the oredigger issue 23 - april 18, 2011

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T H E O R E D I G G E RVolume 91, Issue 23 April 18, 2011

The student voice of the Colorado School of Mines

Music Review:

Canadian

Invasion

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

Opinion 11

Features 7

News 3

Satire 12

Exploring

Carbon usage

Athlete of

the Week:

Mike Fuller

Morals to your

Story: iPods &

Slate

BRAAAINSS!!!

Last weeks Van Tuyl lecture was

oddly appropriate, given the brief

overnight snowstorm preceding it.

Dr. Mark Williams of the University of

Colorado at Boulder dispelled some

commonly held beliefs about moun-

tains while reinforcing some vital

environmental facts in his lecture

titled Teon Basins and the Role of

Groundwater in Seasonally Snow-

Covered Basins in Response to

Changes in Climate.Williams work is important due

to the advantages that snow and

mountains have when it comes to

water release over time. Especially

in the Colorado Front Range, snow-

based run-off plays a key role in water

supply. Many towns and cities draw

their water from upstream areas to

avoid water pollution. Snow is much

more available for run-off [than rain]

because it acts as a bank, stated Wil-

liams. Since the snow begins to melt

as spring comes, the water coming

down the mountains is perfectly timed

to water the plants downstream.

Since it takes time for the snow to

melt, ensuring a steady supply of wa-

ter throughout the growing season.

One of the commonly held beliefs

about mountains is that they servea function as pseudo-water towers.

Williams and his colleagues decided

to analyze this idea to see if it was

true.

The CSM Baseball team and CSM Softball team both competed at home this weekend. The baseball team won their se-

ries 3-1 against New Mexico Highlands and the softball team competed against CSU-Pueblo, winning their series 3-1.

CSM Baseball & Softball represent at home

The old interpretation of the water cycle with the mountain

part of the system on the left

Dr. Dudley Herschbach, the head

of the chemistry department at

Harvard University in Harvard, Mas-

sachusetts, gave a guest lecture at

the Colorado School of Mines for

the semi-annual Lucas Lecture. The

Lucas Lecture series, started by a

George Lucas 22 years ago, is an

opportunity to welcome faculty and

staff from other schools across the

nation to share their expertise and

knowledge.

Last week, Herschbach pre-

sented to the chemistry department

at Mines on the production of hy-

drocarbons in rocks. 60 years ago,

Thomas Gold postulated that gas-

ses such as methane and ethane

were generated deep in the Earth,

not by microorganisms decaying,

but by the immense heat and pres-

sure on the rocks thousands of feet

underground. At the time, he was

laughed at by his peers in the sci-

entic world. Herschbach showed

that, in fact, he was right. Chemis-

try would become extremely easy,

were [experiments] conducted un-

der high pressure. Almost anything

under the Sun is possible.

Crushing wet rocksMaking gas from water and rocks

Snow as a bank?John Bristow

Staff Writer

John Bristow

Staff Writer

See Rocks on page 3

A diamond anvil, as pictured above, can provide up to

3,000,000 atmospheres of pressure on a sample.

See Snowon page 3

Sports 5

Both teams win weekend series; see more photos on pages 5 & 6STEVEN WOOLDRIDGE / OREDIGGERSTEVEN WOOLDRIDGE / OREDIGGER

COURTESY MARK OWENS / USGS COURTESY ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY


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Headlines from around the worldLocal News

Mines welcomed Nobel Lau-reate Dr. Dudley Herschbach

Friday. A chemist at HarvardUniversity, Herschbach won the1986 Nobel Prize in Chemis-try jointly with Yuan T. Lee andJohn C. Polanyi for their study ofchemical elementary processes.

General Electric purchasedArvada, Colo. based PrimeStarSolar, Inc. with the intent of scal-ing up production of PrimeStarsCdTe photovoltaic panel produc-tion line. The CdTe research wasa collaborative effort betweenColorado School of Mines &

NREL. The companys technol-ogy produces some of the mostefcient CdTe solar panels evermade. With this technology, GEannounced it will build the larg-est solar power plant in the na-tion.

The Colorado School ofMines Baseball team will hostCSU-Pueblo this coming week-end for a four-game series.

The Colorado School ofMines softball team will travel toChadron, Nebraska this comingweekend for a four-game seriesagainst Chadron State.

Joshua Kleitsch, Staff Writer

Joshua Kleitsch, Staff Writer

The House of Representativeshas passed a bill outlining theRepublicans plan for spendingthat claims it would cut federalspending by more than $6 tril-lion over the next ten years. TheHouse passed the bill in a 235 to193 vote, with all but four Repub-licans voting for the bill. The goalnow is to cut government spend-ing to avoid reaching the debtlimit of $14.294 trillion. The bill isnot expected to pass the Demo-cratic-controlled senate.

Tensions continue to rise be-

tween Iran and Saudi Arabia,as leaders in the respective coun-tries begin to drift closer towardwhat many are calling a cold war.

The protests that have been aregular occurrence over the lastseveral months have pushedboth countries to increase theirpolitical inuence. It is unclearwhat will happen in the next fewmonths.

Hostilities continue in Libya asrebels have nished drafting anew constitution that calls fortotal equality. NATO forces aresaying that they have reacheda stalemate, but have statedin an Op-Ed piece that theywill remain until Gadha is

ousted.Japanese reghters

have started searchingthe radiation zone forsurvivors of the March 11tsunami. The small coastaltown of Namie, once hometo 20,000 people, is withinve miles of the FukushimaDaiichi nuclear power plant.

The reghters have foundseveral bodies of victims of

homes collapsing and other af-fects of the tsunami. Searchteams started searching withinthe 12-mile radius of the reactorabout a week ago, clothed in fullhaz-mat suits.

The US government has un-sealed an indictment againsteleven people, founders of thethree largest Internet pokersites, citing illegal payment prac-tices. Allegedly, the sites wereusing offshore banks to processpayments, essentially circum-venting the federal governments

ability to regulate any of the trans-actions.

T. Rowe Price, a large mutualfund company, invested over$190 million in Facebook re-cently, paying roughly $25 ashare for the stock. This seems to

follow the current trend of invest-ing in growing social networkingsites, whose payback seems tobe virtually limitless. The affect onthe value of Facebook stock re-mains to be seen.

The governor of Georgia hasstated that he would sign intolaw a bill that would crackdown on illegal immigration.

This would put the state in linewith Arizona on immigration andput them on center stage in thedebate over immigration. The newlaw would require that businesses

verify their employees have thelegal right to work in the UnitedStates. The bill would likely driveout many immigrant workers thatharvest fruits and cotton, whichhas farmers opposing the bill.

South Pole -The IceCube detector, intendedto help determine the origin of neutrinos, has putforth evidence that neutrinos are not linked to

gamma ray bursts, as originally thought. Nearly117 gamma ray bursts were detected over aone-year period, but there was no noticeablespike in the number of neutrinos detected. Thedata was collected during construction, how-ever, and future tests are still planned.

Queensland, Australia - Humpbackwhales in the Pacic Ocean appear to fol-low musical trends much the same as hu-mans. In an 11-year study, researchers atthe University of Queensland in Australialistened to humpback whale songs to seeif there were any noticeable patterns. In thecourse of their study, the researchers foundthat humpback whales start musical trendsthat appear to always travel across theocean from west to east. Every few months,entire populations of whales change theirsong, closely imitating each other. The cycleappears to take about two years from thewhales starting a new song to it reaching thewestern shores of the Polynesian islands.Humpback whales are the only non-humanspecies to exhibit these musical trends.

Durham, North Carolina - Chitons, a type of mollusk,may have a way to achieve a dual-focusing lense. The smallcrustaceans have eyes that work in both water and air. Thisis unique in the animal world, as most animals have eyes thatare optimized for either air or water. These mollusks havelenses on their eyes that are made of a unique type of calci-um carbonate, known as aragonite, similar to the type that isused in jewelry. These rock lenses have a unique property thatcauses light to pass through the material at different speeds.Scientists have postulated that because aragonite can trans-mit light at different speeds, the light passing through air andwater is bent slightly differently by the lens. This means thatobjects in air and water can be in focus at the same time.

Denver, Colorado - A small num-ber of geologists with the US geologicalsurvey have said that this string of gi-ant quakes seems similar to a string ofseven earthquakes between 1950 and

1965 that all were at least 8.5 magnitude.Statistically, this is signicant because itpoints to a considerable amount of seis-mic stress that is being released.


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No one likes to be preached

at, and many global warming ac-

tivists seem to be doing just that.

Carbon Nation, however, gave

a factual view of the problem

and possible solutions while ab-

staining from preaching. The lmwas screened on Tuesday by the

Hennebach Program. The goal of

the lm was not to convince the

audience that global warming is

anyones fault, but to explore solu-

tions to the problem.

The screening was opened by

Chuck Kutscher, from NREL, who

set the framework for the audi-

ence. If you look at the opinion

polls, he said, They are going in

the wrong direction. The science

is getting stronger, but people are

becoming more doubtful. In fact,

the lm presented the statistic that

one third of Americans do not be-

lieve humans are the cause of cli-

mate change.

The world currently powers 2out of the 16 terawatts it uses with

a clean sustainable method. Car-

bon Nation went through various

ways of increasing that number.

Where transportation produces

14 percent of the worlds carbon

Making fuel by crushingwet rocks with diamond

Exploring Carbon usageKaty Beseda

Staff Writer

dioxide, buildings can produce up

to 40 percent.

Carbon Nation examined the

idea of a green roof to reduce

the countrys carbon footprint. A

green roof is a garden of native

grass and plants grown on top of a

city building. These gardens keep

the roof temperature at around 80

to 90 degrees Fahrenheit duringthe day while a standard black

roof will be from 120 to 130 de-

grees. This greatly reduces the

air conditioning required for the

building and even those surround-

ing it. Always looking for the best

solutions, the movie also showed

people who will simply paint roofs

white, reducing the temperature

even more.

The lm discussed algae as a

possible alternative to fossil fuels

for cars. Statistics in the movie

show an acre of corn will produce

the equivalent of 28 gallons of

gasoline, while an acre of algae

can produce the equivalent of

5,000 gallons in the same time.

The development of an algae farmright now would be very expen-

sive, but the movie emphasized

that the United States needs to

change how it acquires energy

before seeing any effect on car-

bon emissions.

Carbon Nation included geo-

thermal in its renewable energy

sources to be developed. There

are many springs in Alaska, but

they are usually not hot enough for

rms to want to tap into them for

electricity. However, Alaskas geo-

thermal industry now has the po-

tential to expand thanks to a pow-

er company from the East Coast.This company developed technol-

ogy to allow electricity generation

from lower temperature waters

(around 165 degrees Fahrenheit).

The lm opened with the idea

that although Mercury is much

closer to the Sun, Venus is the

hotter planet. This is due to the

higher level of carbon dioxide in

its atmosphere. Carbon Nation

gave scientic ndings of the con-

sequences of global warming and

reasons for the United States to

invest in sustainable technologies.

Carbon Nation also asserted

that If the US removed their de-

pendence on oil from other coun-

tries, many problems in the Middle

East would be eliminated. Dan No-lan, a former army colonel, spoke

in the movie about the increasing

need to decrease Americas de-

pendence on the Middle East for

oil. He said, If oil is the problem,

maybe more oil is not the answer.

Not very many years after

Thomas Gold made these bold

statements, Percy Williams Bridg-

man designed a device, called a

diamond anvil cell, that would be

able to exert massive pressures

on small objects. Diamond anvil

cells work by using two diamonds

spaced just 0.2 millimeters apart

mounted in a stainless-steel gas-

ket and forcing the diamonds to-

gether. This can produce roughly

3,000,000 atmospheres of pres-

sure on the contents of the cell.

The limitation of this device is in its

necessarily diminutive size, which

allows for only very small things to

be placed inside. Herschbach add-

ed that, with synthetic diamonds

getting bigger and more pure, the

size of these cells will increase and

allow for better and more diverse

experiments. Eventually, they will

be able to make diamonds the

size of a coffee cup. Of course,

you would not want a coffee cup

made out of diamonds because it

is known for its heat conductivity.

You would not be able to hold on

to it.

The advent of high-pressure

experimentation allowed people

such as Dimitri Mendeleev to study

what happens to rocks under very

high pressure, and they were able

to see that iron oxide, calcite, and

water together produced Methane

and Ethane when compressed. In

essence, we can now show that

indeed, hydrocarbons can be pro-

duced by squeezing wet rocks.

Maybe Thomas Gold was not so

crazy after all, and even though his

science was not very thorough, he

had the right idea.

The understanding of pressure

The Green Roof at the the California Academy of Science

is not a product of modernity, as it

started with Aristotle and the suc-

tion pump. Aristotle thought that

nature abhors a vacuum, which is

why he could draw water up a suc-

tion pump on a well. The difference

in the pressures inside the suction

pump and outside are what allows

water to be drawn up the tube as

far down as 30 feet.

Herschbach explained that at-

mospheric pressure is really much

greater than we realize. If you add

up the weight of all the air in the

atmosphere pushing down on the

Earth, it equals roughly 1 kilogram

per square centimeter, which is

about the size of your thumbnail.

As a point of reference, the average

person exerts a pressure of roughly

0.20 of a kilogram per square cen-

timeter. We are lightweights, even

compared to air.

The American Nuclear Society atMines Presents a Public Forum toDiscuss Fukushima - April 20, 2011

The Colorado School of Mines chapter of the American NuclearSociety is providing a public forum to discuss the events that led tothe emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

The forum is on April 20 at 6:00 PM in the Green Center, Petro-leum Hall, on the Mines campus. The forum is open to the public.Refreshments will be provided.

The event is sponsored by the Nuclear Science and EngineeringProgram at Mines. The keynote speaker is Dr. Jerey King, directorof the Nuclear Science and Engineering Program at Mines.

Dr. Jerey King will present the evolution of events that led to theemergency at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, along withupdated information on the situation. Questions and discussion willfollow the presentation.

For more information and directions, please visit the CSM-ANSwebsite: organizations.mines.edu/ans

For questions, please contact Aaron Craft, President of CSM-

ANS, at [email protected]

Unlike lower elevations, where

a majority of water is lost to plant

life and evaporative transpira-

tion, the high mountains lack the

large trees that are a main source

of water loss. Mountains also

generally serve as the starting

points for larger aquifers down

slope and thus can store water

in that way. It had been predicted

by some that the conventional

evaporation rates would be high,

defeating the mountains as wa-

ter towers idea. Through care-

ful analysis of oxygen isotopes,

though, these predictions were

shown to be wrong. While there is

still incredible interaction at lower

elevations, Its true, mountains

are water towers, Williams con-

cluded triumphantly.

Over the last few years, the

bulk of Williams work has been

dedicated to focusing on to what

extent the mountainous areas can

hold water over longer periods of

time. Williams work originally as-

sumed that there was very little

groundwater storage, a situation

know as a Teon Basin. Snow

melts and it runs in the stream.

There is no holding time for the

water, explained Williams.

In order to test his original hy-

pothesis, Williams started work at

several sites west of Boulder. The

sites, especially his Green Lake

four site, have the distinction of

being some of the longest run-

ning mountain testing sites in the

world, which provided Williams

and his team with the long range

data that they needed to see the

reality behind mountains and their

water holding capacity. A surprise

came with a basic isotopic analy-

sis of the water coming out of the

system. If the system was a Tef-

lon basin, the team would expect

to nd there to be little old wa-

ter. What they found instead was

that around 64% of the water was

old. As the team looked closer,

they realized what was really hap-

pening. If there is a place for the

snow to inltrate, it will do it,

said Williams, New water will try

to push out the old water. In the

high mountain areas, the ground

is deceptively porous, especially

in the Rocky Mountains where

the ground is highly fractured.

At the Martinelli Catchment,

the team found another surprise

that will warrant more rened

studies in the future. Unlike the

Green Lake site, the Martinelli

Catchment can have up to 15

meters of snow pack. It was ex-

pected that due to this, the water

would be much more dominated

by snow melt than baseow or

other forms of groundwater. What

they found was that there was still

a large amount of ground water

ow, but more interesting, the

snow acted as a lter for itself. It

was determined that as a snow

particle melts, it falls through the

column of snow, and the indi-

vidual drops freeze. In response,

other snow particles melt, caus-

ing a minor cascade effect. Cer-

tain isotopes of the oxygen within

the water freeze more readily than

others so that by the end, the wa-

ter reaching the streams was of a

much different composition than

that which had previously fallen.

Williams nal point was fo-

cused much more on the effects

of climate change on the water

cycle in the mountains. It was ex-

pected that when the areas went

through a period of drought the

amount of water coming down

from the mountains would be sig-

nicantly less. While this was true

for water supplies such as imme-

diate run-off, the ow volume for

what was termed baseow actu-

ally increased. Though he himself

had not determined the answer,

Williams closed the presentation

with, Ill leave you here with this

question: what is the baseow?

Understanding

the impact of

snow

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I dont think if it werent for

the genocide I would be here,

said Dr. Hadidja Nyiransekuye

of Metropolitan State College

of Denver. She shared from

her memoir of personal experi-

ences entitled The Lances Were

Looking Down:

One Womans

Path through

the Rwan-

dan Genocide

to Life in the

States in a fas-

cinating entry in

the Hennebach

Program in Hu-

manities lecture

series. The title of

the book is the

inverse of a

Rwandan prov-

erb, For when

someone, es-

pecially some-

one in power,

has given or-

ders to kill a

group of peoplewhen you want

to ask for mercy.[you say] Un-

bend the lance. She said the ti-

tle came from her reactions to the

tragic events of the genocide, As

I am there listening to the cries of

the neighbor that is being killed,

and Im thinking about praying

and I cant remember which lan-guage Im praying into, then all of

a sudden I found myself asking

God to unbend the lance because

the lances are looking down.

Nyiransekuye shared a de-tailed account of her experiences

at the beginning of the genocide.

Her family awoke on the morning

of April 6, 1994 to what seemed

like a normal morning, but from

the time they realized the presi-

dent was dead, they knew they

were in trouble.

Her husband,

a member of

the Tutsi ethnic

group which

was massacred

in the geno-

cide, immedi-

ately grasped

that tragedy

was coming.

The whole rstday was brutal

chaos, and it

only continued.

Upon discover-

ing killers were

looking for her

husband; Ny-

iransekuye said,

A saying of my

mothers now

made sense to me My head felt

bald, as if someone had just un-

covered it of its hair.

She also recounted harrow-

ing and poignant stories of her

acquaintances. There was the

story of her coworker, lying dead

in the street with his tongue cut

out, and of her neighbor Chris-tine, beaten to death in front of

her two babies. That nursing

motherscall haunts me to this

day, said Nyiransekuye. One

young acquaintance of hers sentthe entire family into the attic and

sat and waited for the killers to

come. She probably intended to

talk the killers out of the way, but

if that was her plan it failed. She

was tortured to death, but never

shared where her family was hid-

den.

After the genocide, when her

family were returning, they met a

young boy reentering the country

who had no memory of anything.

He did not know where he was

or who he was or who his par-

ents were. He had apparently

repressed all those memories.

Nyiransekuyes family cared for

him as long as they could, until

he became too ill and had to goto an orphanage. Near the end

of the boys time

with the fam-

ily, a friend found

the boy at their

house when they

were all out and

worried they had

been massacred.

This shook Ny-

iransekuye be-

cause how could

someone think

of a six year old

or even an eight

year old as part

of the militia? In

other words, if

youre a Hutu or even look likeone, then you were a killer.

Though the events of the geno-

cide were important to the pre-

sentation, events afterward were

also inuential. Nyiransekuyewas optimistic immediately after

the genocide,

The after-

genocide was

a time when

I was think-

i n g w e d

have a chance

to be rehabil-

itatedI was

very proud to

come back

from Zaire and

the Congo

and rebuild

R w a n d a .

However, her

attitude quick-

ly soured. Shefound that she was suspected

of belonging to

the wrong group

purely for being a

Hutu. By 1996,

she found herself

questioning home,

facing suspicions

but reluctant to

leave.

Eventually, she

decided to leave

Rwanda and come

to the U.S. Of her

choice to leave

she said, It was

not an easy deci-

sionI think God

just took that decision out of myhands. She earned a Ph.D. in

social work from the University

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Reliving the genocide of a warring Rwanda

Deborah Good

Content Manager

As I am there listening

to the cries of the neigh-

bor that is being killed,

and Im thinking about

praying and I cant re-

member which language

Im praying into, then all

of a sudden I found my-

self asking God to unbend

the lance because the

lances are looking down.

How could someone

think of a six year old

or even an eight year

old as part of the mili-

tia? In other words, if

youre a Hutu or even

look like one, then you

were a killer.

of Denver and now teaches in

the department of African and

African-American studies at Met-ropolitan State College of Denver.

This journey led

to her writing

The Lances

Were Looking

Down.

Writing this

book has not

been easy,

stated Nyiran-

sekuye. She

explained the

journey of the

book from her

actual experi-

ences until to-

day. The book

began as a pa-

per for a class,and continued through her Ph.D.

research as she spoke to people

with similar backgrounds and had

extremely strong reactions. She

said, I could not keep on inter-

viewing these women because

these African women could not

tell me exactly what I was asking

without putting that into context

They all kept taking me back to

time of warand the next thing I

knew I couldnt sleep. I was hav-

ing nightmares. I was reliving the

situation as if it were happening

once again. Nyiransekuye was

then convinced she could not re-

search the topic, until her advisor

noted that her reactions were to

be eld notes. These eld noteseventually became The Lances

Were Looking Down.

The author of the book The Lances Were Looking Down talks about living and

surviving in Rwanda during the period of the ethnic genocide

I could not keep on in-

terviewing these women

because these African

women could not tell me

exactly what I was asking

without putting that into

contextThey all kept

taking me back to time of

war.


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Even though wins have beenhard to come by in the last few

seasons for the Mines baseball

team, that has not stopped ju-

nior pitcher Mike Fuller from nd-

ing success. Fuller, a petroleum

engineer from Parker, Colorado,

is in his rst season as a starting

pitcher and has quickly proven his

worth. After starting six games,

Fuller is tied for the team lead in

wins with three, is second on the

team in strikeouts with 26, and

is the only Oredigger pitcher to

hold his opponents batting aver-

age to under .300 at .292. During

a March 20 game against RMAC

rival Mesa State, Fuller tossed a

two-hit, complete game shutout

en route to a 2-0 Mines win. Thefeat was only the sixth complete

game shutout by an Oredigger

in the last nine years, and none

of the previous ve had come

against as formidable an oppo-

nent as Mesa State.

For his performance, Fuller

was awarded RMAC Pitcher of

the Week and NCBWA Division II

National Pitcher of the Week hon-

ors. It is a far cry from the season

before, when Fuller only made

eight appearances from the bull-

pen and did not factor into any

decision. But what excites the junior is not his personal suc-

cesses, but the progress the en-

tire team is making and the future

they have ahead of them. [Head

coach Otis] is starting to put to-

gether a great program here.

We prepare as hard as any other

team out there and its giving us a

good shot to win games. Weve

already beaten Mesa, and are do-

ing better against Kearney and

some other good teams, he said.

Mines is currently on a three game

winning streak and will need Fuller

to continue his solid pitching as

they head into the heart of con-

ference play. For his efforts and

performance this year, Mike Fuller

is this weeks Athlete of the Week.[Oredigger] Baseball teams

play more games during the

regular season than any oth-

er sport. How do you remain

sharp and focused?

[Fuller] Baseball players are

used to the routine. [Even back

as a little kid], you [had] a bunch

of games every weekend, so its

something you kind of get used

to. And at the end of the day, its

just playing baseball and doing

something you love.What has it been like to

transition from the bullpen tobeing a starter?

[Being a starter] has always

been something Ive been work-

ing towards, but its not as much

of a pressure-packed situation as

coming out of the bullpen.

Do you follow professional

baseball? Who is your favorite

team?

Im from Colorado and I like

the Rockies. They denitely have

a good team, with good pitching

and solid defense. I love watch-

ing and want to try to get out to

as many games as I can this year.What do you like to do in

your free time?

I like to go to Rockies games,

but I like to play video games and just hang out with friends too. I

try to enjoy what little free time I

have.What is your favorite part

about being on the baseball

team?

Baseball is denitely like my

core group of friends. Were a

pretty tight-knit group. Its great

for when you come right into

college and have an immediate

group of friends that you can get

to know and hang out with.What is your favorite base-

ball memory that you havebeen a part of?

The game against Mesa. A lot

went into that game, and Mines

hadnt beaten Mesa in a really

long time. It was a good achieve-

ment.

Why did you decide to ma-

jor in Petroleum Engineering?

My dad and grandpa have

been involved in oil and they go

way back. I started taking petro-

leum classes and thought they

were pretty interesting.What would you change

about Mines?

I would add more hours in the

day to get stuff done.Favorite part about Mines?

I love the fact that you never

know what you are going to get,

or what youre going to see. Its

never boring.

... Mike Fuller, Junior: Petroleum Engineering, Baseball

Athlete WeekoftheTrevor Crane

Content Manager

Mike Fuller pitches against Mesa State earlier this season.

Softball sweeps CSU-Pueblo in Saturdaydoubleheader, 4-1 and 5-1

Allysia Cisneros (#5) scored off Brinley Bensens (#1) single during

Saturdays rst game.

Sami Springer (#12) tags a runner out at home after CSU-Pueblo was

caught stealing in the second.

Molly Thiebaut (#8) makes solid contact with the softball. Macy Jones (#11) easily steals second base during the rst inning.

ALL PHOTOS STEVEN WOOLDRIDGE / OREDIGGER


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proudlyservingallegrocoffee&tea

organicespressodrinks

hormone - freemilk

Do you work on Campus onSaturdays?

You can now get your AFPP(Afternoon Face PlantPrevention) at the Book & Brew

Mines Baseball hands New Mexico Highlandsembarrassing 14-7 defeat on Saturday

Jared Wallace (#28) homered to left center eld during the third inning of

Saturdays rst game.

Teammates celebrate Jared Wallaces 3-run homerun. Nick Wong (#11)

and Matthew Pullos (#32) also scored.

Brent Payne (#38) throws to rst to get the double play.

Tyler Phan Thornton (#1) makes the double play.

ALL PHOTOS STEVEN WOOLDRIDGE / OREDIGGER


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giving.mines.edu

Thank youfor showing your

appreciation to theparents and alumni

who support

your education.

One of the best parts of my

spring break trip to SXSW in Aus-

tin was the chance to see a bunch

of new acts that I had never

heard before. Apart

from ap- parent

similari-

t i e s

i n

style,

I rec-

ognized another

interesting trend: many of t h e

bands I found most intriguing were

from Canada. Memoryhouse, GOB-

BLE GOBBLE, Two Bicycles, and

BRAIDS were just a few that had

come down from the wintery north

to play the festival. This weeks re-

view will take a look at several re-

leases from the aforementioned

groups. BRAIDS Native Speaker:

Clean, shimmery instruments match

singer Raphaelle Standell-Prestons

soft-yet-potent voice throughout

this 7-track record. Album opener

Lemonade uses tap-delayed gui-

tar to build into beautiful and catchy

chorus. Title track Native Speaker

is the other stand-out song with

more soft piano and subtle elec-

tronic features.

GOBBLE GOBBLE Lawn

Knives 7: Probably the wildest set I

saw at SXSW, GOBBLE GOBBLE is

known for their energetic live show.

Lawn Knives and B-side

End of Days are recorded

proof of this groups energy. A

cacophony of electronic blips,

beats, and vocals keeps this

single bouncing along with

a vigor that demands a re-

play.Memoryhouse

Caregiver 7:

While the A-side

to this single is

good, it was

B-side

Heir-

l o o m

t h a t got me in to Memo-

r y - house in the rst place.

A mix of 80s pop sensibility, mod-

ern shoegaze, and strong female

vocals show up on nearly every

Memoryhouse song in a way that

is both haunting and beautiful. Also

check out Memoryhouses EP titled

The Years.

Two Bicycles The Ocean:

An instrumental record from the

Teen Daze side-project Two Bi-

cycles, The Ocean is an hour of

music that sounds like it could be

the soundtrack to a great indie-lm.

Im Not Afraid To Wait For You

breaks from the ambient nature of

the record to focus on warm guitar

and layering that build into a semi-

crescendo.

Tim Weilert

Something Like Sound Blogger

Canadian Invasion

Late last week, a new fashion

trend swept the CSM campuscombined with a sudden rise in

physical activity. Students wear-

ing green headbands or arm-

bands seemingly took over cam-

pus in some sort of contagious

outbreak. Called Humans versus

Zombies, it is a whole lot of fun.

Kate Lyssy, the mind in charge

of the Mines Urban Gaming Club,

recounted that it started with a

basic online chat, My friends at

Penn State were playing a game

and I noticed their headbands

and wondered what was up.

After a little bit of research,

Lyssy and a few others began to

get interested in bringing a game

to campus. Humans Versus Zom-

bies (HVZ) is what she terms asa video game-based live action

game. Unlike other forms of live

action games, HVZ is set apart

by a lack of identity. Players are

either humans or zombies. Hu-

mans try not to get infected and

zombies try to infect.

Of course, the game is slight-

ly more complicated than that.

Zombies can die if they dont

eat, and humans have mis-

sions that they can carry out to

get antidotes or other fun abili-

ties. Today they had to follow a

lot of clues to get an antidote,

laughed Lyssy when asked about

missions, [Missions] are used to

get the humans outside so the

zombies can feast on them.

The future of the game looks

bright too. While last weeksgame was more of an experi-

ment, this week holds a much

broader game that should nd

more people wearing the green

bandannas.

The club wants

to progress beyond

this year by holding

one HVZ game each

semester and sev-

eral smaller events

through the semes-

ter. We want to get

people away from

their computers and

get them playing

outside, revealed Lyssy.

When asked about what it is

like to be behind such an interest-ing event, Lyssy revealed that it

was extremely stressful. We cur-

rently have three [moderators];

this is not enough.

We hope to have more in the

future so we can have more mis-

sions and events during each

game, she said. On the other

hand, it appears to have been

very rewarding, especially in

watching the dedication to the

game.

From people solving missions

through outrageous means to the

sheer fun of watching students

bombard each other with Nerf

darts and marshmallows, Lyssy

is extremely proud of how this

rst round is turning out. Watch-

ing it come to fruition has been

very rewarding, she admitted asa few zombies ran by outside the

window.

It has not just been the players

that have made the game such a

fun experience; the reactions of

the bystanders has

made it truly unique.

When the observers

realize whats going

on, for some reason

they start cheering

for the zombies,

remarked Lyssy, It

should be the other

way around; the hu-

mans denitely have

it harder. Since it only takes one

bite from a zombie, the humans

have become very paranoid, trav-elling in packs to keep their side

alive.

From the perspective of some-

one inside the game, it is fun for

both zombies and humans. Ryan

Peck, now a zombie, has been

rather proud of his technique, I

have food for the next 48 hours,

I am pretty sure I can make it un-

til the end. The next game will

be underway by Monday and

the club will carry on. Every-

one should play, boasted Lyssy,

Someday we hope this will be

just as recognized on campus as

E-days or the M-climb!

A view from the inside:

Humans versus zombiesJohn Bristow

Staff Writer

I have food for

the next 48 hours,

I am pretty sure I

can make it until

the end.

TIMWEILERT/OREDIGGER


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This past week was dominatedby space history. It was 50 years

ago last Tuesday that Yuri Gagarinbecame the rst man to reach Earthorbit. 30 years ago on that sameday, Columbia became the rstSpace Shuttle to leave the atmo-sphere, and 41 years ago on Thurs-day, an oxygen tank failure nearlyleft Apollo 13 lost to the stars. Whilethese three events were powerful,each had its own ramications.Gagarin died young in a jet crash,Columbia became one of the trag-edies of the United States spaceprogram, and, though it made itback safely, Apollo 13 called toquestion some of the equipmentand techniques of the day.

Space is dangerous, and notjust on a large sense, but even very

locally. When humans rst escapeout to the stars, they do not needto worry about supernovae or blackholes just yet. There are muchmore immediate concerns, suchas cosmic radiation, solar ares,and micrometeorite impacts. Thesmallest overlooked variable maybe the downfall of countless yearsof research and development. Sowhy would humans want to go to

space? Where is the reward for allof the risk and work? For each in-dividual this may be different, butperhaps as Carl Sagan said, Ex-ploration is in our nature; we began

as wanderers and we are wander-ers still.

Space holds a vast array of dis-coveries, wonders, and resources,and while Earth has these as well,some day it will run out. If the hu-man species is around at thattime, it will be of utmost necessitythat we strike out for the cosmos.Why wait for the fateful day whenthe Earth can no longer provide?Our planet is beautiful, and would itnot be better to preserve its beautythan to rob it of everything beforemoving on?

Along with crucial elements forour survival, space may hold some-thing else, life. It is highly unlikelythat we are alone in the universe,

and the benet that could comefrom a sharing of knowledge be-tween two different forms of life thathave two entirely different historiescould be astounding. That knowl-edge may be just what is neededfor humans to make it to the end ofeverything, to those last momentsof the universe.

May the stars shine brightly inyour skies.

Why go where no man hasgone before?

Stars above Mines

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Staff Writer

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The human brain keeps a rollingrecord of the last eight minutes ofa persons experiences. The recordstops at death, but can be retrieved

and projected into the mind of an-other person by high-tech softwarethanks to quantumphysics and para-bolic calculus. Thiseight minute windoweffectively containsan alternate realitywhere the actionsof the one relivingthese memories canlearn and do newthings, possibly he-roic ones. That is thepremise upon whichSource Code is built.

The lm, starringJake Gyllenhaal,could be termed

a psychotechni-cal thriller in thesame vein as Incep-tion, assuming thatterm existed previ-ous to the writingof this article. Thedifference is that,instead of massivedreamscapes anda transpacic ight,the movie alternatesbetween the trainand surroundings ofreplayed reality andthe lab in which Gyl-lenhalls character isplaced as a SourceCode subject. For

the record, Flash-back would havebeen a better name

Movie Review: Source CodeIan Littman

Asst. Bussiness Manager,

Web Content

for this movie, but it was alreadytaken.

Thanks to Source Codes nar-row environment, there is enoughtime to signicantly develop thehandful of characters who per-sist through the various rounds ofinstant-replay that Gyllenhaal goes

through, despite the lms relativelyshort (94 minutes) length. Also

The annals of history are lledwith many unusual, even bizarrebut true stories. One of theseis that of Mrs. Marie Higby, re-counted by The Colorado Tran-script of April 18, 1912. Mrs.Higby brought a $50,000 suitagainst her in-laws Chester A.and Laura Higby for alienatingher from the affections of herhusband Chester Leon Higby.

Plaintiff Marie Higby marriedChester L. Higby September 6,1911, and argued that ve dayslater her husband was inducedto leave her and that she has

never seen him since. She ar-gued that right up until he wasinduced to leave her, her hus-band was deeply attached toher and that, if not for his par-ents, he would still have beenwith her.

According to the Transcript,Mrs. Higby declares that assoon as her parents-in-lawheard of the marriage they con-ceived and have since harboredan intense dislike for her, andthat they at once set about toprejudice the mind of their sonagainst his bride and to alien-ate his affections from her. Shesaid that his parents were sosuccessful that the younger Mr.

Higby went to Mexico and hadnot returned or communicated,except for one letter stating he

This week in

Colorado HistoryIn need of marriage counselingDeborah GoodContent Manager

would not be returning.The plaintiff also complained

that her in-laws were divestingtheir property and departingfrom Colorado and thereforeowed her for these properties aswell. Mrs. Higby was extremelyserious about her money as,She demands that in the eventof her winning a judgment thedefendants be committed to the

jail until such amount of judg-ment is played. It could beargued winning the suit wouldhave been better than havingthe husband for Mrs. Higby.

Also in April 1912, the LochLomond Grange Hall in Fair-mount, Colorado was dedicated

with what the Transcript de-scribed as impressive ceremo-nies. K. Shelby Rhea served asmaster of ceremonies with J.A.Newcomb as dedicating ofcer.

After the dedication ceremo-nies, attendees enjoyed enter-tainment. The Grangers Gleeclub performed a song whichelicited much applause. Therewere also piano solos and du-ets as well as a comedy entitledJumbo Jum which was veryably presented, causing muchlaughter. There was also a farceentitled Terrible Towser, an elo-cutionist, several more singers,and a haunted house before theevening ended with dancing.

The Grange had a successfulhall dedication and an entertain-ing Friday night together.

developed is knowledge of theSource Code system and its limi-tations; outside time goes in onlyone direction, forward, and actionsmade in the Source Code dont di-rectly affect the outside world...ordo they?

As fair warning, the lms pace

is not that of a rip-roaring actionick; there are some slow spots as

Gyllenhaals char-acter, former US

Army helicopter pi-lot Colter Stevens,gets used to hissurroundings insideand outside thesource code. How-ever the plot neverstagnates, thoughthe viewer shouldbe advised not tomake too manyearly assumptionsabout the nature ofthe movies world,lest they be chal-

lenged later on. Thisstands in contrastto Inception, whosesystem stays con-sistent, albeit com-plex, throughoutthe movie.

All things con-sidered, SourceCode is a moviefor people who likeunraveling complexproblems, whichmakes it a good tfor most readersof this article. Thisisnt Inception, butits still entertainingand thought-pro-

voking, to the pointthat I would give ita 7/10.

Source Code, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, could betermed a psychotechnical thriller in the same vein as

Inception.

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Season two of The Whitest KidsUKnow brings back immature fart

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tremely taboo sketches. Shown onthe Independent Film Channel (IFC)and now on DVD, The WhitestKids UKnow has evolved sinceits rst season, which was shownon Fuse. Thismeans thatnudity andswear wordsriddle theirp r o d uc t i o n .

This show iscomparable toa real-life ver-sion of AdultSwims RobotChicken.

The second season of TheWhitest Kids UKnow is not quite

as good as the rst. Like mostshows, the writers put all of theirbest jokes in one season and ranout of ideas for the second one.

The humor became more fart jokeoriented rather than a mockery ofsocial norms.

One constant was the view that

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Show ReviewThe Whitest Kids UKnow Season 2Stephen Hejducek

Content ManagerEuropean History was document-ed much differently than how it ac-tually occurred. The show portraysthat in situations like slavery andmassacres of Native Americans,the Europeans were not actuallyenslaving people, but doing what

those specic people asked in therst place. These events are truetragedies, but the show nds agood middle ground to make light

jokes about the subject.Many of the

sketches fromthe show arepopular clipson YouTube,but the aver-age viewerdoes not knowthat this showis currentlyairing its fthseason on IFC.

Though often very juvenile, TheWhitest Kids UKnow is a great

show that is not afraid to make jokes on difcult and more seri-ous subject matter as well. Eventhough season two is not as goodas season one, the third season,which was most recently releasedto DVD, is even better than its pre-decessors.

Though often very juvenile,

The Whitest Kids U Know

is a great show that is not

afraid to make jokes on

dicult and more serious

subject matter as well.

Moose Drool might sound

like a strange name for beer, butit is serious business for Big SkyBrewing of Missoula, Montana,who count the brown ale as theirtop seller. Also taking it seriouslyis the Beer Judge Certica-tion Program, which lists thebrew as a prime example ofan American Brown Ale in theirBeer Style Guide.

Brown ale was rst brewedin London during the 1600sand has been brewed eversince, with todays no-table examples includingboth Manns and New-castle.

American versions ofbrown ale are typically

darker, somewhere be-tween an amber ale anda porter, and are oftensweeter than their Eng-lish counterparts.

With its dark, nearlyopaque, red-brown colorand its thin, white foam,Moose Drool could eas-ily be mistaken for a por-ter. But with an earthy,sweet, and chocolate-like smell, it has more incommon with a sweetstout. There is little traceof a hop aroma as theavor contains only 26IBUs. What the avordoes posses, though, is

a subtle, yet noticeable,hint of sweet chocolate and

Beer Review

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Staff Writer

roasted malt, but with-out the heavy mouth-feel or strong avorsthat often come with

a stout. Although sweet,

Moose Drool comesacross as mild andbalanced while stillpacking plenty oftaste. Roasted maltis its predominantavor, and while fansof other malty beerssuch as red ales,

English brownales, or Scot-tish heavy alesshould enjoyMoose Drool,it should stillsatisfy the fansof darker por-

ters and stouts.Moose Droolpairs well withgreasy burg-ers and hotdogs and witha relatively light5.3% alcoholcontent by vol-ume, you willnot suffer fromdrinking morethan one in asitting.

As a well-crafted and a-vorful exampleof the classic

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The Clinton Global Initiative Uni-versity (CGI U) challenges collegestudents to address global issueswith practical innovative solutions.Members do more than simplydiscuss problems they take con-

crete steps to solve them by build-ing relationships, creating actionplans, participating in hands-onworkshops and following-up withCGI U as they complete their proj-ects. The CGI U was held April1-3 on the University of California San Diego campus. Approxi-mately 1100 students representing349 schools, 90 countries and all50 states took part in this yearsgathering.

Two teams represented CSMwith commitments:

Team Zambezi - Kevin Boxer,Bethany Behrens and Sarah Cas-sinis followed up with the design ofan essential oil distillation unit foran impoverished area in Zambia

initially implemented in EPICS 151.Mirna Mattjik: promoted thecollaboration between Design (EP-ICS), the Ofce of InternationalPrograms and the McBride Hon-ors program for the design andimplementation of playgroundequipment for disabled students inSouth Africa.

Opening the rst plenary ses-sion, President Bill Clinton com-mented that Young people today

have more power to effect changethan any generation that has comebefore. This session focused onpowering innovation on campusand beyond. Saturday morning, hemoved the challenge and commit-ment to address issues of poverty,housing, health, and education.

The panel explored how innova-

tion, the distribution of money, andthe value of human resources cansupport creation of a sustainable21st Century.

Sarah, a mechanical engineer-ing student at CSM, acknowl-edged that the playground equip-ment project builds relationships toimprove the lives of disabled stu-dent in South Africa. The projectalso gives us the opportunity to getcreative in terms of the funding tomake the project happen.

The third session opened withthe conversation on educationwith a plea to provide better ac-cess to the $1.7B of nancial aidthat is currently available but notaccessed by students. Eduardo

Ochoa, Assistant Secretary forPostsecondary Education at theUS. Department of Educationproposed that the FAFSA form bestreamlined and implied it mighteven be eliminated. In its place,parents could simply be told theamount of nancial aid available tostudents.

Educational institutions mustexplore creative and innovative re-forms for providing effective learn-

ing environments. It is importantthat we recognize the university asa community learning environment.

The strategy must emphasizecreating unique and appropriatelearning styles. The importance,however, should be on creatingenvironments that enhance learn-ing opportunities for students in a

variety of formats.The high school system, morethan ever, must expose students tothe skills required to survive in high-er education. More attention mustbe given to the rationale for highereducation, especially true for thelower income or at risk students.We must educate them about theimportance of higher educationin todays labor environment andexpose them to skills that preparethem to access the informationthey need to be successful.

Mattjik, a recent graduate andadjunct at CSM, echoed the needto reform the education process atthe high school level as well. Theenvironment and AP courses need

to mimic expectations of highereducation to make the transitioneasier for the students.

Costs and the inability to repaythe cost of education have nega-tively impacted the opportunityfor a postsecondary education. Itis great to ring the higher educa-tion bell, but students cannot hearit through the nancial chaos thatthunders forcefully thorough thehalls. Ifreke Williams, a medical

student, ended the presentationwith a plea for some thought on thenancial impact of higher educa-tion. She concluded by saying thesystem must help students realizedreams and diffuse debt.

The closing session focused onthe dreams and passion critical tomaking visions a re-

ality. People needto see the problemand the solutionfrom their own eyesgiving them hope torealize their vision.Kennedy Odede,CEO for ShiningHope for Commu-nities, constructsschools for womenin Nairobi because women focuson survival and take action.

Sean Penn reminded us that intragedies we realize that we are ina learning experience with the po-tential to add value. The lessonslearned speak to all those designsmeant to improve the lives of peo-

ple they must be appropriate tothe region. We cannot miss theboat with respect to the utilizationof the human resource. Peoplemust be given the freedom to worktogether and rebuild. We have theability to empower people so wecan leave and they can take over.

Bethany, a geophysics studentat CSM, observed the importanceof using the talents and experienc-es of the women in Zambia. The

essential oil project empowers thewomen with a sustainable busi-ness to change their lives after weleave.

People want respect to be lis-tened to. They need us. The part-nerships we create must engagepeople in a vision through action.

Sean Penn con-

cluded: This is thecentury in whichwe will be held ac-countable for whatwe did or did notdo. PresidentClinton emphasizedthe importance ofworking a projectto empower peopleyou are trying to

help. The importance is, to para-phrase an African greeting to seeyou acknowledging and respect-ing their contribution.

Kevin, a materials and metallur-gical student at CSM, recognizedthe added value that the CGI Ubrings to his education. These are

small scale projects that demandthe innovative use of resourcesand energy, two of the key direc-tions emphasized at CSM

The program ended with a com-munity service at the Food Bank inSan Diego. After bagging 40,000pounds of produce in three hours,I realized that I see you and thatbringing 1100 students from aworld of diverse backgrounds to-gether can make a difference.

Mines students work for global bettermentTwo teams from CSM took projects to the Clinton Global Initiative University eventRobert Knecht

Guest Columnist

The importance is, toparaphrase an Afri-

can greeting to see

you acknowledging

and respecting their

contribution.


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Flashback: A look back at some of the more

interesting things happening on campus in

the past. All pictures were taken from the

1988 edition of the Prospector.

The members of ASME pose for their yearbook photo, possibly forgetting that it

will last forever.

Two Blue Key amigos horse around in the snow around the M on Mount Zion.

Mines Activity Council members visited Juarez, Mexico during their regional

conference. It appears they may have forgotten their passports.

The staff of The Oredigger gathers together in their ofce. Guys, the

camera is over here.

Alpha Tau Omega brothers water the lawn.

Kappa Sigma brothers on the bus to New Mexico for the Mines Ac-

tivity Council conference.

This is what happens when you are the smallest person in the

football game and they lose the football.


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Dilemma #1

Two friends of mine are big sports fans. I am not. They both purchased season passes to their favorite team. However for the rst game one of my friends was out of town. So he let me borrow

his ticket to go with the friend that was still in town. I did and it was great fun, but what I didnt expect was to win an iPod touch while there. Now technically I won this as the person occupying the

seat. I know that neither my friend nor I own an iPod already. So, Im torn as to whether I tell him I won it or just keep it for myself. Help.Whats an iPod Between Friends?

Responses to Dilemma #1

A conclusion can be reached by looking at virtue ethics. The principle behind virtue ethics is to simply ask yourself, what would make me a better person? Giving the iPod to your friend might

make you a better person by helping you become less self-centered and more aware of those around you. Showing other people, especially your friends, that you care about them would be ben-

ecial for both because it would make you reliable and trustworthy: qualities necessary for a good friendship. When looking at both options, giving the iPod to your friend seems to lead you to be a

more virtuous person.

Vlad

The dilemma of the iPod is one best solved by solving the solution with your friends help. Since it was his ticket that you got to use in the rst place, even without the iPod you still ended up ahead

in the whole situation. No matter how this turns out you should consider yourself lucky. My advice would be to follow utilitarian values to determine the greatest amount of happiness for all involved.

The person who ultimately ends up with the iPod would undoubtedly feel some amount of guilt. Therefore my advice would be to buy a second iPod. You and your friend could split the cost of buy-

ing one, and essentially each get a new iPod for half price. Neither of you would feel any guilt and youd both come out ahead, a win-win for both people.

Ethan Blodgett

Once the iPod is granted to you, you should give it back to your friend and consider that the iPod is not yours, since you only won it because your friend let you have his ticket. Another reason

why you should tell your friend and give the iPod to him is that if you do not tell him and keep the iPod for yourself, you will feel awful because youll be afraid that your friend might nd out about this

fortune, and he will be mad at you. Additionally, if he nds out about it later, this could cause him negative feeling towards you. As a result, you might lose your friend and feel ashamed about yourself.

In my perspective, such an action is like a theft. If you really want an iPod, you can simply get it from a store anywhere, and the price is not too expensive. What Ive learned from this is that a friendis not for sale in a store, and cannot be purchased with money.

Friend vs. iPod

Dilemma #2

I have something which has been bugging me for a while. Im on a meal plan, meaning I eat at Slate for most of my meals. Recently Ive started taking 2-4 of the peanut butter packs they keep

there on my way out, for later consumption with crackers or something. I didnt think much of it, but just recently a friend of mine told me that it was probably wrong and that it could be considered

theft; buffet food is usually meant to stay in the buffet, after all. I hadnt really thought about it, but my friend might have a point. Is it okay for me to walk out with and save Slate food when I can just

go buy peanut butter on my own? I cant decide what would be right in this situation.

Potential Peanut Butter Pilferer

Responses to Dilemma #2

Stealing is bad obviously and this could be considered stealing but as a person that also has a meal plan I can understand it. First, the money that is spent on the meal plans is basically stealing

on their part for the quality of food in slate. Second, the slate workers take into account people doing this, they actually allow you to walk out with a sandwich or other things like that. I think its ok

but if it is nagging at you stop.

Matt

When it comes taking some food from the Slate, I must admit that I have done the same thing before. I have come to the conclusion though that it is ethically wrong to do so. If every person who

ate at Slate took some food to go, eventually, there will be a shortage of food for those who come later to eat. The shortage of food would be at the fault of those who took the food with them when

they left. If the axiom that it is wrong to deprive anyone of food when one self has been lled can be agreed upon, then it can be concluded that the action of taking food from the Slate after eatingtill ones content is wrong.

Taylor

I must say that I myself am guilty of the very same pilfering that you refer to. And I can also say that I nd nothing wrong with the action. You (or your parents) pay to eat at Slate, quite a bit actually.

Aramark, the service providing the food at Slate, is paid by Mines, and thus by you or your parents, to provide food for you to eat. Whos to say that you cant eat that food in your dorm later when

youre hungry? According to Immanuel Kant, moral guidance should come from logic and practicality, not emotion. It is far more logical for you to be able to enjoy the food which your money has

paid for at a time of your choosing. It is also more practical to utilize the small containers for snacking in your dorm where you may not need to open an entire container of peanut butter. All in all, I

say that you are not only safe, but also justied in taking the peanut butter in Slate to enjoy later.

Fellow Peanut Butter Pilferer

Next Weeks Dilemmas

1) I am currently in the process of applying for a scholarship. However, when looking over the scholarship application, there is a section asking if I have a Facebook page or not. I know there is

a committee that reviews these applications and will most likely browse my Facebook page if I answer yes. My Facebook, while not stooped in feces, is not necessarily clean, nor is it something I

wish to have an outside group look at. I believe I should be allotted privacy, and therefore I want to answer no, informing them I do not use Facebook. Am I morally required to answer yes on this

question, or can I employ a sort of vigilantism, and respond no on the grounds that I believe it wrong for them to ask it of me?

Needs Money for College

2) So I live in a two bedroom/two bathroom apartment with two other people and we have a fair amount of space distributed between the three of us. Just a couple months ago, my roommate

told one of her close friends that he could move in with us so he can get back on his feet. Now a month ago, I was okay with idea because I assumed that my roommates friend (well call him New

Guy) would have a job by now and would be able to help pay for rent, electricity, gas, etc. the basic dues of living in an apartment. I also assumed that we would have moved into a larger apartment

by now so that there would be enough rooms for the 4 of us (New Guy currently sleeps on the couch in the living room). But its been a couple of months, we still havent been able to move into a

larger apartment, and New Guy still doesnt have a job.

The problem here is that New Guy doesnt really seem like hes making an effort to nd a job to pay for his part of rent. Hes taking up a lot of space (the entire living room, utility closet, linen

closet), and hes eating all the food we buy. Ive talked this over with my two roommates and one wants to kick him out and the other (the one who is good friends with New Guy) wants to let him

stay which means the decision is up to me. Should I kick him out and cause him to live on the streets with no food, water, or place to stay? Or should I continue to allow him to live here for free and

continue to let him take what we pay for?

Looking Out for Whom?

3) Loyal readers, my dilemma this week is of the romantic type, and I need your help. About one year ago to the day, I was working as assistant in a pottery studio minding my own business,

just cleaning up the dirt, when I met a gorgeous young lady struggling with her clay on the wheel. Trying to be an honest, good working citizen I gave her a few pointers, and her cup eventually took

shape. I nished moping and didnt see her again until seven months later when I got a new job and went to a coworkers apartment to help him assemble his new TV stand. To my surprise, there

in his apartment was that cute armature potter taking care of their newborn child. It turns out they had been married for just over a year.

Well, that co-worker and I would hang out during lunch and after work and he would often tell me that he was unhappy with his marriage, and that she had cheating on him, and blah, blah, blah. I

jokingly told him one day that I would like to cheat with his wife. Instead of getting mad like I thought he would, he simply said please do, so I can have a good reason to get a divorce. Well, he quit

his job, and I havent seen either of them for about four months. Last week out of the blue, she hit me up on Facebook, and informed me that they are no longer living together however they are still

married. We talked for a long time and the next day she ooded my new phone with naked photos of herself. She has been sexting all week and I dont know

what to do. Honestly, I would like to be Utilitarian and maximize pleasure by making all three of us happy, but am not convinced it is the ethical thing to do.

Bewildered.

We would love to know what you thinkNeeds Money for College, Looking Out for Whom, and Bewildered should do and the reasons that make

you think so.

Do you have an ethical dilemma in your personal, academic, or professional life? You dont have to gure it out on your own. Send your ethical dilemmas

and responses to Needs Money for College, Looking Out for Whom, and Bewildered to: [email protected] by midnight on Thursday, April 21st.

Be sure to let me know if you want your name printed or not and if you have a preferred nickname what it is. We look forward to hearing from you.

Morals to your storyShira Richman

Ethics Columnist

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Aries - As Aries is a ram, to-day you will either transform intoa truck and ght the evils of theuniverse, or you will begin to feaston garbage and your pupils will be-come rectangular. Let us hope forthe former.

Taurus - You have always feltthe spirit of the bull inside of you- the power, the awe-striking mag-nicence, the tasty rib-eye steaks.Be careful of that last one, though,when you get stranded on a desertisland this week.

Gemini - Your long lost twin issecretly conspiring against you.

They will take over your life this Thursday, just in time for leftoverday at the Slate. This should beenough to drive them off for an-other few months.

Cancer - Be proud when youbecome the rst guest star on thatpopular crab shing show. It wasbetter than the other option youwere entertaining that had to dowith crabs and reality TV. Enoughsaid.

Leo - A famous nursery rhymeonce mentioned catching a lion byits tail. Oh no, wait, that was a ti-ger. Normally, this mistake would

Your weekly horoscopeJohn Bristow

Astrologist

Mines students and facultyare concerned with the resultsfrom the zombie outbreak drillthat began last week. Framed asa game to prevent panic amongthe students, the drill simulatedthe conditions of a zombie out-break using Nerf weapons andbright green bandannas aroundthe arm (human) or skull (zombie).

The results were horrifying. By theend of the week, the zombies hadgained a clear dominance overtheir human counterparts andwere seen forming rudimentarysocial groups without fear of at-tack.

These are not the results wewere hoping for at all, said thestudent health centers infectiousdisease specialist Henry West.We expected our campus de-fenses to hold out against an at-tack much better than this. Butthe problem here is that peopleare too trusting, too complacentaround their friends.

They are used to infectiousdiseases that do not pass so cer-

Zombie training drillreveals weaknesses

be harmless except that a bunchof Sheen wannabes will forget thedifference when looking for tigersblood.

Virgo - A little bit of dating ad-vice. If you want to get beyondrst base, you may want to leaveyour mother at home for your nextdate. I know she is a nice lady, butin all honesty, it was a bit awkwardwhen you started playing footsieunder the table with her instead ofyour date.

Libra - Lady justice is awesome,as long as you are on the right sideof the law. On the other hand, whenyou tried to break into the steamtunnels, justice was swift. Oh, andthose lizard-men aliens you sawcontrolling the school, well, let us

just say you did not see anything...

Scorpio - This one may be astretch, but just because some-thing is in your nature does notmean you should do it. So putaway the cheez-whiz and liters ofmountain dew you were about toconsume at the same time. We do

not care how convenient cheese ina can is.

Sagittarius - Having a horse fora torso is awesome. Take it fromme; I am a centaur. The only prob-lems that you will experience thisweek will have to do with where to

tainly from person to person, dis-

eases that do not automaticallydoom one to a life as a shamblingterror.

As a result, the health cen-ter has begun tomanufacture signsand placards in-forming studentsof the danger, andhas even calledfor a design con-test to harnessthe creative pow-er of the studentbody and furtherraise awareness.Chances are,West explained,that a zombie

outbreak would not start here,for various reasons. But the drillshows that even if given timeto acquire weapons and amplewarning of the attack, we couldbe quickly overwhelmed.

West also explained that stu-dents need to be prepared toght on campus, since the cur-rent zombie outbreak protocolsdo not call for closing the school.He recommended honing ghting

Janeen Neri

Zombie Observer

store all that hay you will suddenlybe craving.

Capricorn - What the heck is aCapricorn? I do not know what itmeans. I know it is on the prompt-er, but what is i t? How can we leadout with one if I do not know what itis. &$!@ it, we will do it live!

Aquarius - According to an-cient texts (Wikipedia), Aquariusis a manly water-bearer. You, onthe other hand, lack both of thesetraits. Apply to be a reman thisweek to satisfy the requirements. Itis better than anything you are do-ing now.

Pisces - Fish are smelly and,frankly, so are you. I am done be-ing nice like I was last week. It isa good thing in this case though,as when you play humans versuszombies, you will be able to walkthrough zombie horde with no fearof becoming infected!

styles that use unconventional

items such as chairs and pencils,as well as memorizing the lay-out of Chauvenet hall. Not onlydoes Chauvenet have that well-

stocked bombshelter a fewstories down,he pointed out,but the laby-rinth of roomsrequired to getthere should putall but the mostdetermined un-dead off yourtrail. West alsourged studentsto protect theirfemale friends

at all costs. If the worst happensand civilization is destroyed, weneed them if were going to re-populate and rebuild.

The health center is currentlyplanning a follow-up drill with dif-ferent starting parameters, afterwhich time they hope to moveon to other worst-case scenariodrills. Be on the lookout for a hu-mans vs. velociraptors drill, Westsaid.

The zombies had gained

a clear dominance over

their human counter-

parts and were seen

forming rudimentary

social groups without

fear of attack.

Ryan Browne

Editor-in-Chief

Reasons you became a zombie

10. Thought a pool noodle would save you

9. Gun ran out of ammo

8. Did not think that a professor could run that fast

7. The buddy system is for sissies

6. Laptop screens do not double as mirrors

5. Forgot that there was a game going on4. You live in a frat house

3. Mistook the bandana for a doo-rag

2. Forgot rule 40: If it seems like someones out to get you, they are.

1. WoW

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