The Oredigger Issue 22 - April 7, 2014

T H E O R E D I G G E RVolume 94, Issue 22 April 7, 2014

The student voice of the Colorado School of Mines

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E-Days 4

Opinion 7

Features 4

News 2

50 year anniver-sary of Good Friday

Earthquake

Learn how to make Mrs. Fields

Cookies

MAC defends USG’s decision to

increase fee

Photo recap of 2014 Galax-Edays

Katerina GonzalesContent Manager

The E-Days carnival provides a place to eat and be merry; however, for some, the carnival is a chance to return to old stomping grounds. The Oredigger caught up with Shamus McNutt, a Mines alum and cofounder of Belong Designs, at the E-Days carnival.

What inspired you to start

Mines alums pursue passionMines alumni advertise new company Belong Designs at E-Days Carnival on Saturday.

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Belong?So we started about eight months

ago at School of Mines. We were sitting through our fi nal year of engi-neering classes and kind of realized, “What are we passionate about in life?” Skiing, snowboarding, helping others follow their true passions, and when you follow that passion, you “Belong”, and that birthed Belong Designs. And so right now we are making apparel. We make hoodies, hats, shirts...we started to make

outerwear jackets, and we’ll be in full production of these in about a month and have them in August. And yeah, we have been sponsoring events: we sponsor fourteen athletes, a few Mines athletes actually, from slacklin-ers to skiers to snowboarders. We’re looking to go full-time in about a year. So we’ll start our own headquarters in the Highlands, and hopefully start hiring some Mines grads. We’re making long boards right now, and we’ll be starting skis and snow-

boards in about a few months. Yeah, we’re looking to expand.

How does having engineers benefi t the business?

Being from Mines, you have that technical background, and honestly when people ask me “What’s the most valuable thing you gained from going to Mines?”, it’s not the classes

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On March 5th, Dr Ryan Davison of the American Chemical Society (ACS) came to speak about how science-related political policy is made. Davison is the Advocacy Manager in the ACS’s Offi ce of Public Aff airs, which means it is his job to educate legislators about the issues pertinent to science and engineering. The ACS is the largest scientifi c society in the world, so it often serves as the voice of the scientist on Capitol Hill.

Davison began with a quick over-view of how the legislative branch of the government works. The Senate - controlled, at the moment, by the Democrats - places each state on equal footing, regardless of popula-

ACS lecturer discusses interac-tion between science and policy

tion. Every state has two senators, who serve for terms of six years. The House of Representatives, which is controlled by the Republicans at the moment, has a fi xed limit of members, which are then broken up by relative population proportions. In other words, both Wyoming and California have two senators each, but California holds 53 seats in the House, while Wyoming holds only one. Representatives have two-year terms; four seats are currently open due to deaths or resignations. In order for a law to be passed, both the House and the Senate must agree to it; when the two bodies of legislation are controlled by opposing parties, very little lawmaking gets done. Last year only thirty laws were passed, including a number of symbolic laws - that is, laws without actual meaningful eff ects, such as the naming of a public

building.The reason for this signifi cant lack

of productivity is because, while the two parties have the same goals, they approach those goals diff erently. To illustrate this, Davison used the recent (and continuing) budget crisis. Each day, he explained, $2.7 billion are added to the national debt. Unem-ployment is at 6.6%, having peaked in 2010 at 10%. In the past, the “debt ceiling” would be raised every time it was reached, without fanfare. This time, however, the parties refused to compromise, leading to an extended shut-down of the government before the passage of the Budget Control Act, which cut $900 billion worth of public spending in exchange for an increase in the debt ceiling. The Republicans refused to cut defense spending while the Democrats refused cut domestic

spending. This resulted in “sequestra-tion,” the automatic cutting of the bud-gets of governmental organizations such as the National Science Founda-tion (NSF) and the National Institute of Health, both of which lost 5% of their funding. Only the Department of Energy (DOE) did not suff er as a result of the sequestration. The budget cuts mean less grant money, which aff ects schools like Mines, whose students often depend on grants from the NSF, the US Geological Survey (USGS), and other governmental groups to fund their research. Arguments that the one-time infusion of cash in the 2009 stimulus package off set the damage are faulty; a slow, steady increase in

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Hope SisleyStaff Writer

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Headlines from around the worldLocal News

Mines students are invited to an open house concerning the in-tersection of highway 6 and 19th Street. CSM has pledged $1 mil-lion to the $25 million project due to how much this project aff ects student life. A community meeting will be held Monday, April 14 from 6:00-8:00 pm at the Fossil Trace Clubhouse. Students are encour-aged to attend.

The Blue Key Honor Society, in collaboration with the Golden Chamber of Commerce, is host-ing a school supply donation drive. The purpose of the drive, which will be held from April 7th to May 9th, is to collect school supplies for economically disadvantaged chil-dren in Commerce City. Donation boxes can be found at the Golden Chamber of Commerce and on the fi rst fl oor of the Student Cen-ter outside of the Student Activities offi ce. Donation items may include notebooks, writing utensils, gently used backpacks, calculators, et cetera. All donations will be greatly appreciated.

Senator Scott Gefroe intro-duced a bill in the State Senate to ban red light cameras and photo radar vans within the state of Colorado. While Gefroe previously introduced the bill in 2012, his re-cent attempts have garnered more attention. He has backing from several prominent lawmakers in-cluding Senate President Morgan Carole and House Speaker Mark Ferrandino.

The Colorado Rockies will now take the fi eld to a new theme song. Emmy Award-winning composer Charles Denler developed the new song “Take the Field.” The piece will be played in full at the begin-ning of every Rockies game and smaller portions of the song will be played during commercials. 80 members of the Colorado Sym-phony Orchestra recorded the piece in February.

Ramiro Rodriguez, Staff Writer

Ramiro Rodriguez, Staff Writer

La Serena, Chile - Re-searchers at the Las Campa-nas Observatory outside of La Serena, Chile, have observed six luminous blue stars in the leading section of the Magel-lanic Stream. The stars are believed to be new, coming from the gas of the Magellanic Clouds, as they are too new to have come from any other place in space. The Magellanic Clouds are two nearby galaxies that unlike other nearby sys-tems in that they are full with gas capable of forming stars.

The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision has struck down the decades-old aggregate po-litical spending cap on a First Amendment basis. While the $2600 per candidate per election limit is still legal, individuals are no longer limited in the total amount of political contributions that can be made every two years. Justice Breyer, in his dissenting opinion writes that the ruling would allow “a single individual to contribute millions of dollars to a political par-ty or to a candidate’s campaign”.

Mississippi has passed Senate Bill 2681, known as the Missis-sippi Religious Freedom Res-toration Act. This bill will allow businesses and individuals to deny products or services to an individ-ual or organization if servicing the individual or organization would “substantially burden an indi-vidual’s religious exercise”. LGBT advocacy groups are condemning the bill and drawing comparisons to Arizona’s SB 1062 which failed to pass after a large amount of na-tional outrage regarding the impli-cations of the bill.

Protests against the milita-rization of American law en-forcement have sparked in re-sponse to the shooting death of a homeless man in Albuquerque by police offi cers. The shooting was captured on one of the offi -cer’s helmet cameras and depicts James Boyd, a homeless man being asked to gather his things and leave the foothills outside the city. As he gathered his things, a fl ashbang grenade was thrown to-wards him and he was then shot by law offi cials. Earlier this week,

protests leading to serial arrests were staged in response to the shooting as well as the city’s claim that the shooting was in self-de-fense.

The European parliament has passed a law that cements net neutrality in Europe and makes it illegal for mobile phone com-panies to charge roaming fees within EU member states. This law will make it so that internet service providers within Europe cannot throttle or block packages from specifi c sites. One of the ar-ticles of the originally proposed bill that did not pass is an article outlining methods to enforce net neutrality.

In response to the annexa-tion of Crimea, NATO has an-nounced that it will suspend “all practical civilian and mili-

tary cooperation” with Russia. This will involve the ending of all cooperation between NATO and Russia, with the exception of the their joint anti-narcotics opera-tions in Afghanistan, as well as de-ployments to reinforce the military assets of NATO member states in Eastern Europe.

Police offi cers in Keller, Texas have begun announcing the lo-cation of speed traps to pro-mote safer driving. This is being done in an attempt to get drivers to slow down in the areas where speed traps normally are instead of only when motorists see a po-lice vehicle. While initially met with skepticism, the response by the public has been overwhelmingly positive. The move has been fol-lowed by the Dallas Police Depart-ment.

Leipzig, Germany - A study coming from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences shows that, similar to adults, infants show a very specifi c touch receptor is activated in response to stroking at a specifi c velocity known as pleasant touch. In infants, pleasant touch corresponds to increased engagement with the device used to create the stroking velocity, in this experiment a paintbrush, as well as a decreased heartbeat. Researchers are linking this to a vital role that touch plays in early childhood development.

Halifax, Nova Scotia - Biolo-gist Shelley Adamo of Dalhousie University has discovered a form of sexually transmitted cricket disease that both renders its host infertile but also acts as an aphrodisiac to encourage host transfer. The virus was discovered after some of the crickets under study had stopped producing eggs and were found to have swollen, blue, fat bodies that had hexagonal viral particles inside. In addition to acting as an aphrodi-siac, the virus also turns off signal-ing that makes sick crickets appear to be less attractive mating part-ners; normally due to the changes, diseased crickets are seen to be less attractive.

Rome, Italy - Researchers at the Univer-sity of Rome led by Dr. Luciano Less have confi rmed that the ice covered water ocean of Enceladus is liquid underneath ice rather than wholly ice. The water is kept liquid be-cause of the generation of waves which, in turn, creates internal friction and thus heat. Enceladus is also notable because this ocean is in contact with the moon’s rocky core, which means that elements useful to life such as phosphorus, sulfur, and potas-sium are able to leech into the ocean.

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I’ve been through, you know, I don’t exactly remember what I learned in Thermodynamics, but it is how to learn and how to learn effi ciently, and that’s why it’s great for Mines grads.

Where do you see Belong going?

I see Belong going pretty big; we’re hoping to grow it to a good-

sized company, probably a mid-sized company from a hundred to fi ve hundred people working for us. Eventually, sponsoring athletes,

Belong cont.


Anchorage, Alaska, 1964. At 5:30 PM on March 27th, Good Fri-day, the ground began to shake. Eyewitness Patrick Sanford’s father stopped his car to see what was wrong with his steering. Airman Pat-rick Hames thought the rumbling he heard was the thump of footsteps at shift change, while James Midlo-thian assumed it was a pilot revving his airplane engines; another airman suggested it was a bomb. Easter lil-ies began to fall off the shelves on top of Merry-Rae Brook and her fellow Girl Scouts, who were sell-ing cookies in a grocery store. The cups in Patrick Keulan’s cupboards

50th anniversary of largest earthquake in US


Science and Policy cont.sending to the X-Games, sending to the Olympics...you know, really helping develop athletes and mak-ing sure they’re going down the right path in life, and that’s what Belong is about. We kind of want to keep it a clean brand in really following your true passions, with a lot of positivity coming out of the brand.

What’s your favorite E-Days memory?

Oh man, favorite E-Days mem-ory...there’s too many. I would say it would be coming to see Air Dubai and we actually afterwards knew a guy from the band and were hang-ing out with the guys. It was cool to see that.

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budget over time would have been much better for funding research.

Davison next gave an overview of the committees and legislators most important in deciding science policy. Committees break down the responsibilities of the legislators among smaller groups, each of which is headed by a particular senator or representative. In an eff ort to increase their power, committee chairs often volunteer to take new topics into their committees, leading to some odd agglomerations of committee topics. What began as the House Space Committee in the 1950s has now broadened to Science, Space,

and Technology, for instance; its cur-rent chair, Lamar Smith, was a major sponsor of the notorious censorship law SOPA. Other committees that matter to scientists and engineers in-clude the massive House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Sen-ate Commerce, Science, and Trans-portation Committee, whose chair, a moderate and a 6th generation Rock-efeller, is retiring soon.

Both the House and the Senate have an Appropriations committee, the oldest and most powerful of the committees, which controls the des-tination for all of the government’s money besides defense; the Budget committee then authorizes the range of money that can be “appropriated” for each destination. In this way, the

Budget committee can limit funding, but only Appropriations can increase it. The chair of Senate Appropria-tions, Barbara Mikulski, is also chair of the subcommittee on science. The House Appropriations, too, has a pertinent subcommittee, Commerce, Justice, and Science, headed by Frank Wolf, an NSF-friendly represen-tative who is also retiring soon. Finally, the House Ways and Means Com-mittee, in charge of taxes, Medicare, Social Security, and so on, is about to lose its own moderate chair; Davi-son asserts that, when this happens, there will be “a bloodbath for his seat”.

At this point Davison changed topics, discussing recent legislation in

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began to shake against each other, and a moment later the china hutch fell over.

It would not be a good day for dishes.

The quake’s epicenter was in Prince William Sound, east of An-chorage. All around the Sound, in Anchorage, at Elmendorf Air Force Base, in Seward and Kenai and a dozen other small settlements, cup-boards disgorged their contents onto kitchen fl oors, parked cars crashed into each other, power-lines danced and refrigerators were toppled. The shaking lasted several minutes, a rare situation, as most earthquakes are of fairly short dura-tion - about 30 to 40 seconds for a magnitude 6 quake. But this was

no magnitude 6 - this was a magni-tude 9.2, the second largest earth-quake ever recorded and the larg-est in North America. The degree of shaking was so strong that the seismographs in the College, AK measuring station could not record the waves, leaving the seismogram blank until the earth fi nally calmed down and the needle, stuck on an unrecordable extreme, could be re-set.

At Fort Richardson, Patrick Keu-lan’s mother thought the world was ending and refused to leave the house. Over the sound of breaking glass and masonry, the rumble of moving plates could be heard. Eye-witness Clark Jillson said the roar of the earthquake “sounded to me like I

was standing next to a railroad track with a train roaring past.” The shak-ing continued violently, seeming to go on forever. Rocky Plotnick, an-other survivor, described it “like be-ing on a small boat in confused and stormy seas.” Many people who lived through the quake described the trees swaying so violently they seemed to be “laying on the ground one minute and upright the next”. Witness Robert Williams said, “The ground in the front yard looked like water waves.” In Valdez, a babysit-ter had to throw her charges across a fi ssure that opened in the fl oor of the house she was working at, then jumped herself, falling and break-ing a rib but making it out alive; the children’s father was swept away

with the town’s docks by a massive mudslide triggered by the quake.

When it was over, the neighbor-hood of Turnagain had been swal-lowed by a 130-acre landslide, and the waterfronts of Valdez and Seward had collapsed into the sea. Around 130 to 140 people died as a result of the quake, but only about ten of those were killed thanks to the immediate damage of the earth-quake itself; the vast majority died due to the tsunami waves produced by the quake and the resultant sub-sea landslides These casualties in-cluded beachwalkers in California and Oregon as well as over a hun-dred Alaskans..

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Jessica DetersStaff Writer

Waking up at seven in the morning with the intention of walk-ing eight miles down Colfax Av-enue to the capitol building does not sound like the most appealing of plans; but throw hundreds of Mines students, an ore cart and free burritos into the mix and that eight mile march becomes a can’t miss Mines tradition.

Students gathered in the Jones Road parking lot early Friday morning in wait of buses. Burri-tos in hand, students loaded the buses and headed off to the start-ing point—a parking lot on Colfax Avenue. The flock of students and the anticipation grew until the final bus arrived. Police halted traffic,

Ore Cart Pull: A walk to remember at Minesand the mass of students began the journey to the capitol. The school fight song rang throughout the crowd, almost harkening back to the fall’s M-Climb.

Modes of transportation for the eight mile journey lacked no va-riety. Some rode unicycles, even stopping along the way the per-form stunts. Others skateboard-ed; some rollerbladed. Some were lucky enough to hitch a ride in the ore-cart. Senior in mechanical engineering Gabe Alvarado hap-pened to be one of those lucky few, participating in more of an Ore-Cart Ride than an Ore-Cart Pull for a portion of the trip.

This year was Alvarado’s first year participating in the Ore-Cart Pull. “I got up this morning and was like, this is going to be ter-

rible. It was terrible and then a friend gave me a drink, a ‘drink,’ okay a beer. I drank it, and then I went to some liquor stores and got more.”

Though drinks are likely the highlight of the trip for most, the walk provided plenty of enter-tainment to its more sober par-ticipants. Causing a traffic jam, receiving support from passing drivers and walking with hundreds of friends and peers made the journey enjoyable.

In addition, fashion statements abounded in the crowd with stu-dents sporting everything from onesies to space tights to a beer mug hat worn by Alvarado.

Alvarado found the hat in a box of Halloween stuff a few years ago. “I was like, ehh, this is kind

of cool. And then today I was like, yes, I’m going to wear this. Just because it’s a beer hat. I mean, why not? Honestly, I like to stick out. So I was like, f- it, I’m going to wear the hat.”

As the walk neared the end, excitement grew. With the capi-tol in sight, students took off run-ning, sprinting the final stretch of the eight-mile walk. Those pulling the ore cart sprinted to keep up. When they arrived and the ore cart was settled on the steps of the capitol, the entire body of stu-dents erupted into the fight song. Following the fight song, a proc-

lamation from Governor Hicken-looper was read, officially declar-ing the start of Engineering Days.

Alvarado says the Ore-Cart Pull was the best experience of his life and encourages all future Mines students to take part. “Even without the alcohol, I have to say it’s an experience that you have to do before you graduate... Lit-erally this is so much fun. Anyone who graduates from Mines has pulled an ore- cart seven miles to the capitol. What’s not awe-some about that? There’s no oth-er school that does anything like that.”

The E-Days Cardboard Boat Race found people gathering on the sides of Clear Creek on Saturday morning. The morn-ing provided excellent weather for the race; however, the water of Clear Creek was a little chilly. After their races, various con-testants stated that their legs were still shaking and tense after about an hour. But that is what happens when people try to sail down a river two days after a snow storm. Luckily for all of the contestants and for the school, no one was harmed during the cardboard boat race.

There was a large variety of boats at the race, everything from rocket ships to rafts to Pokemon. With the theme of GalaxE-Days, a large variety of boats came a range of creative names, some inspired by Sci-Fi television shows or movies and some simply witty. Some of the most memorable names were: ‘A Little Piece of Ship’, ‘Jimmy Neutron’ and ‘Discovere’.

As these majestic boats headed down Clear Creek, not all of them did as well as oth-ers. Some of the boats lost small decorative pieces of cardboard but there were other, less lucky

Jacqueline FeuerbornStaff Writer

Cardboard Boat Race amuses onlookerscontestants who lost their entire ship to the rapids. But some-times losing a boat was not that bad; the worst was when pas-sengers of the boats lost their oars and were left stuck either in the shallows or squished against a rock. Sometimes observers, other contestants or even other team members were able to help them out. More often than ex-pected, contestants would get out of their own boats in order to pull them from the shallows or over small rocks.

One of the frequent occur-rences during the cardboard boat race saw boats being turned every which way. This led to some participants becoming stranded because they could no longer see where they were go-ing. However, in order to avoid this pitfall, some teams had peo-ple facing in different directions. The ability to do that depended on the number of people in the boat. Some teams were made of just two or three people but there were others with more. One team even managed to make a big enough boat to fit eight people; however, this led to other issues such as their boat becoming too weighed down. There was even one team, ‘A Little Piece of Ship’ that appeared to only have one person in the boat because three

of the other passengers fell out long before anyone saw them in-side of it.

With each new road block, or river block, participants were forced to say goodbye to sec-tions of their boats. Luckily chil-dren all along the banks were eager to seize up any discarded pieces of soggy cardboard; how-ever, even with all of that help there is still sure to be numerous pieces of cardboard still drifting down Clear Creek, perhaps for weeks to come.

In the end, it was Team Jimmy Neutron who pulled ahead and won with the fastest time with a little more than 3 minutes, leav-ing all of their components be-hind in their ripples. Their boat was well constructed and looked like a rocket ship, but, in addi-tion to that, it was conveniently the same shape as a kayak or a canoe. This allowed them to be able to steer it like a kayak or a canoe. This saved them in the end as they were able to com-fortably maneuver around rocks and sandbars. At the finish, they showed everyone watching that a cardboard boat can, in fact, stand up to the currents of Clear Creek and they definitely inspired many onlookers to participate in next year’s Cardboard Boat Race.

After an eight mile walk, students storm the capitol while singing the Mines fight song. Some students, including Gabe Alvarado, rode in the ore cart.

Others, however, had to get creative to dodge the rocks.

Some teams were well prepared to navigate the creek,

ALL PHOTOS COURTESY KATERINA GONZALES / OREDIGGER

JESSICA DETERS / OREDIGGER

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Geek Week ... Libby Booton, Sophomore: Engineering Physics

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Juggling two jobs, multiple clubs and cheerleading with Mines coursework is no easy feat. Arvada native and Mines sophomore in Engineering Physics Libby Booton does just that. Booton works as a TA for Physics 100 and teaches dance to children at the APEX cen-ter in Arvada. Between practices for the Mines Cheerleading team and meetings for various on-cam-pus clubs, The Oredigger caught up with Libby to discuss her geeki-ness and love for Mines.

[Oredigger] What made you choose Mines?

[Booton] I knew I wanted to be an engineer, and it’s super close to home. Staying super close to home was important to me because I have younger siblings. I knew I wanted to be an engineer, and I knew I had an amazing engineering school in my backyard practically. I love the campus. Mines met all the criteria so I did not even apply any-where else.

What made you choose physics as a major?

To be honest, I had no desire to do anything related to chemistry, and I really enjoyed physics. I (also) was not completely sure what I wanted to do. They (the phys-ics department) had the five-year (master’s) program, and I thought, cool, that gives me more time to decide. Plus, five-year programs are a sweet deal. Once I found out that they had five-year programs in everything I was potentially inter-ested in, I was sold.

Did being a Physics 100 TA help you decide at all?

Yes, because it connected me with physics majors whom I talked to about what physics is and what people do in physics and with physics. That was when I was pret-ty much sold. I don’t think it was so much being a TA as being con-nected to other physics majors.

What’s your favorite thing about being a Physics 100 TA?

The “aha” moments. I love ex-plaining something to a student that they clearly never understood before. You get to be the one who finally helps them understand the concept. I had a girl who never understood how a pulley worked. I sat with her for 20 minutes explain-ing how a pulley works and differ-ent ways to think of pulleys. No one had ever explained pulleys to her before, and she still thanks me for explaining that to her. Deep im-

Jessica DetersStaff Writer

pacts—that’s the best part. Also, helping them get a green box and clearing the frustration. Being the savior who got the green box is pretty awesome.

What’s been your favorite class thus far at Mines?

Probably Intro to Space Explo-ration. It made me want to go out and be a rocket scientist!

What are your plans after Mines?

I’m going to stick around for a fifth year and get my masters in Mechanical Engineering. Then I’ll hopefully get a job in the Aero-space industry. I want to be a rocket scientist—it would be pretty sick. I like the idea of being a rocket scientist and a mom at the same time. I have a role model Penny (Pettigrew) who is a rocket scientist (at NASA) and a mom. She shows that you can do both because a lot of people say you have to pick one.

Best memory at Mines so far?

I got recruited to race with the planetary EPICS moon buggy team because NASA required a girl to race the buggy. The girl who was on the team couldn’t go on the trip, so I got randomly recruited in Diff EQ by the guy who sat in front of me to go with them. It was the best experience of my life. That whole experience is what made me want to do Mechanical Engineering. He just said, “Are there any girls in here who want a full paid trip to Ala-bama?” I was like, “ME!” My mom said she didn’t know how she felt about it, but I was sold at NASA.

Do you have any traumatic memories from Mines?

When I was in CSM 101, I had to meet with Chuck Stone for the meet with your advisor assign-ment. I told him I was interested in physics and ended up getting an entire tour of Meyer Hall for an hour and a half with Chuck’s voodoo doll. I was like held hostage for an hour and a half seeing every inch of Meyer Hall. I saw the particle ac-celerator, which was pretty cool, not gonna lie. I had to take pictures of me and the voodoo doll and the particle accelerator. That wasn’t so much a traumatic experience as an interesting one. Getting a pri-vate tour of Meyer Hall with Chuck Stone and his voodoo doll.

What might we find you do-ing on a Friday night?

It depends on which season it is. If it is the springtime you will find me in Lockridge Arena cheer-ing at basketball games. Or you will find me playing Cards Against

Science with my physics major friends. Or in Meyer Hall 247 do-ing homework. That’s super lame though. My weekends consist of cheering, nerdy board games and homework.

Would you consider yourself a geek?

I can watch “The Big Bang Theory” and understand every-thing they’re talking about. So if that counts then yes, (I am) to-tally a geek. I also get more enjoy-ment out of playing Cards Against Science than I do playing Cards Against Humanity. And my idea of fun is going to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

What do you do for fun out-side of the classroom?

Go to Café Rio. It’s my favor-ite restaurant. I’ve made so many great friends going to Café Rio.

So, if you had to choose a last dinner…

It would be at Café Rio.Favorite movie?“Frozen”! Just kidding. Actually,

it’s not my favorite movie. I really am a sucker for “Cars,” or “The Parent Trap.” I always wanted a sister. I used to watch that movie and pretend like I had a secret sis-ter.

Favorite quote?My favorite quote is definitely:

“Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” (Ralph Wal-do Emerson)

Favorite fictional character?Olaf from “Frozen.” He’s just so

fricken cute and quotable. I have this relationship with Olaf. Olaf just wants to be in summer—he dreams of summer—even though snow can’t exist in summer. Even though snow melts in summer, Olaf still wants to be in summer. He’s like, yeah I’m snow, what’s your point? And here (at Mines) I’m one of six girls out of 70 physics majors (in my class). It’s like, I’m a girl, so what. I feel like Olaf breaks a ste-reotype about snow and summer. I relate to Olaf. There’s a deeper meaning behind Olaf, or I at least created one in my mind.

Favorite equation?I’m kind of a fan of the Schroed-

inger equation. It’s really fun to write. There’s just so many Greek letters. Psi, its mainly psi. That’s the fun one, and I’m real good at drawing it. Plus, I feel super smart when I’m like, check out this equa-tion I know. People think I’m wick-ed smart because I can write the Schroedinger equation.

Favorite April Fools prank?

One time, I put wasabi on a chip and told my brother it was guaca-mole. Kid was drinking milk for like an hour. Best big sister ever! When I was really little, I used to do the thing where you tie a rubber band around the sprayer on the sink. Then they turn on the sink and to-tally get sprayed in the face. That was my favorite one as a kid.

What’s your favorite part about E-Days?

Ore Cart Pull. It’s a great ex-perience walking however many miles that is with everyone else. It makes you feel like really close to all of the other students. You just feel like one big pack going down Colfax. Almost like the M-Climb. That bonding experience—you feel like a community with the other students and the school. That’s my favorite part about Mines.

Do you ever have free time? How do you spend it?

My favorite thing to do growing up was dance. Now what I do with my free time is work. That doesn’t sound like free time, but it is. It’s my favorite thing to do. I work at the APEX center teaching dance. I don’t have time to be a part of a dance team anymore, so my favor-ite thing to do with my non-school

used time is work teaching little kids dance. It’s the best part of my week. It really is. Work is the most rewarding part of my week. They’re just all so fricken cute!

What’s on your bucket list?Before I die, I want to travel the

world. I want to go back to Italy, and see all 50 states. I’ve got 19 down so far.

Any advice for younger stu-dents?

If you want to do something, do it. Don’t let anyone else change your mind. If you want to major in something or you want to join a club and someone doesn’t agree with it, it’s your choice, not theirs. Don’t let someone else make you think that what you’re doing isn’t worth it. Don’t let someone else bring you down. Also, even though it may not seem like it, everyone else is struggling just as much as you are. You may be going home and crying to your pillow at night, but you’re not the only one. People just don’t show it. There’s a great quote that says failure is not for failures; it’s for everybody. Failures just have more experience with it. Failing is apart of life, and it’s about how you overcome failing, not the fact that you did.

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baking powder. Mix all ingredients together and add chocolate chips, and nuts. Place golf ball sized cook-ies 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 for about 6 minutes or until flattened and golden brown.

*To make coarsely ground oats, put oatmeal in blender or food pro-cessor until somewhat ground…..they should not be as powdery as flour…still some coarseness.

Enjoy some cookies and, to make some new friends, feel free to share them as they make an excel-lent ice breaker.

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The game “2048” is currently sweeping across campus, but there is another game that is equal-ly as addicting. “LHC” is the more science based cousin of “2048.” “LHC” is a physics-based collision game. Instead of colliding numbers like in “2048,” physics particles are smashed into each other in order to create larger, more impressive particles.

“LHC” is based off the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accel-erator located in Geneva, Swit-zerland, and run by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The actual particle accel-erator works by accelerating parti-cles around large loops and collid-ing them in order to create different particles. The game “LHC” follows along the same lines by having the player collide two of the same par-ticles in order to create other par-ticles.

The final goal of the game is to create the Higgs Boson particle or the ‘God’ particle; however, that is easier said than done. The player has to work their way up through collisions to be able to form the Higgs Boson. Along the way, they

LHC: A new “2048”will encounter copious amounts of electrons and electron neutrinos, but, eventually, they will find their way to the Z and W Bosons and from there to the final Higgs Boson.

This game has a basis in real physics so some players will try and justify their playing by claiming that it is helping them study phys-ics. This is most definitely not the case, but, none the less, there is some educational value to it, just nowhere near enough to justify playing it for as long as most play-ers do.

This game is ridiculously ad-dicting and after playing it just once, anyone who goes down that dangerous path will be forced to keep going. While there seems like there is no end in sight for the game, there is an unavoidable urge to beat the game. This even includes people who usually have no difficulty at all avoiding addictive games. Anyone who fears becom-ing far too addicted to a simple collisions game, avoid this game at all costs. But for someone who wishes to waste a weekend or a month of their life, then this is the game for them. Beware, this game can be played on a computer or on a phone, so once the addiction be-gins, there is no way to escape it.

The new Flash game “2048” (available at http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/) is free to play and fast to load. The game is also available as a phone app, which is also free (http://git.io/2048), and is based on two non-free phone apps called “1024” and “Threes.” But be forewarned: this is the Pringles of computer games. In other words, once you pop, you can-not stop.

The author was in-troduced to this game, offhand, by a friend. Within seconds of click-ing the link, all hope was lost, and from that point onward, every moment of “I need something to do with my hands” was taken up by playing it.

The premise is sim-ple. A four-by-four grid contains numbered tiles, starting with two, either two 2s or a 2 and a 4. By using the arrows keys, the player tips the board left, right, up, or down, and all tiles slide to that side. Any two tiles with the same number will combine into a single number that is the sum of the two. In this way, using powers of two, the play-er must get up to the 2048 tile in order to win (ie. two to the eleventh power). Things are complicated by the fact that every move causes a new tile - either a 2 or a 4 - to ap-pear in a random free space on the grid. When the grid fills up and no tile combinations are possible, the game is over. After winning, the player may continue to play until no moves are possible.

At first blush, winning seems like it should be simple. Not so. The author only just now won, for the first time, after playing the game for

“2048:” Deceptively simpleHope SisleyStaff Writer

over three weeks. The player must think spatially as well as mathemat-ically in order to succeed, and one wrong move can kill a good game. It helps to use the up key only when on the verge of victory, or when no other moves are possible, as this allows high-number tiles to collect at the bottom, without 2s appear-ing in their midst and screwing ev-erything up.

This game is stupidly addictive. It is also an inveterate tease, be-cause that precious 2048 requires twice as many moves as the 1024 tile, yet the 1024 tile - which is considerably easier to get - makes the player feel like victory is almost within their grasp. The good news is that the more a person plays, the better they will get, and while there is an element of chance to the game, skill is more important. Play-ing also feels like slightly less of a waste of time than many other sim-ple Flash games since it involves math and spatial intelligence. If someone asks, the player can al-ways say the game is helping them brush up on their math skills. And, of course, the game is winnable,

even if that victory feels a bit anti-climactic after the amount of work required to obtain it.

Because this is the internet, it is inevitable that a popular game and a popular meme must inter-sect. Thus: “Doge 2048” (available at http://doge2048.com/), a free customization of “2048” in which the number tiles have been re-placed with tiles bearing animated

gifs of the Shiba Inu dog whose face has overtak-en the Web, known sim-ply as doge. This version is harder to play, since it is much more difficult to keep the sequence of doge tiles straight than it is to do simple addition. On the other hand, it is far more enjoyable to look at. Every time a pair of tiles are matched, an encouraging message flashes on screen: “great jorb,” “much winning,” “such score,” and so on. Some of the tiles are ter-ribly charming (at least, for fans of the meme) and will make the player reluctant to match them away. (A useful guide

as to which doge corresponds to which number is available at http://gaming.stackexchange.com/ques-tions/160556/which-doge-repre-sents-what-number for those who do not wish to spoil the suspense as to what the next doge in the se-quence will be.)

The long and the short of it is, both versions of this game are a highly addictive - possibly danger-ously addictive - means of wasting time, or of occupying one’s hands while talking on the phone, sitting in on a meeting, waiting for a bus, and so on. Just make sure not to start playing right before a dead-line. Case in point? This article was turned in three weeks late, mainly thanks to its subject matter.

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LHC plays parallel to 2048, but with particles, not numbers.

The 2048 tile isn’t the end...How far can you go?

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SOUND REMEDY lit up the stage on Friday night, delivering a stellar performance of his signature electronic musical talents. SOUND REMEDY perfectly intermixes his own original songs, such as Libera-tion and Chiaroscuro with remixes of songs created by other artists. SOUND REMEDY has enchanting remixes to some of the most cur-rent popular songs. To name a few favorites, SOUND REMEDY lends his creative influence to Ellie Gould-ing’s cover of an Active Child song, Hanging On. While this is a lesser know Ellie Goulding song, it is definitely gaining popularity despite its release in 2012. Other popular remixes come from Imogen Heap, Lana del Rey, London Grammar, and John Newman. Daughter’s song Medicine is a beautifully craft-ed remix, which is challenging to do with slower, more emotional-lyrical-ly based music that generally stays on the chill side of the alternative genre. However, this song meshes cohesively with stronger electronic beats native to the electronic genre. SOUND REMEDY captures atten-tion with his remix of this song, considering most electronic art-ists only do remixes of hip hop, or other higher tempo songs. SOUND REMEDY has the unique quality of

Party with Sound RemedySarah DewarStaff Writer

making well-known songs in the alterna-tive genre seem as if they were fabricated not only in the elec-tronic genre, but in his very own SOUND REMEDY genre.

In an 2012 inter-view, SOUND REM-EDY said, “I want to make music that makes people happy, or even sad, as long as it makes them feel something”.

A criticism of some electronic music, and es-pecially dubstep songs, is that they can be so charged with en-ergy, that the original artist intent of chord progression and intertwined melodic symphonies can be lost in translation. SOUND REMEDY cap-tures the emotion from the original songs and enhances it - even going so far as to illuminate the passion hidden within.

SOUND REMEDY has a strong stage presence; even behind his computer, he is able to connect with the audience and instill his pas-sion for his music through each and every song. It is apparent that he really feels his music, not just at a surface level, but at a deeper, emo-tional level. His music is appealing, fanatical, wild, and ravishing.

SOUND REMEDY is originally from the midwest, even attend-ing Indiana University for a finance degree, but now he calls LA home. SOUND REMEDY started produc-ing music full time just four years ago. He attributes his music up-bringing from his parents who trained at Juilliard as a credit to his love of listening to, making, and liv-ing music.

SOUND REMEDY was the perfect musical talent to bring the Colorado School of Mines Galaxe-Days’ stage. He is on the cusp of superstardom and he is a talent to watch become a permanent fixture on the electronic scene. SOUND REMEDY produces delightfully captivating tracks, proving his radi-ant love for making and sharing his spirited fervor with his listeners.

The Iota Zeta Chapter of Alpha Phi at the Colorado School of Mines hosted Alpha-Traz, the annual Al-pha Phi International Philanthropy event which raises money for the Alpha Phi Foundation, champion of women’s heart health. The event was moved from its original loca-tion on Kafadar Commons to the Alpha Phi House due to the rainy weather forecast. Nevertheless, the event was an astronomical suc-cess. Over seven thousand dollars were raised which exceeded the goal of five thousand dollars.

Money is raised by students, faculty, and other community members donating money to ‘bail’ their friends out of jail. Members of Greek life, athletics, and campus organizations were placed under ‘cardiac arrest’ and could not leave the Alpha Phi ‘jail’ until their bail was met. Participants were able to set their bail accordingly to how much money they felt they could raise. Very proudly, Natalie Boldt, the Chapter President of Alpha Phi, was able to raise over eight hun-dred dollars alone. The women of Alpha Phi introduced a new dimen-sion to the bailing out process this year with the concept of ‘counter-bail’. This means that donations were taken, not in order to bail

Alpha-Traz IslandSarah DewarStaff Writer

someone out of jail, but to increase their bail amount and keep them in jail longer. This clever concept ac-tually worked to raise more money than the original bail amounts while throwing in some fun for those who contributed to keeping a friend in jail for a longer period of time.

The day was full free food and raffle prizes, all in the spirit of rais-ing awareness for women’s heart health. The women of Alpha Phi heartily appreciate everyone who shared their time in volunteering to participate for this event. It could not happen without the tremen-dous campus support that was re-ceived. Alpha Phi is also incredibly grateful to everyone who donated financially to the event. The Alpha Phi philanthropy is an organization that funds scholarships and sister-hood support programs throughout the United States and Canada. The Alpha-Traz event this year is the most successful event to date for Alpha Phi, and all of the money will go directly to the Alpha Phi Foun-dation to continue fostering aware-ness for women’s heart health.

To learn more about the Alpha Phi Foundation, please do not hesi-tate to ask an Alpha Phi on campus about how the Foundation works and how financial donations are used. Also check out http://www.alphaphifoundation.org for more in-formation.

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Kit PfeifferGuest Writer

As some readers no doubt know, USG voted unanimously to increase student fees to $100 during a joint operating meeting. The fee increase passed despite a unanimous no vote from the smaller GSG delegation. This extremely unusual split highlights how out of touch and self inter-ested GSG has become.

I am the President of the Mines Activities Council (MAC) and this semester, for the fi rst time, MAC has been added as a voting member of USG. In fact, every governing body on campus has been added as full members of the council. Additionally, budget committee, which used to control all fee allocation, has been dis-banded so that the entire USG council has a voice in allocating student funds to student groups.

MAC is the recipient of the largest allocation on campus (~$210,000 last year). The small council of 9 students is respon-sible for planning and executing entertainment programs for the entire student body including both undergraduate and graduate stu-dents indiscriminately. We are re-sponsible for all of E-Days, Home-coming, movie nights, comedians, special events, and off -campus activities.

All of those programs are lim-ited by budget and we spend considerable time seeking outside fi nancial support (we have already taken in over $100,000 this year outside of our allocation). Unlike any other club on campus, we do not require membership for any one of our events and we pro-gram targeting every single stu-dent possible.

When we have events that lack attendance, the majority of the time the cause can be attributed to lack of awareness on campus for the event. When students at-tend our events, they largely en-

Fees=More E-Daysjoy them, but we can always do better, we can always reach more, and this often requires additional funding.

The $6 increase to student fees enacted by the joint meeting between USG and GSG will ben-efi t student groups on campus. The group poised to reap the larg-est benefi t will be MAC, and by defi nition, the students of Mines. Unfortunately, MAC was only present at the joint session for the fi nal vote as it was scheduled dur-ing our regular weekly meeting. If we had predicted the derision that occurred at the meeting, we certainly would have liked to have been present and voiced our opin-ion that this fee increase, if allocat-ed as it has been in the past, will greatly benefi t the less involved.

GSG’s opinions that the raise was arbitrary and nondescript as to its destination are fair. $6 does not make up for the allocation re-quests not met last year and the new monies were not earmarked for certain clubs (as much as we want it to go to MAC). The in-crease, as MAC understands it, was lessened to ease the burden on individual students and not ear-marked in order to be consistent with the USG allocation process.

GSG’s stark opposition to the fee increase is understood by my council; however, we feel that such a position is detrimental to the campus community and dis-plays a singular mindset of the or-ganization to oppose the out-of-the-classroom activities at Mines. Hopefully their votes are not rep-resentative of the greater graduate student population at CSM who have often vocalized their support for E-Days, MAC and everything we do.

Our unoffi cial motto is “making Mines bearable, for a 1-2 hours each week.” We would like to add another hour, but that costs mon-ey and we are extremely grateful to the USG council for supporting our eff orts.

There are good reasons to believe that humans have some ethical obligations with respect to the environment. This claim is true even if we believe that our only di-rect obligations are toward other human beings. For example, bio-diversity plays an important role in the health of our food and water supply and in the development of modern medicine. So, doing right by the environment and promoting biodiversity, in addition to being good for nonhuman organisms, can be seen as a means to the end of meet our obliga-tion to promote human fl ourishing. Other obliga-tions that we might have toward the environ-ment include reducing consumption of energy and the use of other products that use large amounts of natural re-sources, working toward minimizing the suff ering of animals, and reducing car-bon dioxide emissions to curb the eff ects of climate change.

Given these obligations, we ought to ask ourselves what Mines is doing as a community to pro-mote environmental sustainability. One group that has made huge strides in promoting sustainability on campus is MinesDining. Here are some sustainable practices that MinesDining has adopted:

An extensive recycling and composting program in Slate Café and Diggers Den, including fryer oil recycling program and com-postable cups, plates, cutlery, etc.

Meatless Mondays, to highlight

Brian ZaharatosGuest Writer

Ethics Across CampusSustainability at Mines

and reduce the environmental im-pacts of meat eating

Discounts for customers who bring reusable cups, plates, etc.

Ethically sourced coff ee and tea

Sustainable purchasing com-mitments (e.g., cage free eggs)

Beyond MinesDining, there are other actions that Mines has taken to promote sustainability. Many of the buildings and new construc-tion projects on campus are LEED (Lead- ership

in energy and Environmental Design) buildings. LEED buildings are categorized into four levels—certifi ed, silver, gold, and platinum—based on the extent to which they are en-vironmentally friendly. Maple Hall is LEED gold, and Marquez Hall is LEED silver. In general, LEED buildings have less environmental impact by, for example, recycling materials during construction, us-ing locally sourced materials, and

maximizing the amount of natural light to reduce energy use.

The practices mentioned here could have a lasting positive eff ect on the environment; but many of these practices require that we, as individual consumers, do the right thing. For example, we should take responsibility when dining to make sure that we compost what we can, bring reusable containers, etc. Also, we can show MinesDin-ing that we care about sustain-ability by participating in meatless Monday, and by suggesting that it happen more often. Further, as a

community, we should pressure those making decisions to do

even more to promote sus-tainability. As an engineer-ing campus, we should be leading the way in re-newable energy use and demand that new proj-ects be built with sus-tainability as the most important goal. This goal is certainly achiev-

able; just minutes away from Mines, the National

Renewable Energy Lab is home to several LEED plati-num buildings. Further, some

of their buildings are net-zero energy, which means that they produce as much energy (through renewable sources) as they use!

We should be proud that Mines understands our environmental obligations and is taking such big steps in promoting sustainability. Yet, we should strive for more! If you have sustainability sugges-tions for Mines, please feel free to contact me at [email protected]. I will be sure that the Mines Sustainability Committee hears your suggestion.

modern medicine. So, doing right by the environment and promoting biodiversity, in addition to being good for nonhuman organisms, can be seen as a means to the end of meet our obliga-

minimizing the suff ering of animals, and reducing car-bon dioxide emissions to curb the eff ects of climate change.

Given these obligations, we ought to ask ourselves what Mines

(Lead- ership ability by participating in meatless Monday, and by suggesting that it happen more often. Further, as a

community, we should pressure those making decisions to do

even more to promote sus-tainability. As an engineer-

from Mines, the National Renewable Energy Lab is

home to several LEED plati-num buildings. Further, some

of their buildings are net-zero energy, which means that they

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The Tesla Coil Demonstration might not be the most interactive E-Days event or the most attended, but it is undeniably the most awe in-spiring event. During the Tesla Coil Demonstration, arcs of purple and blue lightning fi lled the room and even made music.

A Tesla Coil is composed of sev-eral sets of rings of metal coiled to-gether, hence the name, Tesla Coil. Nikola Tesla invented the Tesla Coil around 1891. They were originally invented to be a replacement for power lines because they allow electricity to fl ow through the air. However, they were never used for that purpose due to their incredibly low effi ciency. Rather than removing cables from power exchange, Tesla fi gured out alternating currents (AC), were far more effi cient than the direct current (DC) that was be-ing used at the time.

Tesla was originally set on the


Tesla Coil Demonstration a shocker for studentstask that led him to discover the Tesla Coil by Thomas Edison. Tesla was born in Croatia but was Ser-bian and came to America looking for more opportunities. It was then that he began to work for Edison. Edison promised Tesla fi fty thou-sand dollars if Tesla could come up with a more effi cient form of energy transfer than with a direct current,

which was a really impressive amount of money for the time p e r i o d . When Tes-la did this, with his

discovery of alternating currents, and returned to Edison for his mon-ey, Edison claimed that Tesla ‘just didn’t understand American humor’ and refused to pay him. Despite all of this, Tesla went on to be a quite successful and well known scien-tist. However, he is probably best known for his invention of the Tesla Coil, which has no real convenient uses; it is simply fun to play with.

At the E-Days Tesla Coil Demon-stration, which was hosted by cam-pus’ branch of IEEE, viewers got to watch two diff erent types of Tesla

coils. The fi rst was the smaller of the two. It did not make large arcs of electricity, as most people picture with Tesla Coils; instead, it pro-duced a small, about 2 inch long, arc that glowed brightly. However, along with this small arc of lightning was the truly impressive part. The Tesla coil was able to perfectly play music from an ipod, functioning just like speakers do. The crowd got to listen to several songs played by the Tesla coil, each more impressive than the last.

The second Tesla coil was much larger and looked more like a typi-cal Tesla coil. This one did shoot of large arcing beams of electricity that seemed to form trees and webs of lightning all around the Tesla coil. This Tesla coil also played music, but it wasn’t nearly as clear and could only play a few notes. How-ever, despite that, the Tesla coil’s music was incredible and some of it even sent physical shudders down spines in the audience. Whether the shudders were from the music or from the electricity humming around the room, there is no way to tell, but either way, it was a truly awe inspir-ing experience that everyone could enjoy. Look out next E-Days for the Tesla Coil Demonstration because it isn’t something to be missed.

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Tesla coils were originally meant to replace power lines.

At the E-Days Tesla Coil Dem-

onstration, which was hosted by

campus’ branch of IEEE, viewers

got to watch two diff erent types of

Tesla coil.

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The Cardboard Boat Race challenged even the best engineers.

Human bowling during the Carnival entertained students and community members alike.

The E-Days car show included vehicles from many eras, including various Mustangs.

Contestants prepared for the Hottiest Hottie hot wing eating contest.

The Mattress Races at the fi eld day were a hit.

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