine

Savitar is using to steal and

store energy, thus restoring

superspeed to herself and

the other speedsters. Savi-

tar brings out fty of his best

ninjas just as Jay, Max, Im-

pulse, and Johnny Quick ar-

rive and the ght is on. In an

attempt to save his daugh-

ter, Johnny runs fast enough

to permanently merge with

the Speed Force, the al-

most mythical energy force

that gives all speedsters

their power. This is consid-ered a sort of heaven for

speedsters and most in-

cluding Johnny Quick do not return

to the mortal plane once they have

merged with Speed Force. With his

castle and army in shambles, Savitar

lashes out toward Wally’s girlfriend.

In a desperate attempt to stop him,

Wally runs as hard as he can into

the Speed Force with Savitar right

on his heels. Wally manages to get

an ecstatic Savitar to merge withthe Speed Force, though he nds

himself sure that he can get home

as long as he has a “beacon” in the

form of Linda. He concentrates and

pulls himself out of the Speed Force

and the comic ends with a different

man in a different Flash costume ap-

pearing in his home.

This story is a high-speed ad-

venture that will entertain most any

reader. It draws on many established

elements from various parts of the

Flash mythos, but the plot is still

simple enough to keep from leaving

new readers behind in the dust. It is

nothing masterful, but it is fun and

engaging. The action is fast paced

and never stays in one spot longenough to get boring. The numerous

character interactions are great at

establishing the characters and re-

lationships for new readers and can

often get a smile or a chuckle from

old readers who know the charac-

ters well. These comics do under-

stand that while most readers love

to see a person in costume

beating the snot out of some

tricky bad guys, it is hard to

stay invested in the story if

they don’t know the per-

son behind the mask. Un-

fortunately, the characters’

personalities are sometimes

oversimplied into boiled-

down versions of their most

basic and recognizabletraits, probably for the ben-

et of inexperienced read-

ers. The character develop-

ment suffers a bit as well,

often adhering to archetypal

tropes for this sort of story

with little regard to charac-

ter traits or tendencies that

would normally slow down

such development, though

there are some character

evolutions that make perfect

sense in context.

Similarly, the art style var-

ies back and forth between

tting the story perfectly and

being a little out of place.

The Flash issues are a bit

more realistic, though it of-ten skimps on the details.

Facial expressions, particu-

larly from a distance, are simplied

and sometimes blurry due to the

lack of detail. Lines of denition be-

tween objects and people ip from

being too numerous to too sparse,

making it sometimes a bit difcult

to nd the boundaries and giving

much of the comic the look of a

eshed-out sketch the original lines

of which were either left in or over-erased. While it can be a bit irritating

or distracting, this also does serve

the purpose of helping the reader

understand a bit of how Wally West

and his fellow speedsters see the

world at a very different speed than

normal people do. The Impulse is-

sues, on the other hand, are a bit

more cartoonish, with big feet and

big heads (and occasionally very

badly drawn joints and hands that

look like paws), and the art generally

creates a very juvenile impression.

This is not a criticism, but rather a

compliment, as that style is very t-

ting for the Impulse comics. Those

stories center on a little boy from

the future in a teenage body ghting

super fast ninjas in blue robes whoserve a man that worships the actual

concept of speed. The Flash issues

are more serious (though not without

a sense of humor), but while Impulse

knows that the situation at hand is

a serious matter, he and his comics

can recognize the utter absurdity of

his world and gure that if the world

is crazy, he might as well have fun

with it.

This story is a lot of fun, though

it does hold weight in the Flash uni-

verse. The characters are some-

times oversimplied, but things hap-

pen to them that actually do have a

permanent effect on who they are.

There’s a lot of great action, but it’s

held together with a cohesive, be-

lievable plot that does a good jobof carrying over into the next story

without leaving too many loose ends

lying around. It’s no masterpiece, but

“The Flash: Dead Heat” is denitely

worth reading for any comic fan, if

for no other reason than reminding

the reader that it is possible to have

a serious story without becoming so

grim and gritty that the characters

and readers lose any ability to have

fun with the world.

COURTESY DCCOMICS

“The Flash: Dead Heat” boasts a believe-

able and cohesive plot packed with action.



f e a t u r e s september 9, 2013page 8


Zach Snyder

Staff Writer

All students at Mines need to

master the fundamentals of Calculus

to succeed. While some students

gobble up math problems for break-

fast, others absolutely despise it. Mr.

Bridgman, a math professor here atMines, had a few things to say about

teaching here in Golden.

[Oredigger]: First, thank you

for doing this. Let’s start with

some background information-

where did you go to school?

What did you major in?

I did my undergraduate at a

school called Furman University,

which is the size of Mines, in Green-

ville, South Carolina. I got my under-

graduate degree in math and a mi-

nor in computer science. I received

my masters in math at the University

of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.What prior work experience

did you have? It could be any-

thing from cleaning dishes at a

Mexican restaurant to workingat an engineering rm.

Before college, I did a lot of out-

door labor: lawn care, gardening,

that type of thing. Once I graduated

from college, I went into computer

science doing software develop-

ment. That was my rst career, work -

ing on that for 15 years. I worked in

Alabama and then eventually moved

to Denver. My last company was

called Digital Globe and they did sat-ellite imagery. In 2001, the software

industry had a big crash and I was

laid off. After that I looked into teach-

ing, as I did that on the side and al-

ways enjoyed it.

So what inspired you to

teach? Did you wake up one

morning and say, “I’m going to

bring calculus to the world!”

Ha, yeah bring calculus to the

masses. No, actually, the difference

between teaching and software de-

velopment is the feedback you get.

In software development you can

write code to do something and

then your company sells it. You nev-

er really know if the consumer likes

it or not, you just assume they do

if it sells a lot. With you guys, whenI’m teaching, you can tell instantly if

you’re doing it right or not.

Terry Bridgman brings calculus to the massesWhy teach math as opposed

to physics or chemistry?

I’ve always enjoyed math. I like

doing puzzles and solving problems.

How long have you been

teaching at CSM?

Since 2002, so this is the start of

my 12th year.

How did you hear about theposition at Mines? Did you see

an ad in the journal or did some-

one approach you?

I was unemployed and actu-

ally taking an art class. One of the

students in the art class was also

a teacher out here and she told me

about the opportunity at Mines.

You said you went to school

in South Carolina, where are you

from originally?

Originally from North Carolina, the

other mountains.What is your favorite part

about living in Colorado? Do you

ski or do outdoor activities?

I do not ski, and have no desire

to, but I like the summer stuff. Lots

of biking, lots of hiking. The climateis good, even the hot isn’t that bad,

compared to the south. I don’t really

mess with the winter sports.

What advice do you have for

freshmen at Mines, knowing that

for most people this is their rst

time in college?

Couple of things. One is the

friends you make in college are prob-

ably going to last, potentially more

than the high school friends. Makesure you go out and meet people.

Make good friends because those

will be what I think the strongest

friendships you’ll have. I had some

of my best friendships from college.

Second, don’t be afraid to try

something new. Don’t be afraid of

trying a major you didn’t think about

before. It’s your opportunity, you

were one person in high school but

now this is like a whole new door so

you can be whoever you want to be,

even though it may not be the same

person you were in high school. Very useful. Alright, fun ques-

tion, what’s the deal with the ear-

ring? Is there a story behind it or

was it to feel “cool” and “hip?”

I got this before they were, “cool”and “hip,” thank you. I got this when

I turned 30 and it hasn’t come out

since. A little old lady pierced it and

she asked me, “Why in the world are

you doing this?”

Favorite Movie?

Something by Monty Python.

Probably Monty Python and the Holy

Grail, that’s a good nerdy movie.

Favorite book?

I don’t have just one, but I like theearly works of Stephen King.

Not “Calculus: Early Tran-

scendentals?”

*chuckles* By Rogawski? No.Favorite place you’ve visited?

The Canadian RockiesFavorite food?

Thai foodFinal Question: What’s the

best part about teaching at

Mines?

It’s got to be the students. You

guys are a lot of fun. Every class,

even if I’ve taught the same class

for 6 or 7 years, is always different.

Everybody always brings a different

question. There are different person-

alities, some classes are quiet, some

classes are a little more personable.It’s always the students. There are

good students who come to Mines.

Despite having an extremely

long name, Neko Case’s “The

Worse Things Get, The Harder

I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The

More I Love You” preaches a sim-

ple and enduring message: de-

spite the situation people may be

going through, there is an ability to

come out of it stronger and better

than before. When compared with

Case’s prior albums, “The Worse

Things Get” holds and emphasiz-

es a strong theme which is perva-

sive throughout the album. While

a detailed guide to the whole al-

bum with a song by song walk-

through would

be thorough,

to understand

the meaning

and power

of the album,

there are a few

songs worth

focusing on

over others.

The theme

of the albumis most appar-

ent with a side

by side com-

parison of the

songs “Nearly

Midnight, Ho-

nolulu” and the

closing track, “Ragtime.” Where

“Nearly Midnight, Honolulu” is

full of spite for the past conveyed

through a melodic short story of a

kid and his mother, “Ragtime” has

a jovial spirit geared towards mak-

ing the best of what would other-

wise be a glum night. By placing

a tragic childhood element near

the beginning of the album and

letting the feel of the album prog-

ress towards a much more endur-ing message of hope at the end,

Case shows not only her talent

in songwriting, but also in album

layout, which is something that is

lacking in many modern albums.

In terms of actual performance,

“The Worse Things Get” shows

a strong progression in skill, as

each song holds to Case’s in-

die/country style in a way which

may even bring the most ardent

John Bristow

Staff Writer

Neko Case deliversanti-country music enthusiast to a

minor identity crisis. Case’s slight

drawly cadence is powerful, re-

gardless of the topic of the song.

From singing about her opinion

on gender views in “Man” to the

almost nursery rhyme delicate-

ness of “Afraid,” Case proves her-

self to be more than versatile.

The emotion present in many

of the songs delivers an album full

of individual songs that can work

on their own in a diverse set of en-

vironments or can come together

strongly. For example, “Local Girl”

echoes a desolate and lonely

night drinking alone in a bar.

On the other half of the al-

bum, “Bracing For Sunday” may

as well be the

soundtrack to

a wild mon-

tage in an in-

die ick about

two young

lovers falling in

love and hav-

ing the time

of their lives.

On top of all of

this, to hit ona point made

earlier, the nal

song, “Rag-

time” leaves

the listener

content with

what should

prove to be a memorable overall

experience.

As a side note, while most de-

luxe albums are as useless and

meaningless as a spoiler on a

Subaru Outback, the deluxe ver-

sion of “The Worse Things Get”

introduces three songs that have

decent music quality. “Madonna

of the Wasps,” “Magpie to the

Morning,” and “Yon Ferrets Re-

turn” are much more similar to theprior work of Neko Case. While

they may not t in with the feel of

the album, they are memorable on

their own. For those that haven’t

listened to the work of Neko

Case, the actual album is prob-

ably the better buy, but for current

fans, the deluxe album should be

considered. A well organized and

performed album is a gem worth

nding and not worth ignoring.

Neko Case’s new album preach-

es an enduring message about

the struggles of everyday life.

COURTESY NEKO CASE

New students looking for a way

to get involved on campus will

nd that Residence Hall Associa-

tion (RHA) is the place to be. From

school-wide events to those cen-

tered in a single Residence Hall, this

organization is the “in between of

students and executives on cam-

pus,” according to President Ryan

Czarny. In essence, as RHA advi-

sor Erik Buol explained, “RHA is an

outlet for students to get involved

on campus, specically those who

live in the residence halls. [These

students] have a variety of specic

needs and we try to meet those

through programming, outreach,

and providing an open forum for

students.”

Not convinced? Members like

Matt Balderston love how ef-

cient and enthusiastic everyone is

in RHA. In reality, everyone who is

in RHA is excited about it. During

meetings, everyone is open to new

ideas. “When there is a brainstorm,

something awesome [will] come out

of it,” said Czarny. This year, some of the latest brainstorms have caused

so much excitement that RHA has

decided to create separate com-

mittees to enable more productivity.

Karen Gilsdorf

Staff Writer

RHA gets students involved As Czarny explained, based on the

events that are coming up, a social

services committee, a service com-

mittee, and a oor-olympics com-

mittee have all been created, and

there are many more to come. Last

year, RHA put on events such as

Grocery Bingo, the Apex Center ice

rink skating event, the video game

tournament, the Apples to Apples

tournament, De-stress with Pup-

pies Day, and many more. Balder-

ston is most excited about the Hal-

loween dance and haunted house

festivities along with the costume

contest.

Not only are the events that RHA

puts on exciting, but everyone in-

volved also seems to have a reasonKAREN GILSDORF / OREDIGGER

Residence Hall Association is a great way for new and

returning students to get involved on campus.

that they are there. As this year’s

president, Czarny said, “I was an

executive member last year, and

thought I could pull some of my

ideas and improve the club in differ-

ent ways, like previous presidents

have.” On the other hand, Buol’s de-

sire to become an advisor stemmed

from such an enjoyable time in his

undergraduate experience, and as

a result he wanted to frame others’

experiences in the same way.

RHA meets every Monday night

at 7pm in the Maple Hall Commu-

nity Room, all are welcome, espe-

cially those who are ready to make

things happen. As Buol exclaimed

with a huge smile on his face, “it’s

super fun!”

“So, are we cool?”

“We’re cool,” he said, taking a

drag and blowing a ring. “Hey, you

hear the one about the queen?”

“Nope.” She had.

“So, the queen and the arch-

bishop of Canterbury are touring the

royal stables, and as they pass one

of the horses, it lets out gas so loud

that it could not be ignored. So, the

queen, being as proper as she is,says ‘Oh, how embarrassing! I’m

dreadfully sorry about that.’ And the

archbishop, says, after a moment:

‘It’s quite understandable,’ and after

a moment added, ‘as a matter of fact

I thought it was the horse.’ “

She giggled. “You’re so imma-

ture.”

“Maturity is a stupid idea. It’s

growing secure within insecurity.”

“If you say so.”

“Hey, the funeral’s over, right?”

She tensed up. “...Yeah. Don’t re-

ally want to talk about it.”

“Want to go desecrate the grave?”

“What?”

“You know, just draw on it or

carve into it or something. Not like

anybody’s going to visit it otherwise.

Just a rock.”

She was... actually severely

tempted. But her mother might wantto visit, now that she thought about

it. What if mum got nostalgic? Seeing

a carving would be, to a woman like

her mum, a travesty. And then she

thought about that.

“Let’s do it,” she said. He grinned.

“Come along, then.”

They went to the graveyard, and

by that time, all of the funeral-goers

had left. It had grown dark, and the

pale moonlight shone grey from be-

hind a cloud, obscured along with its

starry brethren behind wispy blan-

kets of cotton.

It was a short walk to reach the

fresh grave. Covered in moss (by the

funerary service, not time), it t in with

all the other graves, a front-door for

the deceased.

“Well?” she asked.

He pulled out a pocketknife and

stepped towards the grave. The cloud moved, and then she

looked at her arm.

“Oh....oh. Right. Completely for-

got about that. Ah, hell. Well, I’m re-

ally very sorry about this. It was nice

knowing you.”

“What?” he asked. She turned,

hairs sprouting rapidly all across his

skin, and before he knew it, she had

turned into a hirsute beast and de-

voured him.

EAST END continued



s p o r t sseptember 9, 2013 page


The Colorado School of Mines

men’s and women’s cross country

teams opened their season on Fri-

day at Colorado State University.

The men’s team nished fth over-

all out of seven teams and second

out of the division two schools, los-

ing to RMAC rival Western State.

The women nished third out of the

three D-II teams. Chloe Gustafson

nished in a career best fourth place

out of 77 women and Phil Schnei-

der came in tenth overall out of 115

Cross country runs at CSUJared Riemer

Content Manager

Jared Riemer

Content Manager

The ninth ranked Colorado

School of Mines women’s soccerteam traveled to Canyon, Texas for

a pair of games against some qual-

ity opponents. In the season opener

on Thursday, the Lady Orediggers

squared off against the fourteenth

ranked Dallas Baptist Patriots,

whom Mines defeated in the sec-

ond round of last year’s NCAA tour-

nament where they grabbed the

early lead and never looked back

in a 3-1 victory. In Saturday’s game,

the Lady Orediggers started slower,

but rode three second half goals

and a stellar defensive performance

to a 3-0 victory.

Last year’s RMAC Player of the

Year, senior Anna Evans, wasted no

time showing the Patriots why she

earned that title. With just over eightminutes gone in the game, Evans

took the throw in and buried the ball

into the upper corner of the goal.

Just eight minutes later, in the six-

teenth minute, Mines scored when

Dallas Baptist surrendered an own

goal when they miss played a cor-

ner kick. The lady Orediggers eased

into halftime with a 2-0 lead.

They say a two goal lead is the

most dangerous lead in soccer,

and less than 12 minutes into the

second half, Dallas Baptist cut the

lead to 2-1, and were playing like

they believed the cliché. Looking

to tie the score at two, the Patriots

outshot the Orediggers 8-3 in the

second half and outplayed the Ore-

diggers for stretches of the secondhalf, but never could nd the equal-

izer. In the 89 minute, Bree Archul-

eta scored an insurance goal to give

the Lady Orediggers a commanding

3-1 lead with less than two minutes

to play. Archuleta was assisted on

the play by Kendra Bulawa.

Goalie Jayln Yates played superb

and saved eight shots in the game,

and Mines outshot Dallas Baptist

13-11. Mines had seven more fouls

than DBU, but that was merely a

product of aggressive defense and

playing with the lead. The Lady Ore-

diggers ended the game with a 6-0

advantage in corner kicks and eight

total shots on goal.

After beating the No. 14 teamin the nation, the No. 9 Orediggers

had a day off before their next con-

test against West Texas A&M. Much

like the rst game, the Lady Oredig-

gers dominated the game defen-

sively allowing the Lady Buffs only

six total shots (2 on goal).

Mines controlled the rst half of

play getting six of their eight shots

on goal and holding West Texas

A&M to only two rst half shots. The

story of this game was not the rst

half, however, but rather the second.

Coming out of halftime still score-

less, the Lady Orediggers wasted

no time setting the score in their

favor. Less than three minutes after

halftime, Rachael Turner scored the

rst goal of the game and her rstof the season on a pass from Mel

Westhoff. The 1-0 lead would prove

to be enough, but freshman Jaclyn

Knott decided Mines needed some

insurance.

Knott scored two goals in the

nal ten minutes of the game, in-

cluding her rst collegiate goal. Her

rst came in the eighty-rst minute

when she knocked home a pass

from Cari Smith to make the score

2-0. In the 87 minute, Knott found

the back of the net again on a pass

from Michelle Teramura to give the

Orediggers the 3-0 victory and their

rst clean sheet of the young sea-

son.

Anna Evans and Rachael Turner

both had four shots on goal, andJayln Yates made two saves in the

victory. Knott had three shots on

goal, including two goals, and as

a team, Mines recorded 21 total

shots with ten coming on goal.

With the victory, the Lady Ore-

diggers are unbeaten in their last

16 contests, a school record, and

will play their home opener at 7 pm

this Friday against St. Mary’s. Come

out and support your Orediggers as

they look to improve to 3-0 on the

season.

Women defeatDallas Baptist

Jared Riemer

Content Manager

The nineteenth ranked Colo-

rado School of Mines men’s soccer

team opened their season on Friday

against St. Edward’s in Austin, Tex-

as. In what seems to be a promising

season for the Orediggers, their rst

game of the year proved to be good

test of character as the Orediggers

gave up an early goal and had to

ght their way to a 2-1 victory.

The opening minutes of the game

were not kind to the Orediggers. St.

Edward’s scored the rst goal of thegame just nine minutes in. On their

third shot of the game, St. Edward’s

Jack Blanton headed the ball into

the back of the net off of a rebound,

to give the Hilltoppers the early 1-0

lead. After the early goal, the game

setled down for the next twenty min-

utes as both teams traded shots and

fouls back and forth.

In the thirty-third minute, Mines -

nally broke through. After a couple of

missed chances, the Orediggers tied

the score up when Tesho Akindele

headed in a goal of his own to tie the

game at 1. The score at the half was

deadlocke.

The second half was a hotly

contested affair. In the fty-second

minute, CSM’s Jared Herselman

was tagged with a yellow card, and

for most of the second half, neither

team could seem to nd the net.

That changed in the eighty-rst min-

ute when Akindele netted his second

goal of the game. The goal proved to

be a game-winner as the Orediggers

took the contest by a score of 2-1.Making his rst career start, Co-

lin Baker saved ve shots in the win

and Mines outshot St. Edwards by a

tally of 13-12, with both teams hav-

ing six shots apiece on goal. With

two goals in the contest, Akindele

upped his program-leading record

to 59 goals and looks in good shape

to increase that total signicantly this

year. Baski Baker led the Orediggers

with ve shots

Men battle to 2-1

soccer victory

Chris Robbins

Staff Writer

Saturday marked the start of

the Orediggers 2013 football sea-

son, and they certainly started off

on the right foot, routing South

Dakota School of Mines and

Technology 72-6.Junior quarterback Matt

Brown got things started in a

hurry, connecting with receiver

Diamond Gillis for a 32 yard

touchdown just over four minutes

into the game. Brown scored two

more touchdowns with his legs

on the next two CSM drives, in-

cluding a one yard quarterback

keeper on the goalline and a 33

yard scramble on a broken play.

After just one quarter, the Oredig-

gers led 21-0, and the game ap-

peared to already be getting out

of hand.

The second quarter featured

even more of an offensive explo-

sion from CSM than the rst, with

the Orediggers scoring four timesin as many drives. After a nine

yard Tevin Champagne touch-

down run started off the quarter,

the Oredigger defense forced a

South Dakota School of Mines

and Technology turnover deep in

their own territory, resulting in an-

other Matt Brown one yard scor-

ing run a mere 31 seconds later.

Combine all this with a three yard

touchdown pass from Brown

to Jordan Ward and an Avery

Llewellyn 32 yard eld goal, and

you’ve got a game that was all

but over by halftime, with CSM

leading 44-0.

Quarter number three provided

one more Matt Brown touchdown

pass, this time to Ty Young, be-

fore sophomore quarterback Joe

Schneider was handed the reins

of the offense. Schneider picked

up right where Brown left off,

driving down the eld and hook -

ing up with Young for a three yard

touchdown pass towards the end

of the third giving the Orediggers

a 58-0 lead at the break.

The offense continued to roll

through the nal quarter as well,putting up 14 more points on

a Joe Schneider pass to Alex

Orediggers trump SDSMT

Tevin Champagne dives into the endzone Saturday afternoon against the Hardrockers.

MICHAEL ROGERS / OREDIGGER

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Senior running back Dan Palmer (36) easily moves past Hardrockers defenders.

Waner and a one yard Zack New-

nam run. South Dakota School

of Mines scored their only points

of the game in the nal minute,

completing a short touchdown

pass to break up the potential

shutout and giving the Oredig-

gers the 72-6 win.

While the Oredigger offense

was outstanding, amassing over

700 yards of total offense and

an advantage of more than ten

minutes in time of possession,

the defense also deserves a large

amount of credit. Led by Chad

McGraw, the defense held South

Dakota School of Mines to under

200 yards of total offense, forced

a turnover (a Shawn Kobylin-

ski interception), and forced the

Hardrockers to punt nine times.

Overall, this was a great game

from all parts of the CSM team,

a fact reected by the nal score.

The Orediggers will look to

keep their momentum going next

weekend as they host the 17th

ranked Carson-Newman Eagleshere in Golden, September 14th

at noon.

runners.

The top ve nishers for the men

were: juniors Schneider and Derek

Alcorn, sophomore Marty Andrie,

freshman Jak Hamilton, and se-

nior Andrew Epperson. Schneider

nished tenth overall with a time of

15:14.20 and was one of 14 Ore-

diggers to post a sub 16 minute

5K. Andrie, Alcorn, and Epperson

nished 18, 19, and 20 respectively

in times of 15:20.50, 15:24.20, and

15:26.40. Hamilton was the nal

scored runner for Mines and nished

24th overall in a time of 15:29.10.

The top ve nishers on the wom-

en’s side were juniors Gustafson and

Kirsten Farquhar, sophomore Nicole

deMontigny, and freshmen Whitney

Schultz and Hanna Barringer. Gus-

tafson nished fourth overall in the

women’s 5k with a time of 18:18.20.

DeMontigny and Farquhar nished

40 and 44 respectively in times of

19:40.70 and 19:48.30. Whitney

Schultz nished 51 in 20:05.71 and

Barringer nished 57 in 20:19.20 to

round out the scores for the women.

The next competition for the

Mines cross country teams is the

Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto,

California on September 28.



s p o r t s september 9, 2013page 10


Chris Robbins

Staff Writer

The 11th ranked Oredigger vol-

leyball team kicked off their 2013season in Minnesota with a tough

tournament at Concordia Universi-

ty in St. Paul this weekend and re-

turned to Golden with a 1-3 record.

Friday evening saw Mines start

things off by facing the #1 ranked

team and tournament hosts, the

Concordia University Golden

Bears. Concordia was every bit as

tough as their ranking would sug-

gest, as they swept the Orediggers

3-0. The

rst two

sets were

thoroughly

cont ro l led

by Concor-

dia, ending

in scores of 25-12 and 25-18. Mines jumped

out to an early 20-12 lead in the

nal set, but Concordia fought

back to take the set 27-25 and the

match as a result.

Next, Mines took on the 20th

ranked Wayne State Wildcats in a

match that went down to the wire.

In a thrilling ve set struggle, Mines

was edged out 3-2 despite career

high performances from Sarah

Pekarek (20 kills), Melanie Wanna-

maker (24 kills), Danielle Johnson-

Hazlewood (60 assists), and Han-

nah Margheim (37 digs).

Wayne State took the rst two

sets with close scores of 25-20

and 25-23, but Mines came storm-

ing back; taking the next two

sets 25-17 and 25-19. The lead

changed several times through-out the nal set, but the Wildcats

wound up prevailing 15-12, drop-

ping the Orediggers to 0-2 to start

the season.

CSM started off Saturday’s

schedule by facing #21 Wingate.

Wingate took the rst set 25-16,

followed by the Orediggers evening

up the match at one set apiece with

a 27-25 second set win. Wingate

would pull away in the nal two

sets (25-20,

25-18) to take

the match and

remain unde-

feated on the

season, while

CSM fell to 0-3

on the year. The Orediggers’ nal match of

the tournament was played later

Saturday afternoon, and for the

rst time all season it was against

an unranked opponent, Hillsdale

University. Mines took care of

business, sweeping Hillsdale and

notching the team’s rst win of the

season.

Coming off of the win, Mines will

try to carry their momentum into

next weekend’s tournament here

in Golden. The Orediggers’ rst

match of that event is next Friday,

September 13th at 3 PM vs. West-

ern Oregon.

Rough opener for Mines Volleyball

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With a new season ahead of

them, the Mines women’s soccer

team pushes forward in their at-

tempt to gain the title of National

Champions, an award they were

close to getting in the past two

years before they were knocked

out by heartbreaking shootout

losses. This new season provides a

fresh start, and with this clean slate,

head coach, Kevin Fickes, has

brought in a new assistant coach,

Shannon McDonnell, to replace

Kate Cortis after her devastating

departure from the program last

spring. McDonnell played for Illinois

(2004-2007), leading them to four

NCAA tournament appearances,

including a sweet sixteen and elite

eight appearance. With the help of

McDonnell and the foundation Cor-

tis and Fickes created for the team,

Jordan Partin

Staff Writer

Women’s soccer has high hopesMines hopes to follow in last year’s

footsteps during conference play

and keep the RMAC tournament

trophy.

In addition to their new coach,

the team has been blessed with

an extraordinarily strong freshman

class. Caitlin Kaltenbaugh from

Friendswood, TX and Holly Wey-

land from Monument, CO have had

impressive showings throughout

the preseason and during scrim-

mages. Earning them both starting

spots at attacking mid and outside

back, respectively, for their opening

match against Dallas Baptist Uni-

versity. Anna Deleray has brought

the team a huge boost with her

incredible speed, and Cari Smith

adds solid technical skill from

the ank. Jaclyn Knotts, Michelle

Temura, and Julia Hawn all increase

Mines’ depth, making Fickes’ job at

choosing a weekly lineup increas-

ingly difcult.

Along with these freshmen,

the returning players that lead the

team to its outstanding run last year

through the RMAC tournament and

NCAAs have come back more red

up than ever. Seniors Anna Evans

and Kelsey Neal, both returning

NSCAA All-Americans, will be lead-

ing the team from the striker and

center back positions. Sophomore

Jayln Yates, 2012 RMAC Tourna-

ment MVP, will continue leading the

team from the net as keeper, and

Rachael Turner will once again be a

vital player, controlling Mines’ mid-

eld for her sophomore season.

Mines left for Texas for two

matches, winning their rst 3-1

against Dallas Baptist University on

September 5, and their second 3-0

on Saturday September 7 against

West Texas A&M. The Orediggers

play their rst home match on Fri-

day, September 13 against St.

Mary’s at 7 PM.

Mines took care of business,

sweeping Hillsdale and notch-

ing the team’s rst win of the

season.



o p i n i o nseptember 9, 2013 page


Brian Zaharatos

Guest Writer

“But what will become of manthen…without God and immortallife? All things are lawful then, theycan do what they like?” –Dmitri,

The Brothers Karamazov The question posed by Dosto-

evsky’s Dmitri is one that motivatesmany to believe that morality is in-extricably linked to God. They be-lieve that, if there are things calledmoral truths, then they must begiven and enforced (either on earthor in the afterlife) by God. Just ascivil laws are given by lawgivers(e.g., the state), moral laws aregiven by God. Further, if there is noGod to hold us accountable for fol-lowing these laws then we are freeto harm others as we please. Sincethis conclusion is undesirable, sothe story goes, in order for thereto be a moral law, there must bea God.

It’s worth observing that thereis a logical error in this argument:the fact that a claim is undesirable,does not imply that the claim isfalse. For example, it is undesirablethat many suffer and die unnec-essarily, but, it is still true. We willoverlook this logical problem andconsider the essence of the argu-ment, that, without God, all thingsare permissible.

There are (at least) two plausibleanswers to the claim that, withoutGod, all things are permissible.

The rst answer, which is similar

to an argument given by Socrates(in Plato’s Euthyphro), attempts toshow that, even if there is a God,moral laws do not depend on God,and thus, not all things are permis-sible. The argument goes as fol-lows: if God believes that an entityor action X is good, it is either be-cause (1) X possesses some prop-e r t i e s—p r o p -e r t i e sthat arei n d e p -dendentof God—t h a tmake it good, or (2) X is goodonly in virtue of the fact that Godbelieves that X is good. But, if (2)is true, then it seems as thoughmoral laws are completely arbi-trary. For, if X is good only becauseGod likes it, it follows that, if Godhappened to like senseless torture,then senseless torture would begood. But, baring an extreme andunjust moral relativism—one that abenevolent God ought not allow—senseless torture is not good. So(1) must be true. But, if that is so,then we do not need God to studywhat is moral; rather, we just needto study the properties of X thatmake it good. So, Dmitri’s worriesare in vain—without God, there isstill the possibility of moral good-ness.

The second answer, given by

20th century existentialist philoso-pher Jean Paul Sartre, accepts thenotion that there is no God, and thenotion that without God, there is noobjective moral law or punishment.But, for Sartre, it does not followthat all things are permissible in thesense that Dmitri meant it. The ab-sence of God comes with extremeresponsibility. For Sartre, rather

than con-f o r m ingto them o r a llaw, withevery ac-tion, youare writ-

ing your own part of the moral law.So, if you decide to treat otherswith disrespect, cause suffering,kill, cheat, etc., you are expressingto others that it is permissible to dothese things. Dmitri’s worries aboutmorality are important, but not justbecause the absence of God im-plies the possibility of chaos andanarchy; instead, they are impor-tant because they summon one tothink very seriously about who theywant to be, and what kind of pic-ture they want to paint of humanity.

So, what do you think? Is it pos-sible to have morality without God?If so, is it because morality isn’tdepdendent on God, as Socratesargues? Or, do we have a deepresponsibility for writing the morallaw through our actions, as Sartreargues?

Ethics Across Campus

Looking to buy a stylish newpair of sunglasses? Maybe someRay-Bans? Oakleys? Or thinkingof going even bigger and gettingsome Persols? It may seem like

all these companies are compet-ing for your sale, but the ugly andsurprising truth is that each one of those brands benets no matter

which pair youchoose. Ray-Ban, Oakley,and dozens of other designers u n g l a s s e sbrands areowned by oneItalian opticsc o n g l o m e r -ate: Luxottica Group (full list of brands/proprietary brands atluxottica.com/en/brands).

It is shocking to learn that a $3billion company is not a house-

hold name. Luxottica managesto promote several well-knownbrands (and continues to promoteincreasing prices for optics), yetis able to keep the brand aflia-tion undetected from the generalpublic. In doing so, they are ableto articially produce competition

and jack the prices of sunglassesup.

The list of prominent sunglass-es companies that exist indepen-

Evan Ford

Staff Writer dent of Luxottica is short, andnot very many companies are bigenough to adequately compete.Smith Optics and Warby Parkerare brands that have managedto avoid being absorbed into themassive conglomerate. WarbyParker, in particular, is a smaller

company that arose in direct re-sponse to Luxottica’s outrageouspresence in the optics market.Warby Parker co-founder, Da-

vid Gilboa,recalls thetime he waslooking for anew pair of glasses; “I had

just boughtan iPhone 3Gfor $200. Itdidn’t make

any sense that a magical phonethat did things nobody could’veimagined cost $200, and theseglasses that used the same ba-sic technology for 800 years cost

$700. There had been no innova-tion on the product side or on thedistribution side.”

While new and somewhatsmall, the company is trying aunique online business model,and still managing to receive en-dorsements from big names like

Ashton Kutcher.So what can you do? Well,

rst off, just by reading this you

become aware that a huge com-

Katerina Gonzales

Content Manager

Bustling G-Town

Minds at Mines

Affectionately nicknamed, “Where the West Lives”, Golden providesits students and residents enjoyable activities to do year-round. Its prox-imity to the mountains and the metropolis of Denver offers many recre-ational opportunities all while maintaining the small-town charm of his-toric Golden. This week, Minds at Mines asked, “What is your favoritething to do around Golden?”

Hiking on South Table.

Ian Holdman

Denitely Coors Lab.

Ethan Morton-Gaught

Walking down to [Clear] Creek. The

creek is awesome. Ari Helland

Going to Goozell for frozen yogurt.Kelsey Hopkins

Mountain biking. For sure.Robert Godinez

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pany has established a facade of competition, effectively driving upthe prices of sunglasses to ridicu-lous heights (Oakley Pit Boss II: acool $600). People assume thatvast modern technology and ne

tuned engineering justify this pricefor a pair of sweet shades. But

the smaller companies, althoughheavily shadowed by Luxottica,are managing to keep prices lowon products of equal quality in thehopes that the consumer will rec-ognize the glaring ridiculousness.

I, for one, wished to curbthe prots of Luxottica, ever so

slightly. Being in the market forsome new polarized sunglasses, Iwalked past the Oakleys. InsteadI picked up some Smiths. It turnsout I love them. I might not be ascool as someone with a pair of thenew Oakley R4VAG3Rs (with builtin Wi-Fi hot spot and Espresso/ Macchiato combo machine), butat least I took some money outthe wallet of a bald man with a

monocle.

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Ray-Ban, Oakley, and doz-

ens of other designer sun-

glasses brands are owned

by one Italian optics con-

glomerate: Luxottica Group

The question posed by Dosto-

evsky’s Dmitri is one that moti-

vates many to believe that moral-

ity is inextricably linked to God.

Without God, are all things permissible?



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