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The UNC men’s bas-ketball team started slow-ly again Sunday against Prairie View A&M but a quick turnaround, this WLPH� LQ� WKH�ÀUVW�KDOI�� OHQW�LWVHOI� WR� DQ� HDVLHU� VHFRQG�stanza in its 87-70 win.
“Once again we didn’t start great, even though we got down 20-10 or whatever it was, I thought it wasn’t the same team that I saw (Saturday),” head coach B.J. Hill said.
7KH� 8QLYHUVLW\� RI�Northern Colorado (4-2) was down 20-10 Sunday EHIRUH�VFRULQJ����VWUDLJKW�points to tie the game. UNC required a 24-1 run close Saturday’s win over
Bethune-Cookman. Prai-ULH�9LHZ�������SOD\HG�IRXU�JDPHV�RQ�WKH�URDG�EHIRUH�Sunday’s matchup but still came out hot.
“Coach Hill, he said so KLPVHOI�� WKDW� ZH� QHHGHG�WR� EH� SUHSDUHG� IRU� WKLV�WHDP�µ�MXQLRU�IRUZDUG�7LP�Huskisson said. “They’ve EHHQ� RQ� WKH� URDG� IRU� VR�long that they’re going to come out and be ready to play, and our game plan to make them guard because when teams are on the road they’re tired, they’re at a higher altitude and it played into our hand.”
Huskisson had 11 SRLQWV� DQG� ÀYH� UHERXQGV�ZLWK�DOO�RI�KLV�SRLQWV�FRP-LQJ� LQ� WKH�ÀUVW�KDOI�� VLQN-LQJ� ��RI��� ÀHOG� JRDOV� See Basketball on page 13
The future of Bishop-Lehr Hall remains unclear as university action is still lack-ing. University officials are commited to tearing the building down, but there is no timeline in place for demolition and no proposed purpose for the space in the future. Page 9
Bishop-Lehr in limbo
Fightin’ nicknames
A decade after a UNC intramural team named itself the “Fightin’ Whites,” use of Native American mascots remains a point of contention in Colorado and around the country. Page 15
Stay crafty, Greeley
To encourage local spending on Small Business Saturday, Indie Arts Greeley hosts its annual Winter Market over the weekend. Colorado artists presents their crafted wares as an alternative to Black Friday madness. Page 8
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Table of contents:News 2, 5-7, 16, 19
Sports 13-16,
Opinions 3, 10, 19
A&E 8-12
Comics 18
Classifieds 19
Vol. 95, Num. 15December 2, 2013
Parade lights up the night
Bears take two
Jennifer Hazeldine [email protected]
Bright lights covered the streets, music chimed DQG� FURZGV� RI� H[FLWHG�guests stared in awe at the EHDXW\�RI�WKH�OLJKWV��&KLO-dren danced to the music DQG� H[FLWHGO\� MXPSHG� XS�DQG� GRZQ� DW� WKH� VLJKW� RI�ÁRDWV� WKH\� IRXQG�SDUWLFX-larly interesting.
Greeley Lights the Nights, an annual parade RI�OLJKWV��RFFXUUHG�RQ�6DW-
urday in downtown Gree-ley. The parade consisted RI� FRORUIXO� ÁRDWV�� IDQF\�cars, motorcycles, danc-ers, horses and marching EDQGV� IURP� ORFDO� KLJK�schools. Everything in the parade was covered with multicolored lights.
Parade organizers gave RXW�IUHH�KRW�FKRFRODWH�DQG�KRW�DSSOH�FLGHU�IRU�WKH�YLV-LWRUV��ZKR�ÀOOHG�WKH�HGJHV�RI�WKH�VWUHHWV�WR�ZDWFK�WKH�parade.
The parade occurs an-
QXDOO\� WKH� ZHHNHQG� DIWHU�Thanksgiving, starting on ��WK�6WUHHW�DQG�IROORZLQJ�Ninth Avenue to Lincoln Park downtown. There ZHUH����ÁRDWV��$V�WKH�ODVW�RI� WKH�ÁRDWV� UHDFKHG�/LQ-coln Park, the city turned on the park lights. All the WUHHV�ZHUH�GHFRUDWHG�IURP�base to top with lights.
´7KH� SDUDGH� LV� IDQWDV-WLF�µ�*UHHOH\�UHVLGHQW�-HII�Luppens said at the event. “My daughter is the Weld See Parade on page 12
Mike Baldino | The Mirror
A light-festooned firetruck created spectacle and flash on Saturday during the Greeley Lights the Nights parade along Ninth Avenue.
Mark Harro | The Mirror
UNC junior forward Tim Huskisson throws down a dunk in Sunday’s 87-70 win over Prairie View A&M at Butler-Han-cock Sports Pavilion. Huskisson scored 11 points in the win.
@UNCo_edu: Have a safe Thanks-giving break, #UNCBears! Make sure to keep an eye on the weather to ensure a safe trip back home.
@blackon1side: 5HGVNLQV·� VWDUWLQJ�#GRXJKW\��� OLYHG� �� ÁRRU� DERYH�me in the dorms at @UNCo_edu, and his roomate was @Vincent-TJackson. Yeah, Greeley, CO.
@thebig_CO: @UNCPiKapp was just named the best fraternity at @UNCo_edu! PiKappaPhi #WeWillLead
@unc_bears: #BigSkymbb Tim Huskisson steals inbounds and gets a layup to make it 65-60. Clock runs out on next posses-sion. Bears beat Bethune-Cook-man!
'IJÅLL[!� @unc_bears WOWthat was fun to see. This team has alot of heart.
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December 2, 2013
This week around UNC:Monday, December 28:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.Registrar 101.Candelaria Hall-Room 1375.
Tuesday, December 39:30-10:30 a.m.Open Forum for Housing & Resi-dential Education Candidate.University Center-Spruce Suite A.
4-5 p.m.Student Success Series: Searching for Your Major & Career.Kohl House.
Wednesday, December 410 a.m.-6 p.m.Santa at the UC.University Center-Lower Level.
10 a.m.-2 p.m.World AIDS Day Informational Booth.University Center-Lower Level.
1:30-3 p.m.I@UNC Q & A.University Center-Spruce Suite C.
5-7 p.m.Holiday Dinner.UNC Dining Halls.
5:30-7 p.m.Student Senate Meeting.University Center-Council Room.
Thursday, December 59:30-10:30 a.m.Open Forum for Housing & Resi-dential Education Candidate.University Center-Spruce Suite A.
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.Staff Forum: Employee Advocacy at UNC: Your Voice on Campus.Candelaria Hall-Room 1375.
6 p.m.HSS College Student Council Meeting.University Center-Council Room.
Friday, December 69:30-11:30 a.m.Animations for Presentations and Video.Michener Library-Room L-12.
11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.Open Forum for Housing & Resi-dential Education Candidate.University Center-Spruce Suite A.
12:30-1:15 p.m.0LFKHQHU�/LEUDU\·V�$QQXDO�+ROLGD\�Concert.Michener Library-First Floor.
Editor: Alexander Armani-Munn
@UNCMirrorPage 2—The Mirror NEWSNEWSNEWS
UNC fall graduate commencement Dec. 13
The UNC fall graduate com-mencement is scheduled for 7 p.m. Dec. 13 at the Butler-Han-cock Sports Pavilion.
Admittance to the ceremony is free and doors will open an hour prior to the beginning of the cermony.
The commencement speaker is University of Northern Colorado alum William Rowley.
Rowley is a Professor Emeri-WXV� DW� 6HDWWOH� 3DFLÀF� 8QLYHUVLW\�where he previously served as Dean of the School of Education.
All UNC commencement cer-emonies will be webcast live via americaonesports.com.
Additional information on the graduate ceremony is available at www.unco.edu/commencement.
UNC fall undergraduate commencement Dec. 14
UNC’s fall undergraduate commencement is Dec. 14.
The commencement begins with a ceremony at 9:30 a.m. fol-lowed by a seperate ceremony at 12:30 p.m., each in Butler-Han-cock Sports Pavilion.
Students from the Monfort College of Business, the College of Natural and Health Sciences and the College of Performing and Visual Arts will walk at the morning ceremony.
Students from the College of Education and Behavior Sci-ences, Humanities and Social Sciences and the University Col-lege will receive their diplomas at the afternoon ceremony. For ad-ditional information, visit www.uno.edu/commencement.
University to host state STEM teacher symposium
Educators from around the state will gather at UNC Dec. 10 to discuss a shortage of science, technology, engineering and math teachers at the K-12 level.
The Colorado STEM Teacher Preparation Symposium will be 8 a.m.-4 p.m. in the Univer-sity Center. Participants include teachers and administrators from Colorado universities and K-12 school districts as well as rep-resentatives from state agencies and organizations.
The symposium coincides with an executive initiative to 100,00 STEM teachers in the next decade.
The symposium’s keynote speaker is Charles Coble, found-er of The Third Mile Group.
UNC team advances to national tax comeptition
A team of students from the UNC Monfort College of Busi-ness recently won the 2013 De-loitte FanTAXtic Regional Case Competition.
The competition was Nov. 1-2 in Chicago and featured teams from Michigan State, DePaul, Northern Illinois, Loyola and Illinois.
The team, comprised of se-niors Katelyn Keith, Erick Leon-ard and Joshua Ramirez, and sophomores Kacie Bohm and Matthew Schoewe, will advance to the national FanTAXtic Com-petition Jan. 17-19 in Dallas.
According to the Deloitte web-site, the competition boasts some of the nation’s top accounting and tax programs.
CampusBriefs
Snapshot of the weekPolice blotter The following were taken from last week’s UNC police log, read the full report at UNCmirror.com
Saturday, November 23
At 12:00 a.m. police responded to a call to the Campus Recre-ation Center regarding medical aid.
At 10:26 p.m. police responded to a call to University Parking Lot R regarding suspicious activity.
Sunday, November 24
At 11:10 a.m. police responded to a call to University Parking Lot J regarding hit-and-run vehicle damage.
At 5:12 p.m. police responded to a call to Holmes Dining Hall re-garding medical aid.
Monday, November 25
At 9:58 a.m. police responded to a call to the Michener Library re-garding lost property.
UNC tweets of the week:#UNCOtweet
What remains of the Bowe family turkey on Thanksgiving after dinner.
Photo by Breelyn Bowe | The Mirror
At long last it is here: the last week of school. That time of the year when the collective student body cries, “Uncle!” while the instructors continue to keep them in a metaphorical headlock while screaming, “One more week, dang it!”
It’s a week when many realize that soon they will be asked to regurgitate all the information that they’ve been supposedly learning all semester, and that they might not know as much as they might hope.
Times like this often bring classic literary pas-sages to mind, such as the following from “The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Gal-axy.”
´:KDW�WR�GR�LI�\RX�ÀQG�yourself stuck with no hope of rescue: Consider yourself lucky that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn’t been good to you so far — which, given your present circumstances, seems more likely — consider yourself lucky that it won’t be trou-
bling you much longer.”One might hope that
is somewhat of an over-UHDFWLRQ��EXW�ÀQDOV�ZHHN�LV�seldom a time when we’re inclined to avoid hyperbole.
That’s the use of exag-geration as a rhetorical de-YLFH�RU�ÀJXUH�RI�VSHHFK��IRU�those who are getting ready IRU�(QJOLVK�ÀQDOV��
After all, the paper must be done right now, the proj-HFW�PXVW�EH�ÀQLVKHG�WRPRU-row and the test is next week. Your GPA hangs in the balance, and it all comes
on the line over the course of the next 11 days.
So what do you do with so much on the line? That probably depends on the effort that you’ve put into your classes thus far.
If you’ve slacked off and not put much effort into your classes, you might want to revisit that “Hitch-hiker’s Guide” quote.
However, if you’ve put in the necessary work throughout the semester, and taken good notes, take a deep breath—it’s gonna
be okay.6WXG\� KDUG� DQG� ÀQLVK�
your assignments, but don’t spend all of your time hud-dled over your textbooks.
Go outside, spend some time with friends, catch the latest “Hobbit” movie and give yourself a break from time to time. Oh, and visit the Stress Less Fest Sunday at 7 p.m. at the UC and pet a puppy, ahem, therapy dog.
Finals week will be over before you know it and you don’t need a new ulcer in the meantime.
Does your roommate ever come home late
at night and tell you the strangest stories imagin-able from the evening out? You listen to the whole thing but can’t help but think they’re lying.
The UNC Confessions page on Facebook has be-come that friend to me.
The page started as a fun way for students to reveal their deepest, dark-est, and even naughtiest secrets. For the most part, it has been just that: sex, drugs and parties.
Are they all true? Not a chance; students can anonymously submit a confession by following a link and there they can put up any story, true or fake, and submit it to a page administrator. The admin will (sometimes) prevent
foul language and names of individuals from being put in.
How many of these confessions are true? Doesn’t matter, students can submit as many con-fessions as they want, and can call out anyone they want. The confes-sors don’t even have to attend UNC. People can search the page through Facebook and can submit anything.
$OO�RI�WKLV�LV�ÀQH��DV�LW�is meant to be funny and occasionally have some graphic content.
The part that does get under my skin is the con-VWDQW� SRLQWLQJ� RI� ÀQJHUV�and the overall harass-ment of the university’s athletes which has be-come a bit overwhelming.
It seems that now you can’t go further than one full page before running into a post about the foot-ball team and their lack-luster season. Individuals get called out and openly blamed for the team’s per-formance. The page states WKDW� LW� KDV� QR� DIÀOLDWLRQ�with UNC and therefore
maintains the right to post anything.
With nearly 4,000 “likes,” the page has gathered many viewers since its start in Septem-ber, the page is a fun way for students to entertain themselves during down time and certainly func-tions well in that but often does so at the expense of a student’s dignity.
I’m not calling for it to be taken down in any way because it can be quite entertaining. I just hope the critics stop their rants about the school, more VSHFLÀFDOO\� RXU� DWKOHWHV��It’s demeaning to them and is the not the proper ZD\� WR� JHW� D� WHDP� ÀUHG�up. If the students want a competitive football team, they have to come together and support them, win or lose.
The club hockey team is an example of a team that has found success through support by the students. From game to game the Ice Haus is packed, with the mem-bers of Pi Kappa Phi screaming their chants to
parents sitting patiently. They get a boost when they’re down by the sheer noise that comes from the stands. This year’s foot-ball team didn’t experi-ence that.
The football team got negative vibes from its own fans on the Confes-sions page and empty VWDQGV�DW�LWV�ÀQDO�JDPH�RI�the year. I was sickened by the lack of support on senior day. The student section could be counted on two hands, and from NLFNRII� WR� WKH�ÀQDO�ZKLV-tle the football team was never given a chance.
Following the game, the worst part was check-ing the Confessions page and seeing “confes-sions”—more like com-plaints—about a student that worked three hard years for the university. He had given his all and been a starter because of his leadership and talent but students only com-plained about one bad game.
I hope students real-ize what they’re doing on the UNC Confessions
page is not helping these athletes and change be-fore next season starts. I, like anyone, would like to VHH�WKH�WHDP�ÀQG�VXFFHVV��But unlike some, I plan on supporting them no matter how they play be-cause support will breed success.
— Dylan Sanchez is a
freshman pre-journalism
major and sports reporter
for The Mirror. He can
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Everyone talks about finals week, but no one does anything about itThoughts from the editorial staff of The MirrorReflects
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UNC Confessions, usually entertaining, crossing some lines
The Mirror—Page 4 December 2, 2013THE MIRROR
The Mirror—Page 5December 2, 2013 NEWS
Jennifer Hazeldine [email protected]
A variety of emotional words and
phrases echoed off the walls of Mi-
chener Library as volunteer readers read
aloud selected pages from various literary
works.
The English Education program and
Michener Library held their monthly
UHDG� LQ� RQ� 7XHVGD\� RQ� WKH� PDLQ� ÁRRU� RI� Michener Library.
Professor of English and director of the
English department at UNC, Jeri Kraver
coordinated the event.
Volunteers read literary works of their
choosing.
The readings focused on November’s
topic of the month: National Novel Writing
Month.
National Novel Writing Month is an
event for professional and amateur writers
that occurs every November.
Participants worldwide are challenged
to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days.
The writing project started in 1999 and has
grown in popularity in recent years.
The read in on Tuesday had about
thirteen attendees, none of whom were cur-
rently participating in National Novel Writ-
ing Month.
Some of the readings that were read out
loud for this month included “Burned,”
by Ellen Hopkins; “Grapes of Wrath,” by
John Steinbeck; “The Road,” by Cormac
McCarthy; and “Jacob Have I Loved,” by
Katherine Paterson.
There was also a reading from an
original romantic fantasy novel written by
See Read In on page 16
Read in celebrates novel writing month
Breelyn Bowe | The MirrorAndy Malinski, one of the Library Techs at Michener Library, pauses during his reading of the Ellen Raskin novel “The Westing Game.”
The Mirror—Page 6 December 2, 2013NEWS
Chelsea StangerUWire
The FDA will try to eliminate most trans fats in an attempt to put healthier options on the shelves. The FDA has stated its intent and is currently in the pub-lic comment period, which precedes regulation chang-es.
7KH� VSHFLÀF� LQJUHGLHQW�being targeted by the FDA is partially hydrogenated oil, which has trans fatty acids, according to Michael Dunn, a professor from the Dietetics and Food Science Department at Brigham Young University.
A variety of foods are made with PHO includ-ing margarines, yellow-fat spreads, icings and many fried foods.
Should the FDA succeed
in its attempt to eliminate these fats from foods, the FKDQJHV� ZRXOG� EH� VLJQLÀ-cant.
“This change would dramatically reduce trans fat intake, which would EH� EHQHÀFLDO�µ� VDLG� 'XQQ��who got his Ph.D. in Food Science from Cornell Uni-versity. “At the same time, it would increase saturated fat intake, as the stabil-LW\�DQG� WH[WXUDO�EHQHÀWV�RI�trans acids would be ac-complished using saturated IDWV�µ
The major challenge as-sociated with eliminating trans fats is keeping prod-ucts from going rancid. These partially hydroge-nated oils help to increase the shelf-life of foods, al-lowing them to last longer at the stores and at home in the cupboard.
“The increase in the tendency of food products to become rancid without use of PHOs will need to be dealt with by the manu-IDFWXUHUV� LQ� RWKHU� ZD\V�µ�Dunn said. “Possibly an-tioxidants will need to be added, or the shelf-life of products will need to be reduced so that they don’t develop rancidity before WKH�¶EHVW�E\·�GDWH�µ
Trans fats are associ-ated with negative heart health consequences, and FDA regulations could ne-gate some of these negative consequences.
´7KH�EHQHÀW�WR�WKH�FRQ-sumer will hopefully be OHVV� KHDUW� GLVHDVH�µ� 0L-chelle Lloyd, a professor in the Department of Dietet-ics and Food Science said.
“Challenges to See FDA on page 19
FDA cracks down on trans fatsAlexander [email protected]
Frozen-yogurt lovers at UNC are at a loss this week after the sudden clo-sure of Aspen Leaf Frozen Yogurt formerly located at 807 17th Street in Greeley.
The closing of the self-serve frozen yogurt shop came without warning and under what some employ-ees say are questionable circumstances.
According to Univer-sity of Northern Colorado student and former As-pen Leaf employee Caleb Whitaker, a representative from U-Swirl, the corpo-rate owner of Aspen Leaf, came to the store around 8 p.m. on Nov. 21 and in-formed the staff that the store was closing and needed to be cleared of
all company supply and equipment by 10 p.m.
“We had less than two hours before the mov-ing trucks were there. We don’t close until 11. We still had customers inside RXU�VWRUH�µ�:KLWDNHU�VDLG��
U-Swirl representatives informed the store’s gener-al manager of the corporate visit that day and requested that the entire staff be pres-ent but did not disclose the purpose of the visit.See Aspen on page 19
Yogurt shop put on ice
Steven Josephson | The MirrorA sign posted outside the former location of Aspen Leaf Frozen Yogurt declares the news to customers.
The Mirror—Page 7December 2, 2013 NEWS
Kelsey [email protected]
Once in a blue moon, squad cars from the Gree-ley police department sur-round Bishop-Lehr Hall.
Not because they have VHQW�D�ZKROH�ÁHHW�RI�SROLFH�to hunt down the occasion-al vandal who writes vul-garities on the chalk board. Rather, it’s to train other RIÀFHUV�LQ�VLWXDWLRQV�ZKHUH�they may need to track a hostile person in a building.
For this purpose Bishop-Lehr is perfect, but other than that, the empty build-ing doesn’t appear to be on too many minds.
� 81&� 3ROLFH� 2IÀFHU�Larry Raimer said that while the building is great for police training, it prob-ably holds a lot more po-tential.
“It’s a great piece of
land. We would like to see it used for something more,” Raimer said. “Things out-side of driving the squad car past the building and answering an occasional vandalism call.”
Students and staff walk past the building everyday, but no one seems to see much of Bishop-Lehr. Even RIÀFHUV�UDUHO\�IHHO�WKH�QHHG�to go inside the building un-less they need to.
“Especially at night. It’s pretty creepy,” Raimer said.
Student Senate Director of Student affairs Kaitlyn Lundeby said she had heard students say that the build-ing was asbestos-ridden and maybe even growing some strange plants, pos-sibly seen through the win-dows.
Other than rumors, she hasn’t heard much talk about Bishop-Lehr.
An initiative posed by student senate three years ago put Bishop-Lehr as a center of focus for a new UNC.
The idea was that Bish-op-Lehr would become an expansion of the Univer-sity Center and students could access Bishop-Lehr through a sky bridge that would stretch over 11th Ave.
The plan was to make use of Bishop-Lehr in a relatively exciting new way, but students weren’t excited about the hike in tu-ition, Lundeby said.
The initiative didn’t pass and since then Lun-deby said there hasn’t been any big plans for Bishop-Lehr. Lundeby said that she would welcome any student proposals about how to utilize Bishop-Lehr See Hall on page 16
University committed to tearing down Bishop-Lehr Hall
No-shave updateMichael Nowels:
Befo
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Mykel Morse: David Burkel: Steven Josephson:
Joelle Romero | The MirrorA picture of the east entrance of Bishop-Lehr. The university plans on demolishing the building.
Monday, Dec. 2:9-11 p.m.UPC Presents: Open Mic Night.University Center Fireside Lounge.
Tuesday, Dec. 3:10 a.m.- 5 p.m.UNC’s Got Talent auditions.University Center Ballrooms.
6:15-7:15 p.m.Graduate student recital: Guillermo Rivera, tenor trombone.First United Methodist Church.
917 10th Ave.
Greeley.
Wednesday, Dec. 4:10 a.m.- 5 p.m.UNC’s Got Talent auditions.University Center Ballrooms.
6-7 p.m.Harmonies for the Holidays.Frasier Hall, Langworthy Theatre.
$5.
7:30 p.m.SOAPbox products presents: ANON(ymous).Frasier Hall, Langworthy Theatre.
UNC students free.
$5 for general public.
Thursday, Dec. 5:7:30 p.m.SOAPbox products presents: ANON(ymous).Frasier Hall, Langworthy Theatre.
UNC students free.
$5 for general public.
Friday, Dec. 6:12:30-1:15 p.m.Michener Library’s Annual Holiday Concert.Michener Library.
7:30 p.m.SOAPbox products presents: ANON(ymous).Frasier Hall, Langworthy Theatre.
UNC students free. $5 for general
public.
Sunday, Dec. 8:7-10 p.m.UPC presents: Stress Less Fest.University Center.
Upcoming in A&E: Editor: Biz Gilmore
uncmirror.com/entertainmentPage 8—The Mirror A&EA&EA&E December 2, 2013
Colorado Ballet brings seasonal tradition to life with “The Nutcracker”
In the shadow of Thanksgiving and Black Friday shopping, local artists and vendors set up shop in downtown Greeley to encourage their community to shop small, spend local and buy thoughtfully. ,QGLH�$UWV� *UHHOH\·V� ÀIWK� DQQXDO�Winter Market offered an alterna-tive to big-box store madness.
7KLUW\�ÀYH�DUWV�DQG�FUDIWV�YHQ-GRUV� ÀOOHG� WZR� ÁRRUV� LQ� WKH� ROG�State Armory building Saturday and Sunday. Vendors were all Coloradoans, from everywhere from Fort Collins to Greenwood Village, with a strong Greeley na-tive presence. Practically every vendor operates as a small busi-ness, either online through sites like Etsy, or by working the craft and arts market circuit.
“I think the community is opening up to support local art-ists. It’s so much better this year than I thought it would be,” Jason
Simonds of Greeley said. This ZDV�6LPRQGV·�ÀUVW� \HDU� SHGGOLQJ�his wares by himself at the Winter Market. On Saturday, his collec-tion of ceramic items, including dragons and elves, sold out. He replenished his stock for Sunday.
The selection of items for pur-FKDVH� ZDV� YDULHG�� /LJKW� À[WXUHV�and kitchen wares were on tables next to jewelry and ornaments and original art.
´,� GHÀQLWHO\� VKRS� IRU� P\VHOI�at these things. It’s so hard not to everything is so personal and unique,” said Joy Watts, Greeley resident and four-year veteran vendor of the Winter Market.
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Fort Collins-based clothing company Akinz represented Colo-rado with hoodies, beanies and T-shirts. Suzanne Akin, the com-
pany’s founder, was there to sell the wares herself.
UNC alumnus Megan Adkins stopped by the fair on Sunday to look around and support the lo-cal artist community she belongs WR��$GNLQV�VROG�SDSHU�ÁRZHUV�DQG�jewelry at the fair last year, but did not participate this year. She said she didn’t have any particular
gifts in mind, but that that wasn’t that point.
“I came to support local arts,” Adkins said.
Supporting the community was something that was mentioned many times over the weekend.
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Shoppers get local at winter market
Biz Gilmore | The MirrorLocal graffiti artist Madik Madiko offered free art outside the Winter Market on Saturday.
Courtesy of Mike Watson | Colorado BalletAdam Still takes a leap in “The Nutcracker” as fellow dancers watch. Colorado Ballet will be performing the show until Dec. 28.
For anyone enrolled in classes at the local dance studio growing up, “The Nutcracker” is familiar as the two-part ballet that every dancer-in-training grows tired of performing each year during the holi-day season. For everyone else, “The Nutcracker” is as much a celebrated hall-mark of the holiday sea-son as the smell of Christ-mas trees, poinsettias and
Thanksgiving shopping sales.
This year Colorado Ballet ushered in its 53rd sugary-sweet season per-formance of “The Nut-cracker” on Saturday at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in the Denver Per-forming Arts Complex.
Colorado Ballet has a particularly special rela-tionship with “The Nut-FUDFNHU�µ� ,W� ZDV� WKH� ÀUVW�ever production that the local dance company took to the stage in 1961. Colo-rado Ballet, which is one of the state's oldest art in-stitutions, is a nationally recognized dance com-pany that started out with simple roots as a local See Ballet on page 10
By Alexandria Adair VasquezAccording to Alexandria
The Mirror—Page 9December 2, 2013 A&E
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Ballet from page 8
ballet school founded by
Freidann Parker and Lil-
lian Covillo.
Using expressive body
language, enchanting cho-
reography sequences and
incredibly intricate set
design as their needle and
thread, the artistic staff
at Colorado Ballet wove
together the fantastical
tale of “The Nutcrack-
er:” a young girl named
Clara whose toy soldier is
transformed into a living,
breathing prince.
Together they travel to
PDJLFDO� ODQGV�� ÀJKW� RII�gigantic rats, and eat deli-
cious treats.
Clara wakes the next
morning unsure if it was
all a dream or not.
It seemed like audience
members of all ages were
able to let go of reality for
a couple of hours and be-
come immersed into the
pastel, glitter-encrusted
world that had been cre-
ated on stage.
During the “Waltz of the
6QRZÁDNHV�µ� IRU� H[DPSOH��the glistening fake snow
that came down steadily
heightened the dizzying
effect of dancers swirling
across stage.
And during the Arabian
Coffee dance sequence, so-
loist Shelby Dyer seemed
to hold the audience in
wonder with her sultry
body movements and con-
trolled extensions.
Paying to watch a child
and her toy magically
transport to faraway lands
with names like the Land
of the Snow and the King-
dom of the Sugar Plum
Fairy may seem babyish
to the average college stu-
dent, but maybe that's the
point.
For most students at
the University of Northern
Colorado, winter break is
a chance to go home and
connect with family again.
Nothing quite says “fun
for the whole family” like
a group of life-sized rats
pulling off technically per-
fect leaps and turns.
Visit the Colorado Bal-
let website at coloradobal-
let.org to purchase tickets
or for a full list of produc-
tions and ticket prices.
As a helpful hint, use
the STUDENT promotion
code to see what discounts
are available for college
students.
—Alexandria Adair Vasquez is a senior journalism major. She writes arts and enter-tainment and news for The Mirror. She can be reached via email at [email protected].
The Mirror—Page 10 December 2, 2013A&E
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Courtesy of Mike Watson | Colorado BalletThe artists of the Colorado Ballet dance together in front of a dramatic backdrop.
Colorado Ballet offering discount to students for show
Though many of us have
come to accept Thanks-
giving as part of the holi-
day status-quo, it is by no
means as straightforward
a celebration as we might
like to think.
Just imagine trying
to explain it to someone
who wasn’t raised in the
U.S.—it’s more or less
a day where, in order to
celebrate all the things
we’re thankful for, we get
together with our family
members and eat way too
much food.
And then the day af-
ter (or the evening of, as
it were), stores lower the
prices on everything so
that we can go shopping
DQG�ÀJKW�RYHU�RWKHU�WKLQJV�which, incidentally, don’t
often align with all we
claimed to be thankful for
the day before.
We aren’t really sure
why it works that way, but
we keep doing it because
we always have.
Now, if you’ll humor me
in accepting that Thanks-
giving is an understand-
ably confusing tradition,
suspend your disbelief as
you consider the follow-
ing holidays that are be-
ing celebrated worldwide
right around the time we’re
listening to carols and re-
gretting eating that second
helping of turkey.
In some places these
celebrations are as stan-
dard a part of the paradigm
as Thanksgiving is here.
Many of us have heard
about St. Nicholas’ Day
in elementary or middle
school. On the night before
Dec. 6 in some northern
European countries, chil-
dren set out their shoes in
KRSHV�RI�ÀQGLQJ�WKHP�ÀOOHG�with treats in the morning.
Fewer of us, may be
familiar with Krampus,
St. Nick’s evil counterpart
who is tasked with taking
care of those children not
well-behaved enough to
receive gifts.
Krampus, a devilish
monster, is said to dispense
punishment ranging from
leaving coal in shoes, beat-
ing children with sticks
and rusty chains or kid-
QDSSLQJ� WKHP�DQG� VWXIÀQJ�them in sacks.
In German-speaking
countries the legend of
Krampus is celebrated
on Krampusnacht, which
takes place on the eve of
St. Nicholas’ day.
Partygoers dress as the
hairy and terrifying Kram-
pus, bearing torches and
sticks, running around the
streets scaring adults and
children alike.
In the Thai province of
Lopburi, the last Sunday
of November is celebrated
with the Monkey Buffet
Festival.
Intended to thank the
See Traditions on page 19
Thanksgiving has more than its share of odd traditions
By Juliette AngoulvantStaff Column
The Mirror—Page 11December 2, 2013 A&E
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Hunger Games trilogy, while unsophisticated, has merits in gender relations
I am a 22-year-old man. I like sports, beer and various grilled meats and will graduate with a college degree in May. And I like “The Hunger Games.”
It’s true the books present a level of sophistication rivaling Justin Bieber’s catalog but their strengths stretch further than a simple side-swept haircut and an auto-tuned melody.
The narrative is nothing new: an accessible hero takes on a dys-topian society in hopes of restor-ing the “perfect” world we live in. Romance intertwines. The hero must weigh personal values against larger ideals.
“The Hunger Games” is an introduction to the future-thriller novels students will invariably read in their high school days. Those stories will present greater
philosophical issues and, in the case of Ayn Rand, wholly unread-able copy.
Maybe young readers will enjoy those books, maybe they won’t. But at least they’re intro-GXFHG� WR� D� JHQUH� WKDW� LV� GLIÀFXOW�IRU�PDQ\�WR�DFFHVV�XSRQ�ÀUVW�UHDG-ing. And, as was the case with the Harry Potter series, reading is cool for kids again.
Perhaps the most impor-tant distinction of “The Hunger Games” trilogy is that the pro-tagonist is female. In a dystopian story, it’s imperative that the main character be strong, and this most recent iteration is no exception.
For years, American girls have been taught to sit idly by while men make decisions. Surely they aren’t smart enough to be trust-ed with vital decision-making. They’ll be overcome with emo-tion and choose out of self-pres-ervation rather than the “greater good,” whatever that actually means.
In “The Hunger Games,” the male/female roles are reversed. Though those with real power are still men, the protagonist Katniss
is the lynchpin of the revolution while Peeta, her male comrade, serves as her support with a politi-cal smile—a decidedly feminine position in traditional stories.
The man is supposed to be WKH� VWRLF� ÀJXUH�� VWUDWHJL]LQJ� DQG�eliminating any emotion from his decision-making in an effort to accomplish his goal by any mean necessary.
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$XWKRU�6X]DQQH�&ROOLQV��QHYHU�to be mistaken for an Orwell or Vonnegut, stakes her claim in the series by turning that traditional JHQGHUL]DWLRQ�RQ�LWV�KHDG�DQG�VHH-ing how that simple switch chang-es the narrative.
We’re at a sort of crossroads in American society as it relates to gender. Gender equality is widely accepted but years of partial-ity cannot be undone by a gen-eral consensus that maybe gen-der should not dictate a person’s status. Wages, expectations and social standing all evidence a dis-parity between men and women.
A community cannot become gender-balanced overnight. Showing empowered women in books and movies is part of mov-ing the public’s view on gender closer to equilibrium, particularly when the media target younger audiences who have been molded less by society and will be form-ing schemas for future genera-tions.
Along those lines, “The Hun-ger Games’” production team ZRXOG� EH� KDUG�SUHVVHG� WR� ÀQG� D�EHWWHU� ÀW� IRU� WKH� UROH� RI� .DWQLVV�than Jennifer Lawrence, who largely embodies the shift in gen-der awareness.
Lawrence is charmingly unla-dylike. She doesn’t pander to the cameras and answer questions politically, nor does she contrive drama like many Hollywood types. Instead, she responds like many of us probably would, of-ten placing her reply in a real-life context.
Sometimes that includes re-markable self-awareness for someone in her place and other WLPHV� LW� LQFOXGHV� D� ÁDW� VWDWHPHQW�of hunger. Regardless, it’s more
real than what most of what we see from buttoned-up interview subjects from Washington to Hol-lywood.
She’s part of a growing number who are making it okay for wom-en to speak their minds and even (gasp) be funny on occasion. You know, like they’re real people.
Whether that comes in the form of an Oscar acceptance speech, a witty retort on a talk show or a novel series with cringe-worthy writing, it furthers the discussion.
P.S.—Jennifer, if by some stroke of horrible luck on your part, you are reading this, my con-tact info is listed below. I’d surely overcome my height-based infe-riority complex to split a rubber cheese-plastered burrito and sev-HUDO� RUGHUV� RI� VRSDSLOODV� DW� &DVD�Bonita with you.
3�3�6�³,� UHFRJQL]H� WKLV� SRVW-script belongs nowhere near the rest of this column. Don’t care.
— Michael Nowels is a senior
elementary education major and
the sports editor for The Mirror. He can be reached via email at
By Michael NowelsLike Towels
The MirrorUNC’s news source since 1919
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Send a letter to the editor via email to [email protected]
Parade from page 1
County Fair Queen.
I didn’t really know
about it until my daughter
told me that she was in the
parade tonight,” Luppens
said. He said that he would
GHÀQLWHO\�DWWHQG�WKH�SDUDGH�
again next year.
Many other guests
agreed that the parade was
worth going to again next
year. Several visitors said
they would recommend
the event to others for next
yeat.
“It is better than the
Greeley Stampede parade.
It is a very nice, festive
SDUDGH�ZLWK�ORWV�RI�ÁRDWV�µ�said Bill Angell of Gree-
ley. “I would recommend
the parade to others. I have
lived here for nearly 30
\HDUV� DQG� WKLV� LV� P\� ÀUVW�time.”
The Grinch, Santa
Clause, Rudolf, Frosty the
Snowman, the Gingerbread
Man and M&M characters
were all in the parade,
alongside elves, snowmen,
candy canes and dozens of
dancers also walking in the
parade.
Although there were
many famous characters,
some found other partici-
pants more enjoyable to
watch.
“My favorite part of the
parade was the horses,”
said Greeley resident Val-
erie Martinez. “We try
to go to the parade every
year.”
Motorcycles in the pa-
rade were individually
decorated.
Some were made to
look like reindeer, while
others themed their bike
to a certain color, such as
blue and green.
A Santa Clause led the
cyclists in a motor trike
covered in red and green
lights.
The Mirror—Page 12 December 2, 2013A&E
I am the Balrog: Adventures in NaNoWriMo
We’ve all seen the hipster
hunched over a MacBook in
Starbucks, typing away on some
obscure word processor to record
their ideas and dreams. Because
RI� WKDW� LPDJH�� RXU� GHÀQLWLRQ� RI�“writer” seems to be skewed:
someone with beautiful ideas
and the capacity to share them
eloquently with the world.
I can tell you one thing: if
that’s what makes a writer, I am
GHÀQLWHO\�QRW�D�ZULWHU�In November, the internation-
al phenomenon called NaNoW-
riMo, National Novel Writing
Month, challenges aspiring nov-
elists across the world to pick up
their laptops and pens and write
50,000 words in just 30 days.
Fifty thousand is a lot of
words, though. To put it in per-
spective, “Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer’s Stone” is only about
77,000 words long. To average
50,000 words in a month would
be like writing an entire year at
Hogwarts in a month and a half.
7KH�ÀUVW�WLPH�,�WULHG�1D1R:-
riMo, I wondered, “How in the
ZRUOG� ZLOO� ,� ÀQG� ������� ZRUGV�worth of inspiration in such a
short time?” And when I won-
dered that, I failed.
I don’t regret it, because it
convinced me to work at it, it
convinced me to write, but it’s
taken me a failed attempt at
noveling every November since
2009 to realize the true secret to
being a successful writer.
That secret? Motivation is
paramount. Inspiration can only
take words so far if you lack the
motivation to push them past
the inevitable obstacles. Anyone
who’s ever tried to write any-
thing, including essays, which
I hope is all of you, fellow stu-
dents, has experienced writer’s
block.
Writer’s block is my sworn
enemy. It halts my journey
through Moria and makes ME
the Balrog that shall not pass,
and every time that bridge falls
out from under me, I lose a little
love for the craft. Every time I
wait to “get inspired” before I
write again, I never get there.
,� KDYH� WR� ÀQG�P\� RZQ� LQVSL-ration, and I do that by pushing
myself to write some horrible,
uninspired, soulless words that,
the longer I look at them, morph
into something a little less ugly
until eventually the frog becomes
the prince.
Writing isn’t about waiting
for inspiration, it’s about beating
your head against the wall until
you’re bloodied, throwing your-
self into the bear pit at Harren-
hal and hoping the bears (your
words) don’t maul you to death
before you can conquer them.
It’s about tearing your hair out
in search of just the right word
and then suddenly forgetting the
English language.
7KLV�\HDU��ZKHQ�,�ÀQDOO\�UHDO-ized that NaNoWriMo and the
craft of writing are about work
and not always play, it wasn’t
so much of a challenge. Pasting
my 50,000 words into the valida-
tion screen on Nov. 30 and see-
ing “WINNER” beneath my pic-
ture instead of a little, blue word
count bar makes all the blood,
sweat and tears worth it.
In the words of the great
George R.R. Martin, “I don’t en-
joy writing. I enjoy having writ-
ten.”
So while I might loathe the
process, there is no more gratify-
ing feeling than vanquishing the
1D1R:UL0R� GHPRQ� DIWHU� ÀYH�years of being haunted by it, and
there is nothing more motivat-
ing than knowing it’s within my
reach.
Knowing that, I am a writer
after all.
— Suzanne Evans is a jour-nalism major and the copy edi-tor and a writer for The Mirror. She can be reached via email at [email protected].
By Suzanne EvansWords on Words
Parade reveals Santa, Rudolph as bikers
Mike Baldino| The MirrorMotorcylces and trucks light up the night on Saturday.
Basketball from page 1
Senior forward Derrick Barden had a team-high 19 points. Barden’s game Sunday was a ma-
jor turnaround after scoring only seven points, a season-low for the forward.
“Yesterday I didn’t get enough sleep,” Barden said. “I couldn’t
VOHHS�DW�DOO��,�ZHQW�WR�VOHHS�DW�ÀYH�in the morning.”
A full night’s rest seemed to make enough difference for Barden to play to the level ex-pected of him. Senior guards Tate Unruh and Tevin Svihovec each had 16 points and junior forward Dominique Lee scored 13 to ac-company six rebounds.
“I’m excited about Dom as well,” Hill said. “He really com-municates at a high level on the defensive end and really holds our defense to another level.”
Prairie View outrebounded the Bears 35-31, an area where Hill said he still wants to see major improvement from the team.
“I’m not happy where we’re at with rebounding right now,” he said. “We got rebounded two nights in a row to teams we should have outrebounded.”
Guards Louis Monks, John Brisco, and Montrael Scott had 20, 16 and 12 points, respective-O\��ZKLFK�ZDV�D�ÁLS�IURP�3UDLULH�View’s game against Bethune-Cookman Friday with forwards
Hershey Robinson and Demon-dre Chapman scoring 14 and 21 apiece. Forcing the guards to step up played into the defensive scheme the Bears have, forcing their opponent to score 3-point-ers.
“If we’re going to be beat, teams are going to have to have record nights from the three to beat us,” Hill said.
The Bears scored 30 points from beyond the arc, 12 from Un-ruh, who made four shots from long distance. Lee and freshman guard Jordan Wilson each had two 3-pointers.
“We can hit a couple threes knowing these guys are wanting to zone us and it took them out,” Hill said. “When Tate hit a cou-ple and Jordan hit a couple they couldn’t zone us anymore and so that helps.”
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Texas-El Paso 63, Northern Colorado 40
Individual Statistics
Northern ColoradoLockridge 2-4 0-0 4, Kidner 1-6 2-2 4, Dougherty 1-4 2-2 5, Mallon 1-6 0-0 2, Duehn 1-5 1-2 3, Vidovic 1-7 4-5 7, Zadina 0-10 0-0 0, Longwell 0-2 0-0 0, Howell 7-7 0-0 15.
Texas-El PasoThornton 10-19 1-3 21, Vitola 3-6 0-0 6, Turner 0-3 0-1 0, Telles 0-3 0-0 0, Parker 4-5 1-5 9, Gari 6-7 0-2 14, Taylor 1-2 0-0 2, Rodriguez 0-2 0-0 0, Dobrowoska 1-3 0-0 2, Nash 2-3 3-5 8, Kirsteine 0-3 0-0 0, Welles 0-2 0-0 0, Oledzka 0-0 1-2 1.
Team Statistics
Halftime: UNC 24-21.FG pct.: UNC 27.5 (14-51). UTEP 46.8 pct. (27-58).3-point FG: UNC 18.8 pct (3-16), Kidner 0-1, Dougherty 1-2, Mallon 0-1, Duehn 0-2, Vidovic 1-3, Za-dina 0-5, Longwell 0-1, Howell 1-1. UTEP 21.4 pct (3-14), Thornton 0-2, Vitola 0-2, Turner 0-2, Telles 0-2, Gari 2-2, Nash 1-2, Kirsteine 0-2.FT pct.: UNC 81.8 pct. (9-11). UTEP 33.3 pct (6-18).Assists: UNC 6 (Dougherty 3). UTEP 11 (Vitola 3).Rebounds: UNC 46 (Howell 9). UTEP 31 (Thornton, Parker, Gari 5).Steals: UNC 9 (Dougherty 4). UTEP 16 (Thornton 6).Blocks: UNC 2 (Lockridge, Zadina 1). UTEP 5 (Vitola 4).Turnovers: UNC 30 (Kidner, Dough-erty 6). UTEP 13 (Nash 4).Total Fouls: UNC 21 (Duehn 4). UTEP 15 (Nash 4).
Editor: Michael Nowels
@UNCMirrorsports The Mirror—Page 13SPORTSSPORTSSPORTSDecember 2, 2013
Women’s Basketball:vs. Denver.7 p.m. Wednesday.Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion.
vs. Nebraska-Omaha.2 p.m. Saturday.Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion.
Track & Field:Wyoming Power Meet.All Day Friday.Laramie, Wyo.
Wrestling:Hoosier Duals.All Day Saturday-Sunday.Bloomington, Ind.
Naming rights in questionSamantha [email protected]
Last week Americans celebrated Thanksgiving. It was taught in elementa-U\�VFKRRO�WKH�ÀUVW�7KDQNV-giving lent a table to newfound peace between the Native Americans and the settlers.
The story we’re told is revealed by white Ameri-cans, who have a vested interest in the narrative. As such, our understand-ing is certainly somewhat skewed, and has indirectly resulted in the use of Na-tive American images as team mascots.
The movement to re-move Native American mascots began in the late 1970s, but very few changes have actually been made to date.
Many, including the Washington football team’s owner Dan Snyder, argue against changing the mascots because of the identity it has created for former players and com-munity revolving around the team.
But supporters of a wide-sweeping change opine that Native Ameri-cans are marginalized by the nicknames. Many different tribes are cat-egorized together simply as “Native American,” based on social structure centered around white culture.
One intramural basket-EDOO�WHDP�VHW�RXW�WR�ÁLS�WKH�tables in 2002 when the Fightin’ Whites formed at UNC after the Coloradans Against Ethnic Stereotyp-ing in Colorado Schools
(CAESCS) tried to get Ea-ton High School to change its mascot.
CAESCS was started at the University of North-ern Colorado by former doctoral candidate Dan Ninham and current pro-fessor of special educa-tion Francie Murry in an attempt to get rid of racially-based mascots, beginning with Eaton’s. The attempt failed but former Native American Student Services director Solomon Little Owl and former students formed the Fightin’ Whites intra-mural basketball team.
“The message is, let’s do something that will let people see the other side of what it’s like to be a mascot,” said Little Owl of the topic to the Gree-ley Tribune in 2002. “I
am really offended by this mascot issue, and I hope the people that support the Eaton mascot will get of-fended by this.”
The team quickly be-came a national story with various news sources across the country taking the story to the viewers,
and Lynn Klyde-Silver-stein, assistant professor of journalism and mass communications, found the public had three general reactions to the team after the media coverage was split in three different directions. See Fightin’ Whites on page 15
Men’s hoops overcomes slow start, again
Colorado College (4-0)7 p.m. Dec. 10Butler-Hancock
Up next:
Mark Harro | The Mirror
Northern Colorado junior forward Dominique Lee puts up a shot against Prairie View A&M’s Louis Monks in Sunday’s 87-70 win at Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion. Lee recorded 13 points and six rebounds in the game.
Courtesy of UNC Libraries Archival Service
The “Fightin’ Whites” printed shirts that read “The Fightin’ Whities” after an error in a Mirror article added an “i” to the team’s name.
The Mirror—Page 14 December 2, 2013SPORTS
Happy late Thanks-giving and Merry (al-most) Christmas from Iceland! Celebrating the holidays here has been exciting and interesting, learning about all of the different holiday traditions they have.
:KHQ� ,� ÀUVW� IRXQG� RXW�that Thanksgiving was not celebrated here, I was a bit disappointed that I wasn’t going to be able to eat traditional Thanksgiving food.
I have been so blessed to have a family here that has taken me in as one of their own and has taken such great care of me. They surprised me and told me that we were go-ing to have a Thanksgiving dinner just for me!
I was too excited, to say the least. We had turkey, sweet potatoes, creamed corn, rice, wine and of course dessert. I had my mom send over two reci-pes that we use at home
for the sweet potatoes and creamed corn and I’m thankful that I didn’t burn down the kitchen and that they turned out delicious as ever.
We also invited my other American basket-ball-playing friend, Lewis, from the men’s team to come over and celebrate this American holiday with us. Lewis played basket-ball at Georgia Tech and is originally from Georgia, so he was so happy to be able to celebrate with us.
I am so grateful for this family; they have made the transition of moving to an-other country so easy.
Now, Christmas in Ice-land is a different story. It is a huge holiday here and it has been so fun learning about the different Christ-mas traditions. Iceland has 13 different Yuletide lads (thought of as play-ful elves who like to eat and play little tricks on people).
For example, my fa-vorite lad’s name is Askasleikir, which means “bowl licker.” They are all as equally important to the Icelandic children and each one has a dif-ferent name and brings different gifts to the chil-dren. Starting on Decem-
EHU���WK��WKH�ÀUVW�<XOH�ODG�will come and visit.
The children leave a pair of their best shoes placed on the windowsill and when they wake in the morning they will have a
little present. If the chil-dren have been naughty, they might receive a pota-to or a little message tell-ing them to be good.
This tradition contin-ues until December 24th.
Families open all of their gifts on Christmas Eve. On Christmas Day, they visit extended families and eat roasted lamb. By the way, the lamb here is the best I have ever had.
New Year’s Eve is con-sidered as equally as holy as Christmas Eve. After families eat dinner, they DWWHQG�D�ELJ�ERQÀUH�LQ�WKHLU�neighborhood.
There are lots of bon-ÀUHV� LQ� HYHU\� FLW\� LQ� ,FH-land and people usually sing and bring their own ÀUHZRUNV� WR� WKH� ERQÀUH���$IWHU� WKH� ERQÀUHV�� SHRSOH�return home and have their RZQ� ÀUHZRUNV� VKRZV� LQ�their backyards.
Then the younger crowd goes out and party all night ‘till 6 a.m. in Reykjavik to bring in the New Year. Ev-eryone I have talked to has said that New Year’s Eve is unbelievable here and unfortunately I won’t be here to witness it.
As for my own Christ-mas and New Year’s plans, I will be taking eight dif-ferent planes and will be in the U.S. and two other countries.
,�ZLOO�ÀUVW�WUDYHO�WR�&DO-ifornia to visit my family I miss so much. On my way to California, I have a three-hour layover in
Denver, so I will be able to meet up with my awesome former UNC basketball teammates.
I will then be heading to Dublin, to celebrate Christmas with my great friend and former team-mate Hannah Thornton and her family. After about a week of exploring Ire-ODQG� �DQG� KRSHIXOO\� ÀQG-ing a four-leaf clover), Hannah, her sister and I ZLOO� EH� Á\LQJ� WR� /RQGRQ�to visit more great UNC friends and bring in the new year.
Chrissie Hoolahan (a current UNC women’s tennis player) and Jenny Whateley (a former UNC women’s tennis player) will both be in London. We will all go sightseeing and will bring in 2014 in London. I couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate the New Year with great college friends.
Until next time, “Gleði-leg jól” (“Merry Christ-mas” in Icelandic)!
— Lauren Oosdyke is a former UNC basketball player with bachelor’s degrees in broadcast jour-nalism and communication and a master’s in sport ad-ministration and a colum-nist for The Mirror.
Icelandic holiday traditions vastly different from those stateside
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UNC volleyball’s sea-son came to an end Friday with a loss to No. 3 seed Idaho State at the Big Sky Conference Championship TXDUWHUÀQDOV� LQ� 3RUWODQG��Ore.
Sixth-seeded University of Northern Colorado (14-17, 10-10 Big Sky) hit .190 and fell to Idaho State (21-11) in a four-set match by set scores of 21-25, 17-25, 25-17, 16-25.
Head coach Lyndsey Oates said a lack of solid defense was her team’s downfall.
“We just weren’t able to sustain a big level of en-ergy and our defense was sporadic at times,” Oates. “You just have to play good defense against Idaho State and we weren’t able to maintain that throughout the match.”
The third set was the only set the Bears won against ISU all season, with a hitting percentage of .344
over Idaho State’s .152 in the set, but the Bengals held the Bears to a .000 hitting percentage in the fourth set to take the match. The Bengals swept UNC on Sept. 26 and Nov. 2.
UNC sophomore outside hitter Kendra Cunningham hit .208 and led all play-ers with 17 kills while also tallying 53 assists and 10 digs. Junior middle block-er Andrea Spaustat had 9 NLOOV� DQG�ÀYH�EORFNV�ZKLOH�senior outside hitter Alys-sa Wilson notched eight
kills and ju-nior middle blocker Bri-anna Strong r e c o r d e d seven.
The Bears out-blocked the Ben-gals 9-6 but sophomore Idaho State middle blocker Mackenzie Filer had 16 kills and three blocks and redshirt sopho-more Tress Lyman record-ed a double-double with 15 kills and 12 digs.
Bears freshman setter Ashley Guthrie had 36 as-sists and four digs and se-nior libero Merideth John-son had 19 digs.
2DWHV� UHÁHFWHG� RQ� WKH�season, focusing on the late-season run the Bears made to make their way into the Big Sky Confer-ence Championship tourna-ment.
“What a great group of girls,” she said. “I’m really proud of the run we made at the end of the season to win ÀYH�RI�VL[�WR�EH�LQ�WKH�WRXU-
nament. Idaho State is a great team and we ran into D� WRXJK� ÀUVW�URXQG� PDWFK�based on our sixth seed.”
Idaho State went on to win the Big Sky Cham-pionship, defeating No. 2 seed North Dakota Friday night and top-seeded host 3RUWODQG� 6WDWH� 6DWXUGD\�night. In winning the tour-nament, the Bengals earned a spot in the NCAA Cham-pionship tournament and will be assigned their op-ponent and match schedule Monday.
Volleyball knocked out in first round of tournament
By Lauren Oosdyke
Ice Ice Baby
Kendra Cunningham
Courtesy of Lauren Oosdyke
Children in Iceland follow the tradition of writing letters to Santa Claus for Christmas. Here’s a special receptacle for let-ters to be sent to the North Pole.
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Courtesy of the Greeley TribuneEaton High School has stayed with its Native American mascot in the face of movements to re-move the racial icon.
The Mirror—Page 16 December 2, 2013NEWS
Staff [email protected]
UNC women’s basket-
ball suffered its third loss
of the season Wednesday at
Texas-El Paso, falling 63-
40 in a game of two starkly
different halves.
The University of
Northern Colorado (2-3)
led UTEP (5-0) 24-21 at
halftime after outrebound-
ing the Miners 26-10 in the
opening stanza. UTEP won
the second half by a score
of 42-16, shooting 55 per-
cent from
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percent.
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on 7-7 shooting from the
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ble-digits. She also led the
team with nine rebounds in
the loss.
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Howell hit double-digits in
scoring. In fact, aside from
Howell, UNC made just
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ished with a whopping 30
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Second half trouble for women’s hoops
Monthly Read In aims to spread passion for reading
vs. Denver (1-5)7 p.m. WednesdayButler-Hancock
Up next:
Read In from page 5
junior English secondary
education major, Amanda
-RQHV� DQG� KHU� ÀDQFp�� .H-aton Byars, titled “Seven
Silver Keys.”
“After reading the book
Inferno by Dan Brown, we
felt that the way he catego-
rized the sins in the book
was clever. We thought
it would be neat to play
around with that sort of
idea for our own book,”
Byars said as he talked
about the novel’s inspira-
tion at the reading.
Many of those that at-
tended the event found
the Read-in to be relaxing.
Some said it was a great
way to ease the stress from
XSFRPLQJ� ÀQDO� H[DPV��Several attendee said they
will likely attend another
future Read-in.
Kraver began the Read-
in three years ago, inspired
by the Michener Library’s
Banned Books Week.
Kraver said she loved at-
tending Banned Books
Week and was deeply sad-
dened when the library de-
cided to no longer hold the
event due to lack of partici-
pants.
Kraver said she decided
to start her own literary
gathering that would be
held monthly.
Kraver said the Read-
ins provide the University
with fresh opportunities to
discover new literature and
hear a variety of voices.
Kraver loves to have peo-
ple come in and read. She
encourages everyone to
come and enjoy the plea-
sures of reading.
“The ability to read
aloud is a beautiful gift I
believe everyone deserves
to have.” Kraver said, “My
dream is that years from
now there will be 100 peo-
ple in attendance.”
More information
about the monthly Read-
ins at Michener library,
is availible at the Read-in
Facebook page, ReadIn@
unco. More more infor-
mation about National
Novel Writing Month can
be obtained by visiting
www.nanowrimo.org.
Hall from page 7
in a new way.
“ As a voice for the stu-
GHQWV�� ,·P� KHUH� WR� UHÁHFW�their ideas and help them
be put to action,” Lundeby
says. But the issue she
adds would take a lot of
participants, and involve-
ment from University staff.
The history behind the
building and its current use
UHÁHFW� KRZ� DQ� LPSRUWDQW�piece of property became a
utilized for an unintended
purpose.
Assistant Vice President
to facilities Kirk Leichliter
explained how the Univer-
sity purchased the property
in the late 1950s as part of
what would eventually be-
come West campus.
Bishop-Lehr was built
in 1961 and served as a
K-12 school in 1962 until
2003 when students were
relocated to a new building
on the west side of Greeley.
Since then the building’s
purpose has been for stor-
age the occasional practice
routine for police and the
RSHQ� ÀHOG� EHKLQG� %LVKRS��Lehr is used by the baseball
team.
Leichliter says the Uni-
versity eventually wants to
knock the building down
and start fresh. But start-
ing fresh has a price tag of
900,000 dollars.
“The land could be a fu-
ture building site,” Leichli-
ter says.
Maybe there won’t be a
sky bridge, but perhaps one
day Bishop-Lehr could ful-
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Courtesy of www.unco.eduAn artist’s rendering of the original design of Bishop-Lehr Hall.
Demo to cost $900K
Rebecca Howell
“The ability to read aloud is a beau-tiful gift I believe everyone deserves to have.”
-Jeri KraverUNC Professor
The Mirror—Page 17December 2, 2013 NEWS
Ben Stivers | The MirrorSophomore sport and exercise science major Connor Clay attempts to load a television into a customer’s car while working for Best Buy on Black Friday.
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What dog can jump higher than a building?
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According to the Social Security Administration, last year in the state of Colo-rado 353 boys were named Liam and 337 girls were named Emma, making the two names the most popular baby names in the state last year. This week’s word search theme is baby names, but next week the theme could be up to you. Just email a list of words to [email protected] and your list could make it in.
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FDA from page 6
removing trans fat include
a shorter shelf-life and in-
creased cost of food.”
According to the FDA,
DUWLÀFLDO�WUDQV�IDWV�DUH�D�PD-jor contributor to heart dis-
ease in the United States,
and banning them could
potentially prevent 20,000
heart attacks and 7,000
deaths from heart disease
every year.
This move is something
that the FDA has been try-
ing to accomplish for a
while now and should not
be contested by the food in-
dustry, according to Steele
Frost, associate professor
in the Department of Di-
etetics and Food Science.
“In years past they have
tried to go down to lower
levels because they know
that it’s not good for you,”
Frost said. “The food in-
dustry will agree with these
regulations; they aren’t go-
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Trans fats won’t be
completely gone, as it oc-
curs naturally in our diet
in small amounts, accord-
ing to Frost. However, this
new regulations could be
a stride toward a healthier
diet for many Americans.
Corporate owner cut communication with store months ago
Diversity of traditions woth celebratingBan on trans fat could save livesTraditions from page 10
monkeys for which the
province is known, the cel-
ebration involves citizens
setting out thousands of
pounds of food for the mon-
keys to come and enjoy.
Locals and foreigners
join to watch the thousands
of macaques in the area join
in a feeding frenzy in what
has become a major tourist
attraction.
7KH� GD\� LV� ÀOOHG� ZLWK�other monkey-related activ-
ities, including dances and
costumes.
January in the Brit-
ish town of Whittlesea is
marked by the Straw Bear
Festival. Traditionally held
on the Tuesday follow-
ing Plough Monday (the
ÀUVW�0RQGD\� DIWHU� 7ZHOIWK�Night), this festival is left
over from ancient pagan
tradition.
Revived in 1980 for the
sake of heritage, it involves
dressing a man from the
village in bushels of straw
and leading him from house
to house, accompanied by a
parade of dancers and mu-
sicians, to dance for food
and beer.
At the end of his rounds,
the straw bear costume is
burned.
Some of these traditions
may, in our eyes, once again
SODFH� 7KDQNVJLYLQJ� ÀUPO\�within its label of reason-
able and ‘normal,’ though
Thanksgiving itself may do
the same to others around
the world comparing their
holidays with ours.
The essential thing,
then, is not only to take
in all the festivities going
on throughout the world
at this time of year, but to
recognize their role in mak-
ing each of us a little more
uniquely ourselves. Af-
ter all, if we haven’t been
touched in some way by
our distinct celebrations,
what are we celebrating for
anyway?
Juliette Angoulvant is a freshman music perfor-mance major and a news writer for The Mirror. She can be contacted via email at [email protected].
Ben Stivers | The MirrorThe FDA aims to support healthy options by limiting trans fats.
Aspen from page 6
The company offered to
pay employees for staying
to help pack up the store
but did not provide them
with any explanation for
the closure.
Whitaker estimated
that 30-40 gallons of fro-
zen yogurt were discarded
along with an innumerable
amount of toppings and
other food products.
“It was very unprofes-
sional the way they did it.
If they would have let us
know ahead of time, we
could have had a $3 or
��� � DOO� \RX� FDQ� ÀOO� VDOH�� Get the money on what
you have left. Instead, they
threw it all away,” Whita-
ker said.
Aspen Leaf was previ-
ously owned by the Rocky
Mountain Chocolate Fac-
tory before U-Swirl pur-
chased the company in
April of this year, around
the time that Whitaker and
KLV� ÀDQFp� EHJDQ� ZRUNLQJ�there.
Among the roughly 60
Aspen Leaf locations na-
tionwide, the Greeley store
was an average perform-
er, Whitaker said. If the
store’s monthly sales were
the cause of its demise,
than approximately half
of Aspen Leaf stores may
be in danger of a similar
fate.
“We weren’t the best,
but we weren’t even close
to the worst, and they
just took us out,” Whita-
ker said. “We have a slight
feeling it might have been
personal.”
Whitaker claims that re-
lations between the Gree-
ley store and the U-Swirl
FRUSRUDWH� RIÀFH� UHDFKHG�a low point when the cor-
SRUDWH� RIÀFH� KDOWHG� FRP-
munication with the store
about two months ago.
“According to my boss,
about two months ago they
just stopped. They just ig-
nored us. Every call, every
email, they did not care.
They did not respond.
They did not answer,”
Whitaker said.
Whitaker claims his
general manager confront-
ed corporate and, on vari-
ous occasions, tried to hold
them accountable for their
poor communication, per-
haps contributing to ten-
sion with company repre-
sentatives.
Whitaker is also em-
ployed at Textbook Bro-
kers Greeley, but the lost
income from the closure of
Aspen Leaf will still affect
him.
“I have a car that I am
trying to pay off . I have
an engagement ring. I am
recently engaged. I am try-
ing to pay for that, and now
for the upcoming season,
HYHQ� P\� ÀDQFH� ZDV� OLNH�‘don’t worry about get-
ting me anything now,’”
Whitaker said.
According to Whitaker,
Aspen Leaf’s lease on the
property at 17th Street was
not set to expire until this
spring.
A call to the U-Swirl
FRUSRUDWH� RIÀFH� ODVW� ZHHN�was not returned by press
time Sunday.
“It sucks to know their
timing was terrible. Best
word to use is unprofes-
sional. They were com-
pletely unprofessional
about the entire thing,”
Whitaker said.
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