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September 29, 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS
“EVER SINCE THEN, COLORADO HAS DONE A POORER AND POORER JOB OF FUNDING WHAT IT NEEDS TO FUND—IN PARTICULAR, HIGHER EDUCATION.”
“MAYBE ONE DAY I’LL BE LIKE THEM AND HAVE SOMETHING HANGING IN A GALLERY. IT’S MOTIVATIONAL AND INSPIRATIONAL.”
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Dear Mirror Sta! and Editor,
My name is Amanda Jones and I was featured in "e Mirror this week withthe article “First Under-graduate Teacher Teaches Poetry.”
A#er readingthe article I was disap-pointed by the way some of the items were portrayed and how some of the things I said were taken out of context.
I received your informa-tion from Emily Goggins, who thought it would be agood idea for me to let you know what I found wrong with the article. Ihave also Cc’d all of my advisers to this e-mail so they can also see thechanges I purpose. I know the article has already been published, but Ifeel like some of the details misrepresent the project and I would liketo set the record straight.
Please refer to the document I attached to this email, which details the$awed areas I noticed. "e %rst bullet is the direct quotation from thearticle as it appears on the UNC Mirror website, and the indented bulletrefers to my comments
about that section."ank you for your
time. I hope to hear from you soon.
“Amanda Jones, a senior English education major, is the !rst undergraduate stu-dent at UNC hired to teach an honors poetry course for the fall semester.”
I was never hired - I do not work for UNC, I am a TA on the class so I can access Blackboard, but I am not an employee and I did make this clear in the interview.
“In order to get the ball rolling, Amanda had to go through the steps any profes-sor has to in order to start teaching, which means get-ting her syllabus approved by the bureau of education.”
I never once said any-thing I was creating was getting approved through the Bureau of Education. However, I did have to get my syllabus approved by the Honors Program Cur-riculum Committee, which I did say in the interview.
“Originally designed to be a co-teaching class, Jones was partnered with Lisa Zim-merman. "e two were to
split the lecturing time be-tween themselves. Zimmer-man was unable to ful!ll her part of teaching the class due to scheduling con$icts, leaving the responsibility of the class to Jones.”
Lisa Zimmerman is my adviser who is a professor at UNC and has helped me with the development of my course. "is sections makes it sound like she is a fellow student and that she backed out on her respon-sibility, which is not at all what happened.
“Amanda not only is using this class as her honors the-sis, but it using this class as a research assignment.”
"is course is not a “research assignment”—the development of my cur-riculum, the implementa-tion of the course, and the research that comes out of the course is my thesis in its entirety, which I have been working on for almost 2 and a half years. “"e college of Humanities and Social Sciences at UNC is designed for students to participate in research opportunities that promote growth in areas of study. Normally these programs
are centered around science research projects, but they were so impressed with Amanda’s idea that they awarded her a grant for the study.”
I have no idea where the college of Humanities and Social Sciences came from, but I was explicit when I said the O&ce of Under-graduate Research funds some student’s research on campus and that I was the recipient of a summer stipend this year (2014) for my research work.
What I said in the interview, was that many of these stipends go to projects in the sciences, thus making my project a rarity, since it is not a science project.
“Once the class started, Amanda asked the class if they were willing to sign a contract allowing them to be a part of her research.”
"e word “contract” implies that the students are obligated to be in the research. Instead, this should say a consent form, which allows students to back out of the research at any time without a!ecting their course grade. "is is a big deal when it comes to
the Internal Review Board process that I went through to get approval to work with these human subjects, only upon receiving their informed consent.
“I don’t care what grade or subject that I’m teaching, I just want to work with the kids at di%cult times of their adolescence,” Jones said. “Anyone who has the drive, they have every right to teach.”
"is quotation was taken completely out of context. "e interviewer asked me if I would be willing to work with other students who might have similar ambi-tions for teaching at the college level, to which I replied something along the lines of anyone who has the drive and dedication should not be afraid to try, but they need to realize how much time and e!ort goes into the process.
I know for a fact I never said they have every right to teach, because I do not believe that. Teachers need to be trained in critical pedagogy and need to practice their cra# for years to become expert teachers.
We never have the right to teach, instead we have a calling to teach, and we
have the right to try and be the best teachers we can be.
As a %nal note, I noticed several major typos—such as the capitalization of high school, the lack of capital-ization of the word Hon-ors—in reference to the Honors Program at UNC, a miss-match of tense throughout, and at least one location that does not make sense (Each student is remained anonymous).
Overall, I was disap-pointed by the prose, which was heavily $awed and lacked structure.
I did notice that my interviewer did not record the interview and just took notes, which would be %ne had he gotten the facts correct.
While I am excited to have my project published so everyone can see the opportunities presented to college students at UNC, I am just frustrated because I feel like this article misrep-resents some key aspects of the project and what I am trying to accomplish as an educator.
—Amanda Jones is a senior English education major. "is letter has been published as is. Any letters to the editor can be sent to [email protected].
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In hopes of swaying the student vote, Colorado’s candidates for the o!ce of governor gathered Sept. 17 in the Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion to discuss their views on state politics.
Although the gubernato-rial forerunners—Demo-cratic incumbent Governor John Hickenlooper and his Republican opponent Bob Beauprez—did not attend, the debate featured Libertarian Matthew Hess, Green Party candidate Harry Hempy, Independent candidate Marcus Giavanni and Independent candidate Susan Wolfrey.
Each of the third party candidates had an op-portunity to present their viewpoints, which fell somewhere in the middle of the le"-right spectrum.
Hess repeated a typically Libertarian point of view throughout the debate, ad-vocating for a government that stays on the sidelines.
His website displays the Libertarian party slogan, “Minimum government, maximum freedom.”
“I want to leave you alone,” Hess said.
Hempy, in contrast, said he favors an active govern-ment.
While the government has focused on business, Hempy said that the next four years need to be about the people.
He said he hopes to raise wages and revamp the #s-cal policies in the state.
Both independent candi-dates had #nancially-based platforms.
Giavanni said he aims for Colorado to control the buying and selling of all its goods and services through a strategy called social global optimization, which gives more control over economics for smaller enti-ties like state governments compared to the federal government.
$e candidates also spoke extensively on the status of higher education.
One of the greatest is-sues, according to Hempy, is the 1992 Taxpayer Bill of Rights.
“Ever since then, Colo-rado has done a poorer and poorer job of funding what it needs to fund—in par-ticular higher education,” Hempy said.
Since the TABOR went into e%ect, he said, support has plummeted for higher education.
$e TABOR’s policy of needing a two-thirds majority vote for educa-tion reform makes reform nearly impossible in the current bipartisan system, he said. Another major topic of the debate was the growing problem of homelessness.
Two of the candidates, Wolfrey and Giavanni, shared their personal stories of having been homeless.
Wolfrey and her two children spent two months
in a homeless shelter earlier this year. $e system, Wol-frey said, is a joke.
“$ere simply are not enough jobs because our monetary system creates this musical chairs game,” she said.
Each time a chair disap-pears, those still in the game #ght each other for what’s le".
“Our monetary system is killing us,” Wolfrey said.
Giavanni has also spent time without a home in Denver: He lived in his car, he said, and would not accept charity because he feels it does not encourage the homeless to pull them-selves out of their situation.
Giavanni also spent time in $e Samaritan House Homeless Shelter, a Catholic-sponsored home-less shelter in the city. It hardly helped, he said.
“It’s broken,” he said. “$ey want to break fami-lies up. $ey don’t want you to work. It was the most degrading thing I ever went through in my entire life.”
Giavanni said shelters like $e Samaritan House do not encourage the homeless to do anything but accept their govern-ment handouts.
“It was nice that they shared their personal stories and how it's a%ected their views about it,” said Allison Lenart, a junior political science major.
“I liked what [Giavanni]See Debate on page 22
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GUBERNATORIAL DEBATE OVER COLORADO’S FATE “No use stopping there.”
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Every year, a new group of international college stu-dents are welcomed to study at the University of Northern Colorado for either a semester or a whole year. Each stu-dent comes with a unique major, and a majority of them are in their ! nal years of schooling.
Once the students arrive, they set up a new home in the dorms or alternate university housing. On top of classes and social life, each international student has the option to participate in the International Ambassadors Program at UNC.
" is program is designed to give international students an American mentor who wants to make their experi-ence in the United States a life-changing one. Tyler Sabin, a German sophomore business major and the student support coordinator for the International Ambassadors Program, said he makes sure the students are being fully supported by their mentors at UNC. Participants in
the program can get involved with volunteer projects, o# -campus trips and di# erent events on campus. " e pro-gram meets the ! rst Tuesday of every month and is always looking for new ambassadors to come and help out, Sabin said.
"I enjoy meeting these students, and I create friend-ships that last—even when they're gone," said Rachel Sly, a sophomore sociology major. Sly said that she enjoys going on the trips that are o# ered and that she is happy there are so many opportunities to participate. When she can, Sly said she likes o# ering the students to come to her home to hang out and learn about each other's culture.
"" ey break a lot of negative stereotypes you hear about in their countries. Just by being around them, it's like vis-iting their culture because of what they have to o# er," said Alyssa Khan, a junior business major and an ambassador involved in the program.
Sabin, who is in charge of coordinating the program's events, said he regularly sends out surveys asking about the program's success and monitors how the international
students feel about their mentors. Many international students have expressed their joy for going on the trips that are o# ered. " e next trip involves attending a Rapids game in Denver.
Paulo Sincovich, who is studying ! nance at the gradu-ate level, is an international student who hails from Italy. Sincovich said he is enjoying his time in the United States, especially at UNC.
"" e campus is very beautiful, but the best thing for me are the ambassadors,” he said. “Someone that helps you and shows you how it works here is great."
Sincovich said he was pleasantly surprised to see that students at UNC are nice and friendly. Sincovich said he noticed there is a lot of freedom in the United States, Sincovich said. He also said that it was a change for him, but a change that he appreciates.
" e next International Ambassadors Program meet-ing will take place on Oct. 7. To become an ambassador, undergraduate and graduate students can apply athttp://tinyurl.com/npubooh.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS FIND A HOME AT UNC
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! e University of Northern Colorado will be hosting its annual Community Fest on campus from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. this Sat-urday, just west of Michener Library next to Nottingham Field.
Community Fest provides students with many opportunities for hands-on learning experiences and interactive demonstra-tions set up by UNC's departments and student clubs.
Businesses and organizations from the Greeley community will also participate in the event.
According to Community Fest’s website, some booths that will be included this year are participants from Banner Health/NCMC Paramedic Services, Student Senate, Psychological Services Clinic, Golden Key International Honour Society,
Humane Society of Weld County, Housing & Residential Education and many other clubs and organizations as well.
Entertainment is provided as well, from singing and dance performances to come-dic acts.
Food will also be available, prepared by UNC's Dining Services.
Community Fest has had such an over-whelmingly positive response last year that the event will include some new activities this year.
A 5K walk/run is one such activity, and it will start at 9 a.m. at the Campus Rec-reation Center and will end at the center stage of Community Fest.
! ose who participate in the 5K will be able to redeem food vouchers for the food items provided by Dining Services.
! e fee for participation in the 5K is $15. ! e price covers a long sleeve shirt, a
breakfast burrito and other goodies.
To register, students can visit the Cam-pus Recreation Center at any time or at 8 a.m. on race day.
Pre-registration is also available online at http://www.unco.edu/campusrec/.
Another activity that is new to this year's Community Fest is the creation of a scav-enger hunt for students and the Greeley community to participate in.
Participants will be able to pick up and return their scavenger hunt cards at the information booth.
Essentially, players will have to visit four booths provided at the event to collect their stamps.
A" er receiving these stamps, the player will be entered into a drawing for the chance to win a number of prizes.
A speci# c area for Community Opera-tions Exhibit has been made at the event, so that patrons will have the opportunity to see what the City of Greeley has to o$ er
in the community.! e event has also moved the location of
its center stage in order to accommodate the amount of people attending; Coordina-tors said they expect an in% ux of atten-dance this year.
! e new location of the center stage will be revealed this week, when Community Fest releases and distributes the maps for their event.
Community Fest is just one of the many homecoming activities o$ ered throughout the weekend.
UNC's homecoming football game against Northern Arizona University will be held shortly a" er Community Fest, so the athletic department has reserved certain lots for tailgating and pre-game activities.
Admission and parking at Community Fest will be free to the public.
COMMUNITY FEST PROVIDES NEW ACTIVITIES
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University 101, a workshop series de-signed to help incoming freshmen at the University of Northern Colorado adjust to life and study habits for success in college, has hosted several events throughout the semester o!ering all students the chance to use the study techniques they teach.
“University 101 is about making stu-dents more proactive,”said Kyle Lucas, a University 101 professor, during the workshop.
"e latest workshop was o!ered last "ursday and focused on active reading and note taking.
Information on long-term and short-term memory was given at the beginning of the workshop to show how repetition is needed to move things from short-term memory to long-term memory.
Lucas said that another way for informa-tion gathered in short-term memory to be
moved to long-term memory is elabora-tion.
Many of the strategies given during the workshop were both elaboration and repetition strategies.
During the workshop, Lucas said that there are three steps students can use to approach active reading. "e #rst step is creating an advanced organizer—activat-ing any prior knowledge that students might have of their assigned reading.
A few ways to activate this prior knowl-edge is to read the discussion questions at the end of a chapter, the key terms at the beginning of a chapter or the headings throughout the assigned reading.
A$er activating prior knowledge, Lucas said students can use Cornell Notes, or any type of note taking strategy, to write down questions or connections that they may have and to summarize what they have read. Lucas emphasized throughout the workshop that in order to transfer anySee Skills on page 22
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"Two, four, six, eight; stop the violence, stop the hate!" Last Wednesday night, the University of Northern Colo-
rado conducted its annual Take Back the Night presenta-tion at the Garden "eater.
A variety of people attended, including UNC students and the local Greeley community.
"e night began with the Assault Survivors Advocacy Program advisers introducing themselves and letting the the audience know what the program had to o!er. ASAP o!ers anonymous services to the UNC community for survivors of sexual assault, stalking or relationship violence.
Students can go to the ASAP o%ce either on behalf of themselves or their friends to speak about a crime that has been committed.
In addition to their o%ce, which is located in Cassidy Hall, ASAP also has a hotline that students are encouraged to utilize for reporting instances of sexual assault. "e number is (970) 351-4040.
When the ASAP advisers introduced themselves, each had a statistical report of how o$en rape and other sexual-ly-based crimes happen and exactly whom they happen to.
"ey reiterated that these crimes are never the victim’s fault, but that the blame is put on the person who commit-ted the crime.
Steve "ompson, the guest speaker for the event, shared stories with the audience about his experiences with sexually-based crimes.
"I did everything you told me to do, why didn't it work?" "ompson said, recollecting a statement that a younger woman he knew said a$er being assaulted.
"ose words were one of the many things "ompson said made him want to get so involved with making sure these crimes do not happen again.
"ompson regularly speaks at universities around the U.S., and he also works for the Sexual Aggression Peer Activities program at Central Michigan University.
"e UNC Police Department was also part of the event, reminding students of the services they have to o!er. UN-CPD is available 24/7 in case of any emergency.
Once the speeches were #nished, the presenters asked
the audience to congregate in groups and begin marching with a lit candle to represent the crimes that have been committed.
Chants were called out and the streets were blocked to let the protestors march through Central and West cam-pus. "e march ended at the Woman's Resource Center where there was a reception and an opportunity to learn and re&ect on what had happened that night.
Take Back the Night is held to raise awareness of the amount of sexual crimes that happen annually and to try to make sure they will not happen again in the commu-nity.
"e coordinators of the event said they hope that it may create a safer environment for the community in Greeley and inevitably everywhere else in the world.
Take Back the Night is an event that is held in cities all over the United States and around the world.
People have been rallying Take Back the Night since 1973, when the event originated in Germany.
For more information regarding Take Back the Night, interested students can visit the organization’s website at http://takebackthenight.org.
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THE REAL QUESTION: WHO SAID LIFE IS FAIR?
By Litsha Leeper
Litsha Says Lame Stuff
Who said life is fair? We all know nobody said that mess, yet
we continue to expect fairness out of the people we encounter.
Now, this is no ploy to encourage a cyni-cal mindset that has us walking around glum all day and not trusting anyone—but it is a nudge in your illogical rib to look at things with a more informed approach.
Why? Because you may actually be less disappointed in life and not hold yourself to such unreasonable standards.
When I was younger I was always men-tally slumped over, wondering why bad things were happening to me and not my worst enemy. I would say to myself, “I am such a good person! Why are bad things happening to such a good person?”
For a while I was convinced there was a curse that got handed down to me for something my parents did. I even went as far as to visit a witchcra! shop and spend hours looking up spells and potions to change my life.
Now I’ve come to the conclusion that either those spells and potions didn’t work, or life sucks.
I choose to go with the latter. Life kind of sucks, but there is a wisdom
to be gained from said suckiness.Wisdom has been labeled one of the car-
dinal virtues by ancient societies in Egypt and Greece, and we seem to all tacitly hold that up as truth.
With there being such a high value placed on wisdom, why do we continue to shy away from the things that help the path to this higher virtuous level? Because it hurts.
We don’t want to be broken-hearted, irritated and failing. Of course not. By all means, pursue happiness—but don’t be afraid of challenge.
I have learned not to be afraid of being told no, not to be afraid of pursuing my passions and failing, not being angry that it randomly gets gloomy outside when I have on a summer out"t and, most of all, accepting that the lady at the DMV will never be nice to me.
It’s di#cult to imagine any sort of wisdom coming to someone who doesn’t endure some of the spoils of life, and guess what? I usually laugh at a lot of life’s mis-haps later on.
Once we truly accept that life isn’t fair—instead of just pretending to believe it and saying it so we can sound good and mature—we will realize that it’s okay to be imperfect and not beat ourselves down with unreasonable standards.
Sometimes you have to be “unfair.” You’ll have to reject people you don’t like.
Other times you’ll have to be brutally honest to get a point across, and there will be moments where you have to back out of promises because it doesn’t "t your needs.
$ere are many times where you’ll feel like crap for something you did, but you aren’t perfect. You will anger some people, but you will get over it and so will they.
We are all granted our own lives. We should live them the best we can because, unless reincarnation is real, this is the only chance you have.
So don’t spend too much time dwelling on the guy or girl who said they wanted to hang out but then stood you up or on the fact that you got a B in a class that you put A+ e%ort into.
Don’t be troubled by the fact that you have a secret crush on Chris in your class, but you kissed Michael at the Bear Crawl.
It’s all good. Just live.
- Litsha Leeper is a senior philosophy major, and an opinion coloumnist for !e Mirror. She can be reached at [email protected].
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With the frenzy of home-coming week just around the corner, the Univer-sity of Northern Colo-rado’s Student Senate met Wednesday evening last week to discuss the student activity involvement that has evolved on campus.
With so much involve-ment that is happening around campus, Student Senate has seen an increase in the amount of student group proposals for fund-ing.
$e Student Public Rela-tions Network, a student club on campus that helps journalism and mass com-munications students to network, made an appear-ance at the meeting.
SPRN appealed to Student Senate for help funding a 5K costume run on Oct. 16.
$e event will be open to the UNC student commu-nity, as well as the general public in surrounding areas
of UNC. $e students of SPRN are
in charge of planning the event, which will begin at 10 a.m. on Turner Green. Admission is $8 for a team of 10 or more, and the "rst 25 students are free.
SPRN members said the money will be used to pro-vide treats and decorations for participants.
Because the 5K will be child-friendly, SPRN has set up two di%erent tracks: one will be "ve miles long, and one will be just a mile long so that the younger children can participate.
Student Senate members seek to help the student body by implementing their voice and accepting proposals to keep the com-munity involved.
$ey also allow for students and faculty to become aware of events happening at UNC and around Greeley.
“I get to know students’ point of view. It makes me think broader than within the students I teach,” said
Robin Brewer, a special education associate pro-fessor who is the faculty representative for Student Senate
Student Senate represen-tative Shannon Mulqueen said being involved in the organization does the same for her as well.
“I get to know a lot about what the administration is doing. Being a student representative from the resident halls, I get to see what is important and the roles students play,” said Mulqueen, a junior sociol-ogy major.
As the mission of Stu-dent Senate indicates, “$e purpose of Student Senate at UNC is to represent and serve the student body in order to enhance the uni-versity experience through the empowerment of all students.”
“Student Senate is an advocate for students who cannot advocate for themselves,” said Yasser Elmkhanter, a freshman neuroscience major.
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Mark Harro | !e MirrorDirector of Finance Kaitlyn Talbott reads over voter registration forms at Wednesday evening’s senate meeting.
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WORKS BY WOMEN ART GALLERY INSPIRES STUDENTS
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About seven years ago Bob and Chris Pettey donated a priceless collection of art to the UNC School of Art, with works dating back as early as the 1800’s. All of these works were created by women.
Strolling around the Mariani Gallery in Guggenheim Hall, students seemed captured by the various artists and their subject matter.
!e pieces varied from still art to portraits to abstract prints.
Cody DeVries, a junior visual communica-tions major, said he was amazed by the di"er-ent subjects and mediums. He o#en visits the galleries because they are inspiring to him as a young photographer, he said.
“Maybe one day I’ll be like them and have something hanging in a gallery. It’s motiva-tional and inspirational,” DeVries said.
Next to each work of art is a biography of
the artist that informs students about how the art was created and even what inspired the art. !ese biographies further engage visitors in the art, breaking the silence between the art and the viewer.
Yoriko Noda, who lived 1900-1991, was a Japanese-born artist who settled in Colorado a#er being displaced by Pearl Harbor. Once in Colorado she attended the Emily Gri$th Opportunity School, and her works have been exhibited in many galleries throughout the Denver metro area. Noda’s brief biography al-lows a di"erent perspective when viewing her exhibited piece “To a Wild Flower.”
Shannon England, a freshman graphic design major, said she aspires to be an installa-tion artist. A#er visiting the “On the Breath of Waves” exhibit in Crabbe Hall, she said she was further inspired to pursue her art. E
ngland also said she fully enjoyed the “Selected Works by Women Artists” exhibit because she can get up close and personal with the art.
“I like to %rst stand back and then get really close—so close I’m, like, breathing on it,” Eng-land said. “I come to every exhibit I can. I love art. I love being surrounded by art all the time.”
While every work is worth discussing, people at the reception seemed most drawn to two artists in particular.
Many were drawn to Mary Cassett. Both of her works, “In the Omnibus” and “Two Sisters,” are etchings of women that date to the late 1860’s. Cassett was one of the only American artists to be categorized with the French Im-pressionist art movement.
Another work that drew a lot of attention was a print created by Elaine Breiger titled “Homage to Ben Cunningham.” DeVries said he deemed this his favorite piece because of how depth was created in the artwork.
“It’s a two dimension print that creates depth with a strategic use of color,” he said.
!e exhibit will hold two gallery talks on Oct. 9 and Oct. 14. Both will be hosted by professor Michael A. “Chip” Coronel and are free to the public.
“Selected Works by Women Artists” will be displayed in the Mariani Gallery until Oct. 18.
Anaísa Lúa | !e Mirror!is piece, “Head of Woman” by Elizabeth Catlett, is one of many pieces being displayed in the “Selected Works by Women” art gallery. !is color linocut was printed in 1947.
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STOP, LOOK BOTH WAYS, THEN DANCE
UNC JAZZ BAND ENTERTAINS AT OKTOBREWFESTJustin Hoss [email protected]
!e vibrant colors of fall leaves were not the only thing that brought color to the annual Oktobrewfest. !e UNC
Lab One Jazz Band played up the a"ernoon with their groovin’ tunes and expressive melodies. Some smooth jazz seemed to be just what a sunny fall day needed in order to start the party in downtown Greeley.
!is band is #lled with musicians who have dedicated their time and energy into their speci#c instruments. !e Lab One Jazz Band is one of the most recognized jazz bands at the University of Northern Colorado. !e band has played in more places than just Greeley; they have traveled as far as China to perform their music.
Toe-tapping and head-bobbing was quite abundant throughout the crowd as they viewed the band. Tyler Miller, a freshman music education major, said he was highly entertained as an audience member.
“!e style of each player put together made the performance very enjoyable,” Miller said.
Every song in the band’s performance had an upbeat feel to it, and it seemed as if it was always going some-where. !is gave the performance a lot of energy, which the crowd seemed to like.
Each song played was di$erent from the last.
Jazz usually involves a lot of soul and expression. Almost every member of the band had their own time to shine. Each piece showcased various musicians from the band through solo performances.
“Every solo added a di$erent color to the piece,” Miller said.
All of the soloists had their own personalities that managed to come o$ harmonious within each individual
piece. !e Lab One Jazz Band had a set time of an
hour and 15 minutes to play. For some per-formers this could be quite terrifying because that is a lot of time to keep the audience’s attention, but this didn’t seem to be a compli-cation for the jazz band. Miller said he thought this was happening because the band had a lot of energy.
“I think energy separates an okay lab band from a high caliber band like them,” he said.
By the looks of it, people from all around the park could feel the energy of the jazz band, and it made them gravitate towards the stage. !e crowd grew bigger as the set progressed.
Breelyn Bowe | !e MirrorLast Monday and Wednesday, Greeley Unexpected created a !ash dance mob event at the intersection of 20th Street and !0th Avenue. Student dancers helped get the dance to Pharell’s song “Happy” started but pedestrians and other students got involved too with their own moves. Maya Landau (le"), a senior musical theater major, and Jahmad Juluke (right), a sophomore musical theatre major, helped spread smiles to all who witnessed the “crosswalk dance.”
“#e style of each player put together made
the performance very enjoyable.”
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Andrew Stiegler [email protected]
!e legalization of marijuana in Colorado has brought nationwide attention to !e Centennial State. Since the legalization of recreational weed use, Colo-rado dispensaries have shown o" their creativity—from producing THC infused edibles such as brownies, cookies, candies and even cheesecakes, to cultivating hundreds of strands of pot.
In Summit County, Colo., Cultivating Spirits has taken this creativity to a whole di"erent level. !is is not your typical edible dispensary; It o"ers a lot more than a simple pot brownie. Cultivating Spirits o"ers grow tours, dispensary tours, glass blowing tours, gour-met dinners, wine tasting and cannabis pairings.
!ere are even THC cooking demonstrations where you can learn how to professionally cook with can-nabis. !e dispensary also o"ers itself as a venue for private events such as weddings, corporate and custom events and a private limousine service.
!at being said, let’s dive into this palace of weed and
see what it’s all about. Cultivating Spirits o"ers three di"erent unique tours: !e Day Excursion, Sensational Fusion Experience and the THC Fusion Experience.
Let me start o" by explaining what !e Day Excur-sion is about. Once you arrive at Cultivating Spirits, a private limousine service will take you to one of Colorado’s most spectacular marijuana growth facili-ties. !ere you will learn about THC, the di"erences between Indica and Sativa and how to e"ectively take in cannabis.
According to the Cultivating Spirits website, the second part of the tour “will focus on edibles, oils, and accessories; while explaining how edibles are made, as well as edible intake, product descriptions, types of hash, extraction methods, and consumption methods.” A#er that your limousine service will take you for a tour around Summit County to see Lake Dillon, and at $499, this tour also o"ers glass blowing demonstrations and a hike.
!e second and third tours are a little more a"ord-able at $199 and o"er just as much fun as the Day Excursion. !e Sensational Fusion Experience starts o"
at the Cultivating Spirits Eatery. !ere, you will view an hour-long cooking presentation expedited by top chefs who will show you how to apply $ne dining cooking techniques.
!ey also set your food with $ne wine to make cook-ing styles formed by some of the most well known chefs in the area. !en you will be taken by limousine to the Frisco Wine Merchant for wine tastings and cannabis pairings, followed by a private dinner at Cultivating Spirits.
Last but not least is the THC Fusion Experience: cooking with cannabis. !is class will teach you how to properly instill your meals with THC at home, and you will learn how to cook with oils, butters and even keef.
!e medicative bene$ts you will learn may change your look on how to treat yourself. Just as the other tours, a limousine service will take you for a trip around Summit County and back to Cultivating Spirits for a private dinner.
Cultivating Spirits is an experience of a lifetime. Take advantage of what the beautiful state of Colorado has to o"er. I know I will.
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WOMEN SELECTED WORKS FROM THE BOB AND CHRIS PETTEYS COLLECTION
Mary Cassatt Kathe Kollwitz Marie Apel
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!is gallery is the second gallery which UNC has shown from the collection of Bob and Chris Petteys. It contains 25 works of art made exclusively by women artists. !ere are etchings, wood engrav-ings, sculpture and paintings. View the works of Mary Cassatt, Käthe Kollwitz, Bridget Riley, Louise Nevelson, Marie Apel and many more. Visit the Mariani Gallery (at Guggenheim Hall) during its opening times and gallery talks, for a view of the works of these women artists.
- Excerpt from the gallery progam
Anaísa Lúa | !e Mirror
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GALLERY TALKS
ARTISTSSEPTEMBER 24 - OCTOBER 18Mariani Gallery | Guggenheim Hall | UNC | 8th Ave & 18th St.Gallery HoursMonday-Wednesday | Noon - 6pm!usday & Friday | Noon - 4pm
Photos by Anaisa Lùa
Louise Nevelson Bridget Riley Elaine Breiger
Louise NevelsonProfessor Chip Coronel!ursday October 9 | 11amMariani Gallery | Guggenheim Hall
Louise Nevelson was a sculptor who worked with wood and is known for her assemblages of found objects. She helped pave the way for the Feminist Art Movement in the 1970’s.
Women of Modern ArtProfessor Chip CoronelTuesday October 14 | 11amMariani Gallery | Guggenheim Hall
Professor Coronel will be talking about the artists which made the works in the gallery. He will be discussing how these select women artists are in!uencial to the art world.
Page 16 September 29, 2014A&EFOOD FRENZY IN FOCO: ADRENALINE-FILLED FEASTSRocky Mountain CollegianU-WIRE
Sure, you’ve been full. Sure, you’ve eaten spicy foods. But for the real eaters out there, well, you aren’t a true glutton until
you’ve conquered the biggest and baddest food challenges that Fort Collins has to o!er.
First, check out the Fat Shack Challenge. "is feast is notorious for peaking interest in customers promising they’ll come back
to beat it “later this week.”“I think we’ve only had seven or eight
complete it successfully out of 700 or, eas-ily, 800,” said Willie Rice, General Manager of the Fat Shack on S. College Ave.
Competitors have a half hour to eat three 1.5 pound, eight-inch sandwiches stacked high with only the greasiest french fries, cheesesteak, jalapeño peppers, onion rings, chicken tenders and your choice of sauce. "e prize for completing this near-impossible endeavor? Fat Shack will put the sandwiches on the house (ap-proximately $30 total), hook you up with a T-shirt, and, perhaps most boast-worthy, put your picture on the wall with the rest of the Fat Shack Challenge victors. If you have the guts to stomach this food frenzy, don’t be upset if your picture ends up on the “Wall of Shame” with the hundreds of others that couldn’t #nish this feast!
“We have a lot more photos on the failed wall,” Rice said.
If you survive the Fat Shack Challenge,
see if you can handle what Uncle Vito’s Too can bring to the table. "ink you’ve had it spicy? "ink again! Try Vito’s Ghost Challenge to truly test your taste buds. What is it, exactly? Challengers have 12 minutes to #nish a 12-inch Ghost Pepper Pizza dripping in Vito’s spicy sauce and – you guessed it – smothered with insanely hot ghost peppers. Competitors cannot drink during the challenge and must hold down the whole ghost pepper pizza for a whopping 12 minutes! Respectively, only 12 people have completed the challenge re-cently, but you could be the 13th. Winners receive a T-shirt and their picture on the wall, as well as boasting rights for at least a year. Vito’s rede#nes the word “spicy” with their signature sauce and Ghost Pepper Pizza that is almost too deadly to devour.
If you’re in the mood for a big meal with a he$y side of adrenaline, make sure to check out these challenges to see if you’re just an amateur eater or a real #ve-star foodie.
SPORTSEditor: Danielle Ross - Assistant: Makalah Emanuel
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TUES 9/30
All DayMen’s golf at Mark Simpson Colorado Invitationalat Erie, Colorado
All DayWomen’s golf at Rose City Intercol-legiateat Aurora, Oregon
All DayMen’s golf at Mark Simpson Colorado Invitationalat Erie, Colorado
All DayWomen’s golf at Rose City Intercol-legiateat Aurora, Oregon
FRI 10/35 p.m.Swimming and diving hosts Blue and Gold MeetButler-Hancock Pool
All DayMen’s golf at Wyoming Southern Dunes Collegiateat Marcicopa, Arizona
All DayCross countryat Boulder, Colorado
SAT 10/4
SUN 10/5
VOLLEYBALL DROPS BIG SKY GAMES
Breelyn Bowe | !e MirrorSophomore setter Audrey Landry recorded three digs in !ursday’s 3-1 loss against the University of Idaho, whose defense o"en shut down the Bears.
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!e Northern Colorado volleyball team dropped its "rst two games of Big Sky Confer-ence play this weekend against the University of Idaho and Eastern Washington University. Northern Colorado (7-7) opened the "rst conference weekend !ursday night by losing to the Vandals (5-9) 3-1 (25-19, 29-31, 23-25, 19-25). A#er taking the "rst set, UNC was unable to close out the next three sets even though the team was able to battle back and sometimes hold the lead late in those sets.
“We just gotta learn to stay in it for that last point,” said junior outside hitter Kendra Cun-ningham. “Work hard for that last point.” !e Bears were without senior middle blocker Brianna Strong, who was out with an ankle injury. !ough the team was con"dent in fresh-man middle blocker Alex Kloehn to "ll the role of the injured senior, Strong’s o$ensive presence was missed. “I thought Alex did a good job,” said head coach Lindsey Oates. “I thought we didn’t trust her enough We didn’t get her enough opportu-nities. I think missing Bri did have an impact on the match, but it shouldn’t have. !at’s our own fault.”
!e loss to Eastern Washington, 3-2 (20-25, 25-19, 25-19, 22-25, 16-18), can be described in two words: nail-biter. !e Eagles were able to make a late comeback in the "#h set, delivering a tough loss for Northern Colorado. Both teams fought back and forth over the lead, which led to 29 tying scores overall. Cun-ningham said she believes neither team truly controlled the match. “It was always like one team was playing catch-up,” said Cunningham. “It was kinda go-ing back and forth and having one team "nish-ing the match.” Two veteran Eagles had an o$ensive "eld day,See Volleyball on page 19
3 p.m.Women’s soccerat Weber State
7 p.m.Women’s volleyballat Montana State
All DayMen’s golf at Wyoming Southern Dunes Collegiateat Marcicopa, Arizona
1 p.m.Women’s soccerat Idaho State
1:30 p.m.Footballvs. Northern Arizona7 p.m.Women’s volleyballat Montana
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VOLLEYBALL DEFEATED IN CONFERENCE PLAY Volleyball from page 17
hitting a .559 and a .619, and a!er the hard loss, Coach Oates focused on her defense being a main issue for the Bears.
“"e match came down to defense, and that showed in the hitting percentages,” said Oates. “"ey were better o#ensively than we were. We did not defend. I would say the biggest concern is blocking.” Despite the loss, fresh-man middle blocker Tima-rie Nymyer had an o#en-sive $eld day that happened to be a career night for her
as well. Nymyer had only one error in 25 attempts and she was successful in 19 of those 25 attempts which gave her a .720 hit-ting percentage. Even with the career night, Nymyer gave credit to her teammates, espe-cially her setter, sophomore Ashley Guthrie. “Ashley was putting up really great balls, and it was just up to me to put them away for her,” Nymyer said. “So I just did my best.”
"e freshman has been on a hot streak as of late, earning 36 kills in the last two matches alone, and
that excites her fellow Bears. “It’s amazing having Timarie out on the %oor,” said senior middle blocker Andrea Spaustat. “She’s so consistent, she’s unstop-pable. It’s great to have that consistency out there, especially coming from a freshman. I think the team is really happy for her and her success.” "e Bears will have four away games to begin the $rst two weeks of October.
"ey return to Butler-Hancock October 16 to take on California State University, Sacramento.
Breelyn Bowe | !e MirrorSenior middle blocker Andrea Spaustat !res the ball at Idaho in the Bears’ !rst confer-ence game "ursday night.
Page 19September 29, 2014 SPORTSFIRST CONFERENCE GAME A LOSS FOR FOOTBALL
Photo by Dean PopejoyJunior quarterback Jonathan Newsom !lled in for Sean Rubalcaba and started his !rst game as a Bear Saturday.
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!e Northern Colorado Football team was led by junior quarterback Jonathan Newsom in their conference opener at !e University of Montana Saturday. !ough the Bears lost to the Grizzlies 38-13, they put up quite a "ght, with Newsom "nishing his "rst game as the starting quar-terback 22-40-1 with 198 passing yards. He also led the team with 72 rushing yards and scored the Bears’ only touchdown of the game, on
a 74-yard run, the longest run by a quarterback in UNC’s history. Kicker Seth Czapenski put up the Bears’ other 7 points with an extra point and two "eld goals. !e Grizzlies took a 21-point lead in the "rst quarter and scored touch-downs in the second and third quarters. !e Bears’ defense gave up 211 rushing yards and 181 passing yards, and senior cornerback Kyle Gri#n came up with the Bears’ only interception. !e Bears’ homecoming game is Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
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BEARS FALL TO IDAHO IN FIRST BIG SKY GAMEL`]�Mfan]jkalq�g^�A\Y`g�\]^]Yl]\�Fgjl`]jf�;gdgjY\g�+%*�af�Y�f][c%Yf\%f][c�Újkl�_Ye]�g^�[gf^]j]f[]�hdYq
Photo by Dean PopejoySenior forward Juliana Grover recorded two shots on goal and an assist in Friday’s game at the University of Idaho. !e Bears struggled o"ensively against the Vandals’ solid defense.
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A!er a scoreless "rst half in Northern Colorado’s Friday game at the University of Idaho, the Bears managed to claw out two goals in the second half but ultimately lost to the Vandals when a late goal sealed the fate of the game. Going into the game, UNC had a 5-4-1 non-conference record. #e Bears’ o$ense led the Big Sky conference in shots and corner kicks, and the team relied upon the o$ense in Friday’s game to get some footing against the Vandals. #e Bears’ defense is anchored by junior goal-keeper Kaitlin Ru$ who got 10 saves in Friday’s game. It wasn’t until halfway through the "rst period that
either team managed any shots, but when UNC’s senior forward Juliana Grover made the "rst attempt of the game, it was blocked by Idaho’s Torell Stewart. Idaho’s o$ense responded with seven shots, three on-goal, all of which were saved by UNC’s Ru$ in the "rst half. Grover took another shot in the half, as did junior mid"elder Rebecca Lancia, and the Bears ended the half with three shots on goal and one corner kick. #e "rst half ended with both teams stuck at 0-0, but the second half would be a di$erent story. Only two minutes into the period, Idaho took a gener-ous lead with two goals. Freshman Olivia Baggerly landed a shot in the 47th minute of the game, and less than a minute later as the Bears attempted to regroup, sopho-
more Gabby Leong landed a second shot, giving the Van-dals a 2-0 lead less than "ve minutes into the second half. Ten minutes later, the Bears responded with their "rst goal of the game as Grover connected with sophomore Essence Ortiz-Laneir, who found the back of the net. UNC’s second goal came in the 70th minute of the game when sophomore Shanlie Anderson tied it up. #e Vandals’ o$ensive pressure proved to be too much for the Bears, and seven minutes later, they landed an-other goal, taking the lead for the "nal time. #e Bears only managed one shot against the Vandals’ solid defense in the remainder of the game. Next up, UNC will look to even their conference record at Weber State Oct. 3.
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HEALTH AND SAFETY ALL THAT JAZZ
Maeve Widmann | ! e MirrorCharmas Lee, a senior criminal justice major, explores the sounds table at the Health and Safety Fair held Wednesday at the University Center.
Anaísa Lúa | ! e MirrorLe! to right: Carl Vonsicard, senior jazz studies major, and Andy Kropp, a mas-ter’s student in saxophone performance, wait for their set to start at the Garden " eater. Vonsicard and Kropp are a part of lab 2, directed by Jim White.
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Page 22 September 29, 2014THE MIRRORCANDIDATES SPEAK AT DEBATE
WORKSHOP HELPS STUDENTS COMMITT SKILLS TO MEMORY
Debate from page 5
said about how they're not trying to get the people out and working. ! ey’re more just giving them food here and there. It’s important to actually do something about homelessness and actually get them work-ing again to improve their situations.”
! e issue of wages was a focus of both Hempy and Hess in improving the prob-lems of unemployment and homelessness.
Hempy advocated for raising the mini-mum wage. Neither the federal minimum wage of $7.25 nor the Colorado minimum wage of $8 an hour o" er a “livable” wage.
Hemp, on the other hand, said that nothing would improve unemployment
but lowering the minimum wage. A# er all, he said, making employees less
costly for businesses will encourage hiring. Nicole Umugwaneza, a freshman inter-
national a" airs major, said she disagreed with Hess. Her hometown of Colorado Springs has a high cost of living.
“For people who are working minimum wage, they can’t a" ord that type of living,” Umugwaneza said. “Especially when their main competitors are the military.”
“Lowering the minimum wage would only increase the wage gap between those who can already a" ord more expensive housing and those who cannot,” she said.
“If we lower the minimum wage, we also have to lower living expenses,” she said.
Skills from page 9
information read from short-term to long-term memory, a student must put the reading into his or her own words.
Once students have taken notes and activated any prior knowledge they have about the reading, the workshop coordinator suggested it is necessary
for students to review the notes to help move the in-formation they gained into their long-term memories.
“I took University 101 last fall, and everything I learned in there, especially the active reading strategy with Cornell notes, has helped me be more suc-cessful on almost all of my tests,” said Kaitlin Daniels, a sophomore education
major who attended the event.
“Active reading might take longer, but I know that the more time I spend, the more I'm actually gaining from my assigned read-ings,” she said.
! e next University 101 workshop will be ! ursday, October 2 and will focus on learning strategies and test preparation.
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Opera and musical numbers are o# en thought of as only existing within the walls of large majestic halls, but every year, music students take their abilities o" stage and into a more intimate setting, wowing audiences and proving their versatility.
On Tuesday, Sept. 23, students from the Moores School of Music and their sup-porters gathered at local watering hole McGonigel’s Mucky Duck for a night of hearty eats, plentiful brews and… opera?
! is was the Moores Opera Center’s annual “What’s Opera, Duck?” bene$ t performance. Complete with Oktoberfest brews and arias from shows such as the opera center’s upcoming “! e Tales of Ho" man,” the event drew a packed house to the pub.
“It all happened because one of our stu-dents several years ago had been working at the Mucky Duck, and since then, there’s been a series of waiters and waitresses from the opera program,” said Moores Opera Center founder and Director Buck Ross.
! e Moores Opera Center is not the only classical group to take the Mucky Duck by storm.
“! ey do more commercial events, but some groups in town have traditionally done showcase performances like this at the Mucky Duck,” Ross said.
! ese other groups include the Houston Gilbert and Sullivan Society and Moores’ own choral groups.
! e event is more than just a karaoke night for opera lovers — the musicians are encouraged to branch out of their comfort zones and into more popular genres.
“What’s Opera, Duck?” gives students an opportunity to try out repertoire that they don’t do throughout the year, such as musical theater numbers,” Ross said.
! e experience of singing at an unusual venue is professionally valuable for the students as well.
“Some students have lots of experience doing things like this and some have none, but this experience is useful for everybody. Usually they get excited a# er the $ rst year they do it, and they decide immediately
what song they’ll do next year,” Ross said.Music education senior Blythe Hopson
attended the event to support her fellow singers.
“I prefer musical theater in this venue because it is just more suitable. ! e arias don’t quite sound right here because of the microphone,” Hopson said. “Many musical theater productions use microphone, so it sounds more natural, whereas operas generally are not with microphone.”
Musical theatre numbers have the ben-e$ t of attracting more music enthusiasts to the Mucky Duck showcase. Examples of the show tunes on the program include “If I Loved You” from Carousel, “I Can Hear the Bells” from Hairspray and “! e Song that Goes Like ! is” from Spamalot.
“Musical theater is a little more crowd-pleasing in nature than opera, I think,” Hopson said. “I think the showcase and its combination of genres is a great way to make these arts accessible.”
Music education senior Catherine Goode participated in “What’s Opera, Duck?” as a contributing talent. She said students use this as an opportunity to sing works that they are comfortable and con$ dent with.
“People generally perform songs they know and love performing. I sang Olym-pia’s aria from ‘! e Tales of Ho" mann’ because I will be performing that role in our production this season,” said Goode.
“! is event is a great way to advertise for our shows.”
! e venue itself was an unusual setup for singers like Goode, whose singing is usually heard lilting from the stages in concert halls.
“I prefer more traditional venues, but I enjoy this kind of performance,” Goode said. “! e only di" erence in preparation was knowing that I would have to sing into a microphone.”
Ross said he believes that the venue has a positive impact on turnout and audience satisfaction with “What’s Opera, Duck?”
“We have patrons that tell me that this is their favorite event of the year. I’d like to think that people’s favorite event was one of our stage productions, but this is an event that is unlike any other one that we do.”
MUSIC IS LOVED EVERYWHERE
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COOKFULL TIME
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The UNC class of 1964 celebrates its 50 year reunion this week. We hope current students enjoy homecoming week as much as they will. We picked this week’s word search theme, but next week the theme could be up to you. Just email a list of words to [email protected], and your list could make it in. Use it to advertise your club or just for fun—we don’t mind either.
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STUDENTS SHARE STUDY ABROAD EXPERIENCES
Breelyn Bowe | !e MirrorStudents from UNC have traveled all around the world to study abroad in di!erent cultures, and the Center for International Education has helped make that possible.