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The first speaker of this spring’s Shulze Interdisciplinary Speaker Series has been selected. Roxanne Schroeder-Arce, professor of theater education at the University of Texas at Austin, will present on why educators and artists need to serve the ever-growing Latino youth community at 4 p.m. Tuesday in Frasier 256. Interns and volunteers are wanted for the Greeley Downtown Development Authority. Contact at 970-356-6775 or go to greeleydowntown.com for more information. UNC mourns the death of longtime gallery director. Joan Shannon-Miller, a UNC alumna, passed away Jan. 27. Family and friends gathered Thursday to celebrate her life and commitment to art. Applications for student commencement speakers are being accepted now. Students interested in applying to be the student speaker at the 2016 undergraduate commencement ceremony must submit applications by Friday. UNC was ranked as having some of the most affordable courses in 2016. The 2016 Most Affordable Online Colleges and Degrees listed UNC’s art and design program at No. 5 and nutrition program at No. 15.
Freshman guard Jordan Davis runs up against Idaho State’s Erik Nakken trying to score during Saturday night’s game in the Bank of Colorado Arena.
BEARS GET OVERRUN
UNC falls to 5-6 in Big Sky after poor shooting leads to 33-point loss to Idaho State
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By Chris Bolin sports@uncmirror.com
UNC snapped its four-game winning streak with a pair of losses to Weber State and Idaho State Thursday night and Saturday night, falling to Weber State 64-54 and Idaho State 90-57. With the losses, UNC moves to 8-15 (5-6 Big Sky) and sits in eighth in the 12-team conference. “They’re a good team,” head coach B.J. Hill said about the Wildcats. “They’re leading the league in defense and they’re leading the league in offense, so there’s very little room for error.” Continued: Men’s Basketball, page 7
Greeley’s WeldWerks Brew Co. was selected as the only Colorado brewery nominated for USA TODAY 10 Best Readers’ Choice. Voting for USA TODAY’s Best New Brewery closes at 9:59 a.m. MST Feb. 29. Votes can be placed once per day at http:// www.10best.com/awards/ travel/best-new-brewery/. Winners will be announced on March 4. UNC will hold its ninth annual Lunar New Year Celebration. The celebration will take place from 3:30–9 p.m. Thursday in Michener Library’s Lindou Auditorium. Attractions will include a family friendly carnival, musical and dance performances, an authentic Asian buffet and a showing of “The Assassin.” Admission to the dinner and performances are free for UNC students, faculty and staff and admission to the carnival and film is free for everyone.
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Immigration in an 'All America City' UNC News News Editor: Chelsea Hinspeter
THIS WEEK AT UNC MONDAY 2/8
10:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. "Show Our Love" Fundraising University Center- Lower Level
TUESDAY 2/9
12-1 p.m. McNair Scholars Program Information Session University Center- Aspen B and C
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11 a.m.-4 p.m. NHS Student Council's February Blood Drive University Center 4:30-6 p.m. Upper Division Honors & McNair Scholars Information Session University Center- Columbine B 5-6 p.m. Got FAFSA? Get Your Questions Answered by Experts Online Google Hangout: http://tinyurl.com/hboncwu 6-8 p.m. Success Looks Like ME: Health Careers University Center- Panorama Room
FRIDAY 2/12
Deadline for Undergraduate Graduation Application 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. "Show Our Love" Fundraising University Center- Lower Level
By Tommy Simmons news@uncmirror.com
Once upon a time, coming to America almost always involved a dangerous voyage across an ocean, usually aboard a cold, cramped ship which, for many immigrants, was fraught with disease, hunger and violence. The vast majority of modern Americans’ ancestors unloaded themselves from the bellies of those ships, often more dead than alive. According to Pew Research Center—a prominent think tank—there are 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants in America today. That number is ultimately uncertain, though, because by definition an unauthorized immigrant doesn’t leave the same paper trail that an authorized U.S. citizen does. Contrary to popular belief, that number has stabilized in recent years because the number of immigrants entering America illegally has remained more or less the same. What might come as a surprise to many Colorado voters is that the state’s population of unauthorized immigrants actually declined in 2014, according to the Pew Research Center. That may be especially surprising in Greeley, a city that witnessed the largest immigration raid in U.S. history in December 2006, when 273 unauthorized immigrants were arrested. Immigration has always been a hot button issue in Greeley, especially for those immigrants arriving from Latin American countries. The 2010 U.S. Census Bureau found 36 percent of Greeley’s population identified as Hispanic. As a result, Greeley is often the stage for a political battle over immigration—one that is mirrored on the national level as well. “[Presidential candidate Donald] Trump’s whole thing about rounding up illegals and sending them back is basically populist politics,” said Christiane Olivo, a doctor of political science at UNC. “He’s pandering to those fears of immigrants taking over our jobs and culture.” This fear of losing one’s nation to an immigrant group is hardly an American phenomenon. Olivo has done research which centers on Europe as a whole—Eastern Germany in particular. Many native Germans have the same fears Americans do, although they are largely concerned with the influx of Turkish immigrants. “There’s this fear of multiculturalism,” she said. “[German President] Merkel actually came out and said that multiculturalism has failed as a policy.” This is a viewpoint one may hear echoed in cities struggling to assimilate a growing immigrant population across America. “One of the issues, I think, is about economy,” Olivo said. “Are immigrants taking jobs away from Americans? You have to look at the [economic] status of people. Immigrants may be taking jobs from high school dropouts, but the economics of it all are pretty complicated. Politics tends to put it in really simple terms. That focus on law and order is really important to politics.” Nowhere is this more apparent than in Greeley. In 2008, former District Attorney Ken Buck put to-
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Many immigrants come to Greeley for more job opportunities and for better lifestyles than they had in their home countries.
gether a raid on a Weld County tax-preparer’s office in an attempt to gain information to help build an identity-theft case with hundreds of illegal immigrants in the crosshairs. The Colorado Supreme Court later declared that action illegal on the grounds it violated privacy rights. It wasn’t the first time Buck had come out strong against illegal immigration though. “Just because you are the victim of a crime doesn’t mean you win the citizenship or the green card lottery,” he said in an interview with I-News. He was referencing the case of Maria Gaspar, an illegal immigrant living in Weld County who came forward to report she was the victim of domestic abuse by her boyfriend, who was also an illegal immigrant. Weld County originally pioneered a program that provided a path for citizenship to illegal immigrants who helped law enforcement solve crimes. For Mitch Staut, a program coordinator at the Boys & Girls Club of Weld County, the immigration debate is much more than headlines and politics. It is a stark reality that affects his relationship with the youth who attend programs at the Boys & Girls Club. “I say these are my kids,” he said with a smile, illustrating the bond that he has with anywhere from 100 to 200 kids who come to the Boys & Girls Club after school. “A lot of my personal experience with immigration comes from working at the Boys & Girls Club.” Many of the youth Staut deals with on a day-to-day basis are the children of immigrants – some of them illegal – or refugees, many from African countries. Many of these children don’t grasp the realities of Buck’s statements, but know firsthand the difficulty of living life in Greeley as an immigrant. Staut said America’s dialogue with immigrants is oftentimes hypocritical and confusing. “On one hand America claims to be a cultural melting pot,” he said. “We encourage people from all over
the world to come here, but it’s really more like, ‘Like our country or leave it.’ [We tell immigrants] we want you here, but when you get here, we’re not going to help you.” He cited education as a serious hurdle for many immigrants to America, legal or otherwise. “I’d say these kids are definitely getting the short end of the stick,” Staut said. “They realize that too. They’re sitting there wondering what to do other than simply work a minimum wage job. Even getting an education creates so many more hoops for them than for average Americans.” Part of the problem for many immigrants is the process of becoming legal. It is a long and oftentimes very rocky one. “It is a ridiculously arduous, tedious and patiencerequiring [process],” said Filipp Dedogryuk, a Russian immigrant living in northern Colorado. “I had to wait five years to get my green card, although we were pretty lucky it was only that.” Dedogryuk arrived in America legally with his family at the age of 8. “The process could definitely use a tune-up,” said Dedogryuk about the policy. Staut agreed, pointing out that even getting a work visa is difficult. Greeley is a prime destination for many immigrants. What may first appear to be another vanilla prairie town, upon further examination, reveals itself to be a menagerie of different cultures and ethnicities. But the future of those populations depend both on the politicians in high places and on the everyday people on the street. Olivo said the next generation might be more up to the task than the one before it. “There is a generation gap too,” she said. “That 1824 year old age group is so demographically diverse, and they’re very liberal on social issues.”
How much is smoking costing you? By Drew Heiderscheidt news@uncmirror.com
According to a recent survey by WalletHub, the average smoker will lose $220,855 over the course of his or her life. While that might be a huge amount of money, it pales in comparison to the financial opportunity cost per smoker. If smokers were to invest that money in the stock market, they could see lifetime earnings of $1,089,471. The highest smoking costs are found in New York, where the total cost per smoker over his or her lifetime is $2,452,735, while the lowest smoking
costs go to Louisiana, where the total cost per smoker is $1,232,159, according to WalletHub’s survey. States with lower costs of smoking are concentrated in the southeast, something that surprised UNC economics professor Rhonda Corman. She suggested it is not due to lower rates of smoking in those places. “Those states tend to be the lower income states overall,” Corman said. David Aske, a fellow professor of economics at UNC, added those states tend to have higher levels of poverty. Corman and Aske flirted with the idea that these states may have a negative correlation between smoking rates and smoking costs: as smoking rates go up, costs go down.
States like Louisiana, West Virginia and North Carolina tend to be more conservative, and typically, oppose taxes. Lower taxes in those states could be the reason for the trend. Social costs exist as well, according to Aske. One example would be the ostracizing of smokers by the non-smoking community. This is clearly seen, Aske said, in the laws being passed on smoking becoming more and more restrictive over time. In Colorado, the Clean Indoor Act 2006 prohibits smoking in all indoor public spaces. Allie Craul, a junior sports and exercise science major, said she tries to avoid people who are smoking at all costs. “The smell isn’t appealing to me and it
gives me a headache,” she said. The health of the public is another social cost to smoking. “If you go and buy cigarettes, in essence, there’s a transaction between you and the retailer and on to the tobacco company,” Corman said. “But, anywhere you light up, if you really wanted to take care of the social costs to make the true cost of your behavior to society, you would pay everyone that was ever around you when you smoked. You would pay them compensation for having to breathe in your secondhand smoke.” Craul said the cost to people who do not smoke from smokers was too high as well. “I don’t need any more carcinogens than I am already exposed to,” she said.
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In popular culture, video games are portrayed as being dominated by men. Women are generally left out and are viewed in a negative light by their counter parts, as well as the broader culture. GamerGate is a term coined by many involved in the gamer community, which refers to the harassment of female gamers in regards to sexism and progressivism in gamer culture. According to Ather Zia, professor of anthropology and gender studies at UNC, “girl gamers” aren’t perceived as being ideal in western culture. “Our ideal woman is someone who wears summery dresses, has a good body — she probably works out — and she also doesn’t like math and ‘video
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Redner used the example of Valve Software’s game “Team Fortress 2,” an online shooter game where gamers get to choose from nine different classes. She said she was only comfortable playing the “Medic” class because it is the only one where she is better than the other people playing. But there may be some solutions for how to decrease the amount of sexism presented in
video games, especially those that people play online. Freshman history and secondary education major Quinn Weeks said the best solution for video games would be to increase gender equality. “There should be more options to play as a female protagonist in games,” Weeks said, elaborating that female characters should be equal to male characters both in power and skill.
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“The main thing about sexism online is that young teenagers learn sexism when playing and nobody stops them,” Redner said. Redner recommended talking to the people playing online and correcting them, essentially educating them on sexism. “To your peers just say ‘Hey, that’s not okay,’ and that’ll help a lot,” she said. Zia went the other way with reducing sexism in video games, and said the only way for sexism in video games to decrease is to decrease sexism in the mainstream Western culture. “These video gamers aren’t unusual people. They’re just you and me, and they do this as a hobby,” she said.
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thingy’s,’” Zia said. If a woman plays games, she almost appears as if she is a defacto man in the eyes of society, Zia said. Mars Redner, a freshman special education major, is an avid video gamer. She said her favorite games are BioWare’s “Dragon Age” series. Redner said she has experienced sexism when playing video games and has been harassed by people when she was playing online because of her gender. Women have to be better than the other people playing a game online, Redner said. “Or else you just don’t talk,” she said. Being a female gamer limits the number of games Redner feels comfortable playing. Even within video games she is comfortable with, it’s often difficult to get outside of her comfort zone by playing online, she said.
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EVENTS THIS WEEK MONDAY 2/8
8 a.m. UPC Spring Concert Tickets On Sale University Center info desk, Nottingham Ticket Office and at www.unco.edu/tickets 9-11 p.m. Open Mic Night University Center- Fireside Lounge
TUESDAY 2/9
5:30-7 p.m. Latino Americans: 500 Years of History Series: Latinos and Education in Colorado Michener Library- Lindou Auditorium
WEDNESDAY 2/10
9 a.m.-3 p.m. V-Day 2016 Theater and Poetry Performances McKee Hall- Breezeway 7:30-10 p.m. Performing Arts Series: The Piano Lesson (daily through Sunday) Gray Hall- Norton Theatre
THURSDAY 2/11
3:30-9 p.m. UNC Lunar New Year Celebration Michener Library- Lindou Auditorium 6:30-8:30 p.m. Black History Month: Guest Speaker Hasan Salaam Kepner Hall- Milne Auditorium 7-9 p.m. International Film Series: The Assassin Michener Library- Lindou Auditorium @UNCMIRRORARTS
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Play haunted with history By Trevor Reid
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UNC’s theatre program invites students to witness a story that often goes untold, with the 1990 Pulitzer Prize-winning play “The Piano Lesson.” Set in 1936, the play focuses on a sibling feud over a piano with carvings that depict the family’s history and enslavement. Boy Willie, the brother played by junior acting major Tristan Turner, plans to sell the piano so he can buy the land his family toiled on. His sister Berniece, played by sophomore acting major Jaden Taylor, refuses to let go of the piano and the history it represents. Sophomore acting major Princeton Bolton explained why he thinks the play is significant. “It’s a perspective that not many people have seen or know about—what it’s like to be a black man in the 1930s and growing up in a world that doesn’t really belong to you,” Bolton said. Junior acting major Marena Kleinpeter, who served as dramaturge, said the characters are grounded in reality.
“Doaker is my dad and Wining Boy is my uncle. And their relationship is a real relationship,” Kleinpeter said, comparing the characters’ experiences to her personal life. “It’s not like these are some people that August Wilson made up, these are people that he probably knew in his own life, and people that we all probably know in our own lives.” The play represents both the living and the ghosts of the past. “They talk a lot about ghosts and ancestors and spirits, and those beings, though unseen, really do inhabit this play,” director Dawn Monique Williams said. When Willie first arrives to take the piano, Berniece screams at the sight of the ghost of the slave-owner who broke up her ancestors’ family. She later admits to refusing to play the piano, fearful of her family’s spirits. Avery, a preacher taken with Berniece, encourages her to let go of the stones of the past. Bolton, cast as Avery in the play, found the character’s dialect to be his greatest challenge, explaining the character suppresses his true dialect. “He was born in Jackson,
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Tristan Turner (left), a junior acting major, Dimon Riley (center), a senior musical theatre major, and Mike Ham Jr. (right), a junior acting major perform in “The Piano Lesson” in Norton Theater.
Mississippi, so he would have a Southern dialect,” Bolton said. “But he thinks that white guys are better than black men, so he tries to emulate that in his speech. So what I did is first transcribed it in a Southern dialect, then I went over it and
tried to erase it.” “The Piano Lesson” builds to a thrilling climax of a history that refuses to be ignored. There are more opportunities to see the play, at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 10-13 and 2 p.m. Feb. 14 in Norton Theatre.
Williams said she wants people going to see the play to understand a few major concepts. “The cultural richness of black lives—the complexity, the beauty, the pain. I want people to understand why black lives matter,” she said.
Downtown Greeley gallery goes ‘totally local’ By Trevor Reid
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For founding member Rodney Barnes, finding inspiration for art at the Madison and Main Gallery is no issue. “It’s easy,” the artist said, gesturing to a vase with a small mountain scene. “We go to the mountains, so I put mountains on my pottery.” Though the gallery’s current exhibit is “Totally Local,” the art displayed is diverse to no end. With soaps, hats, mugs and jewelry, to name just a few kinds of what the gallery has to offer, there is something for everyone. “I get my inspiration from whatever I’m doing in life,” Barnes said. “Right now, I’m obsessed with bicycles and fixed-gear bicycles.” Barnes pointed out a vase of his covered in penny-farthing bicycles—the
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The “Totally Local” show, exhibiting pieces from regional artists, will be up until Feb. 26. Colorado mug was made by member Danyelle Butler and bracelets by member Dyana Wyeno.
classic bike with a large front wheel. “I discovered this fixed-gear bicycle and I was riding with a bunch of stu-
dents at UNC, so we decided to have a bicycle show on our porch six years ago,” Barnes said.
The success the students saw led them to continue the bicycle show annually. When asked about the university’s relationship with the gallery, members all agreed there are very close ties. Ann Shirley, an associate member, explained why the gallery decided against moving west. “We’ve maintained our address here because we want to continue to be tied to the university,” Shirley said. Many of the gallery’s members, including Susan Anderson, Jim Klingman and Barnes are UNC graduates, Shirley said. “It’s an inspiration every time I come to work,” Shirley said. “Someone came in who hadn’t been in the gallery before, and she was so pleased to find an art scene in Greeley because there just isn’t enough art in the world.” The gallery is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
OPINION
Letter to the Editor: ‘Sugar Daddies’ article puts us back 100 years Editor, As someone working to change the perceptions of others on our campus and in the community to be more socially just, I must say your front page article “Sugar Daddies: Atypical Financial Aid” put us back 100 years. Even though the article denies having any relation to prostitution, it is simply that. Women (and may not be for sex, but they are selling their bodies none the less.
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This view of people, especially women, as objects to buy, is disgusting. Sadly, giving credit to this system by putting it on the front page, or even an article in your paper about it, condones this practice to your audience. Oppressive systems such as the one that is highhas a long way to go for equality and equity for all. I admit, if the article appeared in any way to simply bring attention to this issue objectively, I most likely would not be writing you. However, the drawings and writing advertise and even glamorize for this horrible practice.
For those of us who are trying to change the world for the better and to wake people up to the injustices of our society, I simply request that more thought be put into your paper and the articles that are written. ror to be known for excellence. I believe that can be achieved. Thank you for your time. - Dan Turnbeaugh (USN) Director of Veterans Services
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HOME GAMES THURSDAY 2/11
7 p.m. Women’s Basketball vs. University of Idaho Bank of Colorado Arena
FRIDAY 2/12
10 a.m. Men’s Tennis vs. Eastern Washington Butler-Hancock Tennis Courts 10:30 a.m. Softball vs. Texas Southern Butler-Hancock Softball Field 2 p.m. Women’s Tennis vs. University of Colorado Butler-Hancock Tennis Courts 7 p.m. Wrestling vs. Utah Valley University Bank of Colorado Arena
AWAY GAMES MONDAY 2/8
All Day Men’s Golf at Thunderbird Invitational Ogden, Utah
THURSDAY 2/11
7 p.m. Men’s Basketball vs. University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho
Chicago to get a new Jordan amazing too. She’ll go from the back line to the top of the field and back. She’s the only one who can do that.” By Zach Blackburn McGuire said Jordan’s play has gotten almost sports@uncmirror.com predictable. “Anyone will come down her side and she will As a child, Adrienne Jordan built snowmen on the local soccer field. Now, she’s preparing to com- just take the ball like it’s nothing,” McGuire said. Jordan said she hopes some of her superstipete for a spot on the Chicago Red Stars’ roster to tions and routines will bring her luck in the be part of the National Women’s Soccer League. coming months. Jordan is a native of “I’ll write what Colorado Springs, and I want to do on a is a senior defender for little index card, UNC majoring in sport like ‘Make five runs and exercise science. each half ’ or ‘Have She said she wasn’t altwo shots on goal,’ ways sure she wanted to and put it in my play professional soccer, right shoe,” Jordan and didn’t even like the said. “That way it idea at first. reminds me of what “When I first startI need to do and ed, I wasn’t into it,” keeps me focused.” Jordan said about her Jordan also puts sport. “My parents her shinguard holdpulled me out and I ers, socks and shoes started officially when on in the same order. I was 6… And now I’m She wears her hair competing for a spot the same way each on the team, to play for match, and she wears my living.” a certain headband But Jordan didn’t depending on the always know playing Mark Harro | The Mirror uniform color, but professional soccer was something she want- UNC’s Adrienne Jordan was drafted 35th overall by the it’s always sparkly. “It’s just a little ed to do. In fact, the Chicago Red Stars in the 2016 NWSL Draft. something I can thought subsided for some time before her teammates and coaches do to help it feel like home,” Jordan said. “I know it’ll be different but I hope some things helped her see it might be possible. “I think every little kid at some point thinks are the same.” Jordan said her biggest concern would be get‘I’m going to be a professional athlete.’ But then realistically they think ‘Probably not,’” Jordan ting used to the pace of things and living in a said. “But once I got here at UNC, that little kid new place. But she also has a positive outlook on the way things will be. dream started up again.” “From talking to one of the players, it’s a little Jordan said the reality of the situation hasn’t settled in yet because she’s still studying and like a family, but everyone is there because it’s training with her friends. But head coach Tim their job,” Jordan said. “I hope it’s like that a little Barrera said he has confidence that Jordan will bit for team chemistry.” Jordan said she isn’t sure exactly when she’s find success at the next level. “The biggest thing is that she’s really competi- heading to the windy city, but she said there are tive and athletically gifted,” Barrera said. “She a few things on her list to do before she leaves, has top-end athleticism and she’s a really fierce like returning to Colorado Springs for some competitor. That’s going to help her at the next family time. “I’m going to miss everyone: my family, my level immensely.” And Barrera isn’t the only one who feels that friends, my dogs,” Jordan said. “I want to make way. Jordan’s teammate, junior goalkeeper Alys- sure I can go home for a little bit to spend some sa McGuire, also spoke highly of Jordan, as both time with everyone, and also to train because of the higher elevation.” a player and a person. Until then, Jordan said she hopes to train hard “She’s a leader. She always pushes me to be better, to challenge myself and get out of my in Greeley, and spend time with her friends and comfort zone,” McGuire said. “Her play is teammates who are like family to her.
THIS WEEK IN NOCO SPORTS Swim and Dive
UNC went head-to-head with Colorado State University, falling 186-111 in the combined score. Junior Carleigh Barrett of the second swimmer. Barrett had a overall great relay with the top group of Sydney Kovar, Valeria Mihailova, Sydney Kimura and Katie O’Connell -
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
UNC’s women’s basketball took Weber State to triple-overtime on Thurs-
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and had a block. Senior Rebecca Howell and sophomore Savannah Scott also had a double-digit scoring night, scoring 18 and 16 points, respectively. Scott along with four steals and two assists.
Wrestling
Freshman Rico Montoya and redshirt sophomore Keilan Torres were the only Bears to pick up a win against Wyoming Saturday night in Wyoming. Wyoming went lost the remaining eight matches of the night, including two by major decision, one technical fall, two pins and one default. UNC is back in action against Utah rado Arena.
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Bears hoops defeated by Idaho State Men’s Basketball, from page 1.
The 64 points Weber State scored was the second lowest total the team had been held to this season. “In the first half I thought we were extremely soft offensively, but I was very proud of the way we defended,” Hill continued. “We showed a lot of growth in that area, and I’m pretty hard on these guys about that, so I was very happy that we were really, really good defensively.” Junior Anthony Johnson led the Bears on offense, finishing with 14 points on 6-of-12 shooting while pulling down four rebounds and getting four steals. Freshman Jordan Wilson was the only other Bear to reach double digits, scoring 12 points while swiping three steals and getting two rebounds. UNC got off to a slow start to begin the game, spotting Weber State 10 points to start the game, but stormed back to take the lead 18-17 with just under five minutes left in the first half. “I thought we ran out of gas a little bit. I thought we looked tired, so we need to look at that as a staff,” Hill said. “I didn’t think we went too hard or too long in terms of practice and took away their legs. We looked a little beat up, but a lot of that is Weber State. They’re extremely strong and physical.” Even though the Bears struggled on offense, only shooting 29 percent, their defense stepped up holding the Wildcats to only 26 points in the first half, going into halftime only trailing by three points. Weber State’s offense began to click in the second half and the team made shots they did not in the first half, specifically from long range, knocking down six timely three-pointers, not letting UNC make any sort of run. “They had some timely shots,” Hill said. “They hit them when they needed them. They did a good job of rising to the occasion in the second half. There were some timely shots and that’s what champions do. I feel like we played better tonight than we did last time we played them. We played with confidence and felt like we could compete, we just didn’t do it for forty minutes.” On Saturday, the Bears were bested by red-hot Idaho State. It was lights out for Idaho State as they shot 65 percent from 3-point range, hitting on 13-of-20 from long range. Sophomore Geno Luzcando dominated from the tip of the ball, scoring 30 points in 30 minutes of action. Luzcando added five steals and three rebounds to complete his game. Even without Luzcando, Idaho State had three more double-digit scorers. UNC had two make it to double-digits with junior guard Anthony Johnson leading the way with 16 points. Freshman Jordan Davis looked like UNC’s most consistent player, getting on the stat sheet in a variety of different ways. Davis had six rebounds, eight points, four assist, two steals and two blocks. Northern Colorado struggled to get going and all eight of their second half 3-pointers. Idaho State shot at a 65 percent success rate from 3-point range, 13-of-20, while Northern Colorado was held to 11 percent, 2-of-18. As a team the Bears shooting percentage dropped to 42 percent in the game, while Idaho State had plenty of good looks and scored on 58 percent of their shots from the field. The Bears will travel to Moscow, Idaho Thursday to take on the Idaho Vandals. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m.
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Close to two dozen people gather at Saverio Parker’s candlelight vigil
Sam Lawlor | The Mirror
Candles were lit and balloons were released in memory of a fellow UNC student and beloved friend, Saverio Parker, at 6 p.m. Friday night near Lawrenson Hall. The Black Student Union held the vigil, which Parker was a member of. Parker died Jan. 24. The cause of death is still unknown.
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