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Students fundraise for photography project
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Johanna Wharran argues the LGBT awards aren’t inclusive enough
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Men’s and Women’s basketball teams prepare for playoffs
Wednesday, Februar y 24, 2016
Issue 7
TRACK QUALIFIES THREE FOR NATIONALS
‘Alternative spring break’ to take students to New York City
Networking, volunteering events part of four-day trip itinerary By Breana Uhl For The Globe
A trip to New York City to examine the Metropolitan Museum of Art, experience a Broadway Show and network with Point Park alumni will top off an alternative spring break trip for students. The March 2-6 trip, which costs $225, is offered to individuals in the Point Park Honors Student Organization (HSO), as well as the School of Communication. Sophomore journalism student Jessica Federkeil attended the trip last year. “I can say it is a wonderful opportunity that is hard to turn down,” Federkeil said. “The price is so affordable -- about $200 for a long weekend in New York City; you can’t beat that.” 2010 was the first year that Point Park took students to New
photo Courtesy of Liz Berie, Point Park Athletics
Sophomore jumper Shaun Berry breaks the school record for the men’s triple jump and qualifies for the NAIA national meet during the Kent State Tune-Up on Sat. Feb. 20. See story page 7.
Pennsylvania debuts ‘It’s On Us’ campaign
Initiative aims to curb sexual violence on college campuses By Cara McLaughlin Staff Photographer
Governor Tom Wolf announced the “It’s On Us PA” campaign to create resources for victims of sexual assault and help improve awareness and prevention of cases at universities in the state. Point Park University’s Title IX Coordinator Elizabeth Rosemeyer was a bit curious about the campaign. “Since Obama introduced it a while ago, it was new to me to hear Wolf was trying to take a statewide approach to it,” Rosemeyer said. Wolf made the announcement of the campaign at Elizabethtown College. While optimistic, Rosemeyer is a bit skeptical to bring it to Point Park. “It is certainly a campaign that we have discussed, [but] there are a lot of other campaigns that are either similar or… different [enough] that may fit Point Park’s [situation] better,” she said. According to Governor Wolf’s website and announcement video, the goals of the campaign will be to “improve awareness, prevention, reporting, and response systems... to remove... barriers that prevent survivors from reporting sexual assault… [and] to demonstrate that we are committed, at all levels, to the task of eradicating this scourge in Pennsylvania.”
Initially introduced by the Obama Administration on Sept. 19, 2014, President Obama said in his press conference for the program “we’re taking a step and joining with people across the country to change our culture and help prevent sexual assault from happening.” In the release of this campaign, he
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York City for an alternative spring break trip. The trip has changed a bit over the years. HSO Graduate Assistant Emily Kolek attended the alternative spring break two years ago. “This time, the trip will have more professional visits to agencies for School of Communication students,” Kolek said. “There wasn’t a networking event with alumni in the past, so there are definitely added bonuses this time.” Students will depart Wednesday morning and will board a bus headed for New York City, where they will enjoy a four-night stay in Hotel Pennsylvania, located across from Madison Square Garden. That night, they will dine with alumni at the Pennsylvania 6. Thursday afternoon, Point Park students will savor a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MOMA),
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Clubs leave $17,000 unspent of this quarter’s funding allocations USG By Sabrina Bodon USG Beat Writer
With less than a week left in the spring semester funding period, clubs and organizations have only spent approximately $5,900 of the $22,750 allocated by Point Park’s student government. Amber Mole, the United Student Government (USG) treasurer, announced the number at Monday’s meeting after a senator asked for the number last week. When announced, the number raised a few eyebrows. “We’re expecting over $10,000 back for next funding period?” senator Bobby Bertha asked.
BALLET THEATRE PRESENTS ‘PETER PAN’
photo by Rich Sofranko, courtesy of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre performed a production of Peter Pan Feb. 12-14 and 19-21 at the Benedum Center. See story page 5.
To this, Dean of Students Keith Paylo, advisor to USG, spoke up. “If you do the quick math, there’s a lot of money being left on the table,” Paylo said. “Please encourage your organizations and clubs to spend the money they are very worthy of having...they went through the process to get this allocated.” If the money is not spent, the money previously allocated to clubs will roll back into USG’s budget for the next funding period, the last of the school year. Following the final funding period’s allocations, the money will cease to be USG’s and will not be eligible to transfer over into its budget for the 2016-17 school year. During the meeting, the Rules Committee brought two resolutions to be added to the USG constitution for the legislative body to workshop regarding supplemental funding and the relationship between USG and the Office of Student Activities, Involvement and Leadership (SAIL). “The basic idea behind this is these are two very important pieces of legislation, so I wanted to bring it to the legislative body to actively workshop it to make it the best it can,” USG Parliamentarian Charles Murria said during the meeting. The Rules Committee’s discussion focused heavily on the definition of the phrase “supplemental funding.” “What we decided in Rules Committee is that supplemental funding is more of an emergency fund, should it be necessary that prices change on a club after their budgets have already been approved,” Bertha said. This amendment, though not yet passed or fully established in USG’s constitution, would create a supplemental emergency fund of $700 $1,500 for clubs to use. The usage of
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