NEWS BRIEFS Colorado, along with 12 other states, will hold both republican and democratic caucuses on Tuesday — “Super Tuesday” — to determine each party’s nominee for the presidential election.
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Senator Bernie Sanders held a rally on Sunday at Moby Arena on Colorado State University’s campus in Fort Collins. The Vermont senator has strong support from college students going into the Super Tuesday primary caucuses. Four thefts and a robbery are being investigated at convenience stores throughout Weld County. A suspect took money from the cash register of a Kum & Go in Mead at approximately 9 p.m. last Thursday. No one was injured. In addition, automatic change dispensers and charity donation boxes were stolen from four separate convenience stores in Windsor, Mead and Dacono between Feb. 21 and Feb. 23.
The Bear Essentials Rock Band plays during home games at the Bank of Colorado Arena. The band consists of Brian Galaviz, a senior jazz studies major, on guitar; Spencer Zweifel, a freshman jazz studies major, on keyboard; and Ori Yakir Bitton, a sophomore bass performance major, on bass. Photo by Alex Nunley | The Mirror
BEAR BASKETBALL GETS ROCKED By Julia Grooms sports@uncmirror.com
The University of Northern Colorado men’s and women’s basketball games have become a bit more rock and roll this semester. At the Bears’ most recent basketball games in the Bank of Colorado Arena, a band is filling the silence in between the cheers. The arena has found a new voice to keep the audience entertained at games, with a student-formed rock and roll band, consisting of four people, that plays fight songs and remixes of popular tracks.
This band calls themselves “The Bear Essentials Rock Band.” After over a year of planning and developing between UNC athletics and the College of Performing and Visual Arts, the band finally began. Richard Mayne, associate director of bands at UNC, helped form the group of musicians through auditions of which over 40 people auditioned. After choosing two musicians for each instrument, the band had eight members to create two full interchangeable bands to make sure the band was present for every men’s and women’s basketball games. Story continued on page 6.
Next APPEARANCE: Women’s basketball against Montana State University at 7 p.m. on Wednesday at the Bank of Colorado Arena
A presentation about the application of math to movie production will be held from 4:30-5:30 p.m. Monday in Ross 2090. Michael Dorff, Ph.D., professor of mathematics at Brigham Young University, will show how math is used to create realistic effects in popular movies such as Disney’s “Frozen” and “The Incredibles.” The presentation is free and open to the public. UNC has been recognized as a Tree Campus USA by the Arbor Day Foundation for the fourth consecutive year. UNC has three tree trails with 110 trees, including four state champion winners. Registering bicycles with UNC’s Bear on a Bike program can protect them from theft and improve the owner’s chances of getting his or her bike back if it is stolen. Registering bikes costs $20 and comes with a free U-lock, but is only valid during students’ time at UNC.
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Presidential election comes to Colorado UNC News News Editor: Chelsea Hinspeter Assistant Editor: Will Costello
THIS WEEK AT UNC MONDAY 2/29
9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Honors Spotlight for Prospective Students University Center 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Math and the Movies Presentations Ross Hall- Room 2090
TUESDAY 3/1
5 p.m. McNair Scholars Program Application Deadline Michener Library
WEDNESDAY 3/2 9 a.m.-5 p.m. First Wednesday Book Sale Michener Library
THURSDAY 3/3
2-4 p.m. UNC Board of Trustees Working Session Carter Hall- Fourth Floor Board Room 5-6 p.m. UNC Talks: Q&A with Financial Aid Counselors UNC Talks Online Forum
The state will join 12 other states in caucusing for presidential nominees on Tuesday By Julia Sobczak news@uncmirror.com
Colorado will hold caucuses for the 2016 presidential election this Tuesday—otherwise known as Super Tuesday. UNC will be the caucus location for local precincts in both democratic and republican caucuses. “Caucuses are a form of primary election held in some states including Colorado,” explained Alison Sullivan, a first year theater studies student and Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer. The process for nominating a candidate to represent a political party in the presidential election is called a primary. This crucial first step will determine the party’s platform, values and policies in the upcoming election. If someone who usually votes as a Democrat disagrees with the democratic candidate, his or her vote could go to the Republican Party, and vice versa. This has the potential to sway the election in favor of the other party. A candidate is decided based on the number of votes he or she receives within his or her party, and this vote is conducted through one of two processes: a primary vote or a caucus. Whereas a primary is similar to the
presidential ballot in November in which people cast their votes privately, a caucus is similar to a town hall meeting where people in different precincts, or districts, meet to decide who their delegates will vote for. Still with me? Good. Caucus-goers stand in groups according to their preferred candidate, and the state’s delegates vote based on the number of supporters each candidate receives. If the room is split evenly, coin flips determine the victor, according to Sullivan. “Like in Iowa, Bernie and Hillary tied in the popular vote section, but Hillary won the delegates due to several coin flips in her favor,” Sullivan said. “Thus, she won the state." There are a certain number of delegates for each district and they’re supposed to vote as representatives of their precincts. “The popular votes are counted, but the delegates are the ones that matter,” Sullivan explained. This means that, much like electoral votes, a presidential nominee gets a certain number of votes for each precinct. However, unlike the Electoral College, the process of nominating delegates, also called ‘awarding’ delegates, varies by state and is a more complicated process. Although a caucus is supposed to ensure everyone has an opportunity to
voice their opinions, voters in Colorado can only participate if they register with either the Republican or Democratic Party by the beginning of that year. For 2016, that date was Jan. 4. Thirty-five percent of Colorado voters, which is about one million Coloradans, are registered as unaffiliated, and therefore are ineligible to participate in the state’s primary caucus. Forty-two percent of all American voters identified as “independents” in the 2013 Gallup Poll. This is the largest percentage of voters who don’t identify with any party recorded in the 25 years that this question has been asked. Still, many UNC students who have registered will be caucusing on Tuesday. “I’m a little nervous but excited to throw my support for Bernie Sanders,” senior political science major Marcus Cervantes said. “I'm a long-time follower of Bernie Sanders. In short, I feel he is the only politician willing to discuss the contradictions in capitalism today. Perhaps with these discussions, we can come to an agreement on how to solve income inequality here in America.” Sanders, a nominee who has become known for his strong left-wing policies and the promise of a no-tuition college education, is currently losing the primaries to former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton due to a lack of superdelegate votes. Superdelegates are delegates similar to those who represent a precinct, however they have no commitment to a certain community and thus can vote for whomever they wish. In the Democratic Party, these superdelegates include members of the House and Senate, as well as governors. However, superdelegates don’t always represent the popular vote as Cervantes proves. “I will proudly stand up for Bernie,” he said in reference to the caucus. “I don't think free college is realistic, but let's bring it to the discussion table.” Sport and exercise science major Michael MacGuire said he is excited about his first caucus experience. “I like Rubio but I still have to look at his policies and see what makes sense, along with Trump and Cruz,” MacGuire said. “But no one has my attention just yet.” MacGuire said he appreciates the open nature of the caucus system and the dialogue it allows. “I think it’s good because everyone gets to see other points of view and meet a consensus,” MacGuire said. “It helps open people’s minds and decide on a candidate that the whole party can agree on.”
The remaining presidential candidates Democrats
Republicans
Bernie Sanders Senator from Vermont 42% support in National polls
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Hillary Clinton
Former Secretary of State Former Senator from New York 47% support in National polls
Donald Trump
Ted Cruz
Businessman
Senator from Texas
33% support in National polls
20% support in National polls
Marco Rubio
John Kasich
Ben Carson
Senator from Florida
Governor of Ohio
Nuerosurgeon
17% support in National polls
9% support in National polls
7% support in National polls
Poll percentage numbers courtesy of realclearpolitics.com Photos courtesy of senate.gov, Gage Skidmore
Photos courtesy of Michael Verdon, senate.gov, governor.ohio.gov, Gage Skidmore
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News Editor Chelsea Hinspeter news@uncmirror.com The AIDS Healthcare Foundation sparked controversy when they put up billboards linking sexually transmitted diseases to apps such as Tinder and Grindr. Tinder has added a new “health safety” page, helping users locate STI testing centers. Photo courtesy of tribktla.wordpress.com.
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ciated with the app—and the way the “health safety” page has raised eyebrows—additional information about STIs and where to be tested for them is still, ultimately, seen as helpful by many. “I think it’s just an assumption that the users might need to go get tested,” the UNC student said. “I don’t think it’s a bad thing.” In respect to Tinder’s introduction of the “health safety” page, the site stated, “Tinder empowers our users to create relationships. An important
aspect of any healthy relationship—whether formed on Tinder or otherwise—is ensuring proper sexual health and safety.” The post then directed users to a number of sexual safety tips. For the average user this simply boils down to easily accessible information on where to get tested for STIs. “For people like me, I don’t need it,” the anonymous student said. “But the suggestions for places to get tested are helpful, I am sure.”
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On the surface, the dating app Tinder might seem to be a strange enemy for the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Yet, the two have been locked in combat since last fall, when the AHF first began paying for Los Angelesarea billboards linking dating apps Tinder and Grindr to the spread of STIs such as chlamydia and gonorrhea. Tinder’s response to the advertisements was to send a cease and desist letter to the AHF, demanding the removal of the billboard advertisements. The AHF stated the advertisements would only be removed if Tinder would add a health safety section to the app. The result has been—as some Tinder users may have noticed—the addition of a “health safety” page to the app, which connects the user to a free Healthvana page locating nearby STI testing centers. Even given this history, there are those who feel the link to Healthvana has been added more in response to the stigma surrounding Tinder in some circles.
terest in another user. The ease with which Tinder allows people to meet people on an intimate level was part of what worried the AHF. “In many ways, locationbased mobile dating apps are becoming a digital bathhouse for millennials wherein the next sexual encounter can literally be just a few feet away— as well as the next STD,” said Whitney Engeran-Cordova, AHF’s public health division director, in a public statement last fall. In spite of the stigma asso-
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“A lot of people on the app only use it for hook-ups,” said a sophomore secondary education major who wanted to remain anonymous. “I believe the creators of Tinder know what the app has turned into and they want to make sure that the people on this app are being responsible adults.” The student—who once had an account with the site—said she no longer uses Tinder, as a number of her experiences with the app have been negative. “Almost everyone I have talked with on [Tinder] is just using the app for hookups,” she said. That being said, a significant number of college students in Colorado are using the app. Three Colorado schools— Colorado State University, the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Air Force Academy—made the list of the “Most Right-Swiped Campuses of 2015,” according to an August 2015 post on Tinder’s website. The data was collected based on the number of “right swipes” users on those campuses received, signifying the number of times a Tinder user approved of another’s photo and “swiped right” on their phone, showing their in-
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Activist seeks to break binaries UNC Arts Arts Editor: Mikhala Krochta
WHAT’S POPPIN’ MONDAY 2/29
6:15-7:30 p.m. Graduate Student Recital: Yucheng Zhang, Composition Frasier Hall- Room 90 (Studio B) 7-10 p.m. Rosenberry Writers’ Conference: Jon Clinch University Center- Panorama Room
TUESDAY 3/1
7-10 p.m. Rosenberry Writers’ Conference: Beth University Center- Panorama Room
WEDNESDAY 3/2
7:30-10 p.m. (Daily through Saturday) Performing Arts Series: The Who’s “Tommy” Frasier Hall- Langworthy Theatre 7-10 p.m. Rosenberry Writers’ Conference: Steven Church University Center- Panorama Room
THURSDAY 3/3
7-8:30 p.m. Schulze Speaker Series: Michael LoMonico — “The First Folio: The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare” University Center- Columbine Suite
SUNDAY 3/6
2-4:30 p.m. Performing Arts Series: The Who’s “Tommy” Frasier Hall- Langworthy Theatre 6-9:30 p.m. UPC Spring Concert: AlaunaGeorge and iExperia Bank of Colorado Arena
By Trevor Reid
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A sleepy puppy, a mermaid and a new Frank Ocean album might sound like nothing more than the elements of a weird dream, but they were all answers to one question: “If your gender was not on the binary, what would it be today?” Activist Joshua Allen posed this question to participants at a workshop Monday night in the Panorama Room at the University Center. Their goal was to show the lapse in reason of expecting people to pick from two genders when there’s a whole world of possibilities. The workshop, “Organizing at the Intersections of Black Lives Matter and Gender Justice,” revealed the complexity of multiple identities. Allen warned how intersectionality, the combination of multiple identities in each person, can become too reductive with the wrong mindset. “I frame it as an intersection, but I so often think or wonder what the world would be like if we recognize race and gender as
inherently tied together,” Allen said. “So there’s this weird thing that happens where we say, ‘Okay, so you’re black, and you’re queer,’ as though you’re shaking up two things in a pot, and that’s actually not how it works.” The first part of the workshop saw participants literally splitting into two sides of the room, in either agreement or disagreement, with statements Allen read off. Participants contemplated statements like, “Queer, trans and gender non-conforming people from black families are more likely to experience homophobia than their counterparts from white families,” as they chose a side, facing those with whom they disagreed. Pursuing a master’s degree in English, Jared Hudson said he was most inspired by this part of the workshop. “Hearing the points of the other side of the room that I was not on was really interesting because I never thought about it that way or never would have seen it that way,” he said. “It’s really about thinking outside the binary. That’s a big thing that I got from tonight because I keep finding myself thinking it’s ei-
ther ‘this or that’ instead of just a plethora of ‘this.’” Allen said they conceptualized the workshop at the end of 2013. “With the huge onslaught of black people being slaughtered publicly by the police, almost every day we were hearing about a new case,” Allen said. “You only get to hear about certain bodies, about certain people, about certain identities. I began to become so frustrated because there were so many queer people, trans people and LGBTQ people who were a part of racial justice movement work, so I made this workshop to counteract that process.” The GLBTA Resource Office organized Allen’s appearance in collaboration with the Women’s Resource Center and the Marcus Garvey Cultural Center. Senior political science major Alberto Gonzalez is a student coordinator for the GLBTA Resource Office. He said he respected Allen’s engaging and accessible teaching technique. “Joshua was affirming to everyone and all the comments made,” he said. “That’s kind of how I operate Safe Zone trainings: I affirm what they’re saying and then pose a question to challenge what
Joshua Allen listens to a question posed by a student regarding the most turbulent action they had been a part of. Allen visited UNC on Monday night. Photo by Andres Ramirez | The Mirror
they’re saying in order to get them to think critically. And Joshua did that all throughout the night in a way that was so elegant. For them, it came very natural.” Allen ended the workshop asking how participants planned to put what they learned into practice. “For me, it’s less about how we can think about these things and
more about how we can all individually be deployed to fight for the freedom, the safety and the happiness of all people around us,” Allen said. For Hudson, the importance of solidarity was a key element of the workshop. “Even if you may not identify with a problem, you can still be a part of the solution,” he said.
Cross-country collaboration in ‘Amerigo’ By Trevor Reid
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One award-winning composer, two internationally famous music educators and 50 violinists from each state all came together to create “Amerigo.” Stephanie Ann Boyd said the 50 State Sonata Project was a way of commemorating the legacy of her teacher John Kendall. The 25-year-old composer remarked on his wisdom, explaining the wide reach of Kendall that brought the Suzuki method to America in the 1960s. “I spent as much time with him as I could in lessons and outside lessons as well, and so I would help him with a lot of his music projects,” Boyd said. “One of the projects he had was this map of the U.S. and a map of the world, and one day he started rattling off the top of his head every single name of every person he’d ever taught—and this guy had been teaching for 70 years by then. I remember he’d tell me the city they came from, and so I looked for the city and put a pushpin there. I still remember my fingers hurting trying
to put all these pushpins in.” After finishing graduate school, Boyd decided to respond to requests to write a violin sonata by reaching out to violinists from each of the 50 states. “A lot of times when you’re a composer in the classical music world, you get a commission and you write a piece, and it gets one performance—maybe it gets two performances—and then only one person’s feedback. You only end up reaching the lives of the people who attend that one concert,” she said. With more than 50 in attendance at the Colorado premiere, Boyd said she can expect “Amerigo” to reach thousands. Pursuing a doctorate’s degree in violin performance, Ching-Hsuan Wang premiered the piece Tuesday afternoon in Milne Auditorium of Kepner Hall. Having studied the Suzuki method, Wang was ecstatic to take part in remembering Kendall, who brought the Suzuki method to America after studying under Japanese music educator Shinichi Suzuki. Wang, an international student from Taiwan, fell in love with Colorado when she arrived with her mother at 16. “It’s very meaningful to me to represent Colorado for this national project and to bring new music to the community that I love,” Wang said in an interview with Joe
Moylan of the Greeley Tribune. With six movements, Boyd named each movement of “Amerigo” for a different city in the six time zones. Each movement captures something of the personality of each time zone and city. Reaching out to violinists from each state would not have been possible without modern technology, Boyd said. “I’ve been skyping every single one of the commissioners one-on-one, to talk about the music… like, what they enjoy,” she said. “They’ve been going over the music and giving me feedback on how to make it more idiomatic, easier for the instrument, how to make these special limits even more special. And so you have the creative energy of 50 violinists all focused on this one sonata.” In the second performance of the project, Wang brought each voice involved in the collaboration to life on her violin as she represented Colorado. Boyd was in attendance and hopes to make it to as many premieres as she can. Next year, Boyd said she plans to follow up the 50 State Sonata Project with a 50 Country Sonata Project— reaching out to 50 violinists from around the world to commemorate Kendall’s own global reach.
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OPINION
Gun violence is nothing new for our generation
Book by: PETE TOWNSEND & DES MCANUFF
Directed by: DAVID GRAPES
Music and Lyrics by: PETE TOWNSEND
Choreographed by: MONTE BLACK
Additional Lyrics by: JOHN ENTWISTLE & KEITH MOON
Police guard the front door of Excel Industries in Hesston, Kan., where a gunman reportedly killed three people before being shot and killed by a police officer. Photo courtesy of Fernando Salazar | Wichita Eagle
By Sarah Methuselah Last Thursday, the United States experienced another shooting within its borders in Hesston, Kansas. The shooting occurred at an Excel plant, killing three and ultimately ending the shooters life. Active shootings are not abnormal to our society. Truthfully, shootings similar to the incident in Kansas are, unfortunately, common for American society in the 21st century. In fact, just four months ago, a shooting occurred in our home state of Colorado. An armed gunman, who had an anti-abortionist motive, attacked a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood center. The Excel plant and Colorado Springs shootings are separate events and not related, but the incidents do exemplify an immense problem Americans are being forced to face on a daily basis. The uneasiness Americans, including myself, experience or acknowledge when leaving our own homes has become an everyday concern. Americans should be able to walk into their workplaces, schools or public stores with an absence of fear. Yet many public environments—ranging from elementary schools to the workplace to the highway—are viewed as potentially dangerous scenes for the next shooting. In actuality, shootings—or shooting threats—are not uncommon. From per-
sonal experience, during my senior year of high school, my school had our own active shooter threat. One of our female students wrote her plans on the bathroom wall and explained what she intended to do at our school the following Friday. Many of the other schools in the area also experienced gun violence or threats. As a millennial, threats of shootings and gun violence are not hushed or infrequent, but rather regular. They should be uncommon and unheard of, yet many experience gun violence in some form. Some Americans might argue that the lack of gun control contributes to the increase in severe acts of violence taken out on innocent civilians. Others might state that the lack of acknowledgement or treatment of mental illness within U.S. borders contributes to the accepted notion of gun violence. I believe gun violence could be attributed to a lack of both gun control and acknowledgement or treatment of mental illnesses. Maybe the increase in gun violence is a combination of inadequate gun control and the civilian(s) holding the gun. There is no singular person or organization to blame for the abundance of gun violence within the U.S. Regardless, there are many factors that contribute to the ongoing problem and something needs to be done in order for this critical predicament to be addressed and solved.
- Sarah Methuselah is a freshman pre-journalism major and also an opinion columnist for The Mirror. She can be reached at editor@uncmirror.com
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Michael to forgo senior season UNC Sports Sports Editor: Dylan Sanchez
HOME GAMES WEDNESDAY 3/2
7 p.m. Women’s Basketball vs. Montana State University Bank of Colorado Arena
FRIDAY 3/4
7 p.m. Women’s Basketball vs. University of Montana Bank of Colorado Arena
SATURDAY 3/5
9 a.m. Men’s Tennis vs. Metro State-Denver Butler Hancock Tennis Courts
AWAY GAMES TUESDAY 3/1
4 p.m. Softball vs. Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado
THURSDAY 3/3
7:05 p.m. Men’s Basketball vs. Montana State University Bozeman, Montana
FRIDAY 3/4
8 p.m. Baseball vs. University of the Pacific Stockton, California
SATURDAY 3/5
3 & 7 p.m. Baseball vs. University of the Pacific Stockton, California
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After a long history of battling concussions and the symptoms that come with it, junior guard Cameron Michael has decided to step away from the men’s basketball program and forgo his final year of eligibility. Michael only played in four games for UNC this year, but produced a season-high 27 points against the then No. 4 Kansas Jayhawks in the team’s season opener. He was shut down after suffering his sixth concussion during a practice on November 23. Michael came to UNC via Air Force and played a major role in the program for three seasons. The transfer required him to sit out a season, but Michael brought energy and enthusiasm to practice every day. In his first playable season with the team, Michael averaged 12.9 points and started 26
Northern Colorado’s Cameron Michael scored a season high 27 points in the season opener against No. 4 Kansas State. He is now retiring from the sport due to several concussions. Photo courtesy of Rob Trubia
games. He made a team-high of 66 three-pointers, which ranked eighth best in the Big Sky. He ended the season as the Bears’ second leading scorer and had seven games he
scored 20 points or more. “He filled some big shoes when he came here and stepped up into a leadership and scorer role after Tate [Unruh] left—we were just hoping
it’d be longer than one year,” head coach B.J. Hill said. “He is a tremendous competitor and has a tremendous work ethic. We were very fortunate to have him and his family in
our program, albeit just for a short time.” Hill added that the team not only lost its top scorer, but its leader after Michael was no longer able to compete in 2015-16. “As a coach, all you want when you see your guys get their degrees and see them walk across the stage is to know in your gut that whatever life hands them, they’re going to be successful,” Hill said. “I feel really strongly in saying that Cam will be able to take whatever life throws at him and kick it right back. He’s going to be very productive and very successful in whatever he does, and he’s one of the key reasons why our program is where it’s at today.” Michael scored in double figures in all but one of the games he played this season and was averaging 16.8 points a game before his season and career was cut short. Michael will graduate from UNC in December with a degree in sport and exercise science.
New entertainment rocks ‘the Bank’ Continued from Page 1.
The band formed to become UNC’s very first rock and roll band to support UNC’s teams and pump up the crowd at basketball games. Julian Carey, a freshman bass guitarist and singer, started with the band from the beginning. The groups first performance was at a basketball game on January 22 and they have been providing a musical spark at multiple other games since. Carey said his goal for the band at the games is to set the atmosphere and keep the crowd involved during games. “When things need to be ramped up, they get ramped up,” Carey said. Senior guitarist Brian Galaviz has also been with the band since the beginning of the semester. He said the band brings a new aspect to the arena and it enjoys playing popular songs to keep the crowd energized.
“It’s a cool mix of different departments branching out and getting more school spirit,” Galaviz said. “We play some songs people know and sound good and try to make our team win.” He said he hopes the band can increase the attendance of the student section. Taylor Smith, a freshman cheerleader, explained how the band brings a different element to the games. “They keep it interesting and bring a new excitement to the game,” she said. “It’s fun to look over and see how much fun they’re having and to be able to cheer with them.” The Bear Essentials Rock Band will be at the next basketball game for those interested in catching a taste of the music. UNC women’s basketball finishes the season with two home games at 7 p.m. Wednesday against Montana State and 7 p.m. Friday against Montana.
MBA graduate student and drummer Ryan Freeman smiles at the end of a song played by the rock band that now plays at the basketball games hosted in the Bank of Colorado Arena. Photo by Alex Nunley | The Mirror
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Baseball UNC dropped three games on Friday and Saturday against California State University—Northridge losing 5-3 and 6-0 in the nightcap. Northern Colorado shortstop had an impressive game going 3 for 4 at the plate with an RBI. Those three hits were the most for any player on either team. On Saturday, the Bears had a strong start from senior pitcher who went 5.1 innings giving up two runs and seven hits.
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What do you get when you cross a fridge with a radio? Cool music. What did the tie say to the hat? You go on ahead and I’ll hang around! Why couldn’t the pirate play cards? Because he was sitting on the deck! What kind of shoes do all spies wear? Sneakers.
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