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Samantha [email protected]
Since UNC entered the
Big Sky Conference in
2006, the volleyball team
hasn’t missed the Big Sky
Tournament. This season
will be no exception.
The University of
Northern Colorado (14-
16, 10-10 Big Sky) made
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fate relied on winning
after Montana defeated
Sacramento State during
the fourth set of the UNC
match. While head coach
Lyndsey Oates found out
about the result in that
fourth set, she said she
decided to wait until the
end of the match to let her
team know.
“I said ‘We’re not telling
the team,’” Oates said.
“We didn’t need any ex-
tra pressure. I didn’t think
See Volleyball on page 16
UNC celebrates its international commu-nity with various cultural !avors. Events include a ramen-swagging tutorial, salsa dancing and trivia. Page 9
Spice it up
End of the road
UNC football’s disappointing season comes to an end with a 42-14 loss to Cal Poly. The Bears defense struggles to con-tain the Mustangs option rushing attack.Page 15
Best of UNC
The 2013 Best of UNC results are out—check out how your favorite places, clubs and professors fared. See special insert in middle of publication
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Table of contents:News 2, 6-10, 14, 23
Sports 15-20,
Opinions 3, 5
A&E 11-13
Comics 22
Classi!eds 23
Vol. 95, Num. 14November 25, 2013
Winter is a drag (queen)
Bears helped to Big Sky playoffs
Alexandria Adair [email protected]
If there is one place
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selling your friends to
dance on stage for money
won’t draw a hard second
glance, it would be at the
“Winter Is A Drag!” Show
that took place last Friday
at the University Center
ballrooms.
There were 19 ama-
teur and professional drag
queens in total who took
to the stage and helped
Spectrum raise funds for
The GLBT Community
Center of Northern Colo-
rado. The line to get in
went from one side of the
UC to the other, but event
coordinators were pre-
pared.
This was the fourth an-
nual drag show put on by
Spectrum, which is the
student organization for
gender, romantic and sex-
ual minorities and allies.
See Drag on page 11
Chelsea Brodin | The MirrorPerformer Khrys’taal dances across the stage during the “Winter Is A Drag!” show Friday at the University Center.
Mike Baldino | The MirrorBears sophomore outside hitter Kendra Cunningham goes for a kill in Saturday’s win over Northern Arizona at Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion. Cunningham had eight kills.
Win against NAU and Sac. St. loss brings UNC to playoffs
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November 25, 2013
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@UNCMirrorPage 2—The Mirror NEWSNEWSNEWS
Bear Tuesday an opportunity to give back
The 92nd Street YMCA in New
York City and the United Nations
Foundation have come together
WKLV� \HDU� WR� ODXQFK� WKH� ÀUVW�HYHU�Giving Tuesday on Dec 3, 2013.
The motivation behind the
initiative is to establish a day of
giving to counter the days of con�sumption such as Black Friday
and Cyber Monday that follow
Thanksgiving.
The global campaign seeks to
compel families, charities, busi�nesses and community organiza�tions to come together in a spirit
of giving.
The UNC Foundation is cash�ing in on the spirited initiative by
hosting Bear Tuesday, a fundrais�LQJ�FDPSDLJQ�IRU�WKH�PDQ\�RIÀFHV�and organization within UNC.
Sixth Annual Colorado Piano Festival takes place
The College of Performing
and Visual Arts and the School of
Music at UNC hosted the Sixth
Annual Colorado Piano Festival
1RY��������The festival featured perfor�
mances by faculty, students and
special guest artist Anton Nel.
The festival was free of charge
and open to the public.
Nel won the Naumburg Inter�national Piano Competition at
Carnegie Hall in 1987 following
an impressive early career per�forming and recording in his na�tive South Africa. Nel has since
performed in North and South
America, Europe, Africa and
Asia. Nel is the Joe R. and Teresa
Lozano Long Endowed Chair at
the University of Texas at Austin.
Nominations open for employee of the year at UNC
Student Employment at UNC
is now accepting nominations for
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The deadline for submissions
LV� )HE�� ���� 7KH� WRS�ÀYH� QRPL�nees will be recognized and the
overall winner will be eligible to
compete in the National Student
Employee of the Year competi�tion this spring.
Nominees and nominators at
the University of Northern Colo�rado will be invited to a special
reception April 15 during Na�tional Student Employee Appre�ciation Week; the winners will
be announced at the reception.
Nomination forms and additional
information are available online
at www.unco.edu/seoty.
UNC Mortar Board one of six finalists for national award
The Mortar Board National
College Senior Honor Society
recently recognized the Gold Key
Club at UNC as an outstanding
chapter at the 2013 Mortar Board
National Conference.
According to its website,
“Mortar Board is a national honor
society recognizing college se�niors for their exemplary scholar�ship, leadership and service.”
The Gold Key Club originated
at the University of Northern Col�orado in spring 1956 but was not
chartered by the Mortar Board
until 1972.
7KH�FOXE�ZDV�RQH�RI�VL[�ÀQDO�ists for the Ruth Weimer Mount
Chapter Excellence Award, the
highest honor bestowed upon
chapters by the Mortar Board.
CampusBriefs
Snapshot of the weekPolice blotter The following were taken from last week’s UNC police log, read the full report at UNCmirror.com
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Kimberly Morris, an early childhood development major, turns her lens on a preoccupied photographer.
Photo by Kimberly Morris
Christmas seems to creep into the calendar ear-lier and earlier each year.
The holiday set up at Wal-Mart begins roughly around Halloween and Christmas music on the ra-dio could mean that the cur-rent date is somewhere be-tween Halloween and next Christmas.
The bloated and exces-sive holiday build up might be a good thing if it kicked off the goodwill and warm tidings the holiday season usually inspires.
Instead, starting Christ-mas season as early as pos-sible seems only to serve as a vehicle to boost retail sales and inspire materialis-tic yearnings.
Case in point: Thanks-
giving is all but lost in the rush to get from Black Fri-day to Christmas and then into the after-Christmas surge in retail sales due to gift cards and returns. This week until January may as well be called Shopember, because that’s certainly what retailers and social ex-pectations are compelling us to do.
Sure, Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales lure consumers in with the promise of a good deal. But a good deal on unneces-sary, cumbersome material goods you don’t actually need isn’t much of a deal at all. Especially if you purchase it literally the day after you spent the day hun-kered down with your fam-
ily being thankful for ev-erything you already have. Or, even worse, on the very same day.
Don’t Black Friday shop on Thursday. Don’t let your Thanksgiving ruin someone else’s. The retail employees that work Thanksgiving may already be there, but if you stay home, at least you’re not part of the reason they couldn’t have dinner with their family like you did.
If you do end up in the mall on Thursday, treat retail employees and fel-low shoppers with respect. Feeling entitled to a good deal shouldn’t turn you into D� UXGH� SHUVRQ�� ,I� \RX� ÀQG�yourself shoving for a TV, you may need to reevaluate
your position in life. Don’t let the prospect of savings turn you into a stampeding, shoving child. Keep cool, don’t trample others and keep your hands to yourself.
Purchase and gift thoughtfully. Why do you want that massive TV? Be-cause it’s cheap? What else might actually help you in your life? What can you direct your shopping habits to that will actually enhance your life instead of distract-ing from it? If at the end of the day, a cheap TV that will quickly become last year’s model is something you QHHG�LI�\RXU�OLIH��ÀUH�DZD\��But for that amount of money, maybe something, or several somethings, can EHQHÀW�\RXU�OLIH�PRUH��
Shop locally when and where you can. Searching for gifts locally stimulates the economy where you live. It’s the gift the keeps giving; the money you fork over eventually works its way back to you.
Circle of life, cycle of money. Smaller retailers tend to offer a more per-sonalized selection. What says “I love you” more? A mass-produced generic gift, or something original and thoughtful? No matter you get your gifts, focus on gifting for the person and not for the masses. And no matter how or where you shop, try to remember the whole goodwill-for-all spir-it the holidays are meant to evoke.
There is a special place in my heart for the kinds of children who bow their heads when asked how old they are, and I try to give an ex-tra smile to the ones who try to hide behind their parents’ backs when the balloon man asks which shape they want to see next.
I’ve always made an effort to pay attention to those ones, and not the loudmouth kids in the center of the room, because I can identify best with them.
I feel such a kindred bond with shy children because I am just like them. I was that little girl who was too afraid to go up to the counter and ask for extra napkins by her-VHOI�� DQG� WKDW� JLUO� GHÀQLWHO\� VWLOO�lurks within. She pops her awk-
ward, mousy little head into my adult life all the time.
This is where my fascination with self-expression comes into play.
I have always felt as if I were two different people at once: the shy, quiet girl I become in social situations who can’t think of a thing to say and the smart, offbeat and sometimes brash girl I’ve al-ways known myself to be on the inside.
Expressing myself through per-VRQDO�VW\OH�LV��ÀUVW�DQG�IRUHPRVW��D�way for me to meld those two sides of my being.
I revel in the notion of hav-ing the power to begin the get-to-know-ya conversation with anyone and everyone I meet before I even open my mouth.
However, I think spending the last eight years in Greeley hasn’t done me any favors.
I wouldn’t describe the collec-tive style of Greeley’s inhabitants as fashion-forward. Comfortable LV�SUREDEO\�D�PRUH�ÀWWLQJ�GHVFULS-tor of the street style here, or lack
thereof, and I think we need to stage a revolution.
As much as I hate to admit it, I know that I have become part of the problem. I am guilty of wear-ing sweats in public, and that, my friends, is what we call crossing a line.
I think we all need to go back to the ugly phase of developing per-sonal style. You know what I’m talking about, that Lizzie McGuire-esque period of experimentation we all had. That feeling you get when you’re not really sure if something works for you until the entire day ended up being…weird? I appreci-ate those kinds of days. We all need more of those days.
In those clumsy moments, we’re baring our souls to one another. And for a shy girl who has a hard time saying the right thing, I think that’s beautiful.
—Alexandria Vasquez is a se-nior Journalism-news editorial ma-jor and a news writer for the Mirror. She can be contacted via email at [email protected].
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Don’t let your shopping ruin someone else’s ThanksgivingThoughts from the editorial staff of The MirrorReflects
The Mirror Reflections are the opinion of The Mirror’s editorial board : Alexander Armani-Munn, Biz Gilmore, Steven Josephson, Michael Nowels and Ben Stivers. Email letters to the editor to [email protected].
In the Nov. 18 ar-ticle on the Old Chi-cago Open, Trent Noon was listed in the wrong weight class. Noon wrestled in the 184 pound weight class.
In the same story a photo of 157-pound-er Nick Alspaugh ZDV� PLVLGHQWLÀHG� DV�184-pounder Cole Br-iegel.
The Mirror sincerely regrets these errors.
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The Mirror—Page 5November 25, 2013 NEWS
A new education initiative sponsored by the National Gover-nors Association and the Council RI�&KLHI�6WDWH�6FKRRO�2IÀFHUV� LV�the source of recent debate around the country.
The initiative, billed as the Common Core State Stan-dards Initiative, has inundat-ed headlines recently as par-ents and students debate its
overall effectiveness. Common Core relies on a top-
down approach. Essentially, the initiative is developed by govern-PHQW� OHDGHUV� DQG� VWDWH� RIÀFLDOV�then handed down to academic institutions to be implemented.
For those who are not familiar with the Common Core initiative, the idea is to have a standardized national curriculum. And while this sounds great, like any pro-gram sent from the top down, it likely was not put together with WKH�KHOS�RI�HGXFDWRUV�XQWLO� WKH�À-nal stages of planning.
The last time something of this nature passed, it was No Child Left Behind, which again appeared effective on paper, but today is thoroughly disliked
by educators. From various news reports,
Common Core is being received much the same way: not very well.
The biggest reason for this is ÁH[LELOLW\�� &KLOGUHQ� YDU\� IURP�state to state and county to county and even community to com-munity. A child attending school in Weld County is going to have different educational needs than a child in La Plata, Jefferson or even Kit Carson counties.
Another very legitimate con-cern of parents are which political views are going to have the most LQÁXHQFH�RQ�ZKDW�LV�EHLQJ�WDXJKW��
Neither side of the political spectrum is willing to allow the other full say; normally, it is up to WKH�SDUHQWV�WR�LQÁXHQFH�WKH�YLHZV�
of their children, especially at the younger ages when children are PRVW�HDVLO\�LQÁXHQFHG��
Teachers must also have this concern in mind. What if they don’t agree with the way the con-tent is being presented? Will it cost them their job to not teach WKH� FRQWHQW� WKH�ZD\� LW� LV� VSHFLÀ-cally outlined? And what of the art of teaching? How much more of their craft are teachers willing to give up?
As a future educator, I care about my future students learning how to think as opposed to what to think.
That is the goal of every teacher: to teach children how to think and to foster learning and curiosity.
On paper, the Common Core initiative sounds like a good idea. +RZHYHU��LW�LV�H[HFXWLRQ�WKDW�PDW-ters more than what is on the pa-per.
If the testing shows that it can work across states, but accommo-dates for the differences between state, county and community, then perhaps implementation is pos-sible.
If it is shown not to work, it needs to be changed or scrapped so as not to put more bureaucratic strain on teachers.
—Natasha Krech is a senior secondary education major, and staff writer for The Mirror. She can be contacted via email at [email protected].
By Natasha KrechPassing Thoughts
Common Core paints with too broad a brush across the entire country
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Alexander [email protected]
Members of Student Senate engaged in a pio-neering conversation on Wednesday night to deter-mine the precedent for stu-dents requesting grants for conferences occurring after their graduation date.
The senate also passed Resolution 01, formally ad-vocating their support for a new taxi service in the Greeley-Evans area, and representatives of Youth for the Environment and Sus-tainability were on hand to submit a request for addi-tional funding from the Or-ganization Funding Board.
The meeting kicked off with committee updates from the University Pro-gram Council, the Interna-tional Film Series and the Student Leadership for En-vironmental Action Fund.
A representative from UPC spoke to senate mem-bers about upcoming plans for World AIDS Day.
In collaboration with the GLBTA Resource Of-ÀFH��83&�ZLOO� KRVW� HYHQWV�Dec. 2, 4 and 6. On Dec. 2, participants will meet at the Marcus Garvey Cultural Center to hang commemo-rative ribbons.
On Dec. 4, there will be
an informative table at the University Center, and Dec. 6 will be a cleanup of the ribbons hung earlier in the week.
The International Film Series ended its fall run Nov. 13 and 14 with a screening of the Wes An-GHUVRQ� ÀOP� ´0RRQULVH�Kingdom.”Representatives from IFS indicated that roughly 20 people attended HDFK�ÀOP�VFUHHQLQJ�WKLV�IDOO��
A representative from Student LEAF informed senate members that the LEAF committee recently approved a project to re-place outdated water foun-tains in Candelaria Hall and Kepner Hall.
The LEAF committee is also in the early stages of planning the First Annual Sustainability Challenge at UNC, a sustainable spin on the Monfort College of Businesses’ annual En-trepreneurial Challenge. Members from LEAF will also be meeting with mem-bers of UPC, YES and sen-ate in the near future to begin planning for Earth Week 2014.
The Student Senate Mar-keting Committee handed RXW�����FXSV�DQG�Á\HUV�RXW-side Holmes Dining Hall and Tobey-Kendel Dining Hall last week and was able
to add over 85 new likes to the Student Senate Face-book page.
The YES club petitioned senate members for $300 in additional funding to help the club host a thrift store prom at the culmination of Earth Week this spring.
The additional fund-ing will go towards paying performing artists for the event.
The request for addi-tional funding comes after a semester of frequent fun-draising for the club includ-ing campaigns at Chipotle and Café Mexicali, a bake sale and a designated driver event on Nov. 13 that pro-vided students sober rides from the Wednesday night bar crawl in exchange for tips and donations.
After brief discussion and a few questions regard-ing the details of the event, senate approved the addi-tional funding overwhelm-ingly.
Director of Academic Affairs Alfred Eastin in-formed the senate that stu-dents submitted 19 confer-ence grant requests this semester.
The major point of con-cern in conference grant funding this time around came from two students See Senate on page 14
The Mirror—Page 6 November 25, 2013NEWS
Joelle Romero | The MirrorFrom left: Parliamentarian Garrett Royer, Student Body President Oliver Bourne, Student Turstee Ben Fuller and Director of Student Clubs and Organizations Aaron Ontiveros.
Senate passes semester’s first resolution
The Mirror—Page 7November 25, 2013 NEWS
Tessa Byrns [email protected]
The Marcus Garvey
Cultural Center host-
ed their second annual
Kwanzaa celebration on
Monday. This year’s cel-
ebration was split up into
three nights instead of just
one like the previous year.
To make this year’s cel-
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the staff of the cultural
center wanted to inform
students about Kwanzaa’s
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“Last year we only
had a dinner to celebrate
Kwanzaa,” said Ty’Ray
Thompson, director of the
Marcus Garvey Cultural
Center. “We had a lot of
students asking, ‘What is
Kwanzaa?’ So we wanted
a more informational ex-
perience as well as inter-
active.”
Kwanzaa is a seven
night celebration of fami-
ly, friends and community.
Kwanzaa is not a religious
celebration, merely a time
IRU� WKH�$IULFDQ�$PHULFDQ�community to come to-
gether and celebrate their
heritage. Kwanzaa has
seven principles that are
represented by seven can-
dles that are lit and held in
the candle holder called
the kinara.
The seven principles
of Kwanzaa are umoja
(unity), kujichagulia (self
determination), ujima
(collective work and re-
sponsibility), ujamaa (co-
operative economics), nia
(purpose), kuumba (cre-
ativity), and imani (faith).
Even Macharia, lead
singer of Harambee Ngo-
PD��WKH�$IULFDQ�GUXPPLQJ�band that performed at the
event, said that he'll be of-
fering a Swahili language
class later on in the school
year.
“I will teach a free class
for the Marcus Garvey
Cultural Center,” Macha-
ria said. “It’s your culture,
you should know Swa-
hili.”
Some of the students
who participated in the
event this year were new
to Kwanzaa.
“My friend, Danielle,
and I work over at the
Unity Theatre and some of
our friends from Marcus
Garvey Cultural Center
asked us to do a perfor-
mance for their Kwanzaa
event,” said Jalen Taylor,
a freshman acting major.
“The more I started to
learn about the seven prin-
ciples, the more I wanted
to celebrate Kwanzaa.”
Students learned more
about Kwanzaa by partici-
pating in the celebration.
“I celebrate Christmas
as well as Kwanzaa be-
cause Kwanzaa is more of
just a celebration of fam-
ily and friends,” said Dan-
ielle Jackson, a freshman
acting major. “It’s just
about unity of the com-
munity. Working with the
Marcus Garvey Cultural
Center helped me learn
more about Kwanzaa and
what it entailed. I always
knew about Kwanzaa but
I didn’t know a lot about
it.”
Students can learn more
about Kwanzaa, which
takes place Dec. 26-Jan.
1 this year, at the Marcus
Garvey Cultural Center.
Students prep for Kwanzaa
Maeve Widmann | The MirrorJazz studies major Miles Lujan plays his trumpet as a part of Monday’s Jazz in the Lounge event at the Fireside Lounge at the University Center.
Blow them away
The Mirror—Page 8 November 25, 2013NEWS
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Every good college stu-
dent knows the value of an
effective budget. Exponen-
tially greater accountability
is required of governments’
use of taxpayer dollars.
Colorado Governor John
Hickenlooper unveiled his
2014-2015 budget proposal
to the Joint Budget Com-
mittee Nov. 1. The $24
billion budget centers on
disaster relief funding as
well as additional funding
for higher education.
“Recent natural disas-
ters have demonstrated the
YDOXH� RI� EHLQJ� ÀQDQFLDOO\�prepared for unanticipated
events,” Hickenlooper
wrote.
After more than a year of
unprecedented natural di-
sasters ranging from wild-
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ing this fall, the state of
Colorado has been forced
to compensate for many
unforeseen costs centered
around disaster relief.
“This budget frames
what by necessity will have
to be a collaborative effort
that crosses party lines. We
expect compromise from
both sides that is based on
common sense, which has
QR� SROLWLFDO� DIÀOLDWLRQ�µ�Hickenlooper wrote in a
letter to the Joint Budget
Committee.
Hickenlooper proposed
earmarking $122 million
for relief funding com-
pensation for various state
funds. The state Medicaid
program contributed $50
million to relief efforts
and the Controlled Mainte-
nance Trust Fund contrib-
uted $48 million.
During the recent reces-
sion, the reserves in the
Colorado General Fund
dipped to a mere two per-
cent. Today, the reserves sit
D�PRGHVW�ÀYH�SHUFHQW�RI�WKH�General Fund.
The governor said
looking at those numbers
helped him make the deci-
sions that shaped much of
the budget.
“We have planned next
year’s budget around end-
ing the year with a 6.5 per-
cent reserve,” Hickenloop-
er wrote. “This represents
about 24 days of operating,
compared with just seven
at the 2.0 percent level.”
The Colorado General
Fund represents the main
operating budget of the
states, accounting for all
assets and liabilities.
Hickenlooper used the
UHVHUYH� ÀJXUHV� KH� SUHVHQW-ed as leverage in pushing
an initiative to reduce long
lines and wait times at the
DMV, as well as making all
construction and transpor-
tation easier to navigate un-
der the Senate Bill 09-228.
Hickenlooper also has
big plans for higher educa-
tion funding. The governor
hopes to “restore higher
education funding to levels
that exceed the pre-Great
Recession peak with an ad-
ditional $101.8 million.”
The governor wants to in-
FUHDVH�ÀQDQFLDO�DLG�E\�����million and limit tuition
growth to 6 percent.
“I think it’s wonder-
ful. I read that the funding
will bring schools back to
the level of state funding
since 1997. It’s sad that we
haven’t had a lot of fund-
ing since 1997,” said Mar-
tin Somero, the Director of
Financial Aid for UNC.,“I
think that it’s a step in the
right direction for higher
education. If those funds
can get to UNC and UNC
students I think it would be
a very positive thing. They
can keep the budget going
all the way to actual law.
Students who graduate are
more likely to get rid of
their debt faster because
they’ll be working and
eliminating their school
debt.”
Somero also noted that
although there was more
funding proposed in the
budget, there will also be a
look at college graduation
rates.
“I read that Hicken-
looper will also be looking
at the colleges graduation
rates and determining how
much funding the college
will receive. I like that
idea because you can’t just
throw money at a problem
and expect it to go away or
À[�LWVHOI�µ�Students have agreed
WKDW� LW�PD\� EH� GLIÀFXOW� IRU�the Governor to get his pro-
posal passed.
“I like the idea that col-
leges are going to be get-
ting more funding. I think
that getting more funding
would be great for students.
They’ll be able to stay in
school and still be able to
pay for it,” said Chellsie
Lawrence, a senior biology
major. “I think the gov-
ernor’s budget might not
be possible just because it
ZRXOG� EH� GLIÀFXOW� WR� NHHS�college prices down in case
the state needs to pay for
certain expenses. I hope it
goes through and it actually
happens though.”
Governor Hickenlooper proposes new state budget
The Mirror—Page 9November 25, 2013 NEWS
Mariya AcherkanJennifer HazeldineAlexandria Adair [email protected]
Since 2003, participa-
tion in the study abroad
program at UNC has in-
creased by 173 percent. To-
day, over 400 international
students attend the Univer-
sity of Northern Colorado,
and last year, over 200
native students studied
abroad.
7KH� LQWHUQDWLRQDO� ÁDYRU�at UNC is robust, and last
week the Center for Inter-
national Education hosted
its annual International
Education Week to further
build awareness of interna-
tional diversity on campus
and to inform students and
faculty on opportunities
abroad.
The university's Interna-
tional Education Week is
actually part of a broader
initiative by the United
States State Department
seeking to increase the
number of U.S. Students
studying abroad. Tradition-
ally, fewer American stu-
dents go abroad to study
than their foreign counter-
parts do.
The weeklong celebra-
tion included nine events
throughout the week ensur-
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ber of students and faculty
could participate. The week
kicked off Monday with
Going Global at UNC, a
general information event,
and a special “Swag Your
Ramen” workshop that
taught students tricks for
DGGLQJ� D� JOREDO� ÁDYRU� WR�the archetypal college dish.
The lower level of the
University Center served
as an international travel
agency Monday as the set-
ting for Going Global at
UNC. The table event was
a one-stop shop for stu-
dents and faculty seeking
information on abroad op-
portunities offered by the
university.
Pictures from the uni-
versity’s annual Globetrot-
ter Photo Contest were on
display to attract passing
students. The annual con-
test consists of photo en-
tries from UNC students
studying around the globe.
International Education
Week is a means for pro-
moting “global understand-
ing and exchange of ideas,”
Lauren Bruce, director of
study abroad at UNC, said.
Bruce urges students to ex-
plore abroad opportunities
beyond the classroom, stat-
ing that students can also
build a global understand-
ing through volunteering
abroad or applying for an
international internship.
The UNC Diversity
Mentor Program caught
the attention of several
passersby at the event with
a display titled, “Everyone
Matters.”
The display painted a
grim picture by featuring
global statistics on domes-
tic violence, gender dis-
crimination, homophobia
and murder.
“It tells you how much
is going on in the world,”
said diversity mentor Ben-
jamin Hangishaka, a politi-
cal science and sociology
major. Since this is Inter-
national Education Week,
I think it is the right thing
to make sure people know
what is going on.”
Monday night, students
gathered in the Panorama
Room of the UC to enjoy
some Ramen noodles in a
way they likely never had
before.
The Swag Your Ramen
event gave students the op-
portunity to take a staple of
the college diet and spice it
up with such additions as
VHDZHHG�� PHDWEDOOV�� ÀVK-
balls, green onions, and
a variety of global condi-
ments.
Members of the UNC
FRPPXQLW\� ÀOOHG� WKH� 3DQ-
orama Room again on
Tuesday, this time for key-
note addresses from UNC
professors Karen Barton
and Roger DeWitt.
Barton, an associate
professor of geography,
spoke about her experience
visiting, and in some cas-
es living and working, in
over 40 countries. Barton
was not able to travel until
reaching graduate school,
but stressed that travel-
ling abroad is possible for
anyone regardless of socio-
economic class.
Both Barton and DeWitt
have led student trips to
Latin America.
The over-arching theme
of the keynote speeches
was that human connection
transcends variations in
spoken language and even
cultural differences.
Also on Tuesday, Mi-
chelle Behr, acting dean of
the College of Humanities
and Social Sciences, and
Maureen Ulevich, direc-
tor of UNC’s Center for
International Education
presented faculty awards
for Fulbright International
grants abroad opportuni-
ties.
Wednesday featured
Global Monologues at the
Fireside Lounge in the UC.
The event brought togeth-
er members of the UNC
community to share their
abroad experiences in a ca-
sual and open setting.
Zachary Herzog, a study
abroad advisor and junior
business administration
major, studied in Prague,
Czech Republic last spring.
Herzog discussed the
GLIÀFXOW�H[SHULHQFH�KH�KDG�with his roommates while
abroad, stating that he
eventually grew concerned
when he learned one of his
roommates had just left
prison.
Herzog eventually
learned that the reason
for his roommate’s incar-
FHUDWLRQ�ZDV� IRU�ÀJKWLQJ�D�Neo-Nazi individual who
was actively assaulting
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See International on page 14
Everything from ramen to roamin’International week covers variety of topics
Maeve | The MirrorFrom left: Eleanor Xu, a linguistics graduate student, Nicole Liu, a linguistics graduate, Joanna Johnson, a business accounting freshman prepare ramen noodles Monday at Swag Your Ramen.
Maeve Widmann | The MirrorZach Herzog, a senior business management major, speaks about his experiences studying abroad in Prague, Czech Re-public Wednesday at the University Center Fireside Lounge.
The Mirror—Page 10 November 25, 2013NEWS
NY Times Round Table discusses clean water locally, worldwideJennifer Hazeldine [email protected]
Every year, 3.4 million people die from a water-related disease. Almost all of these deaths occur in developing countries.
The New York Times Round Table held a discussion in McK-ee Hall about the issues regard-ing water conservation and puri-ÀFDWLRQ�RQ�7KXUVGD\��
The discussion consisted of water privation, drought, cli-mate change, pollution, puri-ÀFDWLRQ�� GHSOHWLRQ� DQG� ZDVWH�in different parts of the world, with a primary focus on Weld County. It was hosted by wa-ter engineer Luke A. Shaw-cross and Wendy Highby from Michener Library and Sarah
Romano from UNC’s political science department.
Attendees shared their per-sonal experiences with water throughout their lifetime, sitting in a circle of desks. They also shared their thoughts and opin-ions regarding water issues in today’s society.
“I traveled to Mexico and drank bottled water and still ended up getting sick because there is a bottled water company in Mexico that does not purify their water before it is bottled,” sophomore criminal justice ma-jor Stephany Lewingdon said.
Not all areas around the world have access to clean water or proper treatment plants to help clean the water for safe drinking.
One talking point was that
even Colorado’s tap water is not entirely pure due to the chemi-cals treatment professionals use on the water, such as chlorine DQG�ÁXRULGH��
There is currently a debate in the United States over whether RU� QRW� FKORULQH� DQG�ÁXRULGH� DUH�safe to ingest. Some Americans DUJXH� WKDW� ÁXRULGH� VKRXOG� RQO\�be applied to the surface of the teeth, not ingested.
Shawcross reminded the au-dience that every individual is responsible for keeping the plan-et’s water clean.
“We need to be conscious of what we are putting into our water. Substances such as tooth paste, prescription drugs, chemi-cals, pesticides and herbicides will eventually end up back in
the environment,” he stated. Fertilizers often end up in the
water system through the plants they help grow.
Senior social science ma-jor Everardo Bonilla-Cardenas spoke about his experience liv-ing in a small village sharing a water source.
“People washed their clothes in the stream,” he said. “My grandfather had built a dam in the river. Everyone would do what they wanted with their area of water since it was private. The land was fertilized and the fertil-izer would drain into the water.”
The Northern Water Conser-vancy District provides water to Northeastern Colorado. Water is collected from snowmelt off the Western Slope. The water
is taken to reservoirs such as Horsetooth Reservoir, where it is stored. It is the responsibility of cites to treat the water to en-sure it is safe for consumption.
Oil and gas companies do not need to meet the safe water standards, which is concerning for many Colorado residents, particularly with their use of hy-draulic fracturing—commonly called fracking.
The guests at the round table said if individuals join together to make their voices heard, their concerns about fracking may be placed into consideration.
As the discussion came to a close, the circle agreed that talk-ing about the issues of water is WKH� ÀUVW� VWHS� WRZDUGV� GLVFRYHU-ing a solution.
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With Halloween festivi-ties now over and the holi-days just around the corner, this time of the year tends to be a time of sugary de-lights. Chocolate, candy and sweet baked goods line store fronts, and many with sweet teeth are not shy to indulge.
“I have eaten two pack-ages of Halloween Oreos already this week,” Jessica Pennybacker, Kansas State sophomore in secondary education, said while tak-ing a cookie from her third package. “If there is such thing as an addiction to Oreos, I probably have it.”
One savory snack, it seems, may actually have unforeseen consequences for unsuspecting consum-ers.
According to a recent study conducted by an un-dergraduate student at Con-necticut College in New London, Conn., the brain actually responds to Oreo cookies similarly to the way it responds to drugs.
The experiment was originally done to see how
lab rats react to Oreos ver-sus their reaction to co-caine.
The rats were put into a maze with two sides; if the rats were able to maneuver the maze on one side they were rewarded with Oreos, while on the other side, they would receive bland rice cakes. As it turns out, the sweet, sugary taste of an Oreo attracted the rats more then the plain rice cake.
The students then con-ducted the same experi-ment, but this time the re-wards at the end were given a shot of either cocaine or saline. The results revealed that rats spent as much time on the side of the maze with the cocaine as they had on the Oreo side in the previ-ous experiment.
The students also mea-sured the expression of a protein called c-Fos. This protein, located within the nucleus accumbens sec-tion of the brain, is strongly correlated with pleasure sensation and also affects inclination to addiction to external stimuli.
“It basically tells us how many cells were turned on
LQ� D� VSHFLÀF� UHJLRQ� RI� WKH�brain in response to the drugs or Oreos,” said Jo-seph Schroeder, associate professor of neuroscience and director of the Behav-ioral Neuroscience Program at Connecticut College who also led the research, in a Connecticut College press
release on the study.Oreos activated cells in
this brain area more than both cocaine and morphine, which suggests that the combination of sugar and fat may be more delectable to our brains than drugs.
“Chocolate is not a drug, so I do not think it should
be as addicting as a drug,” said Katherine Sensenich, a K-State sophomore in microbiology. “I can’t see how Oreos could become as addicting as cocaine so quickly. I think, over time, Oreos could be addicting because you learn to enjoy them so much. but I do not
think the immediacy of the addiction would be there.”
Although the experiment results were found in lab rats, this is generally stan-GDUG� SURWRFRO� LQ� VFLHQWLÀF�research procedures. Often, UHVHDUFKHUV� ÀQG� ZKDW� WKH\�test on the rats to be rel-evant to humans. This study assumes that since rats and humans often behave in the same manner, humans may also have the same reac-WLRQ�WR�2UHRV�DQG�FRXOG�ÀQG�them to be addicting.
“If future studies prove this to be relevant in hu-mans, it could be associated with some individuals hav-ing susceptible brain chem-istries, making high calorie, high fat foods more irresist-ible,” said Dianna Schalles, director of nutrition servic-es at Lafene Health Center at Kansas State. “Eating EHKDYLRUV�DUH�LQÁXHQFHG�E\�multiple factors. However, as interesting as a single study may be, it is likely not the magic solution to avoid tempting foods.”
For more information on healthy eating practices, visit the Student Health Center.
Study: Oreos similar to cocaine in brain reaction
Steven Josephson | The MirrorA recent study from Connecticut College in New London, Conn. equates the brain’s reaction to Oreo cookies to its response to cocaine.
A&EEditor: Biz Gilmore
uncmirror.com/entertainment The Mirror—Page 11November 25, 2013 A&EA&EThis week in A&E:
All week:Art Exhibit: The Pátzcuaro Workshop: Contemporary Graphic Art from Michoacán, Mexico.Michener Library.
Monday Nov. 25: 4:40-5:45 p.m.Student recital: Stirling Bowlick, saxo-phone:Kepner Hall, Milne Auditorium
Tuesday Nov. 26: Not fall break yet.
Wednesday Nov. 27: Fall break:No classes.
Have a safe and fun break.
Thursday Nov. 28: Happy Thanksgiving.
Friday Nov. 29: No classes.
Saturday Nov. 30: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.Indie Arts Greeley Winter Market:614 8th Avenue.
5:30 p.m.Greeley Lights the Night Parade:9th Avenue and 15th Street.
Sunday Dec. 1: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.Indie Arts Greeley Winter Market:614 8th Avenue.
Juliette [email protected]
UNC opera theatre stu-dents made Puccini’s “La Rondine” come to life in their production, which opened last Thursday. Performances were held Thursday, Friday and Sat-urday at the Langworthy Theatre in Frasier Hall. The production was direct-ed by associate professor of music Brian Clay Lu-edloff, in conjunction with stage manager Alex Hanna and the UNC theatre de-partment. The opera was performed in Italian with English subtitles.
“La Rondine” (the spar-row) recounts the love stories of various Parisian courtesans; Magda de
Civry, who nostalgically dreams of her past loves; Lisette, her feisty maid; Ruggero, the naive new-comer; and Prunier, a poet.
One of the greatest challenges for the produc-tion crew was making the melodramatic woes of the operas’ high-class charac-ters relevant to their audi-ence.
According to stage di-rector Alex Hanna, the subtitles helped literal un-derstanding of the story, but the production at-tempts to go beyond strict understanding.
“Brian Luedloff, the director, he’s done a really great job,” Hanna said. “It’s all in the movement, really. He’s trying to get See Opera on page 13
Drag queens and kings work it on campusDrag from page 1
The masters of cere-monies of the night were a pair of ladies who went by the names of Kristania J. and Alexis D. and seemed to have an abundance of sass. They egged the audi-ence on to donate as much cash as possible through-out the night, in an effort to beat the $1500 that had been raised last year.
Tipping the hosts and the performers was heav-ily encouraged through-out the night because a SRUWLRQ� RI� WKH� EHQHÀWV� LV�given to a different char-ity organization each year.
The Center of North-ern Colorado, the dona-tion recipient this year, is located in Fort Collins. It was founded in 1976, and
is the third-oldest GLBT community center in the country.
William Adams, a se-nior Asian studies major and co-president of Spec-trum, said the center is a ORW�OLNH�WKH�*/%7$�RIÀFH�on campus, but isn’t con-tained to only helping the on-campus community.
Adams said the events that Spectrum puts on, like this one and Queer Prom, are powerful tools that are important in showing a different side of the Gree-ley community.
“A lot of people don’t NQRZ� WKDW� ZH� KDYH� ÀYH�professional performers from Greeley tonight,” Adams said. There were also performers from Denver and Fort Collins at the drag show. Adams
said that the student per-formers often raised more money than the profes-sional visitors.
“People want to see their friends twerk on stage, usually,” Adams said.
Whatever the case may be, the crowd was lively and the excitement in the room was palpable. Bright lights shined blue and purple and yellow hues onto the stage, which had a small runway at-tached to it.
“Most of them are prettier than I am, and walk better in heels than I can,”said Abbie McKit-rick, a junior who is dou-ble majoring in psychol-ogy and criminal justice. She said she has attended the drag show every year.
Opera completes run at UNC
Natalie Stacker | The Claw Anna Christine Woiwood gives Kyle Nisbet a skeptical look during a dress rehearsal for “La Rondine” in Langworthy Theatre.
Chelsea Brodin | The MirrorPerformer Armani Blanc (stage name) dances for an audi-ence member during her act.
The Mirror—Page 12 November 25, 2013A&E
Staff [email protected]
The School of Music put on a free percussion ensemble playing several styles of music all using percussion instruments Tuesday at Foundation Hall.
Those unfamiliar with percussion might have been surprised to see more than just drums and cymbals on stage.
A large range of instru-ments were played at the concert included xylo-phones, marimbas, gongs, gourds and even the per-formers themselves.
The show began with an “African Welcome”
showcasing several styles of music from Ghana that included many different tempos.
Other pieces that were played were “Ogoun Badagris,” an appease-ment to a violent Voodoo god with triple rhythms in places.
The Mesoamerican-inspired “Song of Quet-zalcoatl,” tried to bring together the three aspects of a god who was the god of winds, arts and crafts and knowledge.
One particularly unique piece was “Post-ludes.”
It included four play-ers with two double bass bows playing on a single
vibraphone. Unlike the traditional
more bold sounds that a vibraphone gives while being played, the sounds played could be consid-ered soft, fragile and to an extent, haunting as they echoed through the hall.
Ending the night was a more contemporary piece altered for a larger ensemble; “Prelude in E Minor,” which was played first on piano be-fore the rest of the group took the stage.
Percussion ensembles were directed by Gray Barrier, Kyle Cherwin-ski, Christopher Wilson and Dan Obluda.
UNC percussion strikes with ensemble show
Bold lines and expressive pieces from Mexican artists on display in Michener
Breelyn Bowe | The MirrorSenior music major Kyle Waggoner focuses on his sheet music while playing the marimba dur-ing the percussion ensembles concert.
Alexandria Adair [email protected]
“The Pátzcuaro Work-shop: Contemporary Graphic Arts from Micho-acán, Mexico” is the latest art exhibit to call Mari Mi-chener Art Gallery home. The free exhibit debuted on Nov. 11, and will be open to the public until the last day of the semester.
The pieces vary from woodcuts of monsters drawn in thick lines to etch-ings of delicate spider webs and coyotes. The art, which came from 13 different art-ists, mingles together in RUGHU�WR�UHÁHFW�WKH�LGHQWLW\�with which each of the art-ists identify.
The gallery is the prod-uct of a partnership be-tween the University of Northern Colorado and the Secretary of Culture of the Government of the State of
Michoacán. Their participation in
this workshop provides the opportunity to carry out traditional techniques of graphic arts in woodcut-ting, etching and lithogra-phy.
“It is an honor for the University of Northern Colorado to have the op-portunity to exhibit these works of art, which repre-sent a creative movement that is extremely lively and original within the arts of Mexico and the world,”said Robert Weis, an associ-ate professor of history at UNC who helped bring the exhibit to UNC.
One theme that seemed to surface between the art-ists' work was a penchant for the shapes of the human body. Another theme that was apparent in much of the art, whether abstract or surreal in nature, was very
brash and heavy use of lines and level of expres-siveness. The art is also available in a printed cata-logue at the Mari Michener Art Gallery. Weis said that the gallery is meant to re-ÁHFW� WKH� FRQWHPSRUDU\� YL-sions, interests, preoccu-pations and sensibilities of Mexico.
Weis also said that an exhibit like this is of par-ticular importance because there's a general lack of knowledge of current Mex-ican artists.
Kimberlee Ward, a hu-man services major who will be graduating in May, said she picked up on the personal nature of the art.
“It seems like pretty per-sonal art, and kind of thera-peutic for the artist because a lot of it seems like it has WR� GR�ZLWK� SHRSOH� ÀJKWLQJ�against demons and inner turmoil,” Ward said.
Joelle Romero| The Mirror“Underground,” a 2012 woodcutting from artist Julian Guerrero on display in the Mari Mi-chener Art Gallery. The exhibit will be up for the remainder of the semester.
The Mirror—Page 13November 25, 2013 A&E
Tessa [email protected]
The Moxi Theater hosted the second round of its third annual Battle of the Bands competition on Thursday Nov. 21. Local bands, The Burroughs and Disguise the Silence won the second round of the competition and are advancing to the ÀQDO�URXQG�ZLWK�URXQG�RQH�winners Duchovny and Sil-ver and Gold.
The four bands will compete for a chance to win $1,000 and the cover of the January 2014 issue of BandWagon Magazine.
The Burroughs is more VRXO�LQÁXHQFHG� DQG� 'LV-guise the Silence is heavier punk music.
Johnny Burroughs, lead singer, guitarist and name-sake of The Burroughs WDONHG� DERXW� KLV� LQÁXHQFHV�after the show.
“I really like Motown and soul,” said Burroughs. “Anything that makes me get that stank face going on.”
Though The Burroughs isn’t what some people would call a jam band, most of The Burroughs’ songs come from jam sessions.
“A lot of the songs that we’ve written have come from us just jamming to-gether,” said trumpet player and manager for The Bur-roughs, Craig Basarich. “We play a lot of covers
because we play weddings. So it was super stressful in the beginning because we ZHUH� WU\LQJ� WR� ÀJXUH� HDFK�other out. So Johnny just started playing this riff and that’s how ‘Poor Man’s Blues’ and ‘Tighter’ hap-pened.”
Disguise the Silence got their name from the lead singer and lead guitarist, Michael Olivier, who had come up with the name for the band when he was in a foster home as a kid.
“My roommates were all listening to the worst hip-hop I’ve ever heard in my life, like Flo Rida times 8,000. I was just like, ‘I am so tired of this,’” Oliv-ier said. “If you take away the production value, the dance-y beat and the aw-ful lyrics, you’ll just have an awkward silence with
people throwing money at it. So I was like I will never disguise the silence. I will get the hell off the stage if that’s ever what I’m do-ing.”
The way that Disguise the Silence comes up with their songs is typical of all bands: taking personal ex-periences and real life is-sues and turning them into lyrics for a song.
“Some of our songs are old tunes that I’ve had for awhile. I was doing things myself for a while and it sounded way different be-fore,” Olivier said. “Now I can write something and throw it at Zach and Dan. They make it 800 times better. A lot of the songs are ideas, things that I’m thinking about. The themes of our songs are a mixture of personal experience and
current issues. We talk a lot about gender roles and rape culture, atheism. We all have different views and we want to show that.”
The Burroughs won 93 points and Disguise the Silence won 92 in the competition. The judges, who were editors for Band-Wagon Magazine and also personal friends of Ely Corliss, the owner of the Moxi Theatre and publisher of BandWagon Magazine, scored the bands out of six categories: appearance, professionalism, original-ity, showmanship, presen-tation and overall sound.
If they win, Disguise the Silence would use the $1,000 prize money for merchandise and probably a van.
“We just got done re-FRUGLQJ� RXU� ÀUVW� OHJLW� UH-
cord. So we’ve got CDs to print and trips to make,” Olivier said. “We’re proba-bly going to be looking into some better transportation because we’re going on the road this summer.”
The Burroughs has yet to record an album, let alone an EP, so the prize money would go to that.
“If we win, we’ll prob-ably start recording and hopefully put out an EP,” Basarich said.
Basarich said that the band expects to get some help associate professor of music Jim White.
“Professor White who almost all of us have had for a professor at one point said that he would help us pro-duce an album. Professor White is probably the most professional you could get. He just really knows what he’s doing.”
7KH� ÀQDOH� RI� WKH� %DWWOH�of the Bands will be held at 8 p.m. on Dec. 7 at the Moxi Theater. People 21 and over will be able to at-tend the event for $5. Peo-ple younger than 21 will KDYH�WR�SD\�������7KH�ÀQDO�round will be at 8 p.m. on Dec. 7 at the Moxi Theater.
Local bands battle for prize money and regional stardom
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the ideas across to you with what’s happening on the stage, so you can understand based on ba-sic human ideas, and things that everybody does.”
Some themes from “La Ron-dine” are universal.
“As is the case with most op-eras, it’s about love, and that’s a timeless quality,” said actress
Rachel Gustafson. “(It has) to do with emotions of being unworthy, ultimately, and how that affects how we go through life. It’s inter-esting to see that even back when this was created. There really is nothing new under the sun. Those emotions and those feelings still have been around, and it’s just another way of expressing them.”
According to the production’s cast, opera as a mode of commu-
nication has its strengths.“You can obviously tell that
(in ‘La Rondine’) the love story is exacerbated,” Hanna said. “But it’s not that different from a soap opera, it’s just on a stage in front of you and you’ve got a trained musicians singing and playing, and it’s a different experience than you get sitting in front of a TV.”
Actress Claire Stark said she
agrees with Hanna.“Music is just so powerful, and
in opera especially, it has the abil-ity to portray such a wide range of emotions,” Stark said. “It ap-proaches this whole new world. It’s so important for people to feel that and to be a part of that.”
Logistically, the production has required the work of hun-dreds. Planning starting in early August, followed by set con-
struction in mid-October, which was carried out almost entirely by students in the UNC theatre department.
“We have probably a few hun-dred people working on the show to get it all working,” Hanna said. “All of our labor is done by IP students, which is a class. There’s about 40 in the cast, a crew of about 12 to 16, and then there’s a pit of 30.”
Courtesy of The BurroughsThe Burroughs performing at the Moxi Theater.
Courtesy Disguise the SilenceMichael Olivier, lead singer of Disguise the Silence, poses with extra arms.
Opera students sing in Italian for “La Rondine”
The Mirror—Page 14 November 25, 2013NEWS
Senate from page 6
graduating in December but requesting funding for a conference occurring next semester.
Typically, when stu-dents request conference funding for a semester that is not current, they must take a 25 percent cut in guaranteed funding.
Eastin determined that the students requesting funding for the spring con-ference could submit their request for this semester. The dilemma that arose was the setting of a prec-edent for future students to request funding from stu-dent fees even after they leave the university.
“This money is not ours to give away. This is stu-
dent money,” said student trustee Ben Fuller. “How long after graduation are you allowed to take stu-dent activity money? I see serious grievance potential for something like this.”
After over 20 minutes of discussion, a split sen-ate approved the allocation of conference grants.
“This is something that comes with the job. I un-derstand that, yes, it may be setting a precedent. These are two students WKDW�,�IHHO�ZLOO�WUXO\�EHQHÀW�from going to this clinic,” said Eastin.
,Q� WKH� ÀQDO� EXVLQHVV� RI�the night, senate members reviewed Resolution-001.
The resolution stems from a presentation given by community member
Peter Martin at senate’s last regular session. In his presentation, Martin urged senate members to support the expansion of cab ser-vices within the Greeley-Evans area.
“The reason why I support this resolution is mainly because it is not stating the name of a cab service, but it is just stat-ing that additional trans-portation will help our students,” Director of Uni-versity Relations Julie De-Jong said.
The resolution passed unanimously after brief discussion.
Student Senate will host WKHLU� ÀQDO� UHJXODU� VHVVLRQ�of the semester Dec. 4 at 5:30 p.m. in the University Center Council Room.
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International from page 9
“Everyone had some-thing to offer. Everyone had something to teach you,” Herzog said.
Bruce discussed her ex-periences studying in the Ukraine shortly after the end of the Communist oc-cupation. She shared ex-cerpts from a journal she kept while in the country to illustrate her experi-ence.
“I’m sick of the ghost of an outdated ideology,” Bruce wrote.
“Many Ukrainians har-bor nostalgia,” Bruce said, “Everyone had something to eat, they would say.” Bruce felt that many peo-ple ignored the “regime of violence and intimida-tion.”
International Education
Week heated up Wednes-day night with Salsa Night in the Longs Peak ball-room at the UC.
Larissa Paggioli, an in-structor of music at UNC, and her husband Joao Machado provided the in-struction for Salsa Night, leading students in three distinct styles of salsa dancing.
Students began with basic salsa steps before moving onto merengue, a slower form of salsa danc-ing, and eventually gradu-ating to bachata, a style of salsa dancing that origi-nated in the Dominican Republic.
Paggioli and Machado will be teaching salsa classes at John Galt Cof-fee Co. every other Fri-day throughout the spring
semester for $3 per les-son. The pair hopes to see more men attending les-sons to compensate for the large number of women currently attending.
On Thursday, Sarah Romano, an assistant pro-fessor of political science, led a round table discus-sion on water sanitation around the world. Mem-bers of the UNC commu-nity had a chance to at-tend an international trivia night at Crabtree Brewery Thursday night.
7KH� ÀQDO� HYHQW� RI� WKH�week was a screening of WKH� ����� ÀOP�� ´7KH� .LWH�Runner,” which tells the story of two young boys during a period of tumul-tuous social transition in the country of Afghani-stan.
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Sleeping and maintaining a healthy body weight are highly related, accord-ing to a recent study carried out by BYU professors.
Bruce Bailey, an exercise science pro-fessor, led the two-year project, and he VXPPHG� XS� VRPH� RI� WKH� PDLQ� ÀQGLQJV�from this correlation study.
“Having good sleep patterns makes you function better cognitively, physi-cally, emotionally and it seems that it possibly has an impact on body weight and body fat,” Bailey said.
Co-author, and also an exercise sci-ence professor at BYU, Larry Tucker dis-cussed the great need for Americans to live healthy lifestyles that will help them avoid becoming obese.
“We’re in an epidemic, and that’s just not loose use of that word,” Tucker said.
According to Tucker, BYU college students are strong, healthy individuals who can help prevent obesity by work-ing to set up consistent, quality sleep pat-terns.
Tucker made it clear that good diet and exercise were the best ways to maintain a healthy weight. However, the results from this study also show that sleep has a strong relationship with health as well.
“Literally every system of the body is affected by sleep, and when we don’t
JHW�VLJQLÀFDQW�VOHHS�RU�WKH�TXDOLW\�LV�QRW�good the body adapts and doesn’t per-form well,” Tucker said.
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The news release stated, “Bailey and his team also found there was a sweet spot for amount of sleep: Those who slept between 8 and 8.5 hours per night had the lowest body fat.”
Bailey also noted that even trying to sleep in on the weekends could throw off sleeping rhythms important for keeping the body running properly.
“The more we learn the more there is to learn,” Tucker said.
Hit snooze, drop pounds study says
Courtesy Rachel CalamusaGetting plenty of sleep has great health ben-
Last week in UNC sports:
This week in UNC sports:
Football:
Cal Poly-Northern Colorado
Cal Poly 0 21 7 14 — 42Northern Colorado 0 0 7 7 — 14
Individual Statistics
RushingCal Poly, Brown 18-101-1, Ivory 13-85, Jackson 2-32, Rulon 5-24, Umoh 5-15, Trosin 2-14, Hubbard 1-11, Mitchell 1-10, Nicholls 2-8, Petrey 1-8, Stanford 1-6, Johnston 4-6, Howe 1-0.UNC, Dennis 23-88, Stimphil 1-7, Jefferson 1-5, Rubalcaba 3-4, Red-dick 1-2, TEAM 1-(minus-1), Lobato 3-(minus-5).
PassingCal Poly, Brown 10-16-129-2-1, Trosin 2-2-30, Johnston 0-1.UNC, Lobato 22-34-206-1-4, Rub-alcaba 3-3-28.
ReceivingCal Poly, McMurtrey 3-48, Umoh 2-35-1, Albison 1-22-1, Petrey 1-22, Ivory 3-19, Rulon 2-13.UNC, Wilbers 7-67, Jefferson 5-60-1, Stimphil 6-54, Miller 4-28, Leslie 1-19, Dennis 2-6.
Team Statistics
First DownsRush-YardsAtt.-YardsPass YardsTotal OffenseFumbles-LostInterceptedSacks-YardsPen.-YardsPunts-YardsThird DownsFourth DownsTime of Poss.
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@UNCMirrorsports The Mirror—Page 15SPORTSSPORTSSPORTSNovember 25, 2013
Men’s Basketball:vs. Bethune-Cookman.7 p.m. Saturday.Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion.vs. Prarie View.2 p.m. Sunday.Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion.Women’s Basketball:at Texas-El Paso.7 p.m. Wednesday.El Paso, Texas.Volleyball:Big Sky Championship Tournament.Friday-Saturday.Portland, Ore.
Cross-state takedown
Jacob [email protected]
The UNC women’s basketball team ended Adams State’s perfect season Wednesday night at Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion, winning 58-49 over the NCAA Division II Grizzlies (4-1).
Junior center Stepha-nie Lee led the University of Northern Colorado (2-2) with 22 points on the evening, but was the only Bear to score in double ÀJXUHV� GXULQJ� WKH� ORZ�scoring contest.
/HH� DOVR� ÀQLVKHG�ZLWK�eight rebounds, second on the team to junior guard Lindsay Mallon, and said that bringing in rebounds was a key for her club, which outrebounded Ad-ams State 41-23.
“We’ve really had to See Basketball on page 16
Football finished off
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The UNC wrestling team defeated Colorado Mesa 30-22 Sunday at Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion in a dual that consisted of injuries, pins and even a forfeit.
Undefeated sophomore 125-pounder Trey An-drews set an positive tone IRU� WKH� GXDO� ZLWK� D� ÀUVW�period pin against Mesa’s freshman Erick Vargas.
Following Andrews’ pin were three more. The ÀUVW� FDPH� IURP� VRSKR-more 149-pounder Beau Roberts who pinned Me-sa’s junior James Marti-QH]�GXULQJ�WKH�ÀUVW�SHULRG�
The second came from last week’s Western Wres-tling Conference wres-tler of the week, junior 157-pounder Mitchell
Polkowske, who pinned Mesa’s Trevor Donarski 26 seconds into the third period to remain unde-feated this season.
Polkowske put his victory in the context of UNC’s victory.
“It felt good to go out there and dominate and get a good win,” Polkowske said. “It al-ZD\V� IHHOV� JRRG� WR�ÀQLVK�the match with a pin and kind of help the team out as much as I can,” he con-tinued.
The University of 1RUWKHUQ� &RORUDGR·V� À-nal pin came from junior 184-pounder Nick Bayer against Mesa’s Scott Verner.
Like Andrews and Roberts, Bayer’s pin FDPH� ZLWKLQ� WKH� ÀUVW� SH-riod. This wasn’t Bayer’s ÀUVW�WLPH�GHIHDWLQJ�9HUQHU�
as the two competed last weekend at the Old Chi-cago Open.
“If you’ve already wrestled the person and
played against the team you know what their ten-dencies are going to be, what moves they’re going to go to and that helps but
it didn’t change how I was going to wrestle,” Bayer said.
Bayer also said his hard See Wrestling on page 17
Michael [email protected]
UNC football’s season of futility ended with a thud Saturday afternoon at Nottingham Field as the Bears lost to Cal Poly �������ÀQLVKLQJ� WKH������campaign with an 11-game losing streak.
The University of Northern Colorado (1-11, 0-8 Big Sky) was unable to stop the Mustangs’ option-based offense, leading to 307 yards for Cal Poly (6-6, 5-3) on 59 carries.
“All week—we even practiced without a ball—we were just practicing our assignments and they made some plays, some-times we missed our as-signment and that’s a big thing with this offense,” said senior defensive line-man Gavin Miller, who
ÀQLVKHG� WKH�game with 10 tackles and a fum-ble recov-ery.
U N C control led the ball for 11 minutes, ��� VHFRQGV� RI� WKH� ÀUVW�quarter but had nothing to show for it on the score-board.
In the second and third quarters, Cal Poly was able to keep the ball with its option offense and drive for scores, making WKH�ÀQDO� VWDQ]D�D� IRUPDO-ity.
“You’ve got to play team football,” he said. “We had the plan to try WR�NHHS�WKHP�RII�WKH�ÀHOG�because when they get it, they keep the ball for a long time. As you see, they go for it See Football on page 17
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Michaela CrossJunior center Stephanie Lee struggles to keep her pivot foot in UNC’s 58-49 win over Adams State Wednesday night at Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion. Lee scored 22 points.
Michaela Cross | The MirrorUNC 197-pounder Brian Macchione and Colorado Mesa’s Paco Retana !ght for control in their match Sunday at Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion. Retana won the match 6-0 but the Bears won the event 30-22.
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Men’s hoops falls at CSU in intrastate battleSamantha [email protected]
The beginning of any season is used to test the waters and see how practice translates to game play. What the UNC men’s bas-ketball team needs after Friday’s game against Colorado State Uni-versity Friday is a second chance.
The University of Northern Colorado (2-2) had no second-chance points in the 72-65 loss, VQDJJLQJ� RQO\� ÀYH� RIIHQVLYH�rebounds, compared to an in-experienced CSU team (3-2) that grabbed 15, translating into 18 points. The Bears were out-rebounded 41-26. UNC head coach B.J. Hill said he expected the Rams to excel on the glass.
“I knew we were going to be
walking into a hornet’s nest, so to speak, on the boards because they were beaten by like 20 on the boards by UTEP,” Hill said. “Know-ing Coach (Larry) Eu-stachy since I played in college, I knew what we were going to be in for. We didn’t have a lot of prep time to emphasize that and it hurt us. I can’t fault our guys.”
Though the team led 35-32 at half, one problem the team was unable to overcome was the ad-justment to the new hand-check rule. By the end of the game, se-
nior center Connor Osborne, ju-nior forward Dominque Lee and junior forward Tim Huskisson all fouled out. Huskisson had only two minutes of playing time in the ÀUVW� KDOI� WR�PDWFK� WKH� WZR� IRXOV�called against him in that time.
“It’s something I think no one is used to yet,” junior guard Tevin Svihovec said. “It seems like it’s different every game.”
Svihovec led the team with 20 SRLQWV��PDNLQJ���RI����ÀHOG�JRDO�attempts. But the top scorer on the night was CSU forward J.J. Avila, who had 28 points for the Rams, sinking all 10 of his shots from the foul line.
“We knew he was a good tal-ent,” Svihovec said. “He’s got great body control and touch DURXQG�WKH�ULP��+H�ZDV�GHÀQLWHO\�
a problem. He’s a big body too, so he kind of backed us down some-times.”
The only two other Bears who scored in the double digits were sophomore forward Derrick Barden and junior guard Corey Spence. Each had 11 points and Spence had six assists. In the sec-ond half, Spence sank a 3-pointer, a move unusual for the Casper College transfer.
“That’s not my game, it’s something I need to work on,” Spence said. “It just happened so I went with the feeling of it.”
Spence’s basket gave UNC a 62-61 lead, the last time they’d be ahead the rest of the night. CSU’s Daniel Bejarano made two free throws after Barden was called for a foul, giving the Rams the
advantage back.While the losses to New Mexi-
co State and CSU are detrimental to the Bears’ record, Hill said he was not worried about the impact the two losses will have on his team’s season overall.
“They’ve grown a lot since last year,” Hill said. “These three games, the three out of the four we’ve played so far, would have been losses last year by a lost greater amount. They’ve had a lot of growth.”
Volleyball from page 1
it would motivate them. We needed to focus on what we had at hand, but that was a huge relief for the coaching staff knowing it was in our hands.”
The fourth set went to NAU, but the Bears kept themselves in the game, coming back from a 20-11 GHÀFLW�LQ�WKDW�VHW��7KH�ÀQDO�score of the fourth set end-ed up being 25-23, but the 12-5 UNC run translated ZHOO� LQWR� WKH�ÀQDO� VHW�ZLWK�the momentum in UNC’s favor.
“It was all about mo-mentum and that second half of the fourth game we won,” Oates said. “We were playing well late in fourth set, which was more important. We were playing aggressive going into the ÀIWK�VHW�µ
7KH�%HDUV�ZRQ� WKH� ÀUVW�DQG� ÀQDO� VHWV� ZLWK� VFRUHV�of 25-17 and 15-13, respec-tively. NAU took sets two and three by scores of 25-���DQG��������7KH�ÀUVW�WLPH�the two teams faced each other this season, the out-come was nearly identical
as UNC won it in ÀYH��ZKLFK�senior out-side hit-ter Alyssa W i l s o n said was beneficial
in preparing for Saturday’s match.
“I felt more prepared just because I remembered their players,” Wilson said. “I remembered what shots they hit and just previously playing them helped us out a ton.”
The defensive efforts and rotations made the difference in the game. Each team had more than 90 digs. UNC sophomore outside hitter Kendra Cun-nigham and NAU’s Tranna Henry both had 25 digs in the match. UNC’s senior libero Merideth Johnson had the second most of the match with 20.
“Neither team played well offensively,” Oates said. “Both teams had low hitting percentages. I thought we were passive at times, but so were they. So it just kind of turned into
that kind of match with a lot of tips and roll shots and keeping the ball in play, so whoever was going to take a big swing was going to win the rally and which-ever team’s defense kept the team in long enough to win that rally was really the battle.”
Junior middle blocker Andrea Spaustat made her mark in across the match with 13 kills, six aces, eight digs and two solo blocks.
“She’s a very well-rounded player,” Oates said. “I thought that rota-tion where she was serving may have been the differ-ence.”
As Saturday was senior night, the match was bound to be emotional regardless of the outcome, but for the three seniors, the regular season couldn’t have ended on a better note.
Senior middle blocker Donne’ Elcock started for WKH� ÀUVW� WLPH� LQ� KHU� FDUHHU�and had a career-high eight kills in the match, accom-panied by two blocks.
“It’s just an amazing feeling playing at Butler for the last time,” she said.
“Not knowing the situation but not worrying about it, just giving our all, regard-less of the outcome.”
The Bears will face the No. 3 seed, Idaho State Fri-day in Portland, Ore. in the ÀUVW� URXQG� RI� WKH� %LJ� 6N\�Championship. The Ben-gals swept the Bears in the two matchups in the regular season. Last year, the Bears were 0-2 against Idaho State before defeating them for the conference title.
“The tournament is all about who plays the best in those two days and we say that every year,” Oates said. “And three of the last four years that’s gone in our fa-vor. It comes down to those two days and it will come down to that again.”
Volleyball to play host Portland State
Mike Baldino | The MirrorUNC junior middle blocker Andrea Spaustat digs the ball dur-ing Saturday’s playo!-berth-clinching victory over Northern Arizona at Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion. Spaustat "nished the match with 13 kills and eight digs.
Tevin Svihovec
Bethune-Cookman (2-3)7 p.m. SaturdayButler-Hancock Sports Pavilion
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Big Sky TournamentPortland, Ore.
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on fourth down. We gave up too many big plays on defense in the run game and we had too many turn-overs.”
All of those turnovers came in the form of inter-ceptions, which have been a problem for UNC all season long. Senior quarterback Seth Lobato had two tipped passes caught by Mustang GHIHQGHUV� LQ� WKH� ÀUVW� KDOI�and threw two more inter-ceptions after halftime.
“No question, it’s tough to go out like that,” Lobato said. “I felt like I let my team down a little bit. They just made some plays and we weren’t able to make enough.”
Lobato did complete 35-of-37 passes Saturday for 234 yards and a fourth-
quarter touchdown to senior receiver Will Jefferson Jr.
But Cal Poly immediate-ly countered with a 94-yard touchdown by defensive back Alex Hubbard on the ensuing kickoff, stretching the Mustang lead back to 28 points.
The Bears’ only other score came on an intercep-tion by junior defensive back Courtney Hall, who caught Chris Brown’s er-rant throw and took it back 48 yards to cut UNC’s GHÀFLW�WR����SRLQWV�PLGZD\�through the third quarter.
“The formation they gave us was a pretty good key that I’ve been prac-ticing all week,” he said. “Coach Collins always told me to know my keys—if I read my keys, I’d make a play. The key they gave me was a pass block and I
was supposed to be over the top of everything and I just came down and made a play for the team.”
Despite the interception, Brown and running back Akaninyene Umoh were the offensive stars for Cal Poly. %URZQ� UDQ� IRU� ���� \DUGV�DQG� WKUHZ� IRU� ���� ZKLOH�engineering the option, fac-toring in on 3 touchdowns ��� UXVKLQJ��� 8PRK� VFRUHG�three touchdowns of his own, two rushing and one receiving.
Because it was the last game of the Bears’ season, the 24 seniors on UNC’s roster were honored before the game. Collins said he appreciates each of them, particularly because of their loyalty.
“It’s a good group of kids, man,” he said. “Wish we could have gave them
more. These are the guys that stuck with us when we got here. New staff, new change, new turnover and the guys that were the origi-nal crew stuck with us and the ones that were not here that we brought in believed in us.”
Miller said he was glad to get his chance as a senior.
´7KLV� LV� P\� ÀIWK� VHQLRU�GD\�,·YH�VHHQ�DQG�ÀQDOO\� LW�was mine so I just wanted to go out with a memory,” Miller said.
Lobato made a statement supporting the Bears that will follow him and the se-nior class.
“I know they’re going to come back and work hard,” he said. “I promise you this: they’re going to come back next year and they’re going to be a team to reckon with for sure.”
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work is paying off.“I’ve been working hard
over the last couple of weeks and it feels good to see yourself improve,” he said.
Head coach Ben Cher-rington praised Bayer’s work ethic, as well.
“Nick did great. The move he pinned his guy with he just learned last week,” Cherrington said. “He’s a guy that’s stepped up as a leader this year. I would say he’s our outright team captain and he’s do-ing the right things in the room to get better and its showing on the mat.
“His shape is good. He’s beating guys he should beat and in the coming weeks he’s going to have some tougher and tougher competition so we’ll see how he does against those guys, you know? But I would guess that he’ll wrestle everybody tough.”
Though Cherrington showed pride in some, he also said that he wasn’t en-tirely impressed with how the Bears competed.
“It wasn’t very good at all,” he said. “We had some individual performances from guys I expected to do well. Nick, Mitchell and Trey went out there and took care of business.”
Apart from the victo-ries came a forfeit and an injury.
The Bears were award-ed six points when Mesa IRUIHLWHG� LWV� ����SRXQG�match.
The last two matches of the dual were won by in-jury default.
UNC freshman ����SRXQGHU� %ULDQ� 0DF-chione suffered a left shoulder injury during the second period of his match
a g a i n s t M a v e r -icks junior Paco Re-tana. Mesa was then a w a r d e d six points, w h i c h b r o u g h t the team score to 24-22, Northern Colorado.
Cherrington said Mac-chione’s injury is a big loss for the team but his team must press on.
“We’re going to have to look at our roster and have some individual con-versations with people and VHH�LI�ZH�FDQ�VKXIÁH�VRPH�weights, maybe, and see who we can replace him with essentially,” Cher-rington said. “But bottom line we gotta move for-ward.”
The second injury came after UNC junior 285-pounder Henry Chiri-no performed a takedown on Mesa’s junior Jordan Passehl. Chirino also de-feated Passehl last week-end at The Old Chicago Open.
Cherrington said his in-tent was not to injure but he recognizes injury is part of the sport.
“It’s unfortunate any time anyone gets hurt, re-gardless of if it’s my guy or another guy,” Cherrington said. “But you can’t let it bother you as a coach or a wrestler because it’s going to happen. You gotta move forward in this sport and accept things.”
Wrestling wins but not without cost
Mike Baldino | The MirrorUNC senior running back Tromaine Dennis runs to space in Saturday’s 42-14 loss to Cal Poly at Nottingham Field. Dennis !n-ished with 88 yards on 23 carries in his !nal game as a Bear.
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Seniors from volleyball, football sent off under starkly different circumstances
Saturday the UNC foot-
ball and volleyball teams
bid farewell to 27 seniors in
quite different ways.
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lost a 42-14 affair to Cal
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that as a senior,” Lobato
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some plays and we weren’t
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A few hours after UNC’s
football season came to a
close, the volleyball team
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Wilson and Johnson
were both named to the
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son was also named to the
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Team. This season, Elcock
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team effort and without my
teammates I couldn’t be
where I am,” Elcock said.
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loss, which meant the
Bears’ season will continue.
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more enjoyable that we’re
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³� Samantha Fox is a graduate student of sociol-ogy and sports reporter and former sports editor of The Mirror. She can be reached via [email protected]
By Samantha FoxFox Tales
The Mirror—Page 19November 25, 2013 SPORTS
Football team’s absence during national anthem more than mere oversight
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³Alex Kurschner is a soph-omore journalism major with an emphasis in telecommunications he can be contacted via email at [email protected].
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The Mirror—Page 20 November 25, 2013SPORTS
AquaBears eighth at MizzouSta! [email protected]
UNC swimming and diving completed its fall schedule with an eighth-SODFH�ÀQLVK�DW� WKH����WHDP�Mizzou Invitational Satur-day in Columbia, Mo.
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The University of North-HUQ�&RORUDGR�FRPSLOHG�����points over the course of the three-day tournament while the champion Razor-backs posted 809.
Leading the way for the AquaBears was senior Courtney Van Oost, who set a new school record for the ����\DUG� EUHDVWVWURNH�� 6KH�ÀQLVKHG�LQ�WZR�PLQXWHV������seconds, three tenths of a
second fast-er than the p r e v i o u s record held by Nan Liu LQ������
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Sophomore Elle Gaw-ronska and junior Melissa 7LOOPDQ� ÀQLVKHG� VHFRQG�DQG�WKLUG�LQ�WKH�´'µ�ÀQDO�RI�WKH�����EDFN��ZKLFK� WUDQV-ODWHG�WR���WK�DQG���WK�SODFH�overall in the event.
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focus in practice on boxing out so I think that’s what ZH�DOO�GLG��ÀQG�D�ERG\�ER[�out and go get the ball,” Lee said.
The Grizzlies kept the pace in their favor, running multiple screens each pos-session and often waiting until the waning seconds of the shot clock to make an attempt at the basket. UNC head coach Jaime White gave credit to Adams State’s disciplined offense.
“They set a lot of good screens, they’re well coached,” White said. “They run their stuff, they do a good job. I didn’t feel like we were talking as much as we needed to.”
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ward Amy Kidner said that when the Bears were able to gain of-fensive mo-mentum, it was largely
because of their defense.´,� WKLQN� LW� ZDV� GHÀ-
nitely a change in our de-fense,” she said. “We really stepped it up and we put a lot more pressure on. That was our focus. A lot of the time you play a good defense that generates of-fense.”
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Amy Kidner
The Mirror—Page 21November 25, 2013 NEWS
Elaina WangUWIRE
Ethnic minorities are less likely to receive ade-quate treatment for anxiety disorders than non-minori-ties, according to the results of a new study from Brown University researchers.
The researchers evalu-ated a number of different factors, such as the income and education level of pa-tients receiving treatment for anxiety, concluding that minority patients received worse anxiety treatment than non-minority patients even after controlling for other related variables.
“Minority status was a unique factor. It wasn’t about income. It wasn’t about educational level. It wasn’t insurance,” said Risa Weisberg, associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior, and one of
the study’s lead authors.In fact, patients in the
lower income brackets ac-tually got better treatment for their anxiety, she added.
“Being a minority mem-ber made you less likely to get good therapy, but being in low income made you more likely to get good therapy,” Weisberg said.
The disparity in ad-equate treatment along ethno-racial lines is a phe-nomenon. “I would think health care policy makers would want to attend to without delay,” wrote Bos-ton University Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry David Barlow, who was not involved with the study, in an email to The Herald.
As to why minorities were less likely to receive adequate treatment, “Com-munity attitude is part of it, trust of the system is part of it,” said Ethan Moitra, as-
sistant professor of psychi-atry and human behavior at the Alpert Medical School and one of the paper’s co-authors.
Research has also shown that mental health providers often approach decision-making differently depend-ing on the patient’s back-ground, he added.
Over the course of the study, the researchers ob-served an increase in the overall number of patients receiving adequate treat-ment for anxiety.
But this increase is de-ceiving, Weisberg said, adding that it does not re-ÁHFW�D�WUXH�ULVH�LQ�WKH�OHYHO�of adequate treatment but is instead due to a large num-ber of patients trying treat-ment for a short period of time.
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lack of material available on these standards.
“For the most part, SHRSOH� LQ� WKH� ÀHOG� UHDOO\�haven’t taken the time to GHÀQH� WKHVH� WUHDWPHQWV�µ�Moitra said. “Ultimately, the priority for treatments may vary depending on the individual and the severity of their needs.”
The study based treat-ment adequacy on two factors — medication and therapy.
Patients had to be taking a medication known to be effective for an anxiety dis-order, Weisberg said. This drug had to be taken “at a GRVH�WKDW�H[SHUWV�LQ�WKH�ÀHOG�would consider adequate” and “consecutively for at least eight weeks.”
In addition to medica-tion, the quality of patients’ therapy sessions was also taken into account. “Just because somebody’s doing
some sort of behavioral or cognitive technique doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to be quality treatment,” Moitra said. “We really got YHU\�VSHFLÀF�DV�WR�ZKDW�ZDV�going on inside of these treatment sessions,” he added.
“The good news of the study is that most patients eventually received poten-tially adequate treatment for their disorders,” wrote Boston University Profes-sor of Psychology Stefan Hofmann, who was not in-volved in the study, in an email to The Herald.
“The bad news is that cognitive behavioral thera-py, the most cost-effective treatment — especially in the long term — was rarely provided,” Hofmann wrote. Cognitive behavioral ther-apy employs talk therapy sessions, rather than drug regimens, to address behav-
ior and mood disorders like anxiety.
The study was a “natu-ralistic, observational study where we collected infor-mation about patients’ anx-iety symptoms, treatment and functioning, without us intervening on any of those factors,” Weisberg said.
Unlike many other ob-servational studies per-formed in a medical con-text, this study looks “at people longitudinally, and that’s rarely been done in these naturalistic treatment studies before,” she added.
Because the study’s re-sults come from “a sample of convenience” — with respondents surveyed ex-clusively in New England and in a self-selecting man-ner — it is unclear if these results could be generalized to the entire population of primary care patients, Weisberg added.
Brown University study finds racial discrepancies in medical treatment of anxiety
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COLUMN—There is a need to be wary of Obama assasination
Michaela Cross | The MirrorFrom left: Communication major Chris Heiser, recreation and tourism major Nick Loveridge and recreation and tourism major Zach Peterson show o! their awards from the Big Man on Campus event on Wednesday at the Lindou Auditorium.
Measure of a man
Leah MulroneyUWire
American history is rich and full of amazing stories.
It has told the tales of many triumphs in the face of adversity, DQG� SURGXFHG� PDQ\� ÀJXUHV� WR�which we look for the precedent of structure in our society.
American history is meant to induce a feeling of pride and pa-triotism in its citizens, and thus leaves little room for question based on the information we are given.
What many of us tend to over-look, however, is the existence of the metaphorical “other side of the story.”
:H� UHDG� DERXW� VLJQLÀFDQW�events of the past in books and watch current events on the tele-vision, never questioning what we are told because the media has become our sole source of infor-mation.
That source is regulated by anybody who can get into a po-sition of power, or anybody with the means to control those in
power.Threats, payoffs and scare tac-
WLFV�DUH�XVHG�WR�VWLÁH�YRLFHV�HYHU\�day in an attempt to shield the general public from a less than perfect picture of our nation.
If anybody wants to hide facts from the general public, all they would have to do is keep their mouth shut and silence those who are not willing to do so.
Great leaders, thinkers and overall visionaries have been gunned down at the expense of the alternative knowledge that they possessed by people who jump from unknown in society to household name once the deed is done.
Have we not taken the time to wonder where these people have come from? Who would want these extraordinary thinkers dead?
We have lost President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. to American as-sassins at the peak of their pro-gressive mission.
With credit to position, status, talent and drive, these men had
the necessary means to change American society in a radical way. As progress occurred, it is highly likely that a third party was watching, hoping for their chance to end the movements.
Government conspiracy has been speculated about the death of JFK for decades now, with blame targeted towards the FBI, CIA, or perhaps outside forces; Cuba or the Soviet Union.
The notion that his death may have been plotted within the walls of the government buildings in our beloved land of the free cer-tainly compromises the security that we are intended to feel under the government’s watchful eye.
Could the government have conspired against the very man who lead the nation through the Civil Rights Movement from the non-minority side?
A leader in a movement that was going to change our nation forever and bring it one step closer to a fair and just place to live, JFK’s work paired with that of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. to set the tone for a whirl-
wind of change.As an upper-class white male
whose family name has been beloved in America for years, it seems unlikely that Kennedy would have played a large role in the Black Power and Equality movement.
What we fail to realize is that he provided the forum for the leaders of the movement by sup-porting the change with no wish to silence the voices with the power to change the moral stand-point of the entire country.
As an integral piece of the puzzle at a time when many gov-HUQPHQW�RIÀFLDOV�ZLVKHG� WR�NHHS�segregation and oppression of the minorities prevalent in America, Kennedy painted the target on his own back for those with the will to murder to maintain the prejudi-cial status quo.
His assassin, Lee Harvey Os-wald, maintained his innocence until the moment he was shot down in Dallas, leaving an open space to question if somebody suspected that he would bring the curtain up on the entire plot.
As a nation, we have accepted the death of JFK as a tragic crime carried out by a vicious citizen.
The need to question this crime and many others is necessary now more than ever, as a new human rights campaign for gay marriage has been occurring over the past decade.
Our President supports this movement just as Kennedy sup-ported civil rights, and the back-lash he has taken by citizens and RWKHU� JRYHUQPHQW� RIÀFLDOV� KDV�left him as an open target to those wishing to stop the ongoing ac-ceptance and legal recognition of marital unions between people of the same gender in our country.
If we do not let ourselves be open to the possibility that Obama’s acceptance has put him in harm’s way, we will step a little bit closer to the downfall of equality and the downfall of de-mocracy.
We are the change we wish to see, and we cannot let ourselves be conspired against.
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