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The Greeley community gathers at UNC for a discussion regarding oil and gas development, including “fracking” issues. Page 7
What the frack?
White out
UNC women’s basketball head coach Jaime White leaves the Bears for the head coaching job at Fresno State. Page 16
Cycle to the cinema
To encourage biking and walking instead of driving, several local health agencies sponsor a free documentary screening and bike valet service at downtown Greeley’s Kress Cinema and Lounge. Page 12
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Vol. 95, Num. 31April 21, 2014
Champion trees on campusKatarina [email protected]
The University of Northern Colorado’s cam-pus is recognized for its natural beauty, especially during the fall and spring seasons. Vibrant greens and pinks blossom when VSULQJ� ÀQDOO\� DUULYHV� LQ�Colorado while bright reds and yellows are ad-mired falling from the trees in autumn.
Even in winter and summer the university is still lively with nature. And this charm can be credited to the trees that UNC has spread through-out campus.
7KH�ÀUVW�WUHH��DQ�$PHU-ican elm, was planted in 1895, and the number of trees planted gradu-ally took off from there. UNC is now home to ap-proximately 3,700 trees, and four of those trees are awarded with a state champion title.
Pat McDonald, man-ager of landscaping and grounds, collaborated with Brent Engel, a Tree Campus USA student rep-resentative, and roamed 246 acres of the univer-sity’s campus on foot to identify and catalog each of the 3,700 trees.
According to McDon-ald, they counted each of the trees in order to apply for a Tree Campus USA recognition, which is aSee Trees on page 6
End of the slideJacob [email protected]
It wasn’t quite a hap-py Easter Sunday for the UNC baseball team, which closed out its three-game series at Jackson Field against Grand Can-yon University losing 14-3. The Bears split the pre-vious two games against GCU, winning Friday 8-6 and losing Saturday 12-5.
The University of Northern Colorado (6-33, 1-14 WAC) fell behind
early and quickly to the Antelopes (21-17, 10-5 WAC), who scored six UXQV� LQ� WKH� ÀUVW� WKUHH� LQ-nings against three dif-ferent UNC pitchers. The pitching circus continued the remainder of the game as eight different players took the mound for North-ern Colorado.
Despite the high traf-ÀF� RQ� WKH� PRXQG�� IUHVK-man pitcher Nick Tanner was able to hold off the explosive Grand Canyon See Baseball on page 18
Brittany [email protected]
More than a dozen melodious voices echoed powerfully around the el-egant, octagonal rotunda of the Currier Inn for the Jazzed About Arias event last Tuesday.
The fundraiser, orga-nized by the UNC Opera Theatre Society in con-junction with UNC Vocal Jazz, was arranged to help support aspiring vocalists travel around Colorado and the rest of the coun-try for master's classes in voice lessons. Funds raised by the society are also used to support vo-cal programs that promote teaching opera, while continuing to perform concerts for music lovers around the Greeley area.
Susan McKenzie, a se-nior music education stu-dent and director of this student-run organization, said this is one of four fun-draising concerts put on throughout the year. The society also raises money with bake sales and by working at the concession stands in the Budweiser Event Center.
McKenzie said mixing jazz into their concerts can make opera less intimidat-ing to prospective singers.
“Lots of people are scared of opera. This gives them a chance to dip their toes in,” she said.
The technical skill re-quired to sing opera takes a lot of practice and com-mitment. The expertise of breathing control the sing-ers must learn is equallySee Arias on page 13
Jazz-infused opera inspires donations
Breelyn Bowe | The MirrorCommonly used in jazz music but not so much in opera, the saxophone stepped up its game Tuesday night at the Jazzed About Arias event.
Mark Harro | The MirrorSenior Northern Colorado first baseman Colby Harrison prepares to receive a throw as GCU freshman catcher Josh Meyer runs to first base in the Antelopes’ 14-3 win over the Bears Sunday at Jackson Field.
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Native American artifacts featured in new exhibit
A new exhibit opening 4 p.m. Thursday in Michener Library will feature a portion of a returned collection of Native American ar-tifacts. Some of these artifacts are believed to be over 2,000 years old.
“Lost, Now Found: Plains In-dian Artifacts from the Hewett Collection,” will be displayed RQ�WKH�ÀUVW�ÁRRU�RI�0LFKHQHU�DQG�will showcase Plains Indians ar-tifacts.
Sean Clason, a senior history major and anthropology minor, organized the exhibit as a part of a class project. Students and fac-ulty are still researching the col-lection, including its origins.
The exhibit opening on Thurs-day will also include refresh-
Center for Peer Education to host scavenger hunt
Ruth’s Amazing UNC Race is a signature year-end event for the Ruth the Truth Fairy Campaign. It is hosted by UNC’s Center for Peer Education.
Students are encouraged to form teams and complete tasks around campus while competing for cash prices.
7KH� ÀUVW� SODFH� WHDP�ZLOO� ZLQ�$500, and second place will win $250.
The race will begin at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Recreation Center.
Teams must consist of 3-5 people, and all team members must have valid Bear numbers.
Not all activities will be physi-cal or include participation from every group member.
Greeley begins Holocaust Memorial Observance
Greeley’s Holocaust Memo-rial Observance will include a variety of events including a Ho-locaust Literature Read-In, the International Film Series show-ing of “The Passenger” and the featured speaker Holocaust survi-vor Estelle Laughlin.
These events will be offered on campus and at several loca-tions around Greeley.
The Holocaust Memorial Ob-servance’s purpose is to remind the community that anti-Semi-tism eliminated an entire genera-tion of human beings and their heritage in Europe.
For a complete schedule of events, visit: http://www.aims.edu/holocaust.
Earth Week celebrations vary throughout the week
UNC will be hosting events to honor Earth Week throughout the week.
Earth Week is held to bring awareness and support to envi-ronmental protection. People cel-ebrate this week to focus on many environmental issues.
UNC will be hosting events that involve tye-dying and bike riding. Events also include a sus-tainability fair, a “shred fest,” a movie showing of “The Lorax,” a Pancake-A-Palooza-Nic and a closing celebration at Cheba Hut.
Students are also encouraged to celebrate Earth Day on Tues-day and Arbor Day on Friday.
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It’s Earth Week, which pres-ents people with a sense of re-sponsibility to take care of our planet in any way we can: re-cycling, conserving electricity, avoiding driving and even eating vegetarian.
Running this editorial in a newspaper that prints several thousand copies per week may seem hypocritical. That’s prob-ably because it kind of is.
But, despite our not-so-eco-friendly practices, we’re do-ing our best to keep up with the changing world of journalism (please God not the dying world of journalism), and that includes substituting some print content in favor of online content, as The Mirror has done over the past few years.
It’s immeasurably easier to lay out newspaper pages on comput-ers rather than typesetting each
page manually, but with that in-creased technology comes the expectation of greater coverage. No longer is it considered “good journalism” to run a story on an event in print a week after the fact rather than posting the story on-line the night of the event.
Admittedly, we can improve our online presence in that way, but, whether we are there or not, we’re working to keep up with the trend toward online connec-tivity while learning how to pres-ent the old-fashioned newspaper.
The responsibility doesn’t just lie at The Mirror’s feet, though. If you’re reading this editorial, re-cycle the paper when you’re done with it.
That’s what Student LEAF’s fancy new receptacles are for (they even put them in the build-ings now, so you really have no excuse).
Most college students are part of a generation that will be facing increasing issues with the envi-ronment. It’s no longer somebody else’s problem; it’s going to be—and already is—ours.
It seems the sentiment sur-rounding climate change is “We’ll cross that bridge when it’s ÁRRGHG�RYHU�µ
That’s not going to be enough WR�À[�ZKDW�ZH�DUH�DOUHDG\�GRLQJ�to damage the environment.
We’re not about to go all Al Gore on y’all’s asses, but it’s im-portant to be more cognizant of how your habits affect the world around you.
With the weather getting nicer, walking or biking to class rather than driving your SUV the three blocks to campus can actually be an enjoyable experience.
6HYHUDO�RI�XV�KHUH�LQ�WKH�RIÀFH�are taking this week off from eat-
ing meat. According to the Uni-versity of Michigan Undergradu-ate Journal, “a non-vegetarian diet consumed 2.9 times more water, 2.5 times more primary energy, 13 times more fertilizer, and 1.4 times more pesticide than a vegetarian diet.”
This is indeed America and we like our barbecues, but perhaps a bit of moderation is in order. Plenty of people cut back on meat and report feeling much better physically after doing so.
At the current rate of deforesta-tion, the earth’s rainforests could be gone within a century, accord-ing to National Geographic.
That may not seem like it will affect us as college-educated Americans, but it’s called “global warming.” It’ll eventually catch up to everyone. It should be the college-educated who know well enough to help the situation.
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The Mirror—Page 5April 21, 2014 NEWS
Pecan Hickory (Carya Illnoinensis) The dry climate in
Colorado does not allow for nut harvest because the nuts do not develop completely. The tree more adaptable to the moister climates in south-er states. It was also planted around 1900 with a 37.25 inch diameter.
Kentucky Coffee tree (Gymnocladus dioicus)These trees are declining because of over-harvest-
ing. They were used by pioneers for the course-grained wood in cabinets and roasted seeds for a coffee sub-stitute. The name “coffee” comes from the dark coffee colored seeds grown in pods. Its leaves, seeds and pulp are poisonous to livestock, humans and pets. It has a codominant stem, and is a good shade tree.
Amur Cork Tree (Phellodendron amurense)This is the largest Amur Cork Tree
in Colorado and is known for its beautiful side branching. It is native to China and Manchuria. This tree was planted in 1922 and currently has a 33.25 inch diameter.
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and oldest tree and is valued at more than $97,000 with a 72 inch diameter. It used to be a state champion and was planted around 1900. It requires large amounts of water and has shallow roots. Its species is now prohibited, and UNC has 50.
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Joelle Romero | The MirrorThe silver maple state champion tree with leaves in bloom last summer.
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program that devotes itself to helping colleges and univer-sities across the nation get students involved in promoting healthy tree development.
In the application process for the Tree Campus USA award, the university is required to have a tree advisory committee, a campus tree-care plan, dedicated annual ex-penditures toward trees, an Arbor Day observance and stu-dent service-learning projects
This motivated McDonald and Engel to take care of the trees on campus, and is why they spent 57 days recogniz-ing.
“In a way, this opportunity sort of forced me to get out there and do it,” McDonald said with a chuckle.
McDonald also said that the trees on campus give a cer-WDLQ�ÁDLU�DQG�EHDXW\�WR�WKH�XQLYHUVLW\��DQG�JLYH�D�VHQVH�RI�community to UNC as well. He said the abundance of trees makes the university attractive to students and parents, and that the trees play a large part in providing a comforting and familiar environment for future UNC families.
“I think trees give us a sense of place,” McDonald said. “When you drive up a street from the city and all of the sudden you are coming through the campus, you know you DUH�RQ�WKH�FDPSXV��7KHUH·V�D�UHÁHFWLRQ�WKDW�ZH�GR�FDUH�µ
UNC has been rewarded with four state champion trees based on their size. These trees include an Amur cork tree, a Kentucky coffee tree, a pecan tree and a silver maple
tree, which is a former state champion tree. 7KH�&RORUDGR�7UHH�&RDOLWLRQ�KDV�D�VHW�RI�TXDOLÀFDWLRQV�
that make a tree a state champion. They consider the loca-tion, shape, size and appearance of the tree, and then give it a determined result. As for UNC, the group meets with the city forester of Greeley and then inspects trees that have been nominated for the state championship.
McDonald said that trees play an important role on cam-pus, and that they are more than just logs in the ground.
“Tree planting has a value of permanence, and even though students graduate and move on, the trees will still be here,” he said.
McDonald said that he sees the trees on campus as be-ing resourceful because they can serve as shade and can help reduce the amount of energy generated on campus. He also said the trees can give students a more refreshing place to relax or study as well.
A new Campus Tree Guide will be introduced April 25 on National Arbor Day, and it will consist of three trail loops and 110 trees. It will be a self-guided walking tour of the campus arboretum using the information that McDon-ald and Engel collected.
One tree trail will be located on central campus, which will consist of 40 trees; one trail on west campus, which will consist of 39 trees; and one trail near the University Center, which will consist of 31 trees. Each of the trails is estimated to take about one hour of walking time.
Campus trees counted for state award
Cassius Vasquez | The MirrorThis silver maple tree, planted in the 1890s, is a former state champion tree. State champion trees are judged by their size.
The Mirror—Page 7April 21, 2014 NEWS
Greeley community discusses “fracking” impactsBrittany [email protected]
Thick, suffocating social tension is nor-mally the type of thing people try hard to avoid. But when the topic that causes ten-sion weighs heavily on the community’s conscience, citizens can show up in droves.
FrackingSENSE: Greeley is an event se-ries sponsored by the Center of the Ameri-can West to promote a better understanding RI�K\GUDXOLF�IUDFWXULQJ�DQG�LWV�VLJQLÀFDQFH�LQ�WKH�'HQYHU�%DVLQ��81&�KRVWHG�WKH�ÀUVW�night of the event last Monday in the Longs Peak Ballroom to accommodate the large crowd that attended the seminar.
Hydraulic fracturing has been a recent cause of concern for some in the Greeley area, as the number of oil and gas wells KDV� LQFUHDVHG�GUDPDWLFDOO\� LQ� WKH� ODVW�ÀYH�years.
The issue of potential dangers associat-ed with hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is what has many in the Greeley commu-nity anxious to hear what experts have to say on the matter.
Although many might have assumed the event to be a platform for pro-fracking policies, FrackingSENSE appeared to do its best to remain purely informative and
VFLHQWLÀF�� 6HYHUDO� H[SHUWV� DWWHQGHG� WKH�event to speak about various issues that
drilling raises for oil rich communities like Greeley.
Debra Higley, a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, explained WKH� VLJQLÀFDQFH� RI� *UHHOH\·V� ORFDWLRQ� LQ�the Denver Basin: it is a low-lying plain caused by shifts in terrain along fault lines that created the Rocky Mountains several millennia ago.
She said that much of the earth was dis-placed when the Rocky Mountains were formed and layers of muddy sandstone and shale were left behind. Over time, these layers of rock became super heated, pro-ducing and trapping the valuable commod-ities we know today as oil and natural gas.
Higley also took time to illustrate how important the location of natural resourc-es is in determining the exact method of drilling.
The unique occurrence of oil and gas within the layered rock of geological ba-sins can be easily understood as a 7-layer salad in a large bowl.
Sticking a chip into the salad along the side of the bowl will dig up a lot of loose cheese and onions close to the top. But if one is to strike it rich with bacon, a chip would need to follow the contour of the sides of the bowl to reach the bottom where
the bacon is tightly packed beneath many layers of other ingredients.
Oil and gas in the Denver Basin is stacked in much the same way.
Natural resources trapped in porous limestone tend to be more loosely dis-persed closer to the surface and along the edges of the basin. To reach the oil and gas there, conventional wells are drilled verti-cally, straight down.
Natural resources trapped in sandstone and shale, however, tend to be much deeper and more tightly packed beneath extensive layers of earth.
Unconventional wells are therefore re-quired to drill vertically through many layers of rock, then move horizontally be-tween the layers to reach the oil and meth-ane trapped there.
Will Fleckenstein, the BP adjunct pro-fessor of petroleum engineering at the Col-orado School of Mines, said that shale and sandstone are a very brittle type of rock which constantly fractures naturally under the stress of the earth.
He explained that fracturing the rock by hydraulic means requires highly pressur-ized water to be pumped deep into the well so the pockets of oil and natural gas can beSee Fracking on page 21
Social justice and diversity summit focuses on prevalent racial segregationTessa Byrns [email protected]
The 11th Annual Summit on Social Justice and Diversity was organized last Monday by the University Program Coun-cil and the Summit Organizing Committee of the University of Northern Colorado. Guest speakers for the event included Tariq Nasheed and Kathleen Hynes.
Nasheed produced the 2011 documen-tary “Hidden Colors” on the history of African and Aboriginal people. Hynes is a speaker for the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado.
Event leaders and students said they IRXQG�WKH�HYHQW�EHQHÀFLDO�IRU�HYHU\RQH�EH-cause it helped people open up to diversity.
“I think the most important aspect of this event is that it is bringing awareness to social injustices and causes people to act and effectively react to the injustices around them,” said Litsha Leeper, presi-dent of the committee.
Some students said they found Na-sheed’s speech powerful and engaging.
“I thought the event was well prepared,” said Kourtney Bellard, a freshman acting major. “I really liked the poetry and Tariq Nasheed’s speech. He just sounded intel-lectual. It touched base with every social
issue from slavery to now. I took a lot from him and his speech.”
The speech outlined the way African-Americans have been treated throughout history, and even touched on how white people can help prevent African-Ameri-cans from being persecuted in today’s so-ciety.
“The three things that our white brothers and sisters can do to help with the cause is ÀUVW� DFNQRZOHGJH�ZKLWH� VXSUHPDF\�µ�1D-sheed said. “Benign neglect policy is also a form of white supremacy that started in the 1960s and is still happening today.”
Nasheed said that benign neglect policy is the government not making a promise to anything.
“It’s racism through omission,” Na-sheed said.
In Nasheed’s speech, he said that white supremacy is still around today even though people don’t necessarily call it that anymore.
“They may have wiped the name off of the elephant in the room, but its still there blocking the door for us,” Nasheed said.
Nasheed also said white people could “call out racism or white supremacy when its being done” and “vote against public policies that are going to be detrimental to black people.”
Michaela Cross | The MirrorThe Summit Organizing Committee of the University of Northern Colorado hosted the 11th Annual Summit on social justice and diversity last Monday.
Cassius Vasquez | The MirrorUNC hosted a Greeley community discussion last Monday about oil and gas development.
The Mirror—Page 8 April 21, 2014NEWS
Colorado teachers stress importance of multilingual education
World Language Day provides students with opportunity to culturally grow
Daniel [email protected]
A small group from the University of Northern Colo-rado Alumni Association and the College of Educational and Behavioral Sciences met in Butler Hancock’s Champi-
ons Room to view a presentation on cultural and linguistic diversity in school programs Thursday evening.
The presentation, titled “Community Conversation: Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Education Programs,” was put together by UNC’s Madeline Milian, who has a doctorate in education, and featured four main speakers.
Adrienne Doherty, former principal of Global Village Academy in Fort Collins, spoke on her view of multilin-gual education programs.
Doherty voiced her support of a high-immersion model of multilingual education.
“It’s not just learning a language,” Doherty said. “It’s learning in a language.”
In the program described by Doherty, students in kin-dergarten are taught completely in a new language and they are gradually taught more of their native language as they progress through school.
Julie Schiola, former principal of Harris Bilingual Ele-mentary in Fort Collins, described her experience forming a dual-language model of education for her school.
6SHFLÀFDOO\��6FKLROD�VSRNH�DERXW�KRZ�KHU�VWXGHQWV��ZKR�were taught half in their native tongue and half in a new language, differed in their language learning needs.
“For the English speaking students, the bilingual pro-gram was more of enrichment, but for the Spanish speak-ing students, to me, it was more of a need,” Schiola said.
Francis Schneeweiss, the English Language Acquisi-tion facilitator for the schools in District 6, talked about
the methods she uses to maximize language retention for students in her district.
“We want to make sure we group students to their im-mediate needs,” Schneeweiss said. “We don’t want to group all English Language Acquisition students together. Students learn better by socializing, so the teacher in our classrooms is more of a facilitator and students work in groups most of class.”
The fourth speaker, Executive Director of Greeley’s soon to come Salida del Sol Academy Rene Gonzalez, ex-plained what type of school the academy will be.
Gonzalez described how Salida del Sol, which will open in September 2014, will be different from other mul-tilingual schools.
“What’s unique about our dual-language school is we don’t get to choose who our students are,” Gonzalez said. “The students in our area are the students we will teach.”
Gonzalez also stated that the Salida del Sol Academy’s curriculum will be based on the principles of the promi-nent education researchers Gomez & Gomez.
Each of the speakers expressed a strong need for multi-lingual education in the United States in order to stay com-petitive and relevant in the global environment.
The UNC Alumni Association’s next event, titled “Bears in DC - The Changing Nature of Public Service” will be held at 6 p.m. August 23rd in the Dupont Circle Hotel.
Brittany [email protected]
Bonjour et bienvenue! Hola y bienveni-dos! Guten Tag und herzlich willkommen! Hello, and welcome to Earth!
This planet is currently home to more than 7,105 different languages according to the Summer Institute of Linguistics, and many people can only speak one of them. However, events like World Language Day may change that fact.
As a sponsor of World Language Day for the past 40 years, the University of Northern Colorado has seen an abundance of students communicating through song, cultural dance and conversation using a language other than their native tongue.
Over 1,100 high school students and 80 teachers across Colorado and southern Wyoming attended the event Wednesday at the University Center.
Melitta Wagner-Heaston, an assistant professor of modern languages, said she organized World Language Day this year to offer high school students a space to teach, learn and participate in cultural diversity and language development.
“It’s important for kids to see other students speaking different languages,” Wagner-Heaston said. “This gives them a chance to show off their skills.”
Interacting with others in another lan-
JXDJH� FDQ� RIWHQ� EH� D� GLIÀFXOW� WKLQJ� IRU�students to practice outside the classroom. Wagner-Heaston said World Language Day presents an occasion for speakers to connect in alternative ways.
“It’s an opportunity to immerse your-self,” she said.
High school students weren’t the only ones to show off what they know. Foreign language educators who teach German, Spanish, French and Chinese at the high school level gathered to share innovative teaching techniques for language studies.
Instructors also compared and contrast-ed their opinions on foreign language text-book development for secondary schools in the region.
Two teachers in foreign language were honored by UNC in recognition of their professional excellence and outstanding teaching accomplishments.
The departments of modern languages and Hispanic studies presented the awards at the teacher luncheon to an instructor in German and an instructor in French.
Going above and beyond appears to be common in the foreign language commu-nity.
.DWK\�*ULIÀQ��D�MXQLRU�KLVWRU\�PDMRU�DQG�French minor, worked tirelessly as a World Language Day volunteer and event coordi-nator.
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emails and volunteer sign-up sheets to stu-dents and teachers in the modern language department in preparation for the big oc-casion.
The university’s event consisted of competitions in poetry, extemporaneous speech, cultural drama, song and dance. There were also games, skits, show and tell, food presentations and piñata displays.
The university bustled with hundreds of students running to and fro, trying to catch
the competitions they didn’t want to miss. Each ballroom hummed with lively
chatter as German, French, Spanish and Chinese speakers clashed harshly in their attempts to speak over one another.
Such jarring discord might sound like the opposite of communication to the un-trained ear, but with consistent practice, many have learned to decipher the meaning of what was once only noise to their ears.
Language is more than words: it’s an art.
Maeve Widmann | The MirrorUNC has hosted World Language Day for the past 40 years. The event was held again last Wednesday, and it included competitions, workshops and cultural presentations all day.
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Student Employee of the Year excels in academics and workTessa Byrns [email protected]
Student Employee Ap-
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Maeve Widmann | The MirrorNatalee Gonzalez was announced UNC Student Employee of the Year last Tuesday during Stu-dent Employee Appreciation Week based on her ability to excel in her job and in her academics.
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Tilted Kilt uniforms cause controversy on campusTessa Byrns [email protected]
The Tilted Kilt Pub and Eatery opened a new restaurant in the Greeley area in mid-March.
Some University of Northern Colorado students think that the restaurant is not a good idea, while others are in favor of the opening.
A former employee of the pub, who asked not to be named, quit after she found the provocative dress code and the rules of being “sexually friendly” to customers off-putting.
“The rules of the restaurant were to be ‘extremely friendly’ to customers and I chose not to do that,” the for-mer employee said. “None of the girls were allowed in the back. There was a completely separate staff. We were al-ways escorted out by a male employee when we got off work.”
Some female students said they found the uniforms the female employees are required to wear more revealing than similar restaurants, like Hooters or Twin Peaks. The Tilted Kilt women must wear short kilt skirts and bikini bras.
“I think the uniforms are fairly revealing coming from a girl’s perspective,” said Marisa Williamson, a junior el-ementary education major. “I think they probably make good money, but at what cost?”
Other female students said they felt the same way about the Tilted Kilt’s female uniforms, and that women who
work at the restaurant show off too much skin. “I don’t know why girls work there,” said Kim Smith,
a sophomore nursing major. “The Hooter girls’ uniforms look classier than the Tilted
Kilt uniforms,” said Makenna Kampfe, a senior journalism major. “I think the uniforms are just really trashy, but the girls are probably getting good tips.”
Richard Finkle, a sophomore biology major, said he GLGQ·W�ÀQG�WKH�7LOWHG�.LOW�XQLIRUPV�WR�EH�RIIHQVLYH�DQG�WKDW�he didn’t have a problem with the way the waitresses at the restaurant dressed.
“I think that if the girls who work at the Tilted Kilt don’t have a problem with the uniforms, then it shouldn’t be an issue for other people,” he said.
$QRWKHU�VWXGHQW�VDLG�KH�GLGQ·W�ÀQG�WKH�ZDLWUHVVHV�WR�EH�too “sexually friendly,” and that they were just doing their jobs and treating their customers politely.
“I’ve been to the Tilted Kilt a couple of times, and they were all nice but I don’t think they were being overly nice,” said Mike Sherman, a freshman political science major. “They just seemed like any other waitress.”
The Tilted Kilt is a sports pub located at 610 9th Ave. and features an entertainment patio covered with a putting green, bocce ball court and horseshoes.
Greeley’s pub is the company’s third location in Colo-rado and the opening created 150 new jobs in the commu-nity, many of which went to UNC students.
Editor’s note: In some cases, names in this story have
Cassius Vasquez | The MirrorThe Tilted Kilt Pub and Eatery is a Celtic-themed sports bar that opened last month. The female employees must wear kilt mini-skirts and bikini bras.
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Michaela Cross| The MirrorThe free bike valet service provided encouraged viewers to pedal their way to the free screening. Leslie Beckstrom (left) and Erika Hartmann volunteered at the valet station.
Bicycle film inspires communityDavid [email protected]
Standing outside of the Kress Theater, Leslie Beckstrom lingered over a rack full of bicycles while inside people mingled over small appetizers be-fore start of their movie.
2XWÀWWHG� LQ� D� SXUSOH�ÁHHFH� MDFNHW� WR� JXDUG�against the cold weather, Beckstrom was acting as a bicycle valet for the cyclists that rode to the theater for a special show-ing of “Reveal The Path,” a movie that uses the bi-cycle as a way to discover what it means to live an inspired life.
With two showings, “Reveal The Path” was screened last Wednesday through the collaborated efforts of multiple local groups.
Beckstrom, an employ-ee for the Weld County Public Health Depart-ment, described the movie screening as another op-portunity to increase the city’s exposure to cycling.
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ways trying to increase the number of people that are walking and biking in our communities, so we decided to bring this par-WLFXODU� ÀOP� WR� WKH� .UHVV�and have some screening to try to raise the aware-ness of how fun it is to ride bicycles.”
The movie screening was the result of a collab-oration between the North Colorado Medical Center, the City of Greeley, Weld County and the American Lung Association.
The Kaiser Foundation also provided funding for the event.
Wendy Polulech of the North Colorado Medi-cal Center recounted the role that a local advocacy group played in organiz-ing the event.
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area.”Using money that re-
mained from a previous grant, Polulech used the advocacy group to gener-ate ideas and support for the screening. The diverse backgrounds of the mem-bers also allowed multiple
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sociation who spoke to the attendees about their “Skip the Trip” Program.
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forms of transporta-
Daniel [email protected]
University of Northern Colorado Opera Theatre presented Amadeo Vives’ zarzuela “Bohemios” Thursday evening at Gree-ley Central High School.
Directed by Brian Clay Luedloff, an associate professor of music, “Bo-hemios” is a Spanish form opera that featured the performers alternating be-tween scenes of dialogue and music. The opera was performed in one act.
“The zarzuela form,
with a combination of singing, dialogue and dancing, is the perfect introduction to opera for young audiences,” Luedl-off said.
Amadeo Vives’ opera tells the story of a young composer named Ro-berto (played by German Duarte) who is writing a romantic opera with his friend Victor (played by Daniel Tillotson).
Roberto’s neighbor Cossette (played by Molly Ortiz) admires Roberto and his songwriting abili-ties. She steals the opera
he has written, intending to sing it at an opera audi-tion that evening.
Roberto and Cossette run into each other at a café. Roberto is struck by Cossette’s beauty and asks for her name, but she hesitates to accept his ad-vances because she wants to focus on succeeding as a singer.
Papa Girard (played by Anthony Haro), who has promised Cossette that he will help her do well in the audition, poses as Cossette’s manager at the audition and presents her
in grand fashion to the au-dience. Cossette asks Ro-berto to sing the audition with her, and as Roberto realizes that she has cho-sen to sing his opera the two fall in love.
The opera featured a mix of dramatic dialogue and singing to tell the story.
The music genres ex-hibited in the opera ranged in style from classical op-era to more modern styles of music.
“Bohemios” featured costuming by Lilli Du-ran, lighting and graphic
designs by Revere Taylor, and music direction and piano work by Ben Clark.
“Bohemios” pre-miered in 1904 at Teatro de la Zarzuela and was based on Henri Murger’s “Scenes de la vie de Bo-heme.” Amadeo Vives is a well-known writer of Spanish operas and wrote many critically-acclaimed zarzuelas during his ca-reer.
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Opera and jazz create an “emotional connection” for audience
Breelyn Bowe | The Mirror Michael Eyojsa holds out of his bowl to receive fried fish on Wednesday at the The Marcus Garvey Cultural Center. For the full story on the fish fry, visit the website at uncmirror.com.
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Good, bad or “Infamous?” Game lets you choose your type of hero
“Infamous: Second Son” stars Delsin Rowe, a rebel-lious, twenty-something, Native American who is suddenly gifted with super powers, making him what world previously referred to as a “Conduit,” although the government prefers the term bio-terrorist.
Delsin’s power is the ability to absorb the pow-er of another Conduit by touching them. He can ba-sically have any power he encounters.
“Infamous: Second Son”
is an open-world game that follows Delsin as he travels through Seattle, acquiring a total of four different pow-ers (Smoke, Neon, Video, and Concrete) from four different Conduits.
“Infamous” sees each power come from a differ-ent person trying to use his or her power in a different way, only to have Delsin show up, copy their power and usually assist in com-pleting their goal.
Delsin uses his powers to complete missions mov-ing ever closer to his goal of saving his tribe.
However, it also has side missions that may be completed outside of main missions to increase the player’s karma points.
Karma is a feature that
makes a lot of sense in a game about super powers.
Do you want to be good or evil? Good players do not kill bad guys but instead subdue them. Good players also heal injured civilians and stop drug dealers.
Evil players attack pro-testors and kill bad guys.
I chose to play “good” GXULQJ� P\� ÀUVW� SOD\�through. However, play-ing the opposite karma role opens more possibilities for gameplay, such as new moves and missions not accessible to the opposite role.
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ing visuals in the game is the neon power.
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Delsin constantly has witty banter to give off and is a joy to listen to. Each cut scene shows Delsin coming up with witty comebacks and sharp remarks about his current situation.
Each character has a brilliantly crafted person-ality, not just Delsin. Del-
sin’s brother Reggie is a tough, by-the-book-cop who wants to help Delsin but does not approve of his brother being a “bio-terror-ist.”
7KH� FRQÁLFW� EHWZHHQ�helping his brother and turning him in is always ap-parent in Reggie’s dialogue and facial animations.
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Nicely subdue the peo-
ple who constantly hunt you in an attempt to end your “bio-terrorist” ways, or simply murder anything in your path. The choice in entirely yours.
It’s a game all about FKRLFH�� )URP� WKH� ÀUVW� IHZ�hours through the end of the game, your choices will mark your path. “Infamous: Second Son” is a game that asks the ever-present ques-tion: what kind of hero are you?
—Matt Tarman is a
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The Mirror. He can be
contacted via email at
Game ColumnBy Matt Tarman
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The Bloom Festival Challenge beginsCity working on bike planKress from page 13
forms of transportation, such as walking and cy-cling.
Although the City of Greeley does not have a bi-cycle program in place, the residents of Greeley have much to look forward to.
According to the park planner for the City of Greeley, Sarah Boyd, the city was recently approved for a grant through Kaiser Premanente
“Were working towards getting a bike program and a major effort towards that will be getting the bicycle master plan that’s currently underway,” Boyd said.
Traditionally, master plans provide comprehen-sive guidance or instruction
and are vital to the comple-tion of most major public work projects.
“It’s being funded through Kaiser Perman-ente,” Boyd said. “We ap-plied for a grant, got an $85,000 grant to do a bike plan for the city of Greeley that will focus on infra-structure, public engage-ment, community devel-opment to put together an actual plan for our commu-nity.”
With the recent growth that the City of Greeley has experienced, residents still have a lot to look forward to.
The Kress Theater is lo-cated in the downtown area of Greeley at 817 8th Ave.
David [email protected]
For most people, there is usually at least one person that can inspire star struck feelings of celebrity. For some, a movie star like George Clooney or Julia Roberts may be that per-son. For others, it might be a politician or community leader.
But for many musicians, especially jazz musicians, the music of Wayne Shorter holds a place that is near and dear to their hearts.
After a long career, Wayne Shorter has earned a special place among most musicians where his pres-ence alone can change the tone of the room.
Shorter’s musical his-tory spans more then six decades and has become the subject of novels and biographies but, for the uninitiated, here are the SparkNotes: After an up-bringing in Newark, NJ and an education at NYU that
brought him in contact with jazz royalty in New York City’s bustling jazz scene, Shorter was drafted into the Army.
After his return from the Army in the late 1950s, he joined drummer Art Blakey’s group, the Jazz Messengers. While with the Jazz Messengers, he contributed several key compositions to the group’s repertoire and eventually became the group’s musical director.
In 1964 he joined Miles Davis’s group as the effec-tive replacement for John Coltrane in what would later be known as Davis’s “Second Great Quintet.”
It is around this time with Davis that he also re-leased his own albums as a band leader featuring, al-most exclusively, his own compositions. To this day, those recordings are studied in music schools all around the world.
Shorter continued to push musical boundaries.
He co-founded Weather Re-port with pianist Joe Zawi-nul and appeared on records by Carlos Santana, Steely Dan and Joni Mitchell. As a part of VSOP, Shorter revis-ited material from the ‘60s with a fresh approach while simultaneously releasing groundbreaking music of mid-sized ensemble com-positions, often featuring electric rhythm sections.
This brings us to his current quartet. The latest iteration of his quartet rips the rug out from underneath everything that musicians have traditionally accepted DV�À[HG�HOHPHQWV�RI�PXVLF�
In jazz, material played as written on a page, then a period of improvisation takes place around a set form.
Shorter’s quartet is
unique in that it plays with no preconceived form, mel-ody, or harmony. Instead, by choosing members who are masters of their instru-ment, all successful leaders in their own right, the quar-tet is able to freely draw on the aforementioned de-cades of music. This collec-tive knowledge keeps the quartet from dissolving into unrelated improvising and frees the members from written music. It allows the group to reach what jazz hopes to be: absolute free-dom.
When bassist John Pa-titucci was asked how he prepared for such a concert, his answer revealed some-thing beyond musical me-chanics.
“I feel like all the experi-ences and gigs in jazz, clas-sical music and every other music, for that matter, have helped to prepare me for this particular group,” he said. “However, the level of improvisation and spon-taneous composition that
Wayne prioritizes is not an easy thing to prepare for in the traditional sense. It’s more than just music - it’s about your whole life.”
Drummer Brian Blade echoed similar intangibles. “I just always follow the advice and direction of Wayne when he says, ‘Take a chance.’ I realized that if my experience leading up to playing with Wayne had not prepared me for the mo-ment, then I would have to NHHS�GLJJLQJ�GHHSHU�WR�ÀQG�what was needed from me.”
Ultimately, the best pre-view for Wayne Shorter’s performance at the Gree-ley Jazz Festival was given by Blade who, when asked what the audience could ex-pect, responded with “No idea. That’s the exciting part.”
The UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival will be April 24-26 at various venues in Gree-ley. For showtimes go to http://www.unco.edu/arts/music/jazz_festival.
UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival preview: Wayne Shorter and his quartet
Courtesy of Wayne ShorterWayne Shorter will be playing the UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival.
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This week in UNC sports:
Baseball:
at Air Force.
3 p.m. Tuesday.
Colorado Springs.
at Utah Valley.
6 p.m. Friday.
Orem, Utah.
at Utah Valley.
6 p.m. Saturday.
Orem, Utah.
at Utah Valley.
Noon Sunday.
Orem, Utah.
Men’s Golf:
American Sky Championship.
All Day Friday-Sunday.
Angels Camp, Calif.
Women’s Golf:
Big Sky Championship.
All Day Monday-Tuesday.
Chandler, Ariz.
Men’s Tennis:
Big Sky Championship.
All Day Friday-Sunday.
Sacramento, Calif.
Women’s Tennis:
Big Sky Championship.
All Day Friday-Sunday.
Sacramento, Calif.
Softball:
at North Dakota.
1 & 3 p.m. Friday.
Grand Forks, N.D.
at North Dakota.
2 p.m. Saturday.
Grand Forks, N.D.
Track & Field:
Glenn Morris Multi.
All Day Thursday-Friday.
Fort Collins.
Jack Christiansen Invite.
All Day Saturday.
Fort Collins.
Basketball coach White leaves UNC for Fresno StateMichael [email protected]
UNC women’s basketball head coach Jaime White resigned Wednesday as she has accepted the position of head coach at Fresno State.
During her time at the Univer-sity of Northern Colorado, White went 117-128, inheriting a team in 2006 that was new to the Big Sky Conference and helping the Bears grow into a Big Sky power.
“This has truly been an amaz-ing experience for our family. We will sincerely miss our col-leagues, the Greeley community and our Bear fans,” White said in a press release from the athlet-
ics department We d n e s d a y. “A special thanks to all the young women and coaches who have been a part of our lives for the past eight years, you will al-ways have a special place in our hearts.”
White came to UNC in 2006 after serving as an assistant at Wyoming, which is in the Moun-tain West Conference with Fresno State. The year White took the KHOP�PDUNHG�81&·V�ÀUVW�\HDU�LQ�the Big Sky Conference.
7KH� �������� WHDP� ÀQLVKHG�just 5-24 as the Bears were still settling into the Division-I level of play. By 2012-13, White had helped build UNC into a team that went 21-13 and beat her for-PHU�WHDP�DW�:\RPLQJ�LQ�WKH�ÀUVW�round of the WNIT.
Former Bears forward Lauren Oosdyke wrote via email that she is happy for White.
“I know that she was offered a fantastic position as a head coach at Fresno State and it has been a dream of hers to coach in the Mountain West Conference,” Oosdyke wrote. “It will be a great move for her and her family.”
The 2013-14 season was not as successful for the Bears as a
relatively inexperienced group ÀQLVKHG� MXVW� ������ ������ LQ� WKH�Big Sky) without star point guard D’shara Strange, who redshirted with a knee injury. UNC missed out on the conference tournament IRU�WKH�ÀUVW�WLPH�VLQFH������
“As a head coach, she had an incredible love for the game and has given many young women the unforgettable opportunity to play college basketball,” Oosdyke wrote. “She knew what it took to be successful in basketball, academics and in life. She really stressed the importance of each of these in our daily lives. I have learned so much from her and am so thankful for her guidance.”See White on page 21
Makalah [email protected]
Dating back to 1952 and before, UNC has up-held a prideful baseball tradition. With 10 College World Series appearances and 20 NCAA Regional Tournament titles, it’s hard to disregard the base-
ball program’s history at UNC.
The last College World Series appearance that Northern Colorado made may have taken place 40 years ago in 1974, but the memory still remains FKHULVKHG�DQG�UHÁHFWHG�RQ�by the university and its alums.
Tom Petroff, who has been inducted into UNC’s Hall of Fame as well as the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame, was the head coach of the 1974 team.
Petroff acknowledged that every baseball team in Northern Colorado’s history is important but
the 1974 team accom-plished something that, in the 70s, seemed nearly impossible.
“That was kind of a milestone as far as I’m concerned,” Petroff said. “They prospered by beat-ing the No. 1-ranked team in the country: the Univer-sity of Arizona.
“It was quite an event for the school and the community. It was almost like the city of Greeley shut down to witness or hear it on the radio. Again, before that and afterwards there was some good ball teams and good individu-als. They’re all special but this one was unheard of.”
Another individual who experienced the thrill of the 1974 College World Series is former Bear Keith Bailey. Bailey, who was also recently in-ducted into the UNC Hall of Fame, pitched the win-ning game against Ari-zona in 1974 and can still describe the event as if it happened yesterday.
“The weather was ab-
solutely beautiful. At the time, Jackson Field was lined with lilac bushes and they were in full bloom,” Bailey said. “I believed they came in thinking this is just an intermediate stop on their way to Omaha.
“Well, we kind of screwed their plans up for them. No one on the team was really in awe of WKHP��:H�KDG�VXFK�FRQÀ-dence because we knew that with effort and the way we played, we could match up with anybody on a given day.”
Bailey also recalled the monumental trip to Oma-ha for the College World Series. The Bears weren’t able to bring the national championship back to Greeley but Bailey said the memory and the expe-rience were unforgettable.
A distinctive memory Bailey has of the College World Series appearance FDPH� RQ� WKH� ÀUVW� QLJKW�of competition when the Bears faced Oklahoma.
See Glory Days on page 18
Courtesy of UNC ArchivesPractices were different in the old days of baseball. Apparently some pitchers practiced their windups in unison, or at least did so when posing for pictures.
Part 1 of a two-part series on UNC baseball’s past and present
Glory Days
Jaime White
UNC has rich baseball history
The Mirror—Page 17April 21, 2014 SPORTS
Track and field competes in very busy weekendStaff [email protected]
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Northern Colorado sophomore Natalie Migliozzi finished tenth in the 800-meter run Thursday at the Cal State Los An-geles Twilight event.
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Baseball from page 1
offense for four innings, giving up one hit and three runs before he was relieved in the eighth in-ning. Those three runs came in the top of the eighth with one out after Tanner had already left the mound, but because he put the runners on base, he was credited with the runs.
“I felt like I had a lot of success when I missed down as opposed to up,” Tanner said. “I was just hitting my spots.”
The Bears walked 11 ‘Lopes batters throughout the game, struggling with control issues.
“It’s tough to recover from those because when you give bas-erunners advancement, one swing of the bat will create runs scored,” UNC head coach Carl Iwasaki said.
Northern Colorado was able to get three runs on just six hits, in-cluding a two-RBI single to right ÀHOG� E\� MXQLRU� RXWÀHOGHU� -HQVHQ�Park with two outs and two strikes
in the sixth inning.“My approach was just let the
ball get deep (in the strike zone),” Park said. “They had been throw-ing me a lot of off-speed pitches so I knew they were going to come with that so I was just wait-
ing for it.”The last run was earned in the
bottom of the ninth inning with WZR�RXWV�E\�VHQLRU�RXWÀHOGHU�%HQ�Netzel, who blasted a solo homer RYHU� WKH� ULJKW�ÀHOG� IHQFH��1HW]HO�now leads the team with three
home runs on the season.The Antelope defense shut
down any hopes the Bears had of a comeback, committing no errors and turning three double plays. Then the GCU offense showed no mercy to Northern Colorado in the last two innings by putting up HLJKW�PRUH�UXQV��ÀYH�LQ�WKH�QLQWK�inning.
“It’s rough when you have in-nings like that,” Park said. “We FDQ�OHDUQ�IURP�LW�DQG�ÀQG�ZD\V�WR�minimize damage and do better next time.”
UNC defeated Grand Can-\RQ�LQ�WKH�ÀUVW�JDPH�RI�WKH�WKUHH�game-series and that ended an 18-game losing streak. The play on WKH�PRXQG�EHWZHHQ�WKH�ÀUVW�JDPH�and the last game of the series was night and day. Friday, senior pitcher Chris Hammer pitched the whole game, getting his second win of the season while Sunday afternoon not one of the eight pitchers could really stop the hot-handed batters for GCU.
Players were relieved that the losing streak was over, even for just a day, but now they are back on a two-game losing streak.
The Bears are going through a rough transition year into the Western Athletic Conference but Iwasaki is very excited to now be playing in the WAC.
´,·P�ÀUHG�XS��:H�KDYH�WKH�ELJ-gest opportunity in this league, we’re gonna get there,” Iwasaki said. “We’ve been in a differ-ent conference—for the last four years, we started in the middle and ended on the top last year. We understand it. It’s baseball, it’s college baseball; we’re not splitting atoms or trying to cure cancer.”
at Air Force3 p.m. TuesdayColorado Springs
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UNC baseball has illustrious history from ‘50s-‘70sGlory Days from page 16
“We had to have two sets of uniforms, for contrast-ing colors for TV: a light set and a dark set,” Bailey said. “We only had one set of uniforms and they were kind of a baby blue color so we had to pull out of the archives these old, white, wool uniforms like you see in the ‘50s or ‘60s. They’re hot and uncomfortable and we had to wear those the ÀUVW�QLJKW��,� WKLQN�ZH�ZHUH�more embarrassed by hav-ing to wear those then any-thing.”
Northern Colorado fell to Oklahoma but bounced back to beat Harvard in the next game. Southern Illi-nois was UNC’s third and ÀQDO�RSSRQHQW��$IWHU�ORVLQJ�by a run to SIU, the Bears were eliminated from the national championship.
Another unforgettable memory that Bailey recalls is how different the campus was in 1974. The Hall of
Famer said that one of the reasons he came to UNC was because the school had a great baseball and academic reputation. That reputation has changed a bit, as have the buildings on the campus.
“We still had the west and central campus but some of the buildings didn’t even have names,” Bailey said. “The building across from Michener was just called the ‘classrooms EXLOGLQJ�·� 0\� ÀUVW� \HDU��Butler-Hancock was under reconstruction so that facil-ity didn’t even exist.
“All the baseball prac-tices that were indoor and the basketball games and the wrestling took place at Gunter Hall. I feel fortu-nate that I got to experience Gunter Hall but it was old and we were all very anx-ious for Butler-Hancock to open. At the time, it was a state-of-the-art facility and we welcomed it.”
The fan base has also
changed over time from the ‘70s until now. Bailey said the baseball team used to bring out large crowds for their games, whereas now the crowds aren’t as big.
“It’s not like we drew a couple of thousand fans at each game but we had a pretty strong following,” Bailey said. “It depended on who we played. If it was a rival, like the University of Denver, the Air Force
$FDGHP\�� ZH·G� ÀOO� WKRVH�stands up pretty good and especially when we got into the postseason. There were people standing on ladders outside the fences looking in. It was a completely dif-ferent environment than it is now.”
Petroff made his exit from the university in 1985. After 15 years of coach-ing, Petroff, who was also known as the “Baseball Man” by many students and community members, assumed a position as assis-tant coach at Iowa.
The head coach at Iowa at the time was a 1961 UNC graduate and for-mer catcher on Northern Colorado’s baseball team, Duane Banks. Following the “Baseball Man’s” de-cision to leave UNC came a lot of sadness and disap-pointment from the city of Greeley.
Petroff described the time as frustrating for him and the players, as did
many media sources, in-cluding former Greeley Tribune sports editor Kevin Bronson.
“From all corners, there was an outpouring of sad-ness at Petroff’s decision to turn elsewhere and an-ger toward the university that many viewed as having taken Petroff for granted,” Bronson said. “The dis-may came not only from
former players and those close to the university, but from other coaches and fol-lowers who call themselves disciples or students or ad-mires of the Baseball Man.”
From the time Petroff left UNC to now, there have been many coaches to takeover leadership of the baseball team including -RKQ�%DUQHV��7HUU\�+HQVOH\�and Kevin Smallcomb. As of 2011, Carl Iwasaki has been the leader of the pro-gram, looking to bring the Bears back to prominence within the world of college baseball.
Courtesy of UNC Archives
Former UNC head coach Tom Petroff poses with his Adirondack Big Stick Award. Petroff coached the Bears from 1970-85.
Courtesy of UNC Archives
Fans packed Jackson Field for UNC’s upset over Arizo-na in 1974. The win placed the Bears in the College World Series.
The Glory Days
Part Two coming next week:UNC’s current team
Baseball gets first win in WAC, still drops series to Grand Canyon
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Senior Northern Colorado catcher Andrew Coffman sets up to tag out a Grand Canyon baserunner in the second inning of Sunday’s 14-3 loss to the Antelopes.
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Club lacrosse takes sole possession of first in RMLCDanielle [email protected]
After a roller-coaster of a game for UNC men’s lacrosse, Tan-ner Duggan came up big for the Bears, scoring the game-winner and giving his club a 10-9 victory over Montana State.
The win ensured the Univer-sity of Northern Colorado (11-2, 6-0 RMLC) the top seed in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse Con-ference tournament, which will take place May 12-17 in Irvine and Orange, Calif.
Prior to the game, the Bobcats and Bears were tied atop the con-ference.
The Bears took a 3-0 lead in WKH� ÀUVW� TXDUWHU� EXW� IRXQG� WKHP-selves behind the Bobcats 5-4 at halftime.
Junior goalkeeper Steve Karsten said he didn’t worry when the Bears lost the lead be-cause he’s used to a dynamic game. Karsten said the Bears’ ex-ceptional defense helped him stay FRQÀGHQW�WKURXJKRXW�WKH�JDPH�
“I knew we were going to be all right,” Karsten said. “Our de-fense is really good; they’re smart players.”
The Bears goalie admitted that he did make mistakes in the game, including letting in goals that had the Bears trailing the Bobcats for most of the second half. However, he had faith in the Bears defense.
“I don’t think I played my best
game this game,” Karsten said. “The defense really helped out today. They made me look good today.”
After catching up to the Bob-FDWV� LQ� WKH� ÀQDO� PLQXWHV� RI� WKH�IRXUWK� TXDUWHU�� WKH�%HDUV� HQWHUHG�overtime tied at 9-9.
The Bears took a shot and missed. The Bobcats offense took a shot, missed, and the ball went back to the Bears.
Duggan, a junior, ripped a shot from the left side of the net and put it past Bobcats goaltender Parker Fairey for the sudden-
death victory.“It just felt great,” Duggan
said. “I’m at a loss for words right now.”
Duggan was an important of-fensive contributor as he also scored a hat trick (three goals), in WKH�ÀUVW�KDOI�RI�WKH�JDPH�DORQH�EH-fore adding the overtime clincher to bring his total to four.
Head coach Keith Lindgren said the team’s biggest weakness was its performance in the second TXDUWHU��
He said the Bears can often put pressure on their opponents, but
they need to be more consistent.“They put their foot on some-
one’s throat,” Lindgren said, “They just don’t leave it there for the whole game.”
Lindgren said one of the team’s biggest assets came as a surprise. He said the defense has exceeded his expectations this season.
“Everyone knew we’d have a great offense, but no one knew we’d have such a great defense this year, and they are the back-bone of this whole team,” Lind-gren said.
Karsten shared Lindgren’s en-
thusiasm for the back end of the Bears team, saying the defense is strong and reliable. He also said WKH�%HDUV·�FKHPLVWU\�LV�D�GHÀQLWH�strength.
“Our team’s chemistry is the best,” Karsten said. “I’ve played on a lot of teams and this is the best one chemistry-wise.”
Lindgren said this win means the team will have “a nice easy run to conferences,” where he will keep the Bears’ strategy the same for conferences as it’s been for the so-far successful season.
“Our whole system this year has been for everyone to come play us,” Lindgren said. “We don’t play special for any team.”
With this win, the Bears have gone undefeated and won their division.
Their regular season record currently stands at 11-2, and they have another game against the School of Mines next Friday.
According to Lindgren, the last time the Bears played the School of Mines, they won 16-0.
After Friday’s game, the Bears ZLOO�IDFH�0LQHV�DJDLQ�LQ� WKH�ÀUVW�round of the RMLC tournament.
Wrapping up a year of balling abroad and what the future may hold
0\�ÀUVW�VHDVRQ�SOD\LQJ�EDVNHW-ball professionally overseas has come to an end. I have had the absolute time of my life!
It has been an experience that I am so thankful for and have learned so much about other cul-tures, people, countries, etc. I will
never forget it for the rest of my life and I hope to continue playing basketball and traveling around the world.
+HUH� LQ� *HUPDQ\�� ZH� ÀQ-ished our season in third place and unfortunately were upset by WKH�VL[WK�VHHGHG� WHDP�LQ� WKH�ÀUVW�round of playoffs. We had a suc-cessful year and I really liked my teammates and coach.
Now that the season is over, I will be moving back home to California for the rest of the sum-mer and continue my basketball workouts.
I have been in contact with my agent and we will see what other
offers I may get for next season. I would love to play for at least one more year and then see where I am at then. I would love to come back to Germany or possibly even live in a different country.
,�FDQ�RIÀFLDOO\��HDVLO\�VD\�WKDW�I have the “travel itch”. While living in Europe, I realized how easy it was to travel to many dif-ferent countries by car or train. I learned how to use public trans-portation (and I only got lost on a train once).
,Q�P\�ÀYH�PRQWKV�RI�OLYLQJ�LQ�Germany, I have been to Prague, Czech Republic; Paris, France; and Interlaken, Switzerland.
In Germany, I have traveled to Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, Hei-delberg, Dresden and Mainz.
Next week I will be doing a Euro trip with my two Ameri-can teammates from my team in Germany who have become great friends of mine.
We will be traveling to four GLIIHUHQW� FRXQWULHV� DQG� ÀYH� GLI-ferent cities in 20 days. Hostels, WUDLQV�� EXVHV� DQG� ÁLJKWV� ZLOO� EH�some of our best friends through-out this trip.
We will be traveling to La Palma, Spain; Barcelona, Spain; Rome, Italy; Dubrovnik, Croatia; and Amsterdam, Netherlands.
We are planning on doing a lot of sight seeing, tanning on the beach, eating great food and coming home with big holes in our wallets, but you cannot put a price tag on a memory or experi-ence you will have for the rest of your life.
—Lauren Oosdyke is a for-mer UNC basketball player with bachelor’s degrees in broadcast journalism and communication and a master’s in sport adminis-tration and a columnist for The Mirror.
By Lauren Oosdyke
Globetrotting
Michael Nowels | The MirrorNorthern Colorado senior midfielder Clay Haverty celebrates after scoring a goal in the first half of Saturday’s 10-9 win over Montana State at the Butler-Hancock Fields. The win gave the Bears the top seed in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse Conference tournament in May.
vs. Colorado School of Mines7 p.m. FridayButler-Hancock Field
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Women’s tennis takes first vs. CSU
Dylan [email protected]
UNC men’s tennis was defeated 6-1 by Indiana-Purdue at Fort Wayne on
Thursday as Jeff Carlson and Michael Moya were honored for senior day.
After the nonconfer-ence loss, the University of Northern Colorado still
slipped into the Big Sky Conference champion-ship tournament as Eastern Washington lost to Mon-tana and Montana State over the weekend.
The day started with a sweep of the doubles matches for the IPFW Mastodons. Bears sopho-mores Eric Schuermans and Jacob Sheldon challenged their opponents to an 8-5 ÀQLVK� LQ� WKH� 1R�� �� PDWFK��The Bears came up short to JLYH�WKH�ÀUVW�SRLQW�WR�,3):�
0R\D� ÀQLVKHG� KLV� IRXU�year career at UNC (7-7, 5-5 Big Sky) with the lone win for the Bears in a come-back victory in the No. 6 match. After dropping the ÀUVW� VHW� ZLWKRXW� ZLQQLQJ� D�game, Moya came back to take the last match of the day with two tight sets, 7-5, 10-7.
“This was my last one, DQG� ,� ZDV� GRZQ� WKH� ÀUVW�set and even the second. I didn’t want to give up and I just pursued and got the victory,” Moya said. “We’re always going to be there for each other and en-courage each other. Overall we come out together as a Bears team.”
Despite the team’s loss, Moya was very pleased and the energy was high at the Butler-Hancock tennis courts.
“I’m a different person,” Moya said about his four years. “This school and See Tennis on page 23
Danielle [email protected]
The UNC women’s ten-nis team beat CSU in its ÀQDO� UHJXODU�VHDVRQ� PDWFK�last Tuesday. The victory ZDV� WKH� ÀUVW� IRU� WKH� %HDUV�against CSU since moving to Division I ten years ago.
“They’ve literally beaten XV�WKH�ODVW�WKUHH�\HDUV�����µ�assistant coach Mandy Pre-uss said. “It was nice to beat them 5-2.”
According to Preuss, the match began with losses in WKH�ÀUVW� WZR� URXQGV�EHIRUH�the Bears ran off a string of victories. The Bears didn’t allow the losses to snowball, though, as they ´FDXJKW� RQ� ÀUH�µ� 3UHXVV�said.
The Bears’ doubles team of senior Adriana Nieto and freshman Courtney Schul-WH� ZRQ� WKH� 1R�� �� GRXEOHV�
match against CSU’s Mol-lie Cooper and Celine Voss, 8-6.
7KH�%HDUV�WKHQ�ZRQ�ÀYH�of the six singles matches. Senior Stephanie Catlin took the No. 2 singles match against CSU’s Lauren Pick by a score of 6-4, 6-1. The 1R�� �� VLQJOHV� PDWFK� ZHQW�to UNC junior Chrissie Hoolahan, 6-4, 7-6.
Sophomore Hilary Wal-ters-West (No. 4), freshman Laura Wehner (No. 5) and freshman Beth Coton (No. 6) also won their matches against CSU’s Maddie Buxton, Celine Voss and Kwynn Ecton, respectively.
The Bears had been in Montana the previous weekend and faced off against CSU the day after they arrived back in Gree-ley. Preuss said the win against CSU put the team in a good mindset for next
week’s Big Sky Conference tournament in Sacramento.
To prepare for the con-ference tournament, Preuss said the team is having con-sistently “solid” practices. She says they’re also try-ing to have fun practices to keep the team’s spirits up. Preuss said she is hoping the recent warm weather in Colorado is good for prac-tices, so the heat in Sac-ramento won’t come as a shock to the team, as it has in seasons past.
The Bears will head to Sacramento to compete in the Big Sky Conference Championship on Wednes-day.
Big Sky ChampionshipFriday-SundaySacramento, Calif.
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Breelyn Bowe | The MirrorSenior Michael Moya was the only Bear to win a match in Thursday afternoon’s 6-1 nonconference loss to IPFW at But-ler-Hancock Courts.
The Mirror—Page 21April 21, 2014 SPORTS
Fracking from page 7
widened and the resources extracted.
Because rock layers can be incredibly unstable, fracking companies are al-ways wary of inducing un-intentional tremors into the earth while drilling.
To avoid areas of stress, Fleckenstein said frack-ing companies employ the use of microseismic geo-phones, which are highly sensitive microphones that listen to subtle shifts of rock within the earth.
Some drilling sites can run into serious problems with gas or oil leaks if they hit an existing fault line within the Earth.
This is something the Environmental Protection Agency has expressed con-cern over in recent years.
Old wells that have fall-en into disrepair over the years are also a concern for
those who live in areas of frequent drilling.
The deterioration of wells drilled in the past, which were not built to the standards that are upheld today, can leak natural gas and create a hazard for resi-dents.
However, Joe Ryan, professor of civil, environ-mental and architectural engineering at the Univer-sity of Colorado at Boul-der, said the contamination of groundwater aquifers caused directly by new fracking sites is highly un-likely.
Ground water aquifers are located closer to the surface, approximately 500 feet down. Fracking oc-curs at depths as shallow as 6,000 feet and as far down as 10,000 feet.
Although contamination of ground water from cur-rent fracking locations is highly improbable, there
are still some who worry about the water used in the fracking process. Ryan said LQJUHGLHQWV�RI�IUDFNLQJ�ÁX-id are 90 percent water and 9.5 percent sand.
Other ingredients in-clude sodium chloride, ethelene glycol, borate salts, sodium potassium carbonate and guar gum.
Ryan said citizens should visit FracFocus.com to learn more about frack-ing purposes, ingredients and suppliers for oil and gas wells across the coun-try.
Fracking is an issue the residents of Greeley can’t get away from. The city sits in a prime location for oil and gas extraction during a time when fossil fuels con-tinue rising in demand.
Being informed of frack-ing’s purposes, processes, ULVNV�DQG�EHQHÀWV�LV�NH\�WR�understanding what makes the topic so controversial.
UNC hosts drilling discussion
Staff [email protected]
UNC softball was swept in its three-game series at Idaho State this weekend.
The University of North-ern Colorado’s double-header against Idaho State Saturday resulted in a 12-0 ORVV�LQ�WKH�ÀUVW�JDPH�DQG�D�9-8 loss in the second game of the day.
The Bears made mistake DIWHU� PLVWDNH� LQ� WKH� ÀUVW�game of the day, but the team found more success in the second game.
Junior Morgan Yuhas came through with two home runs, including her third grand slam as a UNC Bear.
Northern C o l o r a d o took a 2-0 lead over the Bengals LQ� WKH� ÀUVW�inning, but their score was quickly matched by ISU.
The teams were neck-and-neck throughout the game, with the Bengals holding a 9-7 lead in the sixth and seventh innings. The Bears scored another run in the seventh inning, lessening the Bengals’ lead, but the comeback ultimate-ly fell short.
The third game on Sun-day was another close con-
test, and found the Bears taking a 3-0 lead over the Bengals in the third inning. The Bengals responded with two runs in the bottom half of the inning.
The Bears managed to keep the lead until the Ben-gals’ high-scoring sixth in-ning, when they recorded four runs and took the lead.
The Bears attempted to come back in the last inning but could only muster a single run, ending the game with a 6-4 loss to ISU.
Softball swept in weekend series at ISU
White left impression on UNC athletes
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White from page 16
White will be replac-ing Raegan Pebley, who left Fresno State for Texas Christian on April 1 after leading the Bulldogs to a 46-20 record in two sea-sons as head coach, includ-ing 26-8 in Mountain West play.
“We are grateful to Jaime and her family for their commitment to UNC
the past eight years and for building our women’s basketball program,” UNC athletics director Darren Dunn said Wednesday in a press release. “She has been a tremendous member of the university and Gree-ley communities.”
Assistant coach Ryan Johnson will perform in-terim duties.
It is not yet known
how the UNC athletic de-partment plans to replace White, though the press release said the department would perform a national search.
The athletics department stated that it will not have any further comment until a replacement is found. Calls to White and Fresno State’s athletics department were not returned.
Courtesy of UNC AthleticsNorthern Colorado women’s basketball head coach Jaime White has resigned from UNC and accepted the same position at Fresno State. White was 117-128 during her time with the Bears.
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Jokes of the week:
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He said he was in town to shoot a pilot.
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For raisin’ bran awareness.
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You put a little boogie in it!
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Tennis from page 20
this tennis team have really changed me and helped me get through life. Being with these guys on the tennis team has just been awesome and they’re really good friends.”
Bears head coach Mike Phillips under-stood the emotions were high for the se-niors and encouraged relaxed play from his team.
Moving forward, there is an expectation for the conference tournament to be the next step for the Bears.
“Our coach has just been phenomenal. He came in and really helped the guys truly improve,” Moya said. “It’s been a great season with [Carlson], my fellow senior. :H� ZHQW� WKURXJK� D� ORW� LQ� RXU� ÀUVW� WKUHH�years and this last year we’ve just been try-
ing to get the Big Sky Conference and it’s really close.”
&DUOVRQ�ÀQLVKHG�KLV�GRXEOHV�VHDVRQ�ZLWK�a 10-4 record alongside his partner, junior Jordan Loughnan, while Moya and Schuer-mans went 2-0 in their doubles this season.
“The team really honored the seniors, and they came up and congratulated me after I won my match. I was happy that they were there for me,” Moya said. “They will always be there for me because we’re a team.”
Big Sky Conference TournamentAll Day Friday-SundaySacramento, Calif.
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Breelyn Bowe | The MirrorNorthern Colorado senior Jeff Carlson wasn’t able to win his final regular season match as he fell to IPFW’s Martin Muadi 7-5, 6-2 on his senior day last Tuesday at the Butler-Hancock Tennis Courts.
Men’s tennis headed to Big Sky Tournament
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The Greeley community gathers at UNC for a discussion regarding oil and gas development, including “fracking” issues. Page 7
What the frack?
White out
UNC women’s basketball head coach Jaime White leaves the Bears for the head coaching job at Fresno State. Page 16
Cycle to the cinema
To encourage biking and walking instead of driving, several local health agencies sponsor a free documentary screening and bike valet service at downtown Greeley’s Kress Cinema and Lounge. Page 12
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Vol. 95, Num. 31April 21, 2014
Champion trees on campusKatarina [email protected]
The University of
Northern Colorado’s cam-
pus is recognized for its
natural beauty, especially
during the fall and spring
seasons. Vibrant greens
and pinks blossom when
VSULQJ� ÀQDOO\� DUULYHV� LQ�Colorado while bright
reds and yellows are ad-
mired falling from the
trees in autumn.
Even in winter and
summer the university is
still lively with nature.
And this charm can be
credited to the trees that
UNC has spread through-
out campus.
7KH�ÀUVW�WUHH��DQ�$PHU-ican elm, was planted in
1895, and the number
of trees planted gradu-
ally took off from there.
UNC is now home to ap-
proximately 3,700 trees,
and four of those trees
are awarded with a state
champion title.
Pat McDonald, man-
ager of landscaping and
grounds, collaborated
with Brent Engel, a Tree
Campus USA student rep-
resentative, and roamed
246 acres of the univer-
sity’s campus on foot to
identify and catalog each
of the 3,700 trees.
According to McDon-
ald, they counted each of
the trees in order to apply
for a Tree Campus USA
recognition, which is a
See Trees on page 6
End of the slideJacob [email protected]
It wasn’t quite a hap-
py Easter Sunday for
the UNC baseball team,
which closed out its three-
game series at Jackson
Field against Grand Can-
yon University losing 14-
3. The Bears split the pre-
vious two games against
GCU, winning Friday 8-6
and losing Saturday 12-5.
The University of
Northern Colorado (6-33,
1-14 WAC) fell behind
early and quickly to the
Antelopes (21-17, 10-5
WAC), who scored six
UXQV� LQ� WKH� ÀUVW� WKUHH� LQ-
nings against three dif-
ferent UNC pitchers. The
pitching circus continued
the remainder of the game
as eight different players
took the mound for North-
ern Colorado.
Despite the high traf-
ÀF� RQ� WKH� PRXQG�� IUHVK-
man pitcher Nick Tanner
was able to hold off the
explosive Grand Canyon
See Baseball on page 18
Brittany [email protected]
More than a dozen
melodious voices echoed
powerfully around the el-
egant, octagonal rotunda
of the Currier Inn for the
Jazzed About Arias event
last Tuesday.
The fundraiser, orga-
nized by the UNC Opera
Theatre Society in con-
junction with UNC Vocal
Jazz, was arranged to help
support aspiring vocalists
travel around Colorado
and the rest of the coun-
try for master's classes
in voice lessons. Funds
raised by the society are
also used to support vo-
cal programs that promote
teaching opera, while
continuing to perform
concerts for music lovers
around the Greeley area.
Susan McKenzie, a se-
nior music education stu-
dent and director of this
student-run organization,
said this is one of four fun-
draising concerts put on
throughout the year. The
society also raises money
with bake sales and by
working at the concession
stands in the Budweiser
Event Center.
McKenzie said mixing
jazz into their concerts can
make opera less intimidat-
ing to prospective singers.
“Lots of people are
scared of opera. This gives
them a chance to dip their
toes in,” she said.
The technical skill re-
quired to sing opera takes
a lot of practice and com-
mitment. The expertise of
breathing control the sing-
ers must learn is equally
See Arias on page 13
Jazz-infused opera inspires donations
Breelyn Bowe | The Mirror
Commonly used in jazz music but not so much in opera, the saxophone stepped up its game Tuesday night at the Jazzed About Arias event.
Mark Harro | The Mirror
Senior Northern Colorado first baseman Colby Harrison prepares to receive a throw as GCU freshman catcher Josh Meyer runs to first base in the Antelopes’ 14-3 win over the Bears Sunday at Jackson Field.
