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NEWS BRIEFS UNC will not have classes Wednesday-Sunday, and administrative offices will be closed Thursday-Sunday for the Thanksgiving holiday. University offices will be open Wednesday, and residence halls will remain open for the week. To contact specific university departments for information about schedules and services available on holidays, visit: http://www.unco. edu/contact.shtml. The Greeley Chamber of Commerce’s events calendar lists community events taking place in Greeley over the holidays. The calendar can be found at http://business.greeleychamber.com/events/. Donations are being collected for students identified as “independent.” A variety of items are being collected now through Dec. 18 through UNC’s Classified Staff Council and Academic Bridge Program. The donation drive is meant to help meet the basic needs of students identified through the Office of Financial Aid as “independent” students. These students tend to have very little or no financial support as a result of being in foster care, homeless, a ward of the court or other similar circumstances. A list of the items needed and drop-off locations can be found at http://www. unco.edu/news/assets/pdfs/ independentstudentsupplydrive-2015.pdf.
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Northern Colorado’s defense stepped up in the second half against Abilene Christian University, forcing two fumbles and an interception. The team ended the game with five sacks.
TASTE OF AFRICA SHOWCASES DIVERSE CULTURES The event hosted by African Students United featured dishes from the eastern, western and central regions of Africa. PAGE 4
VOLLEYBALL ELIMINATED FROM BIG SKY TOURNAMNET The Bears fell to Sacramento State
STUDENT RESPONSES TO THE REFUGEE CRISIS
of the competition on Thursday. PAGE 7
emergency and the United States’ response. PAGE 5
Writers Jett Goldsmith and Drew Heiderscheidt
Discounted lift tickets are available through Outdoor Pursuits. The Outdoor Pursuits Gear Shop, located in the west entrance of Harrison Hall, has discounted singleday Winter Park lift tickets for $65 and Copper Mountain lift tickets for $55. There are no blackout dates, and tickets are good for any regular-season day. The Gear Shop is open 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Mondays and Fridays and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday. The Outdoor Pursuits Gear Shop can be contacted at 970-3514327 or at outdoor.pursuits@ unco.edu. The Legal Studies minor has been moved to the Political Science Department. The department is now offering the minor, which coordinates prelaw advising. Previously the minor was offered through the Philosophy Department. For more information, visit: http:// www.unco.edu/psci/prelaw/ ls_minor.html or e-mail Gregory Williams at Gregory.Williams@unco.edu.
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WED 11/25 Thanksgiving Holiday (No Classes, University Open)
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When Ather Zia, an anthropology instructor, was asked what she would teach if it was her last chance, she decided to speak on the topic of fear. “I would say how contextual fear is and how constructed fear is,� Zia said. “Question this fear.� Zia explained there is so much pressure to be a success in modern day society, that many people end up with a serious fear of being a failure. “What is success?� she asked. At the time of the interview, Zia was going to a conference on gender studies along with the gender studies department. She had to present a paper about patriarchy at the conference, which she had not finished. The pressure to finish the paper caused Zia to fear she would be a failure if she could not finish it on time, she said. “I suppose I would want to talk about fear because I am so scared right now,� Zia said. Zia said people need to take hold of the fear which threatens to confine them. She explained learning to take control of fear can increase the
chances of being successful. Society teaches people to fear everything, Zia said. “Stepping into the car, driving safely,â€? Zia said. “But why do we drive safely? Fear of cops? Most of the time, we do get over the speed limit. That’s the human instinct. From morning until evening we’re battling fear‌ We fear death itself.â€? Society is set up in such a way people are constantly battling their own mortality and working to stretch their own lives out as long as they can, Zia argued. Raising children and making them healthy or what people do with their own bodies— Zia said that people are built to try and fight death every second of their lives. Zia said a fear of death creeps its way into every aspect of a person’s life, even in something as mundane as the water bottle sitting atop her desk. “If I drink this water, is it purified?â€? Zia asked. “Is it bottled? Where does it come from? Is the water interacting with this glass? Is this metal? Is it interacting with my water? What’s happening to my body?â€? Zia said most people have lost the bravado their ancestors used to have. The initiative is gone be-
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Anthropology instructor Ather Zia said that while fear can be a useful tool for motivation, if people are not careful, it can also chain them.
cause people are fearful. Most people finish their degrees in school, Zia said, but what about the people who do not? People like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates never obtained college degrees, but went on to change the world. Yet people have a serious fear of going against the flow, Zia said. Zia explained that when she
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This week, the Student Senate meeting was dominated by a town hall, meaning many of the items were not discussed this week. Global Pursuits, an unchartered club on campus, introduced themselves to the Student Senate. Global Pursuits is a club students can join to improve their experiences at UNC, on and off campus. Students who join receive benefits such as $1 movie nights at the Kress and audiobooks about leadership. The group is requesting chartered status on campus from the Student Senate.
was working on her book, she had her own fear of being perceived as an unsuccessful writer. She went to college and got her degree and then worked for the BBC as a reporter. “I could have been like that person who was still working on their book, didn’t have a job and had kids,� Zia said. “But what would that be seen as?� Instead, Zia decided to do
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something that could be recognized as being conventionally successful. Modern life is so focused on success that unless people can clear the hoops set out for them, they are in a constant state of fear, Zia said, but fear is not necessarily a bad thing. Fear is powerful, but it can also become like shackles if it is not controlled.
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Group encourages students to interact on important issues By Miranda Limb news@uncmirror.com
This year, the Leadership for Civic Engagement group started out as a class assignment in a Leadership 200 class. The group held its main event for the Global Change Campaign at 7 p.m. on Thursday in Michener Library. The event was open to all students and staff. It also hosted a guest speaker who addressed civic engagements and the necessity of factual information. The group said its goal is to bridge the gap between information and awareness. “There are two other groups,” said William Costello, a journalism and mass communications and economics double major. The two other groups in the class also chose specific topics regarding issues going on in the world. “We didn’t want to pick a single issue,” Costello said. On Oct. 29, Leadership for Civic Engagement presented its campaign, The Global Change Campaign, at UNC’s 2015 Community Engaged Scholars Symposium. Over 100 students, professors and other community members attended. This event promoted the group’s campaign and connected it to its local community, allowing it to hear the community’s ideas about civil change. The idea behind the Leadership for Civic Engagement group is to promote and encourage people to find information on an issue they are interested in. The group encourages people to get involved with different issues by posting weekly discussion questions on its Facebook page, “Global
Change Campaign.” One of the issues the group focuses on is fact checking. Group members said they want people to make sure the information they are given is true and factual. Leadership for Civic Engagement encourages students to use factcheck.org to help erase any uncertainty a person may have concerning a specific issue. The Global Change Campaign was created to reach out to the community to discuss, in both written and oral forms, about what goes on in the global sphere and how it can be changed. In this campaign, the group said it wants to create a desire in local students to get involved and understand civic issues. “There are no formal positions,” said Karl Brockmeier, a business marketing major. “There are only six of us. Every time there is something to be done, we talk about it as a group and then decide from there who will take care of it.” Although they are constricted by time, the people in the group said they hope to be able to reach everyone and encourage more people to get involved by the end of the semester. “We don’t care what a person does, we just want them to do it passionately,” Costello said Though it is only a semester project for their class, Costello said if someone wants to keep it going, it could happen. The Facebook page, “Global Change Campaign,” lists information about how to get involved. Anyone who is interested can get involved with different weekly discussions on world issues after joining the page.
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Editor: La’Asianée Brown
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ARTS CALENDAR
MON 11/23 10 a.m.-4 p.m. (Daily Event) How to Explain Death to a Dead Hare: Art Exhibition by Chelsea Ruiz Crabbe Hall- Oak Room Gallery 4:40-5:40 p.m. Student Recital: Juliette Angoulvant, Bassoon Kepner Hall- Milne Auditorium (Room 2050) 8-10 p.m. Faculty Artist Recital Series: William Wilson, Baritone Union Colony Civic Center (UCCC)
TUE 11/24 4:40-5:40 p.m. Student Recital: Mario Alvarado, Composition Foundation Hall 4:40-5:40 p.m. Student Recital: Trey Tafoya, Horn Trinity Episcopal Church 3800 W. 20th St. 6:15-7:15 p.m Graduate Student Recital: David Moore, Trumpet First Congregational Church 2101 16th St.
WED 11/25 3-4 p.m. Tai Chi: Moving for Better Balance Candelaria Hall- Room 1375
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African Students United shared food and culture from different regions of Africa with UNC on Wednesday afternoon at the University Center. ASU’s first Taste of Africa featured three circular tables in the center of the Fireside Lounge. The center table held five dishes from the eastern, western and central regions of Africa. The other two tables, which were primarily there for people to sit and eat, were decorated with jewelry, artwork and statuettes from the continent. Ten posters were hung up, and each one provided cultural information about a country in Africa. ASU placed each country’s flag beneath the respective display. Wendy Appiah, a freshman history major with an emphasis in secondary education, created the poster representing Angola. Appiah, who is 21 years old, moved to the United States from Ghana at age 9. Appiah said she was going to make a display for Ghana but decided to learn more about a country with which she was not already familiar. “I wanted an opportunity to educate myself and the people around me,” Appiah said. Appiah offered a taste of her country of origin by making nkate cake, or peanut cake, and
condensed milk toffee. She said even with the help of a friend these sweets took about four hours to make. According to Appiah, both dishes need to be consistently attended to, so the cooking process does not offer much of a break. “Unless you want to stand on your feet for two hours, you can’t do it,” Appiah said. The Ghanaian nkate cake and condensed milk toffee allowed the public to try traditional foods from West Africa. Plantains cooked in a style representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo offered a little flavor from Central Africa. Other members of ASU also made Ethiopian triangular meat pastries called sambusas and a Rwandan salad for a sample of Eastern Africa. John Morton, a senior sport and exercise science and nutrition double major, expressed his gratitude for the opportunity to be able to try food from different parts of Africa. He said the food was delicious, and he enjoyed the variety of flavors. “I will definitely be on the lookout for their events in the future,” Morton said about African Students United. Nicole Umugwaneza, a sophomore international affairs major and president of ASU, said the organization was created to develop a community for students who are directly connected to Africa or are of African descent. She also said she hopes to
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Top:(Right to left) Ben Bingus, freshman journalism and mass communications major, chats with Taylor Ellsworth, an undeclared freshman, over lunch offered by the annual African Student United event Taste of Africa on Wednesday afternoon. Bottom: Dishes served at the Taste of Africa lunch included Ghanaian nkate cake, condensed milk toffee, sambusas, Rwandan salad and amafiriti.
improve ASU’s involvement on campus. “I’m working towards developing a strong foundation for ASU’s future students,” Umugwaneza said.
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and fish fries or to simply hang out, Appiah said. “It’s a community where we can come together, talk and goof around,” Appiah said.
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Pets love to join in the holiday fun, especially when it comes to dinner time. Unbeknownst to owners, a lot of traditional meals are not compatible with pets’ stomachs and can send them to the hospital. Canine health and wellness experts at Milk-Bone provide a list of hazards to watch out for during holiday dinners.
DOGGY HAZARD #1: LEFT OUT LEFTOVERS
Many dogs get sick not from being fed directly but from climbing on the table and eating huge quantities of food when humans aren’t there.
DOGGY HAZARD #2: FOOD NO-NOS
Don’t give your dog turkey skin, turkey or poultry bones, onions, grapes, raisins, fatty foods or other holiday items. These are harmful or toxic to dogs.
DOGGY HAZARD #3: DENTAL DAMAGERS
Avoid plastic bones and ice cubes—all of which can cause tooth fractures.
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Syrian refugees: A crisis of hate and mistrust By Jett Goldsmith In 1938, in a statement to United Kingdombased tabloid “The Daily Mail,” British magistrate Herbert Metcalfe addressed the crisis of stateless German Jews fleeing the authoritarian regime of Adolf Hitler. "The way stateless Jews and Germans are pouring in from every port of this country is becoming an outrage,” Metcalfe said. “I intend to enforce this law to the fullest.” In 2015, real estate mogul and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tweeted on the present Syrian refugee crisis, lambasting Obama for his perceived failure to take action. “Refugees from Syria are now pouring into our great country. Who knows who they are some could be ISIS. Is our president insane?” Trump tweeted. In the wake of the Syrian refugee crisis, which has displaced over 4 million civilians—the majority female or under the age of 17, according to the United Nations Human Rights Council—this sentiment is being echoed not only by Republican frontrunners but pundits and government officials across the United States. And
such sentiment has only increased in ferocity in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, with governors from over 30 states issuing declarations that they will refuse the resettlement of Syrian refugees in their territory. Ignoring the fact that the Paris attacks were largely home-grown (all currently identified perpetrators were French nationals, with one thus unidentified man using a counterfeit Syrian passport to enter Europe amid refugees in Greece), and ignoring the fact that governors have no authority to refuse the resettlement of refugees (immigration and naturalization have existed under the purview of the federal government since the 19th century), this largely xenophobic and highly illogical anti-refugee sentiment sounds all too familiar. Not only should this sentiment be familiar to the Jewish refugees and their families who fled the Holocaust in wartime Germany, it should be familiar to those with common sense and a careful commitment to the old mantra: “Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.” In loose terms, a genocide is being committed in Syria. Although Syrian civilians aren’t being targeted on the basis of nationality, ethnicity or religion—a factor required for genocide to be declared as such under international law—over
220,000 have died in the Syrian Civil War as of January 2015, according to the United Nations. Internal strife has led to the removal of basic infrastructure such as food, water, plumbing and shelter, and Syrian citizens face a constant threat of death and displacement from all sides of the conflict—the Assad regime, ISIS fighters and even moderate opposition groups. The Syrian situation is so similar to a genocide that the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum—an institution established in Washington, D.C. in 1993 to memorialize and preserve the Holocaust and its effects on the world— has been actively monitoring Syria since the outbreak of war in 2011, a situation which it considers a case study in the prevention of genocide. These simple factors of death and chaos are the reasons the world faces a refugee crisis of unrivaled proportion. Much like the German Jews fleeing their imminent deaths under the Nazis in the 1930s, Syrian civilians are fleeing en masse from similar deaths in a nation ravaged by war and poverty. And to deny statehood and stability—to greet waves of displaced civilians with xenophobia and mistrust instead of extending the same welcoming social services and institutions offered to countless other
refugees—only adds another layer of pain and denial to a demographic already so ravaged by both of those things. It is almost comical to turn away Syrian refugees because of a misdirected fear that terrorists could be hiding in their midst. These are individuals who have fled their homes because of terrorism, only to be labeled terrorists themselves—to be called the same as those who killed their families and destroyed their lives. As those following the aftermath of the 2003 Iraq war know, refusal begets radicalization. With nothing but rubble and chaos by which to return, and with xenophobic and mistrustful response from Europe, the U.S. and surrounding Arab states, the four million Syrian refugees may have no choice but to pour into similarly war-ravaged nations such as Libya, Tunisia and Yemen. Worse, they may be forced to compromise their ideals by joining forces with the extremist groups that displaced them in the first place—all in a desperate attempt to seek the stability so many others take for granted. - Jett Goldsmith is a freshman international affairs major with an emphasis in Middle Eastern studies. He is also an opinion columnist for The Mirror. He can be reached at editor@uncmirror.com.
Punishing refugees instead of the Islamic State
It’s a strategic, humanitarian mistake to vilify refugees from the Middle East after Paris tragedy By Drew Heiderscheidt In the wake of the tragedy in Paris, several Republican governors and one Democrat governor have decided to oppose the federal policy of resettlement of refugees from Syria and other Middle Eastern countries. The United States should not be shying away from taking in refugees of Syria. If anything, the government should be taking in more refugees from the Middle East. After the war in Vietnam, the U.S. admitted over one million refugees from Southeast Asia. The total amount of refugees in what is now known as the Indochina refugee crisis was three million people. This time around, President Barack Obama has pledged to bring in the very modest number of 10,000 refugees. Even this low num-
ber is under fire though, especially from Republicans. Republican presidential candidates have been opposed to the idea of allowing refugees to enter the U.S. Marco Rubio, Republican candidate, stated that he was against the idea because one out of every 1,000 refugees “might be terrorists.” Even Jeb Bush, who has generally shown himself to be one of the more moderate Republican candidates, has said he thinks only Christians fleeing persecution should be helped. Most Republicans who have opposed the resettlement of refugees have cited security concerns—there may be operatives of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, in the waves of refugees. Republicans’ calls to marginalize refugees from the Middle East show misunderstandings of the different factors at play, which could prove to strengthen the Islamic State. If the U.S. creates barriers to entry for refugees looking for safety, it plays right
into the Islamic State’s hands. People who feel as if they have been ostracized will be easier for the Islamic State to recruit. Republican responses to the attacks in Paris in regard to the refugee crisis also show blatant disregard for one thing: Those refugees from the Middle East are fleeing the Islamic State. They are not operatives of the Islamic State, they do not want to destroy civilization as we know it and they do not want to enforce Sharia law. What they do want is safety for their families and to be able to live without the fear of being beheaded for minor infractions. They want homes. President Obama was absolutely correct when he said that “slamming the door” in the faces of these refugees would be treachery to the values that have been instilled in Americans everywhere. We have a moral obligation to assist those innocent refugees who are being persecuted both by the Islamic State and by the regime of
Bashar al-Assad. However, President Obama is not innocent in this matter either. Ten thousand is a pitifully small number of refugees, especially considering the huge amount of people who have been displaced in the Middle East. If the Carter administration allowed over one million refugees from southeast Asia after the Vietnam War, then the Obama administration has an obligation to allow more people during this time of crisis. Rubio stated he believes that one out of every 1,000 refugees is a terrorist. Never mind that most of the assailants at the tragedy in Paris were actually from Europe and that the architect behind the attack, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was Belgian. The only thing Rubio contributes to with fear-mongering is the Islamic State’s cause. When Rubio and others alienate Muslims in the U.S., they cause division between the population, making it easier for the Islamic State to recruit more followers.
The Islamic State will never destroy western civilization as we know it. But, if we allow them to, they will paralyze us with fear. After all, when one looks at the word “terrorist” it is immediately evident there is only one purpose—to instill terror. Fear-mongering and marginalization are not the solution to any of the problems facing the U.S.—in contrast, they will only serve to exacerbate those problems. If the U.S. does not let in refugees from the Middle East who are fleeing persecution, it will be a blemish on our history at least as large as when Florida turned away a ship full of Jewish refugees from Germany. - Drew Heiderscheidt is a freshman history major with an emphasis in secondary education. He is also a news writer for The Mirror. He can be reached at editor@uncmirror.com.
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WED 11/25 7 p.m. Men’s Basketball vs. University of NebraskaOmaha Bank of Colorado Arena
FRI 11/27 3 p.m. Women’s Basketball vs. Akron San Diego, California
SAT 11/28 3 p.m. Women’s Basketball vs. Valparaiso San Diego, California
SUN 11/29 1 p.m. Men’s Basketball at University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado
By Brad Klump
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The University of Northern Colorado football team beat Abilene Christian 40-36 as the team celebrated its senior day. The win gave the Bears a record of 6-5—their first winning season since 2003. The game was an offensive shootout with both teams scoring at a furious pace all game. Both offenses recorded more than 500 yards. Both teams scored late in the game; however, it was the Bears’ defense that made the difference. Abilene Christian scored the first points of the game after putting together a sixplay, 41-yard drive, culminating in a 1-yard touchdown run. The Bears responded with an 11-play, 75-yard drive that ended on a 20-yard run by redshirt freshman Trae Riek. Riek would also score in the second quarter after catching a 68-yard pass from quarterback Jacob Knipp to bring the Bears back into the game. Riek recorded 241 allpurpose yards and two touchdowns. Knipp and his teammates would quickly score and take the lead the next time they had the ball. The Bears took a 20-14 lead when Knipp completed a 31-yard touchdown pass to junior Stephen Miller. Abilene Christian scored to retake the lead on a 10-play, 78-yard drive to make the score 21-20
just before the half. Knipp scored a rushing touchdown on a 42yard run, which capped a 6-play, 79-yard drive to give the Bears a halftime lead of 27-21. Abilene Christian opened the second half with a 10-play, 75-yard drive to regain the lead 28-27. A UNC field goal gave the team a 30-28 lead heading into the fourth quarter. Another Jamie Falloon field goal gave the Bears a 33-28 lead. Abilene Christian responded with an eight-play, 83-yard drive and a touchdown rush, giving them a 36-33 lead. The Bears responded with a six-play, 65-yard drive. Stephen Miller caught his second touchdown pass of the day to give UNC a 40-36 lead. Abilene Christian drove the ball down field against the Bears, looking to score a touchdown and regain the lead. With just over one minute to go, senior cornerback James Davis intercepted an Abilene Christian pass, sealing the game and the season. Davis noted how the team’s preparation helped him see the play. “I saw them line up and knew what was about to happen,” he said. “We had studied it all week in film, so I knew what was coming, and I just had to go make a play.” Head coach Earnest Collins Jr. said the program has come a long way and stressed how important it was to end the season on a high note. “It just shows where we are,” Collins said. “We have some things we need to work on, but the mindset of our kids has changed over the last five years and it was great for us to end this way.”
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Redshirt freshman quarterback Jacob Knipp helped lead Northern Colorado’s football team to its first winning season since 2003.
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The University of Northern Colorado’s wrestling team traveled on Thursday to Norman, Oklahoma for its first Big 12 matchup this year, falling to Oklahoma 38-3. Junior Eleazar DeLuca was a bright spot on what was otherwise a tough outing for the Bears. Eleazar moved to 11-0 on the year, beating his 157-pound Sooner opponent, winning the only match for the Bears 7-2. UNC lost its other nine matches and gave the Sooners bonus points by losing three major decisions, a technical fall and two pins. Northern Colorado has two weeks until it travels to Las Vegas, Nevada for the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational.
SWim AND DivE
UNC sent its swimming and diving squads to different parts of the country as the swim team traveled to the Phil Hansel Invite in Houston, Texas, and the divers competed at the Wildcat Open in Tucson, Arizona. The swimmers broke season records despite finishing 10th overall, earning 238 points. Sophomore Sydney Kovar swam into the record books with a time of 17:23.93 in the 1,650-yard freestyle swim. The time moved Kovar into eighth overall in the UNC record books. Sophomore Jennifer Brown also moved into the top-10 all-time records with her 17:28.56 time in the 1,650-yard freestyle swim. At the Wildcat Open in Arizona, three divers were able to make it past the first round of competition. Junior Savanna Meadows finished sixth, the highest of all Bears, scoring 263.50 in the final round. Senior Haley Schneider and junior Taylor Walsh
also made the final round of the day, earning scores of 205.55 and 216.40 in the prelims, respectively. The swimmers have two weeks off before returning on Dec. 4. for the Omaha Invite in Omaha, Nebraska.
WOmEN’S BASkETBALL
UNC was handed its first loss of the season at the hands of the University of Colorado-Boulder on Thursday night in Boulder, 63-41. The Bears were held to single-digit scoring in the first and second quarter, making the halftime deficit 15-36. Poor shooting beyond the mark plagued the Bears as six different players took shots from the three-point range, with Junior Katie Longwell making the only basket. As a team, the Bears shot 1-of-16 and finished the game with only four 3-pointers. Next up for the team is a 3 p.m. match on Friday against Akron in San Diego, California.
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Basketball shows signs of growing pains Four Bears play at least 30 minutes as bench players struggle to get started By Kyle O’Neal
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The University of Northern Colorado’s men’s basketball team lost Saturday night to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County 81-72 at the Bank of Colorado Arena in the Maui Jim Maui Regional competition. The Bears (1-2, 0-0 Big Sky) struggled early and often on offense as the Retrievers (1-3, 0-0 America East) jumped to a 32-30 lead at halftime. In the second half, UNC never got into a proper rhythm on offense or defense as the UMBC lead hovered around 10 points. UMBC beat up the Bears in the paint, and senior forward Cody Joyce delivered the brunt of it with a game-leading 30 points. Two other UMBC players scored in double figures. Junior guard Cameron Michael led UNC with 22 points, making 9-of-17 shots from the floor and 4-of-7 from three-point territory. Fellow junior guards Anthony Johnson and Jordan Wilson were the only other UNC players to score in double figures—Wilson with 14 and Johnson with 10. A lack of patience on both ends of the floor played a great part in the Bears’ downfall, which points to a lack of chemistry and experience for such a young team with eight new faces
this year. “We acted like we didn’t have a 30-second shot clock. We acted like we had about a threesecond shot clock,” head coach B.J. Hill said. “What’s frustrating right now is I don’t have confidence in a lot of guys on the bench. We’re very, very young, and I don’t have confidence in a lot of those guys yet.” Because this team is so young and so new, four UNC players played at least 30 minutes, with Wilson leading all players with 37 minutes played. “There’s a point of diminishing returns, but right now we’re stuck playing guys a lot of minutes because on the bench we’re not getting what we need to in practice,” Hill said. “I don’t have confidence in throwing those guys in right now.” Despite the early season struggles, there is light at the end of the tunnel. After the game, Hill noted junior guard Dallas Anglin should begin to play next semester, maybe even in early December. Anglin has yet to play this year after transferring from Southern Mississippi. Sophomore guard Jon’te Dotson also has yet to play this year, but his timetable for a return is less certain. He has been recovering from what Hill describes as a partial tear of his patella tendon. The team plays its next game against Austin Peay at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday afternoon at Bank of Colorado Arena.
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Freshman Jordan Davis played 30 minutes in Saturday night’s loss to the University of Maryland- Baltimore County, recording eight points and two steals.
Volleyball denied chance to repeat as Big Sky champs By Zach Blackburn sports@uncmirror.com
Northern Colorado volleyball was eliminated in the first round of the Big Sky Tournament in Flagstaff, Arizona this weekend. The team fell to the Sacramento State Hornets in the first round in four sets (23-25, 25-21, 15-25, 21-25). The Bears did their best to hang in there after being tied at one set a piece after the first two sets. The Bears have had a lot of success when the game goes into the fourth and fifth set, winning their last six games going into the tournament—five of which were four or more sets. However, after a disappointing third set in the Big Sky Tournament, the Bears didn’t look the same, and they were defeated in the fourth set. UNC was outhit .183 to .133, and the team committed 29 errors compared to Sacramento’s 21. The Bears looked hot in the second set, hitting as high as .394, getting 17 kills on 33 attempts. Senior outside hitter Kendra Cunningham put up eight kills and 10 digs in her final match as a UNC Bear. Senior defensive specialist Meagan Garcia added to the defensive totals with
23 digs of her own in her last game. Senior outside hitter Katie Champion saw very limited play due to her nagging back injury but still got on the board with one kill and two digs in her final match as a Bear. Cunningham finished her career on UNC’s record board with 3,455 total attacks, good for seventh all-time in UNC’s history as well as fifth in kills with 1,068. Cunningham and Garcia also make the Division-I board in digs. Garcia came in fourth with 1,168 digs, and Cunningham is close behind in sixth with 1,007. Sophomore Timarie Nymeyer led UNC with 13 kills and a block. NAU got the better of blocks in the game getting 12.5 blocks to UNC’s eight. Redshirt freshman Emily O’Neil dominated most of the blocks for UNC, getting six blocks in the series. Junior Ashley Guthrie tied for the game lead with 41 assists. Guthrie finished the season with 1,084 and has 3,346 in her threeyear career. Guthrie is 1,983 away from the all-time lead in assists. Linnea Kiilsgard, who graduated in 2003, holds the record with 5,329. While three volleyball Bears are leaving the team, many are staying. The tenured Guthrie will return, flanked by the surprise freshman Kortney Lockey and sleeper junior outside hitter Mi-
chaela Nelson. Sophomore middle blocker Alex Kloehn and redshirt freshman middle blocker O’Neil will be on the defensive side of things with junior defensive specialist Makenna Meier. UNC was seeded No. 5 heading into the tournament and was trying for back-to-back Big Sky Championships. On Sunday, NAU captured its first championship title since 1999, beating Idaho State 3-0 in the championship game.
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