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Students swing for cancer research group benefit EMILY BRANT news@uncmirror.com

UNC students Nicole and Ashley Larson teamed up with the Rocky Mountain Cancer Rehabilitation Institute and the Swing Club to raise awareness about the institute’s work by hosting the Spring Swing dance event on Saturday in the University Center Ballrooms.

Nicole, a junior sports and exercise science and

psychology double major, organized the event in honor of individuals who have touched her life through their battle with cancer.

She brought her twin sister Ashley, a junior nursing major, on board with plans of a small dance.

“I planned events throughout high school, and earlier this year, I decided that I wanted to plan another one, and that’s where the whole idea

came from,” Nicole said.

As their friends and family learned more about the project, it grew into a full dance event, complete with big band music, swing dance lessons and a DJ to play contemporary pop music later on in the night.

Members of the Swing Club taught attendees how to do the basic steps of swing dancing and the Charleston earlier in the evening.

Afterward, students were turned loose to practice their newfound skills to the tune of big band music.

The University of Northern Colorado Jazz Band and the Front Range Jazz Orchestra provided the tunes.

The event was hosted to raise awareness and support for the RMCRI. According to its website, RMCRI was established in 1996 and works to improve cancer patients’ quality of life and to prevent cancer survivors from relapsing through prescriptive exercise rehabilitation and nutritional intervention, which makes RMCRI the only institute of its kind in

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D.J. Macri, left, a junior sport and exercise science major, dances with April Casados, a senior SES major, at the Spring Swing, a cancer benefit dance Saturday night in the University Center Ballrooms. the United States.

The institute serves the Greeley and campus community and is housed in the Ben Nighthorse Campbell Center on central campus.

RMCRI relies solely on grants and donations to provide services to patients.

The institute also provides internship opportunities for sport and exercise science majors. The institute staff said they believe that understanding and identifying the benefits of exercise in cancer patients and survivors is imperative to the progression of cancer rehabilitation research.

Jaime White, the UNC women’s basketball coach, spoke at the dance about her own experiences with RMCRI three years ago during her battle with cancer. After being diagnosed with multiple forms of cancer at 33, she said she was discouraged

but did not want to dwell on the diseases.

“I wanted to dwell on surviving, and that is what the Rocky Mountain Cancer Rehabilitation Institute did for me,” White said. “I can’t do a plank while I’m healthy, and they expected me to do one when I was going through radiation and chemotherapy. They gave me a reason to hope.”

The Spring Swing raised more than $1,000 from ticket sales alone, and an estimated $500 more from the silent auction. All proceeds will be donated to RMCRI for research purposes.

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Music industr y lacks focus of quality entertainers We are all aware of the impact YouTube has on our society.

Whether it is an important news report or stereotypical perpetuation of a certain group of people (coughs: Antoine Dodson), YouTube has found a way to influence us.

Available to users of this video, social-networking site is a plethora of our live performances and music videos from our favorite musicians.

From Billy Holiday singing her blues to Chris Brown’s hit, “Look At Me Now,” almost every music enthusiast can find at least a video or two from their favorite artists.

But, because anyone and every-

The Mirror’s mission is to educate, inform and entertain the students, staff and faculty of the UNC community, and to educate the staff on the business of journalism in a college-newspaper environment.

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have benefited from the proven lack of her talent.

It has been reported that Black now makes about $27,000 per week from royalties she receives from the popularity of her song. Musicians who may have actual talent and bust their rumps every day to be heard barely get the time of day.

Instead, we have a tendency to spend our time exploiting kids and bashing them on the songs they release. We should focus on the real talent out there without contributing to the thousands of dollars these kids are making that college grads barely earn after school.

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teners, would accompany such fame. For Black, however, fame didn’t come with positive feedback from a major fan base and music critics everywhere have negatively rated her song and video.

The song has received major criticism for its lack of clever lyrics.

It provides listeners with the pleasure of hearing about a 13-year-old having fun on Friday and being excited at the fact that it is Friday.

But, the problem here isn’t the fact that Black’s song has been reported as a cacophonic abomination to the music industry, but instead the popularity the song itself and Black

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one can upload a video to YouTube, artists who were once only able to find fame on street corners and in coffee shops can now have their talents spread like wildfire in a matter of hours. This has proven to be a good thing for many people, such as tween heartthrob Justin Beiber.

Recently, a 13-year-old named Rebecca Black shot a video that has gone viral with more than 40 million views of her song, “Friday,” which allotted her an interview on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Usually a riveting song, perhaps only being a one-hit-wonder but bringing euphoria to the ears of lis-

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has been pleasant, although at times physically and emotionally exhausting. Nicky Silver’s script has wild turns, both in plot and in tone. It is, in some ways, masterful. With no credit to me, the show is surprisingly funny.

But when “Raised In Captivity” premiered in New York in 1995, much critical attention was on the play’s AIDS themes. Along with dozens of other playwrights in the ‘80s and

‘90s, including his colleagues Christopher Durang and the brilliant Tony Kushner, Silver used the theater to bust open discussion about AIDS in a new way.

The emotional and social consequences of the virus could be explored in the theater before they could be parsed apart in the classroom. There are no HIV cures to be found in the theater, of course, but having a public forum for the personal side of the virus can give people something to talk about — something not to be ignored.

“Angels in America” did not become a contemporary classic by being easy to watch. The play is important, rather, because it tells a complex story that is inextricably tied to HIV. The play could not have been written before it was.

Conversely, though it is (too) easy

to laugh at some outdated bits of “Rent” now, when the musical opened, it contained bold statements about sex and youth culture in a world touched by epidemic. It spoke for its time. And though it seems counter to logic, the musical will survive not as an artifact but as a living art. The first New York revival will open this summer.

HIV is still a problem to be solved, but a lot has happened since the AIDS scare of the ‘80s.

The September 11 attacks have influenced and informed more American plays than perhaps any event since the war in Vietnam. The same goes for literature and visual art.

Some artists ask why God might allow something like that to happen. Others ask what happened 30 years ago to bring about the present war. Still oth-

ers ask where the head is on the head of our government. But the art that will withstand the test of time will be the very art that speaks for its time. The plays that tell personal stories that could not have arrived at any other point in our history.

My question is, in our current global culture, how can the American experience be deemed more accessible than the Libyan? Or the Japanese? Or the Israeli? And what will be the next event, catastrophic or not, only art can examine with the necessary mix of delicacy and honesty? Not just for New Yorkers, not just for Americans, but also for the world.

— Mark Maxwell is a junior theater arts major and a weekly columnist for The Mirror.

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Aspiring club members celebrate nerd pride KRISTEN MARTIN news@uncmirror.com

UNC has many clubs that interest students but none have catered to those who consider themselves a stereotypical “nerd” — that is until now.

Illuminerdy is not yet officially chartered by the University of Northern Colorado, but the president, or rather the “high war chief,” Clark Lamson, a junior communication major, said he and the club members are working on becoming an official club.

“The first thing we had to do was create a constitution,” Lamson said. “So

we had the members and officers create one by listing what they wanted to see in Illuminerdy.”

Lamson said Illuminerdy is a place for nerds to discuss anything and everything they have in common.

“We are trying to foster the idea that everyone nerds out about something,” Lamson said.

“Anyone can be a nerd.”

The club members’ main goal, Lamson said, is to spread the word about Illuminerdy on campus, as well as host more programs.

“Since we aren’t official yet, the members have to bring in their own

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Matt LeFevre, vice president of Illuminerdy, helped create a club specifically for nerds. money to do stuff, so everything we do is on a very small scale,” Lamson said.

Matt LeFevre, a senior English and philosophy

major, said his role as the vice president, or “vice dungeon master,” is to help run the meetings and help spread awareness about Illuminerdy to students.

“We want this club to be a democracy,” LeFavre said. “We want every voice to be heard.”

Illuminerdy has been meeting for two months, and LeFevre said he has already met a lot of people and made friends.

“Being a part of Illuminerdy gives me access to learn new things,” LeFevre said.

“There are places and conventions I want to go to with some of the people I have just met and now want to be with all the time.”

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According to UNC’s student club and organization chartering process, the potential student organization must submit a constitution and a completed chartering packet by the third Friday of the semester.

Lamson said they did not meet the deadline but have completed the necessary requirements to apply next semester.

He also said he had been playing the card game “Magic: The Gathering” for awhile and decided it would be a good idea to get people together one evening in Turner Hall to learn how to play.

“I asked the community council of Turner for funding to buy decks for the game, and there was a really good turn out. We all had a good time,” Lamson said.

Lamson said the good turn out at the event sparked the thought to start a club for nerds, but his little brother inspired him to actually begin to establish Illuminerdy.

“My brother is a supernerd, and my inspiration to embrace my nerdi-

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The official logo for the new club, Illuminerdy.

ness,” Lamson said. “He jokingly asked me, ‘Why don’t you start a nerd club?’ So I put some thought into it and talked with my close friends, and we got excited about it, and here we are.”

Illuminerdy meets at 8 p.m. Sundays in the first floor lobby of Turner Hall.

The club is open to all UNC students.

Being a part of Illuminerdy gives me access to learn new things.

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— Matt LeFavre, vice president of Illuminerdy

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Illuminerdy meets at 8 p.m. Sundays in the first floor lobby of Turner Hall.

Check out the Illuminerdy Facebook page at www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_1068 48659391089.

To start a new club, students must submit a Student Organization Constitution and chartering packet by the third Friday of a semester.

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Philanthropy, spirit part of Greek Week TESSA BYRNS news@uncmirror.com

Greek Life students will kick off the annual Greek Week this week, MondayThursday. The week is filled with competitions and celebrations of the fraternal lifestyle.

“Greek Week is an annual tradition, similar to homecoming, offering philanthropic and spirit events for Greek chapters to compete in and see who is crowned the Greek Week champion,” said Heather James, the coordinator of Greek Life. “Every Greek Week, like homecoming, has a theme, as well. This year’s theme is ‘Greek Olympics: Gods vs.

Goddesses,’ and is in the spirit of the ancient Greeks.”

Greek Week events are all voluntary, but most fraternities and sororities participate. Each participating fraternity is randomly matched with a sorority, and the organizations compete in teams.

“All of the Panhellenic sororities and IFC fraternities will be participating, as well as the multicultural fraternities and sororities on campus. Everyone really gets involved,” said Meaghan Todd, the president of Delta Zeta Sorority.

Greek Week is not only a tradition for the Greek system but also for the University of Northern Colorado.

“Greek Life has been a tradition at UNC since 1915, but we do not have record of the first Greek Week,” James said. “However,

Greek Week has been a common tradition on many campuses for several years.”

Greek Life will begin the week by hosting two screenings of the Invisible Children film, “Tony,” at 7 p.m. Monday in the University Center Ballrooms.

The opening ceremonies and flag contest will begin at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Garden Theater on central campus. The Greeks will then host a Greek mythology trivia game at 6 p.m. Tuesday in McKee Hall.

A lip-syncing contest will be hosted at 4 p.m.

Wednesday in the UC Ballrooms.

The fraternities and sororities will meet at 1 p.m. Thursday on Turner Green for an Omega picnic.

Following the picnic, the

teams will compete in the Greek Olympic Games at 4 p.m. in Gray Hall Gym. Although the events are exclusive to Greek Life members, James said the events showcase fun and enjoyable activities that could make students want to join in on the fun next semester.

“While Greek Week isn’t necessarily a ‘recruitment’ event, it is definitely a way for non-members to observe the fun and meaningful activities Greeks participate in,” James said. “All events are highly visible on campus.

Research has shown that the more students are involved, the more successful they will be in their college experience. Greek Life is one of the best ways for students to get involved and connect with UNC. It offers opportunities for academic success, leadership, personal growth, service and friendship.”

Todd said Greek Week is not only a good way to get more students involved with Greek Life but also to gain more fulfillment out of the college experience.

“Greek Week is a good way to get more members because everyone on campus gets the opportunity to see us having fun and hanging out together,” she said.

Todd also said Greek Life is a great way to gain a family on campus.

“I love my sisters more than anything, and by joining a sorority, I have found my best friends who will be there for me no matter what,” she said. “Not only do I have my house to count on, but I have gained great friends in other Greek organizations that I would never have met had it not been for Greek Life giving me the opportunity to get so involved on campus.”

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Baseball drops series to Thunderbirds PARKER COTTON sports@uncmirror.com

The UNC baseball team could not carry over its success at the plate Friday as it dropped its Saturday doubleheader to Southern Utah at Jackson Field.

The University of Northern Colorado (2-15) had six hits in the first game of the doubleheader, a 6-3 loss, but never had more than one hit in the same inning until the ninth, a far cry from Friday’s game when the Bears had at least one hit in each frame.

“We generated offense (Friday),” UNC head coach Carl Iwasaki said. “They threw a rookie at us in game one — (Chris) Chung — a state of Hawaii pitcher of the year. He’s an unknown kid.

He’s gonna be known by the time he finishes his college

career. He shut us down.”

Chung went eight innings, allowing five hits and one walk in the first game Saturday. UNC senior right-handed pitcher Joe Sawicki also went eight innings, but he also allowed five runs on nine hits.

UNC trailed 6-1 going into the bottom of the ninth, but senior second baseman T.J. Berge led off with a triple and scored after junior third baseman Tony Crudo singled to left. After another run scored, UNC had the bases loaded with two outs before a fly out ended the game.

UNC was held to four hits in the second game, all coming in different innings, culminating in a 3-2 loss.

Junior first baseman Casey Coy had three of the team’s hits, including an RBI double in the ninth, which

cut the SUU lead to 3-1. Coy advanced to third on a passed ball and scored on a Berge groundout. A strikeout from sophomore catcher Harrison Lambert ended the game.

“I thought we were a little more aggressive yesterday than we were today,” Berge said of the Friday win and Saturday’s losses. “We were waiting for the game to come to us a little bit rather than going after it.”

In the Friday game, UNC struck for eight runs in the first three innings en route to a 10-3 victory.

Berge went 4-for-5 in the game including three doubles, giving him 40 in his career, which puts him fourth on the school’s alltime list past Chris Knabenshue (1983-85) with 39, Terry Davis (199598) and his father Jordan

Berge (1980-83) with 38.

“I saw the ball really well,” Berge said. “They kept trying different things.

I was able to hit it to different parts of the field. I felt good up there.”

Berge also said he was unaware of the record his father previously held.

“I actually had no idea about it until he made me give him a ball and sign it,” Berge said. “He was a great player here, and anytime I’m on the list with him, it’s a great feeling.”

The Bears now have road games against Kansas State, New Mexico State and Air Force before the start of Great West Conference play.

UNC faces Kansas State at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in Manhattan, Kansas.

“It’s very important (we play well),” Coy said. “We gotta get some confidence

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UNC junior outfielder Bret Fanning swings at a pitch in the second game of the team’s Saturday doubleheader.

Fanning went 0-for-4 with a run scored in the game. going into league and get to the challenge.

“If there’s a challenge, our bats going a little bit.”

Iwasaki said the we’ve got it ahead of us,” upcoming schedule won’t Iwasaki said. “But we’re be very easy, but he said not afraid of challenges he believes his team is up here.”

Softball splits doubleheader with rival Colorado State SAMANTHA FOX sports@uncmirror.com

The UNC softball team split a doubleheader against in-state rival CSU Saturday at Butler-Hancock Softball Field in the season homeopener.

The University of Northern Colorado (3-23) won the first game, 7-5, and Colorado State (7-27) won the second game, 9-5.

“We expected to get two, but one’s better than nothing,” senior pitcher Kelli Henderson said.

Henderson allowed

seven hits in seven innings for the Bears in the first game, and she also had 10 strikeouts.

CSU started the first game with a two-run homerun, and the Bears responded with two runs of their own in the first inning.

Junior catcher Erin Wilkinson singled to center, making it to second on an error, which allowed two runs to score.

“I absolutely love playing CSU — it’s a rival; it gets me pumped up,” junior centerfielder Erin Geddis said. “I know my job as the leadoff is

to (get on base) for the team and set the tone.”

With the score tied at 3, the Bears had a four-run rally in the bottom of the sixth.

Freshman Megan Wilkinson, who played first base in the first game and pitched in the second game, started the inning with a double to left field. Senior shortstop Megan Hamilton’s sacrifice bunt allowed Wilkinson to score, giving the Bears the first lead of the game. The Bears went on to score three more runs, assisted by two CSU errors, and the Rams never recovered.

The Bears struggled in the second game, as they left 12 runners on base.

“I’m disappointed; I would have liked to have won both,” said head coach Mark Montgomery.

“I felt like we played a very emotionally-charged game in the first game, and we came out on top, and I felt good about that.

In the second game, we started off a little slow.

We let them score early, and we were playing catch-up the rest of the game.”

In the second game,

Megan Wilkinson started pitching for the Bears and allowed three runs on three hits before being relieved by senior Jamie Juelfs.

UNC did not get on the scoreboard until down 7-0 going into the bottom of the third, when Henderson hit an RBI double.

Henderson later scored on a hit by Juelfs.

CSU scored twice more in the game, once in the fifth and again in the seventh.

The Bears answered with two runs in the fifth and one in the seventh, but that was as close as they got.

“One of our goals has been to try and eliminate the big inning, and I feel we let them have a couple of big innings,” Montgomery said.

“The ones and the zeros, I’m fine with that. We’re playing good defense. It’s when we let them score three, we got to find a way to limit that so they don’t get those runs.”

The Bears’ next home game will be Thursday, April 5 in a doubleheader against Adams State, the first game coming at 5 p.m. and the second game starting at 7:30 p.m. at Butler-Hancock Softball Field.

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Football adjusts to being back at practice BEN WARWICK sports@uncmirror.com

The calendar may only read March, but the UNC football team is preparing like it’s already September.

First-year head coach Earnest Collins Jr. takes over a team that finished with two wins in Big Sky play a season ago.

Although that was a first for the University of Northern Colorado, it is a

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UNC sophomore wide receiver Chris Morris runs the ball upfield in the team’s Friday practice. Morris caught five passes for 72 yards and two touchdowns last season.

mark the coaching staff said can be improved upon.

New offensive coordinator Zach Shay said the coaches preach the same message the team followed last year: “Win every day.”

“We’re just trying to win every day — get better every day,” Shay said.

“We’re in spring ball, and I’m sure we’ll reevaluate where we’re at after spring football.”

One of the major storylines coming out of spring camp is the ineligibility of junior-to-be wide receiver Jace Davis, who had a breakout 2010 campaign culminating in a First Team All-Big Sky selection. Davis, who was declared academically ineligible for all of the team’s practices during the 2011 spring semester, should be back for the start of fall practice in August, but Collins said

when Davis returns is ultimately up to him.

“Jace is in control of that,” Collins said. “Jace takes care of business and gets his grades right and gets back in the fall.”

As for the learning curve that comes with a new coaching staff, Collins said that is also up to Davis.

“He’s definitely going to be behind,” Collins said.

“It’s going be up to him how fast he can grasp it.”

Although Davis’ ineligibility is a major factor, the transition of head coaches is another; one that junior wide receiver Patrick Walker said is going smoothly.

“We’re going to miss those coaches we had before, but I guess it’s just time to move on,” Walker said.

“They’re great coaches; they’re easy to talk to, and they’re going to love you up but at the same time coach you

hard, too.”

Practice will continue throughout the rest of March and April. The spring game will be at 1 p.m.

April 16 at Nottingham Field.

Junior quarterback Dylan Orms said the team has seen the recent success other UNC sports pro-

grams have had, and the football team wants to get in on it, as well.

“Especially with what we’ve seen the basketball teams do, we want a taste of that,” Orms said. “We want people to be excited to come to our games, and we want to do UNC proud.”

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Get the skinny on UNC’s music library CARMEN BRADY news@uncmirror.com

Students of the College of Performing and Visual Arts at UNC use the Skinner Music Library every day, but few know the history of the man for whom it is named after.

The Skinner Music Library, named after Howard M. Skinner, is home to resources such as scores, recordings, books and periodicals for music and theater majors’ use, though the library is open to all University of Northern Colorado student, faculty or staff to use. Students can also use the computers in the facility.

Before the Skinner Music Library opened, the music library was housed in Frasier Hall.

This location proved inadequate, and the CPVA built a new facility to house the contents.

Groundbreaking for the new library began in 1996, and the building was completed in 1997.

The building was not formally dedicated until May 2005, though, when it was named in honor of Skinner.

Skinner has long been an asset to the UNC community. He served as a faculty member for 42 years, beginning in 1963, and was the dean of the CPVA from 1985-2000. He served as the interim president for the university from 1996-1998.

Skinner retired from the university in 2005.

Along with the work he has done for the UNC community, Skinner has also

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been involved with the music community in Greeley. Skinner served as music director and conductor of the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra for 37 years, retiring in 2007.

In recognition of the work Skinner had done for the orchestra, he was named conductor laureate after he retired. In his retirement, Skinner has still been involved in the Colorado music community and founded the Summer Choralfest in Denver.

Skinner has been recognized with several awards, including UNC’s Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, Choral Conductor of the Year by the Colorado Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association and has been inducted into the Colorado Music Educators Hall of Fame.

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The Skinner Music Library on central campus is named after Howard M. Skinner, who was a faculty member for 42 years. He also served as dean of the College of Performing and Visual Arts and interim president of the university. He retired in 2005.

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