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T HE V OICE OF THE C OLORADO S CHOOL OF M INES , A SUPERIOR EDUCATION IN APPLIED SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

T HE O REDIGGER Volume 86, Issue 10 February 22, 2006

OlympicsPg. 11

News.........................2

Features............3, 4, 5

Editorials..............6, 7

Entertainment.......8, 9

ORC Updates.........10

Sports......................11

Backpage.................12

Oscar PredictsPg. 9

Women’sHistory Month

Pg. 5

DanishCartoonsPg. 6, 7

Inside thisIssue of

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As part of the comprehensive CSMInformation System conversion toBanner, which was launched in Febru-ary 2005, the new Student Self-Servicesystem will go live in April. The newBanner Student system will provide aseamless and comprehensive integra-tion between all of the componentsof the Student system including thegeneral student data and academicrecords, course management informa-tion, nancial aid, and billing.

The Student system will be avail-able via the new CSM web portal“Trailhead” allowing student’s to ac -cess the Self-Service menu anytimeand anywhere they have access to aweb browser.

Students will register for the Fall2006 semester on the new system bylogging into the Trailhead web portaland accessing the Student Self-Servicemenu. The new system looks and actsalmost identical to the older StudentInformation System (SIS) currentlyused at Mines as they are both products

New Student

Info System

At its bimonthly meeting on Febru-ary 2 nd, the student council of ASCSMonce again passed a resolution oppos-ing the use of a plus-minus gradingsystem on the Mines campus. Theresolution was presented as a responseto the recommendation that the CSMgraduate school adopt the system toallow professors more leeway in thegrading of graduate classes. Althoughthe current plan, if adopted, wouldnot affect the undergraduate popula-tion, there were fears from some stu-dents that the registrar’s ofce would

ASCSM opposes +/-

Grading system againCharles Perko

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The system’s back-end offers more powerful data access and managementcapabilities. This will allow the CSMadministration to streamline their management practices and allow themto better serve the faculty and student

population.Students will have access to this

new system on April 1 st when theTrailhead web portal goes “live” for the student community.

quickly grow tired of working withtwo different grading systems and pushfor the system school wide.

The system assigns point values togrades between the traditional letter grades (for instance, a 91%, or A-, isvalued at 3.7 rather than the traditionalfour, and an 88%, or B+ would beworth 3.3 points rather than three). Thecontroversy of the method lies in thefact that students who would normally

just barely attain an A, B, C, etc. in thetraditional system would end up with alower GPA under the new system.

What’s better than crazy engineersin ridiculous hats barreling down a 45degree angled road in nothing morethan card board and training wheels?Just crazy engineers in ridiculous hats

barreling down a 45 degree angledroad in nothing more than cardboardeating a hot dog of course. If thissounds interesting to you, then don’tmiss the rst annual Derby and Dogsevent scheduled for Friday, March 10

Derby & Dogs: Soap

Box Entries Needed

at 11:00 am on West Campus Road(weather permitting). The Derby isapart of the annual Greek Weekendfestivities to be held March 8 – 12. Theevent is open to all students. Entriesare needed. Entry forms are availableat Student Activities and must beturned in by 5:00 PM on Wednesday,March 1, 2006. Students are invited to

participate in the race or just stop by towatch. The Greek Weekend committee

will provide hotdogs and chips to rst300 students who stop by.

continued on page 2

Colorado School of Mines Emeri-tus Professor Richard W. Hutchinsonis a 2006 inductee into the CanadianMining Hall of Fame, established in1988 as a way to recognize and honor legendary mine nders and buildersin the Canadian mining industry. TheHall currently has more than 120members.

An emeritus professor of geologyand geological engineering, Hutchin-son was the Charles Franklin FogartyProfessor in Economic Geology atMines, where he served from 1983 to1998. He currently resides in Forest,Ontario, Canada.

Hutchinson authored or co-au-thored hundreds of papers in numerous

journals, and he was the recipient of many prestigious awards. However,according to the Canadian Mining Hallof Fame, “His industry peers maintain

Emeritus Prof.

Hall of Famer

that his legacy is best reected in thesuccess of the many students in indus-try, academia and government whomhe inspired and mentored.”

The grading system was last brought before the Faculty Senatein the spring of 2003, leading to amassive outcry of opposition fromthe student body. At that time, thecouncil, by unanimous vote, resolvedto oppose the system. The idea wassubsequently shot down by the facul ty,largely because of the ASCSM action.With the passage of the reafrmation,it is once again likely that the issue willfail when it comes to a vote before thefaculty in the coming weeks.

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The rules for the soap-box derbyrace include the following:

1. The car must have at least threewheels

2. The car must be only grav-ity powered. Cars with other power sources will be disqualied.

3. The car must have functional breaks. Bike breaks work well.

4. The car must have a functionalsteering wheel.

5. You cannot go head rst in your car.6. All people in the car must wear a helmet7. There may only be two people per car 8. There is a 10 yard push zone. Your team may have one pusher.9. The course starts at the stop sign next to the Pi Phi house on W Campus

Rd and ends at Elm Street.10. Water balloons and water guns

are allowed.11. The rst car to the bottom of

the hill will be declared winner.For more information about the

event or any Greek Weekend event, please contact the Greek Weekendcommittee at [email protected] or call 303.273.3970.

Soap Box DerbyRules & Info

In 2003, an alumnus of the BetaPhi chapter of Beta Theta Pi, Denver Haslam, was severely injured after

running into a tree while skiing atArapahoe Basin. His injuries includedmassive blood loss, broken vertebrae,ruptured organs, and other brutal inju-ries resulting in a coma. Denver sur-vived only because his head sufferedminor injuries thanks to the helmet hewas wearing. It is safe to say that hishelmet is the only thing that allowed

BΘΠ Ski-a-Thon forSki-Slope Safety

him to be here today. Denver andthe Beta Phi chapter have spent thelast few years sharing this and other

stories in hopes that people will learnfrom him and protect themselves bywearing a helmet.

This is the eighth year of the an-nual Ski-a-Thon fund-raising eventin hopes of raising local awarenessof safety on the slopes and helpingfund various projects around themetro area. In the past eight years,$32,000 has been raised from gen-erous donations from both publicand private parties. The event is anationally recognized and awarded

program and receives considerablemedia coverage each year including 9news, the Denver Post, and the RockyMountain News.

This year, the Ski-a-Thonwill be held at the Loveland Ski Resort

on Saturday, February 25th

. We invite

you to join us in a day of shreddin’the slopes and raising money for agood cause. For $35 you will get

a lift ticket, shirt, rafe ticket, andlunch at the mountain as well as adonation towards the program. Therewill also be a rail jam with a grand

prize of a DNA jacket and pants. Theentry fee for the competition is $15or $10 with the whole package. Got alift ticket already? Then lunch and at-shirt is only $10. Also, there will beover $12,000 in prizes including thisyear’s entire line of DNA apparel. Theevent is also being sponsored by Salo-mon, Leedom, Smith, Jibij pro-shop,Christy Sports, Loveland Ski Area,Patton Boggs Law Ofce, and InstantImprints. Extra rafe tickets are a dol-lar apiece or 6 for $5. Remember, all

proceeds go to St. Anthony’s donor program, the Intermountain Neuro-

surgery Helmet Donor Program.

WHAT: Beta Theta Pi’s annualSki-A-Thon at Loveland Ski Area

WHEN: Saturday, Feb. 25 th allday long

WHO: You, your friends, your dog, your mom, your single sister,etc.

WHY: To raise money for agood cause and to hit the slopes!!

E-Days ThemeRichard Diaz

Its still early in the semester, but its never too late to cancel all plans for that weekend, and go to the store and buy your grass skirts and coconut bras.In case you haven’t heard, the theme for this year’s E-Days is “Maui-Wow-E-Days.” With our biggest budget ever, this should be an E-Days that shouldleave great memories forever. That is, if you’re sober. We have a ton of excitingnew events lined up for this year’s celebration, as well as all your favorites. Getready to dance your pants off at the concert, laugh hysterically at the comedian,

participate in one of our school’s longest traditions with the orecart pull, and

have a blast at all the events on the IM Fields.

NSBE Cultural CelebrationFriday, February 24, 2006

For more information contact Student Activities



February 22, 2006

F EATURES

All event sign-up sheets and award applicationsare due February 24, 2006, at 5:00 in the

Student Activities Ofce.

Greek Weekend 2006Schedule of Events

Wednesday, March 8 All Day Penny Wars Student Center 9:00 PM Kick-Off Bash Jillian’s @ Colorado Mills

Thursday, March 9 - HeavenAll Day Banner Competition Chapter HousesAll Day Penny Wars Student Center All Day Volleyball Games Kafadaar Commons4:00 PM Wife Ball Homerun Derby IM Fields6:00 PM All Greek Dinner Friedhoff Hall9:30 PM Movie Night – King Kong Student Center – Ballrooms

Friday, March 10 - Hell All Day Penny Wars Student Center - LobbyAll Day Spirit Day (Wear your G.W. Shirt!!) Student Center All Day SDAS Wellness Day Student Center All Day Volleyball Games Kafadaar Commons11:00 am Derby & Dogs IM Fields5:00 PM FAC I-Club6:00 PM Flag Football Tournament IM Fields

8:00 PM Greek-a-palooza Field House

Saturday, March 11- Heaven & Hell All Day Penny Wars Student Center - LobbyAll Day Volleyball Games Kafadaar CommonsAll Day Charity Bowl Field House11:30 am Greek Olympics IM Fields8:00 PM Heaven & Hell Party Field House/Gym

with Pool Party!

Sunday, March 12 11:30 am Morning After Awards Brunch Friedhoff Hall

with Photo Contest Judging

*Dates, times and locations subject to change** Depending on weather!

For ve days, starting March 8,Greek members will compete invarious friendly competitions andattend exciting events all as apartof Greek Weekend 2006.

This annual event is designedto encourage Greek Unity and

promote Greek Life. Several of the events require teams to havemembers from different chapterswhile other events are open to theentire campus.

The theme for this year’s Greek Weekend is One Heaven, OneHell, One Weekend.

Penny Wars is an event whereeach chapter will be given a bucketfor pennies and all other change to

be collected during the week. The buckets will be on a table in theStudent Center Lobby. The goal isto collect as much money as pos-sible. Chapters should place pen-nies in their chapter bucket and allsilver change in the other chapter’s

buckets. The team with the highest point total at the end of the week wins. All money collected will begiven to the Christopher ReevesFoundation.

Chapters will also participatein the banner competition. Eachchapter will make a banner todisplay on the outside of their house throughout Greek Week-end. There is no size limit to the

banners. Banners must reflectthe Greek Weekend theme, OneHeaven One Hell One Wee Ban-ners will be judged on (1) creativ-ity (2) originality (3) incorporationof theme (4) quality and effort(5) display of Greek Unity. Thewinners of the banner competitionwill be announced at the AwardsBrunch Sunday.

Sports and healthy competi-

tion is an important part of Greek Weekend. Volleyball courts will

be set up on Kafadaar Commonson Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.The courts are open to anyone.Please respect the equipment.Greek Weekend will also includea Wife Ball Homerun Derby and

a Flag Football Tournament.Greek Weekend is pleased to

sponsor the Sigma Nu CharityBowl - a dodge ball tournamentfund-raiser. Non-Greek teams areencouraged to enter a team into theCharity Bowl. All money raisedform the event will be donated.

In addition to sports, Greek Weekend will include socialevents such as Greek-a-palooza.This event is free and open to cam-

pus. Come here local (we meanreally local) bands play.

Finally, Greek Weekend willend with the Morning After Awards Brunch. Chapters will

be recognized for outstandingachievement in various areas fromservice to scholarship.

For more information aboutGreek Weekend or any of theevents, please email [email protected] or call 303.273.3970 or stop

by Student Activities.

GREEK OLYMPICSMARCH 11

11:30 AM IM FIELDS The Greek Olympics is a competition between each of the chapters

in which each chapter will compete in an obstacle course, tug of war, anegg joust, and an angel food/devil food cake eating contest. The ObstacleCourse will consist of a penguin race, a trident throw, a sack race, bal-loon shave, Greek puzzle, and McDonalds race. The Tug-O-War will bea single elimination tournament consisting of teams with no more thanten participants. The Egg Joust will be a single elimination tournamentconsisting of teams of two, one male and one female. The Angel Food/Devil Food Cake eating contest will be a timed event with the participants

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February 22, 2006

F EATURES

Giving back to the community.Working with the people around youto better the place which you live.Doesn’t that make you feel goodinside; knowing that you are doingall that you can to make the world a

better place? If that’s the case then theGreeks on campus must feel prettydang good about themselves.

Always looking for a way to give back to the community, fraternitiesand sororities are constantly provid-ing public services in order to makeour campus, town, state, and country

better.The Greeks on campus partake

in activities ranging from tutoringchildren in schools to decorating thecity of Golden during Christmas. Allof these are fun lled activities andrewarding for both parties.

Giving Backto Our Roots

This upcoming semester, Greek life will be busy with scheduled eventsthroughout the community.

Sigma Nu Fraternity will hold their annual Charity Bowl which moneyis raised for the Christopher ReevesFoundation. Sigma Kappa will beworking with the Habitat for Human-ity this semester and will work with alocal nursing home during Valentine’sDay. And IFC is currently planninga bike race in order to raise moneyfor charity.

Along with these organizations,the sororities and other fraternitiesare constantly participating in vari-ous philanthropy events throughoutthe year.

Another semester brings a better community and our Greek organiza-tions are leading the way!

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Get ready, on March 6th be pre- pared to see bling all over campus.

Gold and silver Badges will be visible on all soror-

ity ladies throughout the day. FromArrows to Greek letters to Triangles,Sorority girls will be displaying their

pride for being Greek. March 6thcelebrates National Badge Day for all sororities belonging to NationalPanhellenic Conference.

For all three of the sororities wehave on campus their badges signifymany

Important ideas and values. Pi Beta

Phi’s badge is a gold Arrow with achain connecting the head to the tail.It was adopted in 1867 and was wornfor the rst time on May 14, 1867. In1888 it was decided to inscribe Pi Beta

Phi on the tail of the arrow. Pi Phi’swill be wearing their arrows on their left side near their heart.

Alpha Phi Badge is also gold

but the symbol worn is a monogramAlpha superimposed on the symbol

Phi. Inscribed on the Phi are the black letters A, O, and E which have specialmeanings to the members. Alpha Phi

badge was adopted in 1906 and wasthe rst women’s organization to useGreek letters as their emblem. In 1898the sorority adopted the silver ivy leaf as a special pin given to new members.This ever-growing vine symbolizesthe growth of sisterhood.

Finally Sigma Kappa holds thetriangle badge close to their hearts. To

a Sigma Kappa this is no ordinary ge-ometry shape. The badge was adoptedon March 7, 1894 replacing the Greek letter Kappa with a snake intertwined.In 1915 pearls were approved asthe sorority jewel thus allowing theaddition of pearls to the badge. Thetriangle badge is to be worn above allother fraternity jewelry.

All three of the Sororities willshow there pride by shining those

badges andShowing their bling for campus

to see.

Celebrating Historywith Sorority

Badge DayIn 1911 in Europe, March 8 wasrst celebrated as International Wom-en’s Day. In many European nations,as well as in the United States,women’s rights was a political hottopic. Woman suffrage — winningthe vote — was a priority of manywomen’s organizations. Women (andmen) wrote books on the contributionsof women to history.

But with the economic depressionof the 1930’s which hit on both sidesof the Atlantic, and then World War II,women’s rights went out of fashion.In the 1950’s and 1960’s, after BettyFriedan pointed to the “problem thathas no name” — the boredom andisolation of the middle-class house-wife who often gave up intellectualand professional aspirations — thewomen’s movement began to revive.

With “women’s liberation” in the1960’s, interest in women’s issues andwomen’s history blossomed.

By the 1970’s, there was a growingsense by many women that “history”as taught in school — and especially ingrade school and high school — wasincomplete with attending to “her story” as well. In the United States,calls for inclusion of black Americansand Native Americans helped somewomen realize that women were invis-ible in most history courses.

And so in the 1970’s many uni-versities began to include the elds of women’s history and the broader eldof women’s studies.

In 1978 in California, the Educa-tion Task Force of the Sonoma County

Commission on the Status of Women began a “Women’s History Week”celebration. The week was chosen tocoincide with International Women’sDay, March 8.

The response was positive. Schools began to host their own Women’s His-tory Week programs. The next year,leaders from the California groupshared their project at a Women’sHistory Institute at Sarah LawrenceCollege. Other participants not onlydetermined to begin their own localWomen’s History Week projects, butagreed to support an effort to haveCongress declare a national Women’sHistory Week.

Three years later, the United StatesCongress passed a resolution estab-lishing National Women’s HistoryWeek. Co-sponsors of the resolution,demonstrating bipartisan support,were Senator Orrin Hatch, a Repub-lican from Utah, and RepresentativeBarbara Mikulski, a Democrat fromMaryland.

This encouraged even wider par-ticipation in Women’s History Week.Schools focused for that week on spe-cial projects and exhibitions honoringwomen in history. Organizations spon-sored talks on women’s history. The

National Women’s History Project be-gan distributing materials specicallydesigned to support Women’s HistoryWeek, as well as materials to enhancethe teaching of history through theyear, to include notable women andwomen’s experience.

In 1987, at the request of the

National Women’s History Project,Congress expanded the week to amonth, and the U.S. Congress hasissued a resolution every year since

then, with wide support, for Women’sHistory Month. The U.S. Presidentasks issues each year a proclamationof Women’s History Month.

To further extend the inclusion of women’s history in the history curric-ulum (and in everyday consciousnessof history), the President’s Commis-sion on the Celebration of Women inHistory in America met through the1990’s. One result has been the ef-fort towards establishing a NationalMuseum of Women’s History for the Washington, DC, area, where itwould join other museums such as theAmerican History Museum.

The purpose of Women’s HistoryMonth is to increase consciousnessand knowledge of women’s history:to take one month of the year to re-member the contributions of notableand ordinary women, in hopes that theday will soon come when it’s impos-sible to teach or learn history withoutremembering these contributions.

As the Women’s History Guide atAbout, I focus on women’s history366 days a year. To honor this specialmonth, I encourage you to explorethis site, learning more about oneimportant aspect of the history of all

people. Women’s history isn’t just for women, although many women ndthat studying women’s history helpsthem realize that women’s place iseverywhere.

Text copyright 1999-2005 © Jone Johnson Lewis

-from about.com

Celebrating March Women’s History Month



February 22, 2006

E DITORIALS

ZACH AMAN Assistant Editor-in-Chief

Editorials Editor

CHASE HOFFMAN News Editor

CHRIS LIGHTEntertainment Editor

BRUCE BUGBEESports Editor

CERICIA MARTINEZFeatures Editor

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APPLIED SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

The Oredigger is the historical record of CSM, and encouragessubmissions of all kinds. However, the Oredigger has the right toedit submissions for content deemed libelous, obscene, or content

which condones illegal activity.Content in the garlic and editorials sections are strictly the

opinions of the authors, and do not represent the views of theOredigger or the Colorado School of Mines. Letters to the editor may be printed, provided they are signed, however the Oredigger will protect the privacy of all submitters who request any form of anonymity. All submissions, news or editorial, should be providedelectronically to [email protected].

Letter tothe Editor

“Don’t let the door hit them in the ass.” This was the response to a ColoradoSchool of Mines student’s question to the Board of Trustees regarding the pos-sibility of losing professors over the presidential search.

This attitude reects the Board’s position with regard to the groups on thiscampus. The faculty, alumni, department heads and classied employees haveall decried the Board’s decision to run a closed presidential search process.

Yet, the Board continues glazing over the issues with trite e-mails thankingus for our interest and encouraging us to nominate candidates.

The Board cites right to privacy issues as the cause of the closed searchformat. But the Board, despite repeated requests, has never explained how theyarrived at the conclusion that privacy is impossible to maintain using a traditionalsearch committee consisting of campus constituencies, even though the vastmajority of educational institutions use this time honored method.

Let this be a warning to any incoming presidential candidates or faculty. TheBoard of Trustees at CSM has fostered a hostile relationship between themselvesand the rest of campus. In doing so, they have no doubt lost qualied presidentialcandidates, and stand ready to lose highly respected faculty on this campus.

-Kyle Fitzpatrick, Student

I think Kyle raises an interesting point here. The fact of the matter isthat the Colorado School of Minescommunity really doesn’t have any information about the Board’s searchfor Presidential candidates. In a let-ter to the editor – published on Janu-ary 25, 2006 in the Oredigger – CSMAssociate Professor Colin Woldenmade a few remarkable points aboutthe presidential search:

“By law the Presidential SearchCommittee would enjoy the samelatitude as the BOT with respect tothe use of executive session. Fur-thermore, condentiality was notan issue in the last CSM search. Inaddition, the University of Coloradois governed by the same laws and isemploying an “open-process” in itssearch for a new chancellor. Thus,the primary justication for the BOTto act alone as the search commit-tee is baseless. Their action raised anumber of difcult questions:

-What is the real motivation behind their action?

-Did Dr. Nyikos mislead thecampus community intentionally, or out of ignorance?

-Which is worse? and regardless,Is either acceptable from the leader of CSM?

The Faculty’s answer to the lastquestion is an unequivocal no. Itwas this action, the deliberate disen-franchisement of CSM’s most vitalconstituencies, and the subsequentmishandling of the PresidentialSearch that compelled the Faculty totake the exceptional step of castingits no condence vote.”

What I nd most amusing aboutthis entire string of events is thatevery member save Dr. Nyikos hasacted completely out of observa-tional status. Moreover, nobody – nostudent, no reporter, no professor

– currently has enough informa-tion to construct an informed andeducated opinion; for this reason, Ind these overly-opinionated piecesmore comical than informative.

Now, I’m neither condoningnor condemning the actions of Dr.

Nyikos simply because I, too, amvoid of all information. One hatesto be the pragmatist in an emotional

battle, but where’s the fire? TheBoard attempted the search usingconventional methods and it wasn’t

successful. Is the CSM community – or, rather, are particular membersof the CSM community – really that untrustworthy?

I don’t think anyone can readthe above quote and believe it lacksconviction. Rather, it’s one of themost pointed and articulate opinionsI’ve read in awhile. Honestly, I think it’s a fascinating insight into thehuman psyche. So, let’s rst restate

the idea that nobody – no student, noreporter, no professor – currently hasenough information to construct aninformed and educated opinion.

That said, what could possibly bethe cause of all this fuss? Honestly,I believe these emotions stem froma few key points:

•Some people have an innateyearning to battle, whether it beverbally or physically

•The majority of the populoushas a very sheepish tendency

•A person who engages in moral battle will typically view themselvesin a realm of moral righteousnessand, therefore, justify their actions

by “ghting the good ght.” Thus,they feel better as individuals.

While people generally exercisean amount of complacency and apa-thy, it doesn’t take much to rile them.Moreover, if an individual feels thatthey have one audience member

by simply speaking, two momentslater they’ll have a speaker systemand a room full . It follows that old

principle, give a mouse a cookie andthey’ll want a glass of milk.

Ergo, the true majority of theCSM community needs to put theseextreme opinions in context. Thesimplest solution is if everybodywould simply do what they’re paidto do. Opinions are always encour-aged, but the more we all intertwineour thoughts and, subsequently,our responsibilities, the more theefciency and effectiveness of theinstitution as a whole decreases.

-Zach AmanEditorials Editor

A Few Thoughts...Hundreds of Afghan students

shouted support on Monday for Osama bin Laden and threatened to

join al Qaeda during a protest againstcartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

In an attempt to cool the contro-versy after a weekend of rioting incountries including Nigeria, where28 people were killed, and Libya,where 11 died, Pope Benedict said theworld’s religions and their symbolshad to be respected.

Pakistan’s main Islamic alliancevowed to broaden its campaign withmore protests targeted at the U.S. andPakistani presidents.

The protest in the eastern Afghancity of Jalalabad passed off withoutviolence. Students gathered at theuniversity campus chanted ̀ `Death toDenmark,’’ ``Death to America’’ and‘’Death to France,’’ a witness said.

They also shouted support for alQaeda leaders Osama bin Laden andAyman al Zawahri.

Shouting ``Death to Karzai,’’ theydemanded President Hamid Karzaiclose the embassies of Denmark, theUnited States and France and expeltheir forces from Afghanistan.

`Ìf they abuse the Prophet of Islamagain we will all become al Qaeda,’’the students shouted.

Two weeks ago in Afghanistan, atleast 10 people were killed in severaldays of protests over the cartoons butviolent demonstrations there havelargely petered out.

VIOLENCE

The cartoons, rst published ina Danish newspaper last year andreprinted in European papers, havesparked worldwide protests by Mus-

lims who believe it is blasphemous todepict the Prophet.

In a speech to the new Moroccanambassador to the Vatican, the Popesaid: ̀ Ìn order to promote peace andunderstanding between peoples andmankind it is both vital and urgentthat religions and their symbols arerespected and that believers are notthe object of provocations that woundtheir religious feelings.’’

``However, intolerance and vio-lence can never be justified as aresponse to any offence, because it isa response that is incompatible withthe sacred principles of religion,’’he added.

Some 56 people have been killedand at least 280 injured in the protests,half of them in northern Nigeria. Inthe deadliest protests this weekend,at least 28 people died in riots in twoMuslim states in northern Nigeria.

A Red Cross official said onMonday the death toll from the riotsin Maiduguri, where 21 people werekilled, could rise further as some of the 207 people hurt were in criticalcondition. Troops patrolled the capitalof the northeastern state of Borno to

prevent further violence.About a dozen churches, 200

shops, 50 houses and 100 vehicleswere razed or vandalized by protestersin Maiduguri who ran wild after policered teargas to disperse them.

Protests continued on Monday. Inthe Hindu kingdom of Nepal, about5,000 Muslims marched throughthe western town of Nepalgunj and

presented a memorandum to the chief bureaucrat of the town. ``Punish thecartoonist,’’ some of them shouted.

MORE PAKISTAN PROTESTS

Pakistan’s main Islamic alliance,the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA),said on Monday it would broaden itscampaign. Five people died in protestsin Pakistan last week.

Qazi Hussain Ahmed, president of the MMA, was held under house arrestin Lahore at the weekend to preventhim leading a rally in the capital Is-lamabad on Sunday.

After his release on Monday hecalled publication of the cartoons inEuropean newspapers ``part of theclash of civilizations led by (U.S.President George W.) Bush.’’

``Therefore our movement isagainst Bush as well as againstMush,’’ he told a news brieng, re-ferring to Pakistani President PervezMusharraf, a key ally in Bush’s war on terrorism.

A countrywide protest is plannedfor Friday, another in Lahore on Sun-day and a nationwide general strikeon March 3.

Further protests are planned andcould coincide with a visit to Pakistan

by Bush, expected in early March,although no dates for that visit haveyet been announced.

Last week, a Pakistani Muslimcleric and his followers offeredrewards amounting to over $1 mil-lion for anyone who killed Danishcartoonists who drew the Prophetcaricatures. The cartoonists are under

police protection.Denmark and Norway on Monday

condemned the bounty. `Ìt’s murder and murder is also forbidden by theKoran,’’ Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller said.

Afghan CartoonProtesters Threaten to

Join Al QaedaCourtesy of the New York Times

Another Quick Thought...Perhaps, the best way to ght terrorism doesn’t consist of fancy military weaponry or massive policy changes. Perhaps,

the best way is to simply stop alienating the rest of the world! These people don’t hate us for our freedom, George, theyhate us because we outright insult them through a pure lack of respect for their culture.



February 22, 2006

E DITORIALS

Over the past few weeks, Europeand the Muslim world have facedincreasing protests, marked in partsof the Arab world by arson, deaththreats and the killing of demonstra-tors. The catalyst is not Americanstorturing detainees in an Iraqi prison,or an Israeli assault on a Palestiniantown, or Western threats against Iranover its nuclear program. It is a seriesof cartoons, including images of theProphet Muhammad, published in aDanish newspaper. But it is no laugh-ing matter.

The crisis began simmering after the cartoons were published on Sep-tember 30 by the right-wing dailyJyllands-Posten. Even leaving asidethe Islamic stricture against visualrepresentations of the Prophet, it isnot surprising that the cartoons of-fended Denmark’s Muslim minor-ity--not to mention many Danes whorespect their Muslim neighbors. Inone cartoon Muhammad’s turban isa bomb; in another a turbaned gurein heaven implores a group of suicide

bombers to stop because “we ran outof virgins!” Muslim clerics in Co-

penhagen denounced the cartoons intheir sermons, demonstrations wereorganized to demand an apology andambassadors from Muslim countriesrequested meetings with officials.Denmark’s prime minister defendedthe paper’s right to publish the car-toons on free-speech grounds andrefused to meet with Danish Muslimsor Muslim ambassadors.

By late January Danish embassiesthroughout the Middle East wereattracting angry crowds. In a showof solidarity with Jyllands-Posten,newspapers throughout Europe ranthe cartoons, detonating even morefurious reactions, from rioting andarson in Beirut and Kabul to an Ira-nian newspaper’s Holocaust cartooncontest. What had begun as a localaffair had developed into a seemingshowdown between Europe (por-

trayed as either liberal and tolerantor anti-Muslim and neocolonialist)and Islam (portrayed as either vic-timized and proud or backward andrepressive)--a cardboard “clash of civilizations” deeply gratifying tothe right-wing Europeans and radicalIslamists who had fanned the amesof Copenhagen.

It mattered little that the attackswere roundly condemned by moderateMuslims like scholar Tariq Rama-dan, who, writing in the Guardian,deplored the recklessness of govern-ments that seized upon the cartoonsto “bolster their Islamic legitimacyin the eyes of the public,” or thatliberal European journalists like NealAscherson pilloried Jyllands-Postenfor inaming Muslim sensitivities.Thanks to an unholy convergence of actions by a right-wing newspaper and radical Muslims--helped along

by a cynical prime minister and Eu-ropean newspapers that misleadinglytreated the matter as simply a contestover free speech--the Danish cartoonscandal has exploded into an interna-tional crisis.

There is, to be sure, no moralequivalence between the attacks onDanish embassies and the publication(or republication) of a cartoon, how-ever offensive. Cartoons specializein overstatement, but while they maygive--intend to give--offense, theycause no casualties. It is, moreover,contradictory to condemn anti-Mus-lim bigotry while publishing anti-Se-mitic calumnies like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (regularly featuredin the Arabic media).

This magazine has historically been committed to freedom of speech,an essential principle that democraticsocieties have established over yearsof struggle, and we remain vigilantin its defense. Given attacks over theyears from within our own constitu-ency on cartoons by such esteemed

Nation artists as Edward Sorel, David

Levine and Robert Grossman, we atThe Nation know as well as anyonetheir power to iname emotions. De-fending free speech means defendingthe rights of those with whom wedisagree most profoundly, whether they are cartoonists who would haveus believe that Muhammad is theforefather of today’s suicide bombers,marchers who argue that “blasphemy”is not covered by freedom of speechor Holocaust revisionists on trial inEurope, where some speech is not

protected.The cartoon scandal is about much

more than freedom of speech. At itsheart the controversy is about power--the power of images; the power thatdivides Muslim and non-MuslimEuropeans, the West and the MiddleEast; the power of radical Islamists tosilence more moderate voices--and theresponsibility that comes with power.In today’s volatile political climate--charged by the wars in Afghanistanand Iraq, by Israel’s construction of the “separation wall” in Palestine, bythe controversy over the hijab and therevolt in the French banlieues, by thegrowth of anti-immigration politicsand radical Islam in “liberal” Europeand by the velocity with which newsand rumor travel on the Internet--the

point is not Jyllands-Posten’s right to publish but its editorial wisdom, itssense of civic responsibility.

But whether or not the publish-ing of the cartoons was a reckless

provocation, and whether or not theviolent response was manipulated

by Islamists, we must come to termswith the conditions that created thetinderbox. Cartoons embody larger

political and social issues. As GaryYounge notes in this issue, discrimina-tion against Muslims is an objectivefact: Racially motivated crimes inDenmark have recently doubled. After the cartoon crisis has passed, that truthwill remain.

The Cartoon BombCourtesy of The Nation

“It’s one thing to support the presi-dent but an entirely different matter tohave a Bush bumper sticker on your car.” And so it began — my wife’s ini-tiation into the loving, tolerant fold of liberal women acquaintances. She haddeclined an offer to help nance JohnKerry’s campaign. What a restorm!My poor wife had thought that liberalDemocrats epitomized free speech, thecivil exchange of ideas, diversity andinclusion. Rather than intellectualdiscourse, however, she found a lightshow of censorship, revulsion and hate.In a show of incredulous hostility, theyswarmed around her, called her namesand then left her to sit by herself. Inrecounting the day’s events, she told meshe had contracted “You-are-a-fascist-and are-alone-iosis.”

I confessed that I too had gotten the bug — my boss yelled at me and calledme a fascist. I think the kids have it too.Their elementary school newspaper car-ried an informal poll of well-informedstudents (K through 5) which listedreasons to love John Kerry and hateGeorge Bush. Deep within the network of caves buried under our community,a conspiracy is afoot to quarantine us.Rightly so. Who wants this disease?

The creation of an illusion thatsupport for the president is aberrant, isunsettling . . . but not surprising. Mywife’s pals represent a microcosm of liberal fantasy made real. Of course,her secret connections to Halliburtonare well known. She is milking the Iraqi

people. She hates poor people and offerssnide remarks about the handicapped.Beneath the various mysteries containedin every woman’s purse, tted snuglynext to her lipstick and Nazi identitycard, are her machine gun and Confed-erate ag. My wife staunchly supportsmarching off to any war without reason.She is delighted when we suffer casual-ties. She advocates unsafe abortion andhates gay people. Because she supportsthe Patriot Act, she hates free speech. Across hangs over the bed, even thoughshe is Jewish. She despises clean water.Saddam’s spider hole briefcase hangson her wall. She supports right-wingconspiracies of all shapes and sizes.But now that “You-are-a-fascist-andare-alone-iosis” has been confirmed

by laboratory rats, what to do? Sherequires an emergent eight point planof treatment:

1) She is right to feel alone, evenif Republicans control both houses of Congress, 2/3 of governorships (includ-ing our state’s governorship) and, ohyes, the presidency. She should hangher head in shame.

2) She is a fascist — she should just go with it.

3) She has a right to support the president, as long as she keeps it toherself. She has to lose the bumper sticker.

4) She should self-censor her thoughts and ideas: Her friends are far too busy with their social agendas tocontinuously provide this importantservice.

5) She is exclusive and intolerant — even more so since Republicansfreed the slaves and outvoted Democratsin support of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.She should crawl into a hole.

6) She must not take a black eyefor her beliefs: With all her war-like ag-gression, who has time? She must put a

bag over her head.7) She must give all of her money

away — after all, her friends give their money away...to their children and their

brokers.8) For her views — whatever they

are, she should be arrested, isolated,convicted and sentenced. After all, thatis the hallmark of judicial activism.

What do I really tell her? Liberalthought dees reality. Ideas are impulsedriven, emotional and certainly in thecase of my wife, shamefully wrong andhypocritical. In fact, she has the anti-disease. Accusations leveled against her are simply intolerable projections of her friends’ own shortcomings. They loathefree speech — unless it is their own, arewell connected, have plenty of money,speak ill of others less fortunate. Their notion of diversity is supercial. Their censorship skills are nely honed. I tellmy wife that feelings of isolation area contrived illusion — a smokescreencreated by those who have no truecore beliefs. I tell her that liberals arecollections of small clumps of desper-ate groups with varied agendas whoemerge en masse to fruitlessly screamand protest at rallies. But the stakes aretruly great. How ironic, I tell her, that theappeasing Bush hating “why can’t weall get along” party of Al Gore, NancyPelosi and Ted Kennedy dream of worldinvolvement in our nation’s affairs andwish to be guided by a bouquet of war-ring Third World nations . . . yet areso completely devoid of any ability totolerate differing views on even the mostlocal community level. The party of civility and inclusion is truly the party of shrieking instability, unabashed anger,inequality and emotionality.

My wife will not be nancing JohnKerry’s election bid. Who would wantthe support of someone with “You-are-a-fascist-and are-alone-iosis” anyway?

The LiberalDisease

Courtesy of The Washington Times



February 22, 2006

E NTERTAINMENT

Arriving ShortlyChase Hoffman

February 24 th

Madea’s Family ReunionLions Gate Films

Drama/Comedy, Rated PG-13

Starring: Tyler Perry, Blair Underwood, Lynn Whiteld

Directed by Tyler Perry(also directed Diary of a Mad

Black Woman )Summary: Madea is back

and she’s having a family re-union. Like all family reunions,this is an invitation to dramaand a little mayhem as wellas outdoor BBQ and water-melon.

Impression: Personally, I’m

sick of Tyler Perry. If you’veliked his stuff before, ignorewhat I have to say. If you’re myside, then you’ll probably en-

joy having your wisdom teeth pulled more than this lm.

DoogalThe Weinstein CompanyFamily, Rated GStarring: Daniel Tay, Jimmy

Fallon, Jon Stewart, WhoopiGoldberg, Chevy Chase

Directed by Jean Duval,Frank Pass ingham, DaveBorthwick

Summary: Legends tells of three magic stones to rule theworld and only one fearless

warrior can stop the unimagi-nable evil. Doogal (Tay) mustlead an odd fellowship to ndand secure these mystical

jewels.Impression: That summary

is almost like the introduction

to the trailer. I swear this is aG rated rip off of the Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the

Ring . The weird part is thatsome kids will watch this andmarvel because they don’tknow the truth of this plot

piracy.

Running Scared New Line CinemaAction/Drama, Rated R Starring: Paul Walker,

Chazz PalminteriDirected by Wayne Kramer

(also directed The Cooler )Summary: A particular

pistol was used to kill a dirtycop is now out of the handsof the mob responsible, andJoey (Walker) must clean upthe mess before he’s sleepingwith the shes.

Impression: Usually, PaulWalker makes my eyes roll,

but I’m changing my stance.If you’ve liked mob lms be-fore, this one will be up your alley. Say “fuh-ged-abaut-it”to what you used to think of Mr. Walker (at least this onetime).

March 3 rd

16 BlocksWarner Bros.Action/Drama, Rated PG-

13Starring: Bruce Willis, Mos

Def, David MorseDirected by Richard Donner

(also directed Lethal Weapon1-4 )

Summary: Ol’ Jack Mos-ley (Willis) has to carry out aroutine task of transporting awitness (Mos Def) 16 blocks sothat he can testify. This trip isanything but routine when dirtycops attempt to stop them byany means in order to protecttheir names.

Impression: There’s a lot tolike here. Richard Donner is

back from the dead and he’s gotanother cop movie. A great castshould enhance the intriguing

plot and make for a very enjoy-

able experience.

Block PartyFocus FeaturesDocumentary/Comedy, Rat-

ed R Starring: Dave Chappelle,

Mos Def, Lauryn HillDirected by Michel Gondry

(also directed Eternal Sunshineof the Spotless Mind )

Summary: Dave Chappellehosts a large party featuring hiscomedic routines and musicalguests.

Impression: Plain and simple - you will like this basedon how well you receive DaveChappelle: “I’m rich biatch!”

UltravioletColumbia TriStar Action, Rated PG-13Starring: Milla Jovovich,

Cameron BrightDirected by Kurt Wimmer

(also directed Equilibrium )Summary: A group of hu-

mans have been “infected”with hemophagia which givesthem super abilities. Healthy

humans mean to wipe themout. Leading the charge againstthe genocide, Violet (Jovovich)takes names and kicks ass.

Impression: This is along thelines of Aeon Flux , but I assurethis should be better. Jovovichis hotter, the action should bemore creative, fully equippedwith weird future names andfuturistic guns. Good ol’ fash-ion action lm.

AquamarineTeen Comedy, Rated PGStarring: Emma Roberts,

JoJo, Sara PaxtonDirected by Elizabeth Al-

lenSummary: A pair of teen-

age girlfriends stumble upona mermaid and attempt to helpher nd love.

Impression: This is cheesyas all get-out. This movie willhave less action than grassgrowing, the drama of paintdrying and the creativity of aWill Smith song.

February 23

9:30PM, Ballrooms A&B

March 02

Movie NightPresented by MAC and Student Activities



February 22, 2006

E NTERTAINMENT

The organizers for this year’sSounds of the Underground Tour; PaulConroy and Carl Severson of FerretMusic, Tim Borror, Larry Mazer of Entertainment Services, with NationalPromoter House of Blues along with

partners Metal Blade, Trustkill andProsthetic Records, The Syndicate,Music Choice, and tour sponsors HotTopic, Revolver Magazine, EulogyRecords are Proud to announce theofcial lineup of the sophomore na-tional tour engagement: The SoundsOf The Underground 2006 with As ILay Dying, In Flames, Trivium, Can-nibal Corpse, Gwar, Terror, The Black Dahlia Murder, Behemoth, The Chariotand Through The Eyes Of The Dead.

For seven weeks last summer, theunderground rose up and the peopleocked in droves as 23 independentMetal, hardcore, black metal, deathmetal, thrash, and metalcore bandsunited to spread their piercing in-dividual sounds across the land. In2005, the premiere Sounds of theUnderground tour was so successful,in fact, that by the end of the journeythere was little doubt that the showwould become an annual event. The

Imagine you are watching thetrailer for this movie and you arereminded of the Scary Movie series.You remember how much you likedthose lms. Then you see that 2 of the 6 writers helped make DateMovie . Well, Date Movie is about

two sixths as good, because thesetwo nut jobs are the retarded onesand the other four deserve all thecredit.

But you must think: parodiesare simple...how can it be that bad?Well you need something called“creativity.” Most of the parodiesinvolve a simple reference and

Bad DateChase Hoffman

exaggeration. No twist, spin, or evolvement. In fact some of the

jokes were plain stupid, weird,and/or disgusting. The worst

part was that they obviously had plenty of material. Romanticcomedies are plentiful, eachcarrying quirks and memorablemoments.

Truth be told, this will godown as one of the worst moviesof all time in my book. I believethat a blind monkey with a bro-ken camera could make a better lm.

Tour dates:Every Time I Die w/ Bleeding

Through, Between the Buried and Me,Haste the Day:

2/11 – The New Oasis – Reno, NV

2/15 – The Avalon – Hollywood,CA

2/16 – The Pound – San Fran-cisco, CA

2/17 – The Pound – San Fran-cisco, CA

2/18 – Loveland – Portland, OR 2/19 – Neumo’s – Seattle, WA2/21 – The Venue – Boise, ID2/23 – Cervantes masterpiece

Ballroom – Denver, CO

2/24 – Sokol Underground – Oma-ha, NE

2/25 – Station 4 – St. Paul, MN2/26 – House of Blues – Chicago,

IL2/28 – Pop’s – Sauget, IL3/01 – Headliner’s Music Hall

– Louisville, KY3/02 – St. Andrews Hall – Detroit,

MI3/03 – Town Ballroom – Buffalo,

EVERY TIME I DIE CONTINUE TO TOUR! ETID ON BLEEDING THROUGH TOUR! WARPED TOUR!

After being awarded the best album of the year by Revolver, Every Time I Die kick started 2006 as direct support for Story of the Year. ETID will continue the life as Special Guests of Bleeding Through with Haste the Day, and Betweenthe Buried and Me also on the bill. What is ETID’s summer plans? WARPED TOUR!!!

Don’t miss out! Here’s what the New York Times have to say on the band:“Revolver’s year end issue offers a smart and pleasingly tendentious survey of the year in heavy music; the erce,

swaggering Buffalo band Every Time I Die takes the tope place lauded for ‘wearing its sleezy heart on it’s sleeve.’ for listeners in the place where heavy music meets avant-garde.”

Current Roster:

A Life Once Lost – Hunter – Ferret MusicAs I Lay Dying – Shadows Are Security - Metal Blade, On TASTE OF CHAOS TOUR Black on Black - Tribute to Black Flag 3/14 ReIgnition RecordsChildren of Bodom -Are You Dead Yet? -Spine FarmDemiricous - ONE - Metal Blade 1/24Devildriver - The Fury Of Our Makers Hand - Roadrunner Records, on tour with Trivium and InamesEvery Time I Die - Gutter Phenomenon - Ferret Music, on tour with Bleeding Through and Haste The Day + Warped

Haste The Day - When Everything Falls -Tooth and Nail, on tour w/ ETID and Bleeding ThroughLamb of God

Nothing Face

Paul Booth - www.darkimages.comSilent Civilian – Featuring Jonny Santos vocalist of Spineshank - Media Skare Records 4/18Spitre - Self-Help - GoodfellowRecords (featuring members of Norma Jean and Scarlet)Sworn Enemy - The Beginning Of The End - Abacus Recordings 1/24/06 on tour Six Feet Under and AnimosityWicked Wisdom - 2/21/06 100% Womon Records10 Years - The Autumn Effect - Republic/Universal3 - Wake Pig - Metal Blade

NY3/04 – Peabody’s Down Under

– Cleveland, OH3/05 – Phoenix Concert Theatre

– Toronto, ONT3/06 – Club Soda – Montreal,

QC3/08 – Saratoga Winners – Latham,

NY3/09 – Irving Plaza – New York,

NY3/10 – The Pallad ium – Worcester,

MA3/11 – The Stone Pony – Asbury

Park, NJ3/12 – Theatre of Living Arts

– Philadelphia, PA

3/14 – Nation – Washington DC3/15 – Norva Theater – Norfolk,

VA3/16 – Tremont Music Hall – Char-

lotte, NC3/17 – Ground Zero – Spartan-

burg, SC3/18 – Rocketown – Nashville,

TN3/19 – Fuel – Jacksonville, FL3/21 – Hard Rock Live – Orlando,

Tour Dates and Info

FL3/22 – Culture Room – Ft. Lau-

derdale, FL3/23 – The Masquerade – Tampa,

FL3/24 – The Masquerade - Atlanta,

GA3/25 – Gypsy Ballroom – Dal-

las, TX3/26 – Meridian – Houston, TX3/27 – White Rabbit – San Anto-

nio, TX3/28 – The Zone – El Paso, TX3/30 – Marquee Theatre – Tempe,

AZ3/31 – Soma – San Diego, CA4/01 – House of Blues – Anaheim,

CA

Every Time I Die meet & greets:3/02 – Taylor, MI – T-shirt Place3/24 – Buford, GA – Mall of

Georgia

For more info: Adrenaline PR:Maria Ferrero 732-462-4262 or [email protected]

only question was who would be onthe bill. Now, at long last, the secretcan be revealed.

Once again, the tour will feature awide array of bands from a variety of genre, SOTU proudly announces thisyear’s headliner Southern California

based As I Lay Dying, Florida deathmetal legends Cannibal Corpse, Swed-ish melodic death metal veterans InFlames and Florida neo-thrash metalchampions Trivium will be amongthose featured on the tour .

Also on the bill will be Detroit

modern death metal marauders Black Dahlia Murder, Polish black metalvirtuosos Behemoth and (former

Norma Jean Vocalist latest band) TheChariot and South Carolina death metalrevivalists Through The Eyes Of TheDead . Returning from last year tospread their sickness once again is Ant-arctica’s alien metal band GWAR, alsoreturning for the entire run of SOTU2006 is Southern California hardcorehooligans Terror. Additional artistsmay join in the upcoming weeks.

One of the organizers and Ferret

Music Partner Paul Conroy states,

“We are very excited for this year’sSounds of the Underground,” saysPaul Conroy, “Artists such as As I LayDying, In Flames, Cannibal Corpse andTerror all show the diversity within theheavy music scene that we are proudto have represent our tour. From top to

bottom this bill will have somethingfor everyone.”

In order to keep concertgoers chargedand focused and grant them more ex-

posure to the bands on the bill, Soundsof the Underground has reduced thesize of its lineup and increased thelength of the set times. As a result,each performance will be more like amini-concert instead of a variety showappearance.

Cities conrmed thusfar for Sounds of the Undergroundinclude Denver, St. Louis, Chicago,Detroit, Toronto, Sayreville, Philadel-

phia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, andvenues in Texas, New England andWestern Canada. Tickets are expectedto go on sale in late March.

For more info:Adrenaline PR: Maria Ferrero 732-

462-4262 or [email protected]

Sounds Of TheUnderground Tour

Roll out that red carpet, dry clean your tux, and prepare your acceptancespeech. The 78 th Academy Awards is just over the horizon. Last year w as lled

with a denite variety of lms and each nominee deserves the credit associatedwith it. First of all, this year will be hosted by the one and only Jon Stewart. Lastyear was hosted by Chris Rock. Producers were apprehensive and imposed a 5second delay, but he turned out to be a chihuahua with a m uzzle. If you haven’ttried to endure this glitzy marathon, this might be the year to try it. Here are my

predictions for the major categories.

Best Supporting ActressOutside Chance: Rachel Weisz in The Constant Gardener Better Chance : Michelle Williams in Brokeback MountainWorst Chance: Amy Adams in Junebug

Best Supporting Actor Outside Chance: Paul Giamatti in Cinderella ManBetter Chance: Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback MountainWorst Chance: George Clooney in Syriana

Best ActressOutside Chance: Charlize Theron in North CountryBetter Chance: Reese Witherspoon in Walk the LineWorst Chance: Keira Knightley in Pride & Prejudice

Best Actor Outside Chance: Heather Ledger in Brokeback MountainBetter Chance: Phillip Seymour Hoffman in CapoteWorst Chance: Terrence Howard in Hustle & Flow

Best Directing Outside Chance: David Cronenberg for A History of ViolenceBetter Chance: Ang Lee for Brokeback MountainWorst Chance: Paul Haggis for Crash

Best PictureOutside Chance: Capote Better Chance: Brokeback MountainWorst Chance: Munich

After doing some research on polls and infusing my personal views, I be-lieve this is the best scenario for the dishing out of golden men. It appears to

be stacked in favor of those cowboys who don’t know how to quit each other.In the next issue in “Arriving Shortly,” I will publish my accuracy. The systemfor that will be simple: two points for correct on “Better Chance,” one point for “Outside Chance,” and minus one point for “Worst Chance.” I’ll take my total

points and divide them by maximum possible (twelve).

OscarPredictions

Chase Hofman



February 22, 2006

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February 22, 2006

S PORTS

Track & FieldDominate Meets

Golden, Colo. - The ColoradoSchool of Mines track and eld teamswere split into half Friday night as

some stayed to compete in the CSMTwilight Meet while others traveled toThe University of Nebraska to com-

pete in the Prairie Wolf Invitational.Mines had one provisional quali-

er on the night, while three individualsimproved their previous provisionalqualifying times.

In Nebraska, Senior Heather Beresford (Colorado Springs, Colo./Lewis Palmer) ran to a provisionalmark in the women’s 800 meterswith a time of 2:13.50 which put her second overall and rst for DivisionII runners. Beresford also ran to asecond place overall finish in thewomen’s mile improving her previ-ous time of 4:52.66 to 4:52.30, shewas also rst for Division II runners

in the mile.Junior Joel Hamilton (ColoradoSprings, Colo./Liberty) improved histime in the men’s 5000 meters from a14:41.63 to a 14:32.06. Hamilton wasrst for collegiate runners, nishingsecond only behind his coach, ArtSiemers who won the race in 14:19.

Also improving his nationalqualifying time was Larry McDaris(Colorado Springs, Colo./Palmer),McDaris won the men’s mile with atime of 4:08.82 besting his previoustime of 4:1.79.

While these three had great perfor-mances in Nebraska others were alsocompeting well here in Golden at theTwilight Meet.

Two women ran to victories in

their events. Sydney Laws won thewomen’s 800 meter with a time of 2:30.32 while teammate CourtneyRohde won the women’s mile with atime of 5:37.98.

Orediggers Daniel Huck ran tovictory in the men’s 800 meter ina time of 1:59.57, while thrower Colin Donohue also got a victoryin the weight throw with a distanceof 15.25.

Most of Mines track and fieldathletes will wrap up their indoor sea-son this coming weekend when theywill compete in the Rocky MountainAthletic Conference Championshipsheld in Chadron, Neb. For a few, itwill be preparation for the Nationalmeet which will be March 11-14 inBoston, Mass.

Joel Hamilton

Mines Men Defeat UNKMoores Leads Orediggers to Decisive Victory

GOLDEN, Colo. - The ColoradoSchool of Mines men’s basketballteam raced out to a 12-0 lead veminutes into the game and never relinquished a double digit lead enroute to a 70-57 win over Nebraska-Kearney in Rocky Mountain Ath-letic Conference action Saturdaynight in Volk Gymnasium.

The Orediggers, who posted 12 blocked shots, held UNK to 25 per-cent (16-63) shooting and a seasonlow in points (57). The Lopers cameinto the contest as the highest scor-ing team in the conference at 81.0

points per game.

Junior center Clayton Moores(Denver, Colo./Ranum) posted 11

points, seven rebounds and seven blocked shots to lead CSM. Junior center Ian Elseth (Grants Pass,Ore./Snow JC) added a game-best20 points, while freshman guardKyle Pape (Honolulu, Hawaii/Io-lani) chipped in 13 points and six

boards.UNK (19-6, 14-3 RMAC) was

led by Dusty Jura who recorded 10 points and nine rebounds.

CSM will return to action onFriday night when it hosts Regis at8:00 pm in Volk Gymnasium.Clayton Moores

UNK Squeaks by CSMWomen B-Ball Suffers Heartbreak at Home

Golden, Colo. - The ColoradoSchool of Mines Women’s basket-

ball team lost what was a muchneeded win Saturday night to TheUniversity of Nebraska-Kearney59-3.

In what was a hard fought battle the entire way through, theOrediggers watched a possible winslip away in the last seconds of thegame. A heartbreaker is what itcould be called, as the Orediggershad the Lopers within two beforereferee calls put the Lopers up

by seven with only nine seconds

remaining.Mines was highlighted by Se-

nior Ashley Gronewoller (PagosaSprings, Colo./Pagosa Springs)who broke yet another schoolrecord. After breaking the recordfor most career rebounds earlier this season, Gronewoller brokethe record for most career points,ending the night with 17 and 1,364in her career. Gronewoller brokeKelly Hadley’s record of 1,349.She also added 12 rebounds to her record breaking night.

Also scoring in double figures

for the Orediggers were AngelaPearson (Arvada, Colo./Maranath)who had 13 points along withseven rebounds, and Iva Tomova(Varna, Bulgaria/ NortheasternJ.C.) who had 11.

The Lopers were led by LizFischers 17 points.

CSM will return to action nextweekend with their last two regular season games. Game times are onFriday and Saturday at 6:00 pm atVolk Gymnasium.

CSM DropsRoad Series

PORTALES, N.M. - The ColoradoSchool of Mines baseball team pickedup one win in four games during anonconference series at Eastern NewMexico over the weekend at Grey-hound Field.

ENMU (7-1) won Friday’s opener,12-9, and also won the rst game onSaturday’s doubleheader, 5-3. TheOrediggers rallied to take Saturday’snightcap, 11-2, behind a strong pitch-

ing performance from junior MattThome (Espanola, N.M./Los Ala-mos). However, ENMU scored onerun in the bottom of the ninth to winSunday’s nale, 7-6.

Thome went all seven innings andallowed just two runs on two hits.He also fanned nine batters. Fresh-man pitcher Jared Osif (Lakewood,Colo./Green Mountain) was strong inhis relief effort in the series opener. Inhis rst collegiate action, Osif went 5

1/3 innings and allowed three runs,two earned, on six hits and struck out three.

Sophomore second basemanMatt Owens (Highlands Ranch,Colo./ThunderRidge) and sophomoreshortstop Caleb Rudkin (Fort Collins,Colo./Fort Collins) led the way at the

plate for CSM as each hit .444 (8-18)in the series.

Owens also contributed ve runs,

a double and ve RBI, while Rudkinscored four times and drove in four more.

CSM (2-5) will return to actionthis weekend when it hosts CentralWashington for a four-game seriesat CSM Field. The teams will playa pair of doubleheaders on Saturdayand Sunday beginning at 12:00 pmeach day

Matt Thome

Winter Olympics 2006Germany Leads Medal Race; Norway,

Austria and United States Close Behind

Country Total Medals Gold Silver BronzeGermany 18 7 7 4

Norway 17 2 7 8

Austria 15 7 5 3

United States 15 7 5 3

Russia 14 7 2 5

Canada 14 3 6 5

Switzerland 8 2 2 4

South Korea 7 3 3 1

Italy 7 3 0 4

Sweden 7 2 2 3

China 7 1 2 4

France 6 3 1 2

Netherlands 6 2 2 2

Finland 6 0 3 3

Estonia 3 3 0 0

Croatia 3 1 2 0

CzechRepublic

2 0 2 0

Ukraine 2 0 0 2

Australia 1 1 0 0

Bulgaria 1 0 1 0

Great Britain 1 0 1 0

Slovakia 1 0 1 0

Latvia 1 0 0 1

Medal Count as of 2/20/06



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