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Shippensburg University President Laurie Carter makes her inaugural address on Friday afternoon at the H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center. The inauguration began with greetings and continued with guest speakers SU President Emeritus Anthony Ceddia and Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents Chair Craig Turner. Carter’s address reiterated the importance of students’ success at the university, and her goal to make changes with urgency that impact students now.

Carter inaugurated as president Shannon Long News Editor President Laurie Carter was inaugurated as the 17th president of Shippensburg University on Friday afternoon at a ceremony in which the theme of the event reflected the university’s past, present and future.

Students, alumni, faculty, community members and Carter’s family gathered at the H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center to celebrate her inauguration. The event began with greetings that reflected on the strengths of SU. Guest speakers included SU President Emeritus Anthony Ceddia and Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents Chair Craig Turner.

Ceddia said Carter’s presidency is a time for renewal, reflection and expectation. He

gave a brief history of SU’s triumphs through difficulties, and said he has discussed with Carter the successes and challenges of being president.

“She exemplifies the characteristics of a good leader. She listens attentively and with empathy. For her, leadership is a collaborative process involving as many as possible,” Ceddia said.

Turner reflected on Carter’s time at Eastern Kentucky University, where she also understood that increasing student enrollment was the first step. He said Carter understands that students are the core of any university.

Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) Interim Chancellor Karen Whitney said a university must provide an opportunity for students to acquire knowledge and a lifetime love of learning, and to reach beyond what is ordinary in life.

Whitney also spoke on behalf of PASSHE Board of Governors Chair Cynthia Shapira who was unable to attend the inauguration.

She addressed the redesign of the state system that is working to focus more on student needs.

“With President Carter at the helm, we are confident that Shippensburg University will thrive and build upon its strong foundation with new innovative programs that meet the evolving needs of students and employers across the commonwealth,” Whitney said.

Whitney read the oath of office to Carter, and she was presented the presidential medallion by her son, Carter Walker Robinson.

To begin her inaugural address, Carter said she is aware of the university’s challenges, but she is not daunted by them. She knows that education has the power to transform lives and prepares students for a successful career

Panel addresses poverty in local schools Marisa Cass Staff Writer Superintendents from three communities in Pennsylvania raised awareness about the issues of poverty in their school districts when they visited Shippensburg University Tuesday.

Travis Waters, Lori Suski and Tamara Willis spoke to students and staff as a panel about the problems their school districts face involving poverty and how they are handling it.

Waters is the superintendent of Steelton-Highspire School District, which has a 91 percent poverty rate.

“The borough of Steelton has the most concentrated poverty in the state of Pennsylvania,” Waters said.

It costs $13,000 for a student to attend SteeltonHighspire. The average cost in Pennsylvania is $16,000, according to Waters.

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and life, which is what SU strives to do. Carter highlighted the “17 Days of Kindness” campaign that led up to her inauguration. The campaign exemplified how the university will bring change, and Carter is proud of all who are part of the Shippensburg community.

Carter also addressed the topics of enrollment, marketing, quality and communication.

She said the university is moving forward with a sense of urgency to make decisions that impact students now, and the faculty understands the sense of urgency. Enrollment has declined over the past five years, and although enrollment is a key priority, retention is also important. To combat these issues, Carter has created the division of enrollment management and student success.

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Superintendents from local school districts speak about the issue of poverty and in their schools. They discussed how it is affecting their students and schools.

School District two to three years behind the normal age, and they must try and catch those students up with fewer resources. This year is the first time they have had a reading specialist in three to four years. Average districts have about three reading specialists per grade, Waters said.

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School District. It has a poverty rate of 55 percent, and pays $15,000 per student at its district.

A lot of students in the district have spent time in homeless shelters. The district has hired two social workers, because many students have social and emotional difficulties, Suski said.

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cause the parents choose to not have any contact with the schools.

Numerous students in Middletown are two to four grade levels behind.

They cannot have the test scores in the 90th percentile because a lot of students are not being fed at home, according to Suski.

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Shippensburg University is adjusting to sustainability, and so are students as they prepare for the upcoming Earth Day celebration Thursday.

Students for Environmental Action and Sustainability (SEAS) and Shippensburg’s Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) have partnered to launch an Earth Day celebration on April 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the academic quad.

The celebration serves as an effort to engage and educate students about sustainability, how they can contribute and how the campus is evolving around sustainability.

The Earth Day celebration will be hosting about 30 on-campus clubs and around 10 vendors, including the dining halls, watershed house, WSYC and PRSSA. There will be about 300 sustainable prizes given away during the celebration including reusable straws, bamboo toothbrushes and a solar panel charger as the grand prize.

Margaret Dunkelberger, president of SEAS, is hoping the celebration will affect about 1,000 students and that they will be more aware of what the organization does. As the newly appointed president, Dunkelberger is thinking about long term effects but is starting small.

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Professor shares Students map Hornbaker impact of war on Wetland with drones mental health Molly Foster A&E Editor

Abby Tiska Staff Writer Shippensburg University alumnus and current adjunct social work professor Bernard Showers led a discussion in a crowded Shippen Hall lecture room Monday evening on older veterans and mental health issues.

Showers, a licensed social worker in Pennsylvania who works at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Lebanon, opened the floor for discussion at the beginning of his presentation by asking the audience what they think is important for others to know regarding overall military culture.

“PTSD,” one student said.

“I think they want respect that they may have not gotten,” another said.

Showers explained military culture is comprised of values, beliefs, traditions, norms and perspectives.

The lecture focused on Vietnam-era veterans, the largest group from any war with 7.2 million veterans.

“Over 50 percent of men ages 60-65 are Vietnam War veterans,” Showers said.

Showers emphasized the unpopularity of the Vietnam War, and the negative perception it had by many soldiers after being forcefully drafted.

He also noted the high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among Vietnam veterans, calling out the lack of screenings and treatment of soldiers when they returned home.

“For a long time, there was this stigma attached to it.

They said, ‘You know what, I’m gonna pick myself up by my boots, I’m gonna walk this off, and just deal with it.’ And frankly, in my experience, a lot of people did just that — remarkably,” he said.

Although the history of mental health treatment in the military has come a long way, the stigma started early. During World War I, soldiers showing psychological symptoms associated with their combat experience were diagnosed with war neuroses, or shell shock, and often times seen as cowardly by their leaders. In 1927, the percentage of all hospitalized servicemen defined as “neuropsychiatric cases” nearly doubled from 27 percent in 1921.

During World War II, more psychiatrists focused on the importance of soldiers returning to the workforce, moving away from long-term hospitalization. World War II also saw the introduction of the G.I. Bill, which gave benefits to World War II veterans.

Yet 15 years after the U.S. withdrew from Vietnam, it was found that 480,000 — 15 percent of the 3.15 million Americans that served in Vietnam — were suffering from service-related PTSD. “Before the war, psychiatric consensus held that soldiers who recovered from an episode of mental breakdown during combat would suffer no adverse long-term consequences. As we know now, that is absolutely not the case,” Showers said.

Today, many people recognize the correlation between mental illness, such as PTSD, and serving in war. Showers discussed the growing topic of moral injury, which affects soldiers once they return home.

“There is this sense of cognitive dissonance — they feel morally conflicted,” Showers said.

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Nineteen students enrolled in Advanced Geographic Information Systems (GIS 3) with Scott Drzyzga, a geography and earth science professor at Shippensburg University, replaced textbooks with drones for a day, and stepped outside of boxy classroom walls to get knee-deep in the melted snowsoaked Hornbaker Wetland.

Hornbaker Wetland is located off campus where Britton Road meets Fogelsanger Road, and was restored between 2001 and 2002 during the Burd Run Restoration Project. During the restoration project, an artificial drainage ditch in the wetland was blocked to increase water storage and hydraulic retention time, and diminish the downstream delivery of nitrate, according to Christopher J. Woltemade and Jinnieth Woodward’s “Nitrate Removal in a Restored Spring-Fed Wetland, Pennsylvania, USA.” Since its completed restoration, the wetland has been undergoing natural changes and has served as an outdoor classroom for students in departments including geography and earth science, biology and geology, so that they may study its transformation, Drzyzga said.

Taking advantage of the instructional resources that Hornbaker Wetland has to offer, the GIS 3 class split into two groups. Equipped with satellite positioning technologies, a DJI Mavic drone and their cellphones to view the route, the students re-mapped the wetland on March 31 and April 2.

While drones are not new gadgets in the geography and earth science department, this was the first time the GIS 3 class used a drone for a lab exercise. It challenged the students to apply critical thinking skills to the material they learned in the classroom.

“It’s one thing to read a textbook and learn that buildings and trees and other things can interfere with, for example, GPS signals,” Drzyzga said. “But it’s quite another thing to walk around with a GPS device and try to get good data and have a water tower or tree canopy influence the quality of results. When you go through that process and it’s all first hand, that sticks with you more than a paragraph you may have read.”

Approaching the lab strategically, students planned and executed the drone-mapping project in three distinc-

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Bernard Showers discusses the effects of war on veterans. Mental health treatment in the military has come a long way, but the stigma started early.

Others may not have a place to sleep or could be experiencing abuse at home, according to Suski.

Willis is Susquehanna School District’s superintendent.

Historically, Susquehanna has had a low level of poverty.

It currently has a 48 percent poverty rate. Susquehanna tracks its students as they start kindergarten to determine their level of school readiness, according to Willis.

Some families in poverty move so frequently because they cannot afford rent. Susquehanna works with surrounding school districts to make sure students who are transferred can keep a steady flow in school. Susquehanna also brings in social workers for its students.

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Students use drones to re-map the restored Hornbaker Wetland. This is the first time this type of GIS program was used in the department. tive steps, said junior geoenvironmental studies major Joshua Chast, who participated in the lab. These steps included preparing the instruments for field data and considering external variables, getting into the field and recording, and extracting useful information from the data acquired.

For this lab, the data the students obtained were the approximately 180 aerial photographs that the drone took as it traveled its predetermined route.

These images were then stitched together to create the map of the wetland in its current state.

“All we had were photographs from before the restoration and aerial photographs from immediately after the restoration,” Drzyzga said. “Fifteen years ago we would have had to put a real plane up in the sky. So now that we have radio controlled drones, students can see it first hand.”

Because of the successful visual results obtained during the lab, students will have the ability to compare the up-

own laptops, and middle school students have access to laptops.

“By the year 2021, our goal is that all of our students will have access to a device,” Willis said.

The school board is also helping parents with access to technology. The board works with Comcast because it provides low-rate internet. Waters added that Steelton-Highspire School District also has certain access to technology.

“Our students are able to bring home Chrome Books,” Waters said.

Steelton-Highspire works with Comcast for low prices as well. Students in grades 7 to 12 are dual enrolled at Harrisburg University. A university professor comes to the district to teach technology to students.

In Middletown Area School District, students in grades six to 12 are provided an iPad.

dated image of the wetland to the previous images that were taken prior to and following the restoration project for variations in landscape, species and stream migration.

Additionally, professors teaching future courses in the department can use the map to realistically prep their students for fieldwork. The aerial image will show them almost exactly what they will see at the wetland before they go out to survey the area, which is something a standard image would not be able to effectively convey. “[Drones] fill a critical gap between the pictures we can take with a mobile phone and the pictures we can take from an airplane or satellite,” Drzyzga said.

“There’s only so far we can step back with our hands.”

More information about the purpose, process, and results of the GIS 3 class’s lab at Hornbaker Wetland can be found by visiting the class’s map app at https://arcg.is/T1CTi.

Teachers can upload their course content onto a website called Canvas, which is a learning management system.

Waters clarified that it costs more to be in poverty than it does otherwise. Being evicted and not having a bank account are examples of that.

“Poverty tends to attract poverty,” said Waters.

Middletown’s school district offers food programs, and it began serving breakfast to students in 2006. In 2011, it started providing students with food in the summer, which is federally funded. The program is for everyone in the community.

The district also has programs to provide students with food on the weekends.

“We are partnering with the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank,” Suski said.

Suski closed the panel with a story about a student who was handling a tough situation. A student was in-

volved in an incident that ended with his arrest.

His parents kicked him out at 18, and he became homeless. He was determined to get an education, so he was put into cyber school and eventually met the qualifications to graduate.

After graduation, he came to Suski for help because he did not know how to get a job.

“That child is now 19.

He lives with my husband and me. He is a student at Harrisburg Area Community College who carried 18 credits this year,” Suski said. “He works part-time at Giant Foods, 35 hours a week, is maintaining a 2.5 GPA, got off juvenile probation and is living a wonderful life because one caring adult believed in him. Don’t underestimate the impact that you have as an educator.”

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John Heckman (right) speaks to the audience about Pennsylvania’s opportunities for history and historical interpretation. The panelists agreed on the importance of interpretation as the future of public history.

Historians discuss value of interpretation Hannah Pollock Asst. News Editor Students filled a Dauphin Humanities Center lecture hall last Tuesday to learn about what it is like interpreting Pennsylvania history.

The panel consisted of Shippensburg University alumnus David Maher, a historic preservation specialist in the Pennsylvania State Historic Prevention Office; Ryan Schwartz, gallery educator at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia; and SU applied history alumnus John Heckman.

The panelists agreed that the most difficult part of being a historical interpreter is getting the public to pay attention.

“History is in color ­— the public has ‘sepia colored glasses’ on when they think of history. Once you get out of university, most people don’t care anymore

about history,” Schwartz said.

The panelists encouraged the audience of future history interpreters to use social media to their advantage by making connections with the public. The rise of social media has allowed historians to reach more people.

By using social media, younger generations are starting to pay a little more attention to history, according to Schwartz.

“We have to keep things fresh and new to keep people coming back,” Schwartz said. “We have to make history relevant to today’s ever-changing society.”

A recurring theme of the evening was the abundance and importance of history in Pennsylvania.

“There is an ever-present density of things here. When you are in Pennsylvania, history is everywhere,” Schwartz said.

“It [Pennsylvania] is a hotbed for history and interpretation,” Heckman added.

While the paycheck for a historical interpreter is not a large amount, the panelist agreed that their field is still worth it.

“Interpretation is the key for the future of public history. It will influence how the public sees us as historians,” Maher said.

Heckman offered some words of advice to the aspiring historical interpreters.

“Don’t let anyone tell you it’s stupid or dumb. Surround yourself with positive people,” he said.

The panel, which was hosted by the SU department of history and philosophy, concluded after almost two hours of discussion and a period of questions and answers.

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SU President Laurie Carter holds the mace, which symbolizes the knowledge graduates have acquired.

Carter’s son, Carter Robinson, presents and places the presidential medallion around Carter’s neck.

The presentation occurred after the oath of office.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A proposal to impeach four Democratic justices on Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court over redistricting rulings remains in limbo more than a month after resolutions were introduced by Republicans in the state House.

The state lawmaker leading the effort, which so far has just 12 co-sponsors in the 203-seat House, said he hopes to make the case to GOP representatives in a closed-door session the week of April 30.

“I haven’t had anybody that has said we don’t have the constitutional standing for this, or they can actually point me to where the judiciary had the ability to do what it did,’’ said Rep. Cris Dush, a Republican.

Dush drafted the resolutions seeking the removal of justices David Wecht, Debra Todd, Christine Donohue and Kevin Dougherty.

The four elected Democrats put on the fast track a legal challenge to a 2011 map of the state’s congressional districts passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed by the governor at the time, Republican Tom Corbett.

The four then voted to declare the map violated the state constitution’s guarantee of free and equal elections, and enacted their own map, which is being used for this year’s congressional elections. Republicans had won 13 of the state’s 18 districts in each of the three elections held under the 2011 map.

The legal challenge to the 2011 map was vigorously opposed by the top-ranking Republicans in both chambers — Speaker Mike Turzai and President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati – but the U.S. Supreme Court declined to overturn the state justices’ decision. A three-judge federal panel also rejected a challenge by two GOP state senators and eight incumbent Republican congressmen.

Dush’s resolutions accuse the justices of acting improperly through rulings that gave state lawmakers just three weeks to draw a new map and then enacted a court-drawn map.

Turzai chief of staff Karen Coates said Republican state representatives want to chew over the proposal. Turzai has “reservations with the broad nature of the resolutions,’’ said his spokesman, Neal Lesher.

“The caucus wants to talk about it, people are all over the board,’’ Coates said. “I think we’re going to take it to caucus and have a discussion as we do every other controversial issue.’’

Dush said some of the opposition is coming from lawmakers who are themselves lawyers.

“They’ve made statements that they can’t back it,’’ Dush said. “They’re not giving, again, a constitutional argument against it.’’

The Republican leader of the state Supreme Court, Chief Justice Thomas Saylor, voted against the four Democrats in the case, but also has come out strongly against the impeachment movement, describing it in a written statement as an attack on the judiciary’s independence.

House Democratic spokesman Bill Patton said there is “zero support’’ for impeachment among his members.

“We believe that many Republicans agree with is that this is a ridiculous effort that will go nowhere, but until somebody steps up on that side to put it to rest, we remain vigilant,’’ Patton said.

Rep. Dan Moul, R-Adams, one of the co-sponsors, is convinced that the court intruded on the Legislature’s territory.

“If I’m not mistaken, we have three branches of government,’’ Moul said.

Some are also considering cuts to the courts’ budget in response, said Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Butler, a co-sponsor of the Dush-written resolutions.

“I think there’s a lot of life in this bill, and we’re approaching the budget process where another part of the discussion is utilizing the budget to throttle the Supreme Court back,’’ Metcalfe said.

Efforts to impeach or otherwise remove judges because of controversial rulings have been undertaken in at least a half-dozen states in recent years, according to the National Center for State Courts, but none has been successful.

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Carter stands in front of the audience, wearing the presidential medallion, as the 17th president.

“EARTH DAY,” from A1 “There are other options available if they look for them,” Dunkelberger said.

She brought to attention that bamboo toothbrushes are pretty cheap and that she declines the plastic lids on her coffee cups as a way to keep plastic out of the landfills.

“At home we buy local beef, pork and chicken, pick up trash and recycling off the ground, and of course, turn off lights. The list could go on but I try to encourage others to do these things, too,” Dunkelberger said.

The Earth Day celebration is just a small step for SEAS. The club wants to eventually

work with the dining services in order to help make campus into a more sustainable environment. Dunkelberger is looking to get reusable, washable, straws in all of the dining halls.

Some long-term goals Dunkelberger is hoping to see is a solar car competition and better use and awareness of the recycling and trash on campus. She is hoping to broaden SU’s recycling by both knowledge of recycling and SU’s recycling abilities.

“Earth Day is a day to celebrate the earth and the things that we have. Earth Day is also a learning experience because there’s always more to learn,” she said.

“While we are taking time to imagine what Ship could look like in the future, we are still moving forward with a sense of urgency. The students who are enrolled at Ship deserve action now,” Carter said.

Along with enrollment and retention, Carter expressed the need for a greater bond with alumni and the Shippensburg community. Students are more satisfied with their university experience when they are connected with the community, according to Carter. Her inauguration was scheduled in accordance with TrailFest, which occurred on Saturday at the Cumberland Valley Rail Trail just outside of SU. Carter said she wants to make sure that Shippensburg is a vibrant community with a vibrant future.

“I am mindful that all of us, Ship students, faculty, staff, alumni and community, know that a new day is dawning at Ship,” Carter said.

Cleaning The Slate

The Slate staff strives to provide readers with the most accurate content, but sometimes we miss the mark. Here, you will find corrections to fact errors we made from the previous week. The Slate staff apologizes for these errors.

In the April 17 issue, on D1, The Slate published an article that said Michael Permyashkin came in second place in the 2018 “Ship’s Got Talent” competition. Elite Modeling Troupe actually came in second place, and Permyashkin came in third.

In the April 17 issue, on E2, The Slate published an article that said Chase Yocum played against the second-team defense during the SU football team’s Red-White game.

He actually played against the first-team defense.

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Criminal trespass reported at Shippensburg Wal-Mart Pennsylvania State Police responded to a report of a non-active trespass at the Shippensburg Wal-Mart on April 16 at approximately 4:30 p.m.

The investigation showed that a trespass had occurred, and charges are pending against the defendant.

Man charged with drug possession A 20-year-old man, of Shippensburg, was stopped at a traffic stop for equipment violations at the intersection of West Orange Street and South Fayette Street on April 16 at approximately 9 p.m.

During the traffic stop, criminal activity was observed and resulted in police seizing marijuana and paraphernalia. The defendant was charged with drug possession.

Criminal mischief reported on Richard Avenue Barry Winterstein, 52, of Lancaster, reported paint on his door and siding of his home on Richard Avenue on March 31 at approximately 11:30 a.m.

The damage is estimated at $20.

Finding balance between pain, addiction difficult in opioid crisis Binghui Huang, Carol Thompson, Laurie Mason Schroeder and Pamela Lehman AP Story ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Dr. Kenneth Choquette knows the kind of chronic pain his patients endure every day. Without opioid pills, some cannot work, sleep or do simple chores like wash the dishes.

“If I take pain medication away from a patient who is properly taking it for the right reasons, it means they hurt more,’’ said Choquette, a Coordinated Health pain management specialist and a physician for three decades.

“So, are they dependent on the medication?’’ he said.

“Absolutely.’’

But are they addicted to opioids?

That’s the question facing many medical professionals in the United States, a country grappling with an opioid epidemic resulting in a death toll that outpaces car crashes. Their job is to balance patients’ needs with the possibility that opioids will be abused.

Decades ago, before the opioid crisis gathered steam, the pendulum swung toward overprescribing the drugs to quell patients’ pain. Now, some doctors say the pendulum has moved too far in the other direction, leaving their patients with less access to the medicine they need to get through their days.

“We do see those who have a true medical need being treated like drug addicts where their problem and their ongoing medical condition is no longer taken seriously,’’ Choquette said.

Choquette and four other medical professionals _ an OB-GYN, an oral surgeon, a pharmacist and a community nurse _ recently gathered for The Morning Call’s second community roundtable on the opioid crisis.

They said efforts to stem the epidemic fail to balance the legitimate use of opioids by patients and illegal use of them by addicts.

Political leaders, law enforcement and insurance companies have responded with broad, shallow strokes, the roundtable participants said. The result has made opioids harder to get for patients who need them, often causing those patients unnecessary pain and leaving them feeling like criminals.

Doctors’ concerns echoed those of the first responders who convened in February for The Morning Call’s first roundtable conversation.

First responders agreed that the nation’s reaction to the unrelenting opioid epidemic, which claimed more than 300 lives in the Lehigh Valley last year, is inadequate.

Using an opioid-reversing drug called naloxone saves lives, but doesn’t fix addiction, they said. They want money for treatment, laws to force addicts into court-ordered treatment and educational programs about the dangers of opioids.

Both roundtable groups want an overarching approach to the problem in which everyone linked to the epidemic works together to break through the crisis.

“It’s not a one-size-fits-all solution,’’ said Melissa Miranda, a nurse and the director of Neighborhood Health

Centers of the Lehigh Valley.

“Every conversation should be talking about collaborative partnerships across communities,’’ she said. “Because this one definitely is more than one single conversation or solution.’’

Some doctors are changing their practices With no one-shot solution available, doctors have found their own ways to address the crisis. They are limiting the amount of opioids they prescribe, treating pain with other methods and talking to patients about the risks of opioid use.

Overprescription of opioids can lead to so-called “diversion’’ of opioid drugs.

When patients have more pills than they need, those medications are at risk for abuse and illegal sale.

Dr. Robert Laski said he and his colleagues at Valley Oral Surgery no longer write prescriptions for pain medicine before surgery. Instead, they wait until the day of a procedure to write them.

That helps prevent the pills from getting diverted.

They also use a nonopioid numbing medicine. For patients with mild pain, such as toothaches, they prescribe heavy-duty Motrin instead of opioids, Laski said.

Those kinds of efforts have yielded results at the pharmacy counter, where independent pharmacist Pauline Vargo said she’s been filling fewer prescriptions for opioid drugs.

“I have definitely noticed a trend,’’ she said. “When I first went into practice, they were given more freely. Now they are definitely used with more caution.’’

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• Brian Regan will be hosting a show on Friday at 8 p.m. in the Luhrs Performing Arts Center.

• APB will be hosting an escape room on Friday from 6 –10 p.m. the CUB Room 104.

• The ethnic studies department will be showing the movie “I Am Not Your Negro” on Thursday at 6:30 p.m.

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• Earth Day activities will be held on Thursday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the academic quad.

• Kim Barker will be hosting the lecture “The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan” on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. in Old Main Chapel.

• Act V will be performing “9 To 5: The Musical” Thursday to Saturday at 8 p.m.

There is also a show at 2 p.m. on Saturday. Tickets are $5 with an SU ID.

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The Democratic Party is suing President Donald Trump’s campaign, Russia and WikiLeaks over an alleged conspiracy that supposedly undermined the 2016 presidential election.

A few days prior to the lawsuit, former FBI Director James Comey boldly came out against Trump, saying he is morally unfit to be president and may be compromised by the Kremlin.

The country wants answers. The truth, though still shrouded in a thick fog, is beginning to become clear and it is not pleasant.

But Americans want the truth, and they want to be assured that their president is working for their best interests and not his personal or international interests.

Much like on the national level, students want the same thing on college campuses — the truth. Across the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), more than 100,000 students and faculty want to know how bad things are with the system and how much worse things will get.

In the past five years,

enrollment has dropped by more than 1,000 students and dozens of faculty and staff positions have been left vacant. Academic departments are continually losing faculty members as professors retire, and there are no plans or money to find a replacement.

Higher-education institutions across the country are suffering in many of the same ways as PASSHE schools, but Pennsylvania remains on the bottom rung for public funding of colleges and universities.

If you look at PASSHE as a business, then it is only logical to cut spending as revenue drops. When you downsize any organization it is important to make sure it is downsized in such a way that it does not diminish the quality of the product or service.

The problem is PASSHE and the individual university administrators have not explained how the quality can be maintained or what kind of cuts to expect in the future.

Businesses have the luxury of making internal operational changes without the general public knowing or caring about them as long as the product or service is still adequate. With universities, structural changes are directly linked to students and their quality of education.

For example, fewer faculty members in a department means there are fewer special topics and field-specific classes that can be

taught, thus limiting the range and quality of education a student can get. Likewise, pushing for classes to be held remotely damages the integrity of a university community — an undervalued necessity.

Funding cuts are inevitable as long as enrollment drops and state funding continues to be under par.

The real damage is not informing university communities of what to expect in the future and how to prepare for it.

There are serious financial challenges that Shippensburg University and many other schools are facing, and everyone in the community has the right to know what to expect. If tuition will rise, then current and prospective students need to know that so they can determine if they can afford college. If an academic department is losing faculty members and changing the courses and programs it offers, current and prospective students and faculty members need to know before investing themselves at SU. Yes, that might be bad for business, but when the truth can determine the future of people’s lives it must be told. Maybe even administrators do not know what to expect in the coming years, but they have a duty to make sound predictions.

The truth of what Trump did or did not do may be an enigma, but SU’s future should not be.

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Opinion The Slate Speaks

Inauguration raises questions on rocky enrollment waves On April 20, Shippensburg University made history by naming President Laurie Carter its 17 president.

History unfolded this day because it made Carter the first permanent female African-American president of SU. Carter’s personal slogan after most speeches ends with “SU is making waves,” and for some time, the waves have been rocky, so hopefully with Carter’s help, the ride will be smooth sailing.

SU attracts students because of its affordability but over the past four years, tuition has skyrocketed, making students’ prices go up every year and making it less affordable for students to attend SU. Living on campus used to be convenient for most students, but due to the increase in prices, upperclassmen urge sophomores and juniors to live off campus as soon as they can because it is more affordable.

Most of the residence halls are renovated, which makes the campus more attractive to high school students, but what is unattractive is how it is hurting the pockets of current students.

Even though most of these issues have transpired before

Carter became president, it is concerning to students how and when the issues will be addressed.

During her speech, she touched on the enrollment rate and the quality of education, but what really matters is Carter showing a continued effort to the SU students that these issues will be addressed.

“At Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, the graduation rate is 56 percent within 150 percent normal time, the retention rate is 75 percent and the transfer rate is 33 percent, as of Aug. 31, 2016,” according to the Collegecampuscompare.com For almost two years, students have left SU to attend different schools, and the failing enrollment rates equal less funding and reserved funding.

As of 2008, there were a total of 7,942 undergraduate, graduate and professional students, and in 2013 there were a total of 7,548 students.

Finally, in 2017, there were a total of 6,989 students, according to SU Common data set.

Let’s hope in the coming years that the enrollment rate will increase and the re-

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President Laurie Carter delivers her inauguration speech to former SU presidents, faculty and students. tention rate increases with Carter in charge, because based on the statistics, SU

has lost almost one thousand students since 2008.

There is significance in

“Honesty is key during times like this because it affects the students and their education at the end of the day, and no one wants to put their blood, sweat and tears on the line for nothing.”

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Carter having an open forum with the entire student body to talk about these issues so students can know the current position of the university and what will be done to address the problems.

Honesty is key during times like this because it affects the students and their education at the end of the day, and no one wants to put his or her blood, sweat and tears on the line for nothing.

Even though a lot is on Carter’s plate with the status of SU, she is bringing positivity back to the university, which signifies her determination for students and faculty to be in accord.

For SU to fully succeed, Carter’s waves of kindness will need to reassure students that they can band together during tough times, because without struggle there is no progress.

Philadelphia Starbucks racial bias arrest results in anger across world

Erica McKinnon Co-Opinion Editor On Thursday, April 12, two African-American men were arrested for refusing to leave a Philadelphia Starbucks after the manager called 911 on them for allegedly trespassing. When the video broke on the internet of the two men being handcuffed inside the

Starbucks and escorted out

by Philadelphia police officers, people were immediately outraged.

There are many allegations that these arrests were fueled by racism, which in my opinion, is completely true. Author Melissa DePino posted the video on Twitter of the innocent men being arrested after doing absolutely nothing wrong.

This incident sounds a lot like the past 400 years of Africans-Americans being judged solely based on the darkness of their melanin, when in hindsight, they are doing absolutely nothing other than just being black.

“The police were called because these men had refused to order anything,” DePino wrote on Twitter. They were

waiting for a friend to show up, as they did, as they were taken out in handcuffs for doing nothing.”

The reason why getting arrested while sitting in a Starbucks would never happen to a white person is because the white image is perceived as pure and could never be tainted.

The ideology of the white image is that it would never do any harm to anyone or anything, simply because they are white.

White people are protected by their white privilege and to give an example of what privilege is, it is when a white person can sit in a Starbucks for hours at a time, never order anything and leave without getting arrested.

Another example of white privilege is when a white person publicly claims that he or she is tired of hearing about racist issues like the Starbucks incident, when black people are unable to get tired because we have to continually fight until we are seen and treated as equal.

Holly, the former Starbuck’s store manager, called 911 because she perceived sitting while black equals trespassing, when all they were doing was sitting and minding their business.

Since this incident has transpired, there have been a lot of people expressing their anger and opinions on the matter, and in my opinion, this is a race issue.

This race issue will not be resolved in the three weeks of

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The men were detained for eight hours for doing absolutely nothing, and for the police commissioner to insist that the police officers “did absolutely nothing wrong,” does not sit well with me at all.

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OPINION

April 24, 2018

DC debates how many particpated in March for Our Lives

There are arguments over the number of those who participated in the March for Our Lives, as there always are disputes over crowd size at these mass demonstrations. Suffice it to say, a bunch of people took part.

In Washington, the spat is over just how many hundred thousands flooded the nation’s capital, to say nothing of those who turned out in hundreds of cities and towns throughout the United States and around the world.

The organizers rank amateur teenagers who rose up from Parkland, Florida, after

the massacre at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School did an amazing job. They ignited an outrage-fueled wildfire that spread to students at thousands of schools nationwide.

They also captured the imagination of the logistic professionals financed by sympathetic adults. The result was an immense turnout and a well-choreographed and telegenic outpouring of angry frustration at a political system that is unresponsive and unable to cure our nation’s illnesses, like the blight of deadly weaponry, that has so infected America.

In no way is this a criticism of the kids who put this together. It is skepticism over whether this immense show of force is enough to overcome the entrenched special interests that will do whatever it takes to protect their prosperity. One of the most perversely successful is the gun lobby, led by the National Rifle Association.

Like a threatened monster, the NRA brutally lashes out whenever threatened. It didn’t disappoint this time, derisively calling the enormous rallies a “March for Their Lies,”

heaping scorn on the Stoneman Douglas leaders who’ve become celebrities, charging that if their classmates had not died, “no one would know your names.”

So, the battle lines have been drawn. The problem is, the NRA has always won these battles. Each time the country is shocked to our core after a deadly slaughter of innocents by gunfire, the arms-merchant lobbyists swing into action and stifle any meaningful progress with bullying and demagoguery.

What will it take for the chants of “enough is enough” to become more than just a feelgood mantra? The purity of this outpouring must now dig into the dirt of politics to accomplish anything more than catharsis. Obviously.

So there were voter sign-up spots throughout the rallies, but will those who are easily distracted actually sustain their focus on the campaign process and hold the candidates accountable by slogging nonstop for the several months before the midterm elections?

Will they work for candidates who declare

themselves in favor of meaningful gun-control measures and, more importantly, against those who receive support from the NRA? We in the media are fickle. Between gun bloodbaths, there are distractions everywhere. Some of them are consequential, such as the intrigue of the Robert Mueller investigation into whether Trump and his associates sold out the last election and our country to the Russians.

There also is our siren song of seedy sex stuff, featuring Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal and lots of others. The Stormy Daniels interview on “60 Minutes” may have been just unworthy hype, but it got huge ratings.

The challenge for the hundreds of thousands who turned out for the March for Our Lives will be to maintain the enthusiasm and public focus on cutting back guns, which are America’s real obscenity. (c) 2018 Bob Franken Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

James Comey demonstrates true leadership to youth

James Comey did it, naturally, for the children. Why does anyone in Washington take advantage of the most opportune moment to make a mint off publishing a tell-all book?

It’s never for the profits or the sheer satisfaction of sticking it to your enemies and putting yourself in the best possible light.

No, there’s always some ostensible higher cause. For the former FBI director, it’s demonstrating, through his own sterling example, what ethical leadership is, “especially to young people.”

That the nation’s youth will be riveted to

their TV screens in coming weeks, watching Comey’s exquisitely thoughtful gymnastics of self-justification, and conclude that this is how to conduct themselves when they inherit the baton of the country’s leadership seems extremely unlikely.

James Comey has managed the seemingly impossible. The former FBI director is locked in a death struggle with an unpopular president who makes even his allies cringe with his belittling nicknames, foolish threats and strange view of the presidency and somehow it is Comey who is coming away as the unlikable one.

That’s because no one likes a prig, especially when he has an ax to grind. Comey has good reason to disdain Donald Trump, who fired him in humiliating circumstances and whose warped view of the Justice Department as an institution for the protection of the president is rightly anathema to him.

Comey is just the latest of Trump’s adversaries, though, who are diminished by the president dragging them down to his level

and exposing their weaknesses.

Every Washington memoir portrays its author as the smartest guy in the room; Comey is the most ethical guy in the room, and he lets us know it.

Underneath the high-mindedness is a thirst for petty revenge. He says he took note of the size of Trump’s hand when they first met smaller than his. He goes out of his way to say Trump looks like he wears tanning goggles.

Is all fair in a struggle with a president who calls you a “slime ball”? Maybe. But this is another instance of the country not being well-served by the president or his opponents violating norms.

It’s not a healthy precedent for former FBI directors to attack presidents they served, even if briefly in terrible circumstances.

It doesn’t do the standing of our law enforcement and intelligence institutions any good to have the men recently entrusted with leading them, like James Comey and John Brennan, brand themselves as committed

partisans almost immediately upon leaving government.

It’s understandable that Comey wants to get his side out. But he’s already done that in his extensive memos that he made sure to leak upon his firing and in his congressional testimony. He’ll probably have his moment in the sun again as a key witness in the Robert Mueller matter, depending on how it shakes out.

Yet none of that is as remunerative as cashing in as a hero of the resistance when the Mueller investigation is perhaps at peak intensity. Nothing is better than being the most righteous guy in the room while still getting a huge payday.

Children, take note.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Ship Life

Latino Student Organization leads the Pa’lante March across campus

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Students and faculty gathered outside of Gilbert Hall to chant and begin the Pa’lante March on campus.

Madeline Walsh Ship Life Editor The voices of Shippensburg University students and faculty echoed across campus Thursday afternoon as the Latino Student Organization (LSO) lead its eighth annual Pa’lante march around campus.

Before the start of the march, students and faculty met in Gilbert Hall to talk about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and discuss why they march.

“There are people that cannot (march), that are afraid to do it because they think that if they come to the forefront they will be singled out or somebody is going to tell on them,” said modern languages professor Jose Ricardo-Osorio. “So they prefer to stay in the shadows.”

Next, Kapri Brown, assistant director of Multicultural Affairs, stepped onto the small stage in the backroom of Gilbert Hall to explain why she planned to march.

“Sometimes we have this entitlement attitude like ‘I’m not worried about it’ or ‘it doesn’t affect me’ ‘they’re not coming for me,’ but one day somebody will come for you,” Brown said as she stood in front of a large white banner with black letters on it which read “T-I-O-H,” an acronym for “This is our hour.”

“Somebody will come for you,” Brown added, “and it may

not mean they’re coming for everybody else. You have to remember that you have an obligation to speak up and speak out. That’s why I march.”

After Brown’s words to the crowd, Adanjesús Marín, the director of Make the Road PA (MRPA), took the stage. According to MRPA’s official Facebook page, the organization “builds the power of Latino and working-class communities to achieve dignity and justice through organizing, policy innovation, transformative education and survival services.”

“There is a lot for us to be angry about,” Marín said. “What we are marching for today is connected to so many other struggles that we are marching and fighting for.”

Marín explained that he believes the current government administration uses fear to keep people from speaking up for themselves, but that they cannot stay quiet on this issue.

“There is not a single thing that this administration is doing right now for our good,” Marín said. “This isn’t new, what’s new is the level of shamelessness they have about their aspirations.”

“We have to understand, that if we’re going to win, that today we have to march for Dreamers,” he said. Dreamers are DACA recipients.

Before the start of the march, Marín invited the crowd to join him in a pledge. Everyone in the room stood up with their right fist raised and repeated after Marín: “It is our duty to fight for freedom, it is our duty to win, we must love each other and support each other, we have nothing to lose but our chains.”

Students picked up signs placed in the front of the room, which stated things like “Don’t destroy Dreamers’ dreams” and “education not deportation.” There were signs in both English and Spanish. Before stepping out to begin the march, the students holding the signs began to chant them until the entire room was echoing back the chants.

“Say it loud, say it clear!” someone chanted from the crowd, which had moved onto the lawn of Gilbert Hall, “immigrants are welcome here!” the crowd chanted back.

The group marched down Gilbert Drive before turning left onto Old Main Drive. The crowd held their signs high, which were rustled by the strong winds of a cloudy day, as campus police escorted them across the intersection of Old Main Drive and Prince Street chanting “Out of the shadows into the streets!”

When the group turned onto Dauphin Drive from Adam’s Drive, the sun began to show through the clouds as Marín

bellowed out “No papers, no fear!” to which the marchers responded “Immigrants are welcome here!”

The march ended on the steps of the Ceddia Union Building (CUB) amphitheater, where the crowd chanted “Education not deportation!”

Students saw the march as a way to support others and speak up for a good cause.

“Me personally, as being an African-American female, I feel like it’s important to support anybody else, especially minorities, that face different struggles,” freshman Jessica Brown said, standing on the CUB amphitheater stairs.

“As a Latina here, it’s really important that we’re here and that we’re ready to speak up,” freshman Brenda Aristy said.

“This was really empowering for all the Latinos to show that they’re not alone.”

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Students and staff marched for Dreamers Thursday.

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Elite Modeling Troupe members strutted their stuff on stage for their “Pump for Blood” event Friday night.

Elite Modeling Troupe celebrates 10-year anniversary Hannah McMullan Staff Writer Shippensburg University’s ELITE Modeling Troupe celebrated its 10th year of fashion with a special performance on Friday night at Memorial Auditorium.

Since 2008, members of ELITE have continued to shock the crowd with their fierce choreography and confident catwalks in their signature 6-inch heels.

This special event called “Pump for Blood” was performed in honor of their legacy.

The ELITE troupe thanked their former mentors for their years of service by granting them awards during a special ceremony. They especially gave thanks to their former choreographer, who came from Philadelphia to help with their show.

During the award ceremony, Diane L. Jefferson, the director of Multicultural Student Affairs, reminisced on when they first established the model-

ing troupe. Ten years ago, they created the program to give students an outlet to show a skill that was new to SU, and to open the ELITE culture to other students.

“Ten years later, they are here and still going strong,” Jefferson said.

They shared the spotlight with the “old school” ELITE members by having one member from each year preform with them throughout the show.

They also honored one of their old members by featuring her in a solo, which she choreographed herself. The crowd went wild as they watched their old friend killing it on stage.

The models featured the creations of entrepreneurs and clothing designers such as Beni Empire Co., Remember Who Fronted Apparel and Baltieré Urban Culture.

Special guests such as IUP’s own POIZ Modeling Group and SU’s Heritage Dance Co. joined ELITE with special performances in a “purge” theme, with tattered items of clothing and dra-

matic choreography as the stage was bathed in red flashing lights.

The models took the crowd by surprise and opened the show by strutting from the back of the theater with bloody-splattered clothes and creepy “purge” mask cladded faces.

ELITE kept their audience engaged and entertained throughout the night.

No one’s eyes ever left the stage.

The Beni Empire Co. hosted a contest for the audience and rewarded $50 to whoever had the best catwalk. The audience screamed with excitement for their friends and chanted the name of the lucky winner.

The night was alive with an air of excitement as audience members danced out of their seats, while the DJ cranked up the music and they chanted their support for their classmates strutting across the stage.

Audience member and senior, Brandi Sartor, said, “It was definitely a good experience, a lot of good energy tonight.”

We are dwindling down to the end of the year and this semester at Shippensburg University, and that only means one thing — finals. Finals for first year students may be a little scary – you may have no idea how it works, what kind of exams you will have or where to go to take your final.

Although, surprisingly, it is not that hard to navigate if you communicate with your professor and pay attention to the emails you are getting from the Registrar’s Office.

This also means a time where you are handing in assignment after assignment (because apparently studying copious amounts of material for finals is not enough), that require diligence and time. The biggest thing about these two tasks is time management, making sure you not only have enough time to study, but have enough time to complete these tasks and hand them in on time.

Personally, I like to color code my tasks in a planner. First, I figure out which things will take the longest compared to the tasks I can finish in one sitting.

I look at the due dates for everything and put them in order in regards to how soon they are due. Comparing the length of the tasks to how soon they are due will help give you enough time to work on the task so you are not staying up all night to do so.

I also like to work on a little bit of everything at a time. To some that may be confusing, but for me it lets my brain take a bit of a break while going back and forth between subjects. It also prevents me from getting extremely bored with only working on one topic for hours on end. This is a time to really practice study skills you were taught in high school or gained over the years, which will come in handy not only for first year students, but for the rest of your college career.

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April 24, 2018

Privilege walk educates students on diversity and social inclusion

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By the end of the privilege walk, which was organized by FDI Chair Miranda White, students were scattered across the Ceddia Union Building amphitheater.

Madeline Walsh Ship Life Editor The Frederick Douglas Institute (FDI) held a privilege walk in Shippensburg University’s Ceddia Union Building (CUB) amphitheater Tuesday to raise awareness about social inclusion and diversity on campus.

Students were advised by professor Sharnine Herbert, the club’s faculty liaison, to form a line and stand next to someone they did not know.

Faculty members read statements into a microphone, and prompted students to step forward or backward if the statement applied to them.

Some of the statements were concerned with things like

whether participants’ parents could hire a nanny; if this statement applied to a student they were prompted to step forward. When faculty members said statements concerned with whether students grew up around gang violence, or have been discriminated against based on their skin color or ethnicity, they asked the students to take a step backward.

As the statements were read, the gaps between students grew larger. Once all of the statements were read, the group of students were no longer in a straight line but rather freckled across the CUB amphitheater.

The exercise highlighted other people’s experiences that some students had not considered before.

“I’m pretty surprised honestly,” freshman Savannah Wood said. “I came from a very rural area and I didn’t really

Zen gardens allow students to de-stress Katy Gentile Asst. Advertising Director The Activities Program Board (APB) held a do-it-yourself zen garden event in the Ceddia Union Building Raider Lounge on Thursday, which allowed students to customize their own potted plant with unique accessories to take home.

Shippensburg University junior Keri Barth said she felt it was a good event to have at this time of the year.

“I think it is a good event to have at this point in the semester because by planting a succulent and designing the pot however you want, creates a sense of happiness we can bring back to our rooms — which I think we all need during finals week,” Barth said.

Students started their creations by picking out one planting pot out of a wide range of shapes, sizes, textures and colors. After selecting a pot, they chose which succulent they wanted to plant. The succulents ranged from haworthiopsis fasciata, to haworthia cymbiformis to the common jade plant. After planting their chosen succulent, the students decorated their pots and added accessories to the soil or rocks in their pots.

Junior Kathleen Martin said she enjoyed potting a plant while in the company of some great friends. She also agreed with Barth that the event was timely as it was a relaxing and creative event and perfect for the busy end of the semester schedule.

Barth added, “I really enjoyed that they had more of a variety of pots this year. Last year’s selection was more limited in choices.”

Barth and Martin mentioned attending APB’s zen garden event last year, and were excited that APB was hosting a similar event. Barth was looking forward to adding another succulent to her varied collection of plants on the windowsill of her apartment.

Both students also gave kudos to APB’s creative snack of choice – a “dirt cup,” which consists of a pudding cup, crushed Oreos and gummy worms. Barth and Martin found the snack to be fitting for the crafty event.

Students learn about Turner Syndrome during paint night Andrea Stock Staff Writer The Disabilities Awareness Club hosted a paint night in Shippensburg University’s Ceddia Union Building Multipurpose Room on Thursday to spread awareness of Turner Syndrome.

Turner Syndrome is a chromosomal condition in females, which alters their developmental abilities. Females with this condition tend to be shorter than average and infertile.

Audrie Noll, 23, gave a presentation about Turner Syndrome and her story. Noll was diagnosed at the age of 17. She struggles with it, but always tries to find the positives in life.

She found support in the Turner Syndrome Society.

“I found this society and I knew I wanted to get involved right away,” Noll said “There wasn’t one in Pennsylvania yet, so I want-

ed to start one here and meet other girls involved.”

The society gives her the opportunity to host events and spread the word about Turner Syndrome.

“I love it. It’s great to be able to meet others and we are all so similar, so it’s fascinating to see the similarities,” Noll said.

At the event, students painted butterflies to represent the Butterfly Society of Turner Syndrome Society of the U.S. as they listened to Noll’s presentation.

Junior Kelsey Kohler said, “We don’t know everything and it’s important to expose yourself to new perspectives and new things.”

Because Tuner Syndrome is a very rare diagnosis, students were eager to learn about it.

“This is my first time hearing of Turner Syndrome, so now I’m aware of more diagnoses. I learned a lot overall,” sophomore Mia Furby said.

realize there were that many problems in society.”

The current chair of FDI, senior Miranda White, organized the event to put a spotlight on diversity on campus.

“I’ve noticed that here at Shippensburg University diversity is really not where it needs to be,” White said. “People are ashamed of where they come from, but it doesn’t matter where you come from, what matters is where you go.”

White added that she is grateful to the faculty who helped her organize the privilege walk.

“What I love about the institution is that no matter what the students want to do, we always have some type of support from Old Main, Etter, the Learning Center, the Dean of Students’ Office — it’s just amazing.”

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A&E

Art students decorate rail trail with sculptures Olivia Riccio Copy Editor

Art will now be permanent along the Cumberland Valley Rail Trail (CVRT) thanks to Shippensburg University art and design professor Steven Dolbin and students in his basic sculpture class who helped create and install sculptures on the trail by the new Shippensburg station this month.

The students have been working with the rail trail to create a permanent art venture called “The Steam Plant Sculpture Path.” Three sculptures were installed along the trail, titled “Fountain” and “Globe,” which were created by the sculpture class, and “Squared,” which was created by sculpture student Stanley Osmolenski.

After SU sculpture students helped create temporary environmental works last semester, the CVRT organization was excited to have the department create bases and place permanent works along the trail.

Dolbin, whose students have been working closely with the organization, felt this would be a great opportunity for the department and his students.

“We as a department and as sculpture classes are always interested in reaching out beyond the campus to the surrounding communities to

Orchestra welcomes guests for Earth Day concert Photo courtesy of the SU Art and Design Department

SU art and design professor Steven Dolbin hopes the success of the project will lead to more student sculptures being placed along the rail trail. work to bring art to as many citizens as possible,” Dolbin said. “This was a great opportunity to create permanent sculptures and establish a separate identity — “The Steam Plant Sculpture Path.”

The project had the help of history professor Allen Dieterich-Ward, and SU President Laurie Carter, who was also open to the idea of having new sculptures. So, she provided the seed money that made the sculpture installations possible.

Sculpture students Lydia Westre-Stith and Dylan Yoos helped Dolbin install the sculptures near the trail.

Yoos hopes people understand how important art is at SU and the unity it provides.

“What I hope people take away from seeing these sculptures is a sense of unity

with what the Rails-to-Trails was trying to do, but I also want them to see Shippensburg University as more than just a business- or education-based school,” he said. “We have a world-class arts program that is one of the best in the state, with the work our students are turning out it is world-class work.”

Westre-Stith is glad that the community has been responding so well to the sculptures.

“So many people have already responded to the sculptures we installed in such positive ways. People [who] I didn’t know liked art have mentioned loving the sculptures we installed, and that’s the coolest part,” Westre-Stith said.

Staff Reports The Slate The Shippensburg University-Community Orchestra, conducted by SU professor Mark Hartman, presented its Earth Day concert on Sunday. The concert featured many different songs with earthy themes, according to Kathleen Martin, a clarinet player in the orchestra. The group performed a variety of selections, including Handel’s “D Major Suite from Water Music,” Ennio Morricone’s “Gabriel’s Oboe” from the film “The Mission,” featuring

Katelyn Estep as a soloist. Copeland’s “Hoedown” was also a crowd favorite. The orchestra performed selections from Bernstein’s “West Side Story” and John Williams’ musical ending to “Star Wars: Episode IV.” The student and community performers were joined by professional flutist Emma Resmini. Resmini is a soloist, collaborative artist and new music advocate who has performed multiple times with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony and Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival Orchestra.

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The choirs performed their repertoire last Monday evening for their spring concert. The choirs will travel to Ireland May 13-22 of 2019. Individuals interested in going should contact Elizabeth Shoenfelt at EJShoenfelt@ship.edu.

SU choirs sing of various ‘Homecomings’ Jonathan Bergmueller Asst. A&E Editor The Shippensburg University Concert Choir and Madrigal Singers closed their spring semester with a concert in the Shippensburg Messiah United Methodist Church Monday night.

Both ensembles, led by director Elizabeth Shoenfelt, prepared their repertoire all spring for the concert, titled “Homecomings.” Aptly named, the concert focused on returning home — whether that is a national origin or a lover’s arms.

Concert choir members opened the concert by surrounding the audience in their red and blue choir robes. A soft female introduction to “Muusika,” by Pärt Uusberg, led the rest of the choir into the song.

After the song, certain members shuffled out of the sanctuary. They removed their robes, revealing tuxedos and dresses, which indicated them to be part of the

Madrigal Singers. The Madrigal Singers are the elite select group of singers selected from the concert choir.

They returned to the stage to perform “Jubilate Deo,” a piece from 16th century composer Orlando di Lasso, “I Waited Patient for the Lord,”

by Richard Roberson, and “I Am Not Yours,” by David Dickau.

The Madrigal Singers quickly retreated into file with the concert choir to continue the concert with “Lead, Kindly Light.” This song began with a dark and mysterious tone that transitioned to bright and rejoiceful, then into a serene ending.

The concert moved onto a set of more Gaelic songs, which started with “O Whistle and I’ll Come to Ye,” which Shoenfelt confirmed was a song about love. She also clarified that this method of wooing was a norm in the time that it originated.

The concert moved onto “My Heart’s in the Highlands,” by Donna Gartman

Schultz. The selection of Celtic tunes toned down with “Molly Malone,” a piece that was arranged by SU’s very own Blaine Shover, former director of the SU Concert Choir and Madrigal Singers.

The group then went offscript to sing “Happy Birthday” to a guest in the audience Bill Dean, who turned 85 years old and supported SU’s music program for many years. After Shoenfelt recognized Dean’s commitment to the arts, the group moved onto the final numbers of the concert.

The concert choir then performed Jaakko Mäntyjärvi’s “Pseudo Yoik,” a play on the Finnish stereotypes of the Sami traditionalists that live on the very fringes of society. After this, the madrigal singers performed their last number, “Shenandoah,” a peaceful Appalachian folk tune arranged by James Erb. The concert ended with “Nothin’ Gonna Stumble My Feet,” a fast-paced gospel by John Parker and Greg Gilpin.

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Sports

Softball, E2

Track and field, E3

Baseball uses dominant performance to dispatch Mansfield in four-game sweep Matt Gregan Asst. Sports Editor

Photo Courtesy of Bill Smith/SU Sports Info.

Dalton Hoiles, center, had a great series for the Raiders against Mansfield. He went 4-for-5 with a home run and three RBIs in the home pair of games.

The Shippensburg University Raiders completed a dominating four-game series sweep over Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) competition, Mansfield University, over the weekend.

The Raiders (20-17, 10-10 PSAC) combined a flurry of hitting with excellent pitching to propel them to the sweep over Mansfield (9-24, 3-17 PSAC).

The Raiders got off to a tremendous start at the plate on Friday, totaling 36 runs on 31 hits between their 20-5 and 16-1 victories to open up the weekend series against Mansfield. Six different players hit a home run and six different players totaled more than one RBI in Friday’s routs over Mansfield.

Senior Dalton Hoiles led the way for SU, going 4-for-5 with a home run, three RBIs and six runs scored. Senior Nick Spangler had a good day at the plate, going 3-for-6 with a homer, a double and five RBIs. Freshman Scout Knotts also had a good day at the dish, going 4-for-8 with a home run and five RBIs. Junior Drew Bene added two home runs and six RBIs in SU’s winning efforts on Friday.

The Raiders also received a pair of excellent pitching performances from both of their starters in Friday’s games. Senior Gabe Mosser continued his solid season by going five innings and giving up two runs on five hits while striking out seven. Mosser current-

ly stands at 6-3 with a 3.91 ERA through 10 appearances this season.

Sophomore Zack Sims also added a stellar performance on the mound for the Raiders in their 16-1 win over Mansfield. Sims tossed a complete game, allowing only one run on four hits while striking out a career high 14 Mansfield hitters. The 14 strikeouts are the most a Raider player has had in a single game since Matt Wright struck out 15 in 2008.

Sims is currently in the midst of a career year, going 7-3 with a 2.90 ERA. An improvement in strikeouts (he’s already surpassed his previous totals) and a massive lowering of his opponents batting average has combined to make Sims one of SU’s most lethal pitchers on the mound this season.

Shippensburg had all facets of the game going in Friday’s half of the four game weekend series. While the bats cooled down on Saturday, SU still received a pair of dominating performances on the mound.

Senior Andy Crum and junior Michael Hope both pitched complete game shutouts for the Raiders. Crum allowed only three hits and struck out seven while Hope, who usually comes out of the bullpen, gave up five hits while striking out five.

The Raiders gave Crum all the support he would need when Bene hit an RBI sacrifice fly in the first inning to make the game 1-0.

However, they would go on to add six more runs to their effort. Powered by Crum’s stellar outing, the Raiders won 7-0.

See “BASE,” E2

Lacrosse downs Edinboro behind Fugate’s hat trick Nate Powles Asst. Sports Editor A three-game losing streak came to an end for the Shippensburg University lacrosse team when it took down Edinboro University, 11-6, in an offensive show.

The team had struggled against Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) opponents in West Chester University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and East Stroudsburg University. Both the offense and defense had problems, being outscored 53–25 in the stretch.

The units came back strong against Edinboro, jumping out to a 6–1 lead at halftime.

The Raiders (7–8, 3–7 PSAC) gave up the first goal of the game to Edinboro, but went on to score eight straight, grabbing an 8–1

lead with only 15 minutes left in the game.

The Raiders withstood an onslaught from the Fighting Scots, who scored three goals in a row midway through the second half to cut the margin to 8–4. SU responded and Edinboro never got closer.

Allison Fugate was the spark on both sides of the ball, picking up her second hat trick of the season and sixth of her career. She also collected an impressive 10 groundballs, the most by a Raider in a game since 2011.

In her senior season, Fugate improved her total to 24 goals with the hat trick, now only two goals behind her career-best 26 in 2017. She also only needs three assists to pass her career-high nine from last season.

The game was not the smoothest, with both teams combining for more than

50 turnovers. SU had the advantage in that category, allowing 20 as opposed to Edinboro’s 32. The Raiders also impressed with 40 total recovered groundballs, their most since the end of the 2016 season.

In addition to Fugate’s hat trick, Maddy Siejk scored two goals, joined by six other Raiders who contributed a goal, including T.J. Johnson, Madi Newman and Jordan Kengor, who all had one assist as well.

Raider goalkeeper KiKi Brasher had eight saves for her seventh win of the season. She has had at least eight saves in 12 games for SU this season.

The Raiders will look to improve on the win when it travels to take on Lock Haven University tomorrow at 4 p.m. SU only has two games left in the regular season.

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Allison Fugate, center, picked up her second hat trick of the season in SU’s win over Edinboro. Fugate is second on the team with 24 goals in 15 contests.

Ally Mooney becomes second-annual Amanda Strous Scholarship winner William Whisler Sports Editor

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Ally Mooney, left, poses with Amanda Strous’ jersey and last year’s scholarship recipient, Brooke Sheibley, right. Mooney will wear the No. 22 jersey in 2018.

Shippensburg University field hockey goalkeeper Ally Mooney was named the 2018 Amanda K. Strous Memorial Scholarship recipient on Sunday, per SU’s field hockey Twitter account.

Mooney will wear the No. 22 for the Raiders throughout the 2018 season.

The scholarship was created following the 2016 season that ended with SU’s second national championship in school history and a year following the murder in June of 2016 of former SU field hockey player and assistant coach Strous. The team dedicated its 2016 season to Strous’ memory, carrying her jersey on the sidelines to each game to allow the legacy she left at SU to live on.

Mooney receives the award after senior Brooke Sheibley,

who was the inaugural recipient in 2017.

Strous helped guide the 2013 Raiders to their first national championship in school history on the sidelines alongside SU Hall of Fame coach Bertie Landes.

Strous wore a Raider uniform from 2007-2011, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a minor in art.

Field hockey was Amanda’s passion, as well as something that was a guiding force in her life. To her, it was about more than just being an athlete and an assistant coach. In an assignment she wrote for one of her classes, Strous described what being a part of SU field hockey meant to her, according to shipraiders.com.

Strous wrote: “Ship hockey was some of the best times of my life and it always held a special place in my

heart. This program shaped me into a better person. Ship Field Hockey is more than a team, it’s family. I was proud to be a Lady Raider and that will never change. I love my best friend Ship Hockey.

Please continue to find passion and meaning in your life, for without those two things, life in meaningless.”

In an effort to preserve her legacy at SU, Amanda’s parents, Eric and Crystal Strous, started the memorial scholarship to honor a special senior on the SU field hockey team who meets the following criteria, per shipraiders.com: The recipient will be selected in the spring of the student-athlete’s junior year and must be a member in good standing of the SU field hockey team.

See “STROUS,” E2

April 24, 2018

SPORTS

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Softball splits doubleheader with Mountain Cats William Whisler Sports Editor After dropping two games against a lastplace Kutztown University team on Saturday, the Shippensburg University softball team found itself clinging to the third and final Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) playoff spot in the East Division.

The Raiders (19-15, 6-6 PSAC East) rebounded on Sunday by saving their best for last in the final game of a doubleheader against the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown (UPJ), grabbing a 5–3 home-win over the Mountain Cats at Robb Field.

SU’s offense received a boost from the table setters of the lineup, as well as Anna Warfield in the nine spot, as Warfield, Tara Bicko and Kayla Bonawitz reached base 12 times on Sunday. It was a special day for Warfield who finished 3-for-4 with an RBI, two walks and two runs scored. Bicko went 4-for-8 with a double and two RBIs, while Bonawitz was 3-for-7 with two doubles, an RBI and a stolen base.

The Raiders used a big second inning to grab an early 4-0 lead in Game 2, on RBI doubles by Tara Bicko and Kayla Bonawitz, while scoring two more runs on RBI singles by Anna Warfield and Katie Wise. The Raiders added their fifth run in the fourth inning on a wild pitch by UPJ’s Ashley Pagliei. Courtney Coy and Wise added two hits for SU in the win.

Chloe Collins was solid on the mound for the Raiders in Game 2, throwing a complete game while allowing just eight hits and striking out four batters. Collins’ held on in the final inning after UPJ finally got to her, picking up four of its hits in the final frame, but the Mountain Cats failed to score after a two-run

double by UPJ’s Jade Stubblefield to left-center field brought UPJ within two runs.

SU received a strong pitching performance in Game 1 from Taryn Wilson, but the Raiders were unable to get the victory after the Mountain Cats received a game-winning two-run double from catcher Stacey Walling in the fifth inning to push across the winning run in a 2-1 loss for the Raiders.

Wilson struck out nine batters in the contest and kept SU in the game throughout its duration. SU did not go away quietly in the game, putting two runners on base with one out. Warfield singled to load the bases with and put the winning-run into scoring position, but a hard lineout by Bicko resulted in a double play to end the game.

It has been a particularly strong season for Wilson, who leads the conference in strikeouts with 155, including 42 batters struck out looking, while also sitting in second place in the conference with 14 wins on the mound.

Bonawitz has had a career year at the plate for the Raiders, as she is fourth in the PSAC in batting average and hits, with a .436 average and 48 hits in 110 at-bats this season for SU. SU currently sits in third place in the East Division, with a three-game lead over fourthplace East Stroudsburg University for the fourth and final PSAC playoff spot. The Raiders have two doubleheaders left on their regular-season schedule against Millersville and East Stroudsburg. Millersville currently sits two games ahead of SU in the standings, before the teams begin a critical doubleheader for seeding in the 2018 PSAC tournament.

The Raiders will return to action on Friday, April 27 at Robb Field against Millersville University. The doubleheader is scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m.

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SU’s Kayla Bonawitz has had an great season, as she currently is fourth in the PSAC in hits and batting average. Bonawitz is batting .436 this season for SU. From “BASE,” E1

Photo courtesy of Bill Smith/SU Sports Info.

Zack Sims added on Friday to his dominant season for the Raiders by tossing a complete game and striking out 14 in the team’s 16-1 win over Mansfield.

Sims is currently 7-3 with a 2.90 ERA in 12 games (9 starts) so far this season.

From “STROUS,” E1 The player must also exemplify the following characteristics: an ability and desire to improve their field hockey skills and be a positive team player, a willingness to help others on and off the field and a strong bond of love for family and the SU field hockey family.

Mooney’s selection of the award does not come as much of a surprise, as the goalie is beloved by her teammates and is often received with chants of her name from teammates as she takes the field or makes a save in goal.

The goalie has excelled on the field, winning 49 games as a member of the Raiders while leading SU to two national championship victories. Mooney has been nothing short of a brick wall in the net for SU, registering 244 saves while only allowing 51 goals in 61 career games. Mooney registered a career-high 96 saves last season.

With the departure of 12 seniors from the 2017 national championship team, Mooney’s presence will be instrumental to the success of the team in 2018. With her excellence in leadership on and off the field, Mooney looks to lead SU, while honoring the legacy of Strous in the process.

Crum, similarly to Sims, is also having a career year on the mound. He is currently 3-3 with a 2.70 ERA. Crum previously finished seasons with an ERA in the fives, but now he has lowered it to below 3.00. The Raiders are going to need him to continue to perform at this high level if they are to make a run in the PSAC tournament.

In Saturday’s nightcap, Hope won a pitching duel between himself and Mansfield’s starter Bryce Zaparzynski. Hope, as previously mentioned, tossed a complete game shutout and the Raiders completed the weekend sweep with a

1-0 win. The lone run of the game came on a RBI single

by Spangler in the fifth inning.

Hope has been a dominant reliever this season for SU, but he was called on to start on the mound on Saturday.

He answered the call in only the second start of his career with perhaps the best performance of his career. Hope currently holds a 1–2 record to go with a 1.82 ERA. The Raiders have been playing at a very high level recently, winning nine of their last 10 games. They are currently sitting in fifth place in the PSAC Eastern Division. Lock Haven (2013, 10-10 PSAC) currently holds the fourth and final

playoff spot in the Eastern Division. SU is two games behind Lock Haven and SU holds the head-to-head tiebreaker over Lock Haven due to the four-game sweep that occurred two weeks ago. The Raiders will look to capture the momentum that they have gained this weekend against Mansfield. They have 11 games remaining on their schedule, which is enough time to possibly make a run at that coveted fourth spot in the Eastern Division.

The Raiders next take on PSAC Western Division competition when they face off in a doubleheader against Indiana University of Pennsylvania (10-22, 7-13 PSAC) this afternoon at Fairchild Field.

Softball drops doubleheader to rival Kutztown University

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SU lost two critical games on Saturday against Kutztown University, giving the Golden Bears life in the playoff picture. SU leads Kutztown by three games.

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Ally Mooney had a career-high 96 saves as the goalkeeper for SU in 2017.

Amanda Strous played at SU from 2007-2011 and was a beloved member of the SU field hockey team. Strous was murdered during the offseason in 2016.

Courtesy of SU Sports Info.

The Shippensburg University softball team dropped both games of a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division doubleheader at Kutztown on Saturday, falling by scores of 4-2 and 5-3 on a sunny afternoon at North Campus Field.

Shippensburg (18-14, 6-6 PSAC East) moved to .500 in the PSAC Eastern Division, maintaining a three-game lead on the third and final playoff spot in the division with one week of conference games remaining.

The Raider bats managed just one extra-base hit on the day — a double by senior

Tara Bicko — while yielding three to Kutztown from the circle. Bicko led the Raider offense by reaching base five times in the doubleheader, recording four hits and an RBI, drawing a walk and scoring two runs.

Sophomore Kayla Bonawitz added three more hits to her impressive season total, which now sits at 45 through 32 games. Fellow sophomore Kendall Geis reached base three times on the day, cracking two singles to go along with a walk.

Junior Taryn Wilson suffered the loss in Game 1, allowing four runs on eight hits while striking out six in a complete-game effort. Freshman Courtney Coy took the Game 2 loss in the circle, al-

lowing five runs (one earned) on seven hits while striking out one in a complete-game effort.

SU had a rough day in the field, committing eight errors over the course of the two games. Four of the five runs scored by KU in the nightcap were unearned, while both of the Raider runs in the opener were unearned as the host Golden Bears committed two errors on the day.

Saturday’s doubleheader results in a season series split with Kutztown. SU has split its season series with West Chester and Kutztown. The Raiders have split doubleheaders with Millersville and East Stroudsburg thus far, and will face each team one more time to end the season.

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April 24, 2018

Women’s track and field sets new records Courtesy of SU Sports Info.

The Shippensburg University women’s track-and-field team got new school records from freshman Ali Wyland, senior Kali Hepner and redshirt-senior Danielle Sciremammano to highlight a memorable afternoon at the Fourth Annual SU Mid-Week Invitational held at SU Student Association Field at Seth Grove Stadium.

The new school records were the highest notes of a memorable afternoon that included 44 performances that satisfied the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) qualifying standard, including seven NCAA provisional qualifiers of which several could result in trips to nationals at season’s end.

Wyland made her home debut and ran a blistering 12.05 seconds in the 100-meter dash, leaving her as the sole name in the record books for the event. Entering 2018, four women shared the school record at 12.10 seconds — Kris James (1984), Jen Gubernot (1998), Lauren Ellsworth (2014) and Sarah Hunt (2017). Wyland’s time moves her atop the PSAC performance list in the event.

Hepner entered the day sharing the school pole vault record with All-American Megan Breski — both women achieved

personal bests of 12 feet, 9 1/2 inches. On Wednesday, Hepner improved her PR and the SU record to 12 feet, 10 inches — putting her in sole possession of eighth on the current NCAA Division II performance list. Sophomore Sarah Bourdon took second on a clearance of 11 feet, 9 3/4 inches.

Sciremammano broke the school record in the 100-meter hurdles earlier this season by running 13.93 seconds — on Wednesday she enhanced that time by one-hundredth of a second to 13.92 seconds. Her performance came in the debut event of the day, as SU President Laurie Carter visited and shot the starter’s gun for the first section of the competition.

The 100-meter dash featured numerous season bests.

Senior Jill Bertino ran third place in 12.35 seconds, while freshmen Avani Dorsey-Burnette and Michelle Brown-Jones picked up PSAC qualifiers with respective times of 12.58 seconds and 12.63 seconds.

In the 400 meters, senior Kiana Tucker enhanced her season best to 57.04 seconds. Senior Lindsay Sheehan and freshman Rachel Bruno broke the 60-second mark for the first time this season; Sheehan picked up her PSAC qualifier with a time of 59.26 seconds, while Bruno improved her season PR to 59.77 seconds.

Junior Kali Dawson achieved a new outdoor best in the

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high jump with a top clearance of 5 feet, 5 1/4 inches. Dawson matches her indoor career best. She also achieved a PSAC qualifier in the 100-meter hurdles by running 15.45 seconds.

All of SU’s jumpers achieved new season bests or personal bests on the day. In the long jump Sciremammano posted a top mark and new PR of 19 feet, 8 inches that ties her for seventh on the NCAA Division II performance list. Redshirt-junior Abby Wagner notched a provisional qualifier of 19 feet, 0 3/4 inches to finish third. Sciremammano’s jump is a new season best of 15 inches, while Wagner’s is a new season best of 16 inches.

Junior Olivia Lee and Brown-Jones picked up their PSAC qualifiers in the event ­­­— Lee threw 18 feet, 6 inches, while Brown-Jones notched a top mark of 18 feet, 3 3/4 inches. Lee improved her season best in the triple jump to 37 feet, 4 1/2 inches while freshman Ariel Jones improved her collegiate best to 37 feet, 0 1/2 inches.

Wagner stands a good chance of qualifying for nationals in the triple jump after winning the event with a top clearance of 40 feet, 1 1/2 inches. The performance is the sixth of the season in NCAA Division II this season to break the 40-foot mark.

Junior Morgan DeFloria won the javelin with a top throw of 149 feet, 4 inches, while senior Crystal Hartman placed second on a throw of 144 feet, 1 inch for a new season best by an inch. Senior Kelly Steffen took third with a season best of 121 feet, 1 inch.

Redshirt-senior Ava Bonetti was SU’s top finisher in the shot and the hammer. Bonetti improved her season best in the shot to 41 feet, 5 1/4 inches and nearly hit a provisional qualifier in the hammer with a huge new best of 168 feet, 11 inches. Freshman Ashley Kerr notched a strong new collegiate best in the shot of 40 feet, 6 3/4 inches.

Redshirt-senior Paige Shirk won the discus on a top throw of 137 feet, 1 inch. Shirk improved her season best in the hammer to 149 feet, 8 inches.

Other notable performances on the track Wednesday included a whole host of new PSAC qualifiers. Freshman Amira Coleman notched her 400-meter hurdles qualification with a time of 1:07.81. Junior Tatiana Purnell won the 400-meter hurdles with a new season best of 1:05.18.

Among mid-distance and distance runners, junior Lindsey Gerlach won the steeplechase with a PSAC qualifier of 12:23.69, and redshirt-junior Lizzie Manickas achieved a PSAC qualifier in the 1,500 meters with a victory in 4:58.26.

Redshirt-junior Caity Reese won the 5K in 18:08.90, improving her season best, while senior Bryanna Dissinger notched her 5K conference qualifier with a time of 18:09.41.

Freshman Isabella Marchini ran 18:38 and sophomore Lydia Cagle ran 18:39 to achieve PSAC qualifiers.

SU’s next meet will be Saturday, April 28 when it hosts the Paul Kaiser Classic from Seth Grove Stadium.

Danielle Sciremammano, far left, improved her own record in the 100-meter hurdles at the SU Invitational.

Men’s track and field have strong showing at SU Invitational

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Dreux Stamford won both the 100 and 200 meters in 10.92 and 22.43 seconds, respectively. He was followed closely by teammate Connor Oldt in the 200.

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Senior Tra-C Davis was one of several impressive performers at the annual SU Mid-Week Invitational. Davis took first place in the high jump with a top mark of 6 feet, 9 inches, to earn another NCAA provisional-qualifying height.

The Shippensburg University men’s trackand-field team performed well at the fourth annual SU Mid-Week Invitational, totaling more than 30 conference cuts including five NCAA provisional qualifiers on a sunny and pleasant afternoon from SU Student Association Field at Seth Grove Stadium.

Among the highlights on the track included a season best and NCAA provisional qualifier in the 400-meter hurdles for redshirt-junior Austin Shupp, who won the event with a time of 53.31 seconds that slides him atop the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) performance list for the event.

Redshirt-sophomore Ori Rinaman and Shupp ran season bests in the 110-meter hurdles, finishing 1-2 with respective times of 14.60 seconds and 14.73 seconds.

Junior Dreux Stamford won the 100 meters in 10.92 seconds and the 200 meters in 22.43 seconds. Freshman Austin Howell paced the field in the 400 meters with a time of 50.14 seconds, while freshman Austin Padmore won the 800 meters in 1:53.65.

One of the highlights from the distance and mid-distance events included sophomore David Snyder becoming SU’s first conference qualifier this season in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 10:06.34.

Freshman Shaquille Mitchell nearly hit his season best in the triple jump, posting a strong second-place finish of 47 feet, 1 1/2 inches. Sophomore Greg Johnson notched his PSAC qualifier in the triple jump with a

solid mark of 43 feet, 0 1/4 inches.

In the long jump, Johnson improved his season best to 22 feet, 9 inches, while Shupp (22 feet, 7 inches) and Mitchell (21 feet, 6 3/4 inches) achieved their first PSAC qualifiers of the season in the event. Senior Tra-C Davis cleared 6 feet, 9 inches in the high jump for another strong provisional qualifier.

SU’s throws were on point once again, as the Raiders won all four events. In the javelin, sophomore Ben Hurda claimed victory on a top mark of 195 feet, 2 inches. Sophomore Tommy Haas placed second with his best throw traveling 185 feet, 9 inches — less than a foot off his season best.

Senior Bryan Pearson had a huge season best in the hammer, notching a NCAA provisional qualifier with a throw of 184 feet, 5 inches. Pearson’s hammer throw was a 13foot season best. Sophomore Cam Strohe and junior Tyler Hewitt each threw beyond the PSAC standard in the hammer.

Pearson won the hammer, discus and shot.

In the discus, he recorded another solid provisional throw of 172 feet, 11 inches. Strohe threw 154 feet, 1 inch, while sophomore Antonio Civetta threw 135 feet. Freshman Jacob Gieringer picked up his PSAC qualifier in the discus on a throw of 130 feet, 2 inches.

In the shot, Pearson recorded a new season best of 51 feet, 8 1/4 inches.

Shippensburg will not compete this weekend as it hosts the Roddick High School Invitational on Saturday. SU’s next meet will be Saturday, April 28 when it hosts the Paul Kaiser Classic from Seth Grove Stadium.