Opinion
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Cut down the Amazon: How to handle tech conglomerates in the 21st century
The zeitgeist of our time revolves near universally around important technology companies and their amassment of power over our lives. In what felt like the final season of a reality TV show, Amazon spent the last year courting states and municipalities to fight each other in a race to the bottom of corporate taxes, all…
Op-Ed: Oredigger Radio? Yeah, not good
Anyone who has studied, met with a group, or ate in the Student Center is familiar with the bizarre and incoherent music selection in the building. If you accidentally forget your headphones when you go there to study, I’m really sorry. Enjoy the strange mix of 80s pop music, Kenny G, and maybe (if you’re…
Satire: The new fro-yo machine’s spookier than you thought
Brown Building is as close to a playground as Mines students will get, with the 3D printer-stocked MakerSpace and plenty of coffee to fuel creativity. Now, the playground is complete with a very expensive sugary dessert served through a machine. The long awaited Frozen Yogurt machine in Brown is up and running, providing students with…
Shakespeare, not Statistics: Why we need more liberal engineering education
This opinion will engender few friendly feelings towards me, but I believe that Mines should have an admissions essay. Beyond that, I think that we, as students, should be required to take more Humanities Arts and Social Science (HASS) classes, write more for our classes, read more works of classic literature, and be allowed to…
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Mines Little Theater’s Fall Season Comes to a Close With She Kills Monsters
You find yourself seeking shelter from the stress of studying by visiting one of your favorite cafés. Once there you notice a troupe of performers form the local theater: what do you do? Upon investigating, you come to learn that they have just finished performing the last of their fall shows. One of the performers…
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December Horoscopes: Astro-logged by Bob the Astrologer
Sagittarius: I won’t make any end-of-year birthday jokes, or jabs about birthdays near the holidays. I, too, am a Sagittarius, so I know how it is. Instead, I’ll give you an intelligent, non-holiday-related horoscope like I do for others around their birthdays. Of course, I don’t make the horoscopes, I just interpret them from the…
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Women’s basketball team is rolling with the changes
The Mines women’s basketball team split their first two games on the weekend of November 9th to start the season. It was an interesting mix of old and new faces on the court. Mines returns seven players from last season’s squad, welcomed four redshirts, four true freshmen and a redshirt-senior transfer. Three of those returning…
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Mines slips out of playoffs in icy final game
Mines’ first home Division 2 playoff game in 14 years on November 17th, against CSU Pueblo, was a cold day with a mix of freezing rain and snow, leading to a small student section turn out. The #16 ranked Orediggerss put up a fight in the cold against the #9 CSU Pueblo Thunderwolves until the…
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Ski movie All In a move in a modern direction at Backcountry Ski Club screening
This Friday, the Backcountry ski club is hosting their annual movie benefitting the Friends of Berthoud Pass. The film this year is Matchstick Production’s All In. The movie follows 8 different skiers as they ski across Utah, Alaska, British Columbia and more. All In is not quite like every other ski movie out there. Half…
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Satire: Pokémon Go wants to kill you
It was a clear but dark night when a freshman Pokémon Go enthusiast, who asked he be known as Jimbothy Morgan, was nearly killed because of the game he used to love. In an interview Morgan told me he was staring at his bright phone screen hunting animated Japanese animals with friends when he got…