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Student Senate members start year with open introduction CARMEN BRADY news@uncmirror.com

The Student Senate hosted a “Meet and Greet” Wednesday in the Long’s Peak Ballroom to familiarize students with the elected members. Directors and college representatives introduced themselves, gave an overview of their role in the senate and stated their goals for the year.

Students were invited to address any campus issues they saw in an open forum environment — students can also request to speak at Senate meetings.

“We really stress student voice,” said Tyler Ames, the director of Legislative Affairs. “We are here because of the students, so we really feel strongly about getting the voice of the students

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Tyler Ames, the director of Legislative Affairs, shares a laugh with his fellow students during the Student Senate “Meet and Greet” Wednesday in the University Center Ballrooms. heard. Currently, we aren’t getting as much of that, and that’s largely because we haven’t reached out to empower the students as well as

we probably should.”

The senate members said they want to make certain students know they affect what happens

around campus. They said the best way to make sure their opinion is known is through the Student Senate.

“We need to find a way to let students know that they can come to us for any needs at all,” Ames said. “We’re here just to serve the students, and I want the students to know that if they need anything, they just need to come speak with us.”

Matt VanDriel, the Student Body President, said he wants to make sure that all student voices are heard this year.

“Hopefully, the general tone will be empowerment and outreach,” VanDriel said. “We’ve got a great, great Senate this year, and they really are a group that wants to serve the students.”

Salynthia Collier, the director

of Student Affairs, said she wants students to know the senate members want to help everyone, even if they can’t always see every student in person.

“A lot of us have so many different goals — we just want to run out there and help every single student on campus,” Collier said.

“It’s just going to be up to us to get the students out there motivated to do what they want.”

Student Senate hosts meetings at 5:30 p.m. every Wednesday in the Council Room on the second floor of the University Center. Directors and the president have offices in the Student Activities Office and are required to be there a certain amount of office hours each week. For more information, visit www.unco.edu/studentsenate.

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More than just meter maids BENJAMIN WELCH news@uncmirror.com

One of the most underappreciated and overlooked positions at UNC is the duty of a parking attendant. From 90degree heat to below-freezing temperatures, the men and women of Parking Services patrol the lots to keep students safe and make sure all parking regulations are followed.

Even though it can be a thankless job, an atmosphere of dedication is felt among those working the lots.

Steve Dowdy, a security II state employee and lot supervisor for Parking Services, is a University of Northern Colorado graduate who returned to the university to work full time at Parking Services. From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Dowdy spends the day patrolling the lots and training and supervising other attendants. He said on a slow day, he will write about 30 tickets. On busy days, he will write 90 or more tickets.

“We’re all friendly; we’re all students,” Dowdy said.

Students can be hired as “security,” but are scheduled to work in the lots. Both work study and hourly positions

exist. Shifts are flexible and are built to work around a student’s busy schedule.

Attendants spend their shift patrolling one of the school’s nearly 30 parking lots for an hour, moving to another lot as a new hour begins. This is to give attendants a change in scenery and to prevent vehicles from accidentally going unchecked.

When a vehicle is found in violation of a parking rule, an attendant will record it in a recon handheld device. The license plate and permit number are entered into the machine, which communicate via Bluetooth to a printer to emits the ticket.

On the ticket, the time, date, lot, attendant and infraction are shown for maximum clarity.

A picture of the vehicle and location is also taken and put on file with the ticket, to prevent mistakes on behalf of the attendant and to prove the infraction occurred.

Though the parking attendant position may seem like an easy job, customers who are angry at receiving a ticket may approach an attendant to voice their displeasure.

“People can be rude; they’re poor college kids, but you can’t

Ballrooms to become ‘club’ BENJAMIN WELCH news@uncmirror.com

Club UNC is a new event offered by UPC to students looking for excitement and night life this Friday.

The free dance-club-themed event will take place from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the University Center Ballrooms, and students are

encouraged to dress in lavish attire and dance the night away in a safe environment.

“We thought it would be a great way to kick off the new school year, so people can meet,” said Brittney Schorzman, a senior journalism major and public relations and marketing person See Dance, Page 8

let it bother you,” said Dowdy, as a student approached him about the ticket he received for parking in the wrong lot. “I’ve heard it all, and I can be nice about it, but very rarely am I going to change a ticket out on the lot.”

Dowdy also talked about what keeps him calm during times of conflict.

“The world is full of characters, and I get to interact with all of them,” said Dowdy, after returning the white Parking Services pickup truck to the station after receiving a call about a possibly forged permit sitting on the dash of a car. Though the permit turned out to be legitimate, a warning was issued.

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Brett Radin, a senior sociology major, takes a picture of a car that is illegally parked. Radin said he joined Parking Services to get a headstart in law enforcement. He said he plans to join the academy when he graduates.

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Hey neighbor, don’t shut your media doors Journalism took another blow this week when the University of Colorado announced the possible elimination of its School of Journalism and Mass Communications.

CU will continue to operate the school until a final decision is made.

Students who are already enrolled will be able to complete their degrees, according to the department’s website.

The university wants to create a “New Media” department to prepare students for the ever-changing field of journalism. It’s curious, however, that a program that has developed

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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If a large university like CU wants to continue to produce high-quality journalism students, it needs to recognize that shutting down its current operations will set back the program further than 2012 — the earliest CU will have a new program. There will be extensive training, budget balancing and criteria that will have to be extensively examined and remade.

The time taken to truly get back to the high level of journalism education will have to rely on the students.

They are the ones who will have to bring the passion back into the school.

Why freshmen have gingivitis, and other common maladies Joanna LANGSTON

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amazing journalism graduates, such as Tom Costello of NBC Nightly News and Carl Quintanilla of CNBC, would want to discontinue its legacy.

It is a good concept to teach new areas of the field. And no one can judge the school for wanting to reorganize; but closing it will only filter out potential journalism greats.

The University of Northern Colorado’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications may not be on the cutting edge of new technology, but it fosters the necessary components of good reporting; it does not get caught up in the media prac-

ly sort through the students jammed in their offices, pumpkin pie starts looking hella delicious, and UNC’s population of miniature freshmen has doubled since last year’s crop — again.

Let us take a moment to bow our heads and thank our parents for their reproductive efforts — the gift that keeps on giving. The sea of fresh faces will never ebb, and so, we who have been at UNC forever, or two plus years, must swim in it.

All day, every day, for the next few months these newbies will walk about in clusters, eagerly smiling and striking up dialogues with anyone and everyone they spy in order to alleviate the discomfort of being without a clique. They seem like solicitors, smiling coyly at you in bathrooms, and sidling up next to your sink in an attempt to make conversation. (Stop it Judy, you’re embarrassing yourself! People will think you’ve gone to college and become the “lesbian!”)

We will hear their noisy greetings in between classes, frustrated phone calls with long-distance lovers and loud assessments of the hottest chicks in their dorms. Like proud and uncaring parents, we will smilingly watch them as they struggle to find their way around campus, walk into the wrong gender bathrooms, act a fool and get an MIP; and, for those who are douch-

es, reveal their boobies in drunken revelry.

But these uproarious antics are part and parcel of a vital purpose : fundraising. For every new student, UNC gets more tuition, Barnes & Noble sells more books at a 2,000percent profit, banks get the next 20 years’ worth of loan interest, Target sells one more set of cutesy dorm room merchandise, gas stations, eateries and stores are flooded with business, and it doesn’t stop there!

When these newly emancipated darlings, in fits of youthful exuberance, have taken Ke$ha’s advice and brushed their teeth with liquor for half a semester, dentist visits will surge, as will business in the health center for other various causes.

We’ll watch these voracious young minds learn aplenty in their field and in the school of hard knocks. (Put down that hot dog and go to class, Jeremy! Your textbook

ain’t gonna learn itself!).

I remember my freshman year seemed invariably full of people offering food. For FREE! I have since learned that this is a farce.

There is rarely free food on campus nowadays, a miserable fact I hope the administration will work tirelessly to rectify! The point is, the Greeley PD could buy 74 elephant mascots with the price of traffic tickets issued to college students.

They may be noisy little brutes, but this town’s, and this country’s, sagging economy receives a boost every time a new student ambles in, backpack and visor-wearing parents in tow, face rumpled at the smell that will someday signify home.

Gentlemen, a toast: to fresh men and women, the most patriotic of us all! God bless America.

— Joanna Langston is a senior psychology major and an arts reporter for The Mirror.

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Cultural centers, resource offices host informative student engagement party CARMEN BRADY news@uncmirror.com To help kick off the school year, the UNC advocacy offices hosted the Student Engagement Street Bash Thursday outside of the Kohl and Davis houses. The University of Northern Colorado Student Radio provided music for the event, as students enjoyed

giveaways and free food.

Each advocacy office had a booth set up to give students information about their services and what they have planned this year.

The offices present were the Marcus Garvey Cultural Cultural Center; the Cesar Chavez Cultural Center; the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Allies Office; Asian/Pacific American Student Services; Native

American Student Services and the Women’s Resource Center.

Daniel Sanchez, a graduate sociology student and graduate assistant at the Women’s Resource Center, volunteered as a representative and said he was glad to provide students with information. “We really wanted to be together in one place to let people know that

while we do have separate offices, we like to work together,� Sanchez said. “All of us have events throughout the year.�

Sanchez also said all the offices came together because since they all have a similar goal in serving the students around campus. “We really want the students who are not minorities to get involved with our centers, because it

really helps (...) show that we are open to everyone,� he said.

Amanda Moberly, a senior history major who works for NASS, worked at the event. “We do major events every semester — every house does — but this year we’re making a really big push to get students to come,�

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Restaurant owners open business, welcome UNC students RYAN LAMBERT news@uncmirror.com

On the corner of Eighth Avenue and 16th Street, a new restaurant has opened: AJ’s. The quiet eatery is owned by Kara Buss and Jose Pineda, who can both be found enjoying meals with customers.

“This is our fifth week in business; we’ve only been open since the end of July,” said Buss, who came up with the restaurant’s name by combining her children’s initials.

Buss and Pineda said they aim to bring international cuisine to the community. The menu boasts food from a wide variety of cultures, such as Italy, Mexico and France.

Additionally, the menu offers traditional meals, such as salads, cheeseburgers and ice

cream sundaes.

“When people see the menu, they think this is a formal place; it’s not,” said Pineda, who is the restaurant’s chef Buss said they want to give their patrons quality food at a reasonable price.

Claire Magee, a junior and elementary education major, said AJ’s succeeds in its international venture. Magee said she ate a piece of chicken cordon bleu smothered in a white wine and cheese sauce when she visited.

“This is the closest thing to authentic chicken cordon bleu I have had in the States,” she said.

This is high praise considering that Magee had just returned to UNC after a semester abroad in Tours, France.

Furthermore, AJ’s owners

Staffs inform new advocates Bash from Page 6 Moberly said. “We started with the nice big Street Bash just to get the word out there, and to let everyone know that we are cultural centers, but you don’t have to be of that minority to use them.”

Moberly said it’s essential for students on campus to get involved with their surroundings, not only to increase cultural awareness, but also to be successful students.

“Finding your own little niche is an important thing to doing well in

college,” she said. “We’re trying to provide that for students.”

Tambra Ragan, a senior English secondary education major, said she enjoyed the event and thought it was an important gathering.

“I am actually really sad that I didn’t know about the cultural centers earlier in my college career,” Ragan said. “Once I found out what they were and what they provide for students, I was kind of bummed because I’ve been missing out. I think that these are very important.”

This may end up being my new favorite restaurant.

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— Sarah McFarland, a junior elementary educa tion major have aspirations to accommodate University of Northern Colorado students.

“We want to be a hangout,” Buss said, as she described her desire to please UNC students.

AJ’s is equipped with free wireless Internet, and the owners said they encourage students to come to study and eat. Starting this week, AJ’s will host a karaoke night 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. every Wednesday. The venue also hosts

dance parties every Thursday and Friday night.

Both owners said student input is very important.

“We want to know what students want in terms of food or drinking games or whatever,” Buss said. “We need customer feedback.”

Buss also said they plan to broadcast UNC sports games over the radio and via TV. If one is not interested in sports, however, he or she may find entertainment or inspiration looking at the walls, which are full of artwork from local artists.

“We’re a local restaurant, and we want to support the local people,” Buss said.

Buss and Pineda said they would like UNC student artists to submit tasteful artwork to be displayed.

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AJ’s Restaurant, 725 16th St., opened its doors for business earlier this summer.

“If it’s good, we’ll try it,” Buss said.

Sarah McFarland, a junior studying elementary education had positive comments on her visit.

“This may end up being my new favorite restaurant,” McFarland said.

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UNC to host night of dancing, lounging

students involved and teach them that exciting things hapfor the UPC. “Students can go pen at UNC, too, if they become to a dance party and not have to involved.

Other events hosted earlier worry about alcohol or getting in the year by UPC included the in trouble.”

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We thought it would be a great way to kick off the new school year.

Students can go to a dance party and not have to worry about getting in trouble.

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UNC junior takes top spot in battle JORDAN FREEMYER sports@uncmirror.com

A leader has emerged as the race for UNC’s starting quarterback job enters the home stretch.

Junior Dylan Orms has taken the lead in the four-man quarterback battle that has taken place throughout the spring and fall since the graduation of former signal caller Bryan Waggener.

“Last week we had what we called separation week,” offensive coordinator Greg Peterson said.

“And Dylan was the most consistent moving the team, making the right decisions in the run game and pass game, and he was also the most accurate passer.”

Orms saw action in all 11 of the University of Northern Colorado’s games last season, completing 6-of10 passes for 96 yards and two touchdowns and carrying the ball 30 times for 155 yards.

“I suppose that gave him a lot of help, a lot of advantage over most of the guys,” head coach Scott

Downing said.

Orms said the opportunity to work with and learn from Waggener over the past two seasons has helped him significantly.

“I just tried to pick up little things from him along the way,” Orms said.

Downing said that Orms’ ability to make plays with his feet also gave him a leg up.

“He can take a busted play and make it into a positive play,” Downing said.

Orms said he relishes using his legs as a weapon from the quarterback position, but also wants to earn respect as a passer.

“I definitely want to come out and show that I can throw the ball,” Orms said. “I do like to run, and I’m going to use my feet to my advantage.”

Peterson said that while Orms is currently on top of the depth chart, that status is always subject to change.

“I told Dylan and the other guys today that while we may have a one,

two, three right now, we’re still competing for a starting spot,” Peterson said.

Junior wide receiver Patrick Walker said he has seen good things from all of the Bears’ quarterbacks this fall and will be happy to work with whoever is under center in the team’s opener against Adams State.

“I don’t care who it is,” Walker said. “As long as whoever it is gets us the win on Saturday.”

Sitting behind Orms on the depth chart is redshirt freshman Seth Lobato, a transfer from the University of Colorado.

Lobato has risen to the second spot on the depth chart despite joining the team in July and missing out on spring practices.

“When Seth came in we all just welcomed him into the family and tried to help him pick up the offense as fast as possible,” Orms said.

Peterson said that helping Lobato learn his offense was very in character for the unselfish group of UNC quarterbacks.

“When Seth showed up in July,

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Junior quarterback Dylan Orms throws a pass during the UNC football team’s practice earlier this week. Orms is on track to be the Bears’ starter this year after seeing limited playing time in 2009. all of a sudden he had four coaches helping him,” Peterson said. “I was very proud of our quarterbacks for doing that, they’re a bunch of unselfish guys.”

The Bears open the season at

1:35 p.m. on Sept. 4 against Adams State at Nottingham Field. Needless to say, Orms is excited for the game.

“I’ve been waiting for the fourth of September for the last three years,” Orms said.

Volleyball to face powers at SDSU tournament DAVID WILSON sports@uncmirror.com

The UNC women’s volleyball team starts the 2010 season on the road in San Diego for the San Diego State tournament.

The Bears will open Friday night against the Big East Conference pre-season favorites, the University of Cincinnati Bearcats. The Bearcats only lost one starter from their 2009 team that went 25-11, while the University of Northern Colorado

will return just two starters from last season.

Senior outside hitter Stephanie Niemer and junior outside hitter Missy Harpenau led the Bearcats in kills in 2009 and will be two big focal points for the Bears on the defensive side of the net. Niemer reached 541 kills last year, averaging out to 4.2 kills per set, while Harpenau was second on the Bearcats’ roster with 375 kills in 2009 respectively.

Being the underdog is not a new thing to the Bears who gave

the Washington Huskies, ranked sixth in the nation last year, all they could handle in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

“We’re excited to play Cincinnati this weekend, they are a very good team, and it’ll be a fun opportunity,” junior defensive specialist Amanda Arterburn said.

On Saturday, the Bears will play at noon against San Diego State before finishing the weekend against California State University Northridge at 6p.m.

Saturday night.

San Diego State is a young team, with nine freshmen and only two seniors on its roster, but is returning both its kill leaders from last season.

The Aztecs had four players reach the 200 kill mark, led by senior outside hitter Lauren Salisbury with 290 kills and sophomore mid-blocker Andrea Hannasch with 278 kills.

“We are just going to take each game at a time and not get too ahead of ourselves,” head coach Lyndsey Benson said.

The tournament this weekend will prove challenging for the Bears as they play their first meaningful games since Dec. 4 of last year.

“We are ready to start playing again,” sophomore outside hitter Kelley Arnold said.

“We’ve worked hard in practice and are excited to get out there this weekend.”

UNC’s first match will be at 6p.m. Friday against Cincinnati inside Peterson Gymnasium in San Diego.

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Defensive line returns intact

PARKER COTTON sports@uncmirror.com

There are still a few questions the UNC football team has not yet answered, but at least one thing will be certain when the new season starts in just over a week: The team will return all four starters on the defensive line from last season.

The linemen — junior Dominique Ceja, senior Ethan Davis, junior Nick Hernon and junior VJ Holmes — are the first line of defense for the University of Northern Colorado, and defensive coordinator Cody Deti said the team is fortunate to have them all back.

“It’s a big deal,” Deti said.

“There’s only one senior in the group, and I think when you have

experience up front, that provides you to be pretty good on defense.”

Davis has missed a portion of practices this offseason because of herniated discs in his back, but he said he’ll be ready to go for the first game. Davis also said he is very proud of how much the defensive line has advanced its level of play in the offseason.

“I feel like we’ve improved a lot because we’re not only learning from coach (defensive line coach Sean) Dunaway, we’re also teaching each other stuff,” Davis said.

Hernon said the progression didn’t come without hard work, though.

“Since I’ve been here, this is the best camp we’ve had,” Hernon said.

“I feel like every day, we came out with energy, we came out to work hard, just improve in every single

way we could. And from the d-ends to the d-tackles, we were all just doing our jobs and really getting after it.”

Hernon, who worked his way into the starting lineup last season, was voted to the Big Sky’s Preseason All-Conference Team this year, and although he said he feels honored to be named to the team, he knows that there is still a lot to prove.

“It was cool, and I felt good about it, but it was just a preseason, and I know I’ve gotta live up to that,” Hernon said. “But at the same time, all that stuff, it doesn’t really matter; I just want to win games.”

Davis said he has high expectations in his senior year, not only for himself, but for the entire defense, as well.

“I want to be the best in the league for sure and the best in the

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The UNC offensive and defensive lines get set to face off against one another in practice earlier this week. The defensive line returns all four starters from last season. country,” Davis said. “And I want our defensive line to be the best, also. I want our defense as a whole to be the best defense in the

league.”

The Bears start their season at 1:35 p.m on Sept. 4 against Adams State at Nottingham Field.

Bears look to continue win streak BEN WARWICK sports@uncmirror.com The UNC women’s soccer team will take the field Friday at home against the University of Idaho Vandals. The team has won two straight games to open the season, including a 2-0 shutout of in-state rival Air Force last Sunday afternoon at Jackson Stadium.

The University of Northern Colorado beat Idaho last year, 1-0, on a corner kick. Though Idaho fell

to UC Irvine last weekend, look for the Vandals to be a tough opponent.

“They’re similar to us in that they’ve gotten better each of the last couple years,” Bears head coach Tim Barerra said. “They’ll be deeper this year, so it’ll be a tough match.”

With a win against Idaho on Friday, the Bears will be halfway to totaling their win tally from a year ago. UNC has been steadily improving each season, and they want to continue that success.

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Feidler said she thinks the good start has the team feeling confident.

“We have two wins behind us,” Feidler said. “Just go in strong, keep everything up, keep our heads up, and keep doing what we’re doing.”

Junior Janelle Kramer and sophomore Danielle Birdsall were honored as Big Sky Conference defensive and offensive players of the week, respectively, for their performances against Wyoming and Air Force last week.

UNC looks to continue its strong start to 2010 on Friday at home against Idaho. The Bears have started 2-0 11 times in program history, and Barerra is looking for his 102nd win as a Bear.

As far as the rest of the season goes, Birdsall said she has one very clear goal in mind: “We want to win,” she said.

The Bears will try to make that happen at 7 p.m. Friday night at Jackson Soccer Stadium.

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Miscellaneous

Dissatisfaction with bus routes prompts Student Senate to make changes STAFF REPORT news@uncmirror.com

Amid student complaints that the new bus route was ineffective,

UNC’s Student Senate, along with the university and city of Greeley, have altered the route to make it more time efficient for students.

Most of the route is still the same;

however, every bus that departs from Candelaria will arrive at either Skinner Music Library or Frasier Hall. Every bus to leave Gunter Hall will arrive at Candelaria. A bus is

scheduled to service Candelaria about every four minutes and Gunter about every seven. Every other stop along the route will be serviced every eight minutes.

The new bus route was implemented as part of the Quality of Life Act, which passed during the last student elections. VanDriel said the new routes will be finalized soon.

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