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Poet encourages students to find beauty in confidence, pride KELSEY HAMMON news@uncmirror.com The media often tries to advertise and sell beauty, like the body itself is a product. UNC’s Black Women of Today and the Women’s Resource Center aimed to show students a different message through performances from students and a popular activist during “My Black is Beautiful” Monday. In their presentation to celebrate both Black History Month and Women’s History Month, the organizations prescribed that beauty is in strength, confidence and pride. “My Black is Beautiful” commemorated black women in the arts, including Cicely Tyson, Debbie Allen,
Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. The show also addressed myths about the stereotyped image of the black women in society. The first act of the show included dancing, singing and poetry reading. A poem by Tyrell Allen addressed and conquered negative stereotypes projected by the media. “The sister, the daughter, the mother, the reason why there’s beauty in brown,” Allen said in his poem. Sonya Renee, a women’s rights activist and poetry slam legend, performed a set of poems addressing myths and defining beauty in black. “We choose to have Sonya Renee here because she is extremely supportive of the university,” said Devaughn Morgan, a sopho-
more journalism major and member of Black Women of Today. “Renee visits UNC frequently.”
Renee didn’t need a stage to be the center of attention as she started her slam poetry standing
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From left to right, UNC students Jasmine Jones, Amoni Ashby, Eboni Coleman and BreOnna Tindall perform a song during “My Black is Beautiful” Monday in Lindou Auditorium.
amidst the audience in Lindou Auditorium. “You know I’m loud, right?” Renee asked the audience after her first poem. Renee was indeed loud, and so too was her message of strength and pride in the self. Renee’s powerful cadence and electrically charged verses had the audience chanting, screaming, laughing and crying. Renee addressed a host of issues in her poems. She also objected to the message of contemporary hip-hop objectifying women and the portrayal of men as “pimps” and “playas.” “MTV changed the hiphop scene!” Renee shouted. But the poems’ overall message was that we should
want hip-hop to return to its former glory, when it was about the music and not materials. “The whole show was so great,” said Breanne Porter, a sophomore psychology major and member of Black Women of Today. “I worked on the lights, so I got a really great view.” Renee ended her empowering set with a note on her new project, “The Body is Not an Apology.” The project aims to make people proud of their bodies and treat themselves as beautiful people, not like an object that needs to be fixed or repaired, Renee said. “I’m so grateful to be in a space that honors black women,” Renee said of the UNC campus.
MCB students ‘Ride Away’ with ‘pedi-cab’ proposal in Challenge COLLEEN ALLISON news@uncmirror.com
Five finalists will compete for $36,000 in prize money at the third annual Monfort College of Business Entrepreneurial Challenge Thursday, three of which are affiliated with UNC. The first-place winner will receive $18,000 in prize money, the second-place winner will be awarded $10,000 and third place will receive $8,000. The three finalists associated with the University of Northern Colorado are Brad Henderson, a senior business management major, Luis Munoz, a senior business management major, and Phillip Horning, an alumnus who graduated in December 2011 with a degree in busi-
ness management. Henderson, Munoz and Horning’s business idea is UNC Ride Away, a pedi-cab, or bicycle taxi, service on the UNC campus. “We hope to take the campus from the pedestrian and mundane to the exciting and new and to really enhance the social experience on the campus,” Henderson said. “Through conversation, we noticed that there was no transportation service transporting students through campus, only around campus.” The idea is to help students commuting from central to west campus in a more efficient way without having to buy a parking permit. “We developed our business plan in BAMG 451, ‘Managing New Business
Ventures’ as a semester project,” Henderson said. “We ended up really enjoying writing the plan and decided it was a business we would like to pursue, and we thought that the MCB Entrepreneurial Challenge would be a great way to get our business off its feet.” Each finalist has to present a business plan and answer questions from the challenge’s judges. The audience will be able to ask questions about the business plans as well. Henderson, Munoz and Horning will present their idea at 3 p.m Thursday. “With this money, we would purchase the three pedi-cabs we plan to launch with, as well as get our marketing campaign and advertising off its feet,” Henderson said.
Other business plans include Branch Out Cider, a craft cidery that will produce apple-based wine from apple trees belonging to Northern Colorado residents, FirstLine Safety, Inc., a manufacturing, sales-and-leasing start-up that provides safety trailers equipped to protect users and the environment in the event of a job site accident or hazardous materials incident, Bedside Solutions, LLC, a start-up providing a disposable medical device that inexpensively and effectively delivers low flow oxygen therapy to patients, and Lockers on Wheels, a mobile locker service that provides individual storage for attendees at concerts, festivals and other events. The third annual Monfort College of Business
Entrepreneurial Challenge will start at noon Thursday at the University Center. The challenge presentations are free and open to the public. Finalists and judges will then go to the Bravo! Entrepreneur Awards at 5
p.m. at the Union Colony Civic Center. Tickets for the award ceremony are $45. For more information about the Entrepreneurial Challenge, visit www.mcb.unco.edu/Events/ E-Challenge/schedule.cfm.
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Brad Henderson, left, and Phillip Horning, senior business management majors, demonstrate a pedi-cab they would use for UNC Ride Away, their proposed campus bicycle taxi service.
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Options still plenty to bring visibility to Ugandan children The abduction, rape and murder of thousands of American children would have made headlines across the United States within the hour of its occurrence. On the other side of the hemisphere in Uganda, a rebel group ran by Joseph Kony has blossomed from the exclusive exploitation of youth in Central Africa. Only recently have steps paced to change this reality. For 26 years, Kony has kidnapped children from their homes and herded them into his militia of captivity, the
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a young filmmaker with a passion. Russell traveled to Africa in 2003 to film a documentary about genocide in Darfur. Instead, he found himself a cofounder of the freedom campaign Invisible Children, a program devoted to funneling media attention to Kony’s crimes. Russell and the community rebuilt schools, created jobs and founded the Early Warning Radio Network, a radio system designed to protect villages from rebel attacks in Uganda.
Russell believes the key to saving the enslaved children in Uganda is visibility to their problem. Almost no one seemed to care about the Lord’s Resistance Army before the creation of Invisible Children, but a few years ago, Kony finally began to rim the surface of notoriety. Invisible Children is making worldwide progress daily, and the program needs everyone’s help to stop Kony from raking innocents into lives of loss and violence. Make your difference today by visiting www.kony2012.com.
Mirror Reflections are the opinion of The Mirror’s editorial board: Parker Cotton, Ryan Lambert, Sara Van Cleve, Melanie Vasquez and Benjamin Welch. Let us know what you think. E-mail us at editor@uncmirror.com.
Hard hits in football encapsulate traditional defensive playmaking Michael NOWELS
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Lord’s Resistance Army. After the youth of Uganda are forced to kill their parents, the girls are chained by sexual bondage, and their brothers are built into child soldiers who are forced to mutilate people’s faces. To worsen the blow, Kony is not fighting for anything other than his own power and is not supported by anyone in Uganda. More than 30,000 children have been kidnapped over the course of almost three decades, and virtually no one came to their rescue until Jason Russell,
New Orleans Saints. A player that caused an opponent to be carted off the field would receive $1,500. The reward for a hit resulting in an opponent requiring less help off the field would be $1,000, and these numbers would increase for playoff games. In light of the NFL’s recent crackdown on dangerous hits, this information is particularly startling. In the past few years, more research has been done on the subject of concussions and their psychological effects, even years after retirement. That being said, the ultimate goal of the defense is to stop the offensive team from reaching the endzone. That can likely be done more effectively without the nuisance of some key offensive players and their ability to create big plays. Defensive players are already taught to hit opponents and hit them hard, so what is paying them
extra for injuring someone really going to change? Just last season, Steelers linebacker James Harrison, who has been disciplined several times for illegal hits, said that he does not try to injure opposing players but does want to hurt them. ‘’I don’t want to injure anybody,’’ Harrison said after two of his hits in one game left opponents with concussion-like symptoms, ‘’There’s a big difference between being hurt and being injured. You get hurt, you shake it off and come back the next series or the next game. I try to hurt people.’’ While it may be unpopular among the American public, Harrison has a good point. Sidelining an opponent for a month with a separated shoulder is different from hitting him hard enough to scare him next time he has the ball. The people in the stands and in
front of the television sets want to see their favorite team win, and hurting opponents increases those odds. But when a team or coach decides to add another incentive for hard hits in the most tangible way possible, those same fans cry foul. I don’t mean to say that it is permissible to place bounties on opponents, but it is certainly easy to understand how and why they came about. Hitting hard is hammered into defenders’ brains from the time they begin playing the sport. From a humanistic standpoint, a bounty on another human is despicable, but from a pure football standpoint, it’s much more acceptable than videotaping opponents to steal their plays, as the Patriots and, to a lesser extent, even the Broncos have done. — Michael Nowels is a sophomore elementary education major and weekly columnist for The Mirror.
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‘Live and let live’ motto helps speaker conquer Tourettes AMANDA STOUTENBURGH news@uncmirror.com For more than two decades, Marc Elliot has faced many struggles that come with Tourettes syndrome, and he shared his story with UNC students during “What Makes You Tic?” Tuesday. Elliot was diagnosed with mild Tourettes when he was 9; however, he had been dealing with it since he was 5 years old. As he got older, the Tourettes grew worse and it reached its worst stage in high school. The stereotype of Tourettes syndrome is that people with the syndrome say inappropriate words, such as offensive or curse words; however, this is not always the case. Elliot said less than 10 percent of patients actual-
ly say inappropriate things. He was part of that 10 percent, though, and hurt people with what he was saying. “This was by far the worst part of my Tourettes,” Elliot said. He said he could not help it, even though he was not raised to do those types of things. Nevertheless, Elliot has learned to control his syndrome in the last six or seven months. He said he has been working his way to this stage for two years. Because of his friend Danie, Elliot came to the dramatic conclusion that he was his own worst critic and he didn’t accept himself. Elliot now lives by a new motto: “Live and let live.” He said he feels that everyone should just live their own lives without other peo-
ple interfering. Since talking to his friend, Elliot decided to take a course on joy, which taught him how to tolerate himself. When he did that, his symptoms decreased. “Tourettes is really crazy,” Elliot said. Tourettes causes people to make loud noises or erratic movements. However, the noises and movements are not actually the syndrome. This is a confusion that many have. The “itch” they have is the actual syndrome while the movements or noises are them trying to itch it. There is no cure for Tourettes, but treatments and physical therapy can help reduce the symptoms. “I really got a chance to see what it’s like to be different than everyone else,” Elliot said about having Tourettes.
Many people are not careful about what they say and sometimes say offensive things because they simply do not understand the disease. Elliot also has ObsessiveCompulsive Disorder and Hirschsprung’s disease. Because of Hirschsprung’s disease, Elliot spent the first six months of his life in the hospital and had seven surgeries by the time he was 4. The normal length of human small intestines is 25 feet, but Elliot only has four feet because of the disease, which can cause bowel movement problems. “I thought (the speech) was a good event and something you don’t see on campus, especially with someone living with a disability,” said Tramaine Duncan, a senior social science major and the diverse program coordinator for the
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Marc Elliot, a speaker who has faced the challenges of Tourettes Syndrome, shares his struggles and triumphs of the disease with students Tuesday at the University Center. University Program Council. “What Makes You Tic?” was hosted by UPC, the Student Health Center and Counseling Center. Nouri Marrakchi, the social and developmental coordinator for UPC, brought Elliot to
campus after seeing him at a conference. “(It was) probably the best and most inspirational event I’ve been to at UNC,” said Matt Reinhard, a sophomore recreation, tourism and hospitality major.
History Club discussion addresses ‘well-behaved’ women’s historical absence AMANDA STOUTENBURGH news@uncmirror.com The UNC chapter of Phi Alpha Theta and the History Club celebrated Women’s History Month by hosting a discussion about the famous quote “Well-behaved women seldom make history” Monday. The quote was by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, an early American historian and professor at Harvard University, in 1976, and inferred that only rowdy women were the ones history remembered. “We write down the loudest that rock the boat,” said Kent Rothenmeyer, a senior history major. “It’s hard to
find women that are (wellbehaved), but are there any men?” The discussion started with University of Northern Colorado students and faculty defining what makes a well-behaved woman. The focal idea of the discussion was that women who are written about are often those who worked outside the norms of their time periods. Those who were well behaved and stayed within society’s expectation of them were left out of the books. “I think we are trying to put them back into history,” said Amber Nickell, a graduate student in history and the treasurer for the
History Club. “Women were somewhat pushed out of history by men.” Some people at the discussion brought up Princess Diana, Mother Theresa and Duchess Catherine Middleton.
Princess Diana did not do what was expected of her in all situations, and Mother Theresa, because she was a nun, was not supposed to draw any sort of attention to herself. Middleton, however, is
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Jason Akey, left, a senior history major, and Natasha Krech, a junior history secondary education major, share their opinions on whether well-behaved women and men ever make history.
different. Because she married into the royal family, she is expected to be the epitome of a well-
behaved woman. Sacagawea, the
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UPC brings Boulder band 3OH!3 for Spring Concert RYAN LAMBERT arts@uncmirror.com Many UNC students will be starstruck on April 29 as they make an “O” with their thumbs and index fingers while listening to live music. The University Program Council will bring the Boulder-based band 3OH!3 to perform their signature electro-pop hits in ButlerHancock Hall. Dan Barton, the arts and entertainment coordinator for the University Program Council, queried various acts to perform at the University of Northern Colorado, including rapper J. Cole and hip-hop artist Frank Ocean.
“We ran through a lot of prospects, and 3OH!3 kind of fell into our lap,” Barton said. “A booking agent at the university told us that they would be doing a show in the area around the time of our Spring Concert…We couldn’t turn them down” More than $50,000 was spent to make this event a reality, including booking the act, security, staging and marketing. For instance, $15,000 alone is going toward the show’s sound and lighting. Largely, this performance will be paid for with student fees. “We have a modest budget compared to the programming of larger uni-
versities,” Barton said. 3OH!3 began when two former University of Colorado students, Sean Foreman and Nathaniel Motte, decided to form a band in 2004. The duo came into public consciousness in early 2008 with their second album “Want,” which reached No. 44 on Billboard Top 200. The album included the hit single “Don’t Trust Me.” Recently, the duo has been working on a fourth record that will include the single “Robot.” “Every year, people have asked us to bring 3OH!3 to campus,” Barton said. Butler-Hancock can hold
a maximum of 4,800 individuals, and according to Barton, last year’s Shwayze and Sammy Adams concert brought in more than 3,300 students, the largest crowd for any UPC Spring Concert. Barton believes 3OH!3 has broad appeal. “With how diverse people’s music taste is, it’s hard to book an artist who can please a bunch of people,” he said. “People who aren’t fans of the band should have a good time…The whole point of their songs is to provide feel-good music.” The opening act for the show will be Air Dubai, a seven member hip-hop band from Denver. Tickets for the show will
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Sean Foreman, left, and Nathaniel Motte make up the the popular band 3OH!3, the performers for the UPC 2012 Spring Concert. go on sale at 8 a.m. March 19 at the University Center’s information desk. UNC students will be charged $5, and the show is not open to the public, though students can purchase up to five guest
tickets for $20 each. All proceeds made from the show roll over to UPC’s 2012-2013 budget. “We are not a profitmaking machine,” Barton said.
UNC creative writers win awards for poems, essays and fiction SARAH KIRBY arts@uncmirror.com
Creative student writing is being celebrated at 7 p.m. today in Ross 1040 with the 2012 Rosenberry Writers’ Contest. The nine-year-old contest accepts submissions in fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction. This year’s student winners include Zachary Martinez, who receives the Rosenberry Writers’ Award and first place fiction award; Bethany Koscheski, who takes first place in creative non-fiction; and first place poetry award recipient and honorable mention Emily Neiley. Honorable mentions in
poetry include Tiffany Armstrong, Brandon Doughery and Daniel Rossen. Together with the winners of the writers’ conference, the Ed Kearns Award will be given to a freshman composition student. Ed Kearns was a former UNC English professor who earmarked a sum of money to encourage the composition of freshman essays. The Ed Kearns winner is selected by professors of ENG 122 classes. After the Ed Kearns award is presented, the winners of the contest will recite their work, which will be followed by pictures, celebration and refreshments. Mary Angeline, a
University of Northern Colorado English instructor, spoke about the characteristics in Martinez’s craft and technique, which set him apart from other writers. “Zach’s writing stands out,” Angeline said. “His short story was well-written with a clear narrative and story arch. Not only was the language and story interesting, but reading his story also feels effortless. Zach makes it feel simple. I would call Zach’s story a page-turner. I didn’t want to put it down till I got to the end, and that says a lot.” Works submitted by UNC students went
through several committees of readers before the finalists were selected. The first reading committee was composed of graduate students. Sandra Kolder, a firstyear English graduate student, said, “It was a two check process; every student’s story had to receive two checks in order to move to the next round. I was impressed by the diverse subject matter discussed and illustrated in the stories I read.” Although the contest committee was pleased with the amount of submissions it received, its members want to emphasize to students that there is always more room for
submissions, especially in creative non-fiction. Occasionally, students are nervous about sharing their creative work with their teachers and peers; however, Angeline said she finds these concerns aren’t justified. “It’s good experience, and you have no way of knowing what the critics and editors will select, which is the mystery of publication,” she said. The 2012 Rosenberry Writers’ Contest is one of the kick-offs for the Rosenberry Writers’ Conference. The next event leading up to the weeklong conference is a undergraduate/graduate open mic reading at 4 p.m. on March
20 in the Panorama Room of the University Center. “The first time I read my creative work to an audience of my peers, I was sweating bullets,” said Cassandra Fleeting, a sophomore business major. “What if they didn’t like it? What if they laughed at me? Instead, I felt proud and supported. Open mic nights are an opportunity for students to come together to support one another and the arts. I encourage students to read at open mic nights.” For more information about upcoming Rosenberry Conference Events, contact the UNC English Department at 970351-2971.
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Three women’s hoops players honored by Big Sky PARKER COTTON sports@uncmirror.com
The UNC women’s basketball team was rewarded for its stellar season Monday as the Big Sky Conference recognized three of its players as part of its end-of-theyear conference awards. Sophomore guard D’shara Strange, a year after winning the league’s Outstanding Freshman award and an Honorable Mention, started the season Nov. 12 with a tripledouble and had the regular season end with her being announced as the Defensive Player of the Year and a unanimous All-Big Sky Conference First Team selection. Joining Strange in honors this year were junior for-
“There’s a lot of the fakes shots and then all ward Lauren girls in the conjust defensive because I’m not Oosdyke and ference that are going to block rebounding.” senior forward all great playStrange, a 5- everybody’s shot,” Kaisha Brown, ers. I’m really said. foot-10 point Strange both earning happy, and I’m guard, finished “Now I got to go to Honorable really happy for the regular season the tournament Mentions. Kaisha and tied for the league and back it up.” S t r a n g e ’ s D’shara Strange Kaisha Brown Oosdyke, a was third in the Big D’shara all getlead in defensive selection as the was named the ting honored as after Sky in 3-point field rebounds per season c o n f e r e n c e ’ s Big Sky Defensive well.” game (7.6) and earning a first goal percentage at top defensive Player of the Year Oosdyke was third in total team selection, 37.6 percent. player did not on Monday. said Strange’s 12.7 rebounds per averaged come as much points and 6.6 performance this season (8.9). of a surprise to University game rebounds per was certainly worthy of of Northern Colorado (19- Strange also fingame while hav- her respective honors. 10, 11-5 Big Sky) head ished sixth in “D’shara’s a great player, ing the thirdscoring (14.0 per coach Jaime White. highest field goal and she’s only a sophomore “She wasn’t a bad defend- game) and second percentage in and she’s already killing it,” er last year,” White said. “I in steals (2.5). the Big Sky (48.0 Oosdyke said. “I think she’s “I bit on every mean, she led the league in improved a lot with her percent). steals. She did a great job that fake last year, and “I’m more driving to the basket and way. But this year, we really I didn’t really than honored to outside shooting and just asked her to defend the post, close out, so my Lauren Oosdyke be mentioned being able to drive and pull to defend every position. Also, focus this year averaged 12.7 in the Big Sky up. I think she’ll be Big Sky not necessarily getting steals was just to play points and 6.6 C o n f e r e n c e , ” player of the year one of this year — just touches — good, solid ‘D’ rebounds per Oosdyke said. these years coming up.” making sure people take hard and stop going for game this season.
Brown’s Honorable Mention is her first placement on an All-Big Sky team in her career. She averaged 11.3 points per game and made 37.6 percent on 3point field goal attempts, the third-best percentage in the conference. “I just feel so honored just to be recognized by the conference,” Brown said. “It’s a great accomplishment. Having three people on all-conference just shows how good of a team we are, how deep we are.” Brown said having players named to all-conference teams adds to the team’s confidence heading into the Big Sky Conference Championship tournament this weekend in Pocatello, Idaho, in which the Bears are the No. 2 seed.
Softball plays in two Florida tournaments over spring break SAMANTHA FOX sports@uncmirror.com
With three tournaments completed, the UNC softball team travels to Deland, Fla., this weekend for the remaining two tournaments before conference play begins. The University of Northern Colorado will compete in the Stetson Classic and the USF Under Armour Showcase. The Bears (9-6) have seen success in the previous tournaments, but head coach Mark Montgomery said he wants to see the team play well, and the record is not his biggest concern. “We’ve been a little more
successful this year, so we’re happy with that,” Montgomery said. “We want to keep getting better, not with just our early season success, but keep making improvements, keep getting better as we play different levels of competition, so that’s the goal. I’m not wrapped up in outcomes. Wins and losses don’t really concern me as long as we’re playing well, and then we’ll let happen whatever happens.” The Bears will open the Stetson Classic against Ball State and Stetson University Friday and will face both teams again Saturday, but the schedule for Sunday is still to be determined. Pitching is one of three
key elements of the game, and the Bears have a young group on the rubber, the oldest being junior Jamie Pollak, who is in her first season with the Bears after transferring from Mesa (Ariz.) Community College. “They’re doing great, and all of them have shown signs of just brilliance, at times, but then they’ve shown signs of being young at times, so they’ve got to keep working and growing and improving,” Montgomery said. “We’re nowhere near where we need to be with our pitching, but yet I think they all feel confident that they’ve done some good things so they know what to build upon.” The only returning pitcher
this season is sophomore Megan Wilkinson, who has a 6-1 record this season. Wilkinson said the young pitching staff is a positive thing because of the amount of effort it puts forth. “They’re willing to give it everything they have, and also, it gives us a whole new level of competition that we didn’t even have last year,” Wilkinson said. “Now there’s competition on the field, and we didn’t have that at all last year.” The Bears will play 13 games in 18 days in the two tournaments. “We need to come out with a lot of confidence and knowing we are a great team,” said senior outfielder Erin
Geddis, who’s sporting a .413 average so far this season. “We need to prove to everybody that they need to
respect us for who we are.” The Bears will start the Stetson Classic at 1:30 p.m. Friday in Deland, Fla.
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UNC junior pitcher Jamie Pollak does a drill with a teammate this week in practice. Pollak has appeared in eight games this season and has a team-best 2.21 ERA.
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They call him ‘Darrell’: shortstop leads UNC baseball team TARIQ MOHAMMAD sports@uncmirror.com
Though there may not be a player named “Darrell” on the UNC baseball team, the Bears sluggers would say otherwise. Adam Hilker, senior starting shortstop and team captain for the University of Northern Colorado baseball team, adopted the new name as he became a leader, according to coaches and teammates. “Last year, we gave the
whole team nicknames,” senior third baseman and Hilker’s close friend Tony Crudo said. “He’s ‘Darrell.’ His stuck pretty well.” Regardless of which name he goes by, Hilker has been solid for the Bears so far this season, hitting .480 at the dish and scoring five runs. Hilker was named the Great West Conference Player of the Week on Tuesday for his support in UNC’s victory on Saturday against Washington State, the Bears’ first win against a major FBS program
since 2009. team he refers Hilker, a to as family for Westminster one more seanative, had a son, and head .500 batting coach Carl average against Iwasaki couldn’t the Cougars in agree more. the three-game “I look to set. him as a second Hilker, who Adam Hilker coach from a came to UNC as was named the player standa walk-on and Great West point,” Iwasaki earned a start- Player of the said. ing spot from Week on Monday. Crudo is also the first day, is referred to by a back for his fifth name that is on season because of a med- neither the roster nor his ical redshirt his junior birth certificate. year. Hilker said he is “Their nicknames are thankful to be a part of the Darrell and Lyle, but it’s
pretty much the two stooges, Larry and Curly,” Iwasaki said. “They will probably name their firstborn kids after each other.” Hilker and Crudo have played together for four years and now lead a promising, young team. “I’ve learned we call it ‘The Bear Way’ here,” Hilker said. “I just want to go out there and give it my all, make sure all these young guys know you got to play hard every day to get anywhere.” Crudo agrees and said that Hilker leads by exam-
ple because he stays within himself. His teammates and coaches have noticed and look at the player they call “Darrell” as more than just a baseball player. “‘Darrell’ will be a leader in the community, he will be a leader in business, he will be a leader for life. He learned it right here on a little field on the corner of 18th and 6th Avenue, here in Greeley,” Iwasaki said, referring to Jackson Field. “That’s ‘Darrell.’ I’m calling him ‘Darrell.’ That’s Adam Hilker. He’s a class, character kid.”
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Motorcyclist victim of fatal car accident on campus did what he loved
SHARON DUNN sdunn@greeleytribune.com Courtesy of The Greeley Tribune Matt Samson always wanted to die doing what he loved. To the sorrow of his friends and family, that’s exactly what happened on Monday. The 23-year-old Greeley resident was riding a motorcycle on a sunny, spring-like afternoon. He died at the intersection of 11th Avenue and 23rd Street, while riding a friend’s motorcycle. “He always said he wanted to die doing something he loved. And he loved riding,” said his
sister Candace Prall, 25. “He loved hanging out with his friends and family and riding bikes.” While roaring south on 11th Avenue, he clipped the tail end of an oncoming Jeep Cherokee, which was turning into North Hall at 23rd Street. Witnesses said Samson and a fellow motorcyclist seemed to be traveling from 65-70 miles per hour, said Sgt. Susan West, spokeswoman for the Greeley Police Department, which has yet to complete its investigation. The posted speed limit on that stretch of road is 30 mph. Samson struck the Jeep driven by Alexis Oakes,
19, and a student at the University of Northern Colorado. She could not be reached for comment. Greeley police have not cited her in the crash, opting to make that decision once they meet with the Weld District Attorney’s office next week. Prall said Samson’s friend, who was riding his motorcycle alongside him at the time, called her to tell her of the crash. “I had actually just picked my daughter up from school,” Prall said. “I raced over there, and I saw him laying there, and he was helpless. When I showed up they were doing CPR. And I saw him
get covered up and my kids were in the car. All my son could say was, ‘Wake up, uncle Matt.’” Prall and her brother were in the middle of moving to their grandmother’s house in Johnstown, where they had planned to care for her during her senior years. Samson had just moved in most of his belongings this past weekend. “We were supposed to finish it up last night,” Prall said. “I actually texted him at 1:56 p.m., (about the time of the crash). He was supposed to call me with a model number so we could fix my grandma’s dryer. “The last time I talked to him, he said, ‘I’ll see
you soon,’” she said. Samson, who attended Greeley West High School, was an avid outdoorsman, who loved boating, riding and his family. “He was a great brother and a great son,” said his mother, Tammie Curry of Greeley. “He was just always happy. He always knew how to make everyone smile. He always knew when you needed a hug. He was good at reading people’s day, and seeing if they were having a bad day, and he was always there.” Samson had a smile that would light up a room, his sister added. He’d work to ensure others around
Students, faculty talk historical perspectives History from Page 4 Native American woman widely recognized in American history, was also mentioned because she was well behaved. Some speculate this was because she served a specific purpose on the Lewis and Clark expedition. Sources are another aspect that can determine how people are viewed in history. “I’m looking at my own research of women in the rev-
olutionary time and how they are held up in high regard,” said Kate Johnson, a junior history and German major. Johnson is researching women who hosted quilting bees during that time and how they were held at such a high standard. It was thought they were doing the quilting bees for patriotic or spiritual reasons because they were hosted in a minister’s house and therefore, they were considered well-behaved.
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“You have to be careful of sources from what type of lens they are looked through,” said Jason Akey, a senior history major. The authors of history are also important; if women tell the stories, people can have a better idea of the lives they led.
“How do we get at what women thought of themselves and how we think of them?” said Corinne Wieben, a history professor at UNC. “Women who are in history books led public lives. Those that are not talked about were living private lives.”
shared in that joy. “He’s my baby brother and my best friend,” Prall said. “He always said, ‘Don’t be blue, panda bear.” Curry said he was in the process of getting his GED. Samson had hopes of becoming a chef, but he also toyed with the idea of going to school next fall to become a mechanic. He had just finished rebuilding the engine to his Honda, and the plan was to install it this weekend, Prall said. She and her husband plan to finish that job in time for services, which they hope to have on Saturday. Details have yet to be finalized.
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