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Four Diamonds to close for summer due to construction

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Due to construction for the Ent Center for the Arts, Four Diamonds parking will close over the summer.

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“Brian Construction knows first day of fall semester, we have to have parking.

They’re very comfortable and confident in saying ‘it will be open fall semester.’”

- Jim Spice Executive director of Parking and Transportation

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“Are you serious?” asked Charlotte Gilner, senior international business major.

Gilner parks at Four Diamonds and will most likely be taking summer classes. She believes the new parking lot construction may be done by fall semester.

“They might be, just because they know how important it is,” she said. “But the construction here is never really on top of it.”

Andrew Schips, senior anthropology major, said the closure won’t affect him over the summer, but it will if it carries into the fall semester.

If construction isn’t completed on time, lot 580 wouldn’t be able to handle students in the fall semester, according to Spice.

“There’s no question they have to be done, period,” Spice said. “Brian Construction knows

first day of fall semester, we have to have parking. They’re very comfortable and confident in saying ‘it will be open fall semester.’”

Lots 576 and 574, the main Four Diamonds lot and the lot at the intersection of North Nevada Avenue and Eagle Rock Road, will be gone. Lot 573, near the ROTC building, will remain, but with limited access, said Spice.

He added that there will be a lane open through the construction that will give access to lot 573, although access to Eagle Rock Road will be closed.

The new parking will include a net gain of around 200 spots, according to Spice. Some of these spots will be permit, most likely orange.

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Four Diamonds will no longer provide parking for students once the spring semester ends and summer begins.

With the construction of the Ent Center for the Arts, the new Visual and Performing Arts venue, in the current Four Diamonds area, the only Four Diamonds lot that will remain is the overflow lot, lot 580.

New parking will be added to accommodate the loss of spots. But not before the start of fall semester 2015, when construction of the new parking should be finished, said Jim Spice, executive director of Parking and Transportation.

All of the current Four Diamonds parking will permanently close, expect for lot 580. Bus pickup and all parking for the summer will be in lot 580.

Four Diamonds’ summer closure, expected May 15, comes as a surprise to some students.

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a 45 or 40 space parking lot, and most of it will be handicap parking,” he said.

Parking and Transportation does have backup plans in the event construction isn’t completed by fall semester.

“We’ve got Freedom Financial Expo Center’s backup parking, we’ve got the gravel parking where the construction workers are parked, we can take over that,” Spice said.

But this isn’t a plan without issues.

“We’ve always kind of kept it as an emergency reserve.

The problem is we have to run shuttles [to Freedom Financial Expo]. That’s the difficult thing,” he said.

“We’ll do whatever we have to do, but again, we’re all very comfortable in the fact that everything will be open at Four Diamonds,” Spice said.

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Students can raise money for their education through Village Scholarships April Wefler awefler@uccs.edu

It’s here: the dreaded tuition balance. Time to take out another loan.

Tuition can be frightening for many students. Those who can’t pay the fee out-of-pocket have to turn to student loans, racking up future debt they’ll have to pay back later.

Now, students are given the chance to fundraise for their education through the Village Scholarships.

“Our goal is to try to revolutionize the ancient, old, stagnant scholarship industry, where it takes several months, if not a whole year, to receive a scholarship,” said founder and junior communication major Antonio Adams.

Village Scholarships uses crowd funding, but on a more individual basis.

“It’s like Kickstarter meets Match.com,” said Adams.

Although the scholarship is targeted primarily at high

school seniors, high school freshmen all the way up to students completing their last year of their Ph.D. can apply.

Students pre-register and are then tasked with certain activities, such as taking part in live content and interacting through social media.

Adams said an example of a similar activity is KFC’s Twitter scholarship contest.

KFC told high school seniors to submit how they embodied Colonel Sanders’ commitment to education in 140 characters or less.

The winner received a $20,000 scholarship.

The Village Scholarships process consists of preregistration, beta testing in August and an official launch in 2016.

During beta testing, users create their own profiles on the Village Scholarships website and start raising funds for their education.

If a student raises a certain amount of money for his or her education, then a donor could

match the rest.

Adams said they want to host events to talk to local high schools. Additionally, there are plans for a student ambassador program.

“We want to develop one of the largest peer-to-peer scholarship providers in the world,” he said.

The idea for the Village Scholarships came after Adams lost both of his basketball scholarships, the first after a severe concussion and the second after fracturing his mouth.

Adams, who never before needed to worry about how he would pay for school, had incurred a high amount of debt from student loans.

“I was sitting at the bus stop one day, thinking to myself there has to be another alternative to pay for school than taking out loans and working a full-time job,” he said.

“That’s when the idea came to me to use tools that already exist, like crowd funding.”

Cofounder Tasha Adams, Adams’ twin sister, said she has been lucky to have a fullride throughout her college career, but that she has seen her brother and many friends struggle with paying for school.

“I just kind of feel like it’s an issue that needs to be addressed,” she said.

Students from all over the nation have already preregistered for the scholarship.

“We have students from places we didn’t expect,” Antonio said, mentioning Washington and Florida.

The scholarship is fiscally supported by local Colorado Springs nonprofit, Pikes Peak Community Foundation.

Adams said they are looking for people interested in donating or getting involved with the scholarship, as well as getting students excited about the program.

“Many college students don’t feel like they have the power to go out and change the world; they think they have

to graduate, then change the world. They have the power today,” said Adams. “[I would like] to have everybody act like you would in a village and try to support one another and help the students to get the education they need,” Tasha said.

Antonio said creating the scholarship has been difficult and time-consuming, but that he’s willing to make the sacrifice to help more students afford higher education.

“Students shouldn’t have to suffer. You shouldn’t have to be punished for trying to make something of yourself,” he said.

The scholarship is accepting applications until the launch.

The first 500 people to preregister will receive access to premium services, such as receiving advance notice of a scholarship or matching funds 24 hours before everyone else.

Students interested in applying or helping with the scholarship can go to www. villagescholarships.com.

Beth-El College renamed to honor long-time donors Kyle Guthrie kguthri2@uccs.eu

The Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences has been renamed following an $8 million grant.

The decision was made by the CU Board of Regents, who met to discuss the renaming in honor of the donors, Helen and Arthur Johnson.

In light of the donation, the college will be renamed the Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences.

This is the first academic

college to be named in honor of a donor.

The Helen K. and Arthur E. Johnson foundation is a non-profit philanthropic foundation that was founded in 1948 with the goal of providing resources and funds to organizations that are aimed at relieving suffering, promoting basic human needs and self-sufficiency and enriching the quality of life. $2.9 million have been donated to the University of Colorado by the foundation since 1979.

The grant given by the foundation is meant to

increase the number and quality of training facilities available to students, as well as increase the number of faculty available to train the students.

The nursing program was named among the Best Online Programs for Grad Nursing by U.S. News & World Report, and is one of the fastest growing nursing programs in Colorado.

Jack Alexander, president of the Helen K. and Arthur E. Johnson Foundation, said that the foundation and the family were thrilled with the news of the renaming.

“We’re honored,” Alexander said. “We would just like you to know that the family behind this and the staff involved are thrilled with our relationship with UCCS and everything that you do there.”

Alexander said the relationship between the foundation and UCCS is a long one.

“We’ve had a strong relationship with UCCS that’s gone back more than ten years,” he said.

Lynn Campion, chairman for the Helen K. and Arthur E. Johnson Foundation Board

of Trustees, also released a statement for a recent press release.

“The Beth-El College of Nursing is an outstanding program and its efforts are imperative to address the nursing shortage in our state, especially in rural Colorado,” Campion said.

“Our family foundation is proud of our long-standing partnership with the college and we are pleased to provide this gift to help ensure longterm sustainability and continued action in addressing such a critical healthcare issue.”

SGA looking to fill open positions until end of semester Evan Musick Samantha Morley emusick@uccs.edu smorley2@uccs.edu

The senator of Letters, Arts and Sciences, the senator of Beth-El and one senator-atlarge position are vacant.

Former senator of LAS Aaron Collett graduated in December. Angela Busk, former Senator of Beth-El, resigned Feb. 25. Senator-atlarge Janine Cantrell resigned April 2 in order to apply to become a justice.

“SGA has had high rates of turnover. Everyone who has ever been a part of SGA

will tell you they’ve done it with the best of intentions. But often, the time commitment and expectations out of the members can be too much,” Christopher Roth, SGA president, wrote in an email.

“It happens frequently,” said speaker of the Senate Dylan Shuster. “A student that may be graduating in December may have to resign from their position, because Student Government requires you to be enrolled in at least three credit hours,” he said.

According to Roth, the three resignations are a “historically low” number for SGA. The positions that are

currently open will only be filled until the end of May, said SGA advisor and assistant director of Student Life and Leadership Sabrina Wienholtz. Come fall semester, the candidates elected during this semester will take their positions.

“The vacancies that are being advertised right now are vacancies for the rest of this term. The folks that were elected, their positions don’t start until June 1,” said Wienholtz.

Students who are interested in applying are directed to Mountain Lion Connect, where they can find a form for the

open positions. After they fill it out, the form is submitted and reviewed by the Appointments Advisory Committee, which is composed of different branches of student government.

The committee interviews the candidates and makes a recommendation to the Senate, which then votes to confirm the appointment.

“Since we consider all of our members to be essentially speakers on behalf of the students, we trust our AAC with coming up with the recommendation whether to support this individual, or position, or not,” Shuster said.

When asked why they do

not hold another election to fill the positions, Roth said that “an elections process is complex and time consuming for SGA and candidates.”

“It just simply does not make sense to have an election for only one or two positions when we, as an SGA, can effectively interview and select highly qualified candidates,” he wrote.

“We’ve worked hard to find new members who are committed to the challenge and time aspect of SGA.” Every position, if there is no turnover during the summer, will be filled in the fall.

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Colorado Math Olympiad transforms C-students into professors April Wefler awefler@uccs.edu

The 32nd Colorado Mathematical Olympiad was held on April 24 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Gallogly Events Center.

Around 325 students from secondary schools were in attendance.

“If you win or lose against another high school [in sports], that will appear in The Gazette as important news. But if you’re brilliant in mathematics, never mind that,” said founder and interdepartmental studies professor Alexander Soifer.

“So I have to create a culture of appreciation for the brightest kids in mathematics because they’re the ones who will become future mathematicians, philosophers, historians,” he said.

“We allow youngsters to shine.”

The students were very diverse and seemed an even balance of both boys and girls. No girl has ever won the Olympiad, but several have received second place.

Participants were given a sheet of five problems and four hours to complete them.

Problems included questions

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Participants in the Math Olympiad at Gallogly Events Center

like, “Can 2015 unit cells of an infinite square grid be colored purple so that each purple cell has an odd number of purple neighbors? (Neighbors are the cells that share a side.)”

The answers were graded by 14 judges, many of them previous Olympiad winners.

Although students are scored on mathematical findings and showing their work, Soifer said the Olympiad is more about creativity.

The Olympiad is held at UCCS because Soifer is a UCCS professor. He said the event could be held somewhere else, but that there’s something special about it being held at a university.

As a boy in Russia, Soifer won for three consecutive years

at the Moscow State University Mathematical Olympiad. Soifer said he was an A student, but that it was to please his mother.

It wasn’t until the Olympiad that he fell in love with mathematics.

Shane Holloway, software development manager for Amazon, competed as an Air Academy high school student from 1994-98. He has been an Olympiad judge since 2000.

“Math is beauty, math is fun,” said Holloway. “[The Olympiad is] seeing mathematics revealing the beauty all around us.”

Michael Skaggs, former submarine navigator for the Navy, participated in the Olympiad as a high school student. Skaggs said he was good at math, but he wasn’t

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fascinated by it until the Olympiad.

“I don’t think that kids get math of this flavor in high school. It’s real math; you have to create something to solve these problems,” he said.

Melina Harris is an eighth grader attending Aurora Quest, an alternative gifted magnet school.

“I wanted to challenge myself,” said Harris. “It was hard. I was only confident in two out of three questions.”

Christopher Lehman is also an eighth grader at Aurora Quest.

“I really enjoy math and I really wanted to see why other people enjoyed it. I found it really challenging; it took a lot of creativity,” he said.

“I like the kind of questions that they ask and the answers don’t matter to them. They want to see the kind of solutions you come up with,” said Emily Chang, an eighth grader from Mountain Ridge Middle School.

Aaron Parsons competed as a high school student from Rangley, Colo. His math teacher brought his class on a six hour trip to participate in the Olympiad.

Parsons won first place and was accepted to Harvard as a

math major.

“He wrote to me that it was only because of this Olympiad and his teacher that he was able to get into Harvard,” Soifer said.

Parsons is now an astronomy professor at the University of California-Berkeley.

“Without this Olympiad, we would’ve lost a brilliant professor at Berkeley,” Soifer said.

Another winner was C-student Matt Kahle, who was refused admission by UCCS because of his GPA. He attended Pikes Peak Community College and eventually earned his post doctorate at Stanford.

Kahle is now a math professor at Ohio State.

“This is what the Olympiad is needed for. Not for A-students – they’ll find their way – but to take a C- student and tell him you are a great talent, you are the best, meant to change his life perhaps from some manual job to the fact that he’s professor,” Soifer said.

Winners will be announced May 2 at 4 p.m. in Berger Hall.

Chancellor Pamela ShockleyZalabak will address attendees.

Additionally, Soifer will read a letter from Governor Hickenlooper and leaders from Districts 11 and 20 will speak.

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HealthCircle Health Education Series looks to assist students, community members

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The Lane Center’s Community Health Education Series aims to educate and improve the health of students and community members.

Samantha Morley smorley2@uccs.edu

UCCS HealthCircle clinics have begun a series of free, monthly seminars to educate adults about how to keep themselves healthy.

The Community Health Education Series is targeted to adults and will feature topics such as nutrition, brain and bone health.

“We wanted to utilize the expertise of the UCCS HealthCircle faculty and staff to provide meaningful health education for the community,” Michael Bigelow, senior executive for clinical activities, UCCS HealthCircle, said in a press release.

“This series aligns with our mission to help empower

people to live healthier and happier lives.”

The first seminar “A Balancing Act: Strategies to Enhance Balance and Prevent Falls for All Ages” took place on April 7 and was presented by the director for the Center for Active Living, Mary Ann Kluge.

“We at the Lane Center, those of us that are clinic or center directors, wanted to share our knowledge with the community,” Kluge said.

“The best way to do that is to present some health education topics of interest and to utilize our expertise to share what we know and also what new research is coming out.”

Kluge said people in their 20s and 30s can show muscular imbalances, which can hurt their joints and increase the

chances of bone breaking in the event of a fall.

According to Kluge, about 60 people attended the seminar.

The group consisted of both students and community members.

“It did bring in a broad range of people, which is nice,” she said.

Three of Kluge’s students assisted with the presentation.

Patty Fryc presented information from her research about fall prevention exercise for participants between 20 and 78 years old. Sarah Kettlekamp focused on self-perception for people between 20 and 80 years old. Mitch Magrini did a study on power training with medicine balls for people aged 55 to 64 years old.

Regarding Magrini’s research, Kluge said that the

power training was successful and improved the integrity of wrists in particular.

“Medicine balls are kind of a new way to train people,” she said.

Margini would instruct the participants to throw the balls in order to increase the stability of their arms.

“When people start to fall down, especially younger people and middle aged people, they tend to reach out with their hands and they break their wrists. And so he wanted to see if he could increase arm speed, and he did,” Kluge said.

The free seminar series will continue on a monthly basis.

The next presentation “Nutrition for You: Strategies to individualize your nutrition plan for optimal health” is scheduled for May 5 at 5:30

p.m. in the Lane Center. It will be hosted by Julie Anderson, director of the Peak Nutrition Clinic.

The Lowdown What: HealthCircle Community Health Education Series Nutrition for You: Strategies to individualize your nutrition plan for optimal health” Where: Lane Center 4862 N. Nevada Ave. When: May 5, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

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Spring Concert brings synthpop band Outasight to campus Student Activities, said.

Richard Andrew, known as Outasight, will be performing his hit song “Tonight is the Night” along with other songs. “Now or Never” and “Don’t say anything” are a few songs on the possible playlist for the concert.

Outasight has been in the music scene since 2010 and has worked with artists

DeKeveion Glaspie dglaspie@uccs.edu

On May 2 from 7:30-10 p.m. in the Gallogly Events Center, the annual spring concert will feature musical talent Outasight.

The concert will be free for students and $10 for general admission. Students will have the opportunity to experience a different sound than last year’s concert.

“Last year we did country and this year we wanted to get a unique sound. He has a new album and is currently working with Mountain Dew. We wanted to have

such as Chiddy Bang and Katy Perry. “Tonight is the Night” was featured in a Pepsi commercial.

Genevieve from California and Pries from Denver will open the night and free t-shirts will be given away at the concert.

Students can pick up their free tickets at the University Center info desk.

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Outasight will come to Gallogly Events Center on May 2.

him perform right before he became too famous,”

Al Wilson, main stage programmer for the Office of

What: Spring Concert featuring OutaSight Where: Gallogly Events Center

When: May 2, 7:30 p.m.

How much: Free for students $10 general admission

Winner selected in student financial video contest Rachel Librach rlibrach@uccs.edu

Figuring out your finances for school can be confusing and frustrating.

That’s why the Mountain Lion Money Matters program organized a competition where students could submit videos that better explain the financial process to students.

The videos had to be submitted by April 2 and uploaded to YouTube so students could watch them and vote for their favorite.

On April 21, a reception

dinner in UC 303 was held to honor the contestants and the winner was awarded $500.

The videos had to be three to five minutes long and discuss a financial topic. Some chose to discuss scholarships while others illustrated strategies to best conserve your money for college.

The winner for this year’s Money Matters competition was Ryder Tam’s video “Scholarships in the Golden Era.” The video was a comedy portraying a young man feeling overwhelmed by

the pressures of paying his way through college. The narrator in the video assists the character by showing him ways he can earn scholarships to help him pay for school.

Tam was absent from the reception dinner, but his teammates Lisa Erickson, Frank Maxwell, Guissepui Palmero and David Marino accepted the award on Tam’s behalf.

Marino described the four minute video as a way to help students struggling with financial aid have a better understanding of different

programs that can help.

“Our video was about assisting the general public and any people who have questions about money, paying for college, going through FAFSA and getting scholarships,” he said.

“Many people think they can’t make it because school is too expensive, that they have to pay out of pocket for $20,000 a semester, but the fact of the matter is that it’s easier than that.”

Maxwell believes that not only was this competition a fun way to get students talking about financial aid

and simplifying some of its more daunting aspects, but it brought people from all different types of majors together to create the video.

“I think it’s good that this contest exists because it brings people together who are from all different fields of study; psychology, communication, and engineering for example,” he said.

“None of us have any financial background, so it forces us to learn this process the same way students first learn or experience financial aid.”

‘The Liar’ presents comedy through love

DeKeveion Glaspie dglaspie@uccs.edu

Rating: 4.5/5 Stars

Theatreworks celebrated the last play of the semester.

Written by Pierre Corneille, “The Liar” is set in 1643 France and revolves around the lives of a liar, a dunce and two beautiful young women looking for love.

The opening scene was filled with laughter from Cliton (Sammie Kinnett). Not only did he master the tongue twisting lines, but he engaged with the audience and other cast members.

Dorante (John DiAntonio) was a clever character that was a compulsive liar.

Slithering out of one situation and into another, DiAntonio was the most colorful character of the cast. Whether it was planned or not, he managed to involve a few of

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‘The Liar’ runs until May 10 at Theatreworks.

the audience members with the script.

The exchange between Dorante and his potential

lover, filled with musical numbers and puns, was the most comedic scene.

The mix of love and

confusion always seems to follow Dorante. Although he is under the impression that he is in love with the fair maiden Lucrece (Carley Cornelius), he has actually fallen for her cousin Clarice (Erin Partin).

One downfall was that the stage could have been made into different sceneries instead of just one. Despite this, the cast members used their space very resourcefully, allowing the audience to use a lot of their imagination.

Isabelle (Caitlin Wise) was a wise and spunky young servant. But her twin sister Sabine (also played by the same actress) is very strict.

Isabella falls madly in love with Cliton, but Sabine makes sure to impose her strictness on the relationship.

Action was also a prominent component of the play.

Fighting for love and with the help of miscommunication, Dorante and his childhood friend Alcippe (Karl Brevik)

incorporated both violence and comedy in their duel.

“The Liar” is a must see production that will have the audience wanting more. Just be sure not to blink or you will miss the plot twist that brings everyone together in the end.

“The Liar” will be running until May 10 and tickets are free for UCCS students.

The Lowdown What: Theatreworks “The Liar” Where: Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theater When: Until May 10 Wednesday through Saturday, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday matinees May 2 and 9, 2 p.m.

How much: Free

April 26, 2015­­­ | 6 Culture Student Film Festival to celebrate 15th anniversary Audrey Jensen

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The longest running student film festival in America will hold its 15th annual festival and awards show featuring films between three and 15 minutes long from students of all majors.

On May 10 from 3-9 p.m. in Dwire 121 is the 15th Annual UCCS Student Short Film Festival hosted by VAPA Film Studies and VAPA Film Club and sponsored

by SGA. The student-run festival will begin by screening each submitted film. A buffet dinner provided by Dining and Food Services and an awards show will follow.

The categories judges will vote on are live drama, live comedy, documentary, experimental, animation and on the night of the festival a film will win audience’s choice.

Director of the Film Studies program, Robert von Dassanowsky, said that this event is a great interaction between students of all disciplines to discuss film and the arts.

“We have students from physics and biology. It’s just their love for film. Some students make their own film, some will continue this as their life’s work. It’s open to every student.”

“It started in one of those rooms on the basement floor

[in the UC] with about five or six students showing their films with a giant bag of popcorn to accompany them,” he said.

“It has developed into this very professional film festival and awards program over the 15 years.”

Dassanowsky said that although unusual for a student short film festival, winners of the categories are presented with a large crystal award. Usually there are between 15 and 30 student entries.

VAPA Film Club vice president, Rob Bowen, who is majoring in film studies and women’s and ethnic studies, said that the judging of the films will be done May 8 by over 15 student judges in addition to Film Club officers. “[Judging is based on] Personal subjectivity, it’s what you felt about the film, if you liked it and how it fit into its category. It’s judged on the overall feel of the film,” Bowen said.

“We don’t do acting, or directing. We don’t pick apart various categories. It’s more focused on the overall product and what the student is trying to say with the film.”

Winners of the categories will also receive laurels in addition to the glass award.

Bowen expects between 100 and 150 students at the festival.

courtesy film club of uccs facebook

“Being the 15th year, along with school’s 50th anniversary, there’s a lot of celebratory for the event, we get a little more response than we would.”

Since SGA was able to help fund the event, there will be a large backdrop poster with the club’s logos for people to take pictures in front of. Audience members will also receive postcards with the film club logo.

Dassanowsky enjoys seeing students gain knowledge on both how a film festival works and how it’s put together.

“Running it is an important aspect of being in the entertainment field and film production. A lot of students that have entered in the past have also been able to enter their films in national and international film festivals.” “[Alumna Sarah Lofti] was one of the last 12 [finalists] out of 500 that applied for the international Student Academy Awards run by the Oscars,” Dassanowsky said.

The VAPA Film Club meets every Friday during the semester in Dwire Hall 121 at 7:30 p.m.

For more information about the festival students can search for “The Film Club of UCCS” public group on Facebook. Students can submit films through May 8 to the Student Life and Leadership Office.

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Greek Week features football, charity, singing Rachel Librach rlibrach@uccs.edu

April 20: Dress to Pin

April 19: PHIred UP

Greek students participated by dressing formally for the day.

Each group has special pins to wear that are only appropriate while wearing formal clothing. The day wvas intended for members to show support for their sororities or fraternities by dressing up and wearing their pins.

Greek Week began with a Powder Puff game on the Alpine Garage turf. Despite the 46 degree weather conditions, the sorority teams were pumped and fighting on the field.

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April 21:Pay It Forward

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ZoĂŤ Wilson, left, and Ariel Schmidt, right.

Greek Societies supported Relay for Life by asking for donations at booths at Dwire, Centennial, the West Lawn and outside the library. In total, the event raised $355.62.

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Left to right, Shamara Byrd, Tania Rayes and Kailav Estepp

April 23:

Pitch Perfect Greek Idol

The Greeks were divided into four teams and had to perform the best lip sync to win. The category of song was randomly selected by spinning a song wheel. A panel of faculty members and students from Student Life and Leadership judged the participants.

Four teams went head to head in a series of trivia games. The first category was UCCS Greek chapter trivia, the second was national fraternity and sorority life, the third was U.S. trivia, the fourth UCCS trivia and finally pop culture.

April 24: Greek Awards All participants and winners of events were recognized and congratulated for their hard work and perseverance.

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Learning outside of class often more useful, potent Jonathan Toman Editor-in-Chief

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While learning in the classroom is important, the knowledge that sticks with us comes from real-world experience.

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It’s nearing the end of April, and that means the beginning of summer.

For some that means complete freedom, for some, more school, for some, a job. It means that the crush of finals becomes very real very quickly, and what little time students did have has evaporated.

It also means that our method of learning, how we continue to make ourselves better, changes. It is no longer in the classroom (unless you are one of those taking summer classes).

That’s OK, because contrary to what many folks believe, a lot of learning takes place outside of the classroom.

Wait, that happens?

Yes, people do learn outside of school. And it’s often more potent, more useful, better information.

The best way to learn is by making the mistakes first. Although this can lead to harsh results, we are bound to remember our lesson more if it becomes

a real problem.

The great, yet fundamentally unsound aspect of college is that it is a laboratory.

Our mistakes in class (within reason) can be made without much fear of losing our job as a student.

In college, we are encouraged to take chances, try things we wouldn’t dare try at other times in our life. While we are more on our own than we have ever been before, the safety net of our parents and the school support staff is still there.

The impact of our decisions and effort in class results in a letter grade on a digital transcript.

That’s it. The complete, utter fear of failing is never entirely there.

But in the real world, when we learn outside of the classroom, that fear is always present.

As any graduating senior will tell you, the lack of a safety net outside the classroom is scary. But it also serves as the impetus for learning, longer-lived understanding than just until the next test is over.

For the most part, what we learn in

class, we learn well enough to remember until the end of the class. For the most part, what we learn outside the classroom are things we take with us for the rest of our lives and affect how we view and participate in the world.

There’s a reason we remember life experiences more than what we learned in a classroom: we have actually used that information since then.

Don’t misunderstand, there’s a place for both academic and real-world learning in our education, and the smart people in the world have both.

It’s just that the smartest people in the world realize that they don’t know everything. They also realize that the learning you need for life doesn’t all come from a classroom or textbook.

The difference between “street smarts” and “book smarts” is often vast, and the only way we can get both is by participating in both.

So take advantage of your opportunities, both inside and outside the classroom, to continue to make yourself better.

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O pinion Studying English takes effort, opens up the mind

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Samantha Morley smorley2@uccs.edu

Writing a 500-word article is so much more relaxing than composing a 12-page paper.

I love being an English major. It’s one of the most eye-opening teaching experiences I have ever endured, and I have a degree in graphic design

and work experience in the medical world.

Neither can amount to what being an English major has taught me.

When I first started my degree, I received skepticism from my friends and family about the job market possibilities. Most of them encouraged me to pursue something more technical, like math or science. I went with their advice and tried a few courses in these subjects, but I struggled.

Math and science didn’t resonate with me.

English did.

I’ve been writing creatively since I was a small child, and I can’t

count how many books I’ve read. Literature has always been a passion of mine and it remains intact even after going through the intensive process of getting my bachelor’s degree.

In the beginning, I thought I was going to be read interesting books and write profound papers. Of course there were bits of both throughout these last four years, but the classes were more work that I actually expected.

The papers in college are far more challenging than in high school. You can’t get by with basic interpretations of literature.

You can’t just expect a teacher to accept any kind

of writing. You have to be able to open your mind and see what others cannot.

It’s a challenge, but a very worthwhile one.

Math and science are great at teaching people about the technical side of life. I have no doubt that anyone who can accomplish those degrees is highly intelligent and will surely be successful.

But English opened up my mind in such a way that no other field could. It is incredibly difficult to put words on paper in a way that generations hundreds of years down the road will comprehend, especially with language evolving as it does.

I have learned about poets and authors from all over the world. They have taught me about their way of life as if I were actually there. It is wonderful how someone who has been dead for hundreds of years can help me see, smell, taste and feel their world.

But in order to get to this depth of engagement with the text, you have to work

hard and open your mind.

You won’t get much out of an English degree if you can’t accept what a book is trying to teach you.

For all the incoming freshmen or transfers, an English major is not something to scoff at. It’s a field that teaches a range of skills that are useful in a wide range of careers. You may not become a teacher, or a literary agent, or a book publisher.

But you will appear more worldly and accepting of others, which is extremely valuable everywhere.

Keep at it and it will be enormously rewarding.

Trust me.

the political spectrum.

The right seems to think of them as overmilitarized government goons working their way toward creating a police state. The left seems to think of them as racist murderers who will gun down anyone who isn’t white.

But very few people regard police officers as the heroes that they truly are, and it’s important that we remember this distinction in light of the few bad apples that are giving them a bad name.

Police brutality cases, especially interracial ones, make for great headlines and stories, so it stands to reason that the news will focus on these stories to the point

of exhaustion.

But despite what the news, Reverend Al Sharpton, or any antipolice advocacy groups would like to tell you, police brutality is almost non-existent for most of us.

In their latest investigation, the American Bureau of Justice Statistics found that 0.049 percent of police contacts resulted in complaints of excessive police force.

Of these complaints, only eight percent of them were sustained based on any merit or evidence.

That comes out to only 0.0039 percent.

Yet this tiny number is all it takes to rally a country against a force

of peace keepers that risk their lives every day for our protection.

I love living in a country that believes the actions of ISIS and radical Islam should not be reflected on American Muslims. It shows our convictions as a country that does not judge a group of people for the actions of a portion.

And yet it’s perfectly OK to group all police officers as murderous thugs based on such a small fraction of bad apples.

When I was a soldier, people loved to thank me for my service and called me a hero more times that I can count.

But the only difference between service members

and police officers is that when our deployments are over, we get to come home to a relatively safe environment until our next rotation.

Police officers don’t get that luxury. They kiss their wives and children goodbye every day not knowing if they will come home.

If it looks like they’re being mean on a video, they’re doing that because they’re trying to stay alive. The second a police officer loses control or dominance of a bad situation, they typically lose their lives.

Many officers go above and beyond the call of duty to serve their community, they risk their lives every day to

protect yours.

If you think that officer who pulled you over for texting and driving was being a “total jerk”, too bad, because he was trying to save both your life and the life of the child you were probably a few minutes away from getting stuck in your front grill.

So the next time you see a police officer on the 14th hour of their double shift, have some sympathy. Thank them, shake their hand, or if you really feel like splurging, buy them a cup of coffee.

Anyone who has to deal with human stupidity the way they do probably needs a lot of coffee.

You can’t just expect a teacher to accept any kind of writing. You have to be able to open your mind and see what others cannot.

Never forget that police are heroes too

Kyle Guthrie kguthri2@uccs.edu

It seems like everywhere you look these days, we hear more and more stories about police brutality. Whether it’s from the news or from your friends, everyone seems to be talking about it.

Right now is a very bad time to be a cop, and that’s from both sides of

Apps are unnecessary, functioning without phones is possible

Audrey Jensen ajensen4@uccs.edu

I am convinced that human civilization will end up like “Wall-E.” We will have screens in our face 24/7 and float in hover chairs because we have no bone mass to support our weight as a result of staring at a screen all day.

Many of us do this already.

Since the rise of

technology, marketers and advertisers want to use everything in their power to reach out to consumers. They will use what people carry with them all day: our tablets and cell phones.

It isn’t enough to try and keep up with Facebook, Twitter, Vine, Snapchat, Instagram and Yik Yak. Now, stores like King Soopers and Target have decided to use apps to keep in touch with their customers in order to find out what we like to buy.

You can find an app for just about anything.

Most of the time, I download a new app and end up disappointed and delete it or never open it.

Any real use I have for apps on my

smartphone are for mere boredom. As a full-time student working two or three part-time jobs, I do not have time to be bored. These apps take away from studying and getting things done.

I don’t understand how high school, junior high and elementary school students spend all of their time interacting with each other over the internet and through apps.

In 20 years, the youngest generation won’t be able to fathom what we did without all of our apps. There are apps for reading, cooking, exercising, games, finances, dating and anything else you may think of.

The internet has

changed how the world works and stayihng connected to everyone is never going to be as difficult as it used to be, but sometimes I just want to hide my phone for a week and live in the world that I can see and interact with in real life.

There will come a time when your phone breaks, it dies or you lose it. For those who only depend on their phone and apps, this will be a test to see if you are able to function without them.

It’s not hard to research on the computer or go to the store and read a book to learn how to cook or going to the library to research.

While these apps and the internet are good resources, they shouldn’t

There will come a time when your phone breaks, it dies or you lose it.

For those who only depend on their phone and apps, this will be a test to see if you are able to function without them. be what you depend on for daily living.

You should be able to read a map, find a book in the library and cook from a recipe book.

It can obviously be handy, but once you become dependent on your device it can become an addiction.

In an article found on “Student Science:

A Resource of the Society for Science and the Public’s” website, Kathiann Kowalski said that when phone’s die some people begin to have panic and anxiety.

She encourages students to ask themselves a few questions.

“How much time do you spend with your phone or other technologies? What activities do you use them for - and why? Do you use the technology when you should be paying attention in class or to other things? And how easily can you go a day - or even a week - without a phone or logging onto a social media or networking site?”

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Student crossing off bucket list goal to run across nation

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MBA student Paul Borsuk is taking this route in his run across the country. He is currently in Texas.

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It would seem impossible for any student to pull a Forrest Gump and run across the U.S. with papers, mid-terms and finals.

But graduate student Paul Borsuk plans to finish running from California to Georgia in just under five months while working toward his MBA in business.

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Borsuk started his run in Monterey State Beach, Calif. with his lifelong friend Chris Malasig on Feb. 8 and hopes to finish by June 30.

He waited until he was in between careers to live out his 10-year dream.

“When I found out for sure that I was going to get out from active duty service [in the Army] that’s when I told myself I needed to set aside some time for me and take some time between my military and CPA careers,” Borsuk said.

As part of his run, he looks to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project through a link on his website.

“I think it ties it all together; for one thing I’ve always wanted to do this as a bucket list kind of trip. Chris is a wounded warrior, and I see what he goes through every day,” Borsuk said.

Borsuk runs 25-28 miles per day and spends most nights in a motel.

“What’s hard is that I’m exhausted after my 25-mile run,” he said. “Even though I tell myself I will study right away, after a shower I want to take an hour nap, then get coffee or an energy drink and then study.”

To prepare for the journey, Borsuk started building his mileage per week and chose his route.

“In the Army your focus is not to run 70 miles, the most we ran was four miles. I had to increase my mileage so I went from 25 to 80 miles in one week,” Borsuk said.

He asked Malasig in December if he would come along as support. Borsuk chose the southern route because he knew there would be a lot of snow up north since he started the run in February and preferred to run in warmer weather.

Malasig will meet Borsuk with his car at a stopping point during the day.

All of their supplies, food and water are in the car.

Borsuk also had to prepare for obstacles while running through each state such as muddy roads, weather and stray dogs.

Borsuk and Malasig had to spend three hours digging their car out of mud and run through the Mojave Desert.

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Between running and studying for school, Borsuk has enjoyed what each state has to offer.

“What’s cool is sveeing the terrain change as you cross state lines, in southern California as you go into Arizona that’s where there’s finally water around. As you go into New Mexico you see green landscape but it is mostly desert. As you finally go to Texas it’s no longer desert, it is brown dirt,” he said.

Along the way, Borsuk threw the first pitch at an Oakland A’s game in Phoenix. He also learned that he is the third cross country runner to go through Hobbes, New Mexico.

On April 21, they reached their halfway point in Snyder, Texas. Borsuk hopes from Texas onward will be a smoother journey than the first half of the trip.

He added that all he can do is take the journey day by day.

“It’s a great feeling to be done every day, but I’m not really sure I’ve really had much time to take it all in yet,” he said. “Once I’m done with this trip I’ll be really, really happy when I finish. I’ll probably cry because I’ll be so happy.”

To follow the rest of their journey across the United States and donate to the Wounded Warrior Project go to https://coasttocoastrun.wordpress.com/.

Dani Fonseca helps give Mountain Lions chance to make playoffs Brandon Applehans bappleha@uccs.edu

Dani Fonseca is one of the most dangerous hitters in the RMAC. She is tied for second place in the conference with 12 homeruns this season, separated from first place by one. She takes great pride in the ranking.

“It’s definitely cool to have that type of title in a big hitting conference,” said Fonseca. “It’s really cool hearing it from coach, because he has been here for fifteen years, with him saying that I am one of the best hitters he’s ever had.”

But Fonseca doesn’t always swing for the fences.

“I’m not trying to hit a homerun every time,” she said. “I’m just trying to hit hard every time. If the homerun happens, then that is fantastic. Just

hit it hard, make the defense make a mistake and get the runners over.”

According to the junior and San Francisco native, her perception has changed while at UCCS. “You get in here as a freshman and you’re like ‘Oh my gosh I’m playing softball, that’s like the life,’” she said. “You think softball is everything in your life, but then it really makes you think about time management.”

“The thing about softball is I have so much more fun now because I realize it’s ending soon. I don’t take it for granted, I love every day at practice, and I try to have as much fun as possible.”

Fonseca dreamt of playing college softball in Colorado after trips with her club team.

“We used to do these huge tournaments here in Colorado, for

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like a week long with our club team, and I just loved this place,” she said.

“Once coach started recruiting me, I said absolutely.”

Fonseca explained she has little free time.

“If I’m not in school and if I’m not doing softball, I’m usually sleeping,” she said. “Definitely sleep, but I just like to hang out with [teammate] Korey [Kulpins] at home.

We normally don’t do too much, but we just take our time and relax.”

Fonseca’s family visits to support her.

“My mom comes to games all the time,” said Fonseca. “She comes at least once a month to our home games. I see my mom all the time; my dad comes out every now and then, and even my grandparents.”

The Mountain Lions are eighth in the conference going into their final series against last place Black Hills State April 24-25.

Only the top eight teams make the RMAC Tournament.

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Men and women’s track and field battle to make final impressions

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Matt Winfrey, left and Molly Klotz, right, practice at The Grace Center as part of their preparation for the upcoming RMAC Championships.

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Both the men and women’s track and field teams have reached the final 100-meters of their season.

The Colorado College Invitational on April 4 served as a race similar to the Rust Bust of the cross country season. The men and women used the event to fine-tune their skills in preparation for the rest of the season.

Matt Winfrey, senior, and Caleb Simons, freshman, both recorded wins in their individual events. Winfrey won the 800-meter run by more than two seconds, and

Simons clocked a time of 23.30 seconds to win the 200-meter dash.

Head coach Mark Misch said the event served its purpose.

“It’s a pretty low-key meet,” he said. “It’s practically a tune-up meet. It’s nice, it’s local and it doesn’t cost us anything. It was fun and we got done what we needed to.”

Both teams then traveled to California where they competed in the Cal State-LA Twilight Open April 16. For the women, freshman Molly Klotz emerged as a driving force for the Mountain Lions.

In the 400-meter hurdles, Klotz recorded a fifth place finish with a time of 1 minute

3.18 seconds.

“It was just exciting to get to travel somewhere, especially California,” said Klotz. “It’s really exciting to be at a really big meet with tons of school and tons of divisions. I just told myself I wanted to run well.”

Head coach Corey Kubatzky, said her talent and approach are unique.

“There was some level of expectations coming in, especially in the hurdles,” he said. “She was the state champ last year as a senior, and had the fastest time in Colorado.”

“She’s very talented, but what sets her apart is how she approaches competition being very competitive and doesn’t

get scared,” said Kubatzky.

“She gets excited and wants to beat people.”

At the Bryan Clay Invitational on April 17 in Azusa, Calif., it was the men’s team who had a young talent emerge.

Sophomore distance runner Corey Brown improved his 5,000-meter time by 21.45 seconds.

“To have shaved over 20 seconds off my time is such a blessing,” said Brown. “It’s inexplicably fulfilling to reach a goal beyond that which may seem unachievable, especially when regarding the results of previous races. To me, it’s not something I could have done alone.”

For Misch, watching Brown excel in his sophomore year is good to see.

“He had a good year for us in cross country and ran real well at nationals,” said Misch.

“He has just progressed.”

“We had three sophomores and a freshman run at the national cross country championship, so that’s pretty good,” he added. “Coming off of that, these guys are pretty amped up so they are going to keep banging away. It’s what we expect.”

After the Colorado Mines Pre-Conference meet April 2425, both teams will compete in the RMAC Outdoor Championships May 1-3 in Pueblo.

What the departure of Derrick White means for UCCS

Jonathan Toman jtoman@uccs.edu

Derrick White is no longer a Mountain Lion.

Better get used to it, UCCS fans.

The big brother in Boulder took him away from the little brother in Colorado Springs, and after a year of not competing due to transfer rules, White will play for the Buffs.

I don’t begrudge him the choice. Decisions are made with the information at hand at the time, and he is looking to his future, a future he thinks will be

better in Boulder.

Will he succeed at Boulder? I think yes.

But it doesn’t matter, really. Not to us.

Life goes on, and the important question for us is what the departure of Derrick White means for UCCS and fans of the team they have seen explode into relevance the past two seasons.

It means the weight of the success of next season will sit on the shoulders of White’s former partner in crime, forward Alex Welsh.

The kid is no slouch, he averaged 16.3 points and 7.4 rebounds per game this season.

He’s not Derrick White. He can’t beat defenders off the dribble. But that’s not his game; he’s a big guy that works in the paint with cold efficiency.

Then, he can step back and hit three’s with regularity.

More importantly, Welsh has the stuff to be

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Derrick White officially transferred to CU-Boulder.

a leader. The skill, the experience and the sheer grittiness needed in the RMAC. It means a previously almost automatic RMAC Championship will be impractical, though still inside the realm of possibility.

It means the role players of the last two years, namely guard TreShawn Wilford and forward Dalton Patten, have to become more than that and step into

leadership roles both on and off the court.

It means head coach Jeff Culver will earn his pay. His program will be tested, his recruiting will be tested and his ability to create buy-in from players will be tested.

Lost in the Derrick White story is the fact that UCCS will lack its spark plug next year due to Darius Pardner’s graduation. The timely three-pointers from Tim Billingsley will also

graduate.

It will be up to Culver to remedy these potential pitfalls.

Despite his move to Boulder, the “Derrick White effect” will help Culver in his quest to start fresh in Colorado Springs. The foundation for a great program was laid by White, even if he didn’t see it to the end, and Culver has to capitalize on that while the glow is still here.

Culver must continue to find the hidden gems like White, who wasn’t recruited by anyone besides UCCS. This search for hidden gems must be

in tandem with the improved reputation of UCCS basketball that will allow Culver to recruit the best in the state, like Blend Avdili and Chris Moody, two of the top ten seniors from Colorado as rated

by ESPN. Those two signed national letters of intent with UCCS April 17.

It’s a great start for a program that had two winning seasons in its entire history before White’s sophomore year.

As the Derrick White era ends, a new age begins for men’s basketball.

Next Up: Men’s Basketball Average Points per Game Leaders 2014-15 Derrick White (Leaving for CU-Boulder): 25.8 Alex Welsh: 16.8 Darius Pardnerw (Graduating): 9.3 Tim Billingsley (Graduating): 7.5 Dalton Patten: 6.8 TreShawn Wilford: 6.7