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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1 DER Volume 101, Issue 2 A student owned publication serving the Regis community since 1888 - ITORIAL- HEY RANGER ATHLE DEPARTMENT RU VOTING? LEARN PROMOTES DIVERSITY ABOUT HOW YOU CAN Students are encouraged .........., .... d about a simple way Learn about the interna­ to register to vote in the improve our campus tional athletes among us upcoming election //Page 5 /Page 2 //Page 5 --------------~---------------------~ ,.,,~ .... , , r a &&& OJ a September 13, 2016 www.ruhighlander.com 2 EGitorial Help Keep Regis' Campus Trash Free Highlander Staff Marley Weaver-Gabel EDITOR-IN-CHlEF Natalia Zreliak LE.\D AssociATE EDITOR o~u~E EDITOR Samantha Jewell AssociATE EDITOR -PROFILES Kerry Mullin AssociATE EonoR -POLITICS McKenna Solomon STRATEGIC MARKETING DIRECTOR Hayley Lokken PHOTOGRAPHER/LAYOUT EDITOR Natalie Scott PHOTO EDITOR Regis Campus has many amazing views, and putting trash in the appropriate places only makes it better. i\ddison Callahan //Addison Callahan PUBLISHER J\li Meehan ey Ranger, feel that eager energy vibrating in off, be mindful of the trash you do STAFF REPORTER H Here we are, already the very leaves of the trees? leave around campus, but if you i\lex Hartmann in the second week of September Look up when you walk under see it, I implore you to pick it up STAFF REPORTER and the third week of school. At the big trees. Admire their boughs instead of walking past it. Kelli Catlin stretching into the sky, grasping I think there is something spe­ STAFF REPORTER this point you've been around the Evan Anderson campus a time or two. Back and for handholds in the clouds. Look cial about Regis and the people it STAFF REPORTER forth between buildings,sometimes down when you walk across the attracts. If you agree with me say Marirose Bernal kicking into high gear hustle to get grass or th edecorative emblems YEAHHH. STAFF REPORTER to C\avet: aftet: a c\ass \n Lo-yo\a. l \n the concrete. Notice the words l think we are a unique collec­ Catie Cheshire hope you 'veseen one sunset lazily imprinted in the sidewalk, or the tion of learners who want to devel­ STAFF REPORTER Catie Cheshire sprawling across the sky over the little seeds and leaves peppering op lifelong skills ofsuccess. Ifyou SnFF REPORTER student center. I hope you've taken the grass. Isn't Regis beautiful? agree with me say YEAHHH. a minute to appreciate the neature Yes. Yes is my answer, and I think we can keep this place Ian Dawe of the arboretum. Appreciate these hopefully you're here because that tidy to show a little campus love. If F ACULn· ADVISOR moments because today will never is your answer as well. you agree with me say YEAHHH. We are always happy to consider happen just the way it happened This year, I want you all to do Though it may not initially student, staff and faculty contribu­ again, and that is pretty special. a favor for me: be aware of our strike you as a "big deal," it does tions. Walking around Regis, I have campus' grounds and take care of make a difference that inevitably Please send questions, comments a deep sense of commitment and them. It doesn't take a lot of ener­ impacts all of us. So from me or story ideas to highlander@ love for the school: theold build­ gy to pick up a stray piece of trash to you, give back and pick up yo regis.edu. ings, the vivid green trees, the when you see it. Infact, I would trash. Contact [email protected] if you are interested in advertising in individuals that make up the com­ bet that it takes you about 5-l 0 Cheers, the Highlander. munity on campus. Put your phone seconds to pick up stray plastic Marley down and look around, can you and paper and dispose of it. First Please include the nature of your re quest in the subject line of your email. We look forward to hearing International Players Create Chemistry from you. Evan Anderson players because now their IQ is way of life towards their team­ The Highlander is an independent, STAFF REPORTER getting higher, they're absorbed in mates, the international athletes student-run publication. The views egis Athletics represents that diverse culture." themselves have noticed great per­ and opinions expressed in this newspaper do not represent the the University's core values R Women's head soccer Jon Belzer sonal achievements. Silvia Basso, views of Regis University. and mission by encouraging a coach adds that the diverse culture, freshman on the volleyball team diverse culture whose benefits ex­ "helpl> our American women see from ILaly, came to the U.S to "dis­ tend far beyond the playing field. how different the world can be and cover a new reality, grow up as a From a new perspective for their understand other perspectives to person, and find new motivations." respective sport, foreign athletes the game." Belzer further prais- She further adds that her journey to add value to their teams as they es the presence of international the U.S has already paid dividends, anticipate a new season. athletes on elevating his team's "I'm becoming more independent Students are recruited from sev­ chemistry. and capable of facing difficulties. RUHIGHL~DER.~EWS eral regions of the globe. Infusing "Our team chemistry two weeks As a player. .. l'm becoming more such a rich culture on to many of in seems to be amongst the best aware of how everyone on the the teams has impacted American that I've experienced here 21 team is important." and foreign players alike. Men's yearss. It helps build that collective Even though season has just be­ w@REGISffiGHLANDER head soccer coach Tony McCall spirit, that nature of understanding gun, there is little question regard­ claims that all players, both Amer­ that the world is a big place and ing the impact that international ican and international have learned it's a global community and we're athletes have brought to not only tremendously from each other. trying to develop some of that here Regis athletics, but to the Universi­ McCall says, "Our guys are be­ with Regis women's soccer." ty as a whole. coming more well rounded soccer In addition to presenting a new ----- ----- September 13, 2016 www.rubigblander.com 3 Opening Doors in Different Ways Wheelchair Accessibility Missing in Regis Community Catie Cheshire STAFF REPORTER rientation weekend is a busy Oand stressful time for all the families moving students in, as well as the fresh class of Regis. New students are finding their way around the school, orientation leaders and planners are hustling to make everything go right, and professors and staff are preparing to start the school year. To add to this already busy time, people in wheelchairs have a whole extra set of challenges to face in terms of navigating our campus. The freshman dorms are just one example of a space on cam­ pus that is not conveniently wheel chair accessible. If you live any­ where but the first floor, no one in a wheelchair is able to visit your room without being carried up the stairs. Luckily, Regis Administra­ tion, Residence Life Coordinators, and Campus Security are willing to help remedy this, but it is difficult 0 'Connell Hall, among many other places on campus, has extremely limited wheelchair access. to make the case that people in !!Nat Scott wheelchairs should have to make special arrangements to see where wished the buildings were more cessibility, is a concern for him. He growing issue for colleges that their children or friends live. accessible," Beaudoin said. "But I gives Claver Cafe as an example of p-romote dive-rsit)' and inclusion Regis junior Ethan Beaudoin never really thought about it until a time when wheelchair accessibil­ like Regis. Beaudoin hopes that his is wheelchair-bound, and he has my sophomore year." As a result of ity becomes a safety issue as well. concerns will be addressed, and he experienced what it's like to move his wishes, Beaudoin has submitted "To get upstairs from the Cafe adds that Student Body President John Moritz has been helpful in around campus first hand. This a document to RUSGA outlin- you have to find someone to help terms of listening to his requests. year, he has decided to do some­ ing areas that he thinks ought to with an elevator or go on the street thing about the difficulties he has change on campus. which isn't safe at all," said Beau­ discovered. Among these changes, Beaudoin doin. "There's always been times I mentions that safety, not just ac- Wheelchair accessibility is a Romero House Aims to Increase Spirituality Around Regis Maggie Lacey that Oscar Romero's spirit is alive STUDENT WRITER amongst all of us gathered here and n Monday, August 29, the in our community." Omembers of the Romero Romero House members seek House held their first Hospitali­ to continue the Romero's lega- tyNight of the year, in which they cy through the pillars ofservice, invited community members to community, solidarity, simplicity, enjoy home cooked Salvadorian spirituality and justice.