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UNC student Evan Pilkington found dead Friday evening. Page 5
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Sports Softball sweeps South Dakota State UNC gets two walk-off wins over the weekend to get back to a winning record. PAGE 6
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Professor’s bat research focuses on flight technique SARAH MOE news@uncmirror.com With the help of slow motion, highly sensitive cameras and wind tunnels, a UNC professor and two graduate students have made a new discovery involving the role the tail plays in the flight of bats. Rick Adams, a professor of biology at the University of Northern Colorado, has studied bats for more than 20 years. It was only in the past few years, though, that he and his colleagues made a new discovery about the tail membranes in certain species of bats. Their research found the
movement of the tail videos, which revealed the membrane creates a tail movement indiscernible thrust during takeoff, to the naked eye. Adams said unlike vertemost video brate in any research done on other flying bat movement is species. taken with a “We’re pretslow-motion ty diverse, so I video camera, would say one and that 97 perthird of the cent of the research surRick Adams, a proresearch on bats rounds movefessor of biology at flying is conment,” Adams UNC, has studied ducted in wind said. bats for more than tunnels. Wind Adams, along 20 years. tunnels create a with former gradfalse environuate students Jason Shaw and Emily ment and not enough Snode, who received their research has been comto determine doctorate and master’s pleted degrees, respectively, last whether bats’ natural flight spring, took the high-speed differs from flight observed
in wind tunnels. It also does not account for takeoff movement, Adams said. He, Shaw and Snode wrote a peer-reviewed article on their findings in which they detail how they were able to observe a fairly natural takeoff. The article is available on the Public Library of Science website. “We filmed 95 individuals of five species of vespertilionid bats as they launched from a horizontal platform after being held stationary by hand,” Adams said. The researchers first noticed the bats’ tail movements when they were flying directly at the camera. Follow-up videos revealed the unexpected movement of the tail both above and below the body coordinate with the movement of the wings. The tail does not simply produce a thrust upon lifting into the air; it seems integral to the actual movement of flying.
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The above diagrams exhibit the results of Adams, Shaw and Snode’s research. Some species of bats use their tails to assist in takeoff and flight. Between taking and digitizing the video, Adams said it took a couple of years to prepare the research to
present in a journal. “People have been pretty amazed,” Adams said. Though it has not been available long, the article has more than 1,500 views, and Adams hopes for more publicity as well as follow-up research on how much force the tail can produce. Adams has been a biology professor at UNC since 2002 and is the founder of the Colorado Bat Society, which exists “to foster public appreciation of bats and to support the conservation of bat populations in Colorado,” according to their website.
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Shooter of 17-year-old walking home should be jailed On Feb. 26, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking to a relative’s Florida home when he was shot in the chest and killed by George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch leader of his gated community. Martin’s murder has been rightfully publicized; the shooting has appeared in headlines across the United States, yet his murderer stands free. One month has passed since George Zimmerman allegedly admitted his guilt to the Sanford, Fla., police, but authorities have refused to arrest him. Zimmerman
says he shot the unarmed boy, who was black, in self-defense, but the recently released 911 tapes paint a more honest picture of the last moments of Trayvon Martin’s life. On one tape, an unnamed caller explains there is a disturbance occurring behind her house. Martin’s screams for help can be heard in the background. While the operator collects information from the caller, the deadly gunshot, with which Zimmerman was apparently protecting himself, is heard. If Zimmerman was acting in selfdefense, it is peculiar to be afraid of
a bag of Skittles, the only thing Martin had on him when he was killed. On the tape that recorded Zimmerman’s call to the police, Zimmerman reported to a dispatcher that Martin was acting suspiciously and as if he was on drugs. “These guys always get away,” said Zimmerman before he ended the call. Not only have police ignored Zimmerman’s apparent indifference to human life, but they have defended him in public statements, describing him as a college
graduate who took a class in criminal justice. Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon’s mother, immediately took her tragedy to the media after police disregarded her son’s case. Change.org is hosting a 2,000,000signature petition calling on Angela Corey, Florida’s 4th District state attorney, to prosecute Zimmerman for the shooting of Martin. At the time of publication, the petition has a little more than 1,900,000 signatures. Visit Change.org, search Trayvon Martin and sign the first petition to make your difference in the case.
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s somebody who “is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government,” President Barack Obama has so far disappointed. I think the many conspiracy theories surrounding Obama’s eligibility are far-fetched, but Obama hasn’t helped his cause by hiding much of his past. It took three years for the Obama administration to release his long-form birth certificate. They did so at a time when it was convenient to shame political opponents — probably a smart move. I do think, however, that the release of his birth certificate
was well overdue. It’s not that he’s black; it’s not that he’s a Democrat. I would expect the same from any presidential candidate. In fact, John McCain presented his birth certificate to Congress. Obama should have done the same. It appalls me that there is a lack of a good formal process ensuring the verification of candidate eligibility. For any candidate, I want to see a birth certificate. I want to see documented evidence that the candidate has lived in the United States for at least 14 years. I’d also like to see every candidate’s academic records, tax returns and marriage licenses (multiple for Gingrich!). If somebody wants to pursue public office, he or she must be willing to give up personal privacy to ensure government transparency, which consists of every facet
of government, not just policies. It makes me wonder why Obama won’t release his academic information. The rumor is he received sub-par marks at Columbia. While he did exceedingly well at Harvard, one must wonder how he got into the school. Current admissions standards for the median Harvard Law admit are a 173 (99th percentile) on the LSAT and a GPA of 3.88, enough to receive Latin honors from most universities, honors that Obama did not receive from Columbia. If he was admitted into Harvard on an affirmative action boost, I could understand him wanting to hide his academic record. If he failed poetry, I could likewise understand. But I don’t know how he got into Harvard, and I don’t know why he’s hiding his record. That’s the problem. What’s more likely, that he is hid-
ing something innocuous, or something harmful? What could be more harmful than Bush’s Caverage or McCain graduating in the bottom one percent? It’s also policy related. The Associated Press reported that the Obama administration has released fewer records than Bush, despite more requests. Ironically, 194 pages of internal emails concerning the Open Government Directive were censored. These are all problematic, and Obama certainly isn’t the first president to fail to keep the government and candidates transparent. I hope he’ll be the last, though, because for a people to be free, it is necessary for the government to be transparent. — Josh Divine is a senior mathematics major and a weekly columnist for The Mirror.
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AKL draws hands to stop domestic violence, support ASAP CARMEN BRADY news@uncmirror.com
Alpha Kappa Lambda spent last week raising money for the Assault Survivors Advocacy Program and encouraging students to pledge to put an end to violence on the UNC campus through their annual “These Hands Don’t Hurt” philanthropic event. Every semester, the
University of Northern Colorado chapter hosts the weeklong philanthropic event in conjunction with ASAP. Students who stopped by the booth could donate to the cause and trace their hands on pieces of drywall to show their support to finding an end to domestic violence. The wall of hands is then displayed in the fraternity’s chapter house.
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The goal the fraternity set for donations, all of which are given to ASAP, was to match last semester’s total of $1,000. Chris Haley, a freshman international affairs major and member of the fraternity, said it looked as though they had narrowly missed their goal. “We somewhat expected that since it’s the spring semester and the last one seems like it was just a couple weeks ago,” Haley said. “Still, we did raise a lot of money this semester.” Arick Sweitzer, a freshman physics major and member of AKL, said this semester’s event received less attention because it was not done in conjunction with Take Back the Night as it was in the fall. “We definitely pulled in more attention since it was helping with Take
Back the Night,” Sweitzer said. “We’ll be doing that again next semester so I am excited to help with that next year.” Haley said the main way people found out about the event and donated was through word of mouth as opposed to students just stopping by the booth. “We tell people that we are having the event, and they come by,” Haley said. “There aren’t that many people who just walk by and donate. Our main source of income is viral; we tell our friends and then they tell theirs.” Mitchell Loya, a junior psychology major and AKL president, said even though the fundraising goal wasn’t quite met, the event was still a success. “It’s something everyone can get behind because there is nobody
The process of filling the two vacant seats on the Student Judiciary continues, and will tentatively be completed just
one week before UNC hosts its Student Senate campus-wide elections April 3-5. Student Rights Advocate Samantha Fox hosted an open forum with the four justice candidates Friday,
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Students pledge their support for the Assault Survivors Advocacy Program by tracing their hands on Alpha Kappa Lambda’s These Hands Don’t Hurt boards.
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giving Senate members and other interested students and faculty the chance to get to know the candidates beyond their application and resume. Judiciary candidates are Matthew Rhinehard, a sophomore recreation and tourism major, Connor Mong, an undeclared freshman, Scott Lee Cooper, a freshman mathematics major, and Morgan Byrd, a graduate student in the rehab counseling program. Fox asked each candidate several questions about why they want to serve on the judiciary and
how both he or she and the judiciary would benefit if he or she were to be appointed. “I want to try something different and get involved somewhere on campus where I can constructively voice my opinion and share my thoughts with other people,” Rhinehard said. “It’s a great opportunity and an important for UNC to have this outlet.” Another question’s answers that will prove to be important to whoever See Judiciary, Page 8
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Alumnus, UNCPD veteran named new chief of police BENJAMIN WELCH editor@uncmirror.com Dennis Pumphrey became a resident assistant as a sophomore at UNC. Ever since then, he’s held a position of authority on campus. Pumphrey was named the University of Northern Colorado Police Department chief of police earlier this month. He was an RA for three years before earning his degree in speech communication in 1989. His love of the campus environment kept him around, and he applied for the UNCPD directly after graduation. “I think I have a good game plan, but having the friendships and working with
people in the past and show- or any impact they may have ing that I’m part of this uni- on people around them … versity and value my commu- We want to anticipate trounity’s opinion really helped ble before it becomes too push me forward into the big.” When Pumphrey was in chief’s role,” Pumphrey said. Times have changed in school, the police department’s priorities the 22 years mostly revolved Pumphrey has around keeping been on the disturbances at a force, and with it m i n i m u m . comes updates Pumphrey said and renovations drug usage was in enforcement more understyles. ground than it is “It’s a differ- Dennis Pumphrey today, and the ent environment has served with legal drinking now,” Pumphrey the UNCPD since age was 18. says. “We have he graduated from When the legal responsibility on UNC in 1989. drinking age was a greater level to help protect people from raised, however, vandalpoor decisions they’ve made ism, disturbances and regarding their own health fights decreased, and the
Senior Evan Pilkington dies Friday STAFF REPORT news@uncmirror.com Tragedy has again struck the UNC campus community as the death of Evan Pilkington, a senior, occurred Friday evening, according to the Greeley Police Department. Officers were called to his 11th Avenue home, which he shared with several roommates, around 5:41 p.m. Friday after he was discovered in the basement of the house with a selfinflicted gunshot wound to his head, a spokesperson for Greeley PD said. Before his death, Pilkington had been watching TV with his roommates when he received a phone call. It is
unclear, according to the source, who was on the phone or what the call was regarding. Afterward, he took to the basement where he posted a suicide note on
Facebook. The entire sequence took about 20 minutes, the source said. The Mirror will continue to provide updates of Pilkington’s death as they become available.
expanding department could concentrate on substance incidents. Going forward, Pumphrey wants to continue concentrating on emergency preparedness and plans for safety in case of circumstances ranging from natural disasters to a campus shooter. “It’s simply not acceptable anymore for a police department to deal solely with issues of law,” he said. For this to be effective, Pumphrey said being highly connected with agencies and departments in and out of the UNC community is essential. He also said he wants the UNCPD to become more involved in student activi-
ties, as the department was in years past. Three police chiefs have come and gone during Pumphrey’s tenure, and he said he garnered wisdom from Mikel Longman, the most recent ex-chief, on how to efficiently perform his duties. “He casually explained to me some of the needs of the community from a leadership position and what they’re looking for in their police chief, and I think that helped me as much as anything else,” Pumphrey said. He also said Longman showed him available policing resources he wasn’t familiar with before. Pumphrey said he would
like to continue ushering the UNCPD into an era of community policing, “like a throwback to a neighborhood officer everyone knows.” “It’s not sufficient just to be happy with the day-today operations when things are going well,” he says. “We have to look forward to what does our community need, what’s the next step for us to take? While we’re having success, let’s build on success and let’s not be satisfied with the success now and make it more than what it is.” Though his days are now mostly spent in a See Chief, Page 8
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Baseball splits series with South Dakota State PARKER COTTON sports@uncmirror.com
The UNC baseball team entered the ninth inning against South Dakota State with a seven-run lead Sunday and needed every bit of it as the Jackrabbits plated five more runs, but the Bears still
escaped with a 15-13 victory. The University of Northern Colorado (8-11) salvaged a split with SDSU (612-1) in the four-game series, and it was anything but easy. UNC freshman pitcher Jess Amedee entered the game in the ninth and got one quick out before allowing six consecutive singles. Amedee
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UNC senior pitcher Joe Willman pitches Sunday against South Dakota State at Jackson Field. Willman allowed six runs in five innings but earned his second win of the season.
allowed a sac fly and another RBI single before getting a fly out to end the game. “Tip your cap to them, they’re a good hitting ball club,” UNC head coach Carl Iwasaki said. “I didn’t expect them to generate five runs in a quick order, but they did. And we have to prevent that. I told (SDSU after the game), I appreciate them fighting. That’s what we have to do. We appreciate seeing a team fight when they’re seven runs down.” The game started with UNC being the team that had to fight back, as five earned runs were charged to Bears senior Joe Willman in his five innings pitched. Willman allowed three first-inning runs and one run in the second and third innings and the Bears trailed 5-0 going into the bottom of the third. The third inning was the first of five straight innings in which the Bears scored at least one run. UNC freshman second baseman Ryan
Yamane advanced to third base on an error with one out and was brought home by senior shortstop Adam Hilker. Two batters later, senior third baseman Tony Crudo sent a home run over the wall in left-center field to bring UNC within 5-3. Hilker added a two-run double in the fourth inning to tie the game at five. “We had a lot of confidence early in the game because we knew there was a lot of game left,” said Crudo, who went 3-for-5 at the plate. “We’re happy it happened so early. Guys were getting on for us all the way through the lineup, so there was nothing to worry about that early in the game. We just trusted ourselves.” After the Jackrabbits added another run in the top of the fifth, the Bears tagged SDSU pitchers Talon Jumper and Marcus Heemstra for three runs each in the bottom of the fifth and sixth innings,
respectively, to open up a 10-6 advantage. A four-run seventh inning, including a three-run blast from junior pinch hitter Brooks Schneider, put the Bears ahead 15-6. SDSU tacked on two runs in the eighth before collecting seven hits for five runs off Amedee in the ninth. Senior outfielder Adrian Schenk, who was 1-for-5 Sunday, said Amedee’s performance was not indicative of how good of valuable Amedee is. “Amedee wasn’t making too bad of pitches,” Schenk said. “We still trust Amedee in the end there relieving. When he comes in, everybody’s like, ‘All right, this is our guy. He’s going to get the job done.’ We have a lot of confidence in him.” Iwasaki praised his hitters at the bottom of the order, sophomore designated hitter Colby Harrison (2for-3), junior catcher Derek Baum (1-for-3 with an RBI and three walks) and junior
center fielder Dylan Banach (1-for-4 with two walks) for keeping several of the team’s scoring runs alive. The win gave the Bears a split in the series after UNC dropped the series opener 105 on Friday before earning an 8-7 victory and a 7-3 loss in a doubleheader Saturday. UNC’s win Saturday was that of the walk-off variety as Crudo lined a one-out, basesloaded single into right-center field to score Yamane from third to end the game. UNC has four non-conference games remaining before starting play in the Great West Conference early next month, the first three of which come against Seattle starting at 7 p.m. Friday. “We wanted to win the series here at home,” Crudo said. “South Dakota State’s a good team, so we’ll take the split. Definitely glad we won it (Sunday), but we got a long week of practice. We’ll get better. We’ll be ready to play in Seattle this weekend.”
UNC softball sweeps visiting Jackrabbits over weekend SAMANTHA FOX sports@uncmirror.com
With a single to center, the UNC softball team closed out a weekend series Saturday against South Dakota State as it swept the Jackrabbits with a 2-1 victory ButlerHancock Softball Field. The University of Northern Colorado (1514) already had two onerun wins against South Dakota State (4-15) after a doubleheader Friday with final scores of 3-2 and 8-7.
The win was “I’m proud the second of them,” said walk-off in the head coach series, and in M a r k Saturday’s game, Montgomery. “I it was freshman mean, all three designated hitwere nailter Mikayla Duffy biters, all three Mikayla Duffy who came came down to drove in the winthrough. With one-run games. ning run against two runners on If you noticed, South Dakota and one out, it’s always a difState Saturday. Duffy hit a shot ferent person to center, scorwho keeps coming through, and that’s ing senior center fielder the key to a good ball club Erin Geddis from second and that’s what we need base for the win. “I had more confito keep building on.”
A major eledence in the last ment to UNC’s two batters,” game play and Geddis said. “I success this had all the conseason under fidence in the Montgomery is world one of a constant them was going changing of to drive me in Kelci Cheney players throughand I’m fast struck out 16 batout the game. enough to get ters in 14 innings “Ashleigh from second to over three games Waterland, a home, so it’s against SDSU. substitute, goes good. I’m glad in and makes (a we won.” Geddis went 2-for-4 at diving) play, but we feel the plate Saturday, 5-for- very confident that who12 in the series, with two ever we put out there will get the job done,” runs scored.
Montgomery said. “I think that is so important that we can make all kinds of moves. I drive our (Sports Information Directors) crazy, I’m quite positive, with all the changes that go on, but yet, every time it maximizes the strength of our team.” Freshman pitcher Kelci Cheney went all seven innings of Saturday’s game with eight strikeouts. Cheney See Softball, Page 8
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Police chief considers UNC ‘family’ Chief from Page 5 troubleshooting role and in meetings, Pumphrey says the feeling of helping those in the community makes it all worth it, and each instance is memorable. He said some instances are memorable for other reasons, as well. “We tend to engage some characters,” Pumphrey said with a laugh. He told the story of a frequently encountered student who swore she was related to him. “Every time I
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saw her, she had seen me on TV rescuing somebody.” Campus policing is different than that of other municipalities, though. Pumphrey said if students make mistakes in college, they can recover, albeit perhaps after paying a fine in some capacity, and the encounter could have “good takeaways they can benefit from down the road.” A family man with a wife and two daughters, Pumphrey says balancing
his home and work life is not overly complicated. “It’s not as difficult a balance as you might think,” he said. “My family does understand that there’s sacrifices that have to be made. Some jobs are a little easier to get out of to watch a track meet or volleyball game, and I’m not going to make every one, but it really doesn’t impact my kids negatively. I’m usually home for dinner and have the evening
with my family.” As of now, he plans to stay on until the 30-year mark, perhaps a little longer if his daughters decide to attend UNC. Regardless of his future endeavors, Pumphrey says he’s found his home here. “UNC will always be a part of my family and what I do,” he said. “I’ll be done with the school as an employee at some point, but I’ll never really leave UNC.”
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is appointed was “What do you believe is most important: The rights of one student, the rights of many students or the letter of the law?” Each candidate had a different answer and reasoning. “I believe that all are
important,” Byrd said. “But I also feel law, because it is more concrete, has much of a stronger effect, but I still feel like the voice of the student is also important and should be incorporated with the law.” Rhinehard said the let-
ter of the law followed closely by the rights of many students, Mong answered the rights of one student and Cooper said he believes the rights of many students are the most important. Fox will present the proposed appointees to Senate
during this week’s meeting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Council Room in the University Center. The appointees must be approved by at least twothirds of voting members. Once approved, the two new justices will begin serving on the judiciary immediately.
Walk-off wins highlight Bears’ series against South Dakota State Softball from Page 6 was the only pitcher to appear in all three games of the series. She had 16 strikeouts, eight of those coming in Saturday’s game. “Kelci just keeps raising the level of her game,” Montgomery said. “She’s a freshman, but she just keeps getting better and better and better, and that’s what we expected. She hit a little slump at the first part of the season, but she’s kind of through that and she feels more comfortable and I think she got better as the series went on. She
pitched the first game, did an OK job and pitched today and was lights out.” Senior catcher Erin Wilkinson said all of the pitching UNC had this weekend was important when it looks toward conference play. “This team’s a pretty good hitting team, so I think it was good for (our pitchers) to get their feet wet with a good hitting team just so they can fine tune their pitches so we’re ready to go into conference,” Wilkinson said. In the first two games, different players were able to
help the Bears claim victories in big ways. It was freshman second baseman Melissa Marcovecchio who had a single to drive in the winning run in the second game of the series and a double-steal by junior right fielder Lindsey Smith and freshman infielder Kelcee Santos that gave the Bears the go-ahead run in game one. The team hits the road Wednesday to face in-state rival Colorado State before opening up conference play at home against Weber State on Saturday.