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A student refl ection of the UNC community
NEWS BRIEFS
For the week of 1/11/2016
Volunteers are needed for Greeley’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day march and program, which will take place from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Jan. 18. UNC is working together with the city of Greeley to organize the an-nual event. For a description of available volunteer roles and to sign up, those interested are asked to visit https://unco.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_262ehiCGF33ebHL by 5 p.m. on Monday.
Discounted tickets for select events at the 2016 National Western Stock Show are avail-able for UNC employees and students. Th e stock show will take place Jan. 9-24 at the Na-tional Western Complex in Denver. Th ose interested can save up to $6 for every ticket ordered, plus $4.50 in service charges on the order itself. Tickets can be purchased on-line or by the phone, and there is no limit on the number of tickets that may be ordered.
UNC has received $4 million, one-third of its fundraising goal, from donors for the Campus Commons Project.Th e four lead donors include UNC graduate Dick Monfort, Th e Griffi n Foundation, Frank and Betty Ottesen and the UNC Foundation. UNC has a goal of raising $12 million to-ward the $74 million project. Additional funding will come from the state of Colorado and bonds backed by student fees. Th e ground breaking for the project is planned for late 2016.
Packages for the 95th annual Greeley Stampede Superstars Concert Series and tickets for all other events will go on sale at 9 a.m. Wednesday. Super-stars Concert packages, which include all fi ve night shows, for general admission grandstand and chutes are available for $60; standing room only, reserved fl oor and box seats are available at $90. Concert ticket package pricing increases May 1.
Seventeen semifi nalists have been chosen for the seventh annual Monfort College of Business Entrepreneurial Challenge. Th ose competing will present their business con-cepts Jan. 21 at the University Center. Following the semifi -nals, fi ve fi nalists will be chosen to compete for $50,000 in prize money and the opportunity to present their ideas to a panel of judges at 9NEWS studios. To view a full listing of the se-lected semifi nalists visit www.mcb-echallenge.com.
Should minimum wage be raised? According to the Self-Suffi ciency Standard for Colorado 2015, a single adult in Weld County would need to make at least $9.72 per hour to be self-suffi cient, having necessities like housing and food. In Boulder County, this number jumps to $13.36 per hour. Colorado’s minimum wage in 2015 was $8.23 per hour, slightly more than the federal minimum set at $7.25. One person in Weld County would need to make over a dollar more than the state minimum wage to be self-suffi cient, and in Boulder County, would need to make almost $4 more. Th is is one main focus in the popular debate over whether or not the federal minimum wage should be increased.
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In the past year, protests have emerged across the U.S. for the federal government to raise the minimum wage to at least $15 per hour. Increasing minimum wage has become a political hot topic, and candidates for the 2016 presidential election have been weighing in on the issue. The group “Fight for $15,” which is backed by the Service Employees International Union, has orga-nized hundreds of protests and walkouts in support of raising minimum wage. But there are some people who oppose this idea of a minimum wage increase. The Nebraska chapter of a group called “Americans for Prosperity” makes the ar-gument that most minimum wage workers are teenag-ers or spouses of someone who makes a higher wage, and therefore have enough financial support. The minimum wage was established in 1938 at a rate of 25 cents per hour. Christine Marston, associate professor of econom-ics and associate dean for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at UNC, said when minimum wage began, unemployment rates were reaching above 25 percent, excluding people who were underem-ployed or those who were not making enough money to support their family. Marston said that with a high unemployment rate comes a decrease in wages, so in the late 1930s when unemployment rates were skyrocketing, wages were plummeting. President Franklin D. Roosevelt enact-ed the first minimum wage law to ensure employers weren’t paying people who were desperate for work practically nothing. Today, federal, state and local minimum wages differ depending on the location, though no munici-pality can go below the federal minimum of $7.25 per hour. Marston explained there will often be anywhere from five to 15 years between adjustments on the fed-eral minimum wage, because Congress has to vote and agree on it. Federal minimum wage hasn’t been changed since 2009, and as a result, some states and cities have acted on the matter themselves. Colorado’s minimum wage, for example, is set at $8.23 per hour. Marston said the state’s minimum wage automatically adjusts each year based on infla-tion. However, she said, this is still not sufficient to provide a basic standard of living. UNC student and music performance major Ju-liette Angoulvant said she would be less worried about making ends meet if the minimum wage was increased, though she does make slightly more than that at her tutoring job. “I think raising minimum wage would have a posi-tive economic effect,” Angoulvant said. “More people would be able to participate actively in the economy.” According to the Self-Sufficiency Standard for Col-orado 2015 report, the amount of money needed to be economically self-sufficient depends on location.
The report contains a breakdown of self-sufficiency standards based on counties and family types. In Weld County, one adult needs to make an hourly wage of $9.72 to meet basic needs, about $1.50 more than state minimum wage, according to the 2015 re-port. For a household of one adult and a preschooler, the amount needed jumps to $19.82 per hour, over $10 more than the Colorado minimum. “Basic needs” in the report are defined as being minimally adequate, and include housing, child care, food, transportation, healthcare, taxes, savings and other miscellaneous essentials like hygiene products. UNC attracts a good number of students between the ages of 18 and 24, and according to the Pew Re-search Center, “nearly half of the 3 million hourly workers who were at or below the federal minimum in 2014 were ages 16 to 24.” “An increase in minimum wage would affect me personally by probably allowing me to work less per week and have more time for school,” said Ashlie Al-len, a recreation, tourism and hospitality major at UNC, who makes tipped minimum wage as a server. One controversial part of the minimum wage issue is whether the overall economic impact on the coun-try will be positive or not. For example, how it will affect unemployment, inflation and small businesses. Kira Mayberry, a recreation, tourism and hospi-tality major at UNC and minimum wage worker at a catering company, said she thinks an increase in mini-mum wage would make everything in Greeley more expensive, and ultimately hurt college students. “I believe minimum wage should be raised, but I also recognize that when we raise the wages, the price for everything else also raises,” Mayberry said. “So un-til we can end this cycle, I don’t think we can raise the minimum wages.” Marston said the raising of prices depends on the company, but that increasing hourly pay would also increase productivity and loyalty and decrease turn-
over rates. “Training low-wage workers costs the company a whole lot of money,” she said. “So if they can decrease that turnover and increase productivity, then you can actually decrease your labor costs instead of increas-ing labor costs.” Small businesses, however, might have trouble pay-ing workers more. This is a big argument for the case against raising minimum wage, but Marston said it isn’t necessarily true. “I went to a restaurant recently in Fort Collins where they’ve eliminated tipping,” Marston said. “So instead, they raised the prices of their food, and are paying their hourly workers a much higher rate.” Marston said if small businesses have to raise their employees’ wages, customers may need to pay high-er prices for goods and services. But, she said she thinks prices wouldn’t need to increase very much for a majority of businesses, so most wouldn’t be negatively affected. Marston said increasing minimum wage could also put more money back into businesses. “When we think about economic impact, low-wage workers are buying food, they’re buying clothing for their kids, taking their kids to the doctor, buying gas for their car,” Marston said. “So low-wage work-ers, when they have an increase in wage, they spend all of their money. They also tend to spend their money locally, so there are some positive impacts in terms of effect on overall spending and overall economic activity.” Besides economic activity, Marston said a higher minimum wage would also be positive for people in general. “I think when people can afford their own food and housing, that’s just better for humanity,” Marston said. “I think it’s also a social justice issue. Providing a wage that allows people to be more self-sufficient has some very intrinsic value to it as well.”
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While other professors said they would discuss fear or would implore students to explore the world for their potentially “fi nal” lecture, Tomlin said if he was given the option, he would do what he was hired to do. “Th ere’s a fi rm line in my mind that the classroom at the University of Northern Colorado, or any other public institution, is the property of the state,” said T.J. Tomlin, an associate professor of history. “I have a job to do in that classroom, and that is to teach the disci-pline of history to the best of my abilities and to get to know my students.” Tomlin said he was unsure of whether or not he would want a “last lecture” to reveal his deepest thoughts and philosophies. If he did decide to give a “fi nal” lecture, Tomlin hesitated to say the classroom would be the best location for such a lecture. Tomlin considered a friend who has been endur-ing stage four cancer. Th is friend, Tomlin said, writes a blog discussing her own struggles with the disease, and also espousing her own philosophies. But her example caused Tomlin to feel unsure of what he would say in a last lecture, and whether or not he would want to keep his philosophies personal, he explained. If he were to give a “last lecture,” Tomlin decided it would be just that—a normal, fi nal lecture. He would want to teach a “good” last lesson on whatever subject he was teaching. “In a sense, not letting some terminal disease defi ne every aspect of my life,” Tomlin said. Tomlin explained that during the 18th century, death was an everyday part of life, and people were forced to confront their own mortality in a more tan-gible way. American culture does not really struggle with death, or face their own mortality, Tomlin said. If Tomlin talked to his own children, and hypothet-
ically, only had six months to live, he said he would urge them to fi nd something in the world they would be willing to sacrifi ce themselves for. “Th at’s the best way to live,” he said. Whether it be giving up your time for the study of something, or the mastery of some sort of craft or
trade, love is built through sacrifi ces. “I hope every one of my students has something they love enough that they’re willing to sacrifi ce for... that’s the way that love works, and ultimately a good life takes shape,” Tomlin said.
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Photo courtesy of www.unco.eduT.J. Tomlin, an associate professor of history, said he would simply do his job if given the opportunity to give a fi nal lecture.
Correction:In our issue on Dec. 7, a story about Allen McConnell, a profes-sor at UNC, stated that McConnell would soon be retiring from the university. McConnell will not be retiring from the univer-sity at this time and will only be retiring from the Beta Alpha Psi and Professional Accounting Association organization.
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FREE Group Fitness Classes at the Rec Center from January 11th - 17th
MONDAY 1/119-11 p.m. Open Mic Night University Center-Fireside Lounge
TUESDAY 1/12 Intramural Sports Registrations Campus Rec Center
WEDNESDAY 1/13 4:40-5:40 p.m.Student Recital: Tyler Dever, PercussionFoundation Hall
6-11 p.m. Basketball Rock Band AuditionsFoundation Hall
FRIDAY 1/154-6 p.m.Photo Exhibit Reception: Ulli Limpitlaw - “The Magic from Mountains to Prairie”Michener Library
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SUNDAY 1/17 8-10 p.m.UPC Presents…Movie Night, Jurassic World Lindou Auditorium-Lower Michener Library
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Save money this New Year with Bear Biz By La’Asianee Brown
Bear Biz is a discount program where University
of Northern Colorado students can receive discounts from participating businesses with a valid student I.D. Bear Biz began during the 2009-2010 academic school year. In eff orts to bridge a gap between UNC students and local businesses, the campaign “Operation Bear Aware” was launched.
Within four semesters, more than 6,000 students particpated in the campaign. A few businesses that participate in Bear Biz are listed below. For a full list of businesses and discounts, visit: http://www.bearbizgreeley.com/.
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UNC student chosen to give premiere of nationally commissioned violin sonata
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Ching-Hsuan Wang, a doctoral candi-date at the University of Northern Colo-rado, will perform the Colorado premiere of composer Stephanie Ann Boyd’s new work for violin and piano in the spring as part of the 50 State Sonata Project. Th is project is a co-commission involv-ing one violinist in every state, and is part one of a two-year project celebrating the life and work of John Kendall, a peda-gogue who helped to bring the Suzuki teaching method to America. Boyd, who recently graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music with a masters degree in composition, studied violin with Kendall while in high school in Ann Arbor and wanted to embark on a project that would showcase her love of the violin while paying adequate tribute to Kendall’s world-wide musical infl uence.
Wang was the winner of the Walter and Virginia Charles Concerto Contest and was featured as the soloist with the Gree-ley Chamber Orchestra in 2009. She was the studio violinist for the Tai-wanese original movie “Dance. Lazurite” in 2012. While classically trained, she also has a passion for jazz and other genres of music. In 2014, she was featured in jazz vocal-ist Annie Chen’s original album “Pisces the Dreamer,” recorded in New York. In the summer of 2015, Ching-Hsuan was the featured violinist for the Global Saxo-phone Quartet tour in Beijing, Tianjing and Wuhan, China. “It’s been such a treat to work with Ching-Hsuan on this project”, Boyd said. “Her musical background is phenom-enally multi-faceted and I’m eager to see her perspective and her artistry shape the commission.” More information about the 50 State Sonata Project, visit: www.stephanieann-boyd.com/50-state-sonata-project/.
Photo courtesy of Stephanie Ann BoydChing-Hsuan Wang is a UNC doctoral student who will perform a violin sonata as a part of the 50 State Sonata Project.
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THURSDAY 1/147 p.m.Men’s Basketball vs. University of MontanaBank of Colorado Arena
FRIDAY 1/157 p.m.Wrestling vs. South DakotaBank of Colorado Arena
Saturday 1/165 p.m.Men’s Basketball vs. Montana StateBank of Colorado Arena
THURSDAY 1/147 p.m.Women’s Basketball at MontanaMissoula, Montana
FRIDAY 1/15All DayTrack at University of Nebraska’s Holiday Inn InvitationalLincoln, Nebraska
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MEN’S BASKETBALL By Zach Blackburn The UNC men’s basketball began confer-
ence play over winter break, and despite their 1-3 record against the Big Sky, the
Bears have plenty of talent to build on. The Bears lead the conference with a 39.8 percent from three-point range and are the second best team at the free-throw line. The Bears (2-2) took on Eastern Washington, Idaho, Ida-ho State and Weber State and had success on offense, led by redshirt junior guard Dallas Anglin, junior forward Jamal Evans and junior guard Anthony Johnson with 74, 46, and 42 points, respectively, over the course of four games. UNC outlasted EWU, winning 96-90 on Dec. 31 at home before dropping three straight games on the road. Idaho and Idaho State beat the Bears by less than five points, be-fore Weber State blew the lid off defeating the Bears in an 85-68 loss. Despite their 1-3 record, the Bears have shot over 40 per-cent from the floor in the first three games, putting up 96, 70 and 78 points, respectively, and both of the team’s losses were within five points. But, over the course of the entire season, including no-conference play, UNC is 3-8 in games where it shot over 40 percent. The team has been nearly even in points off turnovers with its opponents at 49-50 and is behind its opponents in total rebounds by an average of 5.6 per game. UNC has fouled its opponents 75 times in three games. The Bears return home for a 7 p.m. matchup on Thurs-day at the Bank of Colorado Arena.
WrestlingStaff Report Northern Colorado wres-tling finished 23rd out of 31 teams at the Southern Scuffle on Saturday in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Redshirt senior Trent Noon was the highlight of the day for UNC as Noon became the first Northern Colorado wrestler to place at the Southern Scuffle in program history. Noon won his first three matches before falling to Zach Nye of Virginia. As a team the Bears earned 26.5 points, match-ing their highest finish in program history. The Bears have two weeks before their first home match of 2016 against South Dakota State on Jan. 15 at the Bank of Colorado Arena.
Swim and Divestaff report The University of Northern Colorado’s swimming and diving team competed at the Omaha Invite in early December, finishing second overall out of seven schools.
The two-day competition saw the Bears earn five first-place finishers, eight second-place finishes and six third-place finishes. The Bears scored 301 points on the first day and 483 in the second day, good enough for second place, trailing host school Omaha, who set multiple records over the two days. The team will travel to the face Air Force, Seattle and South Dakota on Friday at the Air Force Academy.
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The Northern Colorado women’s basketball team played five games over the holiday break. They started the break slow by losing three close games, but finished with a bang, winning their final two games, both in thrilling fashion. The Bears started off the break with a 10-point loss to Grand Canyon University, with sophomore Kianna Williams turning in a career performance. She finished with 21 points, while also pulling down four rebounds and draining all seven of her free-throw attempts. In the end, the third quarter proved to be le-thal for UNC’s chances of victory, falling 69-59. Ten days after the team faced GCU, it had an-other game on New Year’s Eve in Cheney, Wash-ington to face the Eastern Washington Eagles in their first Big Sky matchup of the season. For the second game in a row Williams shined, record-ing 19 points and five rebounds while dishing out two assists and swiping two steals. Early in the game, the Bears were led by soph-omore Savannah Scott who recorded 10 points, going 4-of-5 from the field. She cooled off in the second half however, finishing with 12 points and seven rebounds. Once again the UNC women seemed to come out of halftime flat, being outscored 21-10 in the third quarter. The Bears mounted a late come-back in the fourth quarter, but the Eagles lead proved too much to overcome as the Bears fell short, 59-55. UNC’s game against the Idaho Vandals boiled down to two key things: three-pointers and free
throw shooting. Idaho outshot the Bears 12-5 from deep and 14-5 from the charity stripe, resulting in the 10-point difference in the game. UNC was led by a strong effort from junior Kourteney Zadina, who finished with 19 points while being respon-sible for four of UNC’s five three-pointers. Idaho led by nine at the half, and the Bears were not able to overcome the lead, never coming within eight points in the fourth quarter. The last two games the Northern Colorado women played seemed to follow the same script. It started with the Bears falling behind going into the fourth quarter, then hitting a last sec-ond, heart-stopping shot for the victory. On Thursday against the Idaho State Bengals, a slow start to the second half was not the case—instead it was the exact opposite. The Bears did not seem to want to play in the first half, falling behind by 12 at halftime. They got off to a hot start in the second half, outscoring the Bengals 26-13 in the second half, the most important of which was a six-foot jumper by Zadina with 1.9 seconds left in the game. It gave the Bears a 48-47 victory for their first Big Sky win of the year. The Friday game against the Weber State Wildcats was more of the same for the North-ern Colorado women. This time Scott’s game-winner capped off a 19-5 run for the Bears. Scott led the Bears’ charge the whole game, scoring 17 points while pulling down four rebounds—the last of which was the most important, giving UNC the 65-63 come-from-behind victory. The team will next face against the Montana Grizzlies at 7 p.m. on Thursday as it travels to Missoula, Montana.
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Photo by Dean PopejoySophomore point guard Savannah Scott shot at .750 percent in UNC’s win over Weber State on Friday night at the Bank of Colorado Arena.
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Northern Colorado Athletics has hired Jeff Butler as the new director of sports performance. Butler joins the sports performance staff of Zach Margolis, who was recently promoted to the director of sports performance for olympic sports, and Katie Simon, assistant director of sports per-formance. Butler is familiar with Big Sky football, coming to the Bears from Sourthern Utah University, where he was director of strength and conditioning and responsible for the training of the Th underbirds 2015 Conference championship team. “Aft er an extensive search process, I am very pleased to add Coach Butler to our staff ,” director of athletics Darren Dunn said. “He has extensive experience working with football and many other sports programs, especially in our conference. He brings
passion, excitement and tremendous experience to a critical posi-tion within the department. He and his wife, Katie, will be a great addition to the UNC family.” Prior to Southern Utah, Butler was at the University of Mon-tana, where he served as the assistant director of strength and conditioning for football, track and fi eld, volleyball and tennis. He was at UM for two years and again helped train a football team that reached the playoff s in back-to-back seasons. He got his fi rst full-time job in the industry at Dartmouth and his resume also includes work experience at Mississippi College, North Carolina State and Arkansas. Recruited out of Fayetteville, Arkansas, Butler played at Ap-palachian State in 2003 and 2004 before following his family to Mississippi and playing for the Mississippi College Choctaws for two additional seasons. He left the Mountaineers just prior to their run of three con-secutive national championships, from 2005-07. Butler graduated from Mississippi College in December 2007 with a degree in exercise science and earned a master’s degree in kinesiology from Arkansas in 2013.
UNC hires new director of sports performance
Student athletes to watch in 2016
Photo courtesy of UNCBears.comJeff Butler was director of strength and conditioning at Southern Utah University, and will be director of sports performance at UNC. .
Dallas AnglinMen’s Basketball UNC has welcomed Anglin since his fi rst heroic perfor-mance as a Bear. Anglin led the Bears to an upset win over rival Colorado State University in November and has since averaged 18.4 points per game. Th e Bears need a spark to turn their slow start around, and the Southern Mississippi transfer has em-braced that role.
Savannah ScottWomen’s Basketball Sophomore Savannah Scott knew she had some big shoes to fi ll coming into the 2015-16 season. Senior D’Shara Strange has graduated and it’s Scott’s time to take over. Th e point guard is averaging 10.3 points per game and shot at .750 percent, scor-ing 17 points in UNC’s 65-63 win over Weber State—the kind of performance that will be key for the Bears as they are averag-ing 62.4 points per game.
Carleigh BarrettSwim and Dive In the 2014-15 WAC Championships, Barrett took fi rst in the 1,650 yard freestyle, setting a program record and nearly cutting a minute off her personal best time. Th at was last year, and Barrett hasn’t slowed down since. In December, Barrett fi n-ished her fi nals race of the 500 free in Omaha six seconds faster than her prelims time, clocking in at 5:06.36. Barrett picked up a season best in the 200 fl y as well.
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