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Sorority ball teaches about seriousness of Alzheimer’s JORDANE HARTBAUER news@uncmirror.com

Members of Sigma Kappa sorority, their families and members of the Greeley community gathered for the sorority’s annual charity Memory Ball in an effort to raise money for Alzheimer’s research.

Participants had the opportunity to bid on various raffles, including gift baskets that had been put together by members of Sigma Kappa and their families.

According to the Alzheimer’s Association website, there are 7,200 Alzheimer’s patients in Colorado and 5.3 million people nationwide who have been diagnosed since 1980. People diagnosed with Alzheimer’s typically only live for half as long as their

counterparts who have not been diagnosed with the disease.

Currently, no cure for this disease has been discovered.

One of Sigma Kappa’s philanthropies is Alzheimer’s disease research. Jessica Jones, a senior communication and psychology major and member of Sigma Kappa, was the head of the committee that put together the event.

“The idea of this event is that it is an opportunity to come together with our friends and family — to get to dress up and spend the night at a fancy dinner and just have a lot of fun with our friends and family while helping out a good cause,” Jones said. “The Memory Ball is a part of the Ultraviolet Campaign, which is a national

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Sigma Kappa campaign for Alzheimer’s research.”

In addition to the auction, there were several members from the Northeast Colorado Alzheimer’s Association present at the Memory Ball who spoke about the disease.

Marcia Shafer, the regional director of the Northeast Colorado Alzheimer’s Association’s Colorado Chapter, was one of the speakers who presented at the ball. Shafer informed attendees of facts and figures about Alzheimer’s and spoke about work the Alzheimer’s Association was doing to aid those who were affected by the disease.

“The Alzheimer’s Association offers many different services in terms of helping people to understand the disease itself,” Shafer said. “We offer support groups, informational classes and programs about Alzheimer’s.

Our goal is to educate people and get the word out that Alzheimer’s is a disease.”

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Sara Beam, a sophomore business major, and her date, Grant Robbins, a sophomore biology/pre-med major at Regis University, look at the items up for auction at the Memory Ball in the UC Ballrooms on Saturday night.

Alpha Hall, a member of the Eaton community, spoke about her experiences as a caregiver for her husband Roy, who is a late-stage Alzheimer’s patient.

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deal,” Hall said. “The thing is that Alzheimer’s is starting to hit young people, and this is affecting a lot of people who are trying to raise families. There really isn’t care or hope — you have to have hope to battle this disease.”

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nderage consumption of alcohol is a serious problem throughout the United States. Each year, millions of college-age students are exposed to the consumption of alcohol and unfortunately many college students’ lives are cut short.

Each year, thousands of young people, under the age of 21, die as a result of underage drinking.

According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s Underage Drinking Research Initiative, about 5,000 young people under the age of 21 die a year as a result of underage drinking; this includes about 1,900 deaths from motor vehicle crashes, 1,600 as a

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result of homicides, 300 from suicide, as well as hundreds from other injuries such as falls, burns and drowning. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in 2008, 31 percent of young drivers (15 to 20 years old) killed in crashes had a blood alcohol concentration of .01 grams per deciliter or higher; 25 percent had a BAC of .08 or higher.

Not only can underage consumption of alcohol cut your life short, it also affects other aspects of your life. Underage consumption of alcohol can damage nearly every organ of your body. It affects your brain and leads to poor judgment, slowed reflexes, memory lapses, or even blackouts. It affects your selfcontrol as it depresses the central nervous system. The consumption of alcohol lowers your inhibitions and impairs your judgment.

Drinking alcohol leads to risky behaviors, such as drunk driving or

unprotected sex. Consuming large amounts of alcohol at one time, “binge drinking,” can cause alcohol poisoning, which can cause a comatose state or kill you.

The Greeley Police Department has received an Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws grant from the Colorado State Liquor Division through the Colorado Department of Revenue. The Greeley Police Department has received monetary funds to pay police officers to work additional shifts enforcing underage drinking laws. The Greeley Police Department will work in cooperation with the University of Northern Colorado Police Department to conduct operations in which underage drinking laws will be enforced.

The Greeley Police Department will conduct numerous “Party Patrols” and other stings to enforce underage consumption/possession laws.

The Greeley Police Department will also work with the Responsible

Alcohol Retailers coalition of Weld County to identify and enforce violations pertaining to the illegal sale or service of alcohol to a minor. In addition, those individuals or groups hosting underage drinking parties will be targeted.

Each year hundreds of underage drinking citations or MIP’s are issued.

With the assistance of the Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws grant, this number is expected to dramatically increase. Before drinking, please ask yourself, “Is this really worth it?” The Greeley Police Department and the UNC Police Department are not out to get you. The statistics and the harm caused by underage drinking indicate strong enforcement action is needed.

Let’s come together before another person is injured or killed and stop the underage drinking of alcohol among our youth.

— Mark E. Stumpf is a detective of the Greeley Police Department.

Being poor doesn’t mean hoarding clothes you never wear Jessica GATES

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hen the first snow of the season blanketed the ground last week, I was like a little girl at Christmas time, glowing at the boxes of winter garb I could now rescue from the depths of my storage closet. Scarves in every color, warm pea coats and boots with the fur transformed my closet into a winter fashion show. I was sad to say goodbye to my summer attire. Parting with beloved clothing articles is especially hard, as any being with

more estrogen in her body than testosterone well knows.

It soon donned on me, however, that half of these outfits were either out of style or simply a size too small or too big; take your pick.

Being tossed in a box was the most action they had seen all year. Never one for hoarding, I quickly reassigned my mission to sifting through the piles separating the unwanted pieces. My bedroom began to form a new mountain range of clothing.

But I couldn’t help but feel a twinge of guilt at possibly owning so many clothes. A self-confessed shopaholic, I am always trying to expand my fashion repertoire.

Even as a “poor” college student, I always find ways to update my wardrobe every season.

The truth is, college students, myself included, fling around the word poor all too frequently.

We live like kings compared to the homeless people scattered on street corners and sketch parts of town. And good ole’ Greeley isn’t exempt from having a homeless population.

So, even though I might be hard on cash right now, I opted not to take my trash bags of slightly used clothes to Plato’s Closet. I did my research and found a few great options right here in G-town to put those clothes to better use.

The Weld County Clothing Bank is an easy option and is where most non-profit or homeless organizations in Greeley will refer you to take your clothes. As always, thrift stores are a great way to con-

tribute to the community because the clothes are guaranteed to be discounted and to benefit lowincome families. But my favorite discovery I made while surfing the web was www.pickupplease.org.

This non-profit benefits veterans and will actually pick up your boxes of second-hand goods for free, so not having a car is not an excuse.

When you put on your big winter jacket today to brace for the weather, remember those who don’t have the simplest luxury of warmth. I hope you’ll go through your closet and take action for those less fortunate than you.

—Jessica Gates is a senior journalism major and a weekly columnist for The Mirror.

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Burning out tobacco usage CARMEN BRADY news@uncmirror.com

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A “no smoking” sign is posted on the door of Guggenheim Hall. This week, the Center for Peer Education is hosting a variety of events raising awareness for tobacco and educating students on tobacco effects.

The Center for Peer Education, which operates under the Drug, Alcohol and Tobacco Education Program, hosts a number of programs each year focused on helping students make healthy choices.

This week is centered on tobacco use. DATE and CPE are hosting the annual Tobacco Awareness Week starting today and continuing through Friday, with support from other organizations such as the Counseling Center, Fitness and

Wellness and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Allies Resource Office, all of which focus on helping students obtain a healthy lifestyle.

Emily Hedstrom-Lieser, the program coordinator at the DATE office, said the week will provide a source of information to students who are curious about the affects of tobacco, but it is not to serve as a form of punishment for those who smoke.

“We want to bring some more light to the subject,” HedstromLieser said. “It is talked about a lot, but it’s important to

approach tobacco use from different angles to catch more people’s attention. It’s a student’s own choice to smoke or chew, but we want to make sure they’re making an educated choice.”

Organizers said the purpose of the week is to provide information on how smoking affects those who smoke as well as those around them, and also provide tips and ways for tobacco users to quit. There will be events throughout the week to help support these ideas, such as Feel the Sensation of Relaxation, Great American Smoke Out and a tobacco-oriented Bingo, all of which focus on raising awareness across the UNC campus.

Jessica Ellis, a peer educator and a senior elementary education major, said she wants to make sure students know there are lifelong repercussions to abusing tobacco and they do not just affect the smoker.

“We just want students to be healthy and to know what they’re doing,” Ellis said. “We also want to provide an environment where students want to learn, which is why we have things like the Bingo. We’re keeping this interesting and trying to make learning and understanding some of the harsher facts about tobacco more inviting.”

For more information on Tobacco Awareness Week and quitting smoking, visit www.unco.edu/date.

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Michael Richardson, a sophomore art major and climbing wall employee for the Campus Recreation Center, belays a climber during the Climbing 4 Cans competition Friday in the CRC. ed gift cards from local businesses, said Daniel Lawrence, coordinator of operations at the CRC. Lawrence said some of the businesses that donated were Taste of Philly, Jimmy John’s and Full Cycle.

Vincent Seelbach, a junior chemistry and music major, said he enjoyed the opportunity to climb. Although Seelbach said he did not make it past the beginner level, he said he still had a lot of fun trying.

“It makes you feel good to know you are donating to a good cause,” Seelbach said.

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The Campus Recreation Center hosted a climbing competition benefiting the Weld Food Bank Friday evening.

This was the 12th annual “Climbing 4 Cans” event CRC hosted. Competitors entered the competition by a donation of four canned goods. The food was immediately delivered to the Weld Food Bank, which always accepts donations, but during the holiday season, demand for food is greater.

“Students had an interest to do a competition and decided to do a little community service,” said Vincent Carter, assistant director of Facility and Operations at the CRC. Carter said when the event first started there were only about 15 participants. However, in the following years about 50-60 people each year have climbed to help hunger. The racquetball court next to the climbing wall was stocked with food to be donated, a couch and a big screen TV for students who needed a break from the contest.

The winners of the event were given one of several donat-

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Bears start season with blowout win DAVID WILSON sports@uncmirror.com

It wasn’t always pretty, but the UNC men’s basketball team earned its first victory of the season Friday night with a 93-52 blowout over NAIA foe Tabor College at Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion.

The win was not only the first for the University of Northern Colorado (1-0) this season, but it was the first victory for head coach B.J. Hill.

“Any time we can get a win I’m not going to complain too much,” Hill said. “I’m happy as can be for my first win but we just need to keep getting better.”

Tabor College (2-2) scored the first points of the night, but after being tied at 4, the Bears went on a 28-0 run over the following 12 minutes before the Blue Jays

found the bottom of the net again. UNC forced 30 turnovers on the night, 18 of them in the first half against the Bears’ fullcourt pressure defense.

“That press has been in the works for years now, and we like using it,” junior forward Mike Proctor said. “Pressing is one of my favorite things to do as a basketball player.”

Proctor posted a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds in 19 minutes.

UNC was led by senior guard Devon Beitzel with 17 points, while sophomore Elliott Lloyd finished with 16 on 5-of-9 shooting in his first start as the Bears’ point guard.

The Bears led 49-13 at half as they held Tabor to a 23 percent shooting performance and snatching 10 of their 15 steals in the first 20 minutes of play.

However, Hill said he was not happy with the team’s defense in the second half, as the Bluejays shot 53 percent in the second half and scored 39 of their 53 points after halftime.

“It’s natural to let things slide when you get up that big,” Hill said. “I am pleased with what we did in the first half; I’ve just been preaching mental maturity to these guys, and I don’t think we followed the game plan in the second half.”

UNC will take the lessons learned from the win and put it toward its next matchup against the University of Wyoming, which comes into Greeley on Tuesday.

“Tuesday’s game is definitely going to be a bigger test,” Beitzel said. “We got to come back to work on Sunday and prepare for Wyoming.”

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UNC sophomore guard Elliott Lloyd brings the ball up the floor in the first half of the Bears’ 93-52 win over Tabor College on Friday. Lloyd scored 16 points and had three assists in the win.

Football comes back to beat PSU in season finale STAFF REPORT sports@uncmirror.com

The UNC football team had two touchdowns and two interceptions in the fourth quarter and held on to win, 35-30, at Portland State, Saturday.

The University of Northern Colorado (3-8, 2-6) started the fourth quarter trailing 30-21, but junior wide receiver Patrick Walker ripped off a 77-yard touchdown run on the first play of the quarter to make it 3028. After a Vikings’ three-and-out, senior running back Andre Harris had a 57-yard touchdown, his second of the game, to make it 35-30.

The teams punted on each of the

next four possessions, and the Bears’ defense came up big to protect the lead.

On first down from the Bears’ 41yard line with less than two minutes left, Vikings’ senior quarterback Tygue Howland had his pass intercepted by UNC junior safety Chuks Nweke . The Bears took a minute off the clock on their ensuing possession and had to punt. On the next possession, Howland’s pass from the Bears’ 28 was intercepted by junior cornerback Brandon Owens in the end zone with 10 seconds left to seal UNC’s second Big Sky win of the season.

The win gave UNC two Big Sky wins in a season for the first time.

The Vikings had a 10-6 lead after the first quarter and traded field goals with the Bears to start the second quarter before PSU recorded two touchdowns to take a 27-9 lead.

The Bears got the ball back with four seconds left and junior quarterback Dylan Orms tossed up a 43yard Hail Mary pass, which was tipped and then caught by sophomore tight end Doug Steele at the 3yard line. Steele broke two tackles and dove in for a touchdown. The extra point was missed and PSU led 27-15 at halftime.

UNC forced two 3-and-outs in the third quarter before Harris punched in a 1-yard touchdown run to make it 27-21. The only points

PSU got in the second half came on a field goal on the next possession.

The Bears finished with 497 total yards on the day, including Harris’ career-high 167 rushing yards. The total surpassed his previous careerhigh of 154 set in the season-opener against Adams State. Sophomore wide receiver Jace Davis caught four passes for 80 yards, just eight yards shy of recording 1,000 receiving yards for the season.

The UNC defense stepped up considerably in the second half to help the comeback. The Vikings had 373 yards of offense in the first half but just 107 yards to go with six punts in the second half.

UNC’s 17 seniors were sent off

on a positive note as the Bears won in the final week of the season for the first time since 2003.

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Scoring 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Score UNC 6 9 6 14 35 PSU 10 17 3 0 30 Team Stat Comparison UNC PSU 17 First downs 21 497 Total yards 480 171 Passing yards 250 326 Rushing yards 230 7-80 Penalties-Yards 5-46 1 Turnovers 3 26:05 Time of possession 33:55 Individual Leaders Passing ATT-Cmp YDS UNC- D. Orms 21-9 171 PSU- T. Howland 35-20 250 Rushing ATT YDS UNC- A. Harris 22 167 PSU- C. McCaffrey 33 226 Receiving REC YDS UNC- J. Davis 4 80 PSU- J. Monahan 5 82

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Volleyball drops crucial match to Portland State DAVID WILSON sports@uncmirror.com

The chance for a Big Sky Conference regular season championship is all but gone for the UNC women’s volleyball team as it dropped a heartbreaking fivegame match to Portland State Saturday night at Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion.

A win would have sealed the regular-season title for the University of Northern Colorado (22-6, 13-2), but with the loss the Bears have to win their last match of the season against Northern Arizona, and the Vikings (18-8, 13-2) have to lose their final match against Sacramento State, as PSU holds the head-to-head tiebreaker.

“There’s definitely a chance, but we would have loved to finish it ourselves,” senior outside hitter Ashley Lichtenberg said.

Lichtenberg finished with a match-high 25 kills and had a

staggering .564 hitting percentage in her last match at ButlerHancock.

The Bears dropped game one, 25-21, as they looked sluggish defensively to begin things. The Vikings exploited the middle of the Bears’ defense with soft dump shots while defensively they held UNC’s kill leader, sophomore outside hitter Kelley Arnold, to just one kill on 11 attempts and the rest of the Bears to a .189 attacking percentage in game one.

UNC took games two and three thanks in part to the blocking up front. The Bears only had one block in game one, but had six team blocks in the second and third games. Junior defensive specialist Amanda Arterburn finished with a career-high 34 digs as she came up big defensively.

“It just felt like everything was flowing for me; I could really see the ball well tonight,” Arterburn said. “The scouting reports and everything we worked on all week

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The teams were tied at 21 late in game four, but the Vikings peeled off the last four points of the game to take it 25-21, and the momentum carried into the decisive game five as the Vikings took it 15-9.

Though the outcome was not what the Bears wanted, and one of the team’s goals, a regular season championship, might be gone, UNC is looking at the bigger picture.

“There certainly is motivation to prove something to Portland State, and I have no concern that our team is going to be ready when we play Portland State again in two weeks,” coach Lyndsey Benson said. “The ultimate goal is the tournament championship.

What hurts is we won’t get to host next year, but that’s a reward for next year’s team, anyways. It doesn’t really matter for this 2010 team if we are the (No. 2) seed.”

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UNC senior outside hitter Julie Stephenson serves the ball in the volleyball team’s 3-2 loss to Portland State. Stephenson had 12 kills, nine digs and a service ace in the losing effort.

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Women’s hoops splits weekend BEN WARWICK sports@uncmirror.com

The music heard in ButlerHancock Sports Pavilion Sunday afternoon indicated the night was going to be a good night. For the UNC women’s basketball team, such a statement could not have been truer.

Though the 79-56 final score did not indicate trouble, it looked at first as if Air Force would overpower the University of Northern Colorado all game. The Falcons dominated early, leading by as much as 9 at one point in the first half. The second half, however, was all Bears, as UNC led by as many as 27 after halftime.

Sophomore forward Lauren Oosdyke led the Bears’ offensive attack, racking up a team-best 15 points, with seven rebounds and

three assists. Oosdyke also shot 7for-10 from the free throw line.

Sunday’s game wasn’t the only drama at Butler-Hancock this weekend. The women’s basketball team also lost an overtime battle to South Dakota on Friday, 62-57.

The Bears let a 54-47 lead dissolve in the final 2:15 of Friday’s loss.

Oosdyke had a team-best 19 points and nine rebounds against the Coyotes.

Junior guard Kaisha Brown said she was happy with the team’s ability to bounce back from a tough loss.

“We played as a team very well and I think going from one day to the next, we bounced back very well and we just kind of put it in the past,” Brown said.

Oosdyke wasn’t the only contributing factor to the turnaround,

however. Brown had 9 points and 4 rebounds against South Dakota, and 12 points with 6 rebounds against Air Force. Senior guard Courtney Stoermer had 6 points and 5 rebounds against South Dakota, and 14 points with 3 rebounds Sunday against Air Force.

UNC head coach Jaime White said she was very pleased by the team’s overall performance this weekend.

“Lauren (Oosdyke) I think really put the team on her back the first couple of minutes,” White said. “She was the one scoring, going hard to the basket. Courtney (Stoermer) has always been a staple defensively, and Kaisha (Brown) has really shown offensively what she can do and what she means to this team.”

As for the rest of this young season, Oosdyke and the team is think-

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UNC senior guard Courtney Stoermer begins a drive to the lane in the Bears’ 62-57 overtime loss to South Dakota on Friday.

Stoermer had 6 points and 5 rebounds against the Coyotes. ing positively and focusing on one very specific goal.

“We’re pumped; we’re ready to go,” Oosdyke said. “We just need to

make sure we work hard, and we’re going to do great in conference.

That’s our goal, to win a Big Sky championship.”