By Louisa Burden Editor in Chief By this time in the semester, many students are getting sick of their Ramen Noodles and Easy Mac, and some of them probably haven’t even seen a piece of fruit or a vegetable in weeks! There’s no better way to combat this than to whip out the wok and start cooking up some delicious stir fry. Ingredients: 1 red potato, thinly sliced 1 Yukon gold potato, thinly sliced [...]
2011 Mines Medal ceremony a success
By Aurum Staff This year’s Mines Medal ceremony was a great success. The event took place on Thursday, Sept. 29 at 6 p.m. at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center. The ceremony… [more]
Hiking in Hell Canyon
By Louisa Burden Editor in Chief Are you sick of your stuffy dorm room? Then you should take a hike! Hell Canyon, located just down the road from the Jewel Cave… [more]
By Max Reetz Aurum Staff The leaves are finishing their migration from the trees to the ground and the temperature is steadily dropping. All the while, students at the School of Mines continually prepare for the winter weather ahead of them. As the freshman class may not yet know, the weather in Rapid City can be quite unpredictable. The best general way to describe it would be mild. However, sometimes it is brutal with [...]
By Taylor Dutcher Guest Writer A Monster How can someone so beautiful Be such a cruel devastating monster To me or anyone else The one who loved her so A fool that cannot leave her be To pick her up What holds her down To think he is in love But to find out It was a lie A love that is covered But he seems not to mind For he craves and desires [...]
By Connor Carlbom Aurum Staff Alright, before you jump to conclusions, let me explain why I’ve seen this movie. In case you couldn’t tell by my love for Troll 2, I love to watch crap. Bad movies can oftentimes be far funnier than any real comedy could ever hope to be, so while deciding what B-grade schlock-fest my friends and I would be watching one day, we came across Super Babies: Baby Geniuses 2. I already [...]
By Connor Carlbom Aurum Staff So guess what I did? I took advantage of a campus event. When I heard that the free movie at the Elks was going to be Rise of the Planet of the Apes that week, I got interested. When I first saw the teaser I rolled my eyes and thought back to the weird/bad Tim Burton remake a few years ago with Mark Wahlburg, but then I saw the first [...]
