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UNC will celebrate its annual academic excellence week with ceremonies and activities recognizing the achievements of faculty and staff . Research Day, an event where both undergraduate and graduate students can present their research, will be held from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on Th ursday in the University Center. For the full schedule of events, visit unco.edu/aew

UNC pranked its followers on social media on April Fools Day by claiming that a live bear would be moving to campus in the coming months. Followers who clicked on the accompanying “live feed” of the bear were greeted with a banner admitting that the announcement was a joke. Many students, including our own editor-in-chief, were fooled.

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Student Senate elections will be held this week, as voters select the cabinet members for the 2016-2017 Senate, as well as the councilors who will represent their academic colleges. Voting will begin on Tuesday, and will be available on Ursa and in the University Center until Th ursday. For the full story, see page 2.

Th e City of Evans is accepting applications for the following seasonal positions: PT Day Camp Counselor (Mon.-Fri., 7 a.m.–6 p.m. shift s, $8.31/hr.-$10/hr.) and Parks Maintenance Worker (Mon.-Fri. 7 a.m.-3:30 p.m., $10.00/hr.-$12.00/hr.). Apply on-line at: evanscolorado.gov

A poster encouraging inclusive language was vandalized with racist comments last week. Th e poster was part of the “Language Matters” movement, a campaign by the Bias Response Team intended to spark conversation about speech on campus. President Kay Norton sent an email to UNC community members condemning the action, and the vandalized poster was replaced by one criticizing the racist comments.

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Th e University of Northern Colorado’s women’s ten-nis team took on the Sacramento State Hornets on Sat-urday at the Butler-Hancock tennis courts, and aft er six singles matches and three doubles, the Bears fell short of the win. Only one match went to three sets, and that was junior Marissa Baca’s match. Baca won the fi rst set 6-2, then was defeated 6-1 and 6-2 respectively. UNC’s doubles team of junior Beth Coton and fresh-man Remi Immler was defeated six games to one by the Hornets’ Jennifer Ong and Ana Loaiza Equivias, but the pair was strong at the net, which is how you win doubles matches, according to Immler.

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Junior Beth Coton leaps to serve

the ball to of Sacramento State’s

player during Saturday’s match at

the Butler Hancock tennis courts.

Photo by Alex Nunley | The Mirror

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MONDAY 4/4All DayFall, Summer Registration OpensUrsa

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Voting for the 2015-2016 UNC Student Senate will begin this Tuesday, April 5, and continue un-til Th ursday. Students can vote on their Ursa accounts or in the Uni-versity Center, and results will be released on Friday. Voters choose the cabinet, which consists of a student body presi-dent, a student trustee, a director of fi nance and a director of student af-fairs, as well as councilor(s) for their academic colleges. Cabinet members accepted questions from current cabinet members and audience members regarding their platforms and qualifi cations at a debate style town hall meeting last Th ursday. “It’s great that students want to get involved in student govern-ment,” said UNC President Kay Norton, who attended the town hall. “I appreciate that.” Of the available positions, only two have more than one candidate running for election. Tyson Th ornburg, a junior political science major who cur-rently serves as a councilor for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Brandon Miller, a junior majoring in business ad-ministration who currently serves as the Senate’s student trustee, are competing to be student body president, who serves as the chair-person of the Senate’s meetings and as the offi cial representative of Student Senate. “I’ve seen the impact that Stu-dent Senate can have on campus, and I really want to make the im-pact larger, because I’ve seen its potential,” Th ornburg said. “So I want to help us meet that poten-tial, because our university is only as strong as our students.” Th ornburg said he wants to

promote accountability among the administration and be an advocate for students. He explained he will try to accomplish that by schedul-ing a monthly meeting with Presi-dent Norton and expanding the current system of town hall meet-ings, where students can voice their concerns. “If students don’t feel like they can make their voices heard or tell us what they want, then we’re not doing our job,” Th ornburg said. Miller, the current student trustee, believes his access to Presi-dent Norton and other trustees gained from his time on the board gives him an advantage. “Th e main reason that I think I can get something done in there is that I have had interaction with them before,” Miller said of the board of trustees. “I know how they react to things, how they take things and I know who to talk to about what.” Miller wants to make the Senate more approachable to students and eliminate the perception that they cannot be approached with issues. Th ere’s more to the Senate than a group of students wearing suits, according to Miller. “Th at’s really intimidating, and it’s not really symbolic of what [the Senate] really is,” Miller said. Th e student trustee represents the student body on the Board of Trustees—UNC’s governing body. Two candidates are running to take that position for the 2015-2016 academic year. “The student trustee position really popped out to me because it’s the chairperson of all clubs and organizations on campus,” said Michael Kelly, a sophomore business administration major currently representing the Mon-fort College of Business as a councilor. “You also get to sit on the Board of Trustees, and really having the opportunity to affect and influence and really engage and empower students is the rea-son I’m running.”

Ashton Atmore, a junior hu-man services major currently serv-ing as a councilor for the College of Natural and Health Sciences, is running against Kelly for the posi-tion of student trustee. “With my active involvement in a variety of organizations on and off the University of North-ern Colorado campus, my back-ground in leadership and organi-zational forms and current duties with Student Senate, I can step into this role and immediately be-gin the obligatory work set before me,” Atmore said. The other two positions for which elections are being held are uncontested. Anthony Scaduto, a junior double majoring in political sci-ence and economics, is running for the director of fi nance posi-tion. He served as a councilor for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences alongside Th orn-burg this year. Th e director of fi nance is re-sponsible for allocating funds to student organizations, a process that Scaduto wants to refi ne. “One thing we’re dealing with this year is making sure that ev-eryone, all the organizations, un-derstand how the process works, how to apply for it and being a little bit more clear in what the programs are required to have in order to be funded by the [Stu-dent Program Allocation] pro-cess," Scaduto said. Emily Booth, a junior audiol-ogy and speech language sciences major, who served as a councilor for the College of Educational and Behavioral Sciences, is running uncontested for the position of di-rector of student aff airs. “I love being on Student Sen-ate right now,” Booth said. “Aside from our super cute matching jackets, it’s so fun to be part of the university in a bigger way that does things to help the student body. I just want to continue doing that in a higher position.”

Senate elections pick up steamVoting for cabinet positions, academic college councilors begins Tuesday

STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT

CANDIDATES: Brandon Miller, junior business administration major, current Student Trustee

Tyson Th ornburg, junior political science major, current councilor for College of Humanities and Social Sciences

STUDENT TRUSTEE

funds to student events

CANDIDATES: Ashton Atmore, junior human services major, current councilor for College of Natural and Health Sciences

Michael Kelly, sophomore business administration major, current councilor for Monfort College of Business

DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

funds events put on by student organizations

CANDIDATE:Anthony Scaduto, junior double majoring in political science and economics, current councilor for College of Humanities and Social Sciences

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CANDIDATE:Emily Booth, junior audiology and speech language sciences major, current councilor from College of Educational and Behavioral Sciences

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By Mikhala [email protected]

“Do you know what is written in Greek on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi?” asked David Thomas, assis-tant professor of management, of his Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship class, shortly before it was dismissed. “Know thyself.” Though he has a reputation for his difficult classes, Thomas can often be found with a hoard of students crowd-ed around, waiting to discuss their thoughts with him. His office, in Kepner Hall, is a fair size and is laid out pretty simply. Thomas sits behind a wooden desk with a computer, and a single chair, for guests, faces him—that chair is almost always occupied. Thomas’s naturally booming voice coupled with his high level of confi-dence can make him seem intimidat-ing at first, but he always encourages his students to speak up in class and to never feel nervous or ashamed about expressing what they think or feel. Thomas’s Fundamentals of Entre-preneurship class revolves around discussions rather than lectures, and while he’s serious about teaching, he enjoys adding a sense of humor to the class discussions and says it’s one of the trials of teaching. “I think the real challenge is how students respond to your curriculum and your ability to communicate that stuff in a sensible, entertaining kind of way,” Thomas said, shaking his head. “I think the days of droning on with PowerPoints—I think those days are gone for your generation. You don’t learn that way. You learn by doing. And you learn by thinking.” Junior recreation, tourism and hos-pitality major Kira Mayberry, who is in Thomas’s Fundamentals of Entrepre-neurship class, said she enjoys this teach-ing style, adding that Thomas makes the class fun by holding discussions that are entertaining, but also informative. Thomas also adds words of moti-vation when he speaks to the class, encouraging his students to be more confident in themselves and not be afraid to speak up or challenge other people in life. And though he has high confidence in himself, Thomas doesn’t draw this from putting others down like some professors do, but rather, from build-ing them up.

He tries to do for students what was done for him—be their mentor. His mentors and others he met along the way helped motivate him in the pur-suit of his passions and he wants to do that for his students. “When I started working, I started a couple of businesses and I fell into a great network of guys and gals, and they encouraged me to keep doing it,” Thomas said. Later on, some of his mentors en-couraged Thomas to get his doctor-ate’s degree when he was thinking about teaching. After obtaining his undergraduate degree in communications at the Uni-versity of Northern Colorado, Thomas went on to get a master’s degree in management at Regis University and a doctorate’s degree in Education Hu-man Resource Studies at Colorado State University. Now, he has come full circle and has been teaching at the school he first studied at for the last 10 years. Between college and his career now, Thomas has worked countless different jobs, first starting businesses, then sell-ing them, then working for “Corporate America,” which he said allowed him to live a lifestyle he would not have been able to had he stayed in small business. “My favorite job was probably...” Thomas said, followed by a long pause. He put his head on his hand and looked off thoughtfully. “God, they were all so good.” Ultimately, Thomas said his favorite job was probably the one he has now, closely followed by a previous job run-ning companies out of London. “I loved that,” he said about his in-ternational job. “I loved managing all those companies. That was really excit-ing, and it was a real adrenaline rush, but it satisfied a different side of me. This [teaching] satisfies a whole other new side of me, which I really enjoy. I love seeing students. I love seeing them wake up to the possibilities. And the awesome responsibility that edu-cators have to making that happen, I think, is underestimated and forgotten by a lot of professors. A lot of them have been doing this too long.” Thomas’s excitement and passion for his students is apparent in the way he speaks, and Mayberry noted that as well. “He is one of the few teachers that I have had at this school so far that has really taught me something and made me believe that I can do better and dream bigger,” she said. Junior recreation, tourism and hos-

pitality major Ashlie Allen agreed. “I think he is a great teacher,” she said. “He challenges us and makes us think outside the box. Many teachers really don’t do that.” Thomas said he was greatly influ-enced by a professor he had when study-ing at UNC, which could be attributed to his love of inspiring students now. “I still have students contact me to this day,” Thomas said. “I probably have 20 students that have graduated over the last seven years that I still work with. And they come see me, and it’s really a very rewarding experience. To see young people grow, from their 20’s into their 30’s and they’re still asking you ques-tions—that’s a great, great experience.” Recognizing students and their achievements is common for Thom-as, and when a student accomplishes something, in or outside of the class-room, he congratulates them while he is taking role. He also takes notice of what else stu-dents have going on in their lives. “Miss Krochta,” he says, looking up from his binder to see who is present. “Ah, yes, our journalist.” Outside of his work, Thomas said he enjoys spending time with his fam-ily and getting away from the hustle and bustle of the rest of the world, living just north of Fort Collins in a secluded area. “It’s the serenity, the quietness, the

clean air,” Thomas said. “It gives me a chance to recharge... I’ve always been big into meditation and contempla-tion. I’ve always been big into that. I think that’s letting your subconscious go to work for you. It’s really the key.” Despite his love for the business world, he is no stereotypical “wolf of wall street,” obsessed with power or money. “This is going to sound really weird,” Thomas said, his voice growing deep and serious. “I think it’s really im-portant to spend a lot of time with those that you love and you’re close to, I think that’s—” Thomas cleared his throat. “I’ve known too many people that have wasted their lives chasing a dollar... so I’ve never done that.” When asked what advice he likes to impart on students, Thomas said, “I think you’ve got to prepare yourself for an uncertain future, and invest yourself in learning. I don’t care, follow your passions, whatever they are. This whole thing about being happy and comfort-able is overrated. If that’s your goal in life, you’re going to be disappointed. So be competitive, push yourself, grow constantly and improve your life and those around you. And that takes hard work. So don’t be afraid of hard work.” Finally, his voice lightened again and he grinned. “Don’t get a dog when you graduate. Don’t get a new car. Don’t get a new credit card. Don’t get married.”

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The National Institute of Health has announced that it will be supporting a study at UNC about how marijuana re-lates to academic motivation and per-formance. Over the next three years, Kristina Phillips and Michael Phillips, professors of psychology, and Trent Lalonde, a professor of applied statis-tics and research methods, will study 150 UNC students who use marijuana.

According to Kristina Phillips, the application process for the study was extensive. The main component of the application was writing a proposal based on scientific research. This in-cluded reviewing past research on the topic, what gaps there may be in the current literature and considerations about how the study would attend to those gaps. They also had to discuss data that they had already collected on the topic. The Phillips and Lalonde have hy-pothesized that the more cravings students have for marijuana, the more

they will use it—impacting their focus and academic work. Kristina Phillips explained that there has been almost no prior research on the consequenc-es of heavy marijuana use in relation to academics, even though a number of studies on adolescents have shown there to be an inverse relationship be-tween the two. “Being that high school and college students differ on some very impor-tant factors, it is critical to study col-lege samples as well,” she said. A UNC student, who asked to re-main anonymous, said heavy smok-

ing did not affect his motivation. “I’ve been [smok-ing marijuana] functionally from a young age,” he said. “I went to school and stuff when I was in high school all the time, and got

high, and it didn’t affect the grades I was getting on tests and stuff. General-ly I smoke to get a nice base level high.” Besides the relationship between academic performance and marijua-na usage, the team is also looking into whether or not marijuana induces anxiety and depression. Phillips said that the data is mixed, finding that some individuals are more likely to experience anxiety and depression, while others are not. In general, there has not been as much research on marijuana in relation to psychological concerns as there has been with other drugs. One of the benefits of this study in particular, especially when trying to discern the relationship between marijuana and psychological conse-quences of heavy use, is that they are looking at “in-the-moment” usage, by using text messaging. Another UNC student said she does feel anxious when smoking marijuana. “Sometimes when I smoke it feels

like I’m dying,” she said. “Really bad panic attacks.” The first anonymous student said that he does not smoke to change emotions he’s already feeling. “If you’re upset, if you’re in a place where you don’t feel good, pot doesn’t help,” he said. “Like, if I’m feeling in a good mood and I smoke weed, yeah it makes me feel great, but if I’m sad and lonely and I decide to smoke, I’m still sad and lonely, but now I’m high.” Students who are part of the study will respond to questions asked by researchers in real time by texting back answers. “It’s to get closer to the moment of a person’s experience, rather than ask-ing about behaviors that may have oc-curred some time ago,” Phillips said of the texting system. By using text messaging to get re-sponses, Phillips and her colleagues are able to match instances of things like depression or anxiety directly to marijuana use.

Marijuana study to utilize text messagingResearchers will collect psychological information from UNC smokers in real time


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MONDAY 4/410 a.m.-4 p.m. (Continued through April 27)2016 UNC Juried Student Art ExhibitionGuggenheim Hall - Mariani Gallery

9-11 p.m. Open Mic NightUniversity Center - Fireside Lounge

WEDNESDAY 4/611:30 a.m.-1 p.m.Well Rounded Scholar Lecture Series: Embracing the History of ArtCandelaria Hall - Room 1375

7-9 p.m. (Continued through Thursday)International Film Series: Killing them SafelyMichener Library - Lindou Auditorium

THURSDAY 4/76:15-7:30 p.m. Graduate Student Recital: Jesse Pierson, pianoKepner Hall - Milne Auditorium (Room 2050)

8-10 p.m. UNC Student Composers ConcertKepner Hall - Room 90 (Studio B)

FRIDAY 4/84-6 p.m.Art Exhibit Reception: Elaine Krupnick - “Between Florida & Colorado”Michener Library - Mari Michener Gallery

SATURDAY 4/96-10:30 p.m. 25th Annual Lu’auUniversity Center - Ballrooms

7-9:30 p.m. (Also Sunday 2-4:30 p.m.)Student-Written Play: Herself a ScriptureMichener Library - Lindou Auditorium

By Trevor [email protected]

Wearing a green hat with a bright yellow flower, Leo Batlle danced the part of a clown in love at a perfor-mance last week called “Orchesography.” Batlle, a senior musical theatre major, and three others, turned Big Head Todd and the Monsters’ “Please Don’t Tell Her” into a short romantic comedy. As Batlle’s char-acter showed his love for another clown, played by Chloe Miller, a freshman acting major, the performance’s humor was lined with romantic longing. Batlle said that the clown costume freed him up more as a dancer. “Sometimes dancers are notorious for having ‘dancer face’ and being very serious and intense,” he said. “I think the clown costumes kind of lightened everything up and allowed us to tell more of a story through acting and not just movement.” The College of Performing and Visual Arts and the School of Theatre Arts and Dance followed through on their promise for an “up-close-and-personal” dance per-formance with “Orchesography.” The audience could not only hear the dancers’ feet, but they could even feel the breeze left in their wake as performers rushed by in Nor-ton Theatre.

“Orchesography” got its name from a dance manual written in 1589 by Thoinot Arbeau. Despite its name-sake, the performance was anything but classical. Choreographers pulled music from several decades and genres. The first dance piece, “Songs in ‘B,’” had music from five different decades. Starting with the Beatles’ “Because,” the dance quickly moved from slow, expressive movements to a playful rock and roll dance set to David Bowie’s “Reb-el, Rebel.” UNC alumnus Jacob Mora choreographed the piece after Bowie’s death in January. “At first I started off with Led Zeppelin and Fleet-wood Mac, these old classic rock songs, and then Bowie died,” Mora said. “The thought process was like, ‘Does everyone know who Bowie is? Does ev-eryone know his work?’ So I tried to make something more accessible.” Mora said the choreography was an enjoyable exer-cise in storytelling. “I normally do pretty heavy dance work, and this was just fun,” he said. “I wanted to go out there and tell a series of stories, vignettes, five different perspectives.” Ending with James Blake’s “Retrograde” from 2013, “Songs in ‘B’” wasn’t the only dance piece to blur time. “Perimeter” began silently before a slow song made the dancers’ bright outfits seem like markers of spring. As neo-tango music by Bajofondo came on, the bright col-ors seemed more like markers of a discotheque.

Nicole McManis, a sophomore design technology major, stage managed “Orchesography.” McManis said the variety of the show eluded even her until the per-formances came together. “You never really realize how different their styles are until you come to tech week, and we finally run through it all together,” she said. “Each rehearsal was separate from each other so everything just really came together in the end.” The stage was filled with motion as dancers expressed different instruments and vocalizations. With moments where the talent reached across the entire stage, no indi-vidual viewing of “Orchesography” could have been the same as another’s. The unexpected qualities of “Orchesography” climaxed as a spotlight shone on a dancer in a corner with her back turned to the audience. Shaking her hips to Queen and David Bowie’s “Under Pressure,” she eventually turned around to reveal a smiling mask of President Obama. Four other dancers appeared all wearing the same mask, earning thick gales of laughter from the audi-ence. Giggles continued as dancers snapped in time at the end, raising their fingers in the shape of a V. McManis said the masks were the idea of director Monte Black. “Honestly, it’s not necessarily like a big political statement, he just wanted to see five dancing Obamas running around the space.”

Wonder and whimsy in Orchesography

By Trevor [email protected]

Speaking at the Univer-sity Center Wednesday night, transgender Latina activist Jennicet Gutiérrez explained she was the only one among her eight siblings born without the assistance of a midwife. “When my mother’s con-tractions started, she sent my brother and sister to get the midwife,” Gutiérrez said. “However, by the time she had arrived, I had already been born. So my birth is where my journey and struggle for liber-ation began. And now, as then, I cannot wait.” The GLBTA Resource Of-fice invited Gutiérrez after she made national headlines for interrupting a speech by Presi-dent Obama at a White House LGBT pride event. Those who ignored what she had to say labelled her a “heckler,” but Gutiérrez’s goal

was challenging Obama to re-lease the LGBTQ immigrants from detention. Though the White House audience applauded Obama for his dismissive response, a UNC audience applauded Gutiérrez for her bravery. Holly Brimberry, a sophomore sociology major, saw a video of the interruption for the first time Wednesday night. “You don’t really get much done by being quiet, so I think it’s encouraging to see even someone who could potential-ly be endangering themselves to have the courage to still come out and do something like that,” Brimberry said. “It was inspiring for someone who maybe would be less en-dangered by that.” Gutiérrez said the urgen-cy of the issues facing un-documented LGBTQ people drowned out any worry of re-spectability. “Because the issues that we are facing are life and death, if I’m going to be concerned with respectability politics, change

will never come,” she said. “Even without being respect-ful, there’s still so much hap-pening. So for me as an activ-ist, it wasn’t a priority.” Gutiérrez’s activism extends far beyond her well-known interruption. She is also a co-founder of Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement, a queer immigrant rights group. Last year, Familia staged a protest outside of a Santa Ana jail they said discriminated against queer men and trans-gender women. Abi McGaha Miller, a se-nior Spanish and anthropolo-gy double major, said that the video of the united protesters stuck with her. “That kind of visual repre-sentation of this collaborative effort is really inspiring and gives me hope,” Miller said. Brimberry said she found the way Gutiérrez speaks for multiple identities built on that collaboration. “I think it’s cool how unify-ing of an event it is,” she said. “It doesn’t matter if transgen-

der issues are what you are passionate about, or immigra-tion issues, race issues or gen-der issues. There are so many different people in here who could connect to her story from a different angle.” Gutiérrez said she hopes to inspire students to organize and mobilize. “We all have a role to play in the liberation for our com-munities. We all have to be

able to listen with an open mind and an open heart,” she said, ending with dialog on the struggles ahead, but also the peace to come. “Once we do that, we can start connecting whatever struggles people are dealing with and come together as a community after we engage in very difficult conversations.” The road ahead is long but crucial for liberation.

Gutiérrez demands LGBT liberation

Free T-shirts promoting “Trans Rights are Human Rights” were offered to those who attended LGBTA’s Transgender Night of Visibility Wednesday night in the University Center. Photo by Maeve Widmann | The Mirror


By Mikhala [email protected]

Comedy has been around since the beginning of time, and in recent years, the inter-net has blown up with comedy stars coming out of the wood-work and onto the stage. Stand-up comedy shows are a hit on services like Net-flix, Saturday Night Live has become a household name and more and more people are buying tickets to watch live comedy shows. These shows can range from sketch comedy to stand up, or—in the case of the University of Northern Colorado’s own comedy group, Chaos—im-provisational theatre. Chaos is made up of 12 students from UNC, most of whom are studying theatre, al-though it is not a requirement.

These students perform dif-ferent scenes throughout the show, but rather than having lines prepared, they make the dialogue up on the spot. Improvisational theatre, or improv, is a type of show in which the scene being per-formed, including the plot, di-alogue or story, is being made up on in real time. Often, im-prov groups will get the audi-ence involved, asking them for a setting, a plot or even simply a word to begin their scene. Chaos does just that. And the shows the group does serve as entertainment for the audi-ence, but also as a learning ex-perience for its performers. “It really strengthens my skills in general as a person and in other areas of my life,” said Morgan Overley, a junior vocal performance major and the only member of Chaos who is not in the theatre pro-gram. “As a musician, I find

performing significantly easi-er now, and I know I can han-dle situations if they change quickly, which is nice.” And although many would agree that improv is not easy, Overley says it’s not as hard as everyone thinks. “I think it definitely takes a certain kind of personality, but I never thought it was some-thing I would be good at until I tried it,” she said. “And even then, I’m still improving and working on it all the time. But the more you practice—you’d be amazed by how quickly you can come up with stuff when you let yourself.” Overley said allowing her-self to come up with things on the spot is one of her favorite parts about being in the group, and that it serves as a relaxing activity, not a stressful one. “You just have to go with your thoughts and go quickly and make decisions quickly,”

she said. “It’s such a good re-lease because it’s one of the very few things in my life I don’t have to really prepare for.” Overley said the lack of pre-scripted material takes the pressure off the group when its members are performing, which in turn takes the pres-sure off of the audience. “Even in scenes where maybe you don’t do as well, the audience is usually re-ally forgiving,” she said. “They understand that it’s really dif-ficult, and I think they just re-ally respect that we’re taking a chance to put ourselves out there and put ourselves under pressure like that in front of an audience.” Junior bassoon performance major Juliette Angoulvant, who has been to one of Chaos’s shows before, agreed that the atmosphere is a good one. “I think they’re really fun-ny, authentically funny, not

like they’re trying to make you laugh, and I think that re-ally puts the audience at ease because instead of feeling un-comfortable, like you’re sup-posed to be laughing at some-thing that’s not really funny, they’re actually just genuinely funny,” she said. Overley added that although she loves doing improv and performing, the nerves have never really gone away. But she said having a strong, support-ive team by her side has helped her feel more at ease. “You get nervous because, you know, you don’t want to say the wrong thing or have a scene fail,” Overley said. “But you know your partners have your back in a scene. And that’s why scenes rarely fail. Because everyone is looking out for each other and we work together to make it work.” Angoulvant said one of her favorite parts of watching Cha-

os perform is the group mem-bers’ harmony when working in collaboration. “I like watching how they interact as a team of actors,” Angoulvant said. “I think that’s pretty impressive, because I’m sure that’s not an easy balance to find, of who gets to do what when, and who’s the funny one, and who’s not, and I think they pull that off pretty well. I’m always impressed by their creativity and fast thinking, because that’s kind of what im-prov is about.” Improv challenges both the performers and the audience to think quickly and creatively. Chaos typically hosts its comedy shows in Frasier Hall on Sunday nights, for anyone who wishes to attend.

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Once upon a time, human rights were viewed as a cornerstone of left-wing, or leftist, ideology. Jimmy Carter made human rights a fundamental piece of his foreign policy doctrine. Leftist activists throughout the ‘60s and ‘70s rallied for civil rights, gender equality and an end to Vietnam, while rallying against brutal regimes with massive human rights issues—like Libya and Egypt. As early as 1990, American leftism evolved to international-ism, and prominent ideologically leftist organizations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International—instrumental in high-lighting global abuses of power—formed in the wake of funda-mental humanitarian leftist ideology. Then came the Bush presidency, an administration which dras-tically impacted the trajectory of many values in American society. The Iraq War happened, and was almost instantly misman-aged, and in some sense, entirely botched by the Bush adminis-tration and the Department of Defense. The Abu Ghraib torture incidents hit the headlines. The Guantanamo Bay program was expanded, use of torture by American forces increased expo-nentially and countless instances of war crimes committed by in-fantry in Iraq were pored over endlessly by the media and public. And suddenly, it became that “keeping America out” was the most important agenda item for the Middle East, irrespective of context or circumstance. After the Iraq War, American leftists emerged in force against what was widely viewed as a critical failure of US policy—a di-sastrous, anti-humanitarian, destabilizing foreign policy which created power vacuums and sparked new insurgencies. The status quo of interventionism imposed by neoconservatives in the Bush cabinet was broadly opposed by American leftists in

government and in the media, citing, among many others, the cases of Iraq and Vietnam—some of the most large-scale for-eign policy failures in U.S. history. And this opposition was necessary. The Iraq War was a failure, and the Bush administration needed to know as much to pre-vent similar mismanagement from happening in the future. But slowly, this logical opposition to dangerous policy evolved into simple contrarianism. No longer was American and Western intervention opposed in some instances depending on context; now, any action by a Western power in the Middle East had be-come viewed as hostile, destabilizing and imperialistic. This contrarianism further evolved into a sort of “opposition contrarianism,” where staunch opposition to U.S. intervention became an ideology in its own right—an ideology in which op-position to U.S. intervention trumps all else,. Today, leftists are some of the staunchest opponents of Western intervention against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, ZLWK�VRPH� LGHRORJLFDO�KDUGOLQHUV�RƪHULQJ�VXSSRUW�IRU�$VVDGoV�sovereignty and self-determination of governance, questioning ZK\�$PHULFD�KDV�WKH�ULJKW�WR�LQWHUIHUH�LQ�WKH�DƪDLUV�RI�D�VRYHU-eign state.Even Bernie Sanders, who in a 2015 interview retro-spectively voiced support for U.S. intervention in the Rwandan Genocide, has emerged as one of the staunchest opponents to intervention in Syria.� 7KLV� FRPPRQ� LGHRORJLFDO� OLQH�� RI� FRXUVH�� FRQƮLFWV� GLUHFWO\�with fundamental leftist ideology. Organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights :DWFK�VWLOO�VHUYH�DV�YDQJXDUGV�RI�OHIWLVP��7KH\oYH�FRQVLVWHQWO\�documented the human rights abuses of the Assad regime over the decades: use of nerve gas, improvised barrel bombs and FOXVWHU�PXQLWLRQVtDOO�NH\�DVSHFWV�RI�WKH�UHJLPH�FRDOLWLRQoV�ZDU-WLPH�WDFWLFVtKDYH�EHHQ�KLJKOLJKWHG�DV�H[DPSOHV�RI�$VVDGoV�KX-man rights abuses which should be opposed by all ideologues.� $QG�$VVDGoV�EUXWDOLW\�DQG�LOOHJLWLPDF\�LV�XQTXHVWLRQHG��*RYHUQ-

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where liberal arts courses have rarely been taught in schools. Educated people in the country are significantly more likely to join terrorist organiza-tions like the Islamic State. In his article “Exporting Jihad,” George Packer wrote, “in the Arab world, the most likely radicals are peo-ple in technical or scientific fields who lack the kind of humanities education that fosters critical thought.” � ,W� LVQoW�VXUSULVLQJ�WKDW�SHRSOH�ZKR�were not trained to think critically, lacking the humanities, are more likely to join these kinds of groups. 3HRSOH�QHHG�WKH�VNLOOV�RƪHUHG�E\�WKH�humanities to, in the words of the

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Gender discrimination can be subtle or painfully obvious; however, it occurs every day, everywhere. In the workplace, in education, in athletics and even among the products customers purchase—gen-der discrimination is an exist-ing bias worldwide. I view gender discrimina-tion as one of those appar-ent hurdles the world has yet to conquer, which sounds ridiculous considering the “progressive” attitude society claims we live in. Recently, gender discrimi-nation has become a hot topic on social media, as the public has begun to recog-nize, acknowledge and voice opinions on the various forms of this particular injustice. Yes, there are protests,

social media pages and even governmental orders to protect against the multiple forms of gender discrimina-tion; however, this particular form of inequality continues in the modern era regard-less of the many attempts to bring gender discrimination to a halt. It isn’t a new or twist-ed concept that someone stumbled across a few years ago. In fact, gender discrimi-nation is an age-old oppres-sion against women that is being fought daily. Forms of gender discrimi-nation are occurring through a multitude of global inter-ests and enterprises. For ex-ample, the hashtag “equal pay equal pay” has been cir-FOLQJ� 7ZLWWHU� LQ� DQ� HƪRUW� WR�bring awareness to the U.S.A. Women’s National Soccer Team players not receiving equal pay in comparison to the men’s league—for the

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HOME GAMES

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Club baseball battles for respectBy Michael [email protected]

The University of Northern Colo-rado’s Division I baseball team is not the only one in mid-season form, the university’s club baseball team’s season is off and running. Behind the team is president and coach Adrian Tafoya. The club base-ball team 5-5, (0-3 Mid-America West Conference) is looking toward a suc-cessful season. “It’s going good so far, I mean, some bumps in the road, but we are finally getting it going since we are back,” Tafoya said. “We are .500 right now, which isn’t bad, but I think we are go-ing to do great the rest of the season.” The team just got off a long spring break trip in which they drove to Boi-se, Idaho to play Boise State Univer-sity’s club team. The group then got back on the road to play Arizona State University, which capped off a successful road trip in which they won four games and lost two. “I think we are doing really well and it’s going to get a lot better,” Tyler Pinkerman, a junior catcher, said. The Bears’ toughest competition will be the Colorado State University Rams. “Its always us and them, first and second in our conference,” said Mac Malone, a junior pitcher, infielder and the team’s vice president. The Bears lost their first three out of four games against the Rams, but will play them four more times before the season is over. UNC’s club team has another battle it’s fighting, but this particular fight is off the field. The team is battling for respect among the student body and the Divi-sion I teams, players and coaches. As a club sport, the players do not receive any scholarship money from the school, and they have to pay to play on the team. According to some of the players, some people see this as a team for the players who could not make the Divi-sion I team, or men who just couldn’t cut it, but the club team sees it differently. “I think the biggest thing is if you’re meeting someone new and you say you play baseball on the club team their first response is ‘oh,’” said Chad Sommers, a senior third baseman. “They are always like ‘oh you’re not that good, you pay to

play, you’re not recruited or anything like that.’ They put you down a notch as soon as you say the word club.” The players and coaches of the club team want the same respect as the Di-vision I team, and feel like some of their players are just as good as the Di-vision I team members. “We have three, four, five, guys on our team that I’m pretty sure could play on the actual team and I think they just get overlooked because they already played club sports for one year,” Tafoya said. “If they give them a chance I guarantee they will take someones spot on their team.” The club team’s practice field is not on par either; it is filled with holes and bumps and does not have a true infield. On most baseball fields, the infield is either all dirt, or the area between the bases and home plate is grass. But the whole area of the club team’s practice field is grass, which means they are practicing on a field that is totally different from one they will be playing on in games. UNC’s track and field team built a throwing cage where the baseball team used to practice on the Doubenmier field, moving them to the west-end of the field, a move that has drastically af-fected practice for the team.

“They put the base plugs in for us and you could tell they did it in about ten minutes. The measurements are so offline, they just didn’t care,” Som-mers said. The Division I baseball team uses Jackson field, which is a state of the art baseball field. The club team gets to use it for their home conference games, which is around three to four games a year, but they feel like more access to the field would help them out im-mensely. They would be able to prac-tice on their home field and figure out the way the field works, how the ball hops, and the feel of the grass. “They have all played the same high school ball as all of us,” Tafoya said. “They have taken care of fields and we have taken care of fields—we all play the same game—nothing’s different, other then they are here to actually play for the school while we are just here to play ‘cause we still love the game.” Tafoya and his team suggested that while the Division I team is on the road they could use the field, because they will be gone from Thursday to Sunday. Jackson Field would provide a safer and more reliable environment for the club team to practice on. “Even just the cages alone would

be helpful. We don’t have any of that stuff and it’s hard to get an entire team together to shag balls and stuff for hit-ting,” Sommers said. In the future, the club team wants to have a partnership with the Divi-sion I team. They want to act as if they are the JV team. The Division I team could look to them for players or for a place to send players for a year when they need some extra work. Ultimately, the players would like a better chance to be able to move up in the program and maybe one day play on the Division-I team. A plan like that would be beneficial for both teams and could make both teams more successful. Tafoya has been one of the more ac-tive coaches in club team history—try-ing to progress the club team forward and mend the broken relationship be-tween the two squads. “I’m trying to get that respect, it comes with us being a successful club team,” he said. “If we are successful, I feel like the respect will come and ‘til then it probably won’t come, but I’m trying to make it a whole, mutual thing.” Both teams will be battling for wins on the field, but the club team is taking on a whole new challenge, the battle for respect.

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Northern Colorado track and fi eld hosted its lone regular sea-son meet of the year, the 2016 Tom Benich Invite on Saturday. Th e Bears walked away with eight fi rst place fi nishes at the meet and top conference times in the men’s 400m dash and 4x100 relay along with the women’s 200m dash. Junior Moriah Zachary started the track events off with a blazing 24.10 second fi nish in the 200m dash. Zachary eclipsed the Big Sky qualifying time with ease and moved up to the third best time in UNC history in the event. Her fi nish also now sits as the quickest in the conference. Sophomore Alivia Ayres-Perry wasn’t far behind, taking third aft er breaking the tape in 24.47 seconds. She too hit the league’s

qualifying standard with her time and posted the fourth best time in the event in program history.

Freshman Cami Kennedy stole the show in the women’s 5000m run. She won the event by over six seconds, crossing the fi nish line in 19:47.05. It was business as usual for the women’s 4x100 relay team. Th e squad of Zachary, Ayres-Perry, freshman Samara Lishchynsky and senior Makenzie Comstock earned a fi rst place fi nish with a time of 46.50 seconds. In the field events, junior Karli Jelden claimed top honors in the women’s pole vault. She cleared the bar at 3.55m (11-07.75) besting eight other competitors for first place. Senior Alisha Allen passed the qualifying mark in the long jump aft er hitting the sand at 5.83m (19.01-50). Her jump was good for second place overall in the event.

On the men’s side, red-shirt sophomore Alex Wesley put on a dominant performance in the 400m dash.

Wesley posted a sub-47 second fi nish, clocking in a 46.97 for fi rst place. Not only did he qual-ify for the Big Sky Outdoor Championships in his fi rst time running the event this season, he also now owns the fastest time in the conference. Th e fi nal time was also a personal best and sits as the third fastest time in the North-ern Colorado record books. Fellow 400m runner ju-nior Jordan Medina came in third in the event with a time of 47.79, he too qualifi ed for a spot in the Outdoor Champi-onships with his time. Th e men’s 4x100 and 4x400 teams also performed exceptionally well, capturing top fi nishes for the Bears.

In the 4x1, the team of freshman Isaiah Brown, Wesley, se-nior Bryce Adams and junior Alex Mead cruised to a 41.38 final time. Th e Bears already held the fastest time in this Big Sky event with a 41.63 fi nish and widened the gap even more with the rest of the conference. Th e 4x4 group of Medina, Wesley, Adams and senior Antho-ny Powell clocked in a 3:16.50, winning the event by close to two seconds. Th eir time bumps them up to the third fastest in the league standings. In the fi eld events for the men, senior Rolyce Boston leapt his way to a top mark in the long jump. He hit the pit at 7.00m (22-11.75) exactly, clearing the Big Sky mark of 6.90m and earning a spot in the Outdoor Championships in May. Th e multi-event athletes will head to Pocatello, Idaho next weekend to compete in the Bengal Decathlon-Heptathlon on April 6, while the rest of the team will next compete at the Colo-rado Invitational in Boulder on April 9.

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Despite Coton and Immler’s best eff orts, the Hornets were still able to beat them. Th e pair said they will continue to work on being aggressive heading into next weekends matches. Sophomore Lea Krajcovicova, who lost 6-4, 6-0, stressed the importance of knowing about your opponent. “It is important to notice her weaknesses during the fi rst game or two,” she said. Krajcovicova identifi ed her opponent’s weak-nesses well in her fi rst set going down only six games to four, but the match was a hard fought one and the fatigue got the best of her, she was

defeated in her second set six games to none. Assistant coach, Brandon Lupo, was most impressed with freshman Anna Battersby in her singles match. “She defi nitely fought for the fi rst set and then just played even better in the second set,” Lupo said. Battersby really did fi ght hard in her fi rst set, going down 7-6. In the second she went down 6-3, but in each game the scoring went back and forth. Th e doubles matches are where the Univer-sity of Northern Colorado has been at their best, winning .639 of their matches this year, compared to .506 of their singles matches. A mutual trust is crucial in doubles tennis, which is what has made Immler and Coton a

great combo all season. “We’re best friends on the court and best friends off the court, I know she has my back no matter what,” Immler said. Coton and Immler are 9-4 this season as a duo. Coach Lupo will be looking for a stronger defensive game and better service returns in practice this week before the team heads to Bozeman, Montana, next weekend. “Th at was kind of the theme for today, our return of serves just wasn’t getting the points started” Lupo said. With only fi ve matches left , the Bears 6-9—2-5 Big Sky—will be looking to improve their record and their chances to make the Big Sky Conference championships.

Bears prepare for two-match roadtrip to Montana

Freshman Remi Immler returns the ball to Sac State’s plater during Saturday’s match at the Butler Hancock tennis courts. Photo by Alex Nunley | Th e Mirror

Other Notable Results:Women’s 100m dash – 3rd: Brianna Pardner (12.20)

Women’s 800m dash – 2nd: Alicia Thompson (2:13.12)

Women’s 1500m run – 2nd: Rikki Gonzales (4:45.53)

Women’s 100m hurdles – 2nd: Claire Harris

Women’s 3000m Steeple – 2nd: Caroline Braun

Women’s 3000m run – 5th: McKayla Gray (20:01.85)

Women’s 400m hurdles – 4th: Mackenzie Howie

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Men’s 100m dash – 2nd: Demetrius Graves (10.92)

Men’s 110m hurdles – 2nd: Isaiah Brown (15.34)

Men’s 200m dash – 3rd: Demetrius Graves (21.99)

Men’s 400m hurdles – 3rd: Scott Dickinson (55.21)

Men’s Triple Jump – 3rd: Jake Tagita (13.57m)

Men’s 3000m Steeple – 4th: Nick Bailey (10:39.11)

Men’s 800m run – 4th: Evan Keely (1:55.40)


THIS WEEK

IN NOCO SPORTS

Softball UNC softball’s losing streak

extended to eight games following

a three-game sweep at the hands

of Weber State University.

UNC (4-24, 0-6 Big Sky) trailed by just one run

until the fourth inning when the Wildcats pushed

across nine to take the game 10-0 (5).

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Northern Colorado’s bats were quieted once again

as they were held to just three hits on the day.

The Wildcats posted nine runs on three

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The three hits on the day for Northern Colorado

came from Sarah Fitzherbert, Rachel Johnson and Kaley Garcia. Fitzherbert was the only player

to earn a hit in all three games against the Wildcats.

The softball team returns to Greeley next

weekend for a series against Sacramento State.

The Bears will play a doubleheader against the

Hornets on Friday, April 8 with game times at 1:00

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Baseball The University of Northern

Colorado lost to Sacramento

State 5-1 on Saturday evening in

Sacramento, California. It was their second loss in

as many days to the Hornets.

The Bears fell behind early, giving up two runs in

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UXQ�Rƪ�WKH�EDW�RI�MXQLRU�Dan Reese, allowing red-

shirt sophomore Cole Maltese to score.

That stood as the lone score for the Bears on

that day. The previous day, the Bears managed

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Junior Nick Tanner had a combined eight at-bats

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Senior Alex Werbach led the UNC pitching

staff with 6.0 innings pitched. He faced 28

batters, striking out six and allowing eight hits

and three runs.

� 5HG�VKLUW�VRSKRPRUH�Connor Leedholm closed

out the game facing nine batters and allowing one

hit and two runs, in relief of Werbach.

The Bears return for a single home game against

Air Force at 3 p.m. on Tuesday at Jackson Field.


*Bureau of Labor Statistics, Feb. 2016

Average salary by degree*

$57,252

Bachelor’sDegree

Master’sDegree

DoctoralDegree

ProfessionalDegree

$68,952

$82,732$85,228

April 7, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.UNC University Center

UNCO.EDU/GRAD/FAIR

LET’S GET THERE TOGETHER!

“Adulthood” by Ethan Funk-Breay

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How did the hipster burn his tongue?

He drank his coff ee before it was cool.

Why did the bicycle fall over?

It was two tired.

How many tickles does it take to make an octopus

laugh?Ten-tickles.

JOKES OF THE WEEK

the mirror—april 4, 2016

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