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Volume 94, Number 53Wednesday, February 1, 2012
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UpcomingIn Friday’sissue of TheMirror, readabout UNC’s2012 LunarNew Year cele-bration andcarnival.
Center honors women in historyThe Marcus GarveyCultural Centerhosts the first eventof this year’s BlackHistory Month.PAGE 4
SportsMen’s hoops gets OT win at NAU
The men’s basket-ball team defeatsNAU Monday andplays SacramentoState in next game.PAGE 6
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Some UNC students arepreparing to bike 560 milesacross Colorado, starting inthe southwestern cornerand ending at the north-eastern border of the state.
The catch is that thestudents will complete theentire trip without leavingthe University of NorthernColorado by riding station-ary bikes at the CampusRecreation Center.
For the first time ever,
the CRC is hosting the BikeAcross Colorado programusing stationary bikes.
LeeAnne Kosovich, agraduate assistant forFitness and Wellness withthe CRC, said the programis a friendly competitionto see who will be able tofinish the “race” first andlog the most miles.
“The Bike AcrossColorado program allowsstudents to tackle a fit-ness challenge in a funway while using a station-ary bike to ride the
amount of miles it takeson roads from Cortez toJulesburg,” Kosovich said.
Students will have theentire month to ride andlog miles starting today.
The race ends on Feb. 29.“Students ‘travel’ the
state on stationary bikesby logging their miles atthe front desk, and thenwe have a bulletin boardwhere participants canmove their bicyclist iconsacross the board, from onecity to another, based onhow many miles they haveridden,” Kosovich said.
Bike Across Coloradois an individual competi-tion, but students areencouraged to go to thegym and bike together tomotivate each other.
“I absolutely encour-age people to sign up withfriends and motivate eachother to keep going,”Kosovich said.
Bike Across Colorado isalso an opportunity to makefitness enjoyable for students.
“Making fitness funand providing a challenge
for individuals to tackleare two ways of increasinga person’s motivation totake part in fitness,”Kosovich said.
If there is a big turnoutthis year, the CRC will con-sider hosting the race againnext year.
The CRC has hostedother competitions in thepast, such as the strong-man and strongwomancompetitions.
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Sudoku rules:Fill all empty squares so thenumbers 1 to 9 appear once ineach row, column and 3x3 box.Some numbers are provided togive you a head start.
Quote of the dayThings can fall apart, or threaten to, for many
reasons, and then there’s got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately,when you’re at the edge, you have to go forward or back-ward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
-- Yo-Yo Ma
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Bikers race across state without leaving campus
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William Woods, a senior journalism and environmen-tal sustainability major, works out on a stationarybike at the Campus Recreation Center.
Bike AcrossColorado
Students can sign up atthe front desk of theCampus Recreation
Center. The last day toregister is Feb. 3. Allparticipants receive afree T-shirt. For moreinformation, call theCRC at 970-351-2062.
Author advises Internet users on safetyTESSA BYRNS
Nearly every student oncollege campuses across thenation is on Facebook, post-ing funny pictures or check-ing in at a hot spot; however,not all students know thedamage they can be doing totheir online reputations.
In recognition of DataPrivacy Month, UNC hosted awebinar Monday to help stu-dents resuscitate their repu-tations if they have beenspoiled through social mediaand the Internet.
The webinar was hostedby Matt Ivester, the authorof the book, “lol...OMG!:
What Every Student Needsto Know About OnlineReputation Management,Digital Citizenship andCyberbullying.”
“The university likes toput on these special events ifthey want the student body tolearn something really impor-tant that month,” said JessicaBehunin, security analystwith Information Technologyat UNC. “October was cybersecurity month, so it’s allabout designating a time forthe students to learn about aspecific topic that is impor-tant to them and that will helpthem in some way.”
Ivester gave students alook at how their online pro-
files can both help and hurtthem.
“Posting anything dis-criminatory, posting any-thing involving drugs andalcohol or even a post thatcan exhibit poor communi-cation skills can have poten-tial employers or even poten-tial college admissions offi-cers looking for a moreappropriate candidate,”Ivester said.
Most students who areoverlooked for potential jobsand colleges don’t protectthemselves or their profileson sites like Facebook,Twitter or other social mediaoutlets.
To protect oneself,
Ivester suggests completingan inventory of all the inap-propriate pictures, posts orthings friends have tagged astudent in and eitherremoving them or blockingthem from certain people sopotential employers andadmissions officers won’t beable to see what studentswould normally want onlytheir peers to see.
“There are four steps to abetter online reputation,”Ivester said. “First, take aninventory of all your pastposts, pictures and tags thatyou’re in, then delete the con-tent you can control and ask
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What is it with ghetto names,and what exactly does “ghetto”mean? In American society, ghettomeans trashy, uneducated and,more times than not, ghettomeans African American.
Names that include an apos-trophe, a prefix of “La,” or thosethat do not sound traditional arestereotyped as ghetto in theUnited States. Chanelle, Moniqueand Tatiana are deemed as non-traditional, black names, but theroots of these names are ground-ed in Latin, French and Russian,languages that are centuries olderthan English as we now know it.
African Americans are knownfor naming their children untradi-tionally unique names thought tobe made up. At www.baby-namesworld.com, there is a sec-tion called “African AmericanNames,” which includes nameslike A’Isha and Akeem from whichblack mothers may choose. Agood amount of the names listedare Arabic, African or Hebrew,again, languages centuries olderthan English.
As good-hearted as the divi-sion of baby names was meant tobe, it is a potentially harmfulattempt at progressivism. Instead
of accepting pluralism as a part ofthe United States’ culture, blacksare separated as the only peoplewith these names. Misunderstoodas to why they choose to be differ-ent, the black community isbrushed into a corner and stereo-typed as ghetto.
Black culture, including thepreference of names today, hastrickled down from the time ofslavery. The naming of a baby is abonding experience for both childand parent, but enslaved parentsdid not get this pleasure; eachchild born into slavery carriednames chosen by their slave own-
ers. When slavery was abolished,freed slaves either carried theirprevious owners’ last names ortook on names denoting theirnewfound status, such asFreeman or Freedman. By re-naming themselves they cut thetie linking them to those who hadpulled them down.
First names chosen by AfricanAmericans today hold symbolismno different than newly freedslaves in 1865. Today, the rebel-lion is subconscious, but the fightis equivalent to the conscious andsubtle insurgence of theFreemans.
Unique baby names help blacks create own identity
At a hip-hop showFriday night, itoccurred to me how
different the two main groupswere, even within the contextof rap music. Both are from theupper Midwest — Commonfrom Chicago, Atmospherefrom Minneapolis — but all ofthe artists in Common’s stagegroup are black, and nobodywho played duringAtmosphere’s set was. I thinkthe differences between whiteand black culture are evidentin hip-hop, which used to beconsidered primarily anAfrican-American art form.
First of all, there are certainlysome similarities that exist. Theemphases on rhythm, content andrhyme are the same for rap acrossthe board. Rappers are often ener-getic and aggressive in their deliv-ery, regardless of the subject, andthe verse is usually where the meatof the song is, while the hook is lesscomplex.
Nonetheless, the white rapper isnot expected to broach the samesubject matter as the black lyricist.Common has been known torhyme about the struggles of aninner-city lifestyle. He often talksabout larger-scale issues of a wholegroup of people. In some ways, heis asked to speak on behalf of hisrace, a phenomenon that unfortu-nately isn’t all that uncommon,whether conscious or not.
Slug, Atmosphere’s vocalist, hasplenty of rhymes about relation-ships, which are oftentimes consid-
ered metaphors for his relationshipwith songwriting and music in gen-eral. Structurally, he also doesn’tstack his bars as full as Commondoes; he’s allowed more freedomwithin the configuration of thesong. You may say that nobody istelling artists what they can andcan’t do, but it’s the way eachlearned to make music, and thatwas influenced by their respectivecultures.
The inner city is more hustle-and-bustle than the suburbs; thingsmust get done more rapidly.Atmosphere runs the rap game inMinneapolis, a much less cosmo-politan piece of the Midwest.Almost all of the acts signed toAtmosphere’s label are white, andmany are from Minnesota.
Despite these differences, thestyles are growing together. Ten or15 years ago, most mainstream rapdid not use live bands. Now, with
shows selling out 20,000-seat are-nas and filling amphitheaters likeRed Rocks, even in the winter, thelive show is becoming more impor-tant, and that includes live bands.
The film “8 Mile” painted thelife of a white rapper as a constantstruggle to gain acceptance in theblack community. That may or maynot have been the case, but now italmost certainly wouldn’t happen,both because there is so muchmore white rap and because whiteAmerica has finally accepted rap asviable.
Suburban or inner-city, fansshould be able to admire a greatverse, and maybe that is a sign thatthere is hope to bridge the gap andcollaborate together in the future.
— Michael Nowels is a sophomoreelementary education major and weeklycolumnist for The Mirror.
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friends if they can takedown anything that youdon’t want on theInternet. The last step isto use privacy settings.Most sites like Facebookand Google Plus have acomprehensible privacy
setting system that helpslimit the items you wantseen and by whom.”
Ivester also said thatemployers and collegeadmissions officers willnot only be looking atyour profile but will oftenhire companies that areable to look at all of a stu-
dent’s past posts andeverything they havedone online.
These social background
checks are used by takinginformation from a person’sapplication, like phone num-ber, address and schooling,
to find them online. The companies let the
students know that theyare looking through theironline profiles for theemployer or college. If astudent backs out of theprocess or doesn’t allowthe social backgroundcheck to take place, thenthey will often no longerbe considered for theposition or admission.
Students seemed to bereally interested in thistopic not only because theyknow that it will help themin the working world butwill also help them in themean time. No one wantsto be turned down for a jobor a date because his or her
profile was unsavory.“I think this seminar was
especially helpful for me asa business major because Idon’t want to be passed upfor a job because of myonline profile,” said AliciaMachuca, a senior businessmarketing major. “I had noidea that employers can usesocial background checkson sites like Facebook.
Ivester suggested otheronline tips for students aswell, including setting up aGoogle alert for theirnames, creating and main-taining positive contentand reserving their namesby claiming a usernameand their actual namesthrough a website domain.
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Center honors women for Black History MonthAMANDA STOUTENBURGH
The Marcus GarveyCultural Center kicked offthis year’s celebration ofBlack History Month with areception Tuesday honoring46 black women who havemade and changed historyin alliance with the nationaltheme of African AmericanWomen in History andCulture.
Each year, a committeedecides what the nationaltheme for the month willbe, and this year, theUniversity of NorthernColorado’s MGCC decid-ed to follow the nationaltheme recognizing famedblack women throughouthistory.
The reception was verylaid back and casual as stu-dents and faculty mingledwhile staff from the MGCC
answered any questionsstudents had.
“I think it’s a really goodway to kick-off BlackHistory Month,” saidMayowa Pamphille, a jun-ior psychology major.
A slideshow played onthe TV at the cultural cen-ter showing the 46 blackwomen who have made adifference in history bybreaking the race barrier insome capacity.
Some of the women fea-tured included Rosa Parks,Coretta Scott King and MaeJemison.
Rosa Parks, born in 1913,was a civil rights activist.The United States Congresscalled her “the First Lady ofCivil Rights” and “theMother of the FreedomMovement.” Parks was animportant person in the civilrights movement and diedin 2005. She was granted the
honor of being laid to rest atthe Capitol Rotunda. Shewas the first woman and thesecond non-governmentofficial to be granted thishonor.
Coretta Scott King, bornin 1927, was the widow ofMartin Luther King Jr., withwhom she helped with lead-ing the Civil RightsMovement of the 1960s. Shewas also an author and afterthe death of her husband,became active in theWomen’s Movement. Upuntil her final days, Kingspoke at different eventsabout controversial move-ments. In 2006, she died ofrespiratory failure due toadvanced-stage ovariancancer.
Mae C. Jemison, born in1956, was the first blackwoman to travel in space.She was aboard the SpaceShuttle Endeavour in 1992.
She is also a physician.Jemison did much in herlife and has received manyawards and honors.Jemison is now 55 years oldand continues striving tointerest minorities interest-ed in science because shesees science and technolo-gy as a large part of society.
Attendees said theythought the event was a greatway to expose students to aculture they may have notbeen familiar with before.
“I think it is wonderful,”said Deana Davies, a casemanager with the CounselingCenter. “It expands studentsand faculty’s knowledge andhelps us maintain culturalsensitivity.”
Megan Sajbel, a freshmanbusiness marketing major,said she liked how represen-tatives from other culturalcenters attended the event tosee what the MGCC has to
offer and support the centerin a crossing of cultures.
“I think it is a really well-prepared event,” Sajbel said.
Ty’Ray Thompson, the
director of the MGCC, saidUNC has celebrated BlackHistory Month since thecultural center was estab-lished on Feb. 2, 1982.
MELANIE VASQUEZ | THE MIRROR
Chasun Ewell, left, a freshman engineering major, enjoyssnacks during the Black History Month kickoff recep-tion at the Marcus Garvey Cultural Center Tuesday.
Webinar helps students protect online reputations Webinar from Page 2
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Daniel Sanchez, a sociology graduate student, checksFacebook. During the webinar, Matt Ivester discussed theimportance of monitoring one’s posts on social media sites.
Editor: Ryan LambertWednesday, February 1, 2012 The Mirror 5
Oil paintings slide into Michener art galleryRYAN LAMBERT
For artist Gail Rowe, aUNC professor emeritus ofhistory, the lines among art,history and fiction blur.
Rowe thoroughlyexpressed this view at theMari Michener Gallery’sFriday evening reception,“Aspects of thought —Variations in Oil Paint,”which also displayed thework of Alan Adler.
“The painter, like the his-torian, tries to tell a story, andwe decide on the details,”said Rowe, an expert inColonial and RevolutionaryAmerican history who alsowrote four mystery novels setin Boston’s baseball scene.“We try to be realistic, but inthe end, its my impression —I frame it.”
Indeed, many of Rowe’spaintings, priced between$300-$600, are landscapes ofCalifornia, Colorado andUtah scenery — but themajority of his work depictsWeld County.
His “Another Lazy Day”invokes a summer weekendaway from the urbanizedworld. In the simple painting,a lake is surrounded bynumerous trees.
Rowe, who once taught apopular UNC class on the his-tory of American baseball,experienced his first timespeaking at an openingreception.
“I have to confess that I’venever thought deeply aboutart,” said the more-or-lessself-trained artist. “It says Ihave a compulsion, but Idon’t want to talk about thatcompulsion.”
Adler, on the other hand,has a much more intensivetraining as an artist; he stud-ied under FrancisCunningham at the BrooklynMuseum Art School.
According to Adler, theformer owner of Loveland’s525 Gallery, his art educationwas sullied by the early 1970stendency to neglect to focuson craft.
“If you studied art in theearly ’70s, you got a whole lotof theory but not a lot of craft.It took me 10 years to get overthat nonsense, and today, weare seeing a return to craft,”Adler said after telling a shortanecdote about a literatureteacher who used existentialthinking to frame a discus-sion of a Robert Frost poem.
Adler’s “Winter Light” cer-tainly replicates the emotionsexpressed in Frost’s famous
“Stopping by Woods on aSnowy Evening” because ittakes the viewer to a secludedand lonely wood with treesburdened by heavy snow thatseemingly sparks purple inthe dying sun.
Adler paints in theFlemish style, a techniquethat started in 15th centuryFlanders. In this style, theartist uses multiple glazes tocontrast bright colors againsta dark background.
Often, Adler will spendweeks or months on a singlepiece.
“I’m never in a hurry,” hesaid about his “Symphony inRed,” a simple still life of deli-cate pink flowers in a largered vase, which took Adler sixmonths to complete.
Gallery CoordinatorColette Pitcher said shechose to include these two
artists in one receptionbecause they work in thesame medium: oil.
“Sometimes, it is nice tohave paired work or groupwork,” Pitcher said. “I wantpeople to be exposed to dif-ferent kinds of art…I am
always on the lookout forvariety.”
“Aspects of Thought,”which was funded by TheFriends of UNC Libraries,will be displayed inMichener Library throughFeb. 10.
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Paul Hodapp, a philosophy professor, looks at AlanAdler’s still lifes at the “Aspects of Thought” open-ing reception in Mari Michener Gallery on Friday.
Theater professor’s textbook shines light on acting methodsSARAH KIRBY
After teaching thousandsof students, heading work-shops across the countryand directing numeroustheatrical productions, UNCProfessor of Theater ArtsThomas McNally has nowwritten a textbook, “Acting:The Active Process.”
The book was just pub-lished by Kendall Hunt.
McNally, the artisticdirector for the LittleTheatre of the Rockies,decided after a meetingwith Kendall Hunt’s acqui-sitions editor, William
England, that a series ofoutlines and handouts dis-tributed to graduate actingstudents could easily bemade into a professionallybound textbook.
“Acting” is 103 pages,with six chapters of guidedexercises, acting checklistsand examples of how toobtain a certain outcomefrom a scene.
McNally said, “My origi-nal reason to go into teach-ing was so I could direct.Now, I care more about theteaching than the acting.I’ve had 40-some studentsgo onto Broadway, and Ithink my textbook is about
the philosophy of actinginstead of what great actorssay. Acting is about onecharacter trying to getanother character to dosomething. It’s not aboutline readings or how itcomes out of my mouth. It’sabout the actors trying tocreate a subtext betweenthemselves and their scenepartners.”
McNally realized thatwhen students watch ascene, they tend to knowwhy it is not working —because the student/char-acter is unaware of what heor she wants to convey inthat scene.
To better assist his stu-dents, McNally placedcheck sheets in the appen-dix of his textbook and 350verbs to help students locatethe expression that corre-lates with an acting goal.
Malorie Felt, a Universityof Northern Colorado juniortheater major, assistedMcNally in compiling thebook over the course of fourmonths.
In relation to her actingtechniques and McNally’stextbook, Felt said, “Since Ihave been introduced toseveral techniques, I havetaken bits from them andcombined them to suit my
needs as an actor. I like to dobackground work on theplay and my character first,figuring out what my char-acter wants, what stands inmy way, and what I do to getwhat I want. McNally dis-cusses this in his book.”
Much of McNally’s text-book is centered on rela-tionships because a charac-ter’s attitude toward anoth-er character depicts thesteps that tell a story, whichis what actors are in thebusiness of doing.
“I think McNally’s text-book is…very precise, directand easy to understand,”said David Grapes, UNC’s
director of the School ofTheatre Arts and Dance. “It’sa clear roadmap about howto achieve certain things asan actor: how to achievetruthfulness, how to achievehonesty, how to achieveverisimilitude when you’respeaking in dialogue andhow to deal with themes thathave strong emotions. Hisbook offers a clear directapproach that is not foundin other textbooks.”
“Acting” is currentlybeing used by the School ofTheatre and Dance, and thetextbook is sold at both theBookstop and the UNCbookstore.
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UNC beats NAU, looks toward Hornets, WildcatsSTAFF REPORT
In a game it needed tostop its descent in the Big Skystandings, the UNC men’sbasketball got big perform-ances and clutch shots from
several players to defeatNorthern Arizona 64-62 inovertime Monday in Flagstaff,Ariz.
University of NorthernColorado (7-13, 4-5 Big Sky)sophomore forwardEmmanuel Addo followed up
his 28-point performanceThursday at Idaho State witha team-high 17 points andwas backed by sophomoreguard Tate Unruh’s 16 pointsin UNC’s second win ever inFlagstaff.
Bears senior forward MikeProctor scored six points andgrabbed a career-high 17rebounds, besting the previ-ous Division I school recordof 15, to aid UNC’s victory.Eleven of Proctor’s reboundscame on the defensive end,helping limit NAU to six sec-ond-chance points.
“Proctor finished so manybig defensive possessions forus by going up and grabbingit with two hands and beingstrong with the ball,” UNChead coach B.J. Hill told theschool’s athletics website.
UNC led by as many as
nine with 11:18 remaining inthe second half, but theLumberjacks (5-17, 1-9)scored 20 points in the rest ofthe half to take a two-pointlead with 20 seconds to go.UNC redshirt freshman TevinSvihovec made a layup with13 seconds left to tie it at 56and force overtime.
With NAU leading 62-61in overtime, Svihovecstepped up again with a go-ahead layup with just morethan a minute left, and theLumberjacks missed on theother end, a shot that wasrebounded by Proctor. UNCfreshman forward TimHuskisson added a free throwfor the final margin.
Svihovec finished with 11points, his 10th consecutivegame with 10 or more, whileHuskisson, making his first
start in the last six games,recorded five points and sixrebounds.
UNC’s next two games areagainst teams having twovastly different seasons.
The first comes at 7:05p.m. Thursday at Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilionagainst Sacramento State (6-14, 1-8), the eighth-placeteam in the Big Sky, behindUNC and ahead of NorthernArizona. The Hornets are ledby junior forward JohnDickson, who’s averaging12.8 points per game, whichranks 11th in the conference.UNC defeated SacramentoState 61-53 Jan. 7 inSacramento, Calif.
On Saturday, the Bears arefaced with a much differentopponent in conference-leading Weber State (16-4, 8-
1) in Ogden, Utah, whereUNC has never won. Theclosest the Bears have cometo getting a victory at the DeeEvents Center came Jan. 29 oflast year when the Wildcatswon, 72-71, on a last-second40-foot heave from now-jun-ior guard Scott Bamforth.
Weber State leads theconference in scoring, aver-aging 78.1 points per game,while winning its games by anaverage of 10.7 points. TheWildcats also boast two of theBig Sky’s top-four scorers,with Bamforth being fourth at15.6 points per game and jun-ior guard Damian Lillardbeing first at 24.4 points pergame, which also classifieshim as the top scorer in NCAADivision I.
The Bears face WeberState at 5 p.m. Saturday.
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UNC sophomore guard Tate Unruh, right, dribbles to avoidthe double-team of freshman guard Dylan Elias, left, andfreshman forward Brendan Keane last week in practice.
Junior leading pack of successful, surprising sprintersTARIQ MOHAMMAD
For junior Evan Taylor ofthe UNC track team, life isall about putting forth thebest effort.
Taylor, who was a walk-on for the University ofNorthern Colorado trackand field team in the fall of2009, has made majorstrides since his freshmanyear, and so has the Bears’track and field program.
“The recent success of myjunior year is different forme,” Taylor said. “In yearspast, my freshman and soph-omore years, I didn’t haveanyone to really push me. Inpractice, it was me runningand training by myself.”
Taylor said he has been
pressured and motivated tocompete at a higher level thisseason, mostly because of fel-low sprinters on the team.
“(My teammates) all aretalented guys,” Taylor said.“It’s really helped me pushmyself in practice. I think ithas helped me progress as aperson.”
Taylor, who has beennamed the Big Sky Athlete ofthe Week twice this season,is not only a sprinter, but astudent of track.
Taylor is .02 secondsshy of the school record inthe 60-meter dash, and hisrelationship with headcoach Amanda Schick hasgrown throughout the sea-son, continuing to developTaylor as a sprinter.
“My relationship withEvan now is getting him to
really understand what ittakes to get him to the nextlevel,” Schick said. “I think heis finally starting to under-stand what he has to do onand off the track to get towhere he wants to be.”
The differences from thisseason and last are distinct.Schick, like Taylor, said withcompetition in practicecomes excellence.
“The element of practiceis very different, which I thinkhas aided in the entire sprintgroup’s reason for success,”Schick said. “Where one ofthem might have an areawhere they are less devel-oped, the others fill in forthat. They are able to com-pete against their own defi-ciency every single day.”
The men’s sprint team iscatching the conference by
surprise as three ofthe four sprintersare in the top-fivein the 60-meterdash, and threeare in the top-10for the 200-meterdash. Taylor leadsthe pack as No. 1in both events.
Grady, asophomore whodid not try outfor the team lastyear, ran andworked out withTaylor in high school.
“(Taylor) was kind ofbummed that I didn’tcome out last year,”Grady said. “He has got-ten a lot faster since highschool, up here breakingrecords. I’m really gladthat I have him as a team-
mate again.That’s my boy.”
With Gradyon his heels,Taylor cannothelp but laughin amusement,now runningalongside aclose friend.
“We playaround witheach other,goofing aroundand crackingjokes, but it is
all business out therewhen we get on thetrack,” Grady said. “Whenit’s time to play, you play,and when it’s time towork, you work.”
Competition betweenGrady and Taylor is nothingnew for the roommates.
“I don’t care if it’s first tothe bathroom, we have littlecompetitions with eachother,” Taylor said. “It goesway beyond sports. We wisheach other a large amount ofsuccess for each other. If he’sslacking, not waking up forclass, I’m going to let himknow, and he will do thesame for me.”
Taylor said he hopes tobecome a coach and giveback to the youth and com-munity after he graduates.He said he loves childrenand cannot see himselfaway from sports.
Whatever it may be,Taylor said he wants to bethe best.
“I’m going to do every-thing on and off the trackto be a successful person,”he said.
Evan Taylorhas the best 60-and 200-meterdash times in theBig Sky this year.
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Eric Chester has become apioneer in reviving work ethicin young people after he grad-uated from UNC more than30 years ago.
Milne Auditorium at theUniversity of NorthernColorado was packed tocapacity as students and pro-fessors gathered to hearChester, an alumnus andMonfort Executive ProfessorSpeaker, discuss Tuesdaywhat he has learned in 32years in the professionalrealm.
A master of his craft,Chester had no problemrelating to and captivatingthe crowd of mostly youngpeople.
Chester spoke at lengthabout the expectations busi-nesses have for youngemployees, focusing fore-most on a positive attitude.Chester also spoke adamant-
ly about the significance ofthe college years in determin-ing future success.
The message was simple.“Be positive, reliable, and
professional,” Chester said.Chester canvassed 1,400
corporate managers to for-mulate his list of must-havevalues for young people in theworkforce.
“The most commonresponse?” Chester said. “Wewant enthusiastic peoplewho show up for work ontime, go above and beyondand know a little somethingabout service.”
Aspiring business ownerNick Welder attended the talkfor class credit.
Welder, a finance major,said he was impressed withChester’s notion that youngpeople should be commend-ed for valuing other aspects oflife above work, unlike theirwork-privy predecessors.
Businesses hire Chester asa consultant for recruiting,
managing and motivatingyoung people entering theworkforce. Chester’s clientsinclude Dairy Queen, Harley-Davidson, Wells Fargo andToys R Us.
Chester has also pub-lished five books on workethic including “Bring Your‘A’ Game to Work,” “SevenValues That Will Make EveryEmployer Want to Hire You,”and “Fight to Keep You.”Chester has also co-authored
eight other books.Beginning his profession-
al career as a teacher, Chesterhas had experience workingwith young people.
Chester’s transition tomotivational speaking wasborn out of his frustration as ayoung teacher. Chester strug-gled to reach the young peo-ple he taught and sought amethod for fostering motiva-tion. Chester’s resolution wasa promotional brochure,
offering his services as a moti-vational speaker.
The brochures drew aquick response from schoolsin the Denver metro area.Chester says it took time todevelop his message, and hecontinued to craft it through-out those early talks. Toestablish a concrete messagehe could deliver in his presen-tations, Chester reached out
to top motivational speakersfrom around the country,asking each one for his or hermost effective wisdom in2,500 words.
Chester compiled theresponses and publishedthem as his first book, “TeenPower,” in 1995. “TeenPower” sold 300,000 copies,and today it has been pub-lished in eight editions.
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Any basketball coachknows that role players arekey assets to any basket-ball team that strives to besuccessful.
Despite her stature at 5-foot-4, senior guard AmyMarin plays a huge role on
the UNC women’s basket-ball team.
Marin grew up andfound her love for the gameof basketball in the smalltown of Iliff, which has apopulation of just morethan 200 residents.
“I started playing basket-ball in fifth grade,” Marin said.“My friends told me to come
play, and after afew games, I real-ized I was reallygood — I thinkbecause I was fastand I could stealthe ball fromthem, and I havebeen playing eversince.”
This season isMarin’s secondwith theUniversity of NorthernColorado. She attendedNortheastern Junior Collegein Sterling her freshman andsophomore year and wasaccepted as part of the teamonce she arrived at UNC.
“Amy has definitelybonded with the team,” sen-ior forward Kaisha Brown
said. “Last year,she got hurttoward the mid-dle of the season.That made hertake a step back,but during thepostseason andthrough the sum-mer, she workedreally hard to earna leadership roleon the team.”
Her coaches and team-mates consider Marin adefensive specialist. Marinmay not look to score, but herdefensive presence and courtawareness is uncanny.
“Amy is definitely one ofour best defenders on theteam,” head coach JaimeWhite said. “She is very com-
petitive, hates to lose andworks really hard in practice.Amy feels her role as a defen-sive player first, and we lookto her to pressure and playgood defense.”
Marin said she is one ofthose players who always hasplayed the game hard.
“I just try to work hardno matter what,” Marinsaid. “I try to come in and
work my butt off to helpthe team. When things aregoing good, it makes youwant to play hard, andwhen things are not goingso good, it makes youwant to work that muchharder.”
Marin will graduate inMay with a businessadministration degree withan emphasis in accountingand is hoping to become acertified public accountant.
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Men’s basketball to playin BracketBusters again
Senior’s hustle invaluable to women’s hoops team
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It was announcedMonday that the UNC
m e n ’ sbasket-b a l lt e a mw i l lpartici-pate in
ESPN’s 10th annual SearsBracketBusters event for thesecond straight year when ithosts California PolytechnicState University Saturday,Feb. 18 at Butler-HancockSports Pavilion.
The University ofNorthern Colorado (7-13,4-5 Big Sky) won its
matchup last season withNew Mexico State, 82-80,in Las Cruces, N. M.
UNC’s game againstCal Poly (13-9, 4-5 BigWest) will be its firstagainst a Big West oppo-nent since losing 63-59 toPacific in 2010 during theC o l l e g e I n s i d e r . c o mPostseason Tournamentquarterfinals.
This will be UNC’s secondmeeting with the Mustangs,with Cal Poly winning 76-62on Dec. 17, 1990.
BracketBusters will fea-ture 11 nationally televisedgames over three days inFebruary. The concept ofthe event is to help teams inthe selected conferences,
which have had teams suc-ceed in the NCAATournament in previousyears, to play top non-con-ference opponents to helpraise their RPIs.
Every team in the BigSky is participating in aBracketBusters game thisseason.
UNC’s tips off at 7:05p.m. Feb. 18 at Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion.
Men’s Basketball
BracketBusterCal Poly7:05 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 18Butler-HancockSports Pavilion
Amy Marin has 23 steals and26 assists andhas star ted onegame this season.
Next Game:Sacramento State
8:05 p.m.Thursday
Sacramento, Calif.
“She is very competi-tive, hates to loseand works reallyhard in practice.
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