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UNC: A special place where the students matterDear UNC Students,

As you settle into the first days of the new academic year, and for some of you, the start of your college journey, know this: You matter.

You became part of a caring community, an extended family, when you chose to further your education at the University of Northern Colorado.

At UNC, we are about transformative edu-cation for you as an individual. You can experi-ence a top-notch education by exploring a va-riety of academic disciplines in the classroom and applied learning opportunities outside of the classroom at a university committed to de-livering on the promise of “Bringing Education to Life.”

World-class faculty will offer you opportuni-ties to work alongside them on groundbreak-ing research. Our dedicated staff will offer you tutoring, answer your finan-cial aid questions and pro-vide you guidance. We share a common goal in that we all want to see you succeed.

Get involved outside of the classroom. With the excep-tion of when you’re taking in our Division I sporting events, don’t stay on the sidelines. Join a club or organization. There are more than 100 clubs on campus to choose from. Run for an office. Apply for that internship, even if it might be in a field that you haven’t considered. You will find other opportunities to participate in the Around Campus newsletter that is delivered to

your student email account three times a week. You will have many choices to make during

your time at UNC. Remember it’s OK, even encouraged here, to take risks. We learn from our mistakes. I know I have. That’s part of be-ing a lifelong learner. Again, take us up on of-fers to help you make informed choices.

In my 10 years here, I have done a fair amount of traveling, both professionally and personally, and I can tell you that there is no place quite like UNC. My travels reinforce how special our university is. And the reason isn’t hard to come by.

It’s people like you who make the difference. I am glad you are here.

See you around campus.

Sincerely,Kay Norton, UNC President

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T hey come in droves to pack the residence halls. Two to a room, dozens

to a floor and hundreds to a hall. They come in their parents’ four-wheel drive SUVs, packed to the brim with IKEA furniture. Wide-eyed and wound up, they are freshmen.

For many new students at UNC, this will be the first extend-ed time away from their families. It can be a difficult growing expe-rience for some, but in the end, it is usually a worthwhile endeavor. Hopefully, after four years (or so), they will leave with a piece of pa-per proclaiming their prepared-ness for the “real world,” along with a boatload of memories their elders will deem the best

they’ll ever have.In a way, that is the most de-

pressing thing about college. The whole time, people are telling you to live it up because life will never be this good again. All the while, you spend downtime in ways that are sometimes ex-citing, but rarely important, wor-rying about how boring the rest of your life will be.

On top of that, you look at the job market and wonder how you’ll find a position that doesn’t involve a greasy spatula. You see all the people in your life who have switched career paths af-ter college or have a degree that became obsolete as soon as the “next big thing” came out. You

watch all that money you’re pay-ing for school go right out those sprinklers on campus that water the sidewalks in the pouring rain. But that’s the cynic’s take.

The friendships and con-nections built here will last a lifetime. Every time I see my grandparents, I hear about them meeting up with friends from their younger days. My parents and their college comrades are still best friends, despite decades behind them and states between. Those bonds have extended well beyond four years spent together, and I anticipate mine, too, will breach the city limits of this cow town.

Throughout much of my K-12 education, I thought of school as a chore — something my parents did to punish me, or what society told me was right to do. Here, we

have a choice. If you don’t want to be in college, leave. Go get a part-time retail job and spend your money elsewhere. But if you are here, enjoy your studies and invest yourself in them.

If you’ve ever listened to Kanye West’s album, The College Dropout, you know Mr. West ag-gressively views the college ex-perience as a waste of time for a paper that won’t earn you more important paper. I would argue that it is a much more valuable endeavor for those lucky enough to afford it. For many of you, that voyage begins here, and it starts fast. Please keep arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times.

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UPC offers myriad entertainment options

O ften, new students to the University of Northern Colorado

bemoan the lack of entertain-ment options in Greeley.

One office on campus, the Uni-versity Program Council, wants to combat the image of Greeley as a place devoid of student amuse-ment.

Because of the efforts of UPC, UNC serves as the site for comedy clubs, open mic nights and mock night clubs.

“We’re going to face more challenges than Colorado State University for planning events because of where we are located,” said Kacie Thomas, UPC’s arts and entertainment coordinator. “That’s why we try so hard.”

Kelsey Murray, the traditional events coordinator for UPC, echoes her colleague’s concern.

“We are often the only en-tertainment venue (specifically tailored to college-age people) in Greeley,” Murray said. “We want to put on events that students want to come to. They sit in class all day. We don’t want to lecture them; we want to entertain them.”

UPC aims to bring a comfort-able atmosphere that promotes making friends and trying new things.

“It’s important for us to create a college experience,” Thomas said. “College isn’t just about going to class; it’s about creating social

memories.”Importantly, UNC students

have a say on what entertainment UPC provides.

The office, which is housed un-der Student Activities on the sec-ond floor of the University Center, has a new phone number, (970) 351-3727, and students can text that number to make any sugges-tion — be it for a band, a come-dian or an artist.

Additionally, UPC staff will be conducting surveys, most likely in the UC, to gain an understanding on what students want to see on campus.

Students can also serve on UPC planning committees, as-

sisting with events like Home-coming.

Already, UPC has already planned a comedy club with Johnny Cardinale at 9 p.m. Aug. 31 in the UC Ballrooms. It has also begun to schedule the third Club UNC, a night club on cam-pus.

Plans are being discussed for a UNC day at Coors Field, with transportation and food provided.

With the exception of the an-nual spring concert — past per-formers were the Flobots and 3OH!3 — and the possible Rock-ies game, UPC does not charge students because UPC is paid for with student fees.

“Take advantage of every-thing UNC has to offer,” Mur-ray urges students. “Go to events you wouldn’t normally go to. You might be surprised.”

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Multiple stores provide books, supplies for new year

As students begin another excit-ing school year, there is one very important but often-dreaded task students go through: buying books.

Not only has it become a stress-ful task, but textbooks are often very expensive and can be hard to find.

There are three main book-stores on campus students can use: The Book Stop, located just off central campus on the corner of 16th Street and 10th Avenue; Textbook Brokers, located on 17th Street across the street from Kepner Hall; and the UNC Book-store and Fan Shop, located in the University Center. All of these bookstores are great places for students to get all the books and

last-minute school supplies they might need.

The Book Stop is a great place for students to find books as they have what faculty requests as soon as they can.

“We have low prices and guar-antee it,” said manager Steve Clark.

The Book Stop believes buying books should be a simple pro-cess and aims to help all students through the stressful process. If they cannot match the competi-tions price, they will offer 10 per-cent better.

One added bonus, The Book Stop offers its customers is a cof-fee shop in the same building. Un-der new management, The Blue Mug, will now have extended hours for students and everyone to get a cup of coffee while shop-ping for books.

Opened in April 2011, Text-book Brokers also offer the buy, rent and sell options but are also able to special order books for stu-dents. Textbook Brokers also pro-vide counter service so students don’t have to search shelves upon shelves for their books; the staff finds students’ books for them.

The UNC Bookstore and Fan Shop is another great place for students to get their books for classes. They have an extended supply of the books faculty re-quest, as well as fan merchandise for UNC.

Students can order their books online and already have them there once they move back to Greeley. The Bookstore and Fan Shop is also conveniently located in the University Center.

Also, UNC receives a commis-sion percentage of all sales that go

to support various aspects of the university, such as other student programs. No other bookstore around campus gives directly back to the campus like the Book-store and Fan Shop.

Matt Hanson, the store manag-er of the Bookstore and Fan Shop said its rental program, digital copies and book buy backs saved students $600,000 last year.

“We expect to meet or break that this year,” Hanson said.

The Bookstore and Fan Shop also has a new digital provider this year called Inkling. It is accessible through any device with Internet access and is more interactive than books.

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M aking the jump from high school to college

can be academically confusing and increasing hard to navigate, especially when sophomores become juniors and juniors be-come seniors. Luckily for UNC students, help can be found in the Office of Academic Support and Advising (ASA).

The ASA, located in Michener Library L149, has countless re-sources for students looking to set up tutoring appointments or sim-ply seek academic guidance from the university’s many experts.

Each UNC student has an assigned adviser to answer the tough questions and help pave the way toward achieving academic goals. ASA advisers specialize in students who are searching for

the right major study and those struggling academically.

In terms of privacy, when dis-cussing intimate details about a student’s academic performance, there is no need to worry. The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act makes it so that uni-versity staff can only provide aca-demic information to the student themselves.

One of the ASA’s most used programs on campus is the tutor-ing center in the ASA office. Ses-sions are peer-led and are offered to all UNC students who are en-rolled in undergraduate classes.

“The tutoring center is for ev-eryone,” said Melissa Hoffner, the director of Tutoring Services. “It’s for the students that are main-taining A’s and B’s and for the stu-dents that are struggling.”

Certified through the College Reading and Learning Associa-

tion, the ASA is equipped with additional satellite and night tu-toring options.

Students looking to set up a tutoring appointment must stop by the tutoring center, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. with their UNC identification card for the first vis-it. The center has 40-45 peer tu-tors and supplemental instructors and is a great way to find a job on campus while helping other UNC students.

“We offer both individual and small group tutoring, over about 130 different subjects, as well as supplemental instruction,” Hoff-ner said.

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The ASA offers a unique pro-gram designed specifically for freshmen called University 101. Studies show freshmen who par-ticipate in first-year seminars like University 101 tend to be more successful in classes than those who don’t.

University 101 courses are structured to be small in size with the intention of capitalizing on that individual attention for each student.

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REALIGNMENT IMPACTS FALL SPORTS SCHEDULING

Much like a lot of the larger college athletic conferences across the nation, UNC’s main conference affiliation, the Big Sky,

has undergone some remodeling. Just in time for its 49th birthday, the Big Sky

Conference unveiled a new logo, a new man-tra and added four new members, bringing the league total to 13. The four new additions can be a little misleading, though, as two — the University of California at Da-vis and California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) — are football-only members while the re-maining two — the University of North Dakota and Southern Utah University — will participate in all sports.

The new additions will drastically change the scheduling, rivalries and gameplay of the confer-ence. Let’s take a look at how they affect several sports at the University of Northern Colorado.

»»»FOOTBALL

While other sports at UNC will only have to face North Dakota and Southern Utah every season, the scheduling for the football team becomes more complicated with UC-Davis and Cal Poly added into the mix.

“I think when you bring four teams in, it’s go-ing to do nothing but strengthen our league,” UNC head coach Earnest Collins Jr. said during fall camp. “Now, as opposed to just getting two teams in the playoffs, there possibly may be a third with the strength of our conference. We have the power conference of FCS football. For me, it’s all about the competition and getting good play out of each of the teams, and I think we’re going to get that.”

To account for the new members, the Big Sky developed a set of “rivals” for each university to help with scheduling of its eight conference games.

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REALIGNMENT IMPACTS FALL SPORTS SCHEDULING

Much like a lot of the larger college athletic conferences across the nation, UNC’s main conference affiliation, the Big Sky,

has undergone some remodeling. Just in time for its 49th birthday, the Big Sky

Conference unveiled a new logo, a new man-tra and added four new members, bringing the league total to 13. The four new additions can be a little misleading, though, as two — the University of California at Da-vis and California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) — are football-only members while the re-maining two — the University of North Dakota and Southern Utah University — will participate in all sports.

The new additions will drastically change the scheduling, rivalries and gameplay of the confer-ence. Let’s take a look at how they affect several sports at the University of Northern Colorado.

»»»FOOTBALL

While other sports at UNC will only have to face North Dakota and Southern Utah every season, the scheduling for the football team becomes more complicated with UC-Davis and Cal Poly added into the mix.

“I think when you bring four teams in, it’s go-ing to do nothing but strengthen our league,” UNC head coach Earnest Collins Jr. said during fall camp. “Now, as opposed to just getting two teams in the playoffs, there possibly may be a third with the strength of our conference. We have the power conference of FCS football. For me, it’s all about the competition and getting good play out of each of the teams, and I think we’re going to get that.”

To account for the new members, the Big Sky developed a set of “rivals” for each university to help with scheduling of its eight conference games.

Each school has two rivals they will face each sea-son; UNC’s rivals are North Dakota and Northern Arizona. The remaining six conference games will rotate on a yearly basis.

The four remaining teams in the Big Sky a school doesn’t play in a given year can still be scheduled as a non-conference game that season. Thus, UNC’s week three game against Sacramen-to State won’t count toward the Bears’ conference record this season.

Playing in the Big Sky won’t be a culture shock for any of the incoming teams, though, as all played at least one game against a league team last season, when all were in the Great West Confer-ence.

The Thunderbirds of Southern Utah, behind the arm of now-senior quarterback Brad Soren-son, went 3-0 against Big Sky teams last season, picking up wins at Weber State (35-28), at North-ern Arizona (27-24) and at home in Cedar City, Utah, against Sacramento State (35-14). Sorenson threw for 3,143 yards and 17 touchdowns last sea-

son and has been named one of 29 candidates for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, given to the top senior quarterback in the country.

As for the new California schools, the UC-Davis Aggies went 1-1 against the Big Sky a year ago, de-feating Sacramento State 23-19 at home and los-ing to Montana State 38-14 on the road. Cal Poly had the worst luck against Big Sky teams, losing 37-23 at Montana and dropping a three-overtime game at home against Eastern Washington, 53-51. The Bears face the Mustangs in San Luis Obispo, Calif., on Oct. 13 for a week six matchup.

UNC senior cornerback Finnis Caldwell, who was born in Stockton, Calif., said during fall prac-tices that he and the team don’t know much about the new programs. Caldwell went on to say that it’s OK if the Bears don’t know much about the other programs this early. It matters more that UNC improves itself before worrying about other teams.

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“We really just been taking these two-a-days and these one-a-days in camp just one by one,” Caldwell said. “We really aren’t worried about the big picture. We’re trying to get everything right right now, so that way we can get every-thing right when we play the other teams.”

North Dakota’s only game against the Big Sky came against the Bears on Oct. 11 when the Fighting Sioux escaped Greeley with a 27-25 victory following a 54-yard field goal in the final two minutes. North Dakota, which will come to Greeley again Nov. 17 for the Bears’ se-nior day game, returns its leading rusher from last season, Jake Miller. Miller rushed for 942 yards and 13 touchdowns last season, includ-ing 60 yards and a score against UNC.

“North Dakota and UNC go way back to the NCC days, so it’ll be an old foe that we go up against every year, and I’m looking forward to it,” Collins said

Junior linebacker Clarence Bumpas, who visited at Big Sky media days July 15-17, said he got to meet several players and coaches at the league’s other schools and learn more

about them.“It was definitely a new experience,” Bump-

as said. “They’re good people, despite what you think about your opposing teams. We got to mingle, we got to relate. It was a good time.”

Bumpas said it was exciting to meet other defensive players who he considers similar to himself.

“They’re about as hard-nosed as it gets,” he said. “It’s interesting to meet people who share the same general interests and the same play-ing styles as yourself. There were a couple of guys I got to meet, like Ross Brenneman, the D-end from North Dakota. He was a good guy. He’s real hard-nosed. He’s a big fella. It was interesting to say the least.”

Bumpas said that the new additions to the conference have the whole team looking for-ward to the season.

“It’s one of those things where you can only be excited to play against them,” he said.

»»»SOCCER

The UNC soccer program is coming off arguably its two most successful consecutive seasons in school history. Two years ago, the

Bears went 10-5-1, notching the most wins in a season since 2002, its last season in Division II, and last season, UNC won its first-ever reg-ular season co-championship and hosted the conference tournament.

This year, with a group of nine seniors and a collection of younger talent, the Bears seem primed for more of the same. The success will come differently, though, as the addition of North Dakota and Southern Utah take away non-conference games. UNC had 12 such games last season to go with nine conference games. This year, the Bears have nine of both.

Head coach Tim Barrera said, though, it’s not the quantity of out-of-conference games, it’s the quality.

“It’s two games, so it doesn’t make that big of a difference,” Barrera said. “This year we’re playing CU from the Pac-12, we have Nebraska from the Big 10, we have Kansas from the Big 12, Utah State, who’s the WAC champion, we got Denver, who was the Sun Belt champion for years and years and years, and now they’re in the WAC, so there are a lot of challenging teams on our schedule. And we do that to

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challenge ourselves for the grind of the Big Sky Conference. Gener-ally the teams in non-conference are stronger than the ones in-conference — that doesn’t mean the teams in the conference won’t be a challenge — it just gives us an opportunity to prove ourselves against some quality opponents.”

The team returns seven play-ers who started at least eight games — including seven who started at least 11 — a season ago. The biggest change the Bears will see, though, is senior Natalie D’Adamio in goal for the first time in her career.

»»»VOLLEYBALL

After having made the NCAA Tournament in two of the last three years, the UNC volleyball team is getting quite used to suc-

cess. And so are the other coaches in the Big Sky, who voted the Bears to the top of the preseason rankings.

UNC garnered nine first-place votes, and the remaining two

were split between Portland State (No. 2 in poll) and newcomer North Dakota (No. 4).

“It says a lot about what we did last year,” head coach Lyndsey Oates said, intentionally putting

emphasis on “last.” “And then we have six of seven returners, so that’s really what the preseason poll says. It doesn’t say anything about this year’s team. It’s re-ally respect from last year, and we have an experienced group com-ing back.”

Southern Utah was picked ninth by the coaches, and Oates said — like the other programs — her team doesn’t know much about the new teams other than what the stats say.

“We don’t know much about them right now other than their record last year and looking at last year’s stats,” Oates said. “North Dakota was very good. They grad-uated a lot, but they were the best according to RPI in the Big Sky, so they’ll be very tough. Southern Utah was very young last year so they weren’t quite as successful, but from what we hear they’re very athletic and will be a tough threat, as well.”

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Employment options available on and off campus

Now that the semester is here, the expenses of a student start to be-come more and more of a reality. To fight the stereotypical 24-pack Ramen purchases, the Office of Financial Aid is helping students find jobs on and off campus.

The Office of Student Em-ployment is a great resource for students looking to make some money while taking classes.

For need-based work study, students must start by applying for work-study assistance through FAFSA by March 1. Undergradu-ate students must be enrolled in at least 12 credits while graduate students only need to be enrolled in nine credits.

Some of the on-campus em-ployers include: Michener Li-

brary, residence life, facilities and operations, academic/administra-tive office, parking services, cam-pus police, campus recreation and the University Center.

The off-campus job opportu-nities are with some of Greeley’s nonprofit agencies including the Boys & Girls Clubs, Greeley-Evans School District 6, North Range Behavioral Health, City of Greeley Recreation Department and ARC of Weld County.

No-need work study may be made available to Colorado un-dergraduates whose FAFSA’s were filed in a timely fashion,

but don’t have sufficient financial qualifications for other forms of financial aid.

For student-hourly employ-ment, any UNC student enrolled at least half the time can find student hourly employment on campus. Undergraduate stu-dents are required to be enrolled in a minimum of six credit hours, while graduate students must be enrolled in five.

Each year, the Office of Finan-cial Aid hosts a job fair to give stu-dents an opportunity to talk to a variety of employers. This year the job fair will be Tuesday in the Uni-versity Center.

“Students need to bring pa-perwork to fill out an I-9,” said junior psychology major Austin Seeley said, “either a passport and a certification of naturalization or a photo I.D., Social Security card

and birth certificate.”The Student Employment

and Career Services offices have joined forces to bring students an employment job bank. On the Of-fice of Financial Aid website un-der the page Student Job Search enter your URSA username and password.

This allows students to browse jobs available on and off campus in one convenient location. It also has a section in which employers can visit to post job openings.

The job bank is called Bears Career Connection and can be ac-cessed at www.unco.edu/careers.

Students are also encouraged to fill out applications for dining services. They don’t post jobs in the job bank, but employ students in the three dining halls across campus, Taco Bell, Einstein Bros. Bagels and the Coffee Corners.

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For more information on the different resources Career Ser-vices offers, call (970) 351-2127 or call Student Employment at (970) 351-2628.

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Student Senate meets weekly for campus’ needs

The University of Northern Colo-rado Student Senate’s mission is to represent and serve the student body in order to enhance the uni-versity experience through the empowerment of all students.

The Student Senate currently consists of nine student-elected representatives and three hired positions, each with a distinct title and responsibility.

Returning from last year’s Sen-ate are Charlie Charbonneau as Student Body President; Levi Fuller as Student Trustee; Shelby Williams as Director of Academic Affairs; John Pherson as Director of University Relations; Saman-tha Fox as Director of Student Or-ganizations; and Nicholas Atzen-beck as Student Rights Advocate.

Newly elected representatives include Oliver Bourne as Direc-tor of Finance, Becca Hoy as Di-rector of Legisla-tive Affairs, Jonte Major as Direc-tor of Diverse Relations, Nick Loveridge as Director of Stu-dent Affairs; Ben Fuller as Parlia-mentarian and Julie DeJong as Administrative Assistant.

The Senate will conduct a weekly session for the duration of the academic

year. Weekly Wednesday ses-sions are an op-portunity for delegates to dis-cuss current ini-tiatives, as well issues regarding funding and leg-islative affairs.

“The best way students can get involved with Student Senate is to come to Sen-ate meetings,” Charbonneau said.

Each Senate meeting is open to members of the campus com-munity; meet-ings take place

in the Council Room located in the lobby of the University Cen-ter.

Students can also interact with Senate members by visiting their offices located in the Student Ac-tivities office in the UC weekdays between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

The Senate also welcomes stu-dents-at-large to apply for posi-tions on specialized student com-mittees acting within the Senate.

Charbonneau is hopeful for the coming year saying, “Senate is a lot different this year than last year. The incoming directors are more motivated and have a better sense of what the students want, and we are more focused on im-proving the student experience.”

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Greek Life opportunities benefit new students

If students are looking to get in-volved at UNC upon their ar-rival this fall, there’s no bigger

umbrella to get under than that of Greek Life.

At UNC, students have the choice of 21 unique fraternities or sororities that fit their desires.

Heather James, the assistant director of Student Activities for Greek Life, said students get ben-efits from joining a fraternity or sorority that are unlike anything else on campus.

“It’s a great way for students, especially freshmen, to meet new people and make friends, and these are friendships and con-nections that will last for years,” James said. “Students in Greek organizations learn leadership

skills and are able to connect with alumni of that organization in fields that they’re interested in.”

For Julia Karlin, a member of Alpha Phi and a junior business management and international affairs major, she said the rela-tionships she’s developed with the alumnae of her sorority have been the best part of her Greek experi-ence, which started in the fall se-mester of her freshman year.

“My biggest influences in my life are the alumni of Alpha Phi, and that’s because of all they do and all they’ve accomplished,” Karlin said. “Most that are from UNC donate to the Alumni Asso-ciation and they have huge ties to the university still, and that’s what I want to be.”

Karlin said the value of joining a Greek organization cannot be overlooked because of all it offers.

“It’s like a family, and you learn a lot from each other,” she said. “Also, if you’re having a bad day, it’s a plus to have that atmosphere. It’s a home away from home.”

The academic support and community service, Karlin said, are also very rewarding. From mandatory study tables or put-ting on a Phiesta, Alpha Phi and other Greek organizations are all about bettering themselves in the classroom and bettering their community.

Charlie Charbonneau, the president of Pi Kappa Phi and a senior sport and exercise science

major, said he’s been introduced to opportunities he never would have found outside of a fraternity. That includes participating in his fraternity’s philanthropic bene-factor, Push America, an organi-zation started by a Pi Kappa Phi member in 1976 to help people with disabilities.

For things as small as better time management to aspects as large as school pride and success after college, Charbonneau said being a part of Greek Life will only benefit a student going for-ward.

“In my experience, the more involved you are in anything on this campus, the more you grow,” he said. “You’re a part of a com-munity here, and with all that we do, it brings you great pride in your university and you can’t help but be proud to be a Bear.”

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