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Sports 7
Opinion 8
Features 4
News 2
Snowball Festival
headed to Denver
for 2014
Nicolas Cage
stars in lacklusterWicker Man
Minds at Mines
asks favorite mov-
ie of the year?
Orediggers fall
to Metro State in
RMAC Finals
Emily McNair
Managing Editor
The disap pea ran ce of fl igh t
MH370 has left the world in shock.
In such an interconnected world, it
seemed impossible to lose something
as large as a Boeing 777. However,
the unthinkable became reality on
Saturday, March 8 when 239 souls
disappeared without a trace.
At 12:41 am, the flight left the
airport in Kuala Lumpur carrying
227 passengers and 12 crew. All of
the crew were Malaysian; however,the passengers hailed from at least
twelve different countries. Two of the
passengers were traveling using sto-
len passports. Further investigation
showed that these two men were
of Iranian descent but had no link to
terrorist groups.
The flight flew on for 120 nautical
miles. At this point, the flight was to
be handed from Malaysian air traf-
fic control to Vietnamese air traffi c
control. All seemed well when the
plane signed off from the Malaysians;
however, it never checked in with air
traffi c control in Ho Chi Minh City.
Malaysian and Vietnamese offi cials
began the search for the plane at the
point of last contact. Malaysian ships
in the area did not see any wreckage,but an oil slick was reported. Later
tests showed that this oil slick was
not jet fuel.
On March 9, Malaysian offi cials
said that radar data showed that the
plane may have turned back. Offi cials
widened the search area in hopes
of recovering debris from the plane.
On March 10, Malaysian authorities
Search for missing airplane continues
The search radius for MH370 currently covers over 4800 kilometers of the southeastern hemisphere.
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further expanded the search area.
While there had been several claims
of seeing the plane, all of the leads
proved false. People began wonder-
ing if MH370 had been hijacked or a
bomb exploded on board; however,
data from U.S. spy satellites showed
that there had not been a mid-air
explosion.
On Tuesday, March 11, offi cials
began looking further into the pos-
sibility that MH370 had turned back.
Military radar showed an unidentified
object heading towards the Strait of
Malacca after MH370 had lost con-tact with civilian air traffi c controllers.
Allegations against the planes first of-
ficer come to light. In previous flights,
he had allowed women to enter the
cockpit during a previous flight. Ma-
laysia Airlines was unable to confirm
the allegations. On March 12, offi cials
expanded the search area to include
an area stretching from China to India
and the pilots last words to air traffi c
control, All right, good night, were
released to the public. Vietnam scaled
back its search efforts while a Chinese
government agency released satellite
photos that may have shown debris.
The next day, this debris could not
be found. Chinese offi cials explained
that the photos had been wrongly
released. The Wall Street Journalreported that the plane could have
continued flying for about 2200 miles.
Satellites received faint electronic
pulses from the plane that matched
this theory. However, Malaysian
Transport Minister Seri Hishammud-
din dismissed these claims and said
that the search would continue in the
South China Sea. On March 15, the
search area was expanded to include
parts of the Indian Ocean. The U.S.S.
Kidd, a U.S. destroyer, was on its way
to the Strait of Malacca to assist in
the search.
On March 15, Malaysian offi cials
confirmed that MH370 had turned
back. The plane flew west over the
Malaysian Peninsula before turning
northwest. Offi cials a lso confirmed
that the last signal from MH370 was
received at 8:11 am, which was over
seven hours after takeoff. Malaysian
Prime Minister Najib Razak told the
public that actions aboard MH370,such as the disabling of communica-
tions systems, were deliberate. Satel-
lite data showed that the plane could
have flown in one of two areas - one
area went north towards Kazakhstan
while the other went south into the
Indian Ocean. Malaysian police also
search the pilots and copilots homes.
On March 16, the search area
was expanded to include the new
corridors. The number of countries
involved in the search grew from 14
to 25. Malaysian offi cials revealed that
they found a flight simulator in the
copilots home and were analyzing it.
The next day, the number of countries
involved in the search expanded to
25. Investigators were looking into a
flight engineer who was a passengeron the plane.
On March 18, China announced
that none of the Chinese on the plane
had ties to terrorist groups. Thailands
air force said that MH370 may have
appeared on its radar shortly after its
last contact. The unidentified object
was flying towards the Strait of Ma-
lacca, which is where MH370 was
believed to have gone. Offi cials said
that this information was not shared
earlier because Malaysia never asked
for it. New information regarding the
flight path emerged. It is shown that
the change in the flight path was
entered into the cockpit computer,
which raised more suspicion that
someone on the crew orchestrated
the event.
On March 19, the FBI joined the
investigation. Malaysian offi cials said
that reports of a low-flying plane in the
Maldives were not related to M370.
Offi cials also revealed that files hadbeen deleted from the copilots flight
simulator on February 3. The German
insurance company Allianz began
making payouts in connection with
the missing plane.
On March 20, Australia reported
seeing debris on a satellite image.
The largest piece was 24 meters long.
Planes were sent to the location to in-
vestigate, but poor visibility limited the
search. China and France have since
picked up similar satellite images.
The black box on MH370 may
hold clues as to what happened.
However, the Indian ocean is ex-
tremely deep and there are few
vehicles capable of searching the
bottom.
The black box sends out an ultra-sonic ping for 30 days. This ping can
only be heard by those very close to
the crash site, so a wide search area
makes this task more diffi cult. As of
March 23, there are 16 days remain-
ing for the ping of MH370s black
box. However, after the location of the
black box has been found, it may still
take years to recover.
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Oredigger Staff
Lucy Orsi
Editor-in-Chief
Emily McNairManaging Editor
Taylor PolodnaDesign Editor
Connor McDonaldWebmaster
Lucy OrsiBusiness Manager
Arnaud FilliatCopy Editor
Katerina GonzalesContent Manager
Jared RiemerContent Manager
Karen GilbertFaculty Advisor
Headlines from around the worldLocal News
Governor Hickenlooper is ex-pected to sign a law to expand
the Medina Alert System acrossColorado on Tuesday. The sys-tem is currently only used in theDenver area. The system wasinspired by a hit and run wherea taxi driver provided the licenseplate of the driver to the police.
The system gives informationabout hit-and-runs to taxi driversand others on the road.
A car fire in Aurora spread to
a duplex early Sunday morning.No one was injured and no onewas displaced. The cause of thefire is under investigation.
Private donors have paid toinstall beer taps in the gover-
nors mansion. The price of thetaps has not been disclosed.
The taps will have three different
Colorado brews.
Matt Duchene, a player forthe Colorado Avalanche hockeyteam, is helping a local boy getan experimental drug for Duch-enne muscular dystrophy. Theboys family started a We thePeople petition to get the FDAto release the experimental drugto the boy, but, as of Friday, itonly had 65,000 of the required100,000 signatures. The Ava-lanche star tweeted about theboys plight in hopes of gettingenough signatures.
The State House has passeda bill allowing Amtrak trains togo through Pueblo. Currentlythe trains pass through La Juntaand Trinidad. The bill allows thetrains to be re-routed and thetrains will eventually go to Los
Angeles. The train should be upand running within five years.
Ramiro Rodriguez, Staff Writer
Ramiro Rodriguez, Staff Writer
South Pole- Researchers at the AmundsenScott South Pole Station have de-tected waves of gravitational energy in the oldest light detectable by telescopes. Thisis being seen as a residual marker for the exponential growth of the universe in the first
trillionths of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second of the universe, giving large amounts ofsupport to the Big Bang theory. The discovery has been confirmed to five-sigma values.
Towns across the UnitedStates are opposing the in-creasing militarization of local
police forces. Grants from theDepartment of Homeland Securityhave been funding the purchaseof heavily fortified vehicles for use
by police forces. Peter Kraska, aprofessor in the School of JusticeStudies at Eastern Kentucky Uni-versity, links the antipathy towardspolice militarization to revelationsabout the extent of governmentspying programs.
Russian President Vladimir
Putin has signed a law formal-izing Russias annexation of
Crimea.This is not being recog-nized by Ukraine, the EU, or othermembers of the G8 nations. Inresponse to this move by Putin,the EU and the US have expand-ed sanctions against Russian of-ficials, stock prices in Moscow
have fallen, two credit agencieshave downgraded Russias out-look to negative, and Visa andMastercard have ceased provid-ing services to SMP Bank andBank Rossiya.
A federal judge has orderedthe FBI to justify shielding in-formation relating to an allegedFBI plot to assassinate leaders of
the Occupy movement. Informa-tion about the plot surfaced from acivil-rights legal organization mak-ing a Freedom of Information Actrequest earlier in the year. The FBIis claiming it has this right on thebasis that the law gives them theability to shield information com-piled for law enforcement purpos-es if disclosure could cause harmor jeopardize the investigation.
Online learning platform Khan
Academy is partner ing with
College Board, the developerand administrator of standard-ized tests such as the SAT and APtests, to help lessen the incomebarriers to higher education. Khan
Academy will receive exclusive ac-cess to actual questions to devel-op a free test preparation service.
The Netherlands has becomethe first country to legalize no-
carrier SIM cards. Mobile phoneusers in the Netherlands no longerhave to be tied to a particular car-rier for their cell service or swap
out SIM cards to change serviceor travel overseas. This comesafter an announcement of the Eu-ropean Union considering a banon roaming charges between themember countries of the Europe-an Union.
Minnesota-based brewingcompany Lakemaid has devel-oped a drone based beer deliv-
ery system. The owners of Lake-maid decided to create an aerialunmanned delivery service afterwatching the 60 Minutes spe-cial on Amazons plans to have asame-day delivery service throughthe same method. The first deliv-
ery was a successfully delivered12-pack of their winter lager to anearby ice fishing shack. The Fed-
eral Aviation Administration hasissued the brewery a cease anddesist order as this is in violationof regulation relating to unmanneddrones.
MtGox, the former largest Bit-Coin exchange in the world, hasannounced it has found 200,000lost BitCoins in an older format
wallet file, worth approximately$116M. This comes after the theftof what was thought to be 850000BitCoins by hackers earlier in Feb-ruary. The discovery accounts for7% of all of the worlds BitCoins.
University of Idaho- Dr. Jason Barnesof the University of Idaho has detected thefirst liquid waves on another planetary
body. Dr. Barnes used a mathematicalmodel to analyze an image of the PungaMare on Titan taken by the Cassini probeafter seeing on the image what appeared
to be sunlight reflecting from surface liquidmuch in the same way a mirror redirectslight. The Punga Mare is a lake that has init approximately 9000 cubic km of liquidmethane, roughly 40 times the proven re-serves of oil and gas on earth.
North-Eastern Federal University in
Yakutsk, Siberia- An international team ofscientists at the North-Eastern Federal Uni-versity in Yakutsk, Siberia claim that DNAfrom a recently found well-preserved woollymammoth could be cloned. The DNA takenfrom blood from the autopsy of the foundmammoth carcass will be mixed with a fe-male elephant to attempt birthing a woollymammoth. The cloning process is expect-
ed to be diffi cult due to the splitt ing of theevolutionary path of elephants and woollymammoths tens of thousands of years ago.
University of London - A study led by DrCarolyn McGettigan, from the University of Lon-dons Department of Psychology, shows that thebrain responds differently to genuine laughter than
forced laughter. The brain can not only determine adifference, but an attempt is also made to discover
the reason for forced laughing. Research subjectswere not aware of the nature of the study and hadtheir brain activity monitored while hearing laughtercaused by seeing funny videos online and forcedlaughter. The forced laughter prompted the partof the brain associated with attempting to under-stand the mental and emotional state of others.
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Courtesy Mines Newsroom
Colorado School of Mineswill compete against nine other
schools at the National CollegiateWind Competition in May in Las
Vegas. Teams will be showcas inga lightweight, transportable windturbine that could power smallelectronic devices. Each teamsprototype wind turbine will betested in a wind tunnel and scoredfor performance, operational safe-ty, component durability and sys-tem reliability.
Nine students on the Minesteam, Zephyrus, are in the pro-
Mines to compete in windturbine competition
cess of using design prototypesto build the final turbine.
Competition advisor CameronTurner said the team has taken
an innovative path in the compe-tition by establishing a supportingbusiness plan and developing anunderstanding of wind power po-litical issues, in addition to, cre-ating a technical solution to theirdesign.
In many ways, they are dem-onstrating not only technicalcompetence, but also personalcompetence as citizens, Cam-eron Turner said. In two months,they will be presenting their work
Christopher Robbins
Staff Writer
In a few short weeks, Colo-rados largest music festival willbe setting up shop at The Parkat Sports Authority Field at MileHigh and fans of hip hop andelectric dance music (EDM) fromacross the globe will be head-ing to Denver to witness it all atSnowball 2014. With four sepa-rate concert venues in the Parkitself, the stage is set for threedays of constant music begin-ning Friday, April 4th and run-ning through Sunday the 6th.
Headlined by local favorite PrettyLights, Aussie duo Knife Party,and upstart GRiZ, as well as over60 artists from around the world.
This years Snowbal l schedule isshaping up to be one of the bestinstallments of the event since itbegan in 2011.
Hailing from just up the road inFort Collins, Derek Vincent Smith,aka Pretty Lights, is thrilled toonce again make an appearanceat Snowball for what will be the
Snowball festival coming to Mile Highthird time in the programs four-year history. Im super excited tolet people know that I wi ll be per-forming with renowned turntablistChris Karns and hip hop drum-mer extraordinaire Adam Deitch!he announced on his Facebookpage Wednesday, claiming thefestival will be a journey backto my hip hop and productionroots. Smith, whose main eventwill begin Saturdaynight at 8:40 onthe Snowball MainStage, also gave fansa small taste of whatthey can expect from
his performance inthe same Facebookpost, claiming thatsome of the tracksand remixes he has in store willmake this show super bangingand incredibly unique. In addi-tion to his Saturday evening set,Pretty Lights will appear on stageagain on Sunday night in theGroove Tent with several friendsfrom the Pretty Lights Music re-cord label at Snowballs first ever
at the American Wind Energy As-sociation meeting alongside nineother schools. I fully expect thatthe team will be amongst the best
teams at the competition.Mines will be competing against
Boise State University, CaliforniaMaritime Academy, James Madi-son University, Kansas State Uni-versity, Northern Arizona Univer-sity, Pennsylvania State University,University of Alaska Fairbanks,University of Kansas and Univer-sity of Massachusetts Lowell.
Visit the Zephyrus website andcompetition website for more in-formation.
PLM party.Making their Snowball debut
this year is Knife Party, a DJ tan-dem from Australia that has onlybeen around since 2011, buthave quickly become one of thetop performers in todays EDMscene. Snowball will mark theteams first return to the UnitedStates for quite some time, asthey have been busy perform-
ing for sold-out venuesacross Australia and theUnited Kingdom. De-spite being one of thebiggest names comingto Denver for the festival,
the duo has remainedrather quiet about theevent, only posting asingle tweet about hav-
ing a few days off to recoupafter their most recent Australiantour before coming to the U.S.Quiet or not, Knife Partys ex-traordinary success and rise inpopularity over the last few yearsshould have fans flocking to MileHigh to witness them take themain Snowball Stage at 9:30 on
Friday night.The final headliner to make an
appearance at Snowball this yearis Duke Silver, better known asGRiZ. Relatively new to the EDMand hip hop scene but rising f ast,the 23-year old Detroit native isdefinitely enjoying his growingsuccess and stated via Face-book how he is proud to be ableto headline this years Snowballmusic fest with the good homiePretty Lights and Knife Party!!
As with most other performersand fans alike, he is thrilled forthe events move to Mile Highthis year, explaining that having
a festival outside in the heart ofDenver is going to be a specialcelebration. Cant wait tofill thenight sky with beautiful music!GRiZ will get to do just that onSunday evening at 9:45 on theSnowball Stage, where he willclose out 2014s Snowball festivi-ties with the final performance ofthe event.
In addition to the headliners,Snowball will feature over 60talented artists from around the
globe. Included among these arethe Floozies, Mimosa, Brother
Ali, Busta Rhymes, and Afro-man to name just a few. Althoughmost of these 60 artists sharethe genres of hip hop or EDM,the level of variety and unique-ness between each and everyone is what will make Snowball2014 a great experience for any-one who attends. With so manydistinct styles of music on displayall weekend long, the options arevirtually limitless for how one canchoose to experience and enjoySnowball.
Single day, general admission
tickets are currently available for$50 and 3-day, general admis-sion weekend passes are avail-able for $174.50. Additionally,3-day VIP passes are availablefor $399.50.
For more information, visitwww.snowballmusicfestival.com.Connect with SnowBall via theirFacebook or Twitter.
Official hashtags for Snow-ball 2014 are #SB14 #SNOW-BALL2014 #SNOWBALL
Snowball will
feature over 60
talented artists
from around theglobe.
College Student Storage is looking for a campus manager to hand out flyers at the Schoolof Mines in April. We are offering free summer storage and some $$ if you do a good job.Must be a School of Mines student and we prefer a student that lives on campus.
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Mines to celebrateGalaxE-Days April 3-5
The traditional Ore Cart Pull be-gins April 4 at around 9 a.m., whenstudents will travel on foot east on
Colfax Avenue to the state capitolbuilding where an elected offi cial
will issue the offi cial E-Days Procla-
mation. Later that day, there will bea Tesla coil demonstration at 1 p.m.in Metals Hall (in the Green Cen-
ter), field day activities including a
hot wing eating contest, mattressraces, gold panning at more begin-ning at 2:30 p.m. on the IntramuralFields, a Soap Box Derby at 3 p.m.
on West Campus Road and a con-cert featuring Sound Remedy at 7p.m. on the Intramural Fields.
On April 5, festivities begin at 10a.m. with a car show in the CTLMparking lot and cardboard boat
races down Clear Creek in boatsconstructed only of cardboard andtape. A carnival, featuring gamesand food, will begin at noon on theIM fields. The Saturday night con-
cert features 3OH!3 at 7 p.m. onthe Intramural Fields followed byfireworks at 10 p.m. at parking lot
Q.For additional information, see
the Mines Activity Council website.
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Ramiro Rodriguez
Staff Writer
The bees are in my eyes!
The Wicker Man is a 2006 hor-
ror lm written and directed by Neil
LaBute and stars Nicolas Cage. The
lm is primarily a remake of the 1973
horror classic of the same name,
though it also takes material from thesource material, a 1967 horror novel
titled Ritual. The lm was poorly
received by critics
and has been called
absurd by Cage
and actively disas-
sociated from by
the director of the
original lm, though
the lm is still
watched because
of the unintentional
humor in the acting
and plot elements.
The Wicker
Man opens to Po-
liceman Edward
Mallus (Cage) recall-
ing himself stoppinga car with two wom-
en and a young girl after he picks up
a doll the girls had thrown out of the
car. After giving the doll back, the
girl throws the doll out again and,
as Mallus picks the doll up for the
second time, a truck comes out with
no warning and smashes into the
car with the two women and young
girl. Mallus is knocked unconscious
as he tries to rescue the girl. A fade
to black later and the lm returns to
present time as Mallus receives a
letter from his ex-ancee that their
daughter, Rowan, is missing and
she wants him to come to Summer-
isle, a neo-pagan commune where
she lives, to help nd her. Without
any sort of help or plan he goes to
do this and is met with tremendous
amounts of evasiveness from the
people of the island whose local
economy is dependent on honey,
which has recently declined. Mallus
eventually nds an unmarked gravecontaining only a doll that has been
burned. He asks her teacher on the
island how Rowen
had died and the
schoolhouse teach-
er says that she will
be burned, though
quickly corrects
herself. On the day
of the ritual, which
has been men-
tioned periodically
throughout the lm,
Mallus assaults the
keeper of the inn
he is staying at to
steal her bear cos-
tume and inltrates
the ritual in thebear costume. He
sees Rowan tied to a tree about to
be burned and rushes towards her,
punching people out as he does,
and releases her. He then realizes
the entire search for Rowan was an
elaborate trap by the villagers and
he is the intended sacrice. They all
mob around him, beat him, break
his legs, and cover him in bees.
He is then put inside of the epony-
mous wicker man and is set on re
in hopes that the sacrice will restore
the islands honey production.
While the original 1973 lm was
a classic of the horror genre that
has aged surprisingly well, that can-
not be said of the remake. The lm
works far better as a comedy be-
cause of Cages over the top acting
combined with the more nonsensical
parts of the lm. This is best seen in
the most memorable line of the lm
NO! NOT THE BEES. THE BEES
ARE IN MY EYES! a line that wasnot even in the theatrical release, just
the uncut version. As a horror lm,
to say the remake falls short is an
understatement. There is almost no
suspense as the plot seems to just
happen by random chance since it
seems like the villagers plans seem
to be contingent on Mallus being in
very specic places, asking specic
questions and, in some situations,
be looking at something at specic
times. There is no surprise when the
islanders perform human sacrice
since the lm paints them as creep-
ily as possible from Maluss arrival on
the island where in the original they
were at least somewhat aable. The
remake also removes an important
element; the original shows the sac-rice to fail and heavily implies the is-
lands leader (in the original its a Lord
Summerisle and not Sister Summer-
isle) would be sacriced next for it,
where the closing of this lm is just
two women from the island seduc-
ing men to lure them on the island
for sacrice again. The only saving
grace for this lm is that Cage over-
reacts on what interviews would later
reveal to be on purpose is incredibly
entertaining. There is no other rea-
son to watch this lm than to watch
Nicolas Cage run around punching
people in a bear costume and be at-
tacked by bees.
It is the year 3043. Earth was
destroyed fteen years ago by a
powerful alien race called the Drej
and humanity has all but ceased
to exist. The only hope to save
humanity is through Project Titan,a large spaceship hidden some-
where in the universe that holds
the key to making a new Earth.
Only one person in the universe,
Kale, can turn on the Titan. The
lm tracks his quest from a scra-
pyard in the depths of space to
a nebula lled with ice. Along the
way, he must contend with back-
stabbing shipmates, love, and the
all-important Drej, who track his
every move. This is the premise of
the 2000 movie Titan A.E.
The story itself is fairly com-
monplace in the science-ction
universe. A dying species must get
to some point and do something to
bring the remaining people togeth-
er to start anew. However, TitanA.E. follows this plot in fantastic
fashion. The story is quite convo-
luted, which always keeps viewers
on their toes.
For an animated movie, the
graphics are surprisingly good.
The characters are styled simi-
larly to those in Atlantis: The Lost
Empire, although there are few
humans. The range of aliens in
this movie helps give the viewer a
sense of how alone Kale is in the
universe. Most of the aliens are
based on animals, such as the
cook, who is a cockroach. Oth-
ers are based on kangaroos and
Emily McNair
Managing Editor
Quest for Titanvultures, so none of them seem
strange at rst glance. However,
as the story continues, viewers get
a sense of how dierent each spe-
cies really is.
The environments and the
scenes showing the ship from a
distance really give this movie its
air. As opposed to the at anima-tion of the characters, the ships
look extremely three dimensional
and nebulas are quite breathtak-
ing to look at. Even the planets
are extremely beautiful, with the
bubbles of hydrogen trees lit by a
sunset and the realistic ripples in
the water.
However, the ending of the
movie was a let down. The story
ends with the creation of new
Earth or, as Kale aectionately
calls it, Planet Bob. There is no
telling of how the humans fared
on this new planet or how many
even colonized it. Additionally, the
graphics were lacking on this new
planet. What could have been a
beautiful scene was marred by thebasic gradients covering a moun-
tainous landscape. It really hurt the
aesthetics of the nal scene, which
was meant to be quite touching.
Nonetheless, Titan A.E. is
a must-see for all science ction
fans. It includes the voice talents of
Matt Damon and Drew Barrymore,
among many other well-known
names. Joss Whedon, the creator
of the acclaimed series Firey,
was even involved in the screen-
play. While this movie certainly has
its aws, the well-done storytell-
ing and good animation make it a
good movie.
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Jacqueline Feuerborn
Staff Writer
The Picture of Dorian Gray by
Oscar Wilde is an incredible book
that will force any reader to look
at themselves and the world in a
completely different light. The Pic-
ture of Dorian Gray was publishedin 1890 and was originally justa story in the Lippincotts
Monthly Magazine. It was not
until 1891 that i t was offi cially
published as a book in its own
right. Since then, however,
The Picture of Dorian Gray
has been acclaimed as a
classic and is recommended
for almost everyone to read.
This is a very dark book
with very few to no shining
lights of redemption. ThePicture of Dorian Gray tells
the story of none other than
Dorian Gray. Dorian begins thebook as an innocent and naive
character that is new to Lon-
don and society. Through-out the book Dorian loses all
of that innocence and naivety.
The main characters of this
novel are Dorian (obviously),
as well as Basil Hallward and
Lord Henry Wotton. Basil Hall-
ward is Dorians first friend in
London and he quickly be-
comes infatuated with Dorian.
In this story, Basil is an incred-
ibly moral character and seems
to be the only truly good char-
acter in the book. Lord Henry, on
the other hand, plays the devil on
Dorians shoulder to Basils angel.Lord Henry is a very witty character
and most of the best lines in the
book come from him, however, his
look out on life is very pessimistic.He takes every opportunity to in-
dulge in every hedonist activity that
he can.
Upon Dorians arrival to Lon-
The life of Dorian Graydon, he is posing for one of Ba-
sils paintings when he meets Lord
Henry. Dorian is immediately taken
by Lord Henrys view of the world.
He begins to believe that, as Henry
preaches, beauty is the only thing
in life that matters. This leads to
him wishing that he stays as young
and beautiful as he is in that paint-
ing. From there Dorian goes on
to try and find as much beauty in
the world as he can. On a trip to
see a play with Lord Henry, Dorian
becomes absolutely entranced
by Sybil Vane, a beautiful actress.
They quickly fall in love and Dorian
proposes to Sybil. However, as
soon as Sybil experiences love sheno longer wishes to act out fake
love in theaters. This revelation
leads to another: Dorian realizes
that he only loves Sybil when she is
acting. When Sybil is made aware
of this, she takes her own life.
This does not affect Dorian as
it would be expected. He decides
that a life of lust and pleasure in ev-
ery form was the perfect thing for
him. He spends the next eighteen
years indulging in everything. He
travels the world and does what-ever he pleases. Lord Henry
encourages him to enjoy de-
bauchery and all of its forms.
Basil, on the other hand, as the
voice of reason tries to con-
vince Dorian to become a bet-ter person but Dorian will hear
nothing of it. Dorian is contentin his debauchery and intends
to continue. In a last attempt
to convince Dorian to change,
Basil shows Dorian the paint-
ing he did all those years ago.
The painting has changed and
not for the better. Dorians wishto remain as beautiful as in that
painting came true. He didnt
change, however, the painting
shows all of the sins and thehorrors that they have done
to his soul. Dorian blames Ba-
sil and it leads to a terrifying
confrontation. In the very end
of the story, Dorian seems to
have realized what horrors hehas performed but he never
truly repents for them.
All in all, this is an absolutely
incredible book that is all about
the shades of gray that lives are
lived in and how beauty is not the
most important thing. This book is
a great read for anyone who wants
to look at the world differently. Itwill show any reader how their own
selfish needs and actions can harm
them. The Picture of Dorian Gray
is a truly extraordinary novel thatanyone should read it they want to
feel better about the kind of per-
son that they are. After all, no one
is quite as flawed as Dorian Gray.
Producing music under the
name of Tycho, Scott Hansen is anelectronic musician and artist from
Sacramento, California. His latest
album, Awake, was released on
March 18 of this year. It has beennearly two full years since the last
full album release, Dive, which
was unveiled in September of
2012.Tycho makes music with a
strong West Coast chillwave in-
fluence. This includes the use of
ocean sounds and song titles re-
lating to the coast, the mountains,
and the feelings associated with
these natural landscapes. Tycho is
able to produce full length albums
that captivate listeners throughout.
While it might be foreseen that eight
or ten electronic songs from the
same artist back-to-back would
become tiresome, Tycho is able
to interject the proper amount of
intriguing sounds to keep listenersengaged. Tycho is definitely on the
ambient side of electronic music
there will be no bass drops or
extended heavy beats in any of his
music. Rather, Tycho blends calm-
ing nature sounds, female voices,
and a mixture of harmonies to con-
clude with a thoughtful blend of
serenity and excitement. This mu-
sic is absolutely perfect for walking
outside on a warm spring day, or
Sarah Dewar
Staff Writer
Tycho has a giftsimply studying for an exam. While
this opinion may be a bit forward,
the style of music that Tycho cre-
ates may perhaps be the classical
music of our generation. It is mostly
lyricless, melody driven, flowing ef-
fortlessly from one song to the next.
Scott Hansen has also estab-
lished himself as a credible artist.He designs his own cover art for his
album releases as well as many ad-
ditions prints. His theme is a beauti-ful blend of saturated and warmly
sun-drenched blues and oranges.
Hansen has a very interesting blog
where he posts all of his artwork,
his music, and links to music that
inspires his creative process. Hisartwork is promoted under the
professional name ISO50, spurring
from the ISO (International Organi-
zation for Standardization) which is
the governing body on a numeric
system intended to measure pho-
tograph films sensitivity to light and
characterize film stock speeds.
This blog is worth a glance at in or-
der to gain some exposure to Han-sens artwork.
Tycho. ISO50. Hansen. This
man has a gift when it comes to
combining multiple art forms across
very different media, and synthesiz-
ing his vision into a comprehensive
product. One manifests in the form
of sound, while the other is visual.
Together, his art and his music en-
hance one another and unveil a col-
lectively enchanting composition.
Looking for the perfect way to
fulfill a chocolate craving or in anattempt to impress someone with
impeccable baking skills? Well look
no further. This is a relatively straight
forward cake recipe that is abso-
lutely mouth watering and is sureto impress even the most stubborn
critics.
6 squares (or 6 oz.) semi-sweet
chocolate
cup butter (1 sticks)
1 cups sugar
3 extra large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups unsifted flour
1 teaspoon baking soda teaspoon salt
1 cups plus 2 tablespoonswater
3 or 4 cups whipping cream
cup powdered sugar
1 8 oz jar of cherry preserves (or
jam).Melt chocolate and butter in
saucepan over very low heat, stir-
ring constantly just until melted.
Jacqueline Feuerborn
Staff Writer
Black Forest CakeRemove from heat. Stir in sugar un-
til well blended. With mixer on low
speed, beat in eggs, one at a time,
until completely mixed. Add vanilla.
Stir in cup flour, baking soda, and
salt. Beat in remaining 2 cups of
flour alternately with water until well
blended and smooth.
Pour evenly into two 9 inch
greased and floured cake pans. (The
bottom can be lined with parchment
paper) Bake in preheated 350 de-
gree oven for 35 to 40 minutes oruntil wooden pick inserted in the
center comes out clean. Cool 10
minutes before removing from pans.
Cool completely on wire racks.
Beat the cream until stiff and add
powdered sugar until well blended.
Place one layer of cake on serv-
ing plate. Gentle poke cake all over
with fork. Top with cherry preservesallowing juices to soak into cake.
Add a layer of whipped cream.Place second layer of cake on top
and frost entire cake with whipped
cream. Shave chocolate bar over
cake. Refrigerate until ready to
serve.
Black Forest cake is a delicious, straightforward recipe.
JACQUELINE FEUERBORN / OREDIGGER
COURTESY S.P. SHEARON
The Picture of Dorian Gray fascinates.
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1Forced to join as interceptor
of Outside Broadcast Depart
ment (9)
6See 24
10Extra engineers are exces
sive (7)
11See 18
12See 22
13Good man so describes
Yorke in Caribbean Island (2,6)
15See 4
16"Golden one" (European)
managed the church, finding
obstacle (10)
19The brief argument at North
ern Ireland constituency has
been dumped (6,4)
21Employs operations (4)
24/6Uncontrolled husky ran on
as major lead (8,4)
25Tree, when warmer, pol
larded (5)
27One keeping an eye on Al's
road (7)
28State was naughty again,
having to cancel (7)
29Row producing sign of dis
tress, reportedly (4)
30It's sweet way for The Ap
prentice contestants to get re
venge? (4,5)
DOWN
1Two policemen in open prison
worked too much (7,2)
2Disappointed at the end to
concede the French touchdown
(American style) (3,4)
3First two beginnings of Green\
peace musical (6)
4/24d/23/15/424a/6's movie
people, first and last, drive away
god strangely at first, so tend to
ruin (4,5,6,4,4)
5Cartoon character Dewey
(not English) with Pat and love
less Doug disgruntled (6,4)
7 Stroke round person pos
sessing small bottom? (7)
8King, one with island fruits (5)
9To be played on mountain
peak? (7)
14Girl acts in first half? This
bulb's a clue to that! (4,6)
17I erred, say, foolishly making
a movie (4,5)
18/11What pertly gown fanci
fully worn by star? (7,7)
20Upset teacher, one half
bleary and ridiculous (7)
22/12Film tubes contain them;
they might slip over each other
(7,5)
23See 4
24See 4
26The Spanish large ancestor
(4)
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Jared Riemer
Content Manager
In what would prove to be the -nal game of the season for the No.13 Colorado School of Mines mensbasketball team, the Orediggers fellonce again to the Metro State Road-runners. After falling behind the No.1 team in the country by 16 late inthe second half, the Orediggers cutthe lead to three in the waning sec-onds only to lose by four, 86-82.
In what was another hotly con-tested game between Mines andRMAC rival Metro State, the Ore-diggers kept the game close for theopening nine minutes only to fall be-hind by 14 with just over eight min-utes remaining in the rst half. Met-ros largest lead of the game camewith 4:58 remaining, at 17 points(19-36). At halftime the Orediggerswere behind 46-33.
In the opening minutes of thesecond half, the Orediggers nevercould cut into the decit. Both teams
traded baskets and Metro kept theirlead in double gures, but with the
second stanza reaching the halfwaypoints, the Orediggers found a spark.With Metro leading 67-51 with 8:58remaining, Mines closed the lead tosix points at 79-73 with 2:23 left, and
Orediggers fall short in RMAC Tournamentwith just 11 seconds remaining, theOrediggers had cut the lead to threepoints, 82-85. However, after a freethrow by the Roadrunners, the Ore-diggers missed a three point attemptand fell just short of a comeback.
In their nal game as Orediggers,
Brett Green, Luke Meisch, Trevor
Ritchie, and Trevor Wages each
scored in double gures. Green
led the team with 16 points andve assists, and added two steals
and two rebounds. Meisch had 14points, ve rebounds, and two as-sists. Ritchie scored 11 to go alongwith one rebound, two assists, andone steal; and Wages led the teamwith eight rebounds, and added oneblock, one steal, one assist, and 11points. Brian Muller (junior) scored 12
and chipped in three rebounds. O
the bench, Caleb Waitsman chippedin seven points and four rebounds,Gokul Natesan added ve points
and two steals, and Will Carr con-tributed six points.
As a team, the Orediggers shot41.7% from the eld, 74.3% from
the charity stripe, and 33.3% fromthree. Metro shot 48.3% from theeld and 41.2% from three. The Ore-diggers were outrebounded 40-31,but won the battle in the paint with38 points to Metros 32.
COURTESY OREDIGGER ATHLETICS
Mines came within 4 points of besting the No. 1 ranked Roadrunnners for the RMAC
championship title last Saturday.
Katerina Gonzales
Content Manager
The Oredigger baseball team
drove out to Denver this weekendto take on the Metro State Universi-ty Roadrunners in a pair of double-headers. Mines won both gamesFriday 6-4 and 5-3 and played outthe remainder of the series Sunday.
The Orediggers took the rst
shot as freshman inelder Logan
Smith stole home in the rst inning
on a double steal while freshmanCody Marvel stole second base.Metro then responded by scor-ing two of their own runs o junior
righty Ben Gilman. But the bats got
to work again in the top of the sec-ond, with Logan Smith driving in
junior inelder Zach Bothwell on an
RBI single, and Bothwell scoring on
an error by Metros third baseman.
Mines increased their 3-2 advan-tage to 6-2 in the fourth inning asBothwell crossed the plate again,
this time on an out from shortstopto rst, and Marvel provided an RBI
single that scored two.Gilman settled down and did
Baseball takestwo from Metro
not allow any further runs afterthat rst inning, going seven full in-nings. Gilman allowed three walks
and seven hits, but added four
strikeouts to his line for anothersolid start. Freshman Nathan Smithclosed for him and picked up thesave while allowing two runs onthree hits, and fanned two.
Mines got right to work in the af-ternoon game, scoring three in therst. Cody Marvel drove in Charlie
Basil with a single, Zach Bothwell
walked with the bases loaded, andthen Marvel scored on a elding
error. The Orediggers added more
runs in the sixth and seventh in-nings1 in each.
Nate Olinger had a good daywith his 7-inning complete game.Olinger allowed the three runs, twoof which came o of home runs,
on ve hits, but struck out two and
only walked one. Mines played er-rorless baseball in the afternooncap.
Mines takes on New MexicoHighlands in their second homeseries of the season next Fridaythrough Sunday.
Jared Riemer
Content Manager
The ninth-ranked Colorado
School of Mines mens basketballteam squared o against Colo-rado Christian in the rst round of
the RMAC Tournament on Tues-day, March 8, and for the secondtime in four days ran the Cougarso the oor. The Orediggers shel-lacked CCU 102-57 thanks to ablistering 63.2% shooting night.
Colorado Christian took theironly lead of the game (5-4) just1:31 into the game with a threepointer. That lead lasted all of
15 seconds and, by the halfwaypoint of the rst, the Orediggers
led by 13 (24-11) and were justbeginning to pull away. At half-time, the Orediggers held the 48-31 advantage, in large due to a
62.1% shooting percentage andgoing 4-of-8 from three.In the second half, the Oredig-
gers could do no wrong. If theywere hot in the rst half, then they
were on re in the second, shoot-ing 64.5% from the eld and mak-
Orediggers dominate CCUin RMAC Quarterfnals
ing 15 of their 20 free-throws inthe half. By the midway point of
the second stanza, Mines led 76-49 and their lead was still increas-
ing. When the nal buzzer nallyrang, the score showed 102 forMines and 57 for the other guys.
From the opening tip, the Ore-diggers played inspired and red
up for what may well be the nal
game for four seniors Trevor Wag-es, Brett Green, Luke Meisch,
Clay Boatwright, and Will Carr.
Led by Meisch with 22 points,
the Orediggers had ve players
in double gures. Meisch added
eight rebounds, three assists,and two blocks in his 25 min-utes of play; while Green scored
16, grabbed six boards, and hadthree assists and a steal.
Wages scored 15 and re-corded a near triple double with
nine rebounds and seven blocks.With his nine rebounds, Wagesbecame just the third member ofthe 1000 points 1000 reboundclub at Mines, joining Joe Butkov-ich (1968-1972) and Je Rhodes
(1978-1982) in the exclusive club.
Brian Muller scored 11, had four
assists, two steals and two re-bounds, and Ritchie recordedfour assists and six points. O the
bench, Gokul Natesan chipped in10 points, four assists, three re-bounds, and three steals. Boat-wright scored six with a blockand a rebound in his four minutesof play.
The Orediggers held CCU to
just a 30.2% shooting percentageon the night and out-reboundedthe cougars 40-34. Mines shot46.7% from three and 74.2%from the line. Another key to theirvictory was forcing 17 turnoversand only recording nine of theirown, also the Orediggers assist-ed on 22 of their 36 makes on thenight.
The win was fresh o the an-nouncement of all-conference
honors. Three Orediggers werenamed rst team all-RMAC:
Green, Meisch, and Wages. Brian
Muller was a second team selec-tion, Ritchie a third team selec-tion, and Natesan was crownedfreshman of the year in the RMAC.
Erik Charrier
Guest Writer
As some readers no doubtknow, USG voted unanimously
to increase student fees to $100during Mondays joint operating
meeting. The fee increase passeddespite a unanimous no vote fromthe smaller GSG delegation. This
extremely unusual split highlightshow out of touch and self interestedUSG has become.
The split developed in the wake
of USGs budget shortfall. USG
decided that it did not have enoughrevenue to support all of its initiativesand clubs. USG then proposed an
arbitrary increase to a round num-ber without earmarking any recipi-
Why GSG voted against the fee increaseents for the money. GSG was given
the proposal in advance of the jointoperating meeting and reviewed it.GSG which is not inherently op-posed to spending money found
the proposed increase to be com-pletely unacceptable due to the lack
of justications. USG provided nohard analysis of why it did not haveenough money or where the addi-tional money would go. GSG asked
USG for clarication, was promised
additional information, and receivednothing of substance before or dur-ing the joint operating meeting.
Instead, USG only answered in
generalities. No one would say pre-cisely what groups would get theextra money or what it would beused for. Excellent suggestions that
would serve much of the studentbody, such as a better E-Days andOredigger support, came forth. But
there were no hard numbers to befound and clubs were mentioned asthe likely recipients of anything notused for its original purpose. From
the given information, it was notclear where the money would go orexactly why it was needed.
That is why GSG did their duty
to their constituents and the stu-dent body and unanimously votedagainst increasing student feeswithout proper justication. The only
novel thing about the GSG vote is
that a campus organization tried toturn down more money because itdidnt need more and was not con-vinced that the extra money would
better serve students (GSG gets
most of the graduate student fees).USG ignored this opposition and
passed the increase anyway.The real question is why USG
proposed and unanimously passeda fee increase that the entire GSG
thought was unjustied. The answeris the self interests of the members.Despite the justication put forth by
USG members that 90% of Mines
students are involved in clubs, theparticipation and benet levels vary
signicantly. The benets to the
heaviest club users far outweigh thecost of student fees while averageand uninvolved students are gettingless out of clubs than they pay intostudent fees. What is happening isthe active and connected minority
are signicantly beneting from the
exercise of their power to tax themajority.
During the deliberation, USG
made it clear that they do not con-sider the uninvolved students to betheir constituents. When USG was
asked if the fee increase benetedthe less involved, a USG repre-sentative said it was their problemfor not being involved. When GSG
suggested that student governmentmust consider all the stakeholders
even the uninvolved some of the
USG representatives were visibly
chuckling. This is not the language
of a governing body that is doingits best to serve all its stakeholders.
This is government by the active for
the active.
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Katerina Gonzales
Content Manager
Best movies of the year so farMinds at Mines
Every semester is different, and that means the amount of movies
watched per semester is different for many students. Yet, even with a
small sample size, it seems that most Mines students have been able to
chill out, relax, and see a film, whether it just premiered like Divergent,
or it has been a childhood favorite like Anastasia. We wanted to know
the best movies out there that Mines kids are watching right now, so this
week, Mines at Mines asked, What has been the best movie youve seen
this semester?
Frozen. Im a big Disney movie fan, but I
liked how this one wasnt just about finding
Prince Charming.
Kelly Dempsey
Not Divergent. I didnt think it was bad,
but the book was way better. I thought they
did too many changes.
Petra Atwood
The Wolf of Wall Street. Its just got a
cool storyline. Good acting I guess.
George Palmer
I liked Anastasia. Because it got us su-per excited and it was a great bonding ex-
perience for the girls I watch it with.
Shannon Craig
I liked Mr. Peabody and Sherman. They had
humor for kids, and then they had jokes adults
would get, and they did a good job do-
ing it.
Mitchell Paradie
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KenKen PuzzlesHow to play:
1) Use numbers 1-3 for 3x3 puzzle, 1-6 for 6x6 puzzle, etc.
2) The heavy-outlined sections are called cages. In the upper-left
corner of each cage is a target number and operator.
3) Use the operator with the allowed numbers for the puzzle to solve
for the target number. The numbers you enter can be read in any order
to solve for the target number.
4) You cannot enter repeating numbers in any given row or column,
however, you may enter repeating numbers in a given cage so long as
they do not repeat in a column or row.
5) There is only one real solution for each puzzle.
See 3x3 example and solution at right for beginner practice. 123
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6x6 Medium
4x4 Hard
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