The Mirror—January 17, 2017

THE According to CNN, The Ringling Bros. circus is closing.

Amidst falling ticket sales, high operating costs and public outcry, the famed circus will be performances between now and May. Ticket sales crashed after the removal of the elephants act.

This Thursday, there will be a preinnaugural “ReadIn” at the Michener Library, beginning at 4 p.m. Students will be able to read a piece from a book or poem that they believe represents our country’s future.

UNC is hosting a Martin Luther King Jr. March this Monday. The event will begin at the Greeley Chamber of Commerce to the Union Colony Civic Center where activities will continue. The event is hosted by UNC and the city of Greeley,

SPRING SEMESTER KICKS OFF Free school supplies were distributed at this year’s Winter Welcome in anticipation of a stunning spring semester.

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The University of Northern Colorado will be transferring ownership of its long-held University Apartments.

The 98-unit complex, located near Jackson Field, has been in university possession since 1967, and will be sold to a group of local investors.

They are scheduled to close on the sale in mid February.

The new owners are now collaborating with UNC to ensure a smooth transition.

This deal has been in the works since January of last year. The university has maintained contact with the residents of the apartment complex about this deal throughout the year, and

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were notified of the sale on Jan. 13.

The apartments, which are located about three blocks east of central campus, feature 98 units of two bedroom apartments that cater to current students, graduate students, international students and those with families. The complex buildings are among the oldest in the university’s possession. They carry a high maintenance cost and no debt.

In the meeting last January, President Kay Norton said the university was looking into its other apartment complex, Arlington Park, as a future home for growth, particularly among international students. Arlington, unlike the university apartments, is newer, and carries

a debt with it.

“We really believe that, again, strategically -- as we’re looking at our enrollment goals going forward -to grow international enrollment in particular, it makes a lot more sense for us to be able to offer flexible university housing for international students and graduate students closer to the main part of the campus at the Arlington Park facility,” Norton said last year.

According to the UNC News service, the new owners intend to continue operating the complex, and will be honoring all current contracts through the end of the academic year. The selling price is yet unknown. The exact name of the investment group is yet unknown. The University Apartments have found a buyer who plans to continue operating the complex. Photo courtesy of unco.edu

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By Wilhelmina Jackson arts@uncmirror.com

“Hidden Figures” is a monumental movie about how three women impacted NASA with their work as human calculators.

The story follows three women named Katherine, Dorothy, and Mary who get separated into different departments and face personal struggles all while facing social issues as well, such as racism and sexism.

Dorothy struggles to keep her position in the West Area Computer Division, and tries to get the position of manager. Mary struggles to become an engineer, while Katherine tries to keep up as mathematician with the top department in charge of figuring out how to get John Glenn into space.

This movie was brilliant in how informative it was. I learned so many things from this movie. It was a shock to see African Americans

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working for NASA. I didn’t know they let African Americans work for NASA, much less women in general. Plus, it was great to learn that three black women were behind the work of sending John Glenn up to space. It was also pleasing to learn some other facts as well. I personally didn’t know that before sending the first man to the moon, we sent the first man to orbit the earth.

The film was also very moving, to say the least. Seeing African American women struggle and succeed in an industry that does everything in its power to work against them is amazing. The movie is inspiring to everyone, but it’s especially inspiring to women and African Americans, both of whom are oppressed identities. Felix Munoz, a sophomore psychology and legal studies major shared his opinion on the film’s representation.

“They dealt with the hard issues that women had to deal with in a tasteful way. It was realistic.

It wasn’t like the movie Django. It wasn’t forcing activism down your

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From left to right: Monae as Mary Jackson, Henson as Katherine Johnson and Spencer as Dorothy Vaughan in Hidden Figures. The film tells the women's story as they navigate NASA and try to send John Glenn to space. Photo courtesy of wp.com

throat,” Munoz said.

Finally, this movie was wonderful because of the great acting. Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and

Janelle Monae play the tree main characters. They portrayed their characters well, and showed how close the trio were on screen. They

made the friendship between the women clear, and had good chemistry. I would definitely recommend this movie to others.

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UNC RAs hold Rec Center Casino Night

By Erika Siebring arts@uncmirror.com

The time-warping black hole that is Las Vegas is unfortunately beyond the reach of at least half of a university’s student population, but UNC’s Residence Hall Association succeeded in recreating a similar environment designed to help students recover from the first week of the spring semester.

Coupled with a three-day weekend, the university rec center played host to the Bearlagio Casino Night, giving students the chance to gamble through Texas Hold’em, roulette, craps, and other games for the chance to win a number of prizes.

The participant with the voucher for the highest

amount had the opportunity to take home Panic! At the Disco concert tickets, with second place receiving a FitBit Charge, and third winning Ted--a giant teddy bear. Other prizes included common dollar-store commodities, such as kazoos, beads, foam dice, and the nose-and-glasses disguises one sees in cartoons.

Of course what also makes a casino is the music and drinks, and the RHA cleverly recreated the illusion of red wine and craft beer with cups of sparkling cider.

Naturally, music filled the air, and in keeping with the spirit of Vegas, the playlist had multiple popular songs.

A jazzy, upbeat cover of

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Students looking to gamble less-than-real currency could win prizes by dominating the tables. Bearlagio offered blackjack, Texas Hold’Em, Craps and Roulette. Photo courtesy of Erika Siebring | The Mirror

“Closer” sounded like it could fit right into the 1920s era, alongside a ballad of “We Can’t

Stop” and a lively rendition of “Bad Blood.” With enough people to fill up each table, and

The Northern Colorado women’s basketball team moves to 6-0 in Big Sky Conference play after a 65-46 win over the University of Montana Thursday night in Greeley and a 66-58 win over Montana State University, the reigning Big Sky champions on Saturday.

Junior guard Savannah Scott led the teams shooting 71.4 percent and scoring 15 points on thursday night.

Scott wasn’t the only one to score in double figures.She was joined by redshirt sophomore guard Savannah Smith who had 12 points, sophomore center Courtney Smith who scored 10, and freshman guard Mandy Karako with11.

Offense was big for the Bears on Thursday, but they were strong on defense as well. UNC held Montana to just 30.4 percent shooting, but Scott felt there was still room for improvement.

“We weren’t that happy with how we played defensively or how we rebounded the ball, so we still want to improve on that.”

While keeping the shooting to only 30.4 percent, Montana secured 43 total rebounds.

The Bears are on a seven-game winning streak and are undefeated in the Big Sky conference. This is the best start to a Bears season since joining the conference in 2006.

“We get a little comfortable, which isn’t a good thing I don’t think” said senior guard Katie Longwell.

UNC sits atop the Big Sky conference right now, but they don’t believe themselves to be so much better that their spot can’t be taken away by the next team.

“We have to go out and play like we are 0-5 and dying to win. We cannot be satisfied where we are right now, we can look forward to the next game on our schedule that will hopefully help prepare us for end of February and March,” Ethridge said.

UNC stayed home for their toughest Big Sky matchup of the year, hosting the Montana State Bobcats.

The Bears struggled out of the gates scoring only seven points in the first quarter and were reminded early that the Bobcats are No. 1 in the Big Sky in 3-pointers, scoring 5-of-8 in the first half.

The Bears trailed by as much as 11 in the first half and were in need of a spark to get offense back on track. UNC found the offense they needed by bringing in freshman guard Mandy Karako off the bench.

Karako made her presence felt right away scoring seven points in the closing minutes of the first half.

“I just try to take it one play at a time. If I think of it all as more than one I get a little flustered. So I take it one defensive possession, then offensive and go from there,” Karako said. “I just keep on trying to think what I am supposed to next. It really helped that we were getting good ball movement to help get the offense going.”

With just 18 seconds remaining in the half Krystal

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even leaving some empty, the evening’s atmosphere kept to a secluded, calming nature.

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Leger-Walker grabbed her own rebound and finished a layup to tie the game at 26-26.

Head coach Kamie Ethridge’s hafltime message was that the game had been reset.

“We weren’t making shots that we normally do in practice, so that kind of put our mood down, along with our pace,” said sophomore guard Savannah Smith. “It still wasn’t as good as it should have been, but in the second half coming out of the locker room it felt like it was a lot better.”

Throughout the second half the game went back and forth but UNC kept coming out on top in the clutch moments.

The Bobcats stole the lead and it felt like the Bank of Colorado crowd had vanished with just 2:21 remaining in the game, just ten seconds later Leger-Walker found a streaking Savannah Scott who was fouled on the layup and cashed in on the and-one.

From then on UNC never looked back as the Bobcats threw up unanswered hailmary’s to end the game.

“I love this team’s make up. They are young and enjoying every minute of this, but they will still be young tomorrow and come into practice probably sleepy or something like that. They are not getting ahead of themselves or anything like that,” Ethridge said. “We just talked about six games are in our rearview mirror now. Something we should get out of this game is confidence. Now we have to take those experiences and go on the road against really good teams in Idaho State and Weber State.”

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University 1/16 MLK Day March

Greeley Chamber of Commerce 10:30 a.m.

Libraries PreInaugural Read-In Michener Library 4-6 p.m.

1/20 1/17 Schulze Speaker Series: Fallou Ngom University Center Panorama Room 4-6 p.m.

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1/16: UNC Club McKee 08 8:30 a.m.-9:15 a.m.

1/17: Faculty Artist Recital Series

Union Colony Civic Center 8p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

1/18: Graduate Student Recital Frasier Hall 6:15 p.m.- 7:15 p.m.

1/19: President Trump - What to Expect UC Columbine A 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

1/20: League of Legends Club UC Council Room 6 p.m. - 10 p.m.

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1/19: Men’s Basketball vs.Idaho State University Bank of Colorado Arena 7 p.m.

1/20: Women’s Basketball at Idaho State Pocatello, Idaho 7 p.m.

1/20: Men’s Tennis at Air Force USAF Academy 6 p.m.

1/21: Track and Field at Air Force Invite Colorado Springs, CO All Day

1/21: Women’s Swim at Northern Arizona All Day