April 2012 – Page 3 – The Oredigger

Grinds my gear: Movie theaters and British

You know what really grinds my gears?

Movie Theaters.

I am not going to complain about all the cliché issues of high candy prices or the rising cost of tickets. Though those are both valid complaints, I will venture into the deeper problems. First of all, movie theaters attract a clientele of middle school and junior high children. These juveniles are often in their “alpha male” stage that requires them to be as annoying and as cocky to general society as possible in an attempt to seduce their date. Thus, what some people thought would be a relaxing movie with their significant other, is now a witnessing of a 90 pound Bieber lookalike beating his chest.

Summer activism: Ban dihydrogen monoxide

As the school year has progressed, many students at the Colorado School of Mines have been involved in truly heroic feats of activism. From using the incredibly powerful tool of Facebook statuses to rid the world of the evil of Kony, a man who may or may not still be alive in an unknown country that makes it difficult to trace or confirm the evil deeds involving child slavery, to multitudes of protests insisting that astronomers re-instate Pluto’s right to call itself a planet, it is clear that Mines has been involved.

Why we should replace finals with Pokémon

Finals are the most outdated method for calculating how much students learn in the course of a semester. The current system combines trying to learn large amounts of knowledge over a little period of time, causing cranium combustion in most student’s minds.

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Human battleship leaves only one victor

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Minds at Mines: Joining the Circus

As the semester draws to a close and sunshine and warm weather make staying inside during class increasingly difficult, the thought of leaving the Colorado School of Mines becomes increasingly attractive. The “anywhere but here” mentality is being felt all over campus. This prompted Minds at Mines to ask a rather unusual question this week, “What would you do if you joined the circus and why?”

Grinds my gears: Trend followers

There has been a history of certain trends that start off with everybody having to buy them, and then they end up almost exclusively in backwoods trailer parks. I would like to cite the whole Ed Hardy and Affliction shirt craze. At first, everybody from Kanye West to Sylvester Stallone was rocking jeans with some ornate skull biting a rose in its teeth, and now the only people sporting the overpriced style are five-year-old rappers and Louisiana swamp royalty.

Water Politics in the Middle East

Retired Four-star General Anthony Zinni of the United States Marine Corps explained how his experiences in the Middle East lead him to understand one of the great underlying and often overlooked factors in the tumultuous region, water politics.

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Why are veterans excellent entrepreneurs?

The Association of Veteran Entrepreneurs (AVE) hosted a networking event Monday posing the question, “Why are veterans excellent entrepreneurs?”

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Southwestern Energy discusses compressed natural gas

Recently, Southwestern Energy (SWN) employees gathered to discuss the possibilities of vehicles that run entirely on compressed natural gas (CNG). Among the group from SWN, were a few employees currently traveling from Houston to Long Beach, California driving some of these CNG vehicles.

Senior class gift barbecue caps off fundraising event

Over one third of the funding for Colorado School of Mines comes from outside support. Each year, over 4,000 alumni, parents, administration, faculty, staff, and coaches make gifts to give back to the school.

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