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Sports Wrestling team falls to Air Force The UNC wrestling team loses eight of 10 weight classes on senior day against Air Force. PAGE 6
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UNC redshirt freshman guard Tevin Svihovec, left, makes a move around a Cal Poly defender Saturday at Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion.
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College funds research through scrapbooking Creative gathering raises money for Natural Health and Sciences
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The College of Natural and Health Sciences’ fourth annual Scrapbooking Social Fundraiser provided UNC students and community members with an entire day to work on their individual scrapbooking projects Saturday in the University Center Ballrooms. The event was open to all University of Northern Colorado students and those in surrounding communities. Beckie Croissant, the administrative aid in the
College of Natural and Health Science’s dean’s office, said the event is hosted to raise money for the Student Research Fund, a fund within the college to help undergraduate and graduate students fund their research and researchrelated travels. Croissant helped start the fundraiser four years ago. “My friend and I, who were avid scrapbookers, decided we wanted to do something to help the cause,” she said. “So we set up a scrapbooking event to help raise money.”
Croissant said the fundraiser provides a nice environment for people to work on a creative projects while supporting a good cause. “Someone brings their scrap booking materials — paper, stickers, albums, pictures — and they sit and work on their own project,” she said. “But today we actually have a knitter who is here knitting scarves and someone who is making cards. Really, it’s any kind of craft if they want to come.” Julie DeJong, a fresh-
man math major, attended the event and finished up a scrapbook she had started to document a 14day trip to Europe, where she visited seven countries. Dejong said it was nice to have a specific time to work on the scrapbook. “I saw this and thought this would be cool,” DeJong said. “I have been a scrapbooker now for a couple years. It’s a good time. It’s relaxing, I get a set time to work on my project, and it’s nice that I am raising money for my own college.” Laurenda Weber, a senior sports and exercise science and nutrition
major, said she has participated in every scrapbooking fundraiser the
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I saw this and thought this would be cool. I have been a scrapbooker now for a couple years. It’s a good time. It’s relaxing, I get a set time to work on my project, and it’s nice that I am raising money for my own college.” — Julie DeJong, a freshman math major
college has hosted so far. “I never scapbooked in my life until these events, so it’s nice to learn something new that I’ve become interested in,” Weber said. “And I work in the college’s dean’s office, so I kind of got to be behind the scenes, helping prepare, and then I got to come a little early and then I get to participate.” Weber said she has enjoyed seeing the social grow, and loves coming every year. “It’s cool to see all the different people each year that are so into it, and are such die-hard scrapbookers,” Weber said. “It’s just a lot of fun and a great cause.”
CHSL seeks student researchers CONOR MCCABE news@uncmirror.com Students looking to gain experience researching areas of interest and pre-
senting their findings are able to apply for UNC’s annual Research Day, which is Thursday, April 12 in the University Center.
Research Day is open to all undergraduate and graduate students, regardless of major or minor. The day will consist of poster and oral presentations as well as separate breakout rooms set up for specific presentations and will also allow undergraduate and graduate students the chance to apply for Research Excellence Awards to be given out at the end of the week. “It’s an exceptional opportunity to get experience presenting research and research-in-progress in a low-key setting,” said Loree Crow, the associate See Research Day, Page 5
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Overly politically correct Arizona bill threatens free speech Recently, Arizona state congress introduced S.B. 1467, a bill that would limit free speech in public schools, including community colleges and public universities. According to the Huffington Post, this piece of legislation requires all educators in public schools to adopt a language that could be broadcast under FCC regulations. In other words, S.B. 1467 restricts an instructor’s right to use profanity inside and outside of the classroom. To an extent, this law makes sense for K-12 teachers. Even
though most American children are completely aware of so-called curse words by the time they reach first or second grade, these children are minors. Their parents are the ones who really control their education, not the teachers. Thus, parents of K-12 students should be assured that their students are not listening to anything they would not want them to listen to; anything that might be called “subversive.” However, when a person enters an institute of higher learning, he or she becomes responsible for his or her own education. College stu-
dents are adults, and as adults, they should realize that curse words are just words — they signify very little unless the students give them the power to hurt. Universities need to provide openness. They need to allow constant critical discourses on a myriad of subjects, including profanity. English and American literature, for example, is full of profanity, so how can any good English professor teach a classic like William S. Burrough’s “Naked Lunch,” a novel full of references to large dildos, homoerotic fellatio and anuses?
Additionally, the bill will punish professors who transgress it. For the first offense, the teacher will be suspended for a week, and for the third offense, the teacher will be terminated. This bill goes against the honored tradition of tenure. No professor should ever fear losing his or her job because he or she said something that might offend someone else. Our society is still very politically correct, and this is saddening. No rational human being should ever be offended by a word. One can only hope that this type of law will not spread to other states.
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Health and Human Services mandate violates health insurance purpose Josh DIVINE
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find it ironic how many people say men shouldn’t have a say on the birth control mandate, as if people in Colorado can’t care about things like Arizona’s immigration bill. Regardless, my wife and I are totally congruous on this issue, but she doesn’t have a column in The Mirror, so here goes. Even if there were no ethical issues concerning forced insurance coverage of birth control and abortifacients (Plan B, Ella), I would still oppose the mandate that all health insurers provide birth control “for free.” I think the mandate certainly
holds dangerous implications for religious freedom, but its fiscal concerns violate the purpose of health insurance. The mandate goes against the base philosophy of insurance, which is to pool money so people can afford to deal with low-probability-high-cost issues. Left-leaning organizations like Think Progress have essentially been trying to equate birth control pills with penicillin. They are quick to point out that only 42 percent of women use birth control exclusively to prevent pregnancy. These statistics are misleading because they fail to report the percentage of women who use birth control to prevent pregnancy as a secondary purpose. Regulating menstruation, easing its pain, and treating acne are the most prevalent alternate uses of birth control pills, according to Think Progress.
Think Progress’ statistics show that the predominant use of birth control is not to deal with medical conditions but to subsidize lifestyle decisions. This, by itself, is enough reason to oppose the mandate. Health insurance isn’t supposed to fund lifestyle decisions. There are a few legitimate medical conditions that birth control deals with, but the percentage of people who use birth control for these reasons is comparatively insignificant. In addition, there are other treatments available that don’t include preventing pregnancy as their primary goals. Also, Obama’s assertion that nobody will pay for this mandate is economically dishonest. The large cost of administering the mandate won’t be absorbed by insurance companies; it will be passed onto employers, and indirectly to employees, through
higher premiums. But apart from these fiscal concerns, the whole debate ignores one extremely important drawback of making hormonal birth control more widespread: the fact that birth control pills are recognized by the World Health Organization as a Group 1 carcinogen, the same group that tobacco and arsenic are placed in. The most appropriate thing would be to let women know that the drug many of them use to avoid pregnancy is a known cause of cancer, but Health and Human Services instead wants to mandate their coverage under healthcare. Though not equal, it’s analogous to mandating health insurance coverage of cigarettes because of the anxiety-reducing effect they have. — Josh Divine is a senior mathematics major and a weekly columnist for The Mirror.
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Students race hundreds of miles with CRC COLLEEN ALLISON news@uncmirror.com Students are racking up the miles as they continue to bike across Colorado for the UNC Campus Recreation Center’s Bike Across Colorado Program. Students who entered the Bike Across Colorado program have until the end of the month to bike 528 miles. Participants track their miles at the front desk of the CRC and on a bulletin board at the gym. The competition started Feb. 1 and each contestant received a free “Bike Across Colorado” T-shirt. Students use the stationary bikes at the gym to com-
plete their miles as they travel across Colorado, starting at the southwestern corner and ending at the northeast corner of the state. Laurel Casey, a junior geography and secondary education major, is one of the competitors. “I am competing because I enjoy biking and think this is a great health challenge that I will stick to and feel motivated to finish,” Casey said. So far, she has biked more than 150 miles. She said to reach the finish line she will have to bike around 25 miles per day and her strategy is to use her free time to gain more miles. “I like to double up
miles on the weekends when I have more time, so I plan on taking full advantage and finishing strong,”
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I am competing because I enjoy biking and think this is a great health challenge that I will stick to and feel motivated to finish. — Laurel Casey, a junior geography and secondary education major and a Bike Across Colorado participant
Casey said. “The stationary bikes at the CRC make it quick and easy to rack up miles.” Casey said she thinks the CRC could not have picked a better month to host the competition. “I think that having it during a month that has cold weather is a plus, because exercising outside isn’t very appealing with snow on the ground and when temperatures are in the 30s,” she said. Students compete in the program individually but often go to the gym together. The point of the race is to get students out and moving while having fun. The competition ends Feb. 29 and the CRC is already considering hosting the contest again next year.
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Rachel Booze, a freshman nutrition major, listens to music as she rides a stationary bike at the Campus Recreation Center. The CRC is hosting Bike Across Colorado through February.
OUR stipends aid in research CONOR MCCABE news@uncmirror.com Students looking to take their education to the next level by doing their own research this summer have the chance to apply for financial assistance through the Office of
Undergraduate Research. OUR has four $1,000 summer research stipends students can apply for. “We want students from all disciplines to be doing this,” said Lainey Johnson, a graduate assistant for University
College. “Research isn’t just conducted in the hard sciences, but in disciplines and programs across the board.” OUR was founded in spring 2011 to assist students in their research activities by helping them financially and giving researchers an opportunity to present their findings to a wider audience. Applications for summer stipends will be accepted Feb. 17 – March 23. The application can be found at www.unco.edu/hsl/our/ and will require basic information, See Stipends, Page 8
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Conference honors historic Dearfield community Professors display archaeological findings, artifacts of ghost town AMANDA STOUTENBURGH news@uncmirror.com UNC community members helped bring life back to what has become a ghost town by hosting the Dearfield Dream Conference in celebration of the historic town as part of Black History Month Saturday at the University Center. Dearfield was a black farming community located 25 miles east of Greeley, established in 1910 by O.T. Jackson. Zachariah Snyder, president of the State Normal School from 1891-1915, now known as the University of Northern Colorado, was one of Jackson’s first supporters. Governor John
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Shafroth, who served Colorado from 1909-13, also supported Jackson. Dearfield was founded 40 years after Greeley and struggled to match Greeley’s fast population growth. The 1930s Dust Bowl also affected Dearfield more than Greeley due to its inability to irrigate crops through rivers. When Highway 34 was completed in July 1931, Dearfield residents celebrated because it improved transportation between the two cities. The conference featured presentations from descendants of Dearfield residents, including one man whose grandfather lived in Dearfield and was well known in Greeley, as
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I feel sorry for the person who can’t get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile. -- Walter Chrysler
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well as presentations regarding research of the historic town. Andy Creekmore, an assistant professor of anthropology and archaeologist, and Bob Brunswig, a professor of anthropology at UNC, presented their results from testing the magnetic fields beneath Dearfield with a magnetometer. Creekmore and Brunswig found metal debris under Dearfield but have not determined what time period it’s from. They found a fully intact chicken coop post in the ground, a shell button, a dinner plate, soft drink bottles, a .30 caliber bullet, a man’s ring and other artifacts. The shell
button, Creekmore said, should be from around 1910 because they stopped making buttons from shells soon after. Some of the original Dearfield buildings are still standing, including a filling station, the lunchroom, a blacksmith shop and either a school or a church. “I’m interested in getting involved with community service, and very interested in history and this conference sparked my interest,” said Dennis Swingler, a member of the Greeley community. The conference also displayed artifacts from the town, including a flag from between 1912-49, which had only 48 stars. The conference also
exhibited the five men from Dearfield who served in World War I. Men of color had to tear off a corner of their enlistment form so they could be more easily identified, and photographs of these documents were on display. “I thought it was fantastic and a great project to be preserving a piece of history and is great for the town,” said Judy Firestein, a member of the Greeley community. About 55 people attended the conference, some looking to help educate others about the history of the ghost town. “I thought it was a pretty good event and a good turnout,” said George Junne, a professor of
Africana studies at UNC. Many other companies and universities took part in the conference including Colorado State University, Texas A&M University, the City of Greeley, Weld County and the Black American West Museum in Denver.
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I thought it was fantastic and a great project to be preserving a piece of history and is great for the town. — Judy Firestein, a member of the Greeley community
Research Day to feature students’ findings Research from Page 2 director for Honors with the Center for Honors, Scholars and Leaders. This will be just one of the many events occurring during Academic Excellence Week, which takes place April 8-14. The week’s intention is to celebrate academic excellence throughout the different colleges at the University of Northern Colorado. Academic Excellence week is hosted by the Office of Undergraduate Research, the CHSL and the Graduate Student Association and with the help of various aca-
demic departments and programs that participate in the different events. To apply for Research Day, students must complete the forms found in the “Student” tab of their URSA account. The deadline for all applications is midnight Thursday, March 8. “It’s a good opportunity to share your research with not only your colleagues but also your professors, as well,” said Dave Glassmeyer, a graduate teaching assistant and two-time presenter. He said Research Day is a great opportunity to
practice speaking about research in front of others and practice for some of the national conferences that are held throughout the country. Students who apply for Research Day can also check the box labeled Research Excellence Award Program. The awards will be graded based on the abstract submitted and the student’s poster or oral presentation. Twenty students will be selected as award winners, 10 oral presenters and 10 poster presenters, half of who will be undergraduate
and the other half graduate students. “All undergraduate students must have a faculty adviser for their research projects,” Crow said. “Graduate students are not required to but most of them do anyway.” Selected faculty members judge the presentations throughout the week and announce the specific award winners at the reception, which will be April 12. For more information on Academic Excellence Week or Research Day, visit the CHSL in Michener Library L-98 or call 970-3512940.
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Guard sets D-I school record as Bears top Cal Poly
the day on Feb. 13, 2010. Svihovec’s performance sparked talks of “Tevinsanity” by students and fans, a sentiIn a game that didn’t ment echoed by sophomore mean much for the standings, forward Emmanuel Addo, UNC redshirt freshman who shouted the phrase as he walked into the guard Tevin Champions Room Svihovec made after the game. sure it was mean“(Svihovec) ingful in another was hot, and we way. just tried to give With 33 sechim the ball onds to go, whenever we Svihovec stood at could, and he put the free throw line us on his back and with a chance to Tevin Svihovec carried us to vicmake history, and when the ball passed through tory,” Addo said. Svihovec, however, said the net, he had done just that. That basket did more than that he had no idea he was just put the University of close to the record during Northern Colorado (9-17) up the game. “My teammates just fed 79-68 in its non-conference matchup with Big West foe me the ball, and I felt good California Polytechnic State and I feel like they were confiUniversity (15-13) Saturday at dent in me, and we just Butler-Hancock Sports played together and got a Pavilion. The basket gave great win,” Svihovec said. The Bears started the Svihovec 34 points, which broke UNC’s Division I game hot and built a 12-4 lead school record for points behind two 3-pointers from scored in a single game. The sophomore guard Paul Bears would go on to win the Garnica. Svihovec hit a jump Sears ESPN BracketBusters shot with just less than 14 minutes to play in the first game 81-73. The previous record of half to put UNC up 19-9. It 33, held by former Bear looked like UNC would Will Figures, was set cruise, but Cal Poly wouldn’t almost two years ago to go down quietly. With less than seven minBEN WARWICK sports@uncmirror.com
My teammates just fed me the ball, and I felt good and I feel like they were confident in me, and we just played together and got a great win.
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— UNC redshirt freshman guard Tevin Svihovec utes to play, the Mustangs’ Matt Titchenal hit a 3-pointer to give Cal Poly its first lead of the game at 25-23. Cal Poly amassed a seven-point lead shortly thereafter, its biggest lead of the night, but UNC clawed back into the game and went into halftime leading 38-37 after a Svihovec 3-pointer with three seconds left found the bottom of the net. Cal Poly came out strong
in the second half, taking advantage of UNC turnovers and fouls to build a fivepoint lead. “We had to take them out of their game, and I think that helped a lot,” Svihovec said of Cal Poly’s play to start the second half. “I feel like our guys were really into it, really intense. That was a huge part of the game. I think our intensity kept us in it and kept us going.” With 8:40 to go in the game, Addo hit a 3-pointer to put UNC ahead 57-56, and the Bears never looked back. “We knew they’d make runs,” Addo said. “The coaching staff did an amazing job with the scouting report. We felt all we needed to do was weather the storm, and if we weathered the storm, we’d be all right.” The team got a nice break from the grind of Big Sky play, and UNC head coach B.J. Hill said he say the effect it had on his players. “I saw a little more
Injury update Although he was announced as a starter, sophomore guard Tate Unruh did not see the court Saturday, as he nursed a knee injury suffered during pregame warm-ups. No timetable for his return or comment on the seriousness of the injury has been released.
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UNC sophomore guard Paul Garnica (3) jumps to find an open teammate as Cal Poly’s Dylan Royer (13) defends and Will Donehue (44) looks on. Garnica scored 11 points in the win. bounce in their step in the past 24 hours,” Hill said. “We were just preaching to them to go out and have fun, play with confidence, and they really did that.” UNC senior forward Mike Proctor added 11 points and 10 rebounds in the game, while Garnica and Addo scored 11 and 13 points, respectively. Freshman forward Tim Huskisson tallied eight points, and sophomore center Connor Osborne and freshman forward Brendan Keane both added two points. “It really hasn’t shown in the wins and losses, but
this team has come a really long way in the last four weeks,” Hill said. “The poise they played with was tremendous, and it was such a big step in such a short time, and that tells me that they’re starting to become tougher physically and mentally, and if they can maintain that, then this group can do some good things.” The Bears wrap up their 2012 home schedule at 7:05 p.m. Thursday against Weber State (24-4, 13-1 Big Sky) when Proctor will be honored on senior night.
Wrestling’s two seniors earn only wins against Air Force SAMANTHA FOX sports@uncmirror.com
In the final home dual of the season, seniors Casey Cruz and Gabe Burak were the only two members of the UNC wrestling team to gain victories during a 33-6 loss to Air Force Sunday at Butler-
Hancock Sports Pavilion on senior day. The University of Northern Colorado (6-7, 3-3) Western Wrestling Conference) suffered a hard loss and head coach Ben Cherrington said he expected better. “It’s disappointing,”
Cherrington said. “I expected to beat this team, honestly, the way we’ve been wrestling and, had we wrestled well, I think we would have been right there. We knew it was going to be a tough match.” At 141 pounds, Cruz hit the mat first, going against AFA freshman Carter
McElhany. At the end of the first period, both remained scoreless, but an escape by Cruz put a tally on the board, giving him the only point of the dual, winning, 1-0. Cruz said he had family and friends in attendance for his final match and the win was made better because
they were there to see it. “A win, no matter what, is always a good feeling,” Cruz said. “As my last home match, I guess it’s even more so. One of our assistant coaches, Nate Lee, was telling me before the match, ‘Don’t lose on your senior night.’ That was just stuck in my head.”
At 165 pounds, Burak had UNC’s other victory of the dual against sophomore Colby Kluesner. Burak said he is happy with the win but knows the season hasn’t ended yet. “It’s nice having my last See Wrestling, Page 8
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Swimming and diving team finishes eighth STAFF REPORT sports@uncmirror.com
The UNC swimming and diving team finished tied for eighth place at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championships after a hard-fought four days in Los Angeles and Colorado Springs. The events started Wednesday at East Los Angeles College when the University of Northern Colorado recorded a sixthplace finish in the 800-yard freestyle relay and a seventh-place finish in the 200medley relay. UNC’s grouping of sophomore Courtney Van Oost and freshmen Gina Cernohous, Brenna Boese and Casey Wolter finished the 800 free in 7 minutes, 36.56 seconds, besting the top time in school history by almost two seconds. Van Oost, sophomores
Renee Stephens and Gina Van Oost added two top-10 Riggle and senior JJ Smith times in the 200 individual then posted a 1:46.54 time in medley but finished in 19th the 200 medley, overall. less than half a secThe team ond shy of the remained in ninth Bears’ school place after tallying record set last year. 44 points Friday, The Bears sat 24 of which came in fifth place after from a sevenththe first day of place finish in the competition. 200 freestyle relay The team from Riggle, Courtney Van Oost dropped to ninth freshman Jessica place Thursday, Reed-Baum, though, after getting a 10th- Alger and Smith with a time of place finish in the 400- 1:35.96. Moldenhauer earned medley relay from Van a fourth-place finish on the 1Oost, Stephens, Riggle and meter board, Van Oost added sophomore Kira Alger and a a 12th-place finish in the 400 sixth overall finish on the 3- individual medley and Riggle meter board from junior finished 16th in the 100 Sara Moldenhauer in the breaststroke. Freshmen diving competition at the Jasmine Fryrear and Hannah Air Force Academy in Abelein finished their 400 IM Colorado Springs. with the eighth- and ninthWolter didn’t place in the fastest times in the event, 500 freestyle but posted the respectively, in UNC history. seventh- and eighth-fastest On Saturday, times in school history, and Moldenhauer broke UNC’s
platform diving record by scoring 191.2 points in the event finals, breaking Sarah Cook’s mark of 181.2 set in 2010. Moldenhauer finished third in the event and picked up 16 points for the Bears, who totaled 57 points on the day for their highest-scoring day of the Championships. UNC got 18 points from the foursome of Boese, ReedBaum, Alger and Riggle after a ninth-place finish in the 400 freestyle relay, while Van Oost recorded an eighth-place finish in the 200 backstroke. Van Oost posted the third- and fifth-best times in school history in the preliminaries and final, respectively, and added 11 points to the Bears’ total. “These girls had a great meet, performed great times and scored good points,” UNC head coach Kelly McClanahan told UNC’s athletics website. “They have earned this time to celebrate the season.”
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dual be a win,” Burak said. “It’s not the end of the season. The main thing we’ve been training for all year is coming up, you know conference and nationals, so
get ready for that, get ready to go to wrestle, glorify the Lord and finish strong.” After Cruz’s match, UNC’s closest loss came in the 285-weight class between UNC sophomore Henry Chirino and AFA
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UNC sophomore Nick Bayer, right, wrestles against Air Force junior Josh Mohr Sunday at Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion. Bayer lost the match, 7-3.
junior Jared Erickson. Erickson got the 3-2 decision with Chirino fighting until the very last minute, receiving his last point five seconds before time expired. In the 125-pound weight class, UNC redshirt freshman Jesse Meis was taken down and pinned by Falcons sophomore Greg Rinker. In the 157-pound match, Bears redshirt freshman Charlie McMartin lost a 14-5 major decision and sophomore Nick Bayer suffered a 7-3 loss to Air Force junior Josh Mohr at 197 pounds. Junior Patrick Gomez and sophomore Justin Gonzales also suffered
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losses for the Bears, and the dual ended with sophomore Sam Bauer losing an 8-4 decision to Falcons senior Tyler Untrauer. The overall loss is something Cherrington said the team should be able to use to their advantage. “I told the guys after the match that there’s a lot of matches that could have gone the other way had we wrestled better,” Cherrington said. “It’s always better to lose the first one, I think. Going into conference, we’re chasing them down. It’s always harder to be the guy that’s one up on the other guy. I think we can go in and make things happen, work on some things the next two weeks and reverse a lot of what happened.” The Bears will head to the WWC Championship March 4 in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Unless the team wins there or any wrestlers earn bids to the NCAA Championship, that will be UNC’s final action of the season.
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Summer stipend, grant applications available Stipends from Page 4 including the student’s major, minor and contact information. The application will also require two to three pages discussing the methodology, outcome, analysis and potential budget. The only requirement is that students must be undergraduates planning to take classes a semester after completing research. During their summer research, students will be required to present progress reports to their faculty adviser and OUR. “We also encourage all students to apply for the national conference on undergraduate research,” said Loree Crow, the associate director for honors at the Center for Honors, Scholars and Leadership. The national conference is hosted every year and is planned for March 29-31 at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. UNC has been very successful in sending students to the national conference in past years.
OUR is located in the University College offices on the lower floor of Michener Library in L-98, and is aided by the CHSL. Some of the programs within University College include the University Honors Program, Life of Mind, McNair Scholars Program, President’s Leadership Program, Reisher Family Scholarship Program and Stryker Institute for Leadership Development. All of these programs were brought together to increase visibility. “The University College is for all students who haven’t declared a major,” said Margaret Kelley an administrative assistant for CHSL and Life of Mind. “We offer advising and academic support as well.” Students can also apply for fellowships or grants for summer work. For more information on summer stipends and grants, visit www.unco.edu/hsl/our/su mmer_stipends.
Summer Research Stipends Applications for summer research stipends will be available through March 23. The application can be found at www.unco.edu/hsl/our. The application will require two to three pages discussing methodology, outcome analysis and budget and students’ personal information.