Getting off campus, whether it is for a couple of hours or a couple of days, can provide a much needed reset from the daily grind of Mines. Here are some ideas for experiencing Colorado and beyond on your, admittedly minimal, time off. If you have an hour or two early in the morning, try…
High Grade’s Call for Submissions is now open! Students, faculty, and alumni are welcome to submit art, poetry, fiction, and original music to High Grade, CSM’s literary arts journal. Submit at highgrade.mines.edu/submit.html Deadline: Friday, September 29th. To apply to join our staff or if you have any questions, please email us at highgrade@mines.edu!
On Wednesday, April 19 of E-days, Alpha Phi hosted their annual AlphaTraz fundraising event. Leaders on campus were invited to participate as “jailbirds.” They set their bails and invited friends, club members and teammates to donate money to either bail them out or raise their bail. Since AlphaTraz is one of the first E-Days events,…
Feb. 27-Mar. 3 is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. Eating disorders, which are often misunderstood, are classified as mental health disorders because that is exactly what they are: mental illnesses expressed with disordered eating behaviors. There are many different manifestations of eating disorders (EDs). The three main EDs are anorexia nervosa (deliberate starvation accompanied by…
Gokul Natesan is a senior who has helped the men’s basketball team excel to first place RMAC finish this year. He has gained many accolades over the years, notably 2016-2017 RMAC Academic Player of the Year and a second consecutive nomination for the Bevo Francis Award. Natesan finished the regular season with 1210 career points…
The Mines international program includes two sides: students coming from partnering programs to study at Mines, and students from Mines studying abroad. While both are small in size, they are growing. Mary Cook, a staff member of the Office of International Programs, described the importance of having students come to Mines for their study abroad….
Equality Through Awareness, ETA, is an on-campus club devoted to promoting diversity and inclusion at CSM and in the community. “ETA is a wonderful way to build and nourish an inclusive community and facilitate discussion about important topics,” ETA officer Izzy Aguiar said. The club began as an association devoted to women in physics but…
On Feb. 2, Dr. Kenneth Osgood, Professor of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and director of the McBride Honors Program, led a discussion on the recent executive order that, on Jan. 27, banned individuals from Syria, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia, Iraq, and Iran from entering the United States. Officially, the order banned individuals from those…
Hi, my name is Katharyn Peterman, and I am the Editor-in-Chief of The Oredigger. I am a junior in Civil Engineering and part of the McBride Honors program. After events throughout this week, including a very important conversation that I had this morning with several leaders from oSTEM, I have become increasingly aware of the…
Students in the Chemical and Chemical and Biological Engineering degree program can focus a little more on Organic Chemistry and Thermodynamics this month, as Dr. David Marr, Department Head, assures students that no immediate changes are looming large. “We are always thinking about what we might do differently or better,” Dr. David Marr stated in…