THE Career Services’ annual Fall Job and Internship fair will take place at 1 p.m. Oct. 12 in the University Center. Interested applicants should wear business causal attire and bring several copies of their resume. Assistant Vice President of Student Engagement Katrina Rodriguez announced that biasrelated incidents will no longer be handled by the Bias Response Team, but will instead be dealt with by Larry Loften, the Title IX Coordinator, through a web portal.
Maddie Roberts, no. 21, helped the Bears go undefeated this weekend against Northern Arizona (3-0) and Southern Utah (3-1). Photo by Oscar de la Cruz | The Mirror.
UNC soccer dominates against Northern Arizona The University of Northern Colorado women’s soccer team beat Northern Arizona University 3-0 Sunday afternoon in Greeley. The team’s next game will be against Portland State University at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Jackson Field.
UNC will self-impose penalties on their basketball team in relation to an NCAA investigation that began last year. The university several coaching staff, including head coach B.J. Hill, in connection the the violations.
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Guest article by Cadet Jordan Smith news@uncmirror.com
On June 18, 2016, Cadet Kyle Davern traveled to Fort Knox, Kentucky for ROTC Basic Camp, also known as CIET (Cadet Initial Entry Training). This is an intense four-week leadership program that is used to motivate and qualify Cadets for their future ROTC undertakings. During camp, cadets gain experi-
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ence and learn the responsibilities that an officer in the Army holds. Cadets take on leadership roles and learn to lead their peers through simulated combat scenarios. They are also exposed to four weeks of mentally and physically challenging small-group team-based events to help build team cohesion. At the end of camp, cadets graduate and some, including Cadet Davern, receive awards for their outstanding accomplishments. At the end of camp, Cadet Davern was awarded the Bold Leader Spirit
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Award. This award is given to those who demonstrate an outstanding performance as an inspirational small unit leader and truly exemplify the Warrior Spirit. Cadet Davern was born in Duluth, MN in 1997. In 2005, he moved to Colorado. He then attended Dakota Ridge High School, graduating in 2015. He played baseball, was a member of National Honor Society and took AP and Honors courses. He is currently a sophomore, majoring in Business Administration, and actively participating in the Reserve Officer Training Corps. He is the recipient of a 3-Year Advance Designee Scholarship. “Camp was a great experience,” Davern said. “Getting a chance to interact with cadets from all across the nation in a variety of challenging and diverse settings was one of the most fulfilling things I have done thus far. I received excellent instruction from Cadre, and I learned more about teamwork and trust through my peers than I have in any other environment. I learned a lot about tactics and leadership from our instructors, many of which had extensive backgrounds in
combat arms within the military.” CIET provides the Cadets a chance to get constructive feedback and recommendations for improvement. Cadets take away important information and skills that they can continue to use throughout the rest of their time in ROTC. “I left Fort Knox with the sense that I had started on a road towards becoming an officer, and that I earned a place in the ROTC program,” Davern said. “I have a lot left to learn, but it feels like I’ve taken a big step towards commissioning.” Camps such as CIET provide an opportunity for cadets to improve their skills and gain confidence in their future endeavors towards becoming an officer.
Those interested in participating in events such as this might consider joining the ROTC Program. Students can go to the House or call 970-351-2296 for additional information.
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Davern accepts the Bold Leader Spirit Award last June | Photo courtesy of Kyle Davern.
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Spookbox brings Halloween fun to UNC By Natalie Gonzalez news@uncmirror.com
October has officially begun and there are so many ways to celebrate the changing seasons. Some people choose to decorate their doors or binge watch American Horror Story on Netflix. Although these options are all fantastic, a group of UNC students decided to kick off Halloween by singing and dancing at the inaugural performance of Jukebox Collection, the Halloween themed Spookbox Collection.
“When I came to this school, I wasn’t really expecting to get into anything. I was so honored they thought this little freshman boy could do this song and apparently it was received well.” - Isaiah Zimmerman The Panorama room in the University Center was packed with students by 8:30 p.m. Thursday night. An feeling of excitement filled the air as people milled over the set list that the club would be performing. Some students were dressed up in their Halloween costumes, and some had a variety of accessories to fit the mood. Once everyone was settled in their seats, the lights went dark and the performers took the stage, performing their first song from “Sweeney Todd.” This was the first performance ever for Jukebox Collection, a new club on campus that a few students decided to start. They held auditions in early September and rehearsed all the way up to the day of the show, and they received a very good response from the audience for their first show.
Isaiah Zimmerman, a freshman musical theatre major, said he was honored to have the experience with this club as well as his own solo. “When I came to this school, I wasn’t really expecting to get into anything,” Zimmerman said. “I was so honored they thought this little freshman boy could do this song and apparently it was received well.” The set list catered to any audience in the Halloween spirit. There were songs from musicals like “The Phantom of the Opera” as well as songs that many people might recognize from their childhood, such as “This is Halloween” from “Nightmare Before Christmas.” The audience roared with delight every time they recognized the first few notes of each song. There was so much more to the show than just singing though. All of the songs had choreography that suited the theme, and students were cast in certain songs to play specific characters. People in the audience cheered for their friends who were taking on fitting roles and performing them with a great deal of confidence. Emery Hines, a freshman musical theatre major, found the exact sort of opportunity she was looking for in college when she joined Jukebox Collection. “When I found out that this club existed, I freaked out I was so excited, because I’ve wanted to do something like this forever, just to be able to do fun musical theatre songs with really talented people,” Hines said. Everyone attending the Spookbox Collection seemed to be in high spirits at the end of the night. Whether it was the thrill of performing for the group or the audience’s appreciation for the show, everyone seemed to be even more excited about Halloween than they were when they walked into the Panorama room.
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Living undocumented in the U.S. By Erika Siebring arts@uncmirror.com
Two million undocumented students live in the United States today, according to the PBS documentary “East of Salinas.” As a result, a child’s ability to receive higher education is limited, cannot work in the United States legally. Coupled with constant fear and financial situations, what other students consider normal, these children consider luxuries. The 2016 film provides a case study of a family in unfavorable conditions, and was shown on Wednesday to 112 UNC students and community members. The film features Jose Ansaldo, an undocumented third-grader living in Salinas, California along with his devoted teacher and friend Oscar Ramos. Filmed over a period of three years, both Ramos and Jose’s family depict the unfortunate culture they live in. In the film, Ramos, a third-grade teacher, shared his sympathy for migrant children like Jose. “I see myself a lot in these kids, wanting to learn, curious about everything, aware of the hard work their parents are doing,” Ramos said. “They don’t want that for themselves. They want something different, something better.” Unfortunately, “something better” is difficult to attain. Throughout the course of filming, Jose’s family
moved twice with an instant’s notice. The first time was for more affordable rent, the second because of possible gang activity and the fear of deportation. Jose explained it’s because of this that when his siblings are home alone, they aren’t allowed to go outside. In an interview, Ramos explained why children may not recognize what Jose has come to recognize “These kids are already eight, nine years old. I don’t think they fully understand they’re not U.S. citizens,” Ramos said. “They do fear their parents getting deported because it’s on the news and they’ve heard of some cases.” The inability to stay in one place isn’t the only hardship Jose’s family faces. On screen, Jose’s mother, a Spanish-speaker and unregistered citizen, explained her exhausting routine; starting at 3 a.m., she leaves for her job in agriculture, cutting lettuce despite her asthma being triggered by the pesticides sprayed on the crops. According to the film, the family’s position worsens in the fall and winter, when the agriculture season stops. So, to keep up, Jose’s father works in Yuma, Arizona for five months, twelve hours away from Salinas. However, a dollar only stretches so far for the family. In an interview, Jose explained that in the winter, sometimes there’s not enough food for dinner, so he’ll wait and eat at school the following day. “Sometimes if I don’t eat for a long time, my stomach starts to hurt,” said Ansaldo. UNC sophomore Laura Harju expressed her concern for the child.
“He deserves so much more than what he has to go through,” Harju said, enforcing that it’s good to know what families like the Ansaldos face every day. The dietetics major explained that films like “East of Salinas” help viewers to be less judgemental about Hispanic people, and to have more emotion and support for the struggles they face. According to Ramos, despite the circumstances in which Jose lives, he retains a passion for learning. In the film, Ansaldo was invited to join the fifth-grade “Mathletics” competition in Seaside, California; Ramos explained that he took Jose under his wing because he saw Jose’s desire to learn, and all he’s done is offer encouragement. According to Ramos, Jose is now in eighth grade and is doing well, even though he’ll have to face the repercussions of his situation multiple times later in life. Harju expressed how kids like Jose could do something great, if only given the chance. “People who are more wealthy, they have the opportunity, obviously, but sometimes they don’t take advantage of it,” Harju said. “Then people who are disadvantaged, that are poor and in poverty, they have hard lives. Often they are the ones that become people who are more inspiring, just because they want to show that they are great.” Towards the end of the film, Ramos said he’s known non-registered students with perfect GPAs that are unable to get financial aid. “They can contribute a great magnum of things to this country, they just need to be given the opportu-
Songwriter Showcase at the Moxi By Dalton Lanich arts@uncmirror.com
Inspiration can come to songwriters in a variety of different ways, ranging from life altering experiences to normal, everyday events. When that inspiration takes hold, an artist will pour their heart and soul into a new piece. Songwriters from all around were invited to perform their music at the Moxi Theater’s Songwriter Showcase on Oct. 3. Angela Parrish, a UNC alumna from Los Angeles, performed music from her recent EP, “Faithful and Tall.” Throughout a lot of her work, Parrish used inspiration from her parents to write her music. Her song, “Borrowed
Time,” came from her watching her father’s battle with Parkinson’s disease over the years. Another one of her song’s, “Cages,” came about after her father told her stories about the people he met and the events he witnessed while he worked at a state penitentiary in Kansas. She wrote one of her later songs, “Couple Down the Hall,” when she took a moment and realized just similar her relationship is like her own parents’. Though Parrish was the headliner of the show, she wasn’t the only one to perform. Bryce Merritt performed two songs that came from two ordinary events in his life. Merritt first took the stage playing a song that he wrote after he took a road trip. Something about riding in the passenger seat and looking out the window, watching the world pass him by, gave
him an overwhelming feel of nostalgia for his youth, prompting him to write “Older.” The second song that Merritt shared with the audience was “Midnight,” a song that he wrote one night when he couldn’t get to sleep. “Some nights, when I try to go to sleep, I fail miserably. So, one night I decided to stay up and write a song,” Merritt said. One of the final performances of the night came from Kelsey Shiba, another UNC alumna, with a master’s degree in jazz studies. Shiba, like Merritt, also showcased two of her songs, but the inspiration for these songs didn’t come from singular events; they came from her noticing the world and people around her. “There’s always one song that can make me feel better,” Shiba said, and she tried to create that feeling for the
audience with her song, “Apology.” Shiba’s other song of the night, “Little Room,” was about the egotistical people that she knew, and how she couldn’t stand those kinds of people. Carrying a eerie toybox-like melody throughout, Shiba displayed her ability to make music carry emotion throughout her set, leading to one of the most captivating performances of the night. Sitting down to write a song can be a daunting task for anyone, the search for the perfect light of inspiration can be an inconceivable task. For some it’s enough to halt the creative process all together. Inspiration doesn’t have to come from large, dramatic events; life is made up of millions of small moments, and the inspiration to create music can come from any single one of those moments.
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Opera serenades Garden Theatre By Maureen Sutton arts@uncmirror.com
Despite the brisk weather this past Friday afternoon, the UNC Opera Theatre Society Classical World Tour began its foray into various forms of opera music promptly at 4:00 p.m. in the Garden Theatre on Central Campus. It was a very unique event, put on with the intent of introducing fellow students to different kinds of music than what they might already be listening to. The audience was treated to the performances of several talented singers, patient pianists, and a small fluffy dog who wanted nothing more than to entertain as he barked at several of the songs and ran around the audience. Preston Adams, a fifth-year senior vocal performance major, and president of UNC Opera Theatre Society, said, “Honestly, getting all the musicians together and getting them to showcase their talents was amazing because there’s a lot of really talented people and they don’t often get to show off their talents.” The group started with seven excerpts from six different Italian operas, finishing off the first set with a rousing
number from a wedding scene from the opera “La Traviata”. They then moved onto the German opera set, but not before an energetic dog bounded onstage from behind the audience and back off again much to the amusement of the audience. The German set ended after six songs with another, far more boisterous wedding scene from “Die Fledermaus”, and then a brief intermission began. During the intermission, the UNC Opera Theatre Society held a very short bake sale, and people got out their blankets for a little added warmth as the intermission ended, the sun set and the third set began. The third round was French opera, which didn’t end in a wedding scene after its first seven songs were finished like the first two shows had, ending instead in a passionate and lively duel as they performed excerpts from “Carmen” to end out the set and set the scene for the next. Sophomore vocal performance major Maggie Jones said that her favorite part of the evening was watching
everybody perform and seeing the community be involved by watching and supporting the show. She provided the vocals for the first number in the fifth set, singing “Art is calling for me!” from “The Enchantress.” For the fourth set, four songs from four different nations were performed, and for the fifth, several songs that tend to be a little bit more well known in America were performed, including “Maria” from “West Side Story” “On the Steps of the Palace”, from “Into the Woods,” “God Help the Outcasts” from “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, and “Make Our Garden Grow” from “Candide” to end the evening.
Despite it being cold enough by the end of the show that some of the singers were wrapped in blankets and coats for the final number, the audience had nearly tripled in size from what it had been at the start of the show. Some people left immediately after the show was over, but others stayed to help put away chairs and to hang out for a few more minutes with the cast members and the rest of the audience. “I’ve never been to something like this before, so it was great to see all the different departments come out and perform,” said junior elementary education major Megan McCormick, a student who had stayed after the show.
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Brady Muth, Baritone, sings “Aprite un po’quegli occhi” by W.A. Motzart last Friday at the Garden Theatre. Photo by Alex Nunley | The Mirror.
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The University of Northern Colorado women’s soccer team beat Northern Arizona University 3-0 Sunday afternoon in Greeley. The Bears (8-5-1, 3-2 Big Sky) were outshot by NAU 21-10, but junior goalkeeper Madeline Burdick stood tall during the game for UNC. Burdick and the rest of the reigning Big Sky Champions are found atop various categories on the Big Sky leaderboard. Prior to sunday’s match against NAU, Burdick had the fourth highest save percentage in the Big Sky with .802, allowing 18 goals on 73 shots faced. Burdick is facing more shots on average than most players, and is averaging 5.6 saves a game, good for coming in second in the conference. Sunday’s shutout gives Burdick five shutouts on the season, just one behind the University of Montana’s play-
er Kailey Norman. On the other end of the field UNC’s Kassy Castillo, Mariel Gutierrez and Sydney Schroeder scored goals for Northern Colorado. Castillo scored her first goal of the year off a pass from Brooke Braden, taking the shot from the top of the Northern Arizona keepers box. UNC scored again 13 minutes later when Gutierrez earned a penalty shot and slipped one past the NAU goalkeeper. Gutierrez earned her eighth goal of the season putting placing her as the Big Sky’s leading scorer. Gutierrez is averaging 1.23 points per game and is the Big Sky’s points leader with eight goals, two assists for 16 points. The Bears have the fourth highest scoring team with 17 goals in 13 games, their offense firepower was on display as Schroeder added UNC’s third and final tally of the game near the end of the second half, putting away a rebound in the NAU box. The Bears have five games left in the regular season, all conference games as
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they work towards defending their Big Sky championship in November. The Bears host a pair of Big Sky
games this week with the first being agaisnt Portland State University at 7 p.m. on Wednesday at Jackson Field.
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Northern Colorado junior Jacqui Pulley dribbles against a NAU defender. UNC beat NAU 3-0 on Sunday afternoon at Jackson Field. Photo by Oliver de la Cruz | The Mirror.
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UNC self-imposes penalties for violations Staff Report
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University of Northern Colorado President Kay Norton released a statement Friday afternoon about the NCAA violations that occured in April, resulting in the firing of several men’s basketball staff members, including head coach B.J. Hill. The self-imposed penalties have to be approved by the NCAA. Kay’s email read: Dear Campus Community, You may recall, I shared with campus late last spring that we had received serious and concerning allegations of NCAA violations involving our men’s basketball program. I said that our commitment to ensuring the integrity of the program would include an honest examination of ourselves and a willingness to take necessary actions, and I would be back in touch when the investigation was complete. The investigation is not yet complete, but we have learned enough to know that there were violations. The NCAA allows us to self-impose penalties even before the investigation is complete, and we have chosen to do so to demonstrate our com-
mitment to ensuring the integrity of the program. Late this (Friday) afternoon, we notified the NCAA of our decision to self-impose the following penalties: A postseason ban for the 2016-17 men’s basketball season. A financial penalty of $5,000 plus 2 percent of the men’s basketball program budget. A reduction of a total of three financial aid awards provided to men’s basketball student-athletes during the 2017-18 and 2018-19 academic years. The following recruiting restrictions over the 2016-17 and 2017-18 academic years: Four fewer official visits. A total of eight weeks’ prohibition on unofficial visits. A total of seven weeks’ prohibition on recruiting communications. A total of 20 days’ reduction in off-campus recruiting activities. We remain committed to cooperating with the NCAA throughout this process, which will include meeting their expectation that we not comment further until the investigation concludes. I will follow up with a campus memo at that time. Best, Kay The Mirror will continue to update the community on the investigations as more information comes out about the violations that occurred. Keep up with this story and more at www.uncmirror.com.
B.J. Hill (above) and several other memebers of the University of Northern Colorado Men’s basketball staff were released following NCAA violations in April. Photo courtesy of prestosports.com.
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