The electronic edition of The Mirror's November 30, 2015 issue.
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Students can now follow the progress of the Campus Cli- mate Initiative through an informative website. e site, http://www.unco.edu/campus climate/, was established by a group of students, faculty and staff working alongside an expert consultant to provide information about the two- year project. e site includes FAQs, working group mem- bership and meeting minutes. For more information, contact working group co-facilitators Linda Black atlinda.black@ unco.edu or Doug Woody at [email protected]. e Tutoring Center will host a study night from 4-8 p.m. on Tuesday at the Univer- sity Center. Peer tutors will be available to offer support in natural and health sciences, social sciences, math and busi- ness. Snacks and coffee will be provided, and no reservations are required. e event is open to all UNC students. UNC Bear Hug Club is ac- cepting donations for its holi- day toy and book drive. New toys and books will be given to local families in need so their children can have presents for the holiday season. Donations are being collected in McKee 216 until Friday. A team of UNC students took second place in the third an- nual Rocky Mountain Re- gion Public Health Case Competition. Interdisciplin- ary teams of 85 graduate and undergraduate students came together to tackle the theme of “Healthy Aging: Maximizing the Independence in Colora- do’s Aging Population,” which challenged the teams to come up with opportunities for the population of older adults to live healthy, independent life- styles. e team competed against 14 other teams with their presentation “Silver Con- nections: Bridging the Gap Between Aging and Indepen- dence.” Each member of the second-place team received a $500 scholarship. A student reflection of the UNC community COUPON ALERT: BUY ONE ENTRÉE GET ONE FREE FROM QDOBA PAGE 3 HOLIDAY HOW-TO: FUNFETTI POPCORN In the midst of “dead week,” whip up this quick treat to share with friends and study groups. PAGE 3 WOMEN’S B-BALL GOES UNDEFEATED The Bears took down both Akron and Valparaiso over Thanksgiving weekend. PAGE 4 INSIDE: Registration for UNC’s inter- im session, which takes place from Dec. 14 through Jan. 8, is still available. Students in good academicstanding who would like to pick up a course over the holiday break can find a schedule of courses atwww. unco.edu/interim. e majori- ty of courses are offered online. Contact the Registrar’s Office at970-351-2231with any fur- ther questions. URSA SPARKS PRIVACY CONCERNS The Ursa directory allows UNC students to get in contact with one another, but did you know it provides your phone number and current home address as well? NEWS BRIEFS For the week of 11/30/2015 Full story by Makalah Emanuel PAGE 2 Breelyn Bowe | e Mirror
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Students can now follow the progress of the Campus Cli-mate Initiative through an informative website. Th e site, http://www.unco.edu/campus climate/, was established by a group of students, faculty and staff working alongside an expert consultant to provide information about the two-year project. Th e site includes FAQs, working group mem-bership and meeting minutes. For more information, contact working group co-facilitators Linda Black at [email protected] or Doug Woody at [email protected].
Th e Tutoring Center will host a study night from 4-8 p.m. on Tuesday at the Univer-sity Center. Peer tutors will be available to off er support in natural and health sciences, social sciences, math and busi-ness. Snacks and coff ee will be provided, and no reservations are required. Th e event is open to all UNC students.
UNC Bear Hug Club is ac-cepting donations for its holi-day toy and book drive. New toys and books will be given to local families in need so their children can have presents for the holiday season. Donations are being collected in McKee 216 until Friday.
A team of UNC students took second place in the third an-nual Rocky Mountain Re-gion Public Health Case Competition. Interdisciplin-ary teams of 85 graduate and undergraduate students came together to tackle the theme of “Healthy Aging: Maximizing the Independence in Colora-do’s Aging Population,” which challenged the teams to come up with opportunities for the population of older adults to live healthy, independent life-styles. Th e team competed against 14 other teams with their presentation “Silver Con-nections: Bridging the Gap Between Aging and Indepen-dence.” Each member of the second-place team received a $500 scholarship.
A student refl ection of the UNC community
COUPON ALERT:
BUY ONE ENTRÉE GET ONE FREE FROM QDOBAPAGE 3
HOLIDAY HOW-TO: FUNFETTI POPCORN
In the midst of “dead week,” whip up this quick treat to share with friends and study groups.PAGE 3
WOMEN’S B-BALL GOES UNDEFEATED
The Bears took down both Akron and Valparaiso over Thanksgiving weekend.PAGE 4
INS
IDE
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Registration for UNC’s inter-im session, which takes place from Dec. 14 through Jan. 8, is still available. Students in good academic standing who would like to pick up a course over the holiday break can fi nd a schedule of courses at www.unco.edu/interim. Th e majori-ty of courses are off ered online. Contact the Registrar’s Offi ce at 970-351-2231 with any fur-ther questions.
URSA SPARKS PRIVACY CONCERNS
The Ursa directory allows UNC students to get in contact with one another, but did you know it provides your phone number and current home address as well?
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Th e University of Northern Colorado’s Ursa portal is used by every student at UNC, for everything from registering for classes to paying tuition. But many students are not aware of the directory found on the portal containing their per-sonal contact information. Th e directory allows any stu-dent to access another’s phone number, home address and email address if he or she has the other person’s last name or BearMail address. It serves as a resource many students seem thankful for. What many don’t seem to be as thankful for is the amount of information provided within the directory. One student with this opin-ion is Yesenia Huizar, a junior human services major. “I feel like it’s good and bad,” Huizar said. “It’s a good resource to students if they’re trying to contact somebody in class. I also feel it’s kind of bad because there’s really no pri-vacy. You can be looked up by just your name, and people can get your phone number and contact you without you even knowing who that person is. Th at’s kind of scary.” Th e reason the directory contains as much as informa-tion as it does has to do mostly with the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, which allows schools to disclose di-rectory information among other things without consent. According to the U.S. De-partment of Education web-site, schools are required to tell parents and eligible students about the directory informa-tion and allow them time to re-quest the school not to disclose the information. Th e website also cites that schools are ex-pected to notify the parents and eligible students annually of their rights under FERPA through means such as a spe-
cial letter, in a student hand-book, and more. If students choose to not have their information dis-closed, they must submit a non-disclosure request with the Registrar’s Offi ce. Nate Haas, UNC director of university news and public re-lations, said that in doing this, the student is withdrawing from more than the directory. “Students who elect to with-hold their information as part of the non-disclosure request don’t have their names listed in the commencement pro-gram,” Haas said. “To protect their identities, the only time they’re acknowledged by the university as a student is in person with a valid picture ID. Th ey can only conduct univer-sity business in person and not over phone or by email.” For Jessica Pimentel, a UNC senior double majoring in bi-ology and chemistry, the direc-tory is something she said she doesn’t agree with at all. “I don’t want anybody hav-ing my information,” Pimen-tel said. “I don’t care if it’s my phone number—but my ad-dress—I don’t like that.” According to UNC alumni like Rudy Vargas, the directory has been around for a while. “When I was a student here, we could only see the email and the student’s dorm phone number,” Vargas said. “I re-member using it to call my friends’ dorm rooms because I didn’t have all of their num-bers. I thought it was a good idea because it only showed the UNC information and it just made it easier to get a hold of people. I didn’t know they now have that much informa-tion on there.” Another alumnus who re-calls the use of a student di-rectory is Dennis Pumphrey, UNC’s chief of police. Th e directory used during Pum-phrey’s UNC days varied large-ly from the one used by Vargas. “We used to actually have telephone directories—kind
of like a phone book—where you could just look up who-ever was going to school here,” Pumphrey said. “All of the students got them. I think the concern of harassment or sex-ual harassment was one of the reasons it was moved behind a wall to where you had to at least be a member of the uni-versity in order to see some-body’s name.” Th at wall is now known as Ursa, and according to Haas, the directory was placed there strategically. “I’ve been with the univer-sity for 10 years, and we’ve always had an employee and student directory available,” Haas said. “Th ere’s a diff erence between the employee direc-tory information and student directory information. Em-ployees are available on the public web page, and students are behind Ursa. Th at’s in-tentional. We want to protect students from some of the un-wanted solicitations while still providing a conduit for con-tacting students for university- related purposes.” But there are some students who are concerned the direc-tory may not only be used for university-related purposes. “We really haven’t had any reports, that I can recall,
where somebody was tracked down by another individual who happened to be a stu-dent and then caused some type of harassment or prob-lem for that individual because of what they found on Ursa,” Pumphrey said about UNC’s campus. “Th ere are certainly scenarios that I can see where someone overhears your name or gets it through some other means and then looks up where you live and then starts harassing you in that manner. But I can say that just hasn’t been our experience.”
Th e concern for possible harassment cases arising from the information provided through Ursa is still prevalent, but Pumphrey said this type of problem is less likely to occur between students. “Student-to-student, we haven’t had the issue, but there were some cases where people were tracked down by people who had no affi liation with the university, like someone from their past or someone they didn’t want to deal with,” Pumphrey said.
Does Ursa provide too much info?UNC’s directory shares students’ email addresses, phone numbers, mailing addresses
Graphic by Chelsea Hinspter
3�Arts & CultureNovember 30, 2015 | uncmirror.com
ARTS CALENDAR
THU 12/0310 a.m.-4 p.m. (Daily Event)How to Explain Death to a Dead Hare: Art Exhibition by Chelsea RuizCrabbe Hall- Oak Room Gallery
9 a.m.-4 p.m.Scholastic Book FairMcKee Hall
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Student Listening Session with President Kay NortonScott-Willcoxon Hall
7:30-10 p.m.Soapbox Productions presents: Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric PlayAtlas Theater 709 16th St.
Funfetti popcorn treat for ‘dead week’Instructions
1. Pop popcorn according to manufacturer’s directions. Re-move any unpopped popcorn kernels.
2. Toss in broken pretzel pieces and M&M’s.
3. Melt vanilla candy melts in a microwave safe bowl on 50 percent power in 30-second intervals, stirring after each inter-
val until melted and smooth.
4. Drizzle half of the melted chips over popcorn mixture, then stir, tossing gently a few times with a rubber spatula.
5. Drizzle remaining half of melted chips over popcorn and gently stir mixture until evenly coated.
(Don’t over-stir; the sprinkles won’t stick if the white chips set and harden).
6. Pour mixture into a single layer onto wax paper.
7. Sprinkle mixture evenly with sprinkles (as many as you’d like) before vanilla chips set.
8. Allow to cool and harden, then gently break into pieces and store in an airtight container.
Ingredients 1/2 cup popcorn ker-
nels or 2 bags tender
white popcorn
One 12 oz. bag vanilla
candy melts (such as
Wilton candy melts)
1/3 cup broken pret-
zel pieces
One 12 oz. bag green
and red milk choco-
late or mint M&Ms
Red, green and white
sprinkles
Photo courtesy of www.cookingclassy.com
4 -Sports November 30, 2015 | uncmirror.comEditor: Dylan Sanchez
UNCO.EDU/INTERIM REGISTER TODAY AT
UNC’s Interim Session Runs From December 14–January 8, 2016Take a 4-week course and make progress toward degree completion.
Majority of courses available onlineVariety of courses and subjects availableEasy registration through URSANetwork of support services
SPORTS CALENDAR
YELLOW = HOME GAME
BLUE = AWAY GAME
7 p.m.Women’s Basketball vs. Utah State UniversityBank of Colorado Arena
TUES 12/01
8 p.m.Men’s Basketball vs. University of California RiversideRiverside, California
THURS 12/03
All DayWrestling at Cliff Keen InvitationalLas Vegas, Nevada
The Big Sky Conference has announced its football all-conference teams and individ-ual award winners for the 2015 regular season. Northern Colorado had four players make the all-con-ference teams after coming off a 6-5 season. Redshirt freshmen Hakeem Deggs and Ellis Onic II earned first team honors, while junior defensive end Mikhail Dubose and junior safety Taylor Risner made the third team. Deggs and Onic II were awarded for their work on special teams. Deggs finished the regular season tied for sec-ond in the FCS in kick return
touchdowns with two and ac-cumulated 354 yards on just 10 returns. He was also named the All-Big Sky Special Teams Player of the Year. Dubose was a constant de-fensive end for the Bears, start-ing all 11 games and racking up 57 tackles (18 solo, 39 as-sisted), but his tackles for loss are perhaps more impressive. Risner made history this season, becoming the third player in Division I history to reach the century mark in tackles, with 109 (38 solo, 71 assisted) on the season. The tackle total ranks him fourth all-time on the D1 list. UNC also had freshman Michael McCauley, redshirt freshman Trae Riek, junior Chuntony Johnson and junior Kyle Newsom make the honor-able mention list.
The University of Northern Colorado wom-en’s basketball team’s Thanksgiving break was cut short as the team traveled to California for the UCD-Courtyard San Diego Central Classic in San Diego at the Jenny Craig Pavilion. The Bears defeated Akron 78-65 in the open-ing game and took down Valparaiso 77-63 on Saturday evening in a pair of defensive standoffs. UNC (4-2, 0-0 Big Sky) started hot in the first half against Valparaiso and led the majority of the game. Senior guard Kyleigh Hiser led all scorers in the first half with 13 points off of 4-of-7 shooting. As a team, the Bears shot over 51 percent from the floor and over 42 percent from beyond the three-point line in the first half. Northern Colorado led by 18 points at the break with the score 45-27. Sophomore guard Savannah Scott led the Bears in scoring with a game-high 21 points, while making all four of her three-point at-tempts. Scott was joined by three teammates
that also scored in double figures. Hiser finished with 17 points in as many minutes. The Northern Colorado defense held the Crusaders (0-4, 0-0 Horizon) to just 40 percent shooting and forced 19 turnovers, which result-ed in 19 additional points for the Bears. Despite a disappointing shooting performance in the second half, UNC was no slouch on the offen-sive end. The Bears faced some struggles in the second half, and the team saw its lead diminished to as little as six points with a little over three minutes left in the game. UNC then scored seven con-secutive points, including two three-pointers, to increase the lead back to 13 points with less than two minutes left. Four players for Valparaiso scored in double figures, led by freshman guard Hannah Schaub with 15 points. All 15 of her points came from beyond the three-point arc, where she made five of her seven attempts. The women’s basketball team returns to ac-tion against Utah State at 7 p.m. on Tuesday at the Bank of Colorado Arena.
For the full story and recap of UNC’s weekend in San Diego, visit UNCMirror.com
