The Mirror—October 3, 2016

THE UNC’s political science department will host a reception for its new public policy minor at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday in the University Center.

The Monfort College of Business will host several events and speakers to mark Business Ethics Week.

Visit mcb.unco.edu for more information.

The Schulze Interdisciplinary Speaker Series continues at 4 p.m. on Tuesday in Gunter Hall, where a trained nurse will speak about his work during the Ebola Crisis in Sierra Leone.

Students, families and visitors were able to meet and hold a corn snake at one of the booths at UNC’s Community Fest on Saturday by Michener Library. Photo by Sam Lawlor | The Mirror.

Community fest brings people together

Community Fest, held last Monday on Michener Library’s east lawn, included a demonstration by the school marching band, food served by UNC’s dining services and fun activities for all ages.

Boasting over 100 booths, the event featured fun, games and trivia for all.

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The first presidential debate between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump took place on last Monday at Hofstra University. The topics selected by Lester Holt, moderator for the debate, were: America’s direction; achieving prosperity; and securing America.

Holt’s first question to both of the candidates was how they would put money back in peoples' pockets.

Clinton was the first candidate to answer, saying that she wanted to make the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes and close tax loopholes, as well as raise the minimum wage and close the gender pay gap.

Trump responded to the question by saying that all the jobs in the United States, especially in manufacturing, are going to Mexico, and that China is “devaluing our money.” Trump suggested lowering corporate taxes, and said that “It’ll be the largest job creator since Reagan.”

Clinton criticized Trump for wanting to decrease taxes, and stated that trickle-down economics “is not how we grow the economy.”

When Trump was asked how he would bring back those jobs that had left to Mexico, he was unspecific, but criticized international trade laws that allowed Mexico to pay no taxes to bring their products into the United States.

Holt pressed Trump to answer the question.

“Don’t let jobs leave,” Trump responded.

Clinton made the suggestion that her administra-

tion would invest in renewable energy, and in response Trump attacked solar power.

“Our energy policies are a disaster,” Trump said. “We’ve lost so much.” He then went on to attack the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), saying that it had only hurt Americans, and was the worst trade deal in history.

Andrew Barnes, a freshman political science major and constitutional conservative, said that he thought Trump was at his strongest during this section of the debate.

“I think that’s because he really hit it out of the ballpark when it came to bring back jobs,” he said. “Where Hillary Clinton just gave broad statements of ‘yes, we need to bring back jobs,’ she didn’t really give any specifics except for a large tax increase on the wealthy.”

On the subject of Achieving Prosperity, Trump attacked the fact that the United States has spent so much money in the Middle East, and said that money could have been going to the inner city, adding that Hispanics and African Americans are living in extremely dangerous conditions.

“They walk down the street and get shot,” he said. He then defended stop and frisk policies in New York, and when Lester Holt called out the fact that they had been deemed unconstitutional, Trump denied it entirely. After this exchange, Trump tried to market himself as the only “law and order” candidate running, and saying everything happening in the inner cities is the fault of politicians.

Clinton attacked Trump for saying that stop and frisk worked well, and accused him of wanting to take the easy way out. Instead, she

recommended police reform throughout the United States.

“It’s important we learn about what has been effective, not what only sounds good,” Clinton said.

When talking about securing the United States, the candidates butted heads. Clinton accused Donald Trump of helping to radicalize people in the United States with his bombastic rhetoric.

On the other side, Trump accused politicians of creating ISIS because they did not leave troops in Iraq, and therefore allowed a power vacuum to be created. He then attacked Clinton personally saying that she created ISIS, as she allowed them to grow during her tenure as Secretary of State.

During the "Securing America" portion of the debate, Trump doubled down on his suggestion that the United States leave NATO and force

its allies in east Asia to defend themselves. He continued to reinforce the idea that the United States is losing money, and that they are being humiliated by their allies.

Toward the end of the debate, Trump started to personally attack Hillary Clinton. When questioned by Lester Holt about his comment last month that Clinton did not have the look to be president, Trump said that he thinks Clinton does not have the stamina to be president.

Clinton responded that when Trump “negotiates with 120 countries, then he can talk about stamina.”

She then called him a racist, saying that he had called a Latina woman who had been in the Miss Universe contest “housekeeping” and that he had fat shamed women in that same competition.

At the end of the debate,

Holt asked both candidates if they would be willing to support whoever wins the presidency. Clinton said she would support Trump.

Trump also said he would support Clinton, even though in the past he has said that this election is rigged towards her.

Many believed that Donald Trump’s charisma weakened him in the first debate.

Maggie Gately, a junior history major, thought that Donald Trump’s statement that he had the best temperament for the presidency was ridiculous.

She especially thought it was absurd how, when Trump was saying he had the best temperament, he was yelling it in such an angry way.

Two more debates will be held before the next president is chosen, on Oct. 9 and Oct. 19, as well as one vice presidential debate on Oct. 4.

Presidential candidates debated for the first time last Monday. They will meet twice more before the election.

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By Erika Siebring arts@uncmirror.com

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10/4: International Film Series: East of Salinas 7 - 9 p.m.

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It began simply. A man dressed in a black suit with long coattails and a yellow bowtie sits in the audience silently.

Even though he says nothing, giggles arise from the crowd. With his red nose and suspenders, he opens a plain paper bag, pretending to pull something out of it; he sneaks a taste of a woman’s coffee and comedically twists his face in horrid disgust. Putting a water bottle on top of an umbrella, he makes it rain down to his red converse, moving the umbrella so it drizzles on audience members.

As part of the Schultze Speaker Series, UNC welcomed Tim Cunningham on Friday, and his theatric presentation: “Laughter: Sometimes the Only Medicine.” The professional clown, actor, acrobat and nurse spoke to 37 students and community members about the non-profit organization Clowns Without Borders. After an introduction from Audrey Snyder, an associate professor of UNC’s School of Nursing,

audience members were taken on a journey into the organization’s mantra of respectful communication and connection between different cultures.

“Part one of our mission is to share joy and laughter in zones of crisis around the world, wherever that crisis is,” Cunningham said. “Part two of our mission is to advocate for the communities that we serve and work with.”

According to Cunningham, CWB has 12 international chapters spanning the globe; the communities they’ve performed for range from South Africa, Turkey and Haiti both before and after the 2010 earthquake and various refugee camps.

“It’s not our place to define what a crisis is. It’s not our place to define what suffering is,” Cunningham said, explaining that the organization only goes where it is invited.

According to the performer, CWB aims to work with cultures and communities in which they feel welcomed and trusted. Bringing up the recent threats in Greeley pertaining to clowns, Cunningham enforced that the artists can’t always enter a space wearing a red nose and umbrella; CWB is always mindful

about people’s fears or unsavory opinions about clowns.

UNC senior Becky Rasch attended the presentation, saying that the human bond between different communities is really important.

“That really is the universal language, is laughter,” Rasch said. “Instead of focusing on what’s going on around them, they get to laugh at this goofball over here.”

Cunningham explained that in 2015, CWB worked with over 400 artists serving over 400,000 children in 43 countries. Every CWB artist willingly volunteers their time, and goes to developing areas where there may be anything from bad water to all-out war.

Also important to the CWB organization is the idea of being respectful and mindful of other cultures, as well as being apolitical.

“In remaining apolitical, we are welcomed in places that a lot of other groups aren’t able to go,” Cunningham said. “If we hear it’s not appropriate, then we need to change.”

The doctor told a story about an experience in Burma, when a very flirtatious clown character, unfamiliar with the Burmese culture, kissed a Buddhist

monk on the cheek. The monks gently reminded the team that it was inappropriate, and everyone ended up laughing about it. Along the same lines, Cunningham explained that the team always ensures that their skin is covered, to make sure they don’t offend anyone in the countries they travel to.

Rasch, a community health and biology double major, explained she liked the unique approach of Clowns Without Borders, and expressed the importance of a third party like them being present in other cultures without stepping on any values or beliefs.

“We’re all human and we all have the same needs,” Rasch said. “I think it’s important for an organization to recognize the human in everyone, and to not turn down the places that other organizations have turned down.”

A recurring theme Cunningham expressed was the idea of CWB bringing normalcy back to the areas of crisis they go to, even if it’s by accident. At the end of the presentation, Cunningham gave the CWB website url and his personal information to the audience, asking for feedback or any ideas on how the organization could improve.

Tribes: A bold step into a quiet world

By Natalie Gonzalez arts@uncmirror.com

Between emotion, physicality and the words creating the message, acting is an art form with many essential elements involved. But what if the actors and the audience cannot understand the same medium? Or furthermore, what if the characters in the play do not communicate in the same way? UNC School of Theatre Arts and Dance’s fall play “Tribes” by Nina Raine shows just how tense that type of setting can be, as a family in North London learns to adapt for their deaf son, Billy, while

he explores becoming part of the deaf community.

The play was held in Norton Theatre, which is a black box stage. This means that the set is in the center of the room, and the audience sits in very near quarters with the actors, surrounding all four sides of the stage. The emotions are even more personal to the audience than they would be on an ordinary stage, because every facial expression and gesture is entirely exposed to everyone in the theatre.

Through the play, Billy is confused by his family’s constant arguing. He was raised to read lips and speak, but he cannot completely grasp what they are saying every time. The same problem is present when

he tries to speak to them- the message does not always come across clearly. To make matters more challenging, Billy never learned American Sign Language, so he essentially has no medium of communication that is perfectly clear.

Michelle Mary Schaefer, a guest artist from the East coast, was the first deaf female to portray Billy in Wyoming and California, and now at the University of Northern Colorado.

She describes how personal and moving the story is for her.

“It’s hard because the subject is so close to home,” Schaefer said. “I’m like Billy every day.”

When Billy meets Sylvia, a girl who is going deaf but knows ASL due to her deaf parents, he begins to explore

this new community as he finds love with her. Upon bringing Sylvia to meet his family, his father is extremely critical of the deaf community and brings up a sensitive subject at the dinner table.

Billy’s dynamic with each individual family member shifts throughout the play, but he is particularly close with his brother Daniel, who is very reliant on him for stability in his stale situation as a writer, recovering from a poorly-ended relationship, and dealing with voices he hears in his head.

As the family fights with the denial of letting Billy venturing into ASL and abandoning their traditional methods of communication, their emotions and characters begin to shift, up

through the very end when they all found a common way to express love to Billy- through ASL. Graeme Schulz, a junior musical theatre major, played Daniel and addressed the intensity of his role.

“Everyone has very different ways of communicating in this play. Like I hear voices, it’s almost like sign language is where we all channel together at the end,” Schulz said. “It’s really tiring because at the end I get myself to an emotional state after going through being a psycho, having voices in my head, and at the end I’m just crying because I’m tired.”

Most of the audience was in a similar emotional state by the time the house lights came up and the actors took their bows.

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Just like us: a story of four immigrants

By Dalton Lanich arts@uncmirror.com

There are many struggles that immigrants have to go through each day that the rest of the world may never see. That was something that Helen Thorpe realized when she set out on a six year journey that led her to write her first book, “Just Like Us: The Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America.”

Helen Thorpe, a journalist living in Denver Colorado, came to the UC on Sept. 27 to talk about her book and explain the impact that the story she wrote could have on people.

Thorpe was searching for a story with national significance when she came across the four young women who would become the stars of her book. “[All four of the girls were] straight A students, all four

were involved in extracurriculars and all four were college material.”

The only difference was that two of them had legal status, and two did not.

Thorpe had known that these girls were already activists at their own schools, and after Thorpe had met them, they knew that they had found their voice to tell their story to the world. When it came time for Thorpe to ask if she could shadow them to tell their story, it wasn’t hard to convince them.

“It wasn’t me persuading them to let me shadow them [for six years], it was more [from the girls’ perspective] ‘how can I tell you my story so you can do a good job telling it to others?’”

The impact of Thorpe’s book is wide-reaching. She sees the issue of immigration in the modern age as one brought on by a lack of knowledge throughout the country.

just like anyone else who grew up in America. The only difference being that, due to their status as undocumented or documented immigrants, some things happened differently.

She included stories that were unique to them.

The girls, being undocumented and growing up in the United States, participated in traditional ‘coming of age’ rituals like prom night, college or just spending time with their families.

Immigration is a controversial subject in the Students listened intently as Helen Thorpe discussed the differences, and simi- modern age, but it is somelarities, between her migrant Irish family and the lives of the four Mexican thing that has an impact women whose lives she documented in her book, “Just Like Us.” Photo by on everyone. Many of the Andrés Ramirez | The Mirror. issues that these girls went through are still happening “I don’t know any reasonable have no incentive [to change the human being who, once they laws], unless they personally to families across the nation. fully understand the laws, who know somebody’s story. There- Thorpe’s book is an effort to show the readers of the world would oppose immigration re- fore, it’s an education project.”

While writing her book, that people are people no matform.” She went on to add that, “Because this issue does not af- Thorpe wanted to make the ter where they’re from, or what fect voters in a personal way they point clear that these girls are they look like.

Community fest brings people together

By Maureen Sutton arts@uncmirror.com

Past, present and future UNC Bears congregated on Michener Library’s east lawn for a fun, family-friendly festival this past Saturday. Community Fest included a demonstration by the school marching band, food served by UNC’s dining services and fun activities for all ages.

Students and their families spread out across the lawn, enjoying the event and its amenities. With over 100 booths, fun games and trivia to delight all who dared to try their luck, it was an energized, fun event that started at 10 a.m. and lasted all the way until 1 p.m.

Every booth had an enlightening or educational aspect to it, and several of the booths were based around science, ranging from facts about the body to hands-on experiments.

Kids could make their own mini rain clouds at the American Meteorological Society booth, lava lamp in a plastic bottle at the American Chemical Society booth and spin art at the spin

art booth. Parents generously took on more bits of paper to carry through the very packed festival.

The Anthropology Club had skulls to examine and an activity wherein the participant could make stone tools like they were living in the Paleolithic era.

At the Honors Society booth, anyone could try to see if they were smarter than a honors student, guessing at trivia and hoping to get the answer correct in order to get candy. Sophomore Ben Diener, a philosophy and english double major, liked that he was expected to sit and talk to people who stopped by the department of philosophy booth.

“It’s a low stress form of interaction,” he said.

Across from the department of philosophy’s booth was the food court, staffed and supplied by Einstein’s, MoJo’s Coffee and the UNC Dining Services and their respective employees, each

of whom served their wares with a smile.

Halfway through the festival, the atmosphere was punctuated by the marching band demonstrating their skills. They performed several different songs and kept their pace as they made their way through the crowd.

Several local businesses were represented by the Bear Biz booth, which

provided information for student to get discounts around town using their student IDs. Others were represented by booths of their own, which were absolutely surrounded by people wanting to learn more about these businesses.

“It was good to see all the different offices in the city represented,” said Elisabeth Poit, a senior theatre major.

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At Home 10/6: 7 p.m. Bank of Colorado.

Women’s Volleyball vs. Portland State University.

10/7: 7 p.m.

Jackson Field.

Women’s Soccer vs.

Southern Utah University.

10/8: 7 p.m.

Portland, Ore. Women’s Volleyball vs. Sacramento State University.

On the Road 10/8: 2:05 p.m.

Cheney, Wash.

Football at Eastern Washington University.

10/8: TBA Butler Hancock Softball Field Softball vs. Alumni Game

By Michael Laudick sports@uncmirror.com

Bears fans and students packed Nottingham Field on Saturday to cheer their team to a 21-10 victory over Big Sky Conference rival Northern Arizona University.

This was the the University of Northern Colorado football team’s first Big Sky Conference game after playing three out-of-conference opponents to start the season.

The Lumberjacks struck hard in the first quarter but the Bears then answered with two touchdowns.

Kyle Sloter threw a screen pass to running back Trae Riek who wiggled his way through the defenders into the end zone.

“Kyle set it up perfectly,” said Riek. “All I did was just kind of dip and slip got back inside of them.”

Riek led both football teams with 107 yards rushing. He was also at the top of the receiving category for UNC, with 43 yards.

The second touchdown was punched in by secondstring running back Brandon Cartagena who broke away for a 12-yard score.

Sloter finished up by scoring the third and final Bears touchdown on a three-yard rush, which would end up being the winning score.

The offense did have a down day in the stat categories, only piling up 263 yard of total offense while NAU had 493 yards.

But where the offense faltered the defense picked them right back up.

On two separate drives, the Bears defense caused a fumble inside the red-zone denying the Lumberjacks any points. Marshaun Cameron recovered both fumbles and caused one of them.

“I spun off the tackle and then I seen the ball out in the running back’s right arm and I just poked at it and it came out,” Cameron said.

Both of those plays were deciding factors in Saturday’s game, and caused huge momentum shifts in an otherwise slow-moving second half.

The Bears defense would also stop NAU on two

Club hockey wins home opener Staff Report

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Red-shirt junior Brandon Cartagena finishes off a 12-yard run with a touchdown in UNC’s 21-18 win over Northern Arizona University on Saturday afternoon at Nottingham Field. Photo by Oliver de la Cruz | The Mirror

crucial fourth-downs and hand the ball back to their offense.

The Bears have a record of 3-1, which is one of their best starts in a while. Head Coach Earnest Collins Jr. is excited about this team, but he knows in a conference as tough as the Big Sky anything can happen.

“It’s the Big Sky you got to be ready week in and week out whether it’s the number 13 team or the number one team,” Collins Jr. said. “We have to continue to take those steps to get better as a football team.”

Next week the Bears will be on the road against

The University of Northern Colorado Club hockey team beat the University of Colorado- Boulder on friday night at the Greeley Ice Haus.

Junior forwards Michael Bailey and Cameron Taggart scored five goals enroute to a 9-3 win.

The Bears squad after heading to Nationals in back-to-back seasons is drastically younger for the 2016-17 season,

Eastern Washington who is a historically good program, but the Bears have seemed to find a niche and have had success against them in the past.

“We have typically played pretty decent against Eastern Washington even before I got here,” Collins said.

Last year the Bears lost in a chaotic game 41-43 against Eastern Washington.

The Bears’ next home game will be on Oct. 22 against Sacramento State University. This will also be the University of Northern Colorado’s homecoming game.

with only one senior on the team.

Despite the youth the Bears return their two leading scorers from last year in Taggart and Bailey.

A new face man’s the crease as sophomore goaltender Grant Payne has started both of UNC’s game this season has has faced 30 plus shots in both games.

Final Score

9-3

Up Next: UNC at Boise Showcase, Thursday in Boise, ID

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Alumni association inducts six to HOF

By Brittany Riley & Dylan Sanchez sports@uncmirror.com

The UNC Alumni Association’s annual Hall of Fame Tailgate took place Saturday morning in the Nottingham Field parking lot, prior to the Bears football game against Northern Arizona University.

The tailgate celebrated the Hall of Fame inductees and built up the crowd for the Bears’ Hall of Fame Game against the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks Saturday afternoon.

Former, current, and future UNC Bears were able to celebrate their Bear Pride, enjoy a few cold ones, get their faces painted and toss around the football.

The Hall of Fame began in 1994 to recognize former UNC athletes, faculty and staff members, and others associated with the university, who have made themselves notable in the field of athletics.

This year’s Hall of Fame class is comprised of three former student-athletes, one contributor, one coach and a team.

Whitley Cox, Kathy Heronema, Steve Antonopulos, Nancy Hinrich, Tony Ramirez and the 2002 UNC volleyball team were the inductees.

Whitley Cox, a UNC’s women’s basketball player

Photo courtesy of UNC’s Alumni Association.

from 2005 to 2010, is one of five UNC players to score more than 1,500 points in a career.

Kathy Heronema a track and field and field hockey player from 1972 to 1976, was one of the first female athletes to earn an athletic scholarship.

Heronema was the Intermountain Conference and Region seven champion in the heptathlon during her junior year.

Tony Ramirez completed the student-athletes to make the hall of fame list and does so as one of the best offensive lineman in UNC history.

Ramirez was a Division-II All-American and was the North Central Conference MVP in 1995 and 1996.

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After dropping the first set, Northern Colorado volleyball took the next three matches to defeat Idaho 3-1 Saturday night. The win completed a road sweep for the Bears, and improved their mark to 3-1 in Big Sky play.

The first set featured a pair of runs by both teams, as extra volleyball was needed to decide a winner. Idaho took advantage of a big run first, going on an 8-1 rally to go up 18-14 on UNC. Despite the deficit, the Bears never gave in, working back into the set with a 9-3 run of their own. Northern Colorado served for match point at 25-24 in the set, before UI had a 3-0 run to claim the set at 26-24.

The second set was all Northern Colorado.

The team began the set on an 8-2 run and never looked back. The lead stayed within at least six during the whole set as UNC out-hit UI .357.029 to even the match before the break.

It was another early run for the Bears in the third set that set the tone. A 5-0 run, all on kills by UNC put the team up 9-3. Idaho made a pair of runs at UNC, cutting the lead to 19-16, before the Bears put the Vandals away at 25-21.

The fourth set featured plenty of offense, as the Timarie Nymeyer teams combined for 34 finished the night kills in the set. The Bears with a match-high and Vandals split the first 17 kills and .483 48 points of the set, before attack percentage.

UNC had a 2-0 to end the Photo courtesy of match. Timarie Nymyer UNCBears.com. recorded her sixth kill of the set to put the team up 25-24 and Kim Weissmann closed the match with a service ace.

Northern Colorado will return to the Bank of Colorado Arena for a four-match home stand beginning on Thursday at 7 p.m. against Portland State.

Ramirez was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the sixth round of the 1997 NFL draft and played three seasons with the Lions before going on to play for the Chicago Enforcers for a year in the XFL, an American football league owned by World Wrestling Entertainment.

One of the recognized inductees this year is athletic training graduate Steve Antonopulos.

Antonopulos graduated from UNC with a master’s degree and was a participant in the student trainer program under Dan Libera. Libera was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1995, and the university’s athletic training room is named after him.

After working out of state for several years as an athletic trainer, Antonopulos returned to

Colorado in 1976 to work as the head athletic trainer for the Denver Broncos where he is still employed today.

Antonopulos was inducted as a contributor to UNC athletics.

Nancy Hinrichs a coach for the Women’s swimming and diving team from 1988-2009, was also inducted.

Hinrichs is one of the key builders of the UNC swimming and diving team and coached UNC first NCAA Division-II national champion, Teresa Stratman.

In 1992, Hinrich was named Northern Colorado’s North Central Conference Coach of the year in 1992 and coached 21 Division II AllAmericans that season.

Also among the inductees was the 2002 Bears volleyball team who were North Central Conference champions, finished their season ranked fifth in the nation, and advanced to the NCAA Elite 8.

The 2002 Bears squad finished the season 31-3, which still stands as the best record in UNC history.

The tailgate was held as part of the Hall of Fame weekend and in conjunction with UNC’s Community Fest to further bring the community together.

In the words of the Alumni Association, “Once a Bear, Always a Bear.”

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