The Student Health Center is considering unsubscribing from the ezine it began offering two weeks ago. “When we subscribed,” explained SHC’s administrative official Heather Turett, “we expected some level of professionalism and maturity. What we got was thinly-veiled shame alchemy disguised as medicine.” The “shame alchemy” that concerned Turett was an article called “Choosing Parenteral Nutrition”, which interviewed college students practicing a food-free lifestyle (FFL).
Amongst all of the fervor for science on the Colorado School of Mines Campus, students only enjoy one thing more than their academics, and that is a day off from school. Whether it is an infrequent snow day or President’s Day, Mines robots need that break from work so they can recharge their batteries. The question is why the student body does not get Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Day off? After much digging and a little investigative journalism, the Oredigger staff has found the solution.
It has been nearly a year since I penned an opinion piece for The Oredigger. Much has changed in that time and now I sit poised to finish my career at Mines and venture into “the real world.” The truth is toward the end of the original “Two Cents” series I began to lose steam and finding interesting topics of discussion simply took a back seat to school and life. Alas, being in my last semester I once again have time to (hopefully) stir up discussion on campus.
Dilemma
Don’t worry; I don’t live in the dorms or in Mines Park.
Recently a friend was studying at my apartment. He noticed some bugs on my reclining chair and said they were bedbugs. As soon as I was convinced that he was right, which took about two minutes of a Google search, my friend helped me carry the chair to the alley. We could not lift it into the Dumpster, so we left it beside said Dumpster. My friend didn’t stay much longer, and he texted me on the way to his car to tell me that the chair was gone.
What should I do? Am I ethically obligated to put up a notice in my building to warn people that the recliner has bedbugs? Or do I let them alley-shop at their own risk?
–Recently Exterminated
The Golden Sun Series has been a dependable Japanese-style role playing video game (JRPG) from its first release for the Nintendo Gameboy Advance (GBA) in 2001. It was shortly followed by Golden Sun: The Lost Age in 2003, which was also released for the GBA. The newest installment of the series is Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, which, unlike its predecessors, was released for the Nintendo DS in 2010. Generally, if a game takes 7 years be released, it should be held to a higher standard than one that takes only a year to come out. Golden Sun: Dark Dawn is a good game in its own right, but there are many drawbacks to the third installment of this series.
Though the Internet has certainly hastened the spread of useless information to contemplate, it hardly caused the phenomena. The Colorado Transcript of January 23, 1900, ran an article featuring a variety of interesting, though perhaps impractical, statistics. According to expert M. Alfred Arkas, people, regardless of education level, speak 11,800,000 words every year. Over the course of a lifetime, a total of about one year and five months is spent speaking. Much to the surprise of the Transcript, about the same amount of time is spent thinking. The paper commented that this, “[G]ives one a new idea of the value of what ought to be attached to every man’s utterance.” The article also reported that humans shake hands 1,200 times a year and raise their eyelids about 94,600,000 times per year. For those few still searching for a unique New Year’s resolution, perhaps these statistics will provide some ideas. No one else will resolve to decrease the number of eyelid raises from 94,600,000 to 94,500,000.
Some have called it a phenomenon; others claim they’re nothing more than a buzz band. In any case, the dramatic rise to the national scene by Denver-based Tennis is worth a second glance. Their story is classic (if not overly romantic): a young couple with no money took to the sea on a ship named Cape Dory. Over the course of their adventures they were married and inspired to share their stories in the form of a few songs.
Unlike the typical superhero whose parents die from being shot at a movie theater or start their lives with their home-world blown up, The Green Hornet, aka Britt Reid, merely had a troubled relationship with his father. These difficulties made Britt into a dysfunctional slacker that has done nothing with his life.
In 1864, Emperor Maximilian I left his native Austria and seized power in Mexico, bringing with him Polka music, the backing of the Habsburg and Bonaparte dynasties, and a love for dark Vienna lagers. His personal brewery continued producing Austrian-style beer after Maximilian’s execution in 1867, and today, several Mexican breweries produce the style, the chief two among them being Negra Modelo and Dos Equis Ambar. Both beers shed aristocratic pretensions long ago and today they can be enjoyed even by those with more proletariat budgets.
Google Inc. is installing a new CEO, following Eric Schmidt stepping down from the post. Larry Page, the new CEO, was one of the founders of Google and developed the PageRank algorithm. Page will have to lead Google in new innovations to keep pace with the many new web-based companies, such as Facebook.