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The death of student Gage Glenn on Friday in parking lot Y on west campus is being investigated as a suicide. Both UNCPD and Greeley Police are investigating the incident. Several welcome events were cancelled Friday due to severe weather. UNC’s convocation, an annual event marking the beginning of the academic year and featuring speeches by the president of the university, the mayor of Greeley and the student body president, was cancelled. Bear Fest and Taste of UNC, two carnival themed activities meant to welcome students back to the university, were moved indoors. Classes for the Fall 2016 semester begin this Monday. The deadline to add classes is Friday, August 26, while the deadline to drop classes is scheduled for Friday, September 2.
The University of Northern Colorado’s marching band and football team feed off eachothers’ energy during games, and students on each team say they are like one big family, working together to steer the Bears to victory. The first football game will be at 2:05 p.m. on Sept. 3 at Nottingham Field against Rocky Mountain College. Photo by Jason Keller|The Mirror.
A Band of Bears
By Jason Keller
arts@uncmirror.com
There are few universities across the country that don’t have a marching band. One can see them happily playing tunes during the scant breaks in sports action. How often is the crowd focused on the band? How much attention do they direct at them and not the team, huddling close with their coach at the nucleus of that human mass, preaching plays and barking orders? Despite their understated position on the sidelines, a marching band is no less complex, no less intense, no less brotherly, than a football team, and the University of Northern
Colorado’s band is no exception. Practice is three times a week, two hours at a time. A crowd of close to 200 performers stand in practiced silence, stone faced. Their instruments bristle above them, in the crook of their arms, on protrude from their chests. Three drum majors, otherwise called conductors, stand above the crowd. There is a prolonged silence. Then, with military precision, the conductors bark their orders. The band moves in one fluid step. Perhaps more, should their conductors demand it of them. Story continued on page 4.
UNC hopes to boost voter turnout among students by participating in the All In Campus Democracy Challenge. A committee comprised of students, faculty and staff will coordinate efforts to raise democratic participation on campus. Possible actions would include voter registration drives and establishing the University Center as a polling place. UNC had higher than average turnout in both the 2012 presidential election and the The director of UNC’s School of Nursing has been recognized as a distinguished nursing educator. Faye Hummel was chosen for induction as a fellow into the 10th class of fellows of the National League of Nursing’s Academy of Nursing Education. Fellows are chosen based on their teaching strategies, research on nursing education, academic leadership, promotion of public policy that aides nursing educators in their work. Hummel holds a master’s degree in community nursing and a Ph.D. in sociology.
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