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Recruitment underway for GreeksPanhellenic,Interfraternity andMulticultural coun-cils embrace newstudents.PAGE 2

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As recruitment week approach-es for fraternities and finishes forsororities, the wait is nearly over forstudents who are interested inpledging to one of the traditionalGreek life organizations.

Panhellenic Committee recruit-ment week began Thursday andwill conclude Monday at each ofthe five sorority houses on campus.Any woman interested in joiningPHC must have been registered by5 p.m. Wednesday. Any man inter-ested in joining IFC must registertoday online.

The Interfraternity Councilstarts its structured fall recruitmentat 5 p.m. this Monday with a wel-

come back barbecue on TurnerGreen.

This year, PHC members saidthey expect about 150 to 175women to join a traditional soror-ity, and IFC members said theyexpect about 200 men to becomebrothers of a fraternity.

Erica Stanley, president of PHC,explained the benefits of becominga member of a Greek organization.

“All the potential new mem-bers (should) get excited to getinvolved with something morethan themselves,” Stanley said.“(This is) something that will trulydefine their college experienceand will give them close friend-ships and sisters to lean on.”

Most fraternities and sororitiesshare similar values, such as lead-

ership, service, brotherhood andsisterhood, academics, integrity,diversity and civic engagement.

However, the way eachorganization approaches thesecharacteristics and values iswhat makes them unique.

Heather James, the coordina-tor of Greek Life, said she is readyto begin recruitment weekbecause this year’s expectedmembership growth and the exe-cution of plans are top priorityfor Greek affiliates.

“We are expecting member-ship numbers to increase,” Jamessaid. “Also, all the councils areworking together to better GreekLife as a whole. Last year, theycreated a mission statement andcore values for UNC Greek Life.”

Students who are interested inalternatives to traditional frater-nities and sororities, there are twocultural Greek Life councils on the

University of Northern Colorado’scampus: the Multicultural GreekCouncil (MGC) and the NationalPanhellenic Council (NPHC).

To become a member of oneof the organizations, studentsmust contact a representativefrom one of the multiculturalGreek organizations.

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Greek Life

Recruitment in full swing for Greek Life

Enrollment Numbers FinalizedEnrollment numbers for the 2010 Fall semester have been confirmed after the

course add/drop deadline. The census figures continue to show increases com-

pared to the last fall semester in:

- Total enrollment: 12,358 (up 2 percent, or 210 students)

- Undergraduate enrollment:10,097 (up 1 percent, or 119 students)

- Graduate enrollment: 2,261 (up 4 percent, or 91 students)

- Transfer students: 835 (up 13 percent, or 94 students)

- Credit hours: Students are taking more classes, with credit hours up 3,110, or 2

percent. On average, full-time students are taking 14.3 credits.

Also, of incoming freshmen, 38 percent are first-generation students and 28 per-

cent self-identify with an ethnic minority group (20 percent of all students do).

New freshmen student numbers have grown 6 percent the past three years.

“All potential new mem-bers (should) get excited

to get involved withsomething more thanthemselves. (This is)

something that will trulydefine their college expe-

rience and will givethem close friendshipsand sisters to lean on.

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For more informationabout the recruitment

process and how to join amulticultural fraternity,

visit www.unco.edu/greekor call Heather James at

970-351-2873.

Courtesy of UNC Media Relations

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Recently, the issue of classroomdiscussions regarding religious obli-gations and free thought have sur-faced. The free-thinkers of the worldbelieve the solution to co-existing isto leave religion at home in anattempt to avoid offending otherswith contrasting beliefs.

This situation poses difficultwhen analyzing those who feelmorally obligated to “save” non-believers. If taken in the literal sense,adherents to specific doctrine actual-ly believe they are preventing othersfrom damnation in one form oranother; therefore, many assert they

have a duty to help those within theirsphere of influence.

From the religious perspective,that very obligation can seem as if it isunder attack; who is to tell them whatthey can do? But in today’s culturallandscape, it is common for the secu-lar world to condemn the religioussect for being intolerant and selfishlytrying to convert outsiders into fol-lowers.

But are these attacks uncalled for?It seems as if both sides valuehumans’ well-being. Free-thinkerswould prefer not to be solicited, whilebelievers practice the right to impose

their beliefs under the banner of“saving.” It’s important to under-stand that when it comes to moralityand religious creeds, it’s all subjec-tive. Religion is not concrete and isbased solely on faith; therefore, thereare no facts that prove abstainingfrom theology is truly harmful.

There are instances when wemust step in and intervene in a situa-tion where we think a person couldbe harmed if we just kept silent. Forexample, the surge of drug and alco-hol abuse has propelled many peopleto support or engage in anti-sub-stance abuse programs. And

although this is a form of belief inposition, we feel that it is much morewarranted than religious impositionsbecause of the physical destructionof the human body in our currentlives, versus the spiritual damnationof the soul in our after lives, whichmay or may not exist.

When people are factuallyproven to be negatively affected bychoices, we are all for imposition.But when people feel there is anobligation to save others from some-thing that is mounted on theory andspeculation, imposition becomesdifficult to justify.

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LETTERS

It is a little known factabout me that for thegreater part of my forma-

tive years, I was naked (but formy dipey). I am not ashamed ofthis; I stand in unwaveringdefense of nudity. As an infant, Iwas the proud owner of a bigbaby belly, which was quicklynicknamed “the watermelon” forits slightly greenish hue. (I wasborn green. Now you know.)

In an adult, such a feature is acurse; in a baby, it is a cosmicblessing sent from heaven above.I sat like a fat, proud chieftain,reveling in the attention and foodshowered upon me daily.

Anywhere I went, I was assuredof being carried. And anytime Ifell asleep, I was guaranteed tohave my belly gently scratched,which, if you’ve never tried, ishighly soothing.

Gradually as I entered mythird, fourth and fifth years oflife, it began to be less cute andmore unacceptable to run wildunclothed. Phrases such as“unruly child” or “good heavens”or “looks like a heathen” werebandied about by the influentialadults in my life, and thus endedmy nekkid phase.

I remained barefooted, how-ever, as my one consolation forthe enormous battle I had lost. Itwas my highest ambition, then asnow, to buck all expectations,and live uncultivated by societyas an infamous savage. Thatdream lays discarded along withall my other really good career

ideas that never worked out(being a mermaid or squirrelherder or a professional hula-hooper).

The point is, people are forev-er finding scandal in the naturalstate of humanity. If you, uponseeing a partially unclothedmember of the opposite sex, for-mulate thoughts of lasciviousintent, it is your own mind’s mis-chief, and not the fault of theperson. You should probably gohome and think about your life,and why you’re so pervy.

The unclad are subject to ahigh degree of ostracism in thissociety. A woman will be arrestedfor exposing her chesticles. Men,of course, do as they please —but patriarchy is another topicfor another time. Consider, if youwill, that at the single mostimportant moment of your life,your birth, you arrive fully

undressed. And at times of greatexcitement, do you not some-times take your shirt off, twist itaround your head, spin it like ahelicopter? Exactly.

Naturally I don’t expect — oreven really want — the world tocollectively rise and undressupon reading my words. I wouldjust appreciate it if, on a daywhen I didn’t know what to wear,I wouldn’t have to pick anythingat all. Or I could wear feathers, orwar paint and boots, all withoutthe burden of sexuality. I couldjust be as I am organically, andforget my societal obligation towear things. And when I look upin the sky at night and see thestars (or out my window andaccidentally glimpse my shirtlessneighbor) I know I am not alone.

— Joanna Langston is a seniorpsychology major and an artsreporter for The Mirror.

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Sen. Mark Udall visited UNCThursday as part of his workforce tour, which incorporatedAmerican Eagle Distributing inGolden and a trip to an oil rig.The purpose of the senator’strips was to see the improve-ments made in northernColorado and to talk with offi-cials about creating more jobs inthe state.

Udall met with the NorthernColorado Legislative AffairsAlliance in Loveland. He said

they had a long discussion aboutthe state of the economy andhow to help turn around unem-ployment.

“There are a series of stepswe can take (to create jobs),including the proposal this weekto adopt the small business leg-islation that will inject $33 bil-lion into the banks (…) toincrease their capital invest-ments so they can lend to smallbusinesses that are eager toexpand and hire more workers,”Udall said. “The economy willregain its mojo when small busi-ness begins to thrive.”

Udall said two-thirds of jobsand revenue in the economy aretied to small business. The sena-tor also spoke about some of thereforms in education in

Colorado, specifically amend-ments 60 and 61, as well asProposition 101, which havealarmed many in the field ofeducation. The three reforms

propose cutting property taxesand limiting lending to enter-prises.

“I see no reason to pass any ofthe three; if we did, we wouldcontinue to hamstring our rev-enue for education and infra-structure,” he said. “We need tomake investments there in orderto make our economy sufficient.”

During the visit, Udall hadlunch at Holmes Dining Hallbefore taking a tour of NewNorth Hall on west campus. Inattendance for the tour wereUNC President Kay Norton,Student Body President MattVanDriel, Dean of Students RaulCardenas and Greeley city coun-cilwoman Pam Shaddock. Thetour was given by Keli Goings, asenior elementary educationmajor, and Erin Dewese, the halldirector of North Hall.

“We’re thrilled that SenatorUdall could come by and get asense of what’s going on at UNCand how he’s taking an interestin higher education,” Nortonsaid. “It’s important that wehave these kinds of conversa-tions (with leaders).”


Senator visits university on northern Colorado tour

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Left to right: UNC President Kay Norton and UNC Student Body PresidentMatt VanDriel speak with Sen. Mark Udall Thusday in New North Hall.The visit was part of Udall’s Work Force Tour around northern Colorado.

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Resource centers from UNCand Greeley gathered outsidethe University CenterWednesday for the 2010 Healthand Safety Fair.

Many organizations wereavailable for students to speakto, including the Weld CountyHealth Department, PlannedParenthood and the Women’sResource Center. Severaldepartments from around WeldCounty were also available forstudents to speak to. The WeldCounty K-9 Unit gave demon-strations, and members ofFlight For Life gave a helicopterpresentation.

Glen Adams, the director ofthe University of NorthernColorado’s EnvironmentalHealth and Safety, was incharge of the committee to puttogether the fair, which includ-ed people from the WeldCounty Health department andmembers from other services.

“The purpose of this fair is tohelp promote and educatehealth and safety to students,staff, faculty and the communi-ty,” Adams said.

There was also a booth avail-able with information on theuniversity’s health insurancepolicy. Students were able toask faculty members any ques-tions they had concerning thehealth insurance policy. All stu-dents who have nine or morecredit hours are required byUNC to have health insurance.The University health insur-ance includes medical andvision insurance.

The suicide education andsupport service, part of theNorth Range Behavioral HealthCenter, was present at the fair.Yan Jee an employee of the

NRBHS gave information andassistance to students.

“Our goal here is to makesure that everybody is aware

that suicide is a problem inWeld County, and that peopleshould know that we have pro-grams for people who are con-

sidering suicide,” Jee said “(It isfor) those who have beenbereaved by suicide and thosewho are affected by it. There areservices free of charge to helpanybody who needs assistance.”

Mario Hernandez, a sopho-more business managementmajor, was one of the studentswho attended the fair.

“I think that there are a lot offacts that people aren’t aware of,”Hernandez said. “It is a good wayfor people to be informed about

some of the things that we takefor granted. There are a lot ofpeople who want to know thefacts but they just don’t knowwhere the resources are.”

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Football ready to begin conference play

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UNC senior running back Andre Harris breaks through the lineduring the Bears’ 54-0 win over Adams State on Saturday. UNCtakes a 1-0 record into its game at Weber State this weekend.

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The UNC football team looksto kick off Big Sky Conference playwith a high note on Saturdaywhen it travels to Ogden, Utah totake on Weber State.

The University of NorthernColorado (1-0) got its first season-opening win since 2005 with a 54-0 shutout of Adams State lastweekend, the first shutout record-ed by the Bears since 2002.

Weber State, ranked No. 20 inthe Football ChampionshipSubdivision, has won all four con-tests since the Bears joined theBig Sky Conference in 2006.

Weber State’s biggest weapon,offensively, is senior quarterbackCameron Higgins, who will sur-pass 10,000 career passing yardsin Saturday night’s game. UNCdefensive coordinator Cody Detisaid he was pleased overall withthe defense’s performanceagainst Adams State and that

there is room for improvement. “We missed some fairly easy

plays out there over the course ofthe game,” Deti said. “The tack-ling is a concern right now, partic-ularly when you go in and play ina game like Weber State that hasgood talent all across the board.”

Despite the tackling concerns,Deti said Saturday’s performancegave his players of confidence.

“I think they feel pretty goodabout their performance onSaturday, but I think they realizethe caliber of the opponentthey’re facing is going to be quitedifferent this weekend,” Detisaid.

Offensive coordinator GregPeterson said he knows that,while the team seemed to clicklast weekend, there is a lot of workto be done on the offensive side ofthe football, as well.

“I think there’s a lot of thingswe need to improve upon. Fromthe way we run routes to the waywe run the football, there’s a lot of

room for improvement, and that’swhere our focus is right now,”Peterson said.

A lot of focus this week was onjunior quarterback Dylan Ormsand his first start under center forUNC. Orms said now that gamenumber one is out of the way, heand the team can start to focus ongetting more comfortable in gamesituations.

“I’m just going to feel morecomfortable out there, feel morecomfortable in the pocket. That’ssomething I’m really focusing onthis week,” Orms said.

Orms also said the team knowsthis will be a tough game, but thatonly motivates them further.

“We’re definitely the under-dog, and we want to show peoplewe can come out and compete inthis league, and that’s what I wantto do on Saturday,” he said.

The Bears will take the field at6 p.m. Saturday in Ogden, Utah.The game will be televised onAltitude Sports & Entertainment.

Player of the Week leads Bears into tournamentBEN WARWICK

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The UNC women’s soccerteam heads to Utah this weekendfor a pair of matchups againstSouthern Utah and Utah Valley.

The University of NorthernColorado is coming off a success-ful trip to Colorado Springs, whereit won the Air Force Classic at theAir Force Academy. In that tour-nament, the Bears beat FairleighDickinson, 4-0, and The Citadel, 2-1, in the championship game.

“It was a physical match, and it

turned into a scrappy affair,” UNChead coach Tim Barrera said. “Weknew that their chances to scorewould come off of set pieces, andsure enough, one of their playersfell pretty easily, gave us a freekick, and we smashed it home.”

In the championship gameagainst The Citadel, junior ArielCook led the UNC offense, scoringboth goals. She was honored withthe Big Sky Conference OffensivePlayer of the Week award for herperformance.

“It’s such a compliment. I havea goal set for this year, and this is

just one way that’s going to helpme get to it,” Cook said. “I knowthat I wouldn’t have gotten it with-out the help of my teammates.”

Barrera said he is happy thatCook got the recognition shedeserved, but stresses that themain goal is team success.

“It’s always good when playersget recognized, but I think ourplayers understand that the recog-nition that a player gets is inresponse to how the team does,”Barrera said. “Part of the reasonyou get a Player of the Week iswhen you win your games.”

Over a third of the way into theseason, Barrera said he believeswhile the team is doing well on thefield, improvements can still bemade.

“We want to make sure we’resolid in the back defensively, thatour shape is good, that we want topossess the ball and do a bit betterjob of that straight up from theopening whistle,” Barrera said.

Southern Utah may be only 2-2on the year, but Cook said thatrecord does not matter as much asattitude.

“We go into each game know-

ing this is a game we’re going towin and then the next game we’regoing to win, too,” Cook said. “Wejust have to know that we can do itand just expect ourselves to winand be positive out there for eachother.”

The Bears will take onSouthern Utah 3 p.m. Friday inOrem, Utah before going upagainst Utah Valley at noon onSunday.

“We’re just trying to get better.Take the good stuff from thisweekend and move forward,”Barrera said.

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Student Senate entered a sec-ond reading of a proposal madelast week by Katelyn Elliot, direc-tor of Student Organizations, tocut the number of studentsrequired to form a chartered clubfrom 10 to three. Elliot’s proposalwas there are a lot of studentgroups that want to benefit thecampus community, but cannotget funding because they cannotrecruit enough members.

One major concern voicedwas opening the charteringprocess up to small groups wouldlead to depletion of funds for thelarger groups.

“Right now, the university is in ahard financial position because ofthe economy, because of the taxdecreases, as well as because we’renot going to receive any more fed-eral funding to off-set the decreasesin state funding,” said StudentTrustee Michael Johnston. “There’sjust a sentiment to try and be as fis-cally conservative as we possiblycan in light of those things. Byexpanding the number of clubs thatcan request money from us, itwould (...) make us be more apt tospend money in a negligible way.”

Elliot said a club of three peoplewould not receive the sameamount of funds as larger clubs,and they would still have to go

through the same funding process. Support for the three-student

charter groups included PaigeLewkow, director of DiverseRelations, who said these smallgroups already exist on campuswithout funding.

“Three is appropriate,” Lewkowsaid. “It’s a good number becauseyou will have an odd number forvoting within the club, and threevoting members have to sign to getchartered anyway.”

The proposal was postponeduntil next Wednesday. There will bea final reading, and a vote will beamended to allow for a probation-ary period of three students, anumber would eventually have to

rise or the charter would be pulled.Elliot said it would be a

good compromise. Evan Welch, the Student Senate

faculty adviser, gave a presentationon the co-curricular transcripts,discussing what would be on themand how students can obtain onethrough the Registrar’s Office. Theprocess is similar to requesting anacademic transcript for $10. Welchalso reiterated the transcript startsFall 2010 and is not retroactive.

During public session, FizaJohari, the representative of theCollege of Humanities and SocialSciences, brought attention to acase of soliciting in the UniversityCenter, where a student was

scammed and lost $223. Johari saidany student or faculty member whosees any soliciting groups to reportthem to the UNC PoliceDepartment at 970-351-2245.

Ryan Shucard, director ofUniversity Relations, said all stu-dents and faculty have receivedand e-mail about the StudentSenate Town Hall meeting andcan participate in this online openforum by clicking the “Add asFriend” link.

Tyler Ames, director ofLegislative Affairs, mentioned againthat the Cattle Baron’s Ball is tilllooking for volunteers for the eventon Saturday, Sept. 18. Anyone inter-ested can call 970-590-9334.

Campus clubs look for way to receive funding without enough members

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