By Louisa Burden Editor in Chief As readers may have noted from our December issue, big changes are afoot with the Aurum student newspaper.

By Katrina Metty Assistant Editor Big news is being issued from the newspaper to the readers: the Aurum is going digital.  Reduced budgets call for crafty changes, and with the new location of news, the Aurum will be updated far more often and filled by more student input.

By Katie Aurand Staff Writer As student leaders prepare their budgets to present to Senate this weekend, they know they will not get the full amount they request. Patrick Satchell, industrial engineering senior and chairperson of the Senate Finance Committee, said that average request numbers cannot be calculated due to the extreme variability in the organizations’ planning and also the “padding” of requests that occurs on occasion.

By Adam Schroeder Aurum Staff As the 112th Congress takes office, a large number of Republicans are filling seats formerly occupied by Democrats. In attempt to remind themselves of the nation’s original principles, Republicans decided to read the Constitution as their first majority decision.

By Adam Schroeder Aurum Staff Five thousand dead birds and 85,000 dead fish? Yes, Arkansas has had some strange news in January, but they are not the only state. Louisiana has experienced a mass bird death as well, and Sweden was not immune to the phenomena either. Doomsayers would like us to believe that these events are bad omens or even signs of impending world destruction.

By Katrina Metty Assistant Editor This last Christmas, the gift to get was definitely the Xbox Kinect. One of the better games to come out so far for it has been Microsoft’s Dance Central, a game quite comparable to Ubisoft’s Just Dance for the Nintendo Wii.