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February 9, 2015
Lucy Orsi
Editor-in-Chief
Faculty Spotlight:
Angie Sower
Figure 1: The distribution of virgins and sexually active Mines students who lost their virgnity at Mines.
For example, the female red column shows that roughly 28 percent of women who answered the survey
are not virgins but were virgins when they came to Mines. Within the subset of women who said they
were not virgins, 38 percent were virgins when they arrived at Mines.
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Massachusetts, USA - Scientists at OpenBiome company are now accepting paid donations of fecal matter or poop. The nonprot organization is
paying for fecal samples in order to create fecal transplant treatments with
those infected with the disease, Clostridium dicile. This disease is highly resistant to antibiotics and can result in severe diarrhea. It causes 14,000 deaths in
America each year. The infected patients will receive a transplant of the donor
fecal matter into their gut. This treatment is predicted to be extremely successfully and researchers estimate that 1 person can be treated with 50 grams of
donated fecal matter. However, donor candidates must live Massachusetts and
meet many requirements, such as age, BMI, etc. Currently, the rate is $40 per
donation, which comes to a whopping $13,000 per year.
Oredigger Staff
Lucy Orsi
Editor-in-Chief
Emily McNair
Managing Editor
Taylor Polodna
Design Editor
Connor McDonald
Webmaster
Amos Gwa
Business Manager
Katerina Gonzales
Content Manager
Karen Gilbert
Faculty Advisor
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investments by telecommunication rms after laying down copper and DSL lines. The mother of
a 17 year old girl who was shot
by Denver police following a car
theft is seeking an independent
autopsy to dispute the statement
given by police. The 17 year old
suspect was allegedly trying to
run over the ocers and the police report that they red on the
stolen vehicle because of this.
The incident marks the fourth time
in seven months that Denver police have red upon a vehicle after perceiving it a physical threat.
The order of events is important in
understanding this case because
of a Supreme Court decision that
states that police can only respond to a eeing suspect with
deadly force if the suspect poses
a physical danger.
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Local News
A Denver-based startup,
Mod Couples, is helping connect couples with non-Netix
things other couples in town
recommend. Co-founder Caley Mitchell said in a news relase
Its so easy to get caught up
in the same routines and patterns, and ModCouples is a reminder that relationships need
attention and spontaneity.
The Denver Police Bomb
Squad responded to a suspicious package report on Monday morning at the 12000
block of East 46th Avenue. The
package was determined to be
a non-threat.
Aspen police are defending the use of force against a
teen who was rolling a joint at
a public bus stop. Police chief
Richard Pryor says that his ofcers responded appropriately
and that the teen was resisting arrest. Several videos were
captured by nearby bystanders
that were concerned for the
use of excessive force.
18 Colorado RadioShack
stores are slated for closure
after RadioShack Corp. led
for Chapter 11 bankrupcy last
week.
Just after 1:30pm on Friday
the Golden Fire Department responded to the Ulysses Senior
Housing complex. The 83-yearold victim apparently ignited her
bed with a lit cigarette before
progressing to the bathroom
where she ultimately perished
due to smoke inhilation.
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Ethan Meeks
Staff Writer
Erica Dettmer-Radtke
Staff Writer
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Table 2: The number of responses from each sexual orientation categorized by gender.
Preferred methods of
contraception, see more
on page 5
Figure 2: Female
preferences
Figure 3: Male
preferences
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Last week, the Oredigger sent out an email to graduate and undergraduate students asking them to take a survey that was all about sex. The survey
asked students a series of questions ranging from topics like number of sexual
partners to the number of times per week students talk to their parents. A lot of
people participated, 3446 to be exact, though that includes a sizable number
of responses from some internet trolls. We recommend you read our editor-inchiefs article on the front page to give these results some context.
We asked participants around thirty questions, so there was a plethora of
data to sort through. This is only the beginning of our analysis. We wanted to do a really good job analyzing the results, so we decided to spread our
analysis across multiple issues. In this issue we focused on gender and
GPA and even then we had to cut out data due to space limitations. We
encourage you to check our website for a more complete look at the
data. We know this might be frustrating, but we spent nearly twenty hours on
analysis this weekend and we barely scratched the surface. We do feel bad for
delaying the results though, so we have decided to release the raw data...
sort of. See below for more information.
The answer here is pretty obvious: our results would not get published in
an academic journal. Having said that, the demographic distribution of the
responses we considered in our analysis is fairly consistent with what the
school actually reports. For instance, according to our schools enrollment
data, which can be found on the institutional research page of inside.mines.
edu, approximately 60 percent of enrolled students at Mines are Colorado
residents. On the survey we asked students to identify themselves as instate or out-of-state and 60 percent of individuals who responded to this
question indicated they were in-state students.
Our results also aligned with the expected distribution of majors, shown
in Figure 4. We pulled this information from the Career Centers website and
it only represents the graduating class, but it was the best we could nd.
As shown by the gure, our results align decently with the expected results,
indicating the data has some degree of reliability.
The survey data gets a bit more skewed in the gender department,
where 63.5 percent of individuals identied as male, 35.3 percent as female
and 1.2 percent as other. The school reports that only 27 percent of enrolled students are female.
There were also some other interesting holistic observations. For instance, the average GPAs for undergraduate men and women who took
the survey were equal at 3.170 and 3.165, respectively. We were never able
to track down an ocial statement or document from Mines stating what
the average GPA is now, but we did nd an article from Mines Magazine
published in the spring of 2010 that reported an average female GPA of 3.0
versus an average male GPA of 2.9.
Next, while only 13 percent of survey respondents identied as graduate
students, the remainder were evenly split with roughly 22 percent identifying
in each of the class categories (freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors).
We were unable to nd a breakdown of class sizes at Mines, but we did nd
out from the most recent Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) report, that approximately 20 percent of students at Mines are
graduate students and approximately 22 percent of the 2013-2014 student
body was composed of rst-time degree/certicate-seeking undergraduates, or in other words freshmen.
While graduate students were underrepresented in our survey, their effect on the data was signicant. Figure 5 shows the distribution of GPAs
across classes. We rounded all GPAs to the nearest half and we did not
include individuals who reported GPAs above 4.0 in our calculations.
Additionally, graduate students reported much higher GPAs and were
initially skewing our results (see Figure 5). We felt it was important to remove
graduate students from most of the analysis. Additionally, graduate and undergraduate students experience vastly dierent sides of Mines, so grouping their responses together is problematic. If you are a graduate student
who answered the survey, calm down. We will conduct an independent
analysis of graduate students in future issues. We just want to make sure
we are representing the data in the most accurate way possible.
Table 3 shows how our results compare with national averages and indicates that either Mines has a slightly more sexually active campus, or our
results are biased.The higher percentage of female respondents indicates
that there is probably some degree of bias in our results, though it is dicult
to pinpoint exactly what the bias is.
Theres also the issue of joke responses. Weve already explained how
we eliminated certain answers, but this was obviously not fool-proof. Not
everyone who lies does so in obvious ways. This seems to be an issue of
classifying the survey results. If we wanted to be more accurate, we would
clarify that all of our generalizations are based on reported answers and
may not actually align with reality. This is a distinction we feel is meaningless
and rather obvious, but it is worth pointing out nonetheless.
If we could summarize our feelings about the reliability of the survey in
one word it would be meh. The results are not accurate, but they are not
necessarily inaccurate either. Use them at your own peril.
Figure 4: The distribution of survey respondents by major department compared with the
distribution of the 2013-2014 graduating class. We pulled this information from the Career
Centers website and it only represents the graduating class
Figure 5: The distribution of survey respondents by year and GPA rounded to the nearest
0.5. Graduate student GPAs do not follow the same distribution patterns as undergraduate GPAs. Graduate student data was not considered in this publication.
This answer is multifaceted. On the one hand, the fact that approximately 1300 individuals on the internet took time
out of their days to corrupt the results of a survey that was in no way associated with them has forced us to reconsider
our implicit assumption that people are primarily good. On the other hand, we have time-stamps, so trying to explain the
motivations of internet people is entirely unnecessary.
Our process here was pretty straightforward. On Thursday night, there were approximately 1900 responses. By
Friday morning, this number had spiked to 3300. While we would love to believe that roughly 66 percent of the student
body had responded to our survey, this just seemed too good to be true. Some people also told us it had been posted
on 4chan. It was also pretty obvious in the data. At end of the day on Thursday, only 1.5 percent of survey respondents
selected other as their sexual orientation. By Friday morning, this number had jumped to 22 percent. Reading the
sexual orientations spewed forth by 4chan and reddit users was not altogether disappointing. Our favorites include
extreme apathy, cheese, and 20000sexual.
We decided to do the responsible thing and remove all responses after a certain point in time, reducing our sample
size to roughly 1500. If you responded after this point, we are terribly sorry that your voice was not heard. Blame the
internet.
Even after removing these responses, there were a few answers that just did not seem reasonable. We used a threestrikes method to identify unreliable respondents. For instance, if you claimed to be a freshman majoring in Liberal Arts
and International Studies who has had sex in Edgar Mine, we denitely rejected your response. This process led to the
removal of 40 out of 1500 responses, which is not too bad if you ask us.
First of all, we want you to know how badly we wish we could simply say yes and have that be it. We feel very little
ownership for this data and we feel obligated to release as much as we possibly can. Unfortunately, there are a few legal
and ethical concerns. The survey was condential, but we did ask a fair number of demographic based questions and
as a result, it may be possible to identify an individual in certain situations. We wish we could trust you not to exploit the
data for this type of goal, but then we remember that amongst all of you is someone who posted our survey to 4chan
But we really want to give you the data so we are going to post as much as we can without jeopardizing anyone
anonymity. In a few days, we will post an excel spreadsheet with the responses, but we have been asked to exclude
the identifying questions we asked including gender, major department, class year, residency status, sexual orientation,
relationship status, and GPA. We think we can reasonably include one of these categories and still maintain an acceptable level of condentiality and we want to know which one people want the most. Head to our website (oredigger.net)
and vote for the category you think we should release. We cannot promise that we will end up releasing the data from
the winning category, but we promise we will do our best to get you as much data as we reasonably can. The only other
data that will be removed is the comments, for obvious reasons.
In exchange for releasing the data, we only ask that you try to think a little bit more about the data than a typical 4chan
Table 3: The percentage of male, female, and transgender
user would. Maybe go back and actually read the article on the front page. We think Mines students are pretty intelligent
and we are condent some of you are better at statistical analysis than we are. Please do not let us down and instead
individuals who identify as virgins compared to a national
average published by the American College Health Associa- show us that releasing data to the public is not just an issue of principles, but also key to generating better analysis. If you
come up with something cool, let us know and we will probably publish it.
tion in Spring 2014.
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Figure 7: Sexual frequency (5 is high) versus GPA (lines) and normalized (100%) percentage of each GPA population. GPAs are rounded to
the nearest half.
Figure 8: Frequency of one night stands versus male and female genders (lines) and normalized (100%) percentage of each male and female
population. GPAs are rounded to the nearest half.
Figure 10: Happiness with sex life (5 is high) versus GPA (lines) and
normalized (100%) percentage of each GPA population. GPAs are
rounded to the nearest half.
Figure 11: Number of sexual partners in the last 12 months versus GPA
(lines) and normalized (100%) percentage of each GPA population.
GPAs are rounded to the nearest half.
Figure 12: Percentage of virgins versus GPA. GPAs are rounded to the
nearest half.
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Never cheated
Cheated
Female
Never cheated
Cheated
Male
Figure 15: The relationship between cheating (horizontal axis) and being cheated on (each data series) separated by gender.
Figure 16: The frequency of masturbation that female and male respondents reported. Note that the distribution centers around almost
never for women versus a few times a week for men.
Figure 18: The frequency at which female and male respondents report
having one night stands.
Figure 17: The frequency at which female and male respondents report
watching pornography. Note the slight differences with Figure 16.
65.3%
Figure 20: The percentage of female and male respondents who reported having the specied range of sexual partners in the last 12-months.
Note the relation to the percentage of female and male individuals who
report being in a relationship, see Table 4.
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#idigmines Day
Photo Contest
Would you dig winning $500 for your student club or organization?
Show Mines donors why you dig Mines with your Instagram photo using #idigmines!
The winning photo will be selected on February 27 and shared with Mines donors to thank
them for their support.
MinesAlumni.com/MinesPlates
Buy online or come to the alumni association at the Coolbaugh House (17th & Maple St.)
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Dillon Stine
Staff Writer
Joseph Hunt
Staff Writer
Curt Dennis
Staff Writer
Tetraforms is a prog-metal,
very technical band out of Colorado. They recently released a
new album, By Design, complete
with a music video for their single
Linger. With a copy of the album
blaring through the speakers,
heres a review of By Design.
Being a prog-metal band requires the utmost musical skill,
combining weird time signatures,
poly-rhythms, conflicting melodies; really anything that puts
the typical 4/4 time signature to
shame. And its hard. Tetraforms
does it well though. Not only do
they combine all these complex
forms together, but as demonstrated on ZHE GROOVINGZ,
they can even make it sound
funky and fun while keeping the
complexity.
And despite the complexity of
each individual track, the entire
album flows smoothly, one song
into the other; its something most
bands dont do nowadays, but
they should because it sounds
awesome. Each song on By
Design sounds great by itself,
meaning you can fall in love with
one track and not worry about
awkward intros or outros, or you
can pick up the entire album and
hear how each song compliments
the next, fading into one another.
It could be one long track, or 6
long songs (cmon, when was the
last time a prog/math metal song
lasted for 3 minutes?), depending
on how you feel like listening to it.
Throughout all this awesome
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Ramiro Rodriguez
Staff Writer
The Golden Moon Speakeasy serves up a new twist on classic cocktails and spirits.
Bluegrass, Beer, and Snow: Mines Students Volunteer at First Annual UllrGrass Music Festival
Chelsea Grimm
Staff Writer
The Clear Creek Paperboy advertising UllrGrass Music Festival along Clear Creek.
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she said.
As for the weather, Ullr, the
Scandinavian god of winter, arrived fashionably late to the festival. Saturday nights forecasted
dusting turned into six inches.
As the snow began to blanket Golden, a call came over the
UllrGrass teams radios that their
biggest night at the Buffalo Rose
had sold out. Team members
near the stage cranked up their
radios so everyone could hear
Susannah Thompson singing the
festivals theme song with the
UllrGrass All-Stars: I aint afraid
of no winter, I aint afraid of no
cold.
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ALL PHOTOS ALEX ESTRADA / OREDIGGER
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BUILDInG poSSIBILItIES
Lehigh Hanson
www.lehighhanson.com/careers
contact
Marvin Gomez
careers@lehighhanson.com
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