The holiday season is fast approaching, and seemingly one of the more memorable holidays for college students is Parents’ and Family weekend. While it’s not an official holiday by any means, nor even a bank holiday (though the local utilities did take off Thursday for Veterans Day), the “gifts” of food and the good company fit in well with the big time players, Thanksgiving, Halloween, and Christmas.
Suspense, deception, strategy, close calls! Most people think of their grandparents when they here the name Canasta, but in fact nothing could be farther from the truth. In recent years, card games such as Canasta have fallen in popularity due in large part to console and PC games, but nothing can fully replace a good old card game for it’s crowd-pleasing fun.
Music styles vary all across the Colorado School of Mines campus. Many students listen to the basic types such as hip-hop, country, metal, rap, oldies, and rock. However, DJ song mixing and techno is beginning to take over many iPods and CD players around campus. Bassnectar is an entertaining and exciting DJ and songwriter that has recently become very popular.
As the final chapter in the Harry Potter saga, the Deathly Hallows serves to remind the viewer that, in life, things often have to get much worse before they get better. Eminently dark and foreboding of evil, this first part to the last book in the massively popular Harry Potter series makes you wish that Warner Brothers had just gone ahead and released both parts at once, just so you didn’t have to watch everything go so horribly wrong for Harry and not have any happiness to balance it out.
Feeding the City of Golden since 1988, Mannie and Bo’s Pizzeria serves amazing calzones, pizzas, and offers to Mines students and the community as a whole. Featuring homemade dough, sauce, sausages, and meatballs, Mannie and Bo’s ensures that anyone who eats at their restaurant leaves happy and satisfied. Plus, their prices are actually quite reasonable especially with all of the benefits that they bestow upon Mines students.
Massively-multiplayer online role-playing games, or MMORPGs, have been around since the first days of the Internet, and today many boast multiple millions of players. Big-budget MMOs like World of Warcraft feature finely crafted 3-D graphics, immersive soundtracks, and exciting real-time gameplay. Kingdom of Loathing possesses none of these.
With the holiday season fast approaching you may be craving something sweet to eat. A great treat to make whether you are in an apartment or your dorm room is peppermint bark. It’s very sugary and delicious, but extremely easy to make.
The Mines Dance Team is one of the many clubs on campus, and while they are most visible at football and basketball games, they are involved in many other events. “The Mines Dance Team also performs at events in the community,” Jamie Johnson remarks. “We have danced at the Denver Aquarium, the Denver Dance Festival, the Miss Planet Beach competitions, Colorado Mills Mall, and the USO charity benefit balls.”
Every year, many organizations on campus compete to collect the most non-perishable goods and build the best “castle.” All of the proceeds go first to Mines students, staff, and faculty who are in need and then to CAG Food Bank who will distribute the donations to those who are are also in need here in Golden. The goal this year was an astonishing five-thousand pounds of cans! Nate Skinner, social chair for the Order of Omega stated, “Our goal was 5,000 cans, at this point, we are at 7,200 pounds.” The Order of Omega lead the Castle of Cans along with the Holiday Food Drive.
On Saturday November 6, hundreds of beer aficionados filled the Mr. Biggs Event Center in Colorado Springs. Twenty-eight Colorado breweries brought their samples in for tasting, CSU Pueblo taught a beer-tasting class, and ticket sales benefited local charities. Below are some of my opinions for some of the stand-out brews.