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UNC student Saverio Parker died last Sunday. A candlelight service will be held 5 p.m. Friday on Turner Green. Friends remince about his life and his character on page 4. Interns and volunteers are wanted for the Greeley Downtown Development Authority. Contact at (970) 356-6775 or go to greeleydowntown.com for more information. An open house will be hosted by the Marcus Garvey Cultural Center from 2-4 p.m. Monday. The event will commemorate the center’s opening on Feb. 1, 1983. A Northern Colorado nurse was accused of unlawful sexual contact. Thomas Moore was charged in Weld County District court on Wednesday with four counts of unlawful sexual contact and two counts of attempted unlawful sexual contact. According to the Greeley Police Department affidavit, Moore worked at the University of Colorado Health and at the west Greeley emergency room. Between March 2014 and February 2015, five individuals from Weld County came forward. Moore is scheduled to appear in Weld County District Court at 8:30 a.m. Feb. 17. Applications are being accepted for the 2016 Bob and Bonnie Phelps Family CAP Awards. Eligible students — those who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to improving the lives of others — may be awarded a $5,000 scholarship. Deadline for the award is March 1. Access to hunting lands by bow hunters has been introduced as an amendment by Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet. The measure would give bow hunters with sheathed archery equipment the same rights that other hunters have. The fourth annual blood drive, hosted by the College of Natural and Health Sciences Student Council, will take place from 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Feb. 11. The NCMC Blood Mobile will be in the University Center’s south parking lot. A link to sign up is available at uncmirror.com and individuals can contact Beckie Croissant, (970) 3512774, with any questions.
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Dating service that pairs college students with wealthy benefactors may help some graduate debt free By Tommy Simmons news@uncmirror.com
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Venesa Rene said she’s always been into older men. The senior nursing major attends college at the University of Colorado, Denver, and, due to her dating preferences, said she found Seeking Arrangement. com to be a perfect dating website for her. Seeking Arrangement advertises itself as a “sugar daddy dating” website, meaning it is a site specializing in connecting wealthy, older men and women (“sugar daddies or sugar mommas”) with younger–often college-aged–people, especially women (“sugar babies”). For Rene, who was attracted to older men anyway, the site was a good fit, but Seeking Arrangement makes no secret out of the fact that financial stability is one of the key perks for “sugar babies.” Rene created her profile on the site in July of 2015, and said the site’s user-friendly nature attracted her to it. “I think I was just google searching dating websites,” she said. “I looked at the site on a whim and it was well-formatted and pretty easy to use.” Among the site’s perks, Rene listed an easy-to-use messaging system, a background check run on the men on the site, and, although she said she doesn’t use it, the ability to have private photo albums that only select users can see. In addition to all that, of course, there is the fact that Seeking Arrangement can be an extremely lucrative opportunity for the “sugar babies” involved. “Each arrangement is different,” Rene said. “I’ve been in arrangements where the guy will give me a monthly allowance that I can spend on anything, and I’ve been in arrangements where the guy says, ‘I can help you with your car payment every month.’” The amount of money changing hands on a monthly basis is something that is determined at the start of the relationship–or “arrangement,” in the jargon of the site. “I like to discuss those things in person,” Rene said. “I’ll usually go on a coffee date or a dinner date with a guy and discuss arrangements. I’ve been in arrangements where guys will discuss it online over messaging, but I think that sort of thing is better discussed in person.” Despite the fact that allowances and payments are being discussed on the first date, spokesperson Brook Urick said the site’s emphasis always has been–and continues to be–on the relationships formed between “sugar daddies” and “sugar babies.” “The site was launched in 2006 by Brandon Wade,” Urick said. “Originally, he made it for himself, as a way to meet girls–he’d never been kissed at 21. He based his life on something his mom told him, which was, ‘Don’t worry about success with girls, worry about success in life and in business, and the girls will come.’ And that’s true.” When asked if Seeking Arrangement has received any criticism, Urick replied with, “Doesn’t everyone get criticism?” Urick offered little elaboration on the types of criticism Seeking Arrangement has received. Despite that money often changes hands in arrange-
Seeking Arrangement's top 10 fastest growing "sugar baby" schools
of 2015:
1. University of Texas - Austin: 425 signups in 2014
6. University of Central Florida - Orlando: 290
2. Arizona State University - Pheonix: 403
7. Indiana University - Bloomington: 240
3. New York University - New York City: 398
8. University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa: 210
4. Kent State University - Kent, Ohio: 387
9. Temple University - Philadelphia: 204
5. Georgia State University - Atlanta: 376
10. University of California - Los Angeles: 199
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ments, Urick said there is no connection to prostitution. “You’re wondering if there’s any connection to prostitution, and the answer is no, there is not,” Urick said. “We provide real relationships to people who are seeking relationships.” While many dating services have a slew of success stories, as far as the good Seeking Arrangement has done for people, the answer is simple. “Hundreds of thousands of women are graduating debt-free,” Urick said. While Urick brought up the controversy of prostitution in an interview, it is not the first time the question of prostitution has cropped up in conversation about Seeking Arrangement. In 2014 the site posted the top four differences between “sugar daddy dating” and prostitution on its blog, entitled “The Four Differences Between Sugar and Prostitution.”
“Sugar Babies and Sugar Daddies have on-going relationships, not transactions,” the post reads. “More often than not, a ‘sugar relationship’ will resemble that of a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship.” The site stated that, “sugar dating is a lifestyle choice, not a profession. A sugar baby is a woman who wants to date financially secure men to provide her with the lifestyle she desires.” Rene, however, never seemed overly concerned about the money. Her reasons for choosing Seeking Arrangement had to do with her dating preferences, and with how easy the site was to use. She also said she hasn’t noticed any drawbacks to using the site. There is an overarching question as to whether some college-aged women would use the site simply as a means to pay for college. Renee said each arrangement is different, but she doesn’t think that is the case.
Weighing in on election year UNC professor, students give opinions on remaining presidential candidates Current polls as of Jan. 26 2016 By Drew Heiderscheidt
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There is a plethora of candidates in this year’s presidential race. On the Republican side, there are currently 11 nominees, not including the five who have already dropped out of the running for the nomination. On the Democratic side, there are three nominees still running, not including the other three who have dropped out of the race. Historically, the number of candidates still in the running is unprecedented. According to political science professor Gregory Williams, the amount of time each candidate is staying in the running is also unprecedented. “They’re staying on longer in effect because you can hold on if you have one or two benefactors who are supporting your Super PAC,” Williams said. “They can’t support your campaign directly, but they can do enough to encourage you to stay in the race longer.” The 2016 presidential race is an unusual one because of the significant number of outsiders running for office, Williams said. Bernie Sanders, a senator from Vermont, is an ideological outsider and doesn’t hesitate to call himself a democratic socialist, which in previous years would have kept him out of the running entirely. At the moment, he is polling at a level close to that of Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. Republicans have a greater number of outsiders, but rather than being just ideological outsiders, they are political outsiders— those who have never held an elected office before, such as Donald J. Trump, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina. However, the outsiders running for office do have an appeal to those who are voting this year. Christopher Davis, a sophomore philosophy and envi-
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high in the south whereas Hillary Clinton’s is, Williams said. “If he’s to have any success, he’ll have to connect with African-Americans,” Williams said. On the Republican side of things, the race is still a bit muddled. The race for the nomination is still more or less open for the Republicans. With Trump still being so far ahead in the polls makes a huge difference, to the point where the decision for who to nominate may be made at the Republican convention, Williams said. In The New York Times and The Atlantic, among others, the argument has been made that if Trump is nominated for president and loses, the Republican Party will face a schism, breaking up the party entirely. Williams thinks the division of the Republican Party is unlikely though, seeing as it has
already happened ideologically. “There is an internal rift in the Republican Party,” Williams said. “It doesn’t know where it wants to be.” But the idea of the Republican Party splitting up is entirely unrealistic, Williams said, for the simple reason that making a third party is so difficult. To Williams, it is more realistic that Republicans try to reform the party from the inside. Many think the “path of least resistance” is to try and change the party from within. Normally, younger voters vote significantly less than other groups. In this race, presidential nominees have tried to appeal to the voters. As a way to increase voting rates, Davis recommended that people spread the word about voting and how to vote. Keogh went another direc-
tion, instead arguing people should be educated on the issues at hand, which would make them more likely to vote. For those at UNC, registering to vote is easy. First, log into URSA, then go to the “Student” tab, and near the bottom of the “Important Links” box is an option called “Register to Vote.” After clicking on that link, it is as easy as clicking on the state students are from and filling out the voter registration form. For Colorado residents, it is even easier, as they can opt to send a mail-in ballot. “If you want to have a say in what happens, you have to actually show up and cast a ballot… Colorado makes it very easy, they have a mail in system,” Williams said. “It can’t really get much easier, other than tweeting your vote.”
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Friends remember student after unexpected death By Will Costello news@uncmirror.com
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Saverio Parker, a freshman sport and exercise science major at UNC, unexpectedly died last Sunday, Jan. 24. The cause of death has yet to be announced.
To those who didn’t know him, Saverio Parker, a freshman sport and exercise science major, came across as shy and unassuming. Not one to initiate conversations with strangers, he mostly kept to his small group of close friends. A resident of Wiebking Hall, Parker hardly ever slept there. Instead he spent most every night with his two friends, De’Tuan Williams and Christian Jenkins, in their room in Lawrenson Hall. The three of them, all freshmen, spent their time their playing video games, messing with girls on the floor, doing push-ups, watching Netflix, eating, talking, laughing and getting on each other’s nerves. “He honestly just wanted to be with us,” Williams said. “Because that was where he had the most fun.” Like many other evenings, Parker chose not to go back to his own dorm room on Saturday night, Jan. 23. As the friends were waking up to go to brunch before Sunday’s Broncos game, they found Parker unrespon-
sive. UNC police responded immediately, and shortly after, paramedics took over CPR. Parker was then taken to North Colorado Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 1:03 p.m. The cause of his death has not yet been released by the Weld County Coroner’s office. While many are saddened that Parker’s 19 years of life was cut short on Jan. 24, Parker lived in a way that would suggest he would want others to celebrate his life rather than mourn his death. “He was just a positive person,” Williams said. “No matter what, he’d always try to make something bad into something good.” Although Parker graduated high school in Denver, he had grown up in Kansas City, Missouri, and he brought his love of the Kansas City Chiefs with him to Colorado. Parker wanted to be a coach. Williams said Parker had a vision of what a good athlete was, but he was not one, and he knew it. “We never see you run!” Williams had once told him. “And you never will,” Parker said. By all accounts, Parker was impossible to get down and would often use his sense of humor to lift others’ spirits. “He would always make us laugh,” Jenkins
said. "He’d laugh at his own pain, trying to make it better.” Williams said one Christmas, Parker bought his mother, who lost her hair as a result of cancer, a brush and comb and they both had laughed about it—a way to make light of a difficult situation. Parker’s optimism and uncanny ability to see the bright side of a dark situation may have resulted from his upbringing. According to Williams, Parker’s family had not been wealthy and this sense of perspective pulled the 19-year-old through his mother’s illness and allowed him to remain positive in the face of ever-increasing student loans. Parker was returned home to Kansas City, where funeral services were held on Saturday. A candle-lighting ceremony was originally planned for last Thursday, but the date was pushed back to accommodate Parker’s mother, who wanted to attend. The ceremony is now planned for 5 p.m. on Friday. The gathering will be held on Turner Green, and attendees are encouraged to wear red, Saverio Parker’s favorite color. A GoFundMe site has been set up to aid in paying for Parker's funeral services. For those interested in donating, visit: https://www.gofundme.com/u77cmg78.
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Director John J. Valadez filled the Lindou Auditorium in Michener Library on Wednesday with both laughter and serious discussions about history. “My grandparents used to live in Greeley, they were migrant farm workers,” Valadez said before a screening of his documentary, which has been played at college campuses across the country. “I always tell my dad, ‘You were a migrant field worker, and now I’m a migrant film worker.’” Valadez directed “The Head of Joaquin Murrieta: Lynching, Legends & Love in the Wild West,” one of six parts in the “Latino Americans” documentary series. The series was made for PBS to chronicle Latino history in the present-day United States as far back as the 16th century. “The Head of Joaquin Murrieta,” the third episode in the series, is a half-hour documentary that follows Valadez on a journey west. The story is about Joaquin Murrieta, who was a Mexican horse trader during the California gold rush. After his land was taken, Murrieta became an infamous bandit in the eyes of Americans. California authorities put a price on Murrieta’s head. The California Rangers literally de-
ity for both darkness and light,” Valadez said. “We’re held captive and liberated by our humanity.” The screening was the fifth event in University Libraries’ “Latino Americans: 500 Years of History” series. The National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association gave the University of Northern Colorado one of 203 grants to put on the series. Social sciences reference librarian Wendy Highby said she was thrilled when UNC was awarded the grant. “It includes a population that’s been excluded,” she said. “I think we all have to listen to each other and learn about each other. It makes life so much more interesting and meaningful when you know the whole truth.” The screening was the first event in the series for freshman elementary education major Krissy Freemyer. “It’s really eye-opening to things you don’t hear about, but things that are important to know,” she said. She said she plans to attend more of the series. The next event will be a panel discussion about Latino education in Colorado at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 9 in Lindou Auditorium, located in the Michener Library. Former president of the American Library Association and UNC alumna Camila Alire will moderate the panel.
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capitated someone who fit the description. As proof, they put the head in a jar before putting it on display. About 15 years ago, Valadez read about someone who claimed to own that same jar containing the head of Murrieta. After the owner of the jar claimed to have lost it, Valadez thought the documentary he planned to make would never happen. Then he received an unmarked box in the mail. Though the head in the jar was only a facsimile, the symbol of the jar was a powerful statement to the director. “It’s a way of entering into a very disturbing history, a kind of vehicle to excavate the past,” Valadez said. Valadez journeyed with the head from his home in the eastern U.S. to where Murrieta was killed. He planned to bury the head, stopping by the homes of a historian and a Chicano activist. While asking about the lands his family lost when his greatgrandfather was murdered, Valadez was shocked to learn that his own ancestral land was taken from Native Americans. “Nothing in history is simple,” he said. “It’s never good or bad. Usually the really good people are kind of bad and the really bad people are kind of good.” This kind of complete understanding of history offers people a chance at truth and reconciliation, Valadez said. “We all have an infinite capac-
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Junior guard Jordan Wilson pushes through North Dakota’s defense during Saturday night’s game at home.
Jordan Wilson: The under-sized ‘X-Factor’ By Chris Bolin
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From a young age, junior guard Jordan Wilson knew basketball was the sport for him. At age eight, he hit his first buzzer beater, a corner fade away to give his team the win. Growing up, playing in various recreation leagues to traveling teams, he realized he had something most young athletes did not. That’s what ended up bringing him to UNC. “I knew that I wanted to play college basketball from when I was about 7 or 8,” Wilson said “UNC just ended up being the right place for me.” He mentioned the community and atmosphere as two reasons that makes UNC special. “Just the way the community rallies around the team and the atmosphere at games is great,” Wilson said. He did note a couple more places to eat in Greeley wouldn’t be the worst thing that could happen, though. The 5-foot-7-inch guard out of Los Angeles has been able to produce 14.8 points per night on average and has been UNC’s most dependable player. Despite his below average size, the Bear has been able to snag 65 rebounds—the fourth most on the team. Wilson also commented on how close of a group this team is. He said everybody gets along and there is a level of trust that really translates to on the court results. “It helps me, as the point guard, just being able to make the right play and knowing my teammates will come through,” he said. Not only does Wilson trust his teammates, but it is also apparent that his teammates trust him back. Fellow junior Anthony Johnson called Wilson the backbone of the team.
“He is the floor general,” Johnson said. “He does a great job not only getting his own shots, but getting everybody involved.” This has been undeniably true for Wilson this season, as he has been the best player when it comes to assists, averaging 3.4 assists per game and leading the team with 72 on the year. Coach B.J. Hill went as far as to call Wilson the “X-Factor” of the team. “Jordan is a leader,” Hill said. “He impacts the game with both his offense and his defense.” On a team with no seniors, somebody had to step into that leadership role. So far, on and off the court, it’s been Wilson. Wilson has done his part in UNC’s season, leading the team with 311 points. “The juniors are seniors, and I am the one with the most court time, so I needed to step up,” he said. In the absence of fellow junior Cameron Michael, who usually eats up minutes, Wilson has carried the team with 718 minutes played—156 minutes more than his closest teammate. Hill commented on the season and how the young team looks to stay on track in the Big Sky Conference. “It is a process when you have so many new faces,” Hill said. “It just takes a little longer, but we are figuring out how to win.” Wilson said they gave away too many games early in the season, especially at home, and he said the team needed to respect its home court. He also said the team was good enough, the members just needed to come out and play for each other and put 40 solid minutes of basketball together. Johnson said the victory over Colorado State was a prime example of that. “When we beat CSU, we knew what we were capable of, then it was just a matter of us showing up every night to play,” he said. The men’s basketball team will take on the Weber State Wildcats 7 p.m. Thursday at the Bank of Colorado Arena.
A timeout with 28 seconds left in the game gave UNC, 8-13 (5-4 Big Sky), enough time to draw up the game-winning play in UNC’s 71-70 win over North Dakota State on Saturday night at the Bank of Colorado Arena. Freshman Jordan Davis’ jumper with 18 seconds left lifted UNC to its fourth straight victory. Davis and junor Anthony Johnson each scored 17 points and had 4 and 2 steals, respectively. North Dakota committed 16 turnovers, which led to 19 UNC points. UNC stays home for a game against Weber State at 7 p.m. on Thursday at the Bank of Colorado Arena.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
UNC’s women’s basketball team came up Dakota, falling 54-51 in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Redshirt Savannah Smith produced 15 points and kept UNC in the game, contributing 15 of UNC’s 24 bench points. UNC dominated in the paint, getting outscored 34-14. UNC was held to 8-of-24 from three-point territory and 18-54 State at 7 p.m. on Thursday in Ogden, Utah.
Wrestling
The UNC wrestling team, 3-4 (0-3 Big 12), beat Boise State Friday night in Idaho, 22-15. Trent Noon, the No.14 wrestler in the country, won by fall, giving UNC the lead 9-6. It was a hard fought victory as the two teams exchanged the lead three times and Boise State nearly ralEleazar DeLuca the surging Broncos and beat his opponent Chris Castillo 4-3 in the 157 weight class.
Men’s Tennis
UNC’s tennis team (0-2) struggled to start the 2016 year, going 0-2 in their UC-Davis and Abilene Christian. UNC’s Eric Schuerman was the only victor in two days of competition, winning 2-1 (6-3,3-6, 6-4.) in singles play. Tennis will be back in action on Feb. 7. against North Dakota.
Swim and Dive
UNC dominated the pools in Kearney, Neraska winning all 13 events enroute to a 180-59 win over CSU-Pueblo and a 185-82 win over Nebraska-Kearney. Carleigh Barrett under 11 minutes in the 1000 free—the only swimmer to do so. Freshman Sydney Kimura and junior Tara yard IM. Freshman Brianna Salanitro won the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1:01.53. The Bears return to the pool at home at 5 p.m. on Wednesday in the ButlerHancock swimming pool.
eSports ready to take on the big stage: ESPN By Zach Blackburn sports@uncmirror.com
Within the past few years, eSports has risen to monumental heights in terms of its prominence. eSports is becoming bigger and bigger every year and people seem to have a lot of support for it. The worldwide gaming community is also rapidly expanding and ESPN is planning to pick up on the hype more as demand continues to rise. Recently the SMITE World Championships were held in Atlanta, which is where HiRez, the developers of the game, are headquartered. SMITE is a MOBA or Multiplayer Online Battle Arena game where players on teams of five pick Gods of various mythologies to play as, such as Zeus, Anubis or the Mayan God of Decay Au Puch, and fight to the death—at least until the respawn timer ends. The SWC brought in qualifying teams from the United States and Europe, offering up a prize pool of $1 million. The winning team, Epsilon, is from all over Europe and is sponsored by names like Nike and Creative Labs. The team took home first place and $500,000. They fielded players from Great Britain, Sweden, Finland and Germany and are coached by a Malaysian, illustrating the power of video games to bring complete strangers together. UNC alumus Zach Benck said he thinks the hype behind eSports is a good thing for the worldwide gaming community. “I think it gives players something to rally behind,” Benck said. “The hype is just hype. It dies down unless real effort is put into it. So it’s good that ESPN is picking it up. I’d rather see another company do it—maybe Twitch—but it makes sense for them to do it.” Twitch is a streaming website for professional and amateur gamers to play and others to watch to either study up on strategy, or simply enjoy.
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