A UNC student goes through her under- graduate years as a nursing major and as a student-athlete. She hopes to one day become an acute surgical care nurse or a critical care nurse. Page 4 Grad Spotlight: Renee Grad Spotlight: Megan Graduating softball captain talks about her time at UNC and her opportunities to play softball with her sister, as well as follow her dream of becoming a doctor. Page 16 Grad Spotlight: Steven The man with the extensive collection of bow ties is graduating, and he has an impressive and unpredictable story to show for it. A story worthy of its own print design. Page 5 THE MIRROR THE MIRROR THE MIRROR Serving the University of Northern Colorado Since 1919 UNCmirror.com /UNCMirror @UNCMirror Table of contents: News 2, 4 Sports 16 Opinions 3 A&E 5 Undergrads 6-11 Graduates 12-13 Vol. 95, Num. 34 May 9, 2014
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A UNC student goes through her under-graduate years as a nursing major and as a student-athlete. She hopes to one day become an acute surgical care nurse or a critical care nurse. Page 4
Grad Spotlight: Renee
Grad Spotlight: Megan
Graduating softball captain talks about her time at UNC and her opportunities to play softball with her sister, as well as follow her dream of becoming a doctor.Page 16
Grad Spotlight: Steven
The man with the extensive collection of bow ties is graduating, and he has an impressive and unpredictable story to show for it. A story worthy of its own print design. Page 5
THE MIRRORTHE MIRROR
THE MIRRORTHE MIRRORTHE MIRRORServing the University of Northern Colorado Since 1919
UNCmirror.com /UNCMirror @UNCMirror
Table of contents:News 2, 4
Sports 16
Opinions 3
A&E 5
Undergrads 6-11
Graduates 12-13
Vol. 95, Num. 34May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014
Editor: Katarina Velazquez
@UNCMirrorPage 2—The Mirror NEWSNEWSNEWS
UNC graduation tweets:
@UNCCoachT_Rob: UNC Coaches
out on the road recruiting all over
the country. The future is looking
amazing here at UNC #Restor-
eTheRoar #uncbears #beardown
@tiffylynneboo: UNC Graduation
this weekend!?! I think yes.! [:
so excited & proud of my sister!
#unc #greeley #saturday #gradu-
ation #excited #proud
@UNCo_edu: 10 things Boulder
can learn from Greeley - Northern
Colorado Business Report. Great
job #Greeley! http://ow.ly/wqvfI
@steven_jo: I suppose this makes
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at the @UNCMirror. #UNCO
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campus #UNCO
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emony Saturday! #UNCO
A letter from UNC President Kay Norton:UNC graduates make a difference
Dear UNC Graduates,
Commencement marks a milestone in both your journey of lifelong learning DQG�WKH�OLIH�RI�WKH�8QLYHUVLW\�RI�1RUWKHUQ�&RORUDGR��$V�\RX�UHÁHFW�RQ�\RXU�DF-complishments and look forward to new opportunities, know that you are part of more than a century’s tradition on our campus.
In 1890, when civic leaders, educators and citizens from Greeley and across WKH�6WDWH�RI�&RORUDGR�JDWKHUHG�WR�FHOHEUDWH�OD\LQJ�WKH�FRUQHUVWRQH�RI�RXU�ÀUVW�building, they spoke of universal education as the foundation for our future. Governor Job A. Cooper told the crowd, “It is the enlightened conscience and educated intelligence of the many that will ultimately crowd back all corruption and anarchy and harmonize contending factions and dissipate the dangers that threaten our country. Upon this foundation stone laid today will rise an institu-tion to prepare leaders in this great work.”
As graduates, you will leave here today to become the leaders envisioned by our founders. Earning a UNC degree is about more than books and knowledge. It is about nurturing the mind and the heart, seeing potential in the unknown, and preparing to give back to society. If you look at the array of professions — the lives — we prepare students for, many are public service oriented. UNC graduates don’t just make money; they make a difference.
As you continue your journey of lifelong learning, you can be proud to be part of a distinguished group of UNC alumni who are making a difference across the country and around the world.
Best Regards,Kay Norton
#UNCOtweet
About UsThe Mirror produces a print newspaper every Mon-day during the academic year as well as maintains a current Web page. The student-operated newspaper is advised by the non-profit Student Media Corpora t ion and is printed by the Greeley Tribune.
Mission StatementThe Mirror’s mission is to educate, inform and enter-tain the students, staff and faculty of the UNC commu-nity, and to train the staff on the business of journalism in a college-newspaper environment.
Take advantage of summer while you still can, undergraduatesThoughts from the editorial staff of The MirrorReflects
The Mirror Reflections are the opinion of The Mirror’s editorial board : Antonio Hill, Danielle Ross, Katarina Velazquez, Alexandria Adair Vasquez and Cassius Vasquez. Email letters to the editor to [email protected].
The Grand Junction Indian School was founded by the
government in 1886. The idea was to make the Indian
population become more American through learning the
English language, in a setting that was not in any way sim-
ilar to the Native American tribe’s settlement. It was later
renamed as the Teller Institute in 1891.
McClure said his academics were an important part of
his time at UNC.
“While clubs and friends are good to have, it’s im-
portant to make sure you have time to study,” McClure
said. “As it is important to use all the resources you
have available.”
McClure worked in the dining hall for three years, and
he said he made several good friends from the experience.
He said he knows the importance of time management
and knows how to balance his time between work, study-
ing and spending time with friends.
After graduating, McClure said he plans to teach in
Northern Colorado, hopefully in the Greeley area. He said
he made his decision to stay in the Greeley area after com-
pleting his practicum at Greeley West High School.
He said he was inspired by the many cultural differ-
ences at the high school.
“I want to be able to show Somalians that they can go
to college just as much as anyone else,” McClure said.
“I learned a lot from them during my practicum and
I admire them.”
Breelyn Bowe | The MirrorBenjamin McClure won the Hazel E. Johnson award for out-standing research on Colorado history.
Breelyn Bowe | The MirrorRenee Stephens is a graduating nursing ma-jor, who was also a student-athlete for UNC’s swimming and diving team.
2014 UNC SPRING GRADUATION
The Mirror—Page 5May 9, 2014
Steven: The man, the legend and the unforgettable bow tieBiz Gilmore [email protected]
A college ca-reer isn’t always packed up into a neat, four-year package. Steven Josephson zig-zagged cross country traveling wide to change schools, take time off for a religious commitment, changed schools again and ultimately end up right where he’d had liked to KDYH� VWDUWHG� LQ� WKH� ÀUVW�place: the University of Northern Colorado.
The printmaking student who has held the highest position in UNC student media for the past year graduates on Satur-day. To keep in line with his ever-shifting college life, his next step is only quasi-related to the previ-ous. Josephson has accept-ed a position with the Teach for America program. He’s moving to Detroit with his wife, Corey, for two years.
Josephson gradu-
ated high school in Ber-thoud. Initially he’d wanted to go to UNC for teaching, but his guidance counselor informed him he was short a math class. So he set off on the road to Rhode Is-land, attending Johnson and Wales in Providence. He picked up a movie review for the school paper; some ,0$;� ÀOP� KH� GRHVQ·W� UH-member except that Tom Hanks narrated it.
After a year at Johnson and Wales, he ended up at a community college in Wy-oming, Northwest College. Still a graphic design ma-jor, he took his newfound interest in print media with him.
After a two-year break to go on a religious mission in and around the Midwest, Josephson re-turned to Northwest Col-lege and their paper as the graphics chief and eventu-ally worked up to managing editor. He graduated with an associate’s in graphic
design, and headed to Gree-ley in the fall of 2012.
And of course, he didn’t give up his love af-fair with journalism.
“I transferred to UNC kind of last minute, but I knew I was going to be involved in journalism. Newsprint had gotten in my
veins,” Josephson said. Josephson came
on staff swinging, a re-sult of being accustomed to very direct journalistic leadership. Admittedly, Jo-sephson didn’t make the EHVW� ÀUVW� LPSUHVVLRQ� RQ�some of The Mirror staff.
Josephson even-
tually focused his efforts on The Mirror’s online and print redesign. As he changed the paper, he—and particularly his wife Co-rey—changed the building through remodeling.
“In the six years I served as the general man-ager of The Mirror, I did not meet another student with a higher newspaper or communication IQ than Steven,” said Kurt Hinkle, former general manager, in an email with The Mirror. “Steven bleeds newspaper ink and was the guiding force behind the paper’s re-cent redesign, the remodel-ing of the building and the overall culture change.”
Josephson changed his major from graphic design to printmaking at UNC, which is a change he said he never expected.
´(VSHFLDOO\� LQ� P\� ÀUVW�year here, I always saw myself as someone who was masquerading as an artist. I was hoping that
people didn’t notice that I didn’t have mad skills,” Josephson said.
It would seem that he is past his imposter phase, as Josephson recently won best in printmaking at a student show, and Provost Robbyn Wacker attended his senior portfolio presentation.
His favorite combina-tion of words is “ironic juxtaposition,” which could be used to classify his mul-tifaceted involvement.
“I do art and journalism now, and I’m becoming an elementary school teacher in three months. I like a lot of dif-ferent things. It just kind RI� ÁRZV� WKDW� ,� ZRXOG� JR�into a lot of different areas and spread myself out as well. I had the hardest time picking out what I wanted to be when I grew up,” Josephson said.
So the art major, the newspaper editor, the teacher gets to be every-thing when he grows up.
The student who proves, “Not all who wander are lost”Antonio Hill [email protected]
For every student who walks through the gates at Cran-ford Park during orientation, a journey begins. No one can say what will happen in the next four years or even if it will be four years before the journey at UNC is over, but one thing is certain: each Bear’s journey will come to an end.
In the case of graduating senior sociology major Am-ber “Billy” Chadderdon, her journey began in 2008. Even WKRXJK�LW�ZDV�ÀOOHG�ZLWK�XQFHUWDLQW\��DQG�D�ELW�RI�D�ORQJHU�VWD\�WKDQ�LQWHQGHG��VKH�VD\V�VKH�KDV�EHQHÀWHG�IURP�HYHU\�minute of her time at UNC and touched more lives than possibly any student.
´,�ZDV�EULHÁ\�D�SDUW�RI�7KH�&UXFLEOH�� DQG� ,�ZDV�YHU\�involved with UNC’s International Film Series,” Chadder-don said. “I worked at Subway and the computer lab, so I pretty much knew everyone. I worked at Subway since it opened, and I met some amazing people that I hope to stay connected with.”
Chadderdon says she tried to take everything in while attending UNC. She made sure to make people smile if they were having a bad day, and she said she tried her best to get to know as many people possible out of pure curios-ity. She says she even made an effort to have an impact on her professors.
“If I could give incoming freshman any advice, I would say always introduce yourself to your professors,” Chad-
derdon said. “Also, never be afraid to ask questions. It will save your life.”
Chadderdon also said that following her own advice has EHQHÀWWHG�KHU�LQ�PDNLQJ�FRQQHFWLRQV�
“I have a few professors that feel like family, and they will be there to support me in my future,”Chadderdon said.
:KHWKHU�D�À[WXUH�RQ�FDPSXV�IRU�IRXU�\HDUV�RU�VL[��WKH�lessons that students learn while at UNC are unique. As GLIÀFXOW�DV�LW�ZDV�IRU�&KDGGHUGRQ�WR�QDUURZ�GRZQ�WKH�PRVW�LPSRUWDQW�WKLQJ�VKH·V�OHDUQHG�ZKLOH�DW�81&��VKH�ZDV�FRQÀ-dent when she spoke about her personal growth.
“Regardless of what people think, everything will turn out OK one way or another. It may not be perfect for you or anyone else, but everything will be OK,” Chadderdon said. “You will move on, and you will learn to deal with it because you are a human being and that’s what we do. We deal with our crap.”
Chadderdon was able to balance the ups and downs of her life outside school and work as well.
Overcoming the loss of her father was no simple task but getting married to her high school sweetheart brought cherished moments. All are perfect examples of why she is more than just another college kid.
College is the time in most student’s lives in which they hope to learn who they are and what they want to be.
Memories are made along the way too, but amid all the FKDRV� RI� ÀQDOV� DQG� SURMHFWV�� LW� FDQ� EH� QLFH� WR� HQMR\� WKH� little things.
“My favorite memory at UNC… Hmm. I’d have WR� VD\� ZDWFKLQJ� WKH� VXQ� FRPH� XS� DIWHU� ÀQLVKLQJ� D� SD-per, still hyped up on energy drinks,” Chadderdon said. “Good times.”
Breelyn Bowe | The MirrorSteven Johnson sits next to his multiple art pieces, including his award winning “Tab” graphic.
Michaela Cross | The MirrorBilly Chadderdon is not afraid to embrace her nerdy side ei-ther. She considers herself a huge movie buff and Lord of the Rings fan.
2014 UNC SPRING GRADUATION
The Mirror—Page 6 May 9, 20142014 UNC SPRING GRADUATION
\HDU� DQG� ,� WKUHZ� P\� ÀUVW�complete game of my col-
lege career to her last con-
ference game of her senior
year and we swept the se-
ries, so I thought that was
really cool.”
Erin Wilkinson, who is
currently working on her
doctorate in physical ther-
apy at CU Denver, also re-
members the game and said
it was pretty “special.”
“It was nice to see her
come into her own in a col-
lege environment, and it
was good to see her really
shine like I knew she could.
She’s going to do great
things,” Erin said.
Wilkinson is one step
closer to her dream of being
a doctor as she graduates
with honors with a degree
in biology with an empha-
sis in pre-health.
She will continue at
Northern Colorado’s one-
year masters program be-
fore attending a six-year
doctorate program.
“I think the profes-
sion has always interested
me,” Wilkinson said. “I’ve
played sports my whole
life, and you see people get
injured. I want to be the
person that can help ath-
OHWHV�JHW�EDFN�RQ�WKHLU�ÀHOG�of play.”
Wilkinson is sporting her
own “gnarly” dark purple
bruises on the inside of her
upper right arm, where she
got hit twice while at bat in
this weekend’s series. De-
spite the physical demands
of softball, she’s loved the
sport for years.
When she was recruited
as a high school senior cap-
tain on her softball team at
Windsor High School, she
already had personal ties
to UNC.
“The coach that recruit-
ed me, I have known since
I was probably about 12,
and the assistant coach was
the one that started me with
pitching lessons,” Wilkin-
son said. However, the two
coaches resigned before
Wilkinson got the chance to
play for them.
Wilkinson’s other tie to
UNC was her sister Erin,
who was the catcher on the
team at the time. Wilkin-
son said she was happy to
have the opportunity to
play with her sister at the
college level.
Wilkinson said rather
than inhibit her studies,
softball has helped her
time-management, and
also has helped her build
relationships with her pro-
fessors because of her odd
schedule and frequent one-
on-one meetings to go over
missed material.
Wilkinson also had her
advisor, Patrick Burns, and
her softball coach, Shana
Easley, to thank for her suc-
cesses.
She said the two are
very supportive and con-
stantly push her to be
her best.
Wilkinson said she’s ac-
complished quite a bit so
far, and can’t decide what
she’s most proud of.
“I think the three years
that I’ve been here so far,
I’ve been selected as an
academic All-American
for softball, so I think that
that’s a really big accom-
plishment. And last year,
our team GPA was the sec-
ond-highest in the NCAA
for all Division I schools.”
Erin Wilkinson had only
praise for her motivated sis-
ter and her work so far.
“I cannot say enough
for her work ethic and her
passion, in softball and in
her academics,” Erin said.
“She’s earned it all, and I’m
so glad she gets to go on
and achieve those goals.”
As Wilkinson says good-
bye to being an undergrad,
she said she looks back on
KHU�ÀUVW�IRXU�\HDUV�DW�81&�with satisfaction.
“This is a great school,”
Wilkinson said. “I’m really
happy I decided to come
here, and the family that
I’m leaving with. I’ve made
some of the best friends
that I’ll probably ever have,
and I have some of the best
relationships with teachers
that I’ll probably ever have.
It’s just a great school.”
The Mirror—Page 16 May 9, 2014
In next change-up, pitcher aims to save lives
When ‘good’ isn’t good enough: the triple-major athleteStaff [email protected]
Graduating senior Joseph
Carroll stands on his home
turf at Nottingham Field for
one of the last times before he
graduates and moves on into the
“real world.”
Carroll is a triple major
in history, anthropology and
geology. He also played on
the Northern Colorado student
football team in 2011. He’s
dedicated just as much time
and commitment, if not more,
to his academics as he has to
his athletics.
Read more of Carroll’s
impressive story in the Mirror
online at uncmirror.com.
Rylie Cook | the MirrorSenior softball pitcher Megan Wilkinson stands near her mound on Butler-Hancock field for one of the last times. She is graduating with honors and hopes to become a doctor.