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Page 2 August 25, 2014SOCIAL
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Thursday, August 21At 4:26 p.m. police responded to Wiebking Hall regarding possession of narcotic equipment. An adult arrest was made.
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Page 3August 25, 2014 OPINIONTHE MIRROR
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STUDYING ACROSS THE PONDDid you know 2% of U.S. college students get
to travel the world? Well, this summer I got to be a part of those lucky few while I studied abroad in London.
I may have only studied there for !ve weeks, but it was de!nitely one of the best summers of my life. My host school, Middlesex Univer-sity, put together an incredibly fun and diverse program that all students taking classes there could enjoy. "e program included visits to Stonehenge and Bath, Windsor Castle and Eton, Oxford and Buckingham Palace. It even had optional events that students could go to with a discounted price through the school. "ese events included a weekend in Paris, tickets to Wicked and Phantom of the Opera. Tickets to a play at the Globe "eatre were also included.
"e program focused on allowing students to be as engulfed in English culture as possible without overwhelming them, especially parts of the culture unique to London and not so com-mon in America, such as a#ernoon tea, going
to pubs to get !sh‘n chips and calling soccer “football.”
"e class I took was an English literature class called “Fantastic London,” and it focused on studying English authors and the places they wrote about in London. I didn’t know what to expect fully when I got moved from my !lm class to this class, but by the end of the !rst day I was happy to have been placed in it. I learned so much about the city of London itself and how its culture came to be.
Also, getting tours from our teacher around London to show us the locations the authors of the books we read mentioned, helped my understandings of the books a lot.
"e amount of history, culture and displays of architecture I saw was almost overwhelming but amazing nonetheless. Each trip included experienced tour guides that taught us so much about each place and the surrounding areas. Studying abroad is an incredible experience that I highly recommend everyone try. Being a stu-
dent from UNC, I had the advantage of having an incredible international studies program to help me every step of the way. I got my pass-port, paperwork and registered for my class at Middlesex University without much di$culty.
I was the only student from Colorado, and this trip was my !rst time out of the country. "e experiences I gained are irreplaceable and will bene!t me in the future. I met some of the most amazing people and made friends I hope to have for the rest of my life. If you haven’t looked into studying abroad or are having doubts about whether you can, go to the Inter-national Studies o$ce and they may help you !nd a way.
- Antonio Hill
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Five weeks in one of the most cultured and entertaining cities that the world has to offer
!e Mirror Re"ections are the opinion of !e Mirror’s editorial board: Antonio Hill, Danielle Ross, Katarina Velazquez, Alexandria Adar Vasquez and Cassius Vasquez.
NEWSEditor: Katarina Velazquez - Assistant: Monique Becker
�By Katarina [email protected]
!e Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Asso-ciation has gotten some notable attention the past few weeks. !e group that brings awareness to ALS, otherwise known as “Lou Gehrig's Disease,” has raised nearly $42 million in donations since late July, according to a report by !e New York Times.
What exactly is so viral that it is uniting celebrities and common-folk to raise attention to the disease and donate to the charity's re-search? !e ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, where people videotape themselves dumping buckets of freez-ing ice water over their bodies and post it on their social media accounts.
Nearly everywhere one can look on the Inter-net, especially Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, he or she can "nd a video of a friend or family member completing this challenge. And if one has ever had the desire to see their favorite musician, athlete or movie star totally drenched, now may be their chance. Celebrities are getting really involved in these challenges as
well, even political "gures like George W. Bush are taking the challenge.
Here are the rules: within 24 hours of being nominated for the chal-lenge, participants must record themselves on video stating that they accept the challenge. !ey must then show themselves pouring ice into a bucket of water, followed by li#ing the bucket over their heads, inevitably dumping ice cold water over their bodies. !e participant then has the authority to nominate or challenge other people.
If the person chooses to participate in the challenge, they are expected to donate at least $10, as opposed to not doing the challenge and having to donate $100 to the ALS Association.
According to the ALS Association's website, the purpose of the Ice Bucket Challenge is to spread ALS awareness across the See ALS on page 6
CHALLENGE GETS BUCKETS
MON 8/25
TUE 8/26
WED 8/27
THU 8/28
FRI 8/29
SAT 8/30
5-8:30 p.m.Off-Campus Community WelcomeStudent Activities Office Lobby
9 a.m.-1 p.m.Student EmploymentFall Job FairUniversity Center
8-10 p.m.Bear Welcome: Comedy ClubUniversity Center- Ballrooms
4-8 p.m.Fraternity & Sorority Life Welcome Week BBQTurner Green
5:30-7 p.m.Student Senate MeetingUniversity Center- Council Room.
9:30-11 a.m.ADA Compliant Video CaptioningMichener Library- Room L12.
4-6 p.m.Cesar Chavez Cultural Center Welcome Back BBQCesar Chavez Cultural Center/ Patton House
8-11 p.m.Bear Welcome: 80s DanceUniversity Center- Panorama Room.
Cassius Vasquez | !e MirrorAshlee McDonald, !e Mirror’s assistant editor-in-chief, takes the ALS Ice Bucket Chal-lenge Sunday night outside of !e Mirror’s o"ce. !e challenge went viral on social media mid-summer and raises awareness of !e ALS Association.
Page 5August 25, 2014 NEWS
BEARS GET A TASTE OF UNC
Anaísa Lúa |!e MirrorAt the Cross Bow Darts game booth at Taste of UNC on Friday, acting major Jalen Taylor (foreground) aims to shoot a target with a plastic bow and arrow set. Sydnie Lam-beth, an ISET major, joins her in the background.
Page 6 August 25, 2014NEWS
ALS ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE
Monique [email protected]
At the end of July, the National Science Foun-dation Organization’s Division of Undergraduate Education awarded roughly $300,000 to the Colorado School of Mines and the University of Northern Colorado.
!e award plans to start an innovative teaching pro-gram between the universi-ties to help reach the U.S. presidential goal of creating 100,000 science, technol-ogy, engineering and math teachers within a decade. !e grouping is known as STEM.
!e program will draw on the strengths of both
universities and will be providing students at the School of Mines the chance to earn a degree in an existing STEM area, as well as the ability to apply for teaching licensure through the state.
“Students from Mines will "nish their classes that they need for their "eld and will then be-come UNC students to get their state licensure,” said Rob Reinsvold, assistant professor of the School of Biological Science and principle investigator of the STEM program. “!e details haven’t been worked out yet, but we hope to get these students to complete their master’s degrees at UNC as well.”
Students at the School of Mines who are particularly interested in the program are chemistry, physics and mathematics majors. !ese students at Mines will be taught how to transfer that material so that they are better equipped to teach in the public school system.
!e partnership between Mines and UNC may become a model for other engineering and teaching universities, and demon-strates how teamwork can produce more quali"ed STEM teachers.
!e next steps for the program are for the faculty at both universities to look for external funding op-tions. !e program is an-ticipated to begin next fall.
STEM PROGRAM AWARDED NATIONAL GRANT FUNDING
ALS from page 4
nation, and the gener-ous donations seem to be just an added bonus. !e end goal for the associa-tion is to get donations for research, to eventually create a world without the disease.
Also reported by !e New York Times, over 739,000 new donors have given money to the associa-tion between July 29 and August 21. People have shared more than 1.2 mil-lion videos of the challenge on Facebook, and the chal-lenge has been mentioned 2.2 million times via Twitter.
But what exactly is ALS?
According to the associa-tion's website, it is a pro-gressive neurodegenerative disease that a#ects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord.
Motor neurons are essen-tially in charge of the brain, spinal cord and muscles throughout the body.
ALS causes these neu-rons to degenerate, and when these neurons die, the ability of the brain to control the body's muscles is completely lost.
When one loses control of moving their muscles voluntarily, he or she eventually has the possibil-ity of becoming completely paralyzed in later stages of the disease.
Also according to the ALS Association's website, people between the ages of 40 and 70 tend to be the target for developing the disease. But ALS can occur to people in their twenties and thirties as well. ALS is also 20 percent more com-mon in males than females.
Students, sta# and faculty at the University of Northern Colorado have been highly involved in participating in the Ice Bucket challenge, along with multiple other resi-dents of Greeley.
Many teams and coaches from the athletic depart-ment have taken the challenge as well, usually encouraging other UNC
related teams or sta# to participate in the challenge.
For students who wish to get more involved with the ALS Association, the group will be hosting “A Walk to Defeat ALS” event Septem-ber 21 in Fort Collins and September 13 in Denver.
According to the associa-tion's website, the walk is the group's biggest annual event, and is another great opportunity to make a dif-ference and raise awareness about ALS.
Simply by people using their social media ac-counts, ALS has become one of the well known trending topics on the Internet today.
Cassius Vasquez | !e MirrorDonations can be made to !e ALS Association for those who are interested in donating to research for the disease.
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Page 8 August 25, 2014NEWSFRESHMEN GET THE SCOOP ON HOW TO HAVE FUNMonique [email protected]
Following last !ursday's move-in event, the University Program Council, also known as the UPC, hosted an Ice Cream Social and Movie on the Hill in the University Center's Ballrooms as the kick o" to Bear Welcome Week.
Many University of Northern Colorado students expressed excitement about the event and claimed it to be bene#cial to incoming students as well as a way for returning students to socialize.
Jasmine Turner, an undeclared freshman said the event was great because it allowed her to get to know people instead of being isolated. She said everyone who attended seemed enthusiastic to meet new people and make new friends.
!e University Center’s ballrooms were full of stu-dents enjoying ice cream sandwiches, ice cream bars and popsicles, and the outside patio was #lled with sororities and fraternities talking to incoming students about the bene#ts of Greek life and providing insight into the col-lege experience.
“Some of the girls in sororities have come by and talked with us about joining and what Greek life is and about their sororities,” Turner said. “Everyone is really nice and keeps o"ering really good advice.”
Inside the ballrooms, there were also projectors on the north and south ends informing students of future events being hosted by UPC. For a list of these future events that are being hosted by the UPC, students can visit http://www.unco.edu/bearwelcome/.
Following the ice cream social, students had the option of watching “A Million Ways to Die in the West,” showing
on the hill at the University Center's South Lawn.While the ice cream social was primarily attended by
freshmen, every UNC student had the opportunity to attend the ice cream and movie social. !e event appeared to be an opportunity for students on campus to mingle and to meet new people, and students made sure to reiter-ate that feeling.
“!is is a good place to meet people and make friends,” said Amalia Carlson, a freshman elementary education major.
Upperclassmen also had the chance to attend and meet new people, as well as advertise for their groups and clubs on campus. A high attendance rate was seen from Greek life, as well as various sports teams around campus.
A$er a stressful day of moving in and rushing from car to dorm and back, trying to make friends with roommates and saying goodbye to parents, the UPC's event gave students an outlet and a chance to relax.
HISPANIC HONOR SOCIETY RECEIVES NATIONAL AWARD Ashlee [email protected]
!e Hispanic Honor Society has been nationally recognized for increasing their collegiate cultures on the University of Northern Colorado campus.
!is year the Sigma Delta Pi chapter was among 12 other collegiate level clubs given for Honoring Excellent study of the Spanish-language the society has also been named an Honor Chapter for outstand-ing activities on campus for the eighth consecutive year.
According to the Sigma Delta Pi website, the chapter de#nes itself as the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society.
NCHHS is a non-pro#t organization, a member of the Association of College Honor Societies and partners with the
American Association of Teachers of Span-ish and Portuguese, Estudio Internacional Sampere, the Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Estudios Norteamerica-nos Benjamin Franklin, the International Association of Hispanists and the North American Academy of the Spanish Lan-guage.
In order to help promote Hispanic lan-guage and culture on college campuses as well as in the community.
With a focus on the Spanish language this group has worked with chapter advi-sor Efrain Garza, an associate professor of Hispanic Studies program at the Univer-sity of Northern Colorado. Garza had the honor of receiving the Jose Martel award. Every three years the award is given to the HHS's most in%uential and outstanding professor.
NORTHERN AT NIGHT SHINES BRIGHTA&E
Editor: Antonio Hill - Assistant: La’Asianee Brown�
TUE 8/26
MON 8/25
THU 8/28
WED 8/27
FRI 8/29
SAT 8/30
7-9 p.m.Jazz Welcome ConcertFrasier Hall Room 90
8-10 p.m.Bear Welcome: Comedy ClubUC Ballrooms
9-11 p.m.Open Mic NightFireside Lounge
7:15 p.m.Swing Dance Club WelcomeGunther Hall Gym
8:30-10:30 p.m.Bear Welcome! Center for Peer Education BINGOUC Ballroom
4-6 p.m.Cesar Chavez Cultural Center Welcome Back BBQCesar Chavez Cultural Center/ Patton House
8-11 p.m.Bear Welcome: 80s DanceUniversity Center- Panorama Room.
La’Asianee [email protected]
!e Resident Hall Association sponsored the event “Northern at Night”to kick o" in a new location: Doubenmier Field, adjacent to its previous location of Bishop-Lehr Field. !e new location allowed for more student activities and clubs to promote their names. Loren LaCash, a freshman theater acting major, said that she found the event to be enter-taining for students. “It’s like an adult playground,” she said. Given its larger location, students were able to enjoy various in#atable games, including a vig-orous boot camp obstacle and laser tag, while rocking out to tunes provided by UNC Radio. In the surrounding area, students were able to participate in various booths exposing them to di"erent clubs and sta" at UNC.
Clubs such as African Student Association, Spectrum and Bear Catholic provided booths with henna, snow cones and ball tosses for candy bars. Diversity Mentors helped students create “Identity” trail mix , creating an ice breaker between students and sta". Diversity Mentors hold programs like these in the residence halls so students should always be on the look out. Students at the event snacked on food from local restaurants such as Domino’s, Wing Shack and Batter Up Cakes. Groups of friends were drawn by a caricature artist while others battled it out on nostalgic lawn games such as Connect Four and Jenga. Every once and a while a stenciled glitter tattoo could be seen by a person walking by. Even with its variety, Northern at Night didn’t seem to satisfy everyone. Caleb Clark, a sopho-more visual communications major, didn’t $nd
much to peak his interest. “!is was cool, but I liked the others like Rec Fest. !ere isn’t much I like to do at this one,” he said. He attended with his roommate and friends, and said he participated in some laser tag. Rylee Portman, a freshman pre-nursing major, said she thought the events seemed to be doing their jobs in promoting UNC’s clubs and organizations. “I’m the $rst to go to college, so I’m like the hamster and I love it,” she said. Welcome Week seemed to provide a variety of events that could $t every student’s taste. Ultimately, Welcome Week o"ers an opportu-nity to meet new people and be exposed to what UNC has to o"er.
Danielle [email protected]
A%er an historic win against Colorado College Friday night, the Northern Colorado women’s soccer team came home with a loss against the University of Colorado at Boulder. Saves by Bu"aloes goal-keeper Kate Scheel and two shots by the Bears that bounced o" the crossbar contributed to the loss. !e Bears only managed to get in two shots on the goal during the Bu"aloes-dominated $rst half. !e $rst shot of the game for Northern Colorado came about halfway through the $rst half, when sophomore forward Shanlie Anderson $red one toward the Boulder goal. Scheel managed to
stop the shot.!e second and last Bears shot of
the $rst half was taken by fresh-man forward Brooke Braden, who missed by mere inches and bounced the ball o" the crossbar.O"ensive pressure kept the ball in the Bu"aloes’ possession for most of the $rst half. !ey managed to get in seven shots to the Bears’ two, but both teams ended the half without a goal.
Head coach Tim Barrera benched and played di"erent Bears frequently throughout the half, giv-ing 19 players time on the $eld and allowing his starters time to rest.!e rest seemingly paid o", as the Bears came out kicking in the second half. Six minutes out of the locker room, the Bears managed to
get another shot at the goal. Sopho-more mid$elder Kassy Castillo’s shot was saved by Bu"s goalkeeper Scheel. Seventeen minutes into the half, Boulder took the lead, which they would keep for the remainder of the game.
!ough junior goalkeeper Kait-lin Ru" played a strong game, with seven saves to Scheel’s three, one shot by the Bu"aloes managed to get through her defenses.Boulder’s Kahlia Hogg took a corner shot, which Ru" de#ected but did not punch out of bounds. !e ball bounced once more o" the crossbar and came into the pos-session of Boulder’s Darcy Jernan, who got the ball around Ru" and into the net.
Attempting to tie it up, the Bears took three more shots in the remainder of the game. Junior defender Adrienne Jordan and sophomore Sydney Schroeder blasted two shots at the Boulder goal within four minutes of one another, but were unsuccessful. Junior forward Essence Ortiz-Laneir took possession of the ball as the half was dwindling to its end, and it seemed the ball was sure to $nd the net, but the Bears’ hopes were dashed once again as the ball bounced o" the crossbar and ended up in the hands of the Bu"s goalkeeper.
!e Bears will look to take their record from 1-1 to 2-1 this !urs-day at 4 p.m. against Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
SECOND GAME OF WOMEN’S SOCCER A LOSS University of Colorado Boulder defeats Bears with a score of 1-0 in a hard-fought game
Page 10 August 25, 2014A&EINTERNATIONAL FILM SERIES PREVIEW Ashlee McDonald [email protected]
Yearly since 1973 !e International Film Series, also known as IFS, has put on "lms at the University of Northern Colorado. What started as a sta# project has become a campus wide e#ort to expose students to many types of "lm. !e series is brought to life each year by student volunteers and UNC sta#, faculty and sta# from the English Depart-ment’s Film Studies program provide the leadership and administrative support for the series.
!e IFS Fall Film Festival is open to students and sta# at no charge and community members for $3. Each "lm is shown in the Lindou Auditorium, with two showings a week running from the start of October until the end of November. All showings are 7 p.m. Wednesdays and 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. !ursdays.
In addition to the Fall Film Festival IFS hopes to showcase local directors and actors as well as bringing speakers to campus. For more information on events in the upcoming semester students can visit: http://www.unco.edu/ifs/.
Dean Popejoy | UNCBears.com
Junior Rebecca Lancia takes a shot in the !rst game of the Northern Colorado women’s soccer season last Friday against the Colorado College Tigers at the Jackson Sports Complex. "e Tigers fell to the Bears 3-2, ending a 29-year UNC losing streak and kicking o# the season with a bang.
A WIN 29 YEARS IN THE MAKINGDylan [email protected]
Northern Colorado women’s soccer kicked o! their season Friday night at home with a 3-2 victory over Colorado College. As an added bonus, the team got to celebrate its "rst victory over the CC Tigers in the 29-year history of the program. At the outset, expectations for how the team would play were up in the air because the team is mostly underclassmen, and there was not a preseason. “Of the 26 players, 20 of them are either freshmen or sophomores eligibility-wise,” said head coach Tim Barerra before the game. “It is a really young group. It’s a step up for the juniors and seniors leadership-wise, but they are all ready to go and start playing.” Colorado College started the match with early momentum, mostly forcing the play into Northern Colorado’s defensive third, but strong defending kept the score even. Turnovers and sloppy play from Colorado College forced them
to back up defensively and the Bears’ attack proved e#cient with an early goal at 14:08 from sophomore Kassy Castillo with an assist by Sydney Schroeder. “Sydney Schroeder started really wide and forced their defenders to swarm her,” Castillo said of her "rst goal. “$ere was a lot of space to be run into and it was a good play by Sydney to pick her head up and slide it across.” Castillo wouldn’t take long to "nd the back of the net again as she managed to score on a free kick from junior Rebecca Lancia. “It was just bopping around and bounced o! me and went right in,” Castillo said. “It was shocking. I didn’t realize the ball was at me until it hit me.” Castillo and the Bears kept the pressure on as a turnover by the Tigers allowed for her to set up freshman Brooke Braden who made the shot and extended the Bears’ advantage to three. “It really got our momentum going and allowed us to relax and focus on defending,” Castillo said. “Against a good team like CCW there is never really a dull moment or a relaxing
point of the game.” Colorado College managed to cut into their de"cit before the half when a scramble in front of the Bears’ net allowed Colorado College’s Sar-ah Schweiss to put in her "rst goal of the match. $e second half turned the momentum of the game to the Tigers’ favor as Schweiss scored her second goal of the game and put them back within one goal of the Bears. From there on it was all about junior goaltender Kaitlin Ru! as she turned away two aggressive strikes from the Tigers’ attackers. Ru! spent the o!season playing with local semi-professional team the Colorado Storm and managed to polish her skills there a%er sitting out last season due to knee surgery. She showed her skills late in the game, making a diving save to reel in a heavy strike from the Tigers. “You would think there is a lot to it, but my biggest problem has been that I think too much so those kinds of saves are really just instinct,” Ru! said. “In that split second you just have to go, and if you don’t they score. It’s just engraved in me.”
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THU 8/28
FRI 8/29
SAT 8/30
CLUB EVENTS
SUN 8/31
4:00 p.m.Women’s SoccerColorado State University
3:30 p.m.Volleyball v. Eastern Illinois UniversityMuncie, Indiana
11:30 a.m.Volleyball v. Western Illinois UniversityMuncie, Indiana
6:00 p.m.VolleyballBall State University
All DayDay Hike Rocky Mountain National ParkFee: $10Outdoor Pursuits
WOMEN’S SOCCERRec Fest
@ Rec CenterFriday, Aug 22,
8-11 p.m.
Student Involvement Fair
@ Bishop-Lehr FieldSunday, Aug 24
12-3 p.m.
Kick-Arounds @ turf fields
Mon-Fri, Aug 25-29th 6-8 p.m.
HOCKEYMandatory Pre-Tryout Meeting
@ University Center- Aspen Room
Thursday, Aug 28 7 p.m.
12:00 p.m.Women’s Soccer v. North Dakota State
SPORTSEditor: Katarina Velazquez - Assistant: Monique Becker
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August 25, 2014Page 12 SPORTS
Jacob [email protected]
! e Northern Colo-rado women’s volleyball team closed out its 2014 preseason with its annual UNC Alumni match. ! is match pits the current volleyball team against a team of former Bears. Northern Colorado took the match in three games Sat-urday night against the former players. ! is is the team’s " rst experience with a real oppo-nent before the regular season begins. ! e tradition of the annual Alumni Game began back in 2005 during head coach Lindsey Oates’ " rst season coaching the Bears. Now, nine years later, the tradition has held on because it gives the players a good opportunity to see how they play against another team. “It’s good to play somebody di# erent,” Oates said. “We’ve been playing ourselves for two weeks. ! at’s what’s been nice, seeing something di# erent.” ! is year the alumni team had only eight members. For the most part, alumni members are Bears that have graduated very recently, but sometimes older alums want to join in on the fun. Alumna Teale Goble-Hemphill is a graduate from 2002, but she was out on the court with the other alums not missing a beat 12 years out of UNC. ! e coach for the alumni team was Stormie Wells, who graduated in 1995, but she was encouraging the team enthusiasti-cally with every point. ! ere is no limit to how many players are on the alumni team strictly because it is an optional game, something alumni volunteer for to help the current team. Each alumni player was smiling and talking each game, enjoying being back
at their alma mater and playing the sport they love. “It’s fun to have the alums back in uni-form,” Oates said. “We have always had an alumni night, but when we have a match they enjoy it.” ! is game wasn’t all smiles for the 2014 Bears volleyball team, however. ! is was their " rst test against a team they had not seen before, and it was an opportunity for the six freshmen to get their " rst collegiate game under their belts. “It was de" nitely nerve-wracking,” said freshman middle blocker Alex Kloehn. “You never know what to expect. ! ere’s a whole new crowd you have never seen before, but it’s still really fun. It was really good to get out the pre-game jitters, and I’m just excited to start the season.” Coach Oates said she believes that her freshmen played a very good " rst match and is excited to see how they develop
throughout this season. “I was very pleased with our freshmen tonight,” Oates said a$ er the match. “! ey came in and played aggressive, which
is always kind of a concern because the tendency can be to try not to make a mistake in their " rst match and they made plays. I thought they looked comfortable, they looked excited instead of tentative and scared to be in there.” ! e alumni match was a unique test for the Bears squad because the alumni team had a drastically di# er-ent rhythm. ! ey had never practiced with each other under a single coach with a similar system, so it was their " rst time coming together as a team. No matter the opponent, Oates said she believes that the current Bears team should be able to establish their own rhythm, and that will be something that they will try to bring in the regular season. UNC will open up the 2014 regular season this Friday and Saturday participating in the
Ball State tournament. ! e home opener for the Bears will be Sept. 3 against Colorado State University.
BEARS ALUMNAE BREAK IN VOLLEYBALL TEAMFormer Northern Colorado volleyball players face off against current team in traditional Alumni Game
Illustration by Seth Haller
Page 13August 25, 2014 SPORTS
ALTERNATIVEFITNESS ONUNC CAMPUS
Cassius Vasquez | !e MirrorLe! to right: Tra"cking through scenic central campus, Joshua Donaldson, a Cheba Hut employee and Greeley resident, rides to the Northern Colorado Rec Center with friend Ben Heroux, a UNC alumnus who graduated with a degree in Recreation, Tourism and Hospitality last May.
Makalah [email protected]
UNC o"ers a wide variety of sporting ac-tivities to choose from. So whether students are big or small, loud or quiet, the University
of Northern Colorado has a sport for them to enjoy. Aside from the traditional sports such as basketball, football, baseball and wrestling, UNC also o"ers a selection of alternative sporting activities. Some of these alternative sports are intramural and are played in a recreational setting. !e focus for intramural sports is learning, being active socially and having fun. UNC intramural sports for the fall semester include #ag football, so$ball, tennis, indoor soccer and inner tube water polo. If none of those sound appealing, students can also check out badminton, kickball, racquetball and 5v5 basketball. All of these activities are o"ered through the UNC Campus Recreation Center. !e registration information, cost, start date and other valuable knowledge on the intra-mural sports can be found on the campus recreation website. !e Northern Colorado Recreations Center also o"ers club sports which are student-led and student-funded. Some of the club sports at UNC include taekwondo, Quidditch, men’s and women’s rugby, %g-ure skating and fencing. !e men’s lacrosse team is a popular club sport, as they went nearly undefeated last year, while %nish-
ing %rst in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse Conference. For a full list of club sports o"ered at UNC, visit the campus recreation center website. !e recreation center website is also the place to %nd swimming classes and programs, as well as %tness and wellness services (such as personal training and massage therapy). In addition to these alternative sports and activities, students also engage in alternative sports in a less organized way. For example, one may %nd students participating in Frisbee action on various parts of the campus. Most Frisbee play takes place on West Campus’s 9-hole disc golf course, close to Candelaria Hall. !e campus recreation center o"ers an Ulti-mate Frisbee club sport as well. Prior to the end of summer, UNC students o$en set up volleyball nets on Turner Green and in front of Belford Hall.Not too far from Turner Green, and just east of Holmes Dining Hall, is a hill most commonly known for being the location for the once-a-year water slide event put on by UNC Student Radio. !e hill is also a great place to sled in the winter. For those who enjoy wheels as their most frequent mode of transportation, Central Campus and its surrounding areas make for a great bike or longboard ride. More speci%cally, down 10th Avenue, be-tween Wiebking Hall and 16th street. !is route has perks during all times of the year.For more alternative sport information, see a resident hall assistant, the UNC campus rec center, or any UNC student or teacher with a love of the outdoors.
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Page 15August 25, 2014 FUN & GAMES
It’s the fi rst week of classes and we are ready to study here at the mirror! Can you fi nd all the fi rst week words be-low? We picked this week’s word search theme, but next week the theme could be up to you. Just email a list of words to [email protected], and your list could make it in. Use it to advertise your club or just for fun—we don’t mind either.
Word search of the week—First Week Back
Hungry? Complete this word search and get free food.The fi rst person to bring a completed word search to The Mirror table at the UC Monday morning will win a $15 gift certifi cate for Taste of Philly.Be the fi rst person to tweet a photo of a completed word search to @UNCmirror and win a $10 gift certifi cate.
Jokes of the week:
How big do you suppose that fence is?...
...I’d fi gure its around a yard.
What does a mermaid wear to math class?...
...an algebra.
Why was the origami class can-
celed?...
...the school folded.
The Average Life of Nicci Bee
By Nicole Busse
Page 16 August 25, 2014THE MIRROR
