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Pittsburgh playwright puts on one-woman show Rachel Farkas STAFF WRITER

CLARION, Pa. - The Martin Luther King Jr. Program brought Pittsburgh Playwrights production “Straightening Combs” to Hart Chapel on Monday evening.

“Straightening Combs” was written and performed by playwright and artist Kim El to share the struggles of AfricanAmerican females growing up in urban America.

In her one-woman show, El took on six different personas while performing poetry, songs and short vignettes.

The story began when El came onto the stage with short, curly hair, dressed in a red polka-dot apron, cigarette between her fingers, and straightening combs in hand.

El was playing the part of a mother, straightening her daughter’s hair on a step stool in front of her.

As El played the mother role, she lectured her young daughter that straight hair would be the only accepted way to fit in to the culture.

This set the stage for the rest of the perfor-

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Pittsburgh playwright Kim El acts in her one-woman show “Straightening Combs” in Hart Chapel on March 11. mance, where El played a mother, a grandmother, a prostitute, a teacher, a student and an abusive husband.

El went back and forth between performing in character and addressing the audience as a narrator of her own story.

“Straightening Combs” talks about a variety of subjects El and other AfricanAmerican women face while coming of age in an urban area.

She touched on body dissatisfaction, broken families, abusive relation-

ships, mental illness and the stigma attached to being a “project chick.”

While she wrote the play, El said the story was not entirely her own. She based it on her own life and stories she has heard from other women.

Regardless, the mes-

sage is one to which many people can relate.

“I’ve had people come up to me after the show and say, ‘That’s my mother, that’s my sister,’” she said.

In the question-andanswer period after the show, El said she still struggles with her self-

image after growing into a lack of self-confidence.

“If someone tells me I’m pretty, it freaks me out,” she said. “When society tells you your dark skin, nappy hair and big lips aren’t pretty, you start to believe it.”

El said to remain positive and continue dealing with her own struggles she does a variety of things, such as meditation, listening to music and surrounding herself with positive people.

She said she also uses writing as an outlet.

“Writing is my Prozac,” El said with a laugh. “Prozac is too expensive.”

El said writing this play was an exercise in self-exploration.

She said she also wanted to create dialogue about self-image and abusive relationships.

“The purpose was to start dialogue, not only in the African American community, but universally,” she said.

El is a Pittsburgh native who graduated from Duquesne University.

She will be performing “Straightening Combs” at the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre through March 31.

University conducts survey on student engagement Alizah Thornton NEWS EDITOR

CLARION, Pa. - Students across the country are helping their universities learn about what types of campus activities interest them while at college.

Clarion University is among one of the universities conducting the National Survey of Student Engagement.

The NSSE survey results help universities determine how their undergraduate students are using their time in college and what they gain while attending college, according the NSSE website.

Clarion University’s Department of Information Management and Institutional Research issued an email to Clarion students eligible to take the survey, mainly freshmen and seniors, in late February.

“NSSE helps us understand how students are spending time in and out

of the classroom, which guides decisions that will benefit Clarion University students,” Raymond Moneta, director of IMIR said in the email to eligible students.

The survey aims to provide college information about the amount of student engagement on college campuses.

Student engagement consists of two components.

“The first is the amount of time and effort students put into their studies and other educationally purposeful activities,” the NSSE website states.

“The second is how the institution deploys its resources and organizes the curriculum and other learning opportunities to get students to participate in activities that decades of research studies show are linked to student learning,” the website states.

Students who par-

ticipate in the study at Clarion are entered into a weekly drawing for prizes that include Clarion T-shirts as well as a grand prize drawing for two iPad minis.

Samantha Dinger, a freshman speech pathology major, was one of last week’s winners.

“My experience at Clarion has been a learning experience,” Dinger said.

Dinger said the transition from high school to college has been a “big adjustment.”

“I like the freedom involved in choosing classes that interest me. I’m looking forward to pursuing my degree,” she said.

Raymond Moneta, director of IMIR, said this is not the first year the university has conducted this study.

NSSE began nationally in 2000, Moneta said.

The survey will remain open to eligible Clarion students through April.

Spike Lee film festival to begin Rachel Farkas STAFF WRITER

CLARION, Pa. -The Spike Lee Film Festival will be held at 6 p.m. on March 28 and 29 and April 1 and 2 in the Gemmell Multi-Purpose Room.

The doors open at 5:30 p.m. Guest speakers will begin their presentations at 6 p.m., followed by two films each evening.

Admission is free to students

with a student ID and $5 for community members.

Movies being shown are “Crooklyn,” “Get on the Bus,” “Malcolm X,” “Bamboozled,” “She’s Gotta Have It,” “Do the Right Thing,” “Mo’ Better Blues” and “Jungle Fever.”

There will be giveaways each night, including gift cards and gift baskets. There will also be a chance to win a meet-and -greet with Spike Lee on April 3.

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Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year visits Clarion.

FEATURES PAGE 5

Writer Mark Nieson speaks for spoken arts series.

ENTERTAINMENT PAGE 9

Adam Bostick learns from brother’s experience at Pitt.

SPORTS PAGE 12

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Student activity fees T increase for 2013-14 Alizah Thornton NEWS EDITOR

CLARION, Pa. - Student Senate Business Manager and Adviser Shelly Wilson announced Clarion students will pay $207 per semester in student activity fees for the 2013-14 school year.

The increase is $23 greater than the current amount of $187 per semester.

The increase takes into account a 3 percent increase from the Consumer Price Index, or $3, plus the additional Student Senate recommended increase of $20 per semester.

On March 6, the Clarion Board of Directors met and unanimously approved the Senate’s recommendation to increase the student activity fee by $20 per semester.

“The recommendation was well-received by the board,” Wilson said.

The board also agreed to cut the overall budgets for Recognized Student Organizations and Recog-

nized University Organizations by 11.75 percent.

This cut is lower than the 15 percent cut RSOs and RUOs were told to expect during the October budget open forum.

President Karen Whitney attended the Student Senate meeting this week to answer senators’ questions about the draft of a proposed civility statement for the university.

The purpose of the statement is to provide a code/agreement for how individuals on the university’s campus will interact with one another.

“In my view, civil means we may not agree with each other, but how we agree to be civil,” Whitney said.

The goal is an “attempt to strengthen the campus,” she said.

In order for the statement to be affective, Whitney said the statement would have to make people rethink their actions after reading it. “Does it

speak to you,” Whitney said about how someone would need to receive it.

Whitney encouraged senators to review the statement and add any suggestions for improvement.

Adviser Shawn Hoke gave thanks to individuals involved in the university’s Harlem Shake video that was used to reveal the Clarion mascot’s new uniform.

Hoke described the new uniform as a “big improvement.”

The video is posted in the University’s Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts.

Tickets for this year’s spring CampusFest starring The Band Perry went on sale Monday, March 11.

Students are able to obtain one free ticket with their student ID, and they can purchase two public tickets with their IDs also, Wilson said.

Student Senate meeting are held at 7:30 p.m. every Monday in Room 246 Gemmell.

Charges filed against 7 in Pa Turnpike case Marc Levy AP EXCHANGE

Mark Scolforo AP EXCHANGE

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A former state Senate power broker, three former top Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission officials, and four others were charged Wednesday in what prosecutors termed a “pay to play” scheme that involved bid-rigging for contract-hungry vendors who gave gifts and political campaign contributions.

The group of former state officials used their extraordinary power over multimillion-dollar turnpike commission contracts both to enrich themselves and help sway political campaigns, Attorney General Kathleen Kane said.

The largely secret investigation that came to light Wednesday took 44 months, dating back to 2009, and involved hundreds of witnesses, she said.

The public, she said, “has lost untold millions of dollars,” and she added that the “greatest improper influence” involved the turnpike’s procurement process.

The investigation is continuing, but is restricted by an eightyear statute of limitations, Kane said.

Retired state Senate Democratic Leader Bob Mellow, currently jailed in a federal prison in South Carolina on unrelated corruption charges, was accused of helping supporters and contributors get business from the turnpike and pressuring people at the turnpike to support him politically and raise campaign funds.

Mellow, 70, was charged with corrupt organizations, bribery, bidrigging, conspiracy and other offenses.

Also charged was former turnpike chief executive Joseph Brimmeier and former turnpike chairman Mitchell Rubin, who face charges similar to Mellow’s. Brimmeier, 64, of Pittsburgh, declined to comment Wednesday and hung up on a reporter.

A message was left at Rubin’s home.

Kane said the selection and recommendation of turnpike vendors followed what witnesses identified as a 60-40 rule that split up contracts among firms favored by Republicans and Democrats: 60 percent of the turnpike contracts went to the “majority party” and 40 percent went to the “minority party.”

Vendors who participated in the pay-to-play system were rewarded with multimillion-dollar

contracts, authorities said.

A key witness was Tony Lepore, chief of staff to Mellow and to the current Democratic floor leader, Sen. Jay Costa, of Allegheny County.

The jury said Lepore testified under a grant of immunity.

“Lepore explained that Senate officials would learn of work becoming available at the turnpike and would call ... Brimmeier and tell him which firm, vendor or consultant they wanted to steer turnpike work to,” the grand jury wrote in an 88-page presentment released with the charges.

“Generally, their requests were honored.”

The other defendants, who face various charges, were the turnpike’s former chief operating officer George Hatalowich, 47; former turnpike employee Melvin Shelton, 81, of Philadelphia; and another turnpike ex-worker, Raymond Zajicek, 67, of Tarpon Springs, Fla. The final two defendants are turnpike vendor Dennis Miller, of Harrisburg, and Jeffrey Suzenski, a 63-year-old vendor consultant and registered lobbyist from Pottstown.

The investigation has been conducted largely in secret.

The charges may revive efforts to overhaul or even dissolve the turnpike.

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Argentine pope elected NicoleWinfield AP EXCHANGE

VATICAN CITY — Argentine Jorge Bergoglio was elected pope Wednesday and chose the papal name Francis, becoming first pontiff from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium.

He asked for prayers for himself, and for retired Pope Benedict XVI, whose stunning resignation paved the way for the tumultuous conclave that brought the first Jesuit to the papacy.

The cardinal electors overcame deep divisions to select the 266th pontiff in a remarkably fast conclave.

Bergoglio had reportedly finished second in the 2005 conclave that produced Benedict — who last month became the first pope to resign in 600 years.

After announcing “Habemus Papum” — “We

have a pope!” — a cardinal standing on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday revealed the identity of the new pontiff, using his Latin name.

The 76-year-old archbishop of Buenos Aires has spent nearly his entire career at home in Argentina, overseeing churches and shoe-leather priests.

Tens of thousands of people who braved cold rain to watch the smokestack atop the Sistine Chapel jumped in joy when white smoke poured out a few minutes past 7 p.m., many shouting “Habemus Papam!” or “We have a pope!” — as the bells of St. Peter’s Basilica and churches across Rome pealed.

Chants of “Long live the pope!” arose from the throngs of faithful, many with tears in their eyes.

Crowds went wild as the Vatican and Italian military bands marched

through the square and up the steps of the basilica, followed by Swiss Guards in silver helmets and full regalia.

They played the introduction to the Vatican and Italian anthems and the crowd, which numbered at least 50,000, joined in, waving flags from countries around the world.

“I can’t explain how happy I am right down,” said Ben Canete, a 32-yearold Filipino, jumping up and down in excitement.

Elected on the fifth ballot, Francis was chosen in one of the fastest conclaves in years, remarkable given there was no clear front-runner going into the vote and that the church had been in turmoil following the upheaval unleashed by Pope Benedict XVI’s surprise resignation.

A winner must receive 77 votes, or two-thirds of the 115, to be named pope.

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Professor presents paper during business conference Rhanisha Tillman-Hill STAFF WRITER

CLARION, Pa. - The Allied Social Science Association meetings are prestigious conferences that attract thousands of economists from a variety of sub-disciplines.

Attendees at these meetings are top economists from around the world.

This year’s meeting, in San Diego, Calif., attracted more than 10,000 people 13 of whom were Nobel laureates.

Among the guests was Clarion University’s Rod D. Raehsler, chairman and professor in the economics department. Raehsler has been a faculty member at Clarion since 1991.

Raehsler was able to attend a variety of activities at the meeting including a luncheon honoring Nobel prizewinning economists Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims who had great influence on Raehsler’s work while he was in graduate

school, he said.

He also attended a presentation by Paul Krugman, another Nobel laureate, on the Macroeconomics of Recessions.

Raehsler said that he tried to attend as many presentations as he could, especially ones given by Nobel prize winners in economics.

Raehsler has had his last four papers accepted to the ASSA’s high profile meetings.

This year Raehsler presented his paper titled “The Use of Service Learning Projects to Teach Introductory Consumer Economics.”

Raehsler used his class and a service-learning project that he developed to observe exam performance, attendance and achievement in the project to teach basic economic concepts.

The project focuses on what it takes to be a consumer. Students are assigned to create a project that will help a local community and

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Clarion professor Rod D. Raehsler presents paper at the 2013 ASSA annual meeting in San Diego, Calif. economic development.

During the assignment, students discuss their interest in the project they choose, the benefits that will impact the community and create a budget for their project.

The assignment gets students to utilize information learned in Raehsler’s consumer

economics course.

Raehsler’s analysis of service learning incorporated into his course yielded positive results in performance in the middle to lower grade distribution.

“As teachers, faculty are always exploring ways to aid in the learning process, and this represents one change I have made

in ECON 140 over the past few years,” Raeshler said.

Raehsler’s presentation was sponsored by the American Economic Association.

Raehsler said he hopes to return to the ASSA meeting for a fifth time next year in Philadelphia.

Raehsler describes his experience at the ASSA meeting as exciting.

“The ASSA meetings are very exciting in that they attract economists from every subdiscipline across a wide range of academic backgrounds,” he said.

The ASSA meetings are highly esteemed events in the economics community, where participants can listen to lectures from Nobel prize winning economists and also catch up with former classmates and friends who also share interests of education in economics.

A friend of Raehsler, who is a professor at Penn State was also invited to present his pa-

per. He studied the best uses of media to teach economics over the past five years, something in which Raehsler said, “I will be able to add to my future courses.”

Raehsler said he believes as a faculty member it is important to be active in the field.

By participating in meetings such as the one held by ASSA each year, Raehsler returns to Clarion with material and beneficial information he learns in sessions on economic education.

One paper presented by a professor at Iowa State looked at the use of competitive games to teach principles of economics.

Another professor from the University of California-Berkley outlined teaching techniques across different class sizes.

Raehsler said he is always looking for ways to improve the learning process, and his implementation of the service-learning project over the last five years exemplifies his effort.

Supreme Court Justice Melvin may lose pension Joe Mandak AP EXCHANGE

Peter Jackson AP EXCHANGE

PITTSBURGH — Suspended state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin stands to lose a sizeable state pension once she’s sentenced on corruption charges in May, when the judge who presided over her campaign corruption trial also may remove her from office.

Information obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press from the State Employees’ Retirement System through a Right-toKnow request shows Melvin qualifies for a maximum annual pension of $140,322.

The request also sought pension information about Melvin’s

sister, former state Sen. Jane Orie, who is serving a prison sentence in a related corruption case.

Based on that information, the AP calculated Orie’s maximum annual pension at $37,700.

State law requires pension forfeitures by officials who commit certain crimes once they are sentenced or plead guilty, but SERS spokeswoman Heather Tyler said no forfeiture action has been taken in either case, since neither of the sisters have applied for benefits.

Melvin, 56, was convicted last month in Allegheny County of theft of services and other charges for using her former Superior Court staff, and her sister’s own statepaid staff, to work on her

2003 and 2009 campaigns for the Supreme Court.

A third sister, Melvin aide Janine Orie, 58, was also convicted.

Jane Orie, the former lawmaker, is serving 2 1/2 to 10 years in prison for misusing her own state-funded staffers on her own campaigns.

She was acquitted at that same trial last year on all charges that she ordered her staff to work on Melvin’s campaigns, too.

Jane Orie’s attorney, William Costopoulos, did not immediately return a call seeking comment Wednesday. Melvin’s attorney, Patrick Casey, declined comment on the pension matter and an order by Allegheny County Judge Lester Nauhaus asked both sides to weigh in on wheth-

er he can and should also remove her from office at her May 7 sentencing.

A sentencing judge ordered Rolf Larsen removed from office when he became the first — and only other — sitting Supreme Court justice to be convicted of a crime in 1994.

Despite the court action, the state Senate also convicted Larsen on unrelated articles of impeachment later that year and banned him from holding office.

The state constitution contains two passages Nauhaus wants attorneys to address: One orders a justice, judge or justice of the peace to forfeit his office if convicted of misbehavior in office and the other applies to “civil officers” convicted of misbehavior in office or “any infamous crime.”

Corbett hopes to resume lottery privatization deal Marc Levy AP EXCHANGE

Mark Scolforo AP EXCHANGE

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Tom Corbett plans to ask Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s office to reverse its rejection of a contract with a British firm to manage the $3.5 billion Pennsylvania Lottery, a top lawmaker said Tuesday. Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati said administration officials told him Monday that they are making changes in the contract with Londonbased Camelot Global Services that Kane rejected last month over concerns that parts of it contravene the state constitution or violate state law.

The spokeswoman, Elizabeth Brassell, said the Corbett administration would say more later this week, once it announces its next steps.

The administration has a Saturday deadline to appeal Kane’s decision in court.

However, the head of the union that represents lottery employees, David Fillman, said making changes to the contract is “a very dangerous path” because of state laws meant to ensure a fair contracting process.

The changes described

by Scarnati would limit

the scope of gambling that would be allowed under the contract.

Senate Republicans, including Scarnati, had asked Corbett’s administration in January to make it clear that the Pennsylvania Lottery cannot compete with casinos through online gambling.

He said he believes those changes will be part of a contract that the administration will resubmit to Kane.

A draft of legislation written by Sen. Robert Tomlinson, R-Bucks, would legalize keno and the use of a computer mouse to scratch off instant tickets, but it otherwise would prohibit the lottery or its private manager from offering Internet-based or monitorbased interactive games or casino-style games, including video poker, video roulette and video blackjack.

The bill has not been introduced yet.

Kane’s office declined comment.

Kane had said she would not approve Camelot’s 20-to-30-year contract because state law does not allow the governor to privatize the management of the lottery nor does it allow the expansion of gambling that the contract would permit.

Her office also concluded that the “indirect expenses” that Camelot

can claim under the contract are an unconstitutional waiver of the state’s “sovereign immunity” protection against paying certain damages or claims.

The attorney general’s office reviews state contracts for form and legality. Corbett has said he believes Camelot, the United Kingdom’s official lottery operator, can produce higher and more stable lottery profits for the state.

Democratic lawmakers have criticized Corbett as diverting money from programs for the elderly to a foreign firm at a time when the state employees who run the lottery are achieving strong gains in profits and sales and keeping overhead low.

The lottery employees’ union, Council 13 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, also protested that employees would lose their jobs under the deal, although Camelot executives contend that they would expand the number of lottery employees.

Currently, profits from the 41-year-old Pennsylvania Lottery benefit programs for the elderly, including transit, rent and property tax rebates, prescription drug assistance, senior centers and longterm care services.

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Shedding light on CSA’s role Dear Editor, On the March 7, 2013 edition of The Clarion Call, it was reported that the university is looking to lease the book center to an outside company. I’m writing this letter to clarify some of the points made in this article.

First, it should be noted that the University Book Center is owned and operated by the Clarion Students’ Association, which is a nonprofit organization that is affiliated with the university. In accordance with Pennsylvania Act 188 of 1982, the purpose of CSA is to set student activity fees and supervise the collection, retention, and expenditure thereof, in cooperation with the president of Clarion University. Additionally, CSA may buy, lease and sell at retail school supplies and other related merchandise with any profits and/or income

derived from said activities used exclusively and solely for the purpose of supporting the athletic, cultural, recreational, social and integrated learning activities of Clarion University.

The CSA Board of Directors, which is the corporate board of CSA, is comprised of students, faculty and alumni of Clarion University, and is advised by members of the university and CSA administration. Following a detailed analysis of the Book Center’s financials and the results of a review conducted by an independent book store operations consulting firm, the CSA Board made the decision to engage in a Request for Proposals to evaluate whether or not a managed store can provide better service, selection and prices to the students of Clarion University and provide greater financial stability to the Stu-

dents’ Association than a self-operated store.

While it is too early to tell what the outcome of this RFP process will be, I can assure you that the CSA Board will consider all the factors involved when making a decision about how the bookstore moves forward. The CSA Board will base its decision on what is in the best interests of the university’s most important constituency, the students.

I hope that this letter has been helpful in shedding some light on the role of CSA. I encourage those with questions regarding the Clarion Students’ Association to contact me and wish everyone the best of luck the rest of the semester.

Sincerely, John Owens Chairperson Clarion Students’ Association Board of Directors

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Less wary of Ryan’s budget cuts

Matt Knoedler STAFF WRITER

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Feminism: What’s up sisters?

Shirley Sproule COPY EDITOR

This past Sunday, Britain’s largest selling Sunday newspaper The Sunday Times published a spread on feminism. Which, good for The Sunday Times, right? A four-page color spread on feminism in a popular, well-selling newspaper. Except that instead of choosing from the wealth of popular, nonproblematic feminists, The Sunday Times chose six SIX - white, middle-class, problematic “mainstream feminists” to write about.

Six of them.

The Sunday Times article “What’s Up Sisters?” showcased Lena Dunham, whose hit HBO television series “Girls” has come under a lot of heat for being lauded as the Next Big Thing in feminism despite being solely about the struggles of not-very-poor white girls in New York City; Hadley Freedman, a feminist fashion journalist who has said time and again that Beyonce and women like her cannot possibly be feminists because they are happy enough with their bodies to be able to flaunt them; Caitlin Moran, writer of “How to Be a Woman”

and who has stated that she “literally couldn’t give a shit” about representation of women of color in the media; and the Vagenda, a feminist blog who not only have published a “defense” of Moran’s numerous problematic actions (slut-shaming, casual transphobia, comparing gay men to sea monkeys and rape apologism, to name only a few of her transgressions which she has refused to apologize for), but in the same breath dismissed intersectional feminism because it is “too hard.” Their actual words being, “feminism is, and to an extent always has been, a white, middle class movement.” If feminism has been a “white, middle class movement” ever, it is only because white, middle class “feminists” have forced it to be.

Now, intersectional feminism isn’t too hard a concept to grasp. I’ll explain it the way it was explained to me: Things suck. Especially for women. But things suck harder if you’re not a white, middle class woman, or can pass as such. It’s revolutionary, really. The idea that things can suck harder for women who are gay, or black, or Asian, or mixed, or disabled, or trans, and so forth.

What is so hard for these women to realize is that feminism is not the singleminded struggle of women, but also the intersection of racism, homophobia and transmisogyny. If you are a white, middle-class cis woman, then that’s great, good for you, but the fact that these women have stated time and again that they actively “do not give a shit” about the struggles of other types of women, and that The Sunday Times published a spread praising them for it, with not a single woman of color to be found, bothers me.

The bottom line: Women don’t make 77 cents to every man’s dollar. White women do.

In the past, Wisconsin Congressman and former Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan has made some bold plans on how he would cut the federal budget and, ultimately, balance it over time. Those previous plans weren’t much different from the plan Ryan outlined in an op-ed published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. I have been wary of the congressman’s plans before, but when broken down, these plans aren’t as stark as one may think.

Ryan’s new plan calls for a spending cut of $4.6 trillion over the next decade, lessening the spending increase from its current path of 5 to 3.4 percent. This is all in an effort to balance the

Wall Street reacted so positively that the Dow Jones Industrial Average saw record highs, closing over the 14,000-point mark for the first time since October 2007, shortly before the recession.

I understand that cuts from the sequester were only $85 billion compared to the behemoth task of gutting trillions of dollars over a decade, but the fact of the matter is that politics can be a long and arduous process, one that is best started sooner rather than later.

The writer is a communication major and member of The Clarion Call.

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What’s on Your Mind: All things spring The writer is a communication major and member of The Clarion Call.

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federal budget by 2023. The plan would call for $41 trillion worth of spending over the next 10 years, while the current plan calls for $46 trillion in the same timeframe. It should be noted that this new plan is a plan endorsed by House Republicans, but led by Ryan as the chairperson of the House Budget Committee.

While these numbers are overwhelming and truthfully unfathomable to comprehend (I mean, $46 trillion is such a large amount of money), let’s consider the amount that’s actually being cut. $4.6 trillion over 10 years. $460 billion per year. With the national debt crawling ever closer to the $17 trillion mark every day, it’s important that we get spending under control sooner rather than later.

We saw how Americans reacted to the sequestration cuts last week: few ripples were cast in the financial wave pool. We also saw how Wall Street reacted to the sequestration cuts last week: positively.

In fact,

NEWS EDITOR

Warm weather. Spring break. Fresh flowers. April showers. These are all of the wonderful things about springtime.

March 20, the first day of spring, is approaching, and I’m sure many are delighted for winter’s end. Not everyone, because there are individuals who enjoy the chilly weather of winter.

For many people, spring is one of the happier seasons.

The days are longer due to the end of daylight saving time, the weather changes where large coats and snow boots are no longer neces-

sary for everyday travel and the end of the semester becomes more apparent for students and faculty.

All these nice things about the season change shouldn’t be a reason for students to begin to slack off. After all, this is also midterm time, whether tests, papers or assignments are due before or after spring break. Believe it or not, professors will notice when a rather large number of students miss –“skip”—class once the sun begins to shine in Clarion.

There are no excuses for missing classes because of pleasant weather. The weather will not significantly change in the 50 minutes or hour and 15 minutes that classes are held for—hopefully the weather won’t change, but this is Clarion.

Yes, students usually have multiple classes during the day along with work, but

I’m sure the sun will stay out for hours for students to enjoy. The way I see it, if students are willing to go to class in snowy, windy weather, then going to class in pleasant, sunny weather shouldn’t be a problem either. After being in school for months and completing so many assignments and taking so many tests, its seems like slacking off is the easiest thing to do.

Slacking off now may cause problems later for students. Students can’t depend on finals to boost their grades. If students continue working hard now, it will pay off later.

“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” -Newt Gingrich

The writer is a communication major and member of The Clarion Call.

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Teacher of the year promotes portfolio, technology Alex Krach STAFF WRITER

On March 11, Ryan Devlin, the 2013 Pennsylvania “Teacher of the Year,” spoke to students and faculty about integrating technology into the classroom and the problems that traditional teaching has in the 21st century.

Devlin opened his presentation by discussing why he became a teacher and followed that up by discussing Benjamin Franklin, one of his inspirations. Devlin asked the audience to imagine what Franklin would think of the 21st century and all of its progress. He pointed out how he would be amazed with many things, but would find the classroom lackluster.

“I think the sad part is that he would notice that not that much is different.

He might look around and see a couple of…smart boards, but we’re still doing school the exact same way we did back then,” Devlin said. “We, most of the time, see the teacher in front of the classroom and he or she is just lecturing until they are blue in the face…I think of all the great changes we had, but look at Benjamin Franklin as if he were

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Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year Ryan Devlin signs an autograph for an audience member at his presentation. looking at our classroom now. Would he think that our classroom has been a really innovative place?”

After discussing what Franklin would see in the classroom today, Devlin moved onto the United States educational world ranking. Using his tablet and having audience members use their smartphones and computers, he asked them to guess from one to 100 where they thought the United States ranked. Most of the answers that came in were in the forties, almost twenty higher than

the actual ranking of 25.

Devlin used this opportunity to point out how almost everyone agrees that the United States needs to do better in raising the academic bar.

“We’re leading in technology; we’re leading in entrepreneurs.

We’re leading in so many different areas, but yet the ratings on how we do public education just really aren’t there yet,” Devlin said. “I think that that’s something politicians aren’t going to change.

I think that that’s something, as teachers, we

need to change.”

Devlin then went on to explain that teachers need to begin to change how they do things if the standard is to be raised.

“That’s the key word – differently. What are we going to do differently?

Because nothing is going to change if we continue to do the same things the same way that we’ve done them time and time again,” Devlin said.

Devlin’s call to action was prompted by a statistic from the U.S. Department of Labor that points to 65 percent of all ele-

mentary students having a job that has not been invented yet.

In order to prepare students for future jobs, Devlin believes that teachers need to help students develop high level thinking skills and that schools need to step back from using grade assessment.

“One thing we need to get over is the obsession with grades. Any parent that emails the school district is generally upset because a student got a bad grade on something…It’s all about the grade,” Devlin said.

“Rather than worry about what grade you will get in English class…we should really be worried about what will kids be able to do now that they took my English class.”

Devlin wants grades to be replaced with portfolios that students develop throughout their academic career.

“I think we need to start putting an emphasis on portfolios and saying, ‘Hey, this is what I did for school,’ rather than just having a transcript with a bunch of letters, we have proof of what we accomplished,” Devlin said.

Following his ideas on grading reformation, Devlin moved on to how teachers can change their teaching style to better suited students.

“We still see tons of teachers standing in front of the classroom, lecturing and lecturing….I think that that’s the biggest problem. Everyone finds school to be boring but it really shouldn’t be that way,” Devlin said.

“Now with all the technology that we have, there’s no reason for students to be bored at school…we need to start using [technology] in schools so we can start figuring out the educational value of it as well.”

Speaker presents dangers of concussions Leah Loscar STAFF WRITER

A bump on the head may seem like no big deal.

But with 26,000 brain injuries among students each year in Pennsylvania alone, students may want to think again.

Because March is Brain Injury Awareness Month, Bethany Wilson, a speech language pathologist and coordinator of Intermediate Unit 6 BrainSTEPS Team, spoke to students in Hart Chapel on Tuesday, March 12, about the dangers of concussions.

A concussion is considered a traumatic brain injury. According to Wilson’s presentation, TBIs occur after birth as the result of an external physical force and are the leading cause of death and disability in children and young adults.

“A concussion is a brain injury, and we have to treat it as seriously as any other brain injury that we know of,” said Wilson.

When Wilson asked if anyone had hit their head in their lifetime, a majority of students in the au-

dience raised their hands.

But when asked who had been formally diagnosed with a concussion, many students put their hands down. Wilson stressed that danger occurs when symptoms go unrecognized and untreated.

The room fell silent after viewing a video about Preston Plevretes, a former football player for LaSalle University, who was incorrectly cleared to play with an unhealed concussion and severely injured during a game.

He had to relearn how to walk, talk and do other daily activities.

“If you get someone who’s foggy... those are the kids you have to watch,” said Mary McCarthy, a professor of Speech Language Pathology here at Clarion who is coordinator of the TBI support group on campus and also works with BrainSTEPS. “Brain injury can occur even if there is no loss of consciousness,” said Wilson. BrainSTEPS, which stands for Strategies Teaching Educators, Parents, and Students, is a child and adolescent brain injury school re-

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Bethany Wilson shows students graphs in a Power Point on concussions. entry program unique to Pennsylvania. “We communicate with the district and medical professionals to ensure smooth reentry,” said Wilson.

The program helps students deal with their symptoms which can include memory disorders, motor problems, sensitivity to light and sound.

“They look OK, but it’s those cognitive demands that can bring on symp-

toms,” said Wilson. Symptoms generally resolve in one to four weeks, but the program doesn’t end there. “We at least check in on them once a year, every year until they graduate.”

As part of Brain Injury Awareness Month, the Clarion Area Brain Injury Support Group and BrainSTEPS will work together as they have for the past three years to distribute free bike helmets to Clari-

on and Butler counties.

“We try to promote awareness about brain injuries in the community,” said McCarthy. “We try to spread the word for brain injury prevention.”

Their annual Brain Safety Fair will be April 13, at Cranberry Mall in Seneca, Pa. “As a member of the TBI support group and with a TBI myself, I found it very informative,” said

Clarion University student Carling Burke, a speech language pathology major who attended Wilson’s presentation. “I think the BrainSTEPS program is overall a hidden gem, and more people should know about it.”

The message Wilson said she wants students to hear is this: “Be aware of the symptoms...Take concussions seriously, don’t just shake it off.”

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Four Los Angeles police officers are charged with brutality in the beating of Rodney King, which occurred nearly two weeks earlier. All officers were eventually acquitted.

The riots that ensued afterwards became one of the largest in U.S. history, causing over $1 billion in property damage and over 3,700 buildings burned.

Seven of country singer Reba McEntire’s touring band are killed in a plane crash on this day in 1991.

The band was traveling out of San Diego when their plane crashed in a mountain near the Mexican border.

The crash also took the lives of both pilots and McEntire’s road manager.

On this day in 1995, the United States approves the first chicken pox vaccine. The vaccine, Varivax by Merck, was welcomed by the public, with approximately 7,600 children vaccinated that year, according to www. medicines.org.

Another thing to celebrate on this day is St. Patrick’s Day.

Basketball fans rejoice on this day in 1995, as Michael Jordan announces the ending of his 17-month retirement from the NBA with his famous two-word press release, “I’m back.”

Jordan would enjoy great success, winning three consecutive NBA championships and two MVP awards.

The NFL decides to strip Phoenix of the 1993 Super Bowl on this day in 1991 due to the state of Arizona not recognizing Martin Luther King Day as a holiday.

The game was moved to Pasadena, Calif.

Arizona citizens voted to enact MLK Day as a holiday the next year, and the 1996 Super Bowl was played in Temple, Ariz.

This week in history: March 14-19 Amerigo Allegretto FEATURES EDITOR

MARCH 14 On this day in 1997, President Bill Clinton trips and tears his knee while at professional golfer Greg Norman’s house in Florida. The president would require surgery to reattach tendons the very next day. The operation took about two hours.

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University professor speaks about the importance of energy Emily Miller STAFF WRITER

Energy is defined as the strength and vitality required for sustained physical and mental activity. Energy helps people move, helps move things, lights houses and charges phones. Energy is constantly booming around the world at every moment. People are using energy all the time, but they rarely think of what that energy means to them.

On Tuesday, March 12, Professor Vasudeva Rao Aravind of the physics department spoke to Clarion University students about “Energy: A Practical Viewpoint.” As part of the academic speaker series sponsored by Faculty Senate Student Affairs committee, Aravind presented the audience with a viewpoint about what energy is through his field of study, physics.

Throughout the presentation, Aravind provided interactive opportunities for the students to get involved in a two way conversation.

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Vasudeva Rao Aravind explains the importance of energy in “Energy: A Practical Viewpoint.”

The presentation focused on the energy crisis that is going on in the world today as well as energy on the grand scheme of things.

The crisis present is due to the increase in the consumption of energy without the increase of production. Not only has the crisis become evident, a lack of knowledge about energy is an ongoing issue.

“A lot of people still don’t know where the energy comes from that power our own homes,” Aravind said.

“They think that gas comes from gas stations.”

Aravind explained energy consumption increased after the Industrial Revolution, noting that one of the main contributors was the automobile industry. Energy

useage increased since those times.

“In today’s world, it is unimaginable to think of going about your day without using a lot of energy, no matter what you do,” Aravind said.

“For example, driving your car from Point A to Point B, you consume a lot of energy.”

It is because of this lack of knowledge of en-

ergy consumption that the crisis has been created. During the course of the presentation, a focus was put on the topic of energy becoming more efficient in order for the environment to see benefits and the crisis slow down. For energy to become efficient, the knowledge about what energy is needs to be gained in society.

“When I was a kid, my parents insisted ‘don’t turn on the lights unless you need to,” Aravind said.

“I never understood the implications. I don’t think many people have the conscience of what they are doing. Public knowledge is important. This is not a problem that I or any individual can solve. It starts at the individual level, but we all have to come together as a society to solve it together.”

Students who attended the presentation found themselves walking away with facts that they weren’t aware of before. Olivia Lough, a CU sophomore, was one of those students.

“I thought that the presentation by Dr. Aravind was very educational. It made me realize several things about energy, even just what it is in general.”

The academic speaker series seeks to present programs that will be of interest to students as well as the community.

The next presentation will be held from 7 to 8 p.m., April 9, in Room 250/252 Gemmell Student Complex.

University health program seeks to increase health, fitness awareness Kyra Ammon STAFF WRITER

Clarion University and the surrounding community are teaming up this spring to increase fitness and nutrition awareness for healthy living through a wellness initiative called Project Eagle Fit, which is partially funded by the Clarion University Community Fellows Grant.

Through this project and its many parts, Clarion residents can strive for better health and a higher standard of living.

One branch of the initiative is the New Leaf Program, which is getting its start this year, and goes along with March being National Nutrition Month.

The New Leaf program is a series of courses consisting of both nutrition education and physical fitness education. The courses begin on March 25 and will be held every Monday for 10 weeks. The brochure for the program promises “Tailor-made choices for you.”

The sessions will be led by registered dietitian Beth Oliver and personal trainer Cinnamon Vosburg. They will be teaching participants how to identify and engage in healthy living habits to fit their own lifestyles.

Community members as well as Clarion University students are welcome. Students can register for the program at

a reduced cost, and those who participate will be eligible to enter a scholarship if they choose. There are no additional requirements for the scholarship. The deadline for registration is Monday, March 18.

The courses are derived from a program that was originally created at the University of North Carolina’s Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

It started out as part of a demonstration project aimed toward women who are at risk for cardiovascular disease, but had such success that it was expanded to fit all types of people. The project description states that its most recent development is “Community Links for Better Health, a step-bystep guide for creating tailored community resource tools that foster the adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviors.”

The Clarion New Leaf Program hopes to emulate this. Course instructor Oliver is looking forward to the program. Last year, Oliver and Vosburg led a similar, smaller series that didn’t include students, and it was successful. She is optimistic about the New Leaf Program this year, and says that it will become a yearly course. “If we get enough interest, and continuing interest. That would be great.”

Oliver has also directed a weight loss program

and will be incorporating the most recent activity guidelines for health in the sessions.

Project Eagle Fit is working with local businesses to help initiate a start toward better overall health.

Resource guides will be placed in various business buildings in and around Clarion. This is to ensure availability of health and fitness information to all community members.

Eagle Commons is one such business, which is expected to have success with students because of its proximity. Jeff Gauger of the Dining Services Department said he is glad to support Project Eagle Fit when its leaders made the request.

“They were looking for us to join in their efforts,” Gaugher says, and the cafeteria agreed to take part.

Clarion University’s Dining Services already make a point to promote healthy choices. Nutritional information about the menus is available online, as well as the option to create a personal nutrition journal.

For students who are unable to participate in the New Leaf program, Gauger suggests taking advantage of these resources. His advice is also to “…take a look at the [Eagle Fit] Program and choose the items they can participate in.”

More information about the Eagle Fit initiative and its various parts can be found on exploreclarion.com

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Review: David Bowie’s “Next Day” fresh, still glam Eric Stevens STAFF WRITER

There is a certain kind of embarrassment that comes with owning a David Bowie T-shirt and being entirely unaware of his newest release on Mar. 8.

I found the shirt in my brother’s pile of old clothes, and proves to be symbolic of my appreciation for Bowie’s music. I wouldn’t pay money to have his merchandise or music and instead enjoy it at my own convenience amongst older bands and songwriters that I might not enjoy at all. My years of being a fan of Bowie ends before being someone who contemplates glamming up to be Ziggy Stardust every year for Halloween, but I would be excited to see somebody replicating the glam rock hero.

The album cover is bold and provocative. At first glance, it would seem that he is taking a stand against his own musical past by boxing out his quintessential ’77 album cover of “Heroes.” It elicits a feeling of moving on from the past and not being too hung up on it. The

idea is meant to be broad rather than singularly directed toward “Heroes.”

The ballad, “Where Are We Now?” is the first single from the album and is one of the best. I like to think Bowie could have recorded this song anytime since the ‘80s.

Bowie has a distinct voice and I found myself not enjoying his vocals throughout the album, but this song proved me wrong. His vocals reflect a pain that could only be dealt by the slow, persistent passing of time, giving more character to his already idiosyncratic voice. The breath and spacing of the glistening guitar strums in correlation with the piano is what makes the song worth listening to. The instrumentation is well-arranged and feels perfectly utilized in the building of the climax and through the rest of the song.

I would like the second single, “The Stars (Are Out Tonight),” much more if not for the vocal melodies.

Bowie’s singing feels unyielding and monotonous at most points throughout the song. Through this

though, the listener feels more apt to listen and interpret the lyrics and meaning of the song as maybe Bowie intended.

Another song I like is “Obstacle,” a bonus track released on the deluxe version of the album. The song opens with a mid-tempo drum beat and a punctual bass line plays along with it. The keyboard trickles in a repetitious pattern in the background. The combination of the piano and the reverb of the guitar give off an eerie, mysterious vibe and are only heightened by the singing. I wish Bowie would have applied this style of singing to the rest of the album. The vocal range is much wider, which liberated deeper emotions in his singing that I further appreciate given his age.

Throughout the album, Bowie sounds well-rooted in the present. He is still able to transcend through past decades for influences that are distilled through the filter of himself. This is what presents his new material as fresh rather than sounding rehashed despite sounds reminiscent of other decades.

Review: “Oz: Great & Powerful” new classic Blayne Sheaffer ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

Disclaimer: Anyone looking for the remake of “The Wizard of Oz” should stay home. “Oz: The Great and Powerful” is about Oz, played

by James Franco, who is a circus magician and is swept up in a hurricane and taken to a land which is coincidentally also called Oz, where a prophecy has foreseen his arrival. He is then faced with the challenge

of finding out which of three sisters (Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and Michelle Williams) is the Wicked Witch, and driving her away from tormenting Oz. The original color theme applied in the 1939 film was seen in “Oz” as well. The beginning of the movie is filmed in black and white, and only when the wizard has reached the land of Oz do vibrant colors appear, along with new crea-

tures not seen in “The Wizard of Oz.” Keeping in mind that this is a PG movie and is meant to appeal to children, I still felt Franco’s acting was overdone.

While he pulled off acting with CGI, it came across as though Franco didn’t know how to act for children in any other way than to exaggerate his facial expressions and flail around as much as possible.

Unfortunately, because he is the main character,

this tainted the quality of the movie.

However, some of the more redeeming qualities can be attributed to the storyline which, while it strayed from the classic, gave a fresh perspective that many other films have missed.

In this movie the Wicked Witch of the East has not been crushed by a house, but joins forces with her sister to take down Glinda the Good, played by Williams.

The twist was surpris-

ing, but all viewers might not be fooled as to who is the Wicked Witch of the West. But of course, this can’t be revealed.

In an unusual role, Kunis performed just shy of her acting capabilities. Her performance felt stunted, as though she was uncomfortable. Which, in turn, makes the audience uncomfortable.

Weisz and Williams did not display the shortcomings of Franco and Kunis on screen,

but instead supplied the imagination that “Oz” required. For children who grow up with “Oz” instead of “The Wizard,” Weisz and Williams would be the characters most admired.

Parents looking for a new classic to play constantly for their children will find “Oz” to be the perfect choice. With everything from talking monkeys to a feisty China doll, it is a charming addition to movies kids will play nonstop.

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Nieson reads for Spoken Arts Series Alex Krach STAFF WRITER

Marc Nieson, an awardwinning filmmaker and writer, read from “Houdini’s Heirs,” a work in progress, to students, faculty and community members March 12 at the Carlson Library Art Gallery. Nieson, who has been working on “Houdini’s Heirs,” a novel about side-show performers, for 14 years, used the opportunity to test various chapters on an audience.

“There’s nothing like reading your work aloud to get a sense of whether there’s something in the air between you and the listener,” Nieson said.

“You literally feel something between us, and what’s real.”

Nieson started working on “Houdini’s Heirs” in 1998 after reading a short article about a woman who had conceived and given birth to a child while she was in a coma.

This idea of suspension, whether in time, in the air or in water resonated at various times throughout the reading.

“I think that the space above you, as well as the space below you, and the idea of hope reaching beyond what your limitations are that’s a big part of the book; looking at that kind of space,” Nieson said.

Asa, a woman with half-African and halfEuropean features and a member of the sideshow, embodies this suspension as she floats in a glass tank filled with water, which is hoisted in the air. Nieson also used the article to conceptualize Asa. “I’m tackling one of the hugest elephants in the country, which is race,

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Nieson speaks on his life experiences and reads from his works in the Carlson Library art gallery. and I feel compelled that I need to do that…If there is one thing in the book that I’m nervous about, it’s how am I going to be stepping into that realm and doing it justice,” Nieson said, “I think it’s like other things also.

The idea that I was initially going to write ‘freaks’…

I went to a sideshow on

Coney Island and talked to people who were performers, and eventually I started to realized… this is just another person that has this set of vulnerabilities.

That’s all you have to break it down to, is what’s common about people being vulnerable and fragile.”

Nieson, borrowing

from his years as a visual artist, began the reading of the first part of the story with an iPad around his neck, while the word “Dreamland” slowly rose from the black screen, before quickly fading away.

“This is real. Picture it. The screen black at first; black and blank, like you’re thinking that some-

thing might be wrong with your TV. Maybe you even reach for the remote,” Nieson said, “But no. Ever so slowly, something is materializing before you-teeny little points of light, like stars.”

After taking off the tablet, Nieson quickly changed into the character of the ring leader,

reading from a section that urged the people of the boardwalk to step into the sideshow.

“Just when you thought there was nothing to believe in, just when you thought there was nothing to disbelieve in, let me stand before you today and testify that it ain’t necessarily so. The world is still a place that can capture and amaze.

But why take my word for it? Like they say, it’s seeing that’s believing.”

The next section Nieson read from followed the juggler, the love interest of Asa. In the section he read from, the juggler is beginning to perform in front of the crowd, and his objects are gaining speed.

“But soon it was only the objects that mattered; that conjured halo circling over his head,” Nieson said. “Meanwhile, ever so slightly, the cone of light in which they flew would begin closing in…it was because he himself was rising, had risen in fact, and this would be the last thing you were sure of; not that he stood…but that he levitated, ascended.”

Nieson closed the reading with a question-andanswer period, in which the audience had the opportunity to ask him for advice and about his own writing process. Among the various questions, Nieson addressed the importance of the writing over the writer.

“Ultimately, I’m just a vessel, if you will, for the work. The work, if it speaks to you, it’s because it’s based on archetypes and communal work,” said Nieson. “Hopefully the work speaks louder than you.”

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March 14, 2013

Swimming and diving have strong showing at Nationals Jacob Oberdorf STAFF WRITER

The Clarion University Swimming and Diving team had a strong showing at the Division II Winter Sports Festival held at the CrossPlex Facility in Birmingham, Ala. Overall, the Eagles ended the event with a total of 11 All-American finishes along with two swimmers breaking their own school records.

The men’s diving team was led by sophomore Heath Calhoun and senior Justin Duncan.

Calhoun bettered his third place finish from a year ago in the three-meter placing second just behind St. Cloud State’s Luke Weber.

Calhoun also finished ninth in the one-meter.

He is now a four-time All-American at Clarion.

Calhoun exceeded his own expectations with his second place finish.

“Placing second is more than I could have asked for,” said Calhoun.

He also sees it as motivation going into next season.

“Placing second doesn’t allow me to become complacent, it forces me to keep working hard,” said Calhoun.

Duncan placed his career best finish overall on the one meter, where he placed third.

Duncan also finished

fifth on the three-meter.

Duncan gave all the credit to diving coach Dave Hrovat.

“I have to give most of the credit to my coach who knew what had to be done for my last dive and preparing me for the situation as well as he did,” said Duncan.

Duncan finished his career as an eight-time AllAmerican while at Clarion.

Sophomore Nick Larmon placed 10th in the threemeter and 16th in the onemeter.

Seniors Joe Ward and Kayla Shull also participated in their last event as Golden Eagles while in Birmingham.

Ward placed sixth in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 44.50.

Ward’s time just missed the school record of 44.30.

Ward also placed 15th in the 200-yard freestyle.

He finishes his career at Clarion with six All-American finishes.

Shull also had a strong showing of her own in the 100-backstroke event.

She finished the event with a time of 55.40, earning herself a fifth place finish.

Clarion’s two new school records that were broken came from freshman Gabby Shaffer and sophomore Emilee Gysegem; both of whom broke their own school records that were set earlier this season.

Schaffer finished 10th

in the 200-backstroke with a time of 2:01.81.

That time shattered her former record of 2:03.41 set at the Akron meet in December.

Shaffer also finished 13th in the 100-backstroke giving her a second AllAmerican finish on the week.

Gysegem broke her own record in the 400 individual medley with her 10th place finish.

Her time in the final meet was 4:26.69.

She had an even faster preliminary time when she finished 4:26.35.

Gysegem set the previous record at the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Championships with a time of 4:27.11.

Gysegem credited her “sub-par” performance in the 200 individual medley as motivation in her record breaking 400 individual medley event.

“I needed to make a comeback to prove to myself that one bad race doesn’t define an entire meet,” said Gysegem.

The women’s diving team also had a good weekend led by sophomore Kristin Day. Day placed third on the three-meter and fifth on the one-meter.

Freshmen Sarah Zefross and Lauren Slayton also had a top 10 finish in the one-meter.

Zefross placed seventh, and Slayton placed 10th.

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Senior diver Justin Duncan attempts a dive during Nationals.

Clarion places fourth; Fleming grabs second at EWLs Mike Decker STAFF WRITER

Clarion University wrestlers had their final opportunities to make it to Nationals at the Eastern Wrestling League Championships held in Edinboro, Pa. during the weekend of March 9.

The Golden Eagles were able to claim fourth place as a team at EWLs. They recorded a second place finish, three third places and three fourth places.

Senior wrestler and No. 3 nationally ranked James Fleming finished second at 157-pounds in the tournament.

Fleming took a medical forfeit in the finals against No. 10 ranked Frank Hickman from Bloomsburg University.

Fleming’s record was technically 1-0 which raises his career wins to 122.

“Fleming didn’t step on the mat in the finals. He has defeated Hickman head-tohead enough times, so we decided to take a medical forfeit so that he would be 100 percent healthy at the NCAAs,” said Head Coach Troy Letters.

The three third places were claimed by freshman Tyler Fraley at 125-pounds, sophomore Sam Sherlock at 141-pounds and sophomore Ryan Darch at 174-pounds.

“We wrestled well overall, but lost the ones we really

needed,” said Letters when discussing the outcome.

Darch went 3-1 and pushed his season record to 12-16 on the season winning 3-0 in the third place match.

Sherlock dropped his opening round match 10-2 to Bloomsburg’s Matthew Rappo.

He won his second match, and then defeated Rappo in the third place match 5-3, finishing his season with a record of 13-11.

Fraley, who went 3-1 at the EWLs, won his opening round match 16-1, but lost his second match in overtime to 125-pound champion Ben Willieford from Cleveland State University.

Fraley rebounded strongly and was able to win his next two matches to clinch third place.

“It was pretty awesome,” said Fraley. “But that match showed me how the slightest mistake can cost you the match. I went from beating him 7-2 earlier in the season to losing in OT because I messed up, definitely going to learn from that mistake.”

Another underclassman who finished well was junior Tyler Bedelyon who went 2-2 at EWLs, and claimed a fourth place finish at 149-pounds.

Bedelyon finished the season with a record of 20-14.

“The underclassmen did well, but they still expected

more out of themselves.

With all those guys coming back, and next year’s projected class, Clarion Wrestling will be climbing that NCAA ladder,” said Letters.

The other fourth place finishes came from seniors Justin Ortega at 197-pounds and Phil Catrucco at heavyweight.

The next step in the season is the NCAA Championships which will be held in Des Moines, Iowa starting Thursday, March 21.

Fleming was the only Eagle to earn an automatic bid to the tournament, but the NCAA will select four at-large wrestlers from each weight class which opens the chance to some other Clarion wrestlers.

Assistant Coach Keith Ferraro mentioned that Bedelyon, Fraley and/or Ortega could all receive considerations to compete in the tournament.

The NCAA will meet and announce the at-large wrestlers Wednesday, March 13.

“The guys that win NCAA titles are the ones who know they are ready,” said Letters, who won a National Championship while at Lehigh. “They have done everything right in their lives leading up to it and are excited to be there. We plan to train smart, have some fun wrestling and enjoy the moment when it comes to Iowa.”

FACE OFF Will the Lakers rally to make the playoffs?

Eddie McDonald STAFF WRITER

Competing for the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference isn’t exactly how the Lakers imagined its season going after acquiring Dwight Howard and Steve Nash in the offseason.

That is the reality of the season for one of the most prestigious franchises in NBA history.

The question people have been asking and continue to ask is whether or not the Lakers will make the playoffs at all, even if it means goes in as the No. 8 seed.

The answer to that question is absolutely.

The Lakers will make the playoffs this season, no matter the seeding.

The Lakers are 34-31 and are 9-2 since the All Star break.

Leading the Lakers towards the playoffs is Kobe Bryant.

At the age of 34, when people were questioning how good he would be in his 17th season, he is having a sensational MVP-like season.

He was named Western Conference Player of the Month for the month of February.

He led the Lakers to a 9-4 record while averaging 23.9 points, 6.7 rebounds and 6.6 assists per game and he shot 49 percent from the field.

Bryant was named Western Conference Player of the Week last week right after winning the Player of the Month award.

The Lakers were 3-1 during that week.

Bryant averaged 33 points, 8.8 assists and 5.8 rebounds per game.

He also had consecutive games averaging 40-plus points and 10-plus assists.

He led the Lakers to consecutive comefrom-behind victories over the New Orleans Hornets and Toronto Raptors.

He has been the Lakers’ most consistent player this season and is hell-bent on making the playoffs and making a run at his sixth NBA title.

Dwight Howard, who was the biggest acquisition of the offseason, is slowly finding his groove.

Keep in mind that Howard had back surgery in the offseason, that he still isn’t 100 percent recovered from and had suffered a torn labrum earlier this season.

He claimed he wasn’t in good enough shape, but since the All Star break he is slowly, but surely, looking like the Howard of old.

The more comfortable he feels on offense and defense, the better the Lakers are.

He is starting to develop great chemistry in the pick-and-roll game with both Bryant and Nash.

On defense, he is starting to get back to being able to cover multiple areas of the paint, protecting the rim.

On Tuesday, in his return to Orlando, he shot an NBA record with 39 free throws.

He helped lead the Lakers to a victory, finishing with 39 points and 16 rebounds.

The Lakers have been riddled with injuries this season, and one of the biggest injuries was that of Nash.

He missed a lot of time at the beginning of the season due to a leg injury.

He is back now and playing a lot better for LA. Backup point guard Steve Blake is back in the lineup after missing time himself due to an abdominal injury.

He is doing a great job running the second team offense for the Lakers.

The Lakers will be battling the Utah Jazz and Houston Rockets down the stretch, and the Lakers have the most favorable schedule.

The Lakers will finish strong down the stretch and make the playoffs, I guarantee it.

Matt Catrillo STAFF WRITER

Every NBA fan has been accustomed to seeing the Los Angeles Lakers in the playoffs for the past nine years.

During this time, the fans have seen them win back-to-back championships, and make several deep playoff runs.

However, the 2012-13 season is simply not the Lakers’ year.

It’s been such a head-scratcher of a season, especially with all the talent that this team brought in, most notably Dwight Howard and Steve Nash.

So far, Nash has missed 24 games due to injury, and Howard has been extremely inconsistent on the court and has been a menace off it.

There was also a head coaching change just five games in as former Head Coach Mike Brown was fired.

His replacement, Mike D’Antoni, shouldn’t have been hired in the first place, and was not well received by players.

The Lakers’ front office decided to pass on a coach who has won 11 NBA championships, five with their team, and go with a coach who’s offensive system doesn’t fit with their personnel, running an up-tempo style of offense that older teams can struggle with, which this team has.

This team simply has not been able to adjust to each other, especially the duo of Kobe Bryant and Howard.

The two of them have constantly feuded all year.

Pau Gasol has also been in and out of the lineup, and he hasn’t been happy with how the team has been run this year either.

You can’t be a playoff contender or even a championship team with all off the court distractions that have plagued this team all season.

The Lakers have also not gotten much bench help.

Oh, and if D’Antoni is your coach, you can forget about seeing great defense, or even any defense being played.

After all, defense wins championships.

This season, the Lakers have allowed 101.6 points per game on 45.2 percent shooting.

This comes after allowing 98.8 points per game under Brown, and only 92.2 points per game under interim Head Coach Bernie Bickerstaff.

Age has also been a factor for Nash, Bryant and Metta World Peace, who has always been a defensive specialist in his career.

With 17 games to go, the Lakers now are finally above .500 for the first time all season.

Looking at the remaining schedule, I see the Lakers finishing the year at 40-42.

The Lakers are competing with the Utah Jazz, who I also see finishing the season at 40-42.

That gives the Jazz the tiebreaker because they won two of their three games with the Lakers.

So it’s pretty clear that for the first time since 2004, NBA fans will not see the Lakers in the postseason.

They have a head coach that has no business coaching them with the personnel they have, that is not defensive minded and won’t change his ways.

The players have feuded with each other all year, and the pressure is getting to them.

Off court distractions have hurt this team, and they can’t beat the big dogs of the Western Conference.

All of this will result in the Lakers missing out on the postseason.

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Adam Bostick learns from brother’s experience Traesha Pritchard STAFF WRITER

A father who wrestled in college raised two men to be successful college football players.

Meet the Bosticks, a known family in the area of Lancaster, Pa. Pat Bostick is a former true freshman starting quarterback from the University of Pittsburgh who ended his college football career early and is now a broadcaster for Pitt Panther football.

Adam Bostick is a 21 year old senior, studying business management.

He’s a defensive end for our Clarion Golden Eagles Football team who’s very aggressive, but not much of a talker.

These two brothers from this football family may not be similar when comparing their personalities, however they both have a love for football and have influenced each other significantly on and off the field.

“If you really get to know us, we’re not really two peas in a pod. We’re definitely different people as far as our attitudes go, but you can definitely tell we’re brothers,” Adam Bostick said.

Growing up, the Bosticks would be in the backyard constantly throwing footballs for almost up to three hours.

There would be times Adam Bostick would get sick of playing and his brother would keep him out there.

Being sick of playing football in the backyard all those hours paid off in the end; it shaped the Bostick’s love for

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Junior lineman Adam Bostick looks to instill the lessons he learned from his older brother, Pat, who played quarterback for Pitt. the game.

While Adam Bostick was in high school, his older brother was recruited by Pitt.

His success helped Adam Bostick shift his focus to football and helped him realize he could really play at the next level.

As far as college goes, these young men made two totally different decisions.

The decision for the younger Bostick to go to a Division II school was influenced by his older brother’s troubles in college.

“I saw him have a bunch of anxiety issues that he had to come home for his first year,” Adam Bostick said. “Being in a big city is completely different from living here. I learned that

first-hand. I love Pittsburgh, but just going to a smaller school was more geared to what I was about.”

Adam Bostick explained that seeing his older brother go through problems at Pitt was motivation itself for him to just be himself in college.

Having many Division I walk-on offers did not influence the younger Bostick at all.

He saw first-hand how much of a different lifestyle college football was at a Division I level compared to Division II. “At a Division II school, you get to be a student and athlete at the same time,” said Adam Bostick.

When asked how he felt when his older brother decided to end his career,

Adam Bostick explained that he was surprised at first.

“I loved seeing him play, I loved going to the games.

I was very fortunate to have that opportunity,” Adam Bostick said.

The younger brother then explained that he knew what ever his brother was going to do next, he would be just as successful at it.

Pat Bostick has a busy schedule, with his job as a radio host and color commentator, but has seen his brother play a couple times.

He has plans on coming to the spring football game, and making it to the first game in the fall.

“His success lately has really been a motivational factor to me, and it’s been really nice to have him to lean back on and get advice for moving forward,” said Adam Bostick.

As far as Adam Bostick goes, he has simple goals for his final year in Clarion.

“I just want to be the best I can be for my team,” Adam Bostick said, The Golden Eagles want to win the PSAC West next year.

They feel they have a pretty good team coming back.

Although, these brothers may be two and a half years apart, they have a tight bond.

With a supportive family and the best parents he can ask for, Adam Bostick said he just wants to impress them.

He wants to show them, they are invested in him, and he just wants to come out with a degree and be the best he can be.

Madeline Robinson S Sophomore ophomore Tennis Tennis Player Player INTERVIEW BY Jazzmonde James

Q

What are your thoughts about starting off the season with a new

coach?

A

I think we’re in great shape. Coach Josh Thorpe has set us up for success this season.

Q A

What is your mindset going into this season?

My tennis game is constantly improving with every match and every practice. Every match, I want to continue to better myself as a player both mentally and physically.

Q

What are some things that you want to change or do differently this season?

A

I want to create a better team dynamic.

We’re already super close, but it can always improve.

Q

What are your personal goals as a tennis player?

A

A

My favorite tennis player is Kim Clijsters, although she has recently retired. I saw her play when I was a kid, and she waved to me and said hello. She was the only player to actually visit with her fans and didn’t act above it. Not to mention she was an incredible player winning many grand slams including the US Open multiple times.

To be able to say I played my best and always tried my hardest after my four years of college tennis, as well as to always have a winning record.

lete?

Q

A

Who is your favorite tennis player?

Q

What are some things that you do to balance being a student and an ath-

I try to stay busy. It keeps me on my toes and motivates me to get my work done right away. It also allows me to shy away from procrastination.

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