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ASL class a success in first year Shannon Long News Editor An American Sign Language (ASL) course is being taught at Shippensburg University this semester for the first time.

The course is being taught by teacher education professor Don Philpot. He has taught for seven years, and mostly teaches courses related to literacy — specifically reading, writing and English language courses.

This is the first time he has taught ASL at SU, but he has taught it informally to various people for more than 40 years.

He first learned ASL when he was 16 years old, and was inspired to learn after his first encounter with a deaf person.

“In order for her to feel welcomed and included, it helped that her peers could sign.”

Don Philpot Teacher Education Professor From there, he created opportunities to be involved in the deaf community by going to functions

Library looks for new ideas, 24-hour floor Hannah Pollock Asst. News Editor With midterms quickly approaching, Shippensburg University’s Ezra Lehman Memorial Library is busier than ever.

From students studying to hanging out, the library is busy almost all hours of the day — and in the future — it could be busy 24 hours a day.

Student Government Association (SGA) Senator Emilly Anderson, Dean of Libraries Michelle Foreman and Manager of Library Services Sara Pike are working on keeping the library open all hours.

“We are exploring possibilities for a 24-hour space on the lower level,” Anderson said. “But that will need a separate entrance, which means funding.”

SGA representatives have shared the idea with the Facilities Master Plan and are waiting to see if funding could be made available.

In addition, Activities Program Board (APB) and the library will host two escape rooms as part of APB’s spring programming.

One feature of the library that most students

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may not know about is the “One-Touch Studio” program on the ground floor.

Anderson explained how these amenities can help students improve their public speaking skills.

“If a student wanted to record or analyze how they give a presentation, they can use the OneTouch Studio by connecting a thumb-drive into the system, press record and there is a video camera that will record the student at the podium and the projected screen behind them,” Anderson said. “Once the student is complete, they will simply press stop and download.”

The student’s presentation is then available on the flash drive for review.

The library is always asking for input from the student body at its “Ask Us Anything Desk,” including anything from the height of the tables to new activities for the spring semester.

In the past, the library has hosted various classes and seminars including board game night, yoga, Adulting 101 and APA format information sessions.

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and watching people sign. He learned everything he knew from books and became fluent with his friends in two years.

“Even if out of an hour conversation I picked out 20 signs and was able to just be a friend and have a friendship, it was enough for me,” Philpot said.

In the past he was hired as an interpreter tutor and taught a group of children for six years. Philpot used ASL to interpret, teach and help the students.

“They were hearing students, but I taught them because I was hired as an interpreter tutor for a deaf child that was part of the class,” Philpot

said. “In order for her to feel welcomed and included, it helped that her peers could sign.”

This even included interpreting assemblies for the one deaf child.

The idea of the ASL course taught at SU came from a conversation Philpot had in passing. He briefly mentioned it in a conversation, and then brought the idea up to professor of global languages José Ricardo-Osorio.

“I reached out to him and we just started the whole process,” he said.

Philpot hopes that the course continues to be offered, and that in the future an ASL minor will be offered. There is currently only a

concentration in ASL as part of the disability studies minor.

Because the first section of the course filled up so quickly, an additional section of the course was offered.

“Students are very pleased to be in the class. I’d have to say I’ve never seen such attentive students,” Philpot said.

He has noticed that many of his students are determined to learn ASL. He was also surprised how much preparation it takes to teach the course. The class requires at least six hours a week to prepare.

“I love it though because I teach what I’m excited about.”

SGA changes leadership structure

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Recent changes made to the Student Government Association (SGA) constitution will impact the positions of the Executive Rules Committee. The new positions include vice presidents of external affairs, finance, student groups and new senator positions. The elected students will take office in May 2019.

Hannah Pollock Asst. News Editor The Shippensburg University Student Government Association (SGA) is changing various leadership positions on its Executive Rules Committee (ERC) for the 2019-20 academic year.

“Our ERC will now consist of a president, vice president of internal affairs, vice president of external affairs, vice president of finance, vice president of student groups and an ex officio student trustee,” SGA President Logan Wein said.

He added that one of the goals for SGA this year was to update the constitution and bylaws, and after various meetings, the decision was made to reorganize the positions.

According to the updated SGA constitution and bylaws, there will be four vice

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presidents, each focusing on one area of student government. Each will serve as chairperson on their respective committees in addition to other duties.

The ex officio student trustee will serve as the chairperson of the Elections Committee and the liaison between the SGA and Council of Trustees.

According to Wein, all changes made to the constitution and bylaws were made with the student body’s best interests in mind.

“Our mission is to serve as advocates for the student body, and by restructuring our organization and adding positions, we will be able to continue ensuring responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision making,” Wein said. “This will allow SGA to organize and carry out its internal business more efficiently.”

Any undergraduate student can run

for an ERC position, excluding the president and vice president of finance positions, which require previous SGA experience.

Wein is excited for the impact the changes will make.

“The end goal for this change is to spend less time on the internal operational duties of SGA and spend more time planning events, serving the students and becoming more active across campus,” he said.

SGA has also added new senator positions for the honors college, exploratory studies, transfer students, commuter students, international students and another Greek life position to represent the National Pan-Hellenic Council.

SGA’s next public meeting is March 7 in CUB Room 119 at 4 p.m.

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SU professor Alison Feeney gave a lecture about the rich history of brewing beer. According to Feeney, Pennsylvania is a popular spot for craft beer, and has many breweries throughout the state.

Shannon Long News Editor Shippensburg University held its first session of the Brew Science Speaker Series on Thursday with professor of geography and earth science Alison Feeney, who spoke about the history of breweries and some of Pennsylvania’s breweries.

Feeney has spent the last 10 years looking at the social, technological and economic history of beer.

Beer has been around since the beginning of agricultural societies. All early writings show the importance of beer and that people used to be paid with beer.

Monasteries developed

brewing as a science and recorded the ingredients. Because of this, most breweries have names that are dedicated to monks, Feeney said.

In 1516, Germany passed the first purity law stating that it was illegal to make beer with anything but barley, yeast, water and hops.

People knew if they drank beer they would not get sick.

Most people drank beer instead of water because the water quality was so poor.

“I could go on probably a couple of hours about the innovations that breweries created. We get pasteurization, [which] obviously has a huge impact on all of our food and healthcare systems,” Feeney said.

When traveling to America, most ships carried more beer than water, and breweries were one of the first buildings built by settlers. Once in America, most people brewed from home because they still had contaminated water, Feeney said.

Breweries became the central hub of colonial life.

Technology led to the mass production of beer. In 1878, Anheuser-Busch shipped kegs globally with refrigerated box cars. In 2016, Pennsylvania had 282 craft breweries and made 3.7 million barrels of craft beer.

“Pennsylvania is really ideally suited for agritourism.

We are located very close to some of the major population

centers,” she said.

These local breweries support local businesses, build and give back to the community, support neolocalism and share culture and history.

“That’s what really excites me about craft breweries, is that ability to add to that community,” Feeney said.

Most local breweries are expanding and hiring. SU is trying to expand brewing education with the Brew Science Speaker Series.

“We are trying to offer a variety of different types of courses. We’re going to have more seminar speakers, tours and a variety of opportunities.”

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The latest effort

by Gov. Tom Wolf to impose a fee on municipalities that rely on state troopers, instead of a local police force, is generating new conversations, if not an embrace, as budget makers try to end the constitutionally questionable use of highway dollars to underwrite the Pennsylvania State Police.

This is the third time Wolf, a Democrat, has tried to impose a fee on a lengthening list of municipalities are closing their police departments. The issue has been a sore spot for at least two decades, since then-Gov. Tom Ridge, a Republican, sought unsuccessfully to extract reimbursements from the largest municipalities engaging in the practice.

Wolf has not had much support from Republican lawmakers, who control the state Legislature and represent most of the areas that receive state police coverage.

Previously, Wolf proposed a per-person fee.

This year, he is floating a sliding-scale fee, starting

at $8 per person for municipalities with 2,000 or fewer residents and rising to $166 per person for municipalities with 20,000 or more residents. It is projected to raise $103 million a year.

WHY NOW? Transportation planners, construction firms and engineers began raising the alarm anew several years ago after watching a growing portion of highway funds get diverted to the state police budget.

A consensus built in the Capitol to clamp down on the decades-old diversion of highway dollars. But there is no consensus on how to fill the gap.

Sen. Pat Stefano, R-Fayette, said he wants to explore whether the state police should charge all municipalities for the broader range of services they provide, such as tactical response and laboratory tests.

“It’s one of the different models of recovering revenue, instead of just focusing on rural areas and areas that don’t have municipal police services,’’ Stefano said Friday.

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Campus Police Briefs Two students charged with underage drinking SU police observed a male who was urinating on the rail trail path in the area of the goat path steps on Feb. 3 around 12:30 a.m.

When the officers turned around, they noticed a second male also urinating. Both males began running toward North Queen Street where they were caught in the area of Our Lady of Visitation Church.

One of the males was identified as Ryan R. Rose, 20, of Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Rose told officers that he knew he had been urinating in public and that he was publicly intoxicated. Rose had glassy, bloodshot eyes, slurred speech and was unable to answer simple questions.

Due to Rose’s high level of intoxication, Shippensburg Area EMS was dispatched. Rose was then transported to Chambersburg Hospital. He was later cited for underage drinking The other male, later identified as Ian Thomas, 19, of Yardley, Pennsylvania, was also found to be intoxicated and admitted to drinking. Thomas was also charged with underage drinking.

Student charged with underage possession SU officers were doing speed enforcement on Feb. 4 in the area of Grace B. Luhrs Elementary School when they observed a silver sedan traveling east on Adams Drive.

The vehicle was clocked with a timing device at approximately 12:30 a.m. traveling 30.9 mph in a 15 mph zone. Officers pulled behind the vehicle and turned on their emergency lights.

The vehicle came to a stop on Adams Drive outside of McLean Hall.

As the officer approached the driver, they observed a full bottle of Ole English 800 malt liquor lying on the floor behind the front passenger seat. The driver was identified as 19-yearold Elliott C. Gangloff.

Gangloff admitted that the alcohol was his and allowed the officer to remove it from the vehicle.

Officers issued him a university ticket for exceeding the speed limit on campus, as well as a non-traffic citation charging him with alcohol possession under the age of 21.

Minor charged with underage possession SU police officers observed a male who they believed was in possession of an alcoholic beverage in the L-2 storage parking lot on Feb. 9 at approximately 11:30 p.m.

Officers began speaking with the male, who provided them with his identification, which showed he was a juvenile. The juvenile was found to be in possession of a bottle of Fireball Cinnamon Whisky.

The juvenile was transported back to the campus police station where he was released into his mother’s custody. He was later charged with underage possession.

Student resists arrest SU officers were on patrol in the L-2 storage parking lot when they observed Jordan L. Strickler, 20, of York, Pennsylvania, walking through the lot on Feb. 10 at approximately 1:30 a.m.

Officers tried to engage the male in conversation when they suspected he was highly intoxicated. The male was told repeatedly to stop, to which he would not do. Officers walked over to the male and again asked him to stop, which he refused to do.

As officers tried to stop him, Strickler also used his left arm to try and push officers away.

Strickler continued to struggle and resist officers as they attempted to handcuff him. He pulled away, and officers saw him running down the lot and onto Paul Drive where he went in to the area of the large drainage pond.

Officers found Strickler at the bottom of the drainage pond, where he was handcuffed and Shippensburg Area EMS were called.

Strickler received minor injuries from fleeing the officers, along with injuries from climbing through the thick brush. As EMS attempted to assess his injuries, he became very disorderly with the EMS staff to the point that an officer was requested to ride along with EMS to the hospital.

A criminal complaint was filed against Strickler.

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This Week on Campus Book Launch

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• The Pride Center is hosting a reading and book launch of “Spoiled Meat,” by Nicole Santalucia, on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in Orndorff Theatre.

• The Global Languages of Cultures Department is showing “Mon Oncle” on Wednesday from 6:30­­—7:30 p.m. in Orndorff Theatre.

• ROTC is hosting Army Maj. Lisa Jaster in honor of Women’s History Month. The discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Old Main Room 206.

History Dinner • The office of Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA) is hosting a “Black History Month Dinner” on Thursday from 4­—7 p.m. in Reisner Dining Hall.

Mardi Gras Celebration • A mardi gras celebration will be held on Thursday at the Cora I. Grove Spiritual Center from 6­­ —7:30 p.m.

Luhrs Concert • Tommy James & The Shondells with The Buckinghams will perform Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in the H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center.

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Jenna Wise Editor-in-Chief

Many in the journalism community can agree that there is a fine line between having opinions and being downright offensive to a large portion of your community.

The latter, in some cases, results in journalists or news organizations losing their credibility and/ or their jobs. This was the case this week at an Alabama newspaper, where an editor published an editorial urging the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) to “ride again,” according to The Washington Post.

Here is the background — Goodloe Sutton, the now former publisher and editor-in-chief of the Democrat-Reporter, published an opinion piece which advocated for mass lynchings and the KKK to “wipe out” corrupt politicians in Washington, The Post reported. Sutton was replaced by a Democrat-Reporter office clerk after he stepped down from his position.

Before his resignation, Sutton said offended individuals could contact him

or boycott the paper entirely.

The timeline of events in this case is eerily similar to what has recently happened at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Newsroom employees were inundated with calls from angry subscribers more than a year ago when the Post-Gazette’s editorial board published “Reason as racism: An immigration debate gets derailed” in response to President Donald Trump’s comments on “[expletive] countries” and immigrants, according to The New York Times.

The editorial essentially defends the president’s remarks and calls into question how racism should be defined these days. To make matters worse, this editorial was released on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday last year.

The incident at the Post-Gazette has led to a considerable amount of anger directed toward its publisher because of numerous incidents in which he has shown a conservative bias that may have impacted editorial decisions at the paper.

It is interesting to note that both Sutton and Post-Gazette publisher John Robinson Block inherited their papers from relatives. Neither got into journalism from personal interest or talent alone.

What also needs to be understood about both incidents is the complete separation between the

“POLICE,” from A2 Stefano, who chairs the Senate committee that handles state police issues, said he will hold hearings on that idea, as well as on how to encourage municipalities to share police service with neighbors.

POLICE-FREE TOWNS State troopers are the only police force in 1,291 of the state’s 2,561 municipalities, according to state data. Another 419 municipalities get part-time coverage. The remaining 851 pay for their own police force or share.

There are no eligibility rules or poverty test for municipalities to get state police coverage.

There is no requirement to try to form a regional police force or purchase coverage from a neighbor.

Overall, a quarter of Pennsylvanians receive some sort of coverage from the state police. Those that get full- or part-time police protection generally live in rural or exurban areas, with fewer people and more real estate than the average municipality.

POLICE COSTS The state police budget has risen quickly in recent years and is increasingly reliant on motorist fees and fuel taxes that, under the state constitution, are strictly for highway construction, repair and safety.

Those highway dollars now underwrite

newsroom and editorial board. The reporters whose bylines you see in the newspaper are not the ones contributing to these opinion pieces — at least in most situations.

This means that when people cancel their subscriptions, they are hurting hard-working journalists instead of the person(s) who offended them with an isolated opinion piece.

This industry cannot really afford to lose people because of this misunderstanding; the Pew Research Center reported that in 2017, daily newspaper circulation was down 11 percent from the previous year.

Although commentators do have the right to discuss whatever they want in their pieces, incidents like these show a blatant disregard for the news that brings in the majority of profit, and an even further gap between journalists and the corporate world which employs them.

So what is the solution?

To be honest, if one existed, the print media industry may not be in quite the situation it currently is — chained to often rich, entitled, high-profile owners who want to push their opinion on others without understanding the plight of journalism or the working class as a whole. But how does journalism survive without these people?

I hope for this industry’s sake that a way is soon found.

two-thirds of the state police’s budget, $770 million out of $1.3 billion.

That’s even after a 2017 report by a state legislative committee strongly suggested that more than $200 million a year in highway construction funds are being diverted unconstitutionally to pay for municipal police coverage.

PAID POLICE TOWNS The municipalities that finance their own police forces are paying more than $2.3 billion a year for the service, or about $250 per person. Philadelphia alone is budgeted to pay about $710 million this year for police.

Pennsylvania’s 20 most-populated municipalities all pay for their own police forces, as do the vast majority of municipalities with more than 10,000 residents.

Hempfield Township in Westmoreland County, with a population of about 43,000, is easily Pennsylvania’s most populous municipality without its own police force.

Wolf’s proposed fee would increase its budget of $14 million by 50 percent, said George Reese, chairman of the township’s supervisors.

That amount would require a tax increase without adding any additional services, Reese said. But, he added that he recognizes that times have changed and he would like to discuss it with the governor.

Student Government Updates • All senators were in attendance, except Student Trustee Evan Redding.

His absence was excused.

• The Student Government Association updated its constitution this week.

• SGA’s election process for the 2019-2020 academic year has begun.

• The Budget and Finance Committee has begun reviewing the 2019-2020 academic year’s budget.

• The library is in the process of making the bottom floor of the library open 24 hours. It is also taking feedback from students about new events.

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Shippensburg’s family-owned Italian restaurant, Alfredo’s Pizza, makes its relationships with community members a priority while conducting business.

Jonathan Bergmueller A&E Editor “It’s better to have one race horse than four donkeys.”

Sal Mannino’s grandfather told him this on a visit to Sicily several years ago. Mannino, now the owner of Alfredo’s Pizza in Shippensburg has incorporated this into his restaurant.

Mannino, 40, was born in Brooklyn, New York, moved to Italy in his teens, and returned to the United States as he was becoming a young man. His first job was at Mama’s

Pizza, where he worked for his Aunt Tina, and later Uncle Sal. He eventually stepped up as a store manager in Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, and from there bought a failing Mama’s Pizza in Hanover.

His influence turned the dilapidated store around.

By the time Mannino was 21 years old, he owned four restaurants. It was during this successful time that he visited his grandfather in Sicily.

Mannino sold all his restaurants to move to Shippensburg and raise his family. During this process, he

chose to focus all his efforts on perfecting one restaurant. This localized approach sets Mannino apart from the rest — every person who walks through his door is a member of a community to which he belongs.

Mannino strongly believes in cultivating relationships with his customers. Chains and franchises are not personal, Mannino said.

He said his clientele is built on the principles of family. Mannino tells stories of pregnant women ordering pizza and years later seeing their now-teenaged children eating

pizza at the shop. That is the kind of loyalty he is grateful to inspire.

“From mother to daughter and father to son,” Mannino said.

The future holds new prospects for Alfredo’s Pizza. The pizza shop has repeatedly outgrown its location, which has required multiple expansions. It is now at a breaking point with its current location.

“We’re running out of square footage,” Mannino said.

Alfredo’s Pizza, located by Giant Food Stores, will be moving to the empty lot between the Giant and the Dollar Tree in the next few

years. Plans have yet to flourish, but Mannino wants to work carefully and get it right.

The location will have two side businesses — an Italian gelato company and a coffee shop to appeal to different niches.

Mannino hopes the new restaurants will bring business to the area and provide local jobs to the community.

Until construction begins, however, it is just him, his pizza and his family.

Four ways students can interact with animals to improve their lives Hannah McMullan Ship Life Editor As depression and anxiety have run rampant through universities across the country, pets can be a saving grace.

The picturesque college experience most people envision most likely involves a lot of laughter, drinking and exciting life adventures. Some may even look back on these moments and think, “That was the greatest part of my life.”

Unfortunately, that is not always the case. Studies show that college students are becoming more depressed each year.

Out of more than 4 million college students across the country, 41.6 percent reported being diagnosed with anxiety and 36.4 percent reported being diagnosed with depression, according to a American Psychological Association 2013 survey.

Interacting with animals and pets have been medically proven to have an effect on physical health.

Cumberland County Animal Shelter’s director of communications, Jennifer Vanderau, has seen this change in people firsthand.

She has also given helpful tips for anyone who is trying to better their lives with their faithful companions.

The first helpful tip is exercise and physical engagement.

Taking your dog on a walk will benefit both you and your pet’s health with physical exercise, and release “good feeling” endorphins into your bloodstream. If walking just is not your thing, Vanderau suggests you take your dog to the dog park.

“Sometimes just watching animals play together can reduce your stress, for sure. I know I have watched outback [of the shelter] a number of times and it’s very helpful to me,” she said. “So, any kind of exercise that gets you outside and gets your animal outside and walking and socializing would be great.”

She also says catowners can play with their cats inside with their favorite toy to relieve stress.

The second helpful tip is to just chill out on the couch.

Vanderau is a firm believer that the bond between humans and animals is where true therapy lies.

“Cats, particularly with the purring, has been shown to reduce blood pressure. Studies have actually shown that the blood pressure lowers.

They’ve seen that in hospitals with pet therapy visits, that as you watch, the blood pressure on the monitor drops as someone is talking to a dog or pet a dog,” she said.

The feelings of the soft fur against your hand are the perfect way to escape from the bustle of every day life and to let your pet feel the love.

A third suggestion is to go to pet therapy sessions.

While the Cumberland County Animal Shelter does not have official pet therapy services, there are facilities that do offer services such as the Keystone Pet Enhanced Therapy Services, located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Shippensburg University students should keep an eye out during finals week. Vanderau said the animal shelter likes to bring some furry faces on campus to soothe stressed-out students.

The last helpful tip is to do volunteer work.

Vanderau encourages students without access to pets to visit their local animal shelter and become a volunteer dog walker.

“Animal shelters are usually always looking for volunteers to do that and help socialize their animals,” Vanderau said.

If you are not interested in walking dogs, there are also opportunities to volunteer in the kitten bonding room.

What better way to relieve stress than giving sheltered kittens lots of love and affection?

SU to host songwriting workshop Justin Hawbaker Asst. Ship Life Editor

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Students can use pets to help with mental health.

City Art Space will present two songwriting workshops to Shippensburg University students on Feb. 27 from 10-10:50 a.m. and 11-11:50 a.m. in Ceddia Union Building (CUB) Room 119.

Recording artist, songwriter and educator Amanda Carter will host the workshops, which will promote topics like inclusivity and creativity.

Carter will lead participants through hip-hop and R&B instrumentation, and will discuss the power of messaging, authenticity and respect. The main goal of the event is to get participants to come together and learn how to write songs.

Growing up invested in music, Carter released a Top 10 album on college radio charts in Paris. Her music videos aired on national networks, and she served as a voting member of the GRAMMYs Recording Academy.

Students are invited to attend to learn how to write songs and how to communicate with fellow songwriters.

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(Left to right) Madeline Schuler, Sierra Groft and Katherine Hargrove wear togas to perform “Zero to Hero” from the 1997 animated Disney movie “Hercules.”

SU choir brings cabaret to Old Main Chapel Michael Donegan Asst. A&E Editor The Shippensburg University Concert Choir came together to perform SU’s first ever cabaret concert at Old Main Chapel on Saturday.

The songs performed were from popular movies and Broadway musicals such as “Hercules,” “Wicked,” “Funny Girl” and many more.

Each student musician was given creative freedom to choose what song they would like to perform.

Elizabeth Shoenfelt, director of SU’s choir, accompanied piano for some songs during the show. Shoenfelt welcomed the idea that the concert would give the singers the opportunity to branch out from songs they are used to performing.

“This is something that has never been done be-

fore, but I think it provides a wonderful opportunity to showcase many of our fine singers here at Shippensburg who otherwise don’t have any place to get to sing this type of repertoire,” Shoenfelt said. “A choir concert is one thing, but an evening where students get to sing their favorite pieces from musicals, as well as pop tunes, is something entirely different.”

One notable aspect of the cabaret is that it was headed by the students. Shoenfelt gave all the credit for this event to her choir officers.

“This has truly been a student-led event. All of the brainstorming and the organization and execution were carried out by choir officers, in particular our choir secretary Madeline Shuler,” Shoenfelt said. “I have been able to take a backseat and watch the officers pull to-

gether what is sure to be an unforgettable event, and that makes me extremely proud.”

The concert might not have happened without the work of Shuler.

Shuler, a communication/ journalism major, had similar experience with an event in high school, and had no problem taking the lead when it came to Saturday’s show.

“I brought up the idea to our officers over the summer, and I took it upon myself to just start organizing the whole thing.

“You get to see what our musical interests are because everyone got to pick what song they wanted to do,” she said. “You could really see some of the personalities coming out more than anything.”

The singers had fun with their performances. Some

dressed up, some used props and others danced. The first 10 songs of the night served as a friendly competition between the choirmates as they performed solos and duets.

The audience got to vote on their favorite performance during intermission by donating money into jars that corresponded with the songs performed. The proceeds from the donations are going toward the group’s May trip to Ireland.

Junior Toby Hodges won the contest with his rendition of “Lost in the Wilderness” from the 1991 musical, “Children of Eden.” Hodges has been looking forward to the event for quite a while.

“The songs that I’m singing are ones that I’ve been wanting to do for a really long time. This is really cool that I finally get to actually perform them,” Hodges said.

Last Saturday’s cabaret is a stark contrast to the concert choir’s performance of Handel’s “Messiah” last November. Hodges was on board with the change of pace.

“The songs that I’m singing are ones that I’ve been wanting to do for a really long time.”

Toby Hodges SU Student “The overall idea was to be more fun and get the audience involved because we’re choir — we normally do fairly serious stuff,” he said.

The tone of each song varied as the night went on.

Some were more upbeat and had the audience singing along, while others were

more powerful. Shuler, who also performed during the night, values the feelings that a song can evoke within the audience.

“I’ve always been told by directors that you never know how a song is going to resonate with someone.

It might bring up a happy memory, it might bring up a sad memory,” she said.

A few more songs were performed after the intermission before all the choir members walked onstage.

Shuler was surprised by her fellow choir members with flowers as a thank you for all the work she put in.

The singers ended the night with a group rendition of the Irish track “Danny Boy” to commemorate the concert choir’s upcoming tour of Ireland.

Japanese film highlights hysteria from Fukushima nuclear meltdown Michael Donegan Asst. AE Editor The Shippensburg University Department of International Studies continued its latest film series with “The Land of Hope” in the John L. Grove Forum last Tuesday.

“The Land of Hope” is a Japanese film that explores the theme of keeping a sense of unity after a natural disaster.

The film follows two families in the aftermath of the 2011 Japanese tsunami, earthquake and Fukushima nuclear meltdown that claimed more than 15,000 lives. The families are faced with either evacuating their homes or staying to risk the long-term effects of radiation exposure.

“The Land of Hope” is a movie instead of a documentary, unlike the previous films in “The Environment in a Global Context” series.

Stephens said that although the film is not a documentary, it can still be described as “more real” than the series’ other titles.

The picture is set in Japan and tells the story of two families — the Onos and the Suzukis. An earthquake and tsunami strike Japan, which results in a nearby nuclear

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Professor Robert Stephens hosted the movie with professor Jonathan Skaff. The two have hosted multiple viewings for the series in the past. plant’s reactor blowing up and causing a nuclear meltdown. Each family copes with the aftermath in their own way as the fear of radiation intensifies.

The risk of radiation exposure tests the resolve of the Onos as the father, Yasuhiko, and the mother, Chieko, stay at their house while their son and his wife leave to settle in a safer place.

“It’s like we had a stake driven through us. This time, the stake is radiation,” Yasuhiko said in the film.

The Suzukis evacuated their home and stay togeth-

er for a while until their son and girlfriend set out on their own. Despite radiation providing an unsafe situation for the couple, they look out for one another.

The film highlighted how unity and emotion can keep people together even through the toughest of times.

The next movie in “The Environment in a Global Context” series is “Plastic Planet,” a documentary that shows the environmental dangers of plastic. It will be shown on April 23 at 4 p.m. in the Grove Forum.

The Four Tops, composed of (left to right) Alexander Morris, Roquel Payton, Ronnie McNeir and Abdul “Duke” Fakir, warms up the Luhrs audience.

The Temptations, Four Tops relive performance memories in Luhrs Olivia Riccio Asst. A&E Editor After many changes in members, hit songs, tours and much more, The Temptations and Four Tops celebrated the history of Motown at the H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center on Friday night.

First to perform was Four Tops, a band from Detroit, Michigan, which formed in 1953. Abdul (Duke) Fakir, the only remaining member of the original band, performed despite still healing from a broken hip.

The audience greeted the band as they walked onto the stage in purple suits.

Four Tops now consists of Fakir, Ronnie McNeir, Alexander Morris and Roquel Payton. The band sang some of their hits including “Baby I Need Your Loving,” “It’s the Same Old Song,” “Standing in the Shadows of Love,” “What’s Going On” and “When She Was My Girl.”

The concert coincided with the anniversary of a couple in the audience, to which Four Tops dedicated their ballad “I Believe In You and Me.” It also took the time to pay tribute to the deceased members of the band, which Fakir said it does each performance.

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Four Tops ended its set with one of its most famous songs, “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch),” to which the audience sang and danced along.

The Temptations took the stage while an introduction announced the musical, “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations” which broke existing records and will move to Broadway starting Feb. 28. A movie produced by Warner Bros. will also be released in 2020.

The band was dressed in white and black suits, and like Four Tops, only has one of its original members left — Otis Williams. The Temptations formed in 1961 and have won three GRAMMYs, as well as inductions into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame and Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame. They also have a star on the

Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Terry Weeks, Otis Williams, Ron Tyson, Larry Braggs and Willie Green are all members of The Temptations. They sang their hits “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” “Get Ready,” “Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue),” “The Way You Do The Things You Do” and “My Imagination (Running Away With Me).”

The group also dedicated the song “I Wish It Would Rain,” to the former members of the group. The Temptations harmonized like the original members did to practice in the band’s early days. They then performed a cover of “Stay With Me” by Sam Smith.

The band thanked service members in the audience and re-introduced themselves to the crowd before ending with their “anthem,” “My Girl.”

The Temptations recently released an album in 2018 called “The Temptations: All the Time,” which was available to purchase after the show.

Luhrs brings unplugged country music to Shippensburg crowd Jonathan Bergmueller A&E Editor

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Senior art and design major Amanda Cruickshanks, who paints a picture above, is inspired by surrealist, abstract and expressionist art.

SU student frames memories with art Molly Foster Managing Editor For Amanda Cruickshanks, a senior art and design major at Shippensburg University, creating art is something that encompasses many of her oldest and fondest memories.

“Whenever I was really young, my grandma — well, I call her my ‘Mimi’ — she painted on the fungi that grew on trees,” Cruickshanks said. “She would find them and she would dry them out and then she’d paint on them really intricately.”

While Cruickshanks has clung to these moments from her childhood, art has become more than a fond memory, but one that grew with her.

Cruickshanks remembers being assigned a drawing project in her high school art class, and when she was working on it, something switched in her mind. She carried the sheet of drawing paper with her on a large clipboard, and during lunch and any other spare time she had between classes, she in-

tently sketched and erased.

“I just poured all my time and energy into it,” Cruickshanks said.

It was in that moment when she realized art was more than just a hobby, rather, something she wanted to study and make into a living.

While drawing is where her artistic roots lie, Cruickshanks enjoys all mediums of art that let her get her hands dirty, including painting, sculpture and mixed media.

She has been experimenting more lately with mixed media, which will be her focus in the senior exhibition in April.

“I did a collage a couple years ago for a class, and then I didn’t do it again until this past winter break, and I fell in love with it again,” Cruickshanks said. “So I really wanted to incorporate that with painting. I felt like I wasn’t doing enough with just painting or just the collage, so I just mashed them together.”

Cruickshanks’ experimentation with collage and paint can be previewed in her senior solo exhibit, which is on display in the SU Brindle

Gallery through Thursday.

Cruickshanks is a fan of Claude Monet, and classifies most of the work she creates as surrealist, abstract and expressionistic.

“Lately, my work explores the daily motivation to live life to the fullest, and not to be afraid to take chances and go new places and be by yourself,” Cruickshanks said.

Living the message that her artwork explores, Cruickshanks refers to herself as a traveler and has plans to move to Denver, Colorado, shortly after graduating in May. While she, like most graduating seniors, admits feeling uneasy as the final months wind down, she is excited rather than afraid of what the future holds, because she knows art will help her find her way. It always has.

“I hope that my art takes me into new places where I can meet new people and new artists and continue to be influenced by them, and just be in a really awesome environment. That’s pretty much my goal. And to be happy,” Cruickshanks said.

Upcoming Events One Act Festival: Act V Theatre Co. will host its first-ever One Act Festival this Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in Memorial Auditorium. The plays are student-written, student-performed and student-directed.

Pocket Vinyl World Record Tour: The Thought Lot, on 37 E. Garfield St., will host the Pocket Vinyl World Record Tour on Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. One of the performers will play the piano and sing, while another will paint an original picture that will be auctioned at the end. The two performers are traveling across 50 states in 45 days. Admission is free, although audiences are encouraged by The Thought Lot to tip the performers.

The H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center was filled with all sorts of whistles, cheers and yee-haws as Mark Chesnutt, Neal McCoy and Joe Diffie brought their “Country Unplugged” concert to an eager audience Sunday night.

All three were prominent country artists in the ’90s who joined together to play a concert for the crowd. The trio was backed up by several guitar players, a keyboardist and two percussionists.

One of the percussionists switched to bass for certain numbers.

Like many recent musical performances in Luhrs, this show was not only a display of talent in song, it was also a comedy act. The concert was light-hearted and the singers constantly jived with each other. Their quips were not confined to between the songs — oftentimes, they broke form to get laughs from the audience.

When some late-comers began to take their seats, McCoy called on the house to light up the audience so everyone could see him.

Small audience interactions like this littered the concert, which helped keep the show loose and playful.

At one point, Diffie said he wrote his song “Third Rock

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Neal McCoy dances and rocks on his stool, bringing energy to the stage. McCoy is well-known for hits such as “Wink” and “Billy’s Got His Beer Goggles On,” which he sang at the concert Sunday night.

From The Sun” before the television show came out.

After some jokes about artists not receiving royalties, Chesnutt said, “We’re not artists, we’re singers. I can’t paint a picture.”

McCoy identified himself as a patriot and dedicated a portion of the concert to expressing it. He said he says the pledge of allegiance every day using Facebook Live. As of Feb. 24, he has done it for 1,144 days, according to his Facebook fan page.

McCoy also sang a song called “Take a Knee My Ass.” The song is a commentary on Colin Kaepernick’s National Football League protest. McCoy said it had nothing to do with racism —

he said it is not the laws or people in office that make a country great, but the people.

After the song, many members of the audience rose to their feet, clapped and cheered. Diffie then paid tribute to the armed forces by asking the house to raise the lights and having the servicemen in the audience stand.

McCoy then talked about his childhood as a Christian before the group sang “How Great Thou Art,” originally

by Carl Boberg.

After a few more songs, the group finished the concert with Diffie’s “John Deere Green.” As the show ended, McCoy threw the rest of his cup of water into the audience.

Jay Vonada quartet brings jazz performance to Old Main Chapel Meghan Schiereck Multimedia Editor Jay T. Vonada’s quartet transformed Old Main Chapel into a jazz club with the sounds of trombone, piano, drums and bass last Thursday evening.

The quartet is led by Vonada, a trombonist from Central Pennsylvania, who has performed at several festivals and venues across Pennsylvania. Joining Vonada were pianist Kirk Reese, a GRAMMY-nominated musician; bassist Joshua Davis, director of jazz studies at Susquehanna University; and drummer Kevin Lowe, who has commissioned pieces for Cornell University and Bucknell University.

Every song off the quartet’s new album “United” was played, including the original songs “Inspired,” “Summer Daze,” “Serenity” and a song titled “Sisaroo,” dedicated to Vonada’s sister. The group also played songs not written

by Vonada, such as “Summertime” by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and “Darn That Dream,” by Jimmy Van Heusen and Eddie DeLange.

The numbers featured a variety of techniques, and rotated solos between the four instruments. Vonada used a plunger trombone mute during a few songs to alter the sound of his trombone. Reese proved to be

a ferocious pianist with lively solos that filled the chapel.

All four instruments would often be playing at the same time, winding up to a solo that would feature an individual instrument.

The band also offered special previews for unreleased songs such as “Beautiful Mother.”

“The Winter Blues,” an original composition by Vonada, was a clear crowd favorite. The song featured an arpeggiator pedal, which allowed for bass notes to be repeated over and over without them being played.

Ken Jenkura, of Newville, who has been the Shippensburg University piano tuner for the last 22 years, was in attendance.

“It’s standard jazz solos back and forth. It’s good.

I’ve heard the bass player before,” Jenkura said. “‘The Winter Blues’ is my favorite song so far,” sophomore Marc Hall said during the performance.

Freshman Sadie Walshaw agreed that “The Winter Blues” was the best song so far.

“I also liked ‘Summertime’” since I’m familiar with the song,” Walshaw said. “I think they’re good performers. It’s a good way to spend my Thursday night. It’s very Meghan Schiereck/The Slate

Jay Vonada (above) plays the trombone. According to the concert’s program, Vonada is “the hardest-working trombonist in central Pennsylvania.”

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Popovich romps around Luhrs with animals in comedy act Olivia Riccio Asst. A&E Editor While most people say you cannot train cats, rats or geese, Mr. Popovich proves them wrong and brought his pet-filled talent and circus act to H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center on Feb. 17.

Gregory Popovich, also known as Mr. Popovich, performed the whimsical story of his life in the circus industry. The show followed Popovich and his journey as a regular working man to a clown in the circus who trains animals to do a variety of tricks.

The show started off with an introductory video showing a day in the life of Popovich and his crew of animal performers.

“I try to rescue every animal in the show from shelters across the country,” Popovich said. He wants to give the animals a second chance at life.

Popovich’s circus of animals is not just limited to cats and dogs. Parrots, rats and even a Shetland pony appeared on stage.

Popovich and the animals were also accompanied by acrobats and a ringmaster, who added another element of comedy to the show.

The performance began with cats on tight ropes and continued with animals boarding a mini train, Mr. Green Feather the parrot doing flips and shot a basketball into a hoop, geese following commands and even a Shetland pony balancing a cat and dog on its back.

Popovich was born in 1965 to two dog

trainers in the Russian circus. Popovich learned juggling at the age of 6, and later joined the Moscow Circus Group at the age of 17. He became the star of the show with his solo act, and performed at circus competitions internationally.

Popovich joined the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus to perform his juggling act as its first Russian performer.

Popovich later combined his act with animals and transformed it into a comedy show.

There was not a moment when the audience was not clapping or cheering on the animals or performers.

Even though the animals did not get some of the tricks right the first time, Popovich patiently guided them through it.

Popovich tried to show that animals are like people through his show, and encouraged others to adopt shelter animals.

Popovich said he does not force the animals to do anything they do not want to do.

Instead, he trains them based on what they like to do. One of his cats likes to jump, so he trained it to do tricks based around jumping. Another one of his cats does not like to do anything, so he lets it be.

At the end of the show, a large banner flowed down from the ceiling that displayed Popovich and his animal performers’ faces.

It read, “Animals are people too.”

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Administration’s hypocrisy will prevent success of homosexuality decriminalization On Feb. 19 the White House announced it’s plan to advocate for the international decriminalization of homosexuality.

Although it is still early, details of its plan for this pursuit are few and far between, which is not abnormal for the Trump administration.

The announcement was immediately followed by activity at the United States Embassy in Berlin. LGBT advocates from around Europe were assembled to discuss strategy and goals for the upcoming push.

The move by the White House seems shocking and even hypocritical, at first glance. The administration has a history of scaling back the individual rights and protection LGBT peoples.

Not only has the president

made efforts to diminish the scope of protection for LGBT individuals in employment law, but has banned the military from “accept[ing] or allow[ing]” transgender Americans to serve amongst their ranks.”

Vice President Mike Pence has also drawn attention and criticism of the administration’s stance on LGBT rights.

Since the announcement that Pence would be Trump’s running mate, the former Indiana governor has been under fire for his support of “conversion therapy,” a discredited medical practice that seeks to alter an individual’s sexual orientation.

Most recently Pence’s wife Karen has sparked controversy with her decision to accept a teaching position at a school that has a strict “bib-

lical morality” policy. The application defines disqualifying activities as: “Moral misconduct violates the bona fide occupational qualifications for employees includes, but is not limited to, such behaviors as the follow: heterosexual activity outside of marriage (e.g., premarital sex, cohabitation, extramarital sex), homosexual or lesbian sexual activity, polygamy, transgender identity, any other violation of the unique roles of male and female, sexual harassment, use or viewing of pornographic material or websites.”

The recent decision to push for the international decriminalization of homosexuality is puzzling when considered in conjunction with the track record of the

president and his right-hand man.

Although their policies are far from criminalizing homosexuality, they do diminish the positive freedom of LGBT Americans.

Sociologically, the term positive freedom refers to an individual’s ability to choose their life and influence their own outcomes.

Conversely, negative freedom simply embodies the freedom of an individual to act without government intervention.

For example, those individuals who may choose to sleep underneath a bridge without being arrested or told to leave would possess a high level of negative freedom.

Those individuals who have the ability to make decisions and actions that allow

them to pursue a better life for themselves, without being constrained by race, socioeconomic status, or sexual orientation, would possess a large amount of positive freedom.

To be truly free and to engage in the pursuit of happiness promised to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, an individual must possess positive and negative freedom.

This sociological principle is crucial in understanding the level of hypocrisy inherent in the Trump Administration’s decision to push for international decriminalization of homosexuality.

International decriminalization of homosexuality would allow LGBT people worldwide to pursue homosexual relationships without

fear of government prosecution, exponentially increasing their negative freedom.

How can the White House in good conscience advocate for this, while simultaneously supporting policies that actively diminish the positive freedom, the ability to build better lives and be equal, for LGBT Americans?

Speaking from this place of hypocrisy discredits the Trump Administration’s aura of legitimacy in the international human rights community, brings the true motivations of these actions into question and will more than likely prevent it’s own success in the pursuit of international decriminalization of homosexuality.

Cost of professional school bars entrance of minorities, lower class

Kendall Johnson Guest Wrtier Last September, New York University Medical School announced free tuition for its incoming class of future doctors. The initiative was created to encourage students to pursue “primary care specialties or work in underserved areas.”

Since then Long Island Medical School and Kaiser Permanente Medical School are set to offer free tuition in the upcoming years.

With the hope to fill underserved specialties, it seems as though medical school is on

its way to becoming more accessible to people of diverse backgrounds.

However, the gap between potential candidates and those with the means to attend is still staggering.

Medical school will cost students approximately $58,668 per year. Law school runs at around $43,020, and the average cost of attaining a master’s degree in another field will run you around $30,000 or more, depending on the school and program.

These numbers are four times higher than the cost of attaining an undergraduate degree. Rightfully so, considering the expertise, technology and field experience required to be considered a professional.

However, alienating an entire demographic of students with cost has implications far beyond students having to pick another career path.

A paper published by the Assosciation of American Medical Colleges indicates the average income for matriculation medical students at around $100,000. This, coupled with the fact that the average American household income is around $60,000 we are left to consider access to medical school on a discriminatory level.

Are certain students being rejected from the medical field before they even submit their application to continue their education? The numbers certainly say so.

In 2016, 68 percent of the medical field was comprised of white physicians. This over represented the U.S. population by nearly 7 percent or 22.6 million Americans.

Currently, as it stands, we have a medical workforce that does not represent us as a population.

It is not just the medical field. An article by the Wash-

ington Post argues that “law is the least diverse profession in the nation.” We have a significant diversity issue within the professional fields of our country and our world.

A study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that black men received more effective, preventative services by black doctors compared to a nonblack physician.

Numbers by the Harvard Business Review indicate that more black doctors in the workforce could even reduce cardiovascular mortality, closing the gap between them and their white counterparts.

Representation matters in more than just the entertainment industry — it has the chance to save lives.

It all starts with access and the ability for women, people of color and low income students to afford the chance to follow their dreams.

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Trump should expect to face off against both Democrats, Republicans in 2020

Nick Sones Asst. Opinion Editor Donald Trump will end up facing two opponents.

First, the president will face off in a Republican primary. Former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld has already declared his intention to take on the president from the right.

Weld ran alongside former Gov. Gary Johnson in the previous presidential election cycle.

The remaining question is not about Weld, or even his electability — it is who else from within the party will be jumping into the race to challenge Trump.

Should he successfully defeat Trump in the primary, future generations may credit Weld with saving the Republican Party.

I see no issues with Trump squaring off against a Reagan Republican.

I wonder if Weld will be able to appeal to mainstream Republicans considering his stances; for example, climate

change, which is something many in the Republican Party do not think holds weight.

Weld, from a Democratic-leaning standpoint, is a suitable candidate for the nation and would shift the Republican Party decades into the future, possibly making it look like a version of the Democratic Party we once saw before the Trump election.

Some other big names within the Republican Party before the rise of Trump come to mind when considering who should mount a long-shot bid against the sitting president, who happens to be the leader of the party.

One of those names is former Trump opponent and governor of Ohio, John Kasich. Kasich, the popular governor known for implementing President Barrack Obama’s landmark Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare), is wellliked enough that should he be able to topple the sitting president, he could deliver the West Wing for the Republicans — especially depending on whom the Democratic Party nominates.

One of the other major players and a dark horse candidate against Trump materialized this week, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan.

Hogan provides a breath of fresh air and can make the

argument that he can deliver the White House in such a way that even a Kasich nominee could not.

Hogan is only one of two Republicans to be re-elected governor of the State of Maryland. Hogan offers a clear contrast to Trump in the same fashion that Kasich does. They have gone about this in different ways. Since failing to win the Republican nomination Kasich has decided to take on Trump in a public fashion.

Governor Hogan, whose strategy can only be described as boring, prefers to keep his head down and govern Maryland in a fashion that could be considered almost Democratic.

He took on the Trump administration when it attempted to separate families from their parents.

A Kasich, Hogan or Weld nomination has wide appeal.

Trump only appeals to the divided America that is his base.

The question before the Republican Party is this: Do you want a return of the Reagan candidate, or do you prefer the divisions created by President Trump?

As an American, I hope for any of the three, over someone more concerned with a divided America.

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Ohio Gov. John Kasich, as well as other Republicans, have expressed interest in challenging Republican incumbent President Donald Trump in 2020.

Letter to the Editor

Changing perception of Americans have incorrect perception of socialism gun violence will help facilitate change To The Editor:

Tony Carravaggio Guest Writer According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 100 people are injured or killed a day due to gun violence.

Guns, in a way, are at the center of this increasing violence.

To me, no matter what, whenever I read an article about the tragedies of gun violence it just seems like it just makes things worse.

I am one of the people who believe that primarily these things occur because of the person behind the gun.

Maybe perpetrators of gun violence had tragedies of their own when they were younger, or maybe they needed help for mental disorders.

When legislators are considering ways to decrease gun violence, it may be more important to address the root of the problem — individuals driven to violence.

The fact is that someone with the intent to kill will find a way to acquire a firearm.

It is crucial to address the problem before it progresses this far and treat the intent to kill before it manifests itself.

What is also necessary is a shift in perspective.

Rather than attempting to control the means of gun violence, we treat the impetus that drives someone to commit these heinous acts. We need to focus more on mental health.

What I am trying to say is that we should try to create a better environment across America in schools as well as other places where it is OK to talk about how you feel and why you feel that way.

To me it is one of the most important things to talk about.

Mental health care in schools has increased over time. According to the CDC,

depression and anxiety have increased by 13.4 percent for children between the ages 6-17.

There is a shift of focus now on mental health because it has become more of a problem in recent years.

Tragedies have happened since then, which have been connected to this issue. What we need to do now is see what we can do to prevent these statistics from increasing.

One of the biggest distractions is the Second Amendment. We have debated this argument for a long time and we have made no progress.

Instead of debating our right to bear arms, we should address a different argument where we can actually make an impact.

The times have changed.

The stigma of mental health being too taboo for discussion is over What we really need to do now is recognize and discuss mental disorders early in children’s lives so we can create positive change and decrease gun violence.

It is about time that the American people were educated and informed about what true “Socialism” is and is not.

The fact is that in true Socialism, “the means of production” are owned and controlled by all of the people. In other words, in true Socialism all of the workplaces and businesses are owned, controlled, and run by all of the people for the good and well-being of all of the people.

They are not privately-owned by individuals and groups. In true Socialism, we would not be totally and exactly equal in terms of how much we get paid for our work, but we would be much, much more equal

than we are now.

There would not be any billionaires or people who have hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of millions of dollars in total wealth, most of which they inherited and did not earn by their own labors. We would share what we have.

Those individuals such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who call themselves “Democratic Socialists” are actually ultra-liberal/progressive Democrats who believe that our federal government should spend more on social programs that help the poor, the nearpoor (which is 100%-125% of the official poverty line), the lower-middle-class, the middle-class, and even the upper-middle-class be-

cause they also have financial struggles and problems especially when it comes to medical and health care expenses in their families.

They don’t advocate replacing our capitalist economic system with a truly socialist economic system.

They support our capitalist system, but they want to have a capitalist economic system that has more federal government spending to help all of the people just as our traditional allies do more of than we do here in the USA. Sincerely, Stewart B. Epstein Former professor of Sociology, Social Work at West Virginia University

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

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Nine in a row for men Men’s track-and-field claims ninth consecutive conference title

Photos courtesy of Matt Durisko

The SU track-and-field squads did well at the conference championships, as the men claimed the title, and the women fell just short with a third-place finish.

Abigail Lee Staff Writer In the heat and stress of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) championships, the Shippensburg University men’s track-and-field team repeated as conference champions for the ninth year in a row, earning 118 points, beating second-place East Stroudsburg University by 38 points at Edinboro University.

Both the men and women athletes were thrown off-guard Friday night when SU coach David Osanitsch announced that the two-day meet would be squeezed into one long day. This meant there would no longer be trials for the 400 and 200-meter races, and some athletes who competed in multiple events would have to step out of relays to be fresh for others.

The men started off the chaotic meet with a sixth-place finish in the distance medley relay, scoring three points. The team consisted of seniors Connor Holm, Dominic Stroh, Sean Weidner and freshman Josh Booth. The team’s final time was 10:26.73 seconds.

In the beginning, it was anyone’s game but soon things began to come together and the men dominated their conference competition.

Redshirt-junior Charles Bowman was named the Most Valuable Athlete of the meet, and freshman Shamar Jenkins the Outstanding Field Athlete of the championships.

The men’s 60-meter hurdles was strong like always, with Bowman taking first with a time of 8.12 seconds, scoring 10 points for the Raiders and running an NCAA-provisional time. Right behind was senior Ori Rinaman placing second with a time of 8.14 seconds, taking eight points and also running an NCAA-provisional time.

The 4x400 was an even bigger success, with the powerhouse team of Bowman, redshirt-freshman Aaron Arp Jr., sophomore Austin Padmore and senior Johnathan Stiles claiming a new meet record in the event. The Raiders defeated their closest opponent — Seton Hill University — by more than three seconds.

Jenkins said he was not going home without a first-place plaque. Not only did he earn that plaque, he claimed another on his way to being named the outstanding athlete in the field for the meet. His 6.92-meter jump in the long jump was good enough for one of his titles. He then had an impressive jump of 14.99

in the triple for his second top finish of the competition.

Junior Rob Moser placed fourth in the 5K race with a time of 15:12.23 seconds, scoring five points for the team. Not too far behind was graduate student Albert Schrimp, grabbing seventh and two points for the Raiders, running a solid 15:20.95. Both athletes also placed in the 3K, with Moser claiming fifth and Schrimp, seventh.

Stiles took second in the 400-meter race in 48.25 seconds, scoring eight points for the Raiders with another national-provisional time.

For the 60-meter dash, senior Dreux Stamford placed second and was .001 seconds short of his personal best, with a final time of 6.875 seconds. Stamford earned six points for the Raiders and also ran a national-provisional time. Right behind Stamford was freshman Roland Miles, taking third and scoring six points with a time of 6.878.

Stroh took first in the mile for yet another year, scoring 10 points with a crucial lean at the finish with a time of 4:24.54 seconds.

Stroh finished third in the event his freshman

and sophomore seasons, but took first his final two seasons as a Raider. He earned AllPSAC honors every year of his career.

The men took sixth and seventh in the 200-meter dash as well, with Arp Jr. taking sixth with a 22.23-second time and senior Chris Craig scoring two points with a 22.25 finish.

In the men’s weight throw, junior Cam Strohe took sixth with an impressive distance of 15.98 meters for three points.

The men were successful in the shot put circle with sophomore Jacob Gieringer taking fourth and five points for SU with a throw of 15.97 meters. Gieringer’s performance was a new PR as he earned his second consecutive Top-5 finish. Freshman Yobani Moreno threw 14.82 meters, taking two points for a sixthplace finish, followed by Strohe in eighth with a 14.74-meter throw.

Strohe thought the throws squad had a strong showing at the championships. “Overall, the throws squad did very well. There were three or four PRs and we all competed very hard. We are expecting big things this outdoor season,” Strohe said.

Senior David Brantley earned 3,219 points to take sixth place in the pentathlon. Brantley completes his collegiate career with a scoring performance in all four championship appearances. He matched his PR in the hurdles (8.70 seconds) on his way to another strong showing, despite his two best events — the pole vault and the 60-meter dash — getting cut from the competition.

Osanitsch praised his team’s commitment after the weekend.

“I was happy with the team effort under adverse circumstances with the conference meet being moved to a one-day meet. They persevered and battled to our consecutive ninth PSAC championship,” Osanitsch said.

The women’s team took third overall with 85.5 points behind Kutztown University (100.5 points) and Slippery Rock University (89.33 points). The women had some outstanding performances, with the result coming down to the last two events, but SU could not pull ahead.

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Jenkins (left) claims two first-place finishes in a highly-competitive championship day filled with records for SU.

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Women’s basketball gets win on the road

Photos courtesy of Bill Smith/SU Sports Info.

Lauren Mills (right) squares up against a defender in Saturday’s contest at Mansfield on her way to scoring 18 points, a new career-high for the SU freshman.

Isaiah Snead Asst. Sports Editor The Shippensburg University women’s basketball team won a key Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) matchup Saturday afternoon at Mansfield University by a 75–65 score. SU was led in the victory by sophomore Kryshell Gordy who posted a career-high 21-point and 17 rebound double-double.

The Raiders (12-14, 8-10 PSAC) avoided a three-game losing streak by crushing MU inside with a 51-27 rebounding advantage and 16 second-chance points. They also scored 32 points off Mansfield turnovers.

Shippensburg also got contributions from freshman Lauren Mills, who posted a career-high 18 points and four rebounds on 70 percent shooting. Leading scorer sophomore Ariel Jones tallied 16 points, eight rebounds and five assists in her return from injury.

Off the bench, freshman Margarita Kilpatrick, redshirt-sophomore Lindsay Embly and freshman Dah’Naija Barnes combined for 11 points and six rebounds.

Freshman Lauren Pettis fought through foul trouble to post seven points and six rebounds along with a steal. SU was playing without standout freshman Aunbrielle Green due to injury.

The Mounties (2-22, 1-18 PSAC) were led in scoring by Paige Whitfield, who put up 20 points on 50 percent shooting. Erin Gibbons also put points on the board for MU, tallying 18. Its team collectively made 11 three-pointers.

Gordy scored 13 of her 21 points in the first half of the contest, and also acquired four steals, three blocks and two assists while going a career-high 7-8 from the free-throw line.

Jones broke the PSAC single season record for free-throw attempts in the game as she saw her total attempts climb to 277. She passed the previous record of 272 set by SU’s Melissa Swartz in the 1995-96 season. Jones

is now just four converted free throws shy of the single-season record of 223 free throws set by Miki Glenn in 2014-2015.

With only two games remaining in the regular season, the PSAC East playoff race is going to go down to the wire as Shippensburg is now tied for sixth with East Stroudsburg University. However, the Warriors hold a tiebreaker over the Raiders due to ESU having

a victory against first-place Bloomsburg University. Lock Haven and Millersville universities are only one-half game ahead of ESU and SU. The Raiders will return to the court Wednesday from Heiges Field House against the West Chester University Golden Rams — tip-off is at 6 p.m.

Kryshell Gordy barrels past a defender on her way to scoring two of her 21 points against the Mounties Saturday.

Berberick moves on to nationals for wrestling Courtesy of SU Sports Info.

Junior heavyweight Derek Berberick qualified for nationals on Saturday to highlight three place-winners for the Shippensburg University wrestling team at the 2019 NCAA Division II Super Region 1 Championships hosted by Mercyhurst University inside the Mercyhurst Athletic Center (MAC).

Berberick placed second at heavyweight to extend Shippensburg’s streak to 17 consecutive seasons with at least one NCAA Division II National Championships

qualifier — including the last 10 under head coach Seth Bloomquist.

In his path to nationals, Berberick opened Saturday with a pin of East Stroudsburg’s Cameron Kates in 1:16 that put him into the semifinals. There, Berberick notched his second victory of the season over No. 6-ranked Jacob Robb of Mercyhurst, this time by an 11-4 decision, which secured him a spot in the 285-pound title match.

Berberick scored a first-period takedown on Robb and held a 3–2 lead with less than a minute remaining in their match. With 43 seconds left, Berberick scored an-

other takedown to take a 5–2 lead.

Robb escaped and then got within one after a second stall call was issued to Berberick. In the final 10 seconds, Berberick recorded a takedown and a four-point near fall to clinch the win.

In the heavyweight match against No. 4-ranked Andrew Dunn — Kutztown’s heavyweight who pinned Berberick less than 10 days ago — a takedown in the final 30 seconds was the difference in a 3-2 win for Dunn. The two men traded escapes through the first two periods and Berberick held tough, escaping late after the takedown for

Photo courtesy of Miranda Fisher

Berberick (left) takes down a Top-6 ranked opponent on his way to a second-place finish.

the one-point margin.

Berberick improved to 14–7 on the season. Saturday marked his third consecutive Super Region 1 Championships appearance, and he is now 5–5 all-time at regionals.

All five of Shippensburg’s representatives at the lowest weight classes (125 pounds through 157 pounds) were making their Super Region 1 Championships debuts – and two of them came away with place-winning performances.

At 125 pounds, freshman Corbin Hopkins entered Saturday having wrestled just four collegiate bouts with a 1–3 record. By the end of the day, Hopkins had doubled his win total and finished with fifth place at the weight class for the region.

After an 11-1 major decision loss to the regional champion — No. 9-ranked Brendan Howard of UPJ — Hopkins rebounded with a 5–2 decision over LIU Post’s Brandon Mercado in which he used a second-period takedown and earned a riding time point after riding Mercado the entire final period.

Wrestling for a spot in the thirdplace match, Hopkins came up just short in an 8–7 setback to Mercyhurst’s Jake Ruggieri. Hopkins scored two first-period takedowns and had a riding time point at the end, but a second-period reversal and two back points proved to be the difference for Ruggieri.

In his fifth-place match, a 7–6 decision over Seton Hill’s Derrick Chandler-Christe, Hopkins overcame two reversals and a takedown to claim the victory — scoring his

points on a pair of first-period takedowns and three escapes over the course of the match.

At 133 pounds, freshman Jake Downing finished in sixth place.

Downing yielded a 16–7 major decision to Seton Hill’s Alan Diltz but came back and scored a 6–0 decision over East Stroudsburg’s Nick Conetta in which he scored a pair of two-point near falls in the third period while beginning the frame on top.

Downing was unable to get into the third-place match as he dropped a 2–0 decision to Gannon’s Austin Hertel, who ended up finishing third for the last national championship qualification from the weight class. Hertel rode Downing for the entirety of the second period to earn a riding time point and escaped during the third period en route to his 2–0 decision.

Other Raiders to win bouts on the day included freshman Colton Babcock, who notched a 10–4 win in sudden victory over Kutztown’s Jake Jones at 149 pounds, and senior Abner Thompson who scored a 5–3 decision at 165 pounds against American International’s Rafiq Conway.

Shippensburg finished the day in ninth place with 29 points. Saturday marked the first year with NCAA Division II’s new super regional structure with six regions, and the Top 3 place-winners at each weight class advancing to the national championships.

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Swimming takes fifth at PSACs Matthew Gregan Asst. Sports Editor

Photos courtesy of Kadie Weaver

Gabriella Johnson celebrates with Coach Tim Verge after a successful meet.

Andrew Hale has a solid all-around week at the PSAC Championship in York.

The Shippensburg University men’s and women’s swimming teams wrapped up their seasons with fifth-place finishes in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championships.

The men’s swimming team had its best finish in the past eight years, scoring 381.5 points.

The strong effort was led by junior Jeff Beyer, who finished with 60 individual points. Beyer had an AllPSAC performance in the 1,650-yard freestyle, finishing third with a time of 16:10.22. He also finished second in the 1,000-yard freestyle, third in the 500yard freestyle and eighth in the 200-yard freestyle.

Many of SU’s freshmen on the men’s swimming team put together good performances in the PSAC Championships. Of the 243.5 points scored in individual races this week, 126 points (52 percent) were provided by firstyear collegiate swimmers.

Freshmen Matt Bochanski and Andrew Hale finished second and third, respectively, in the 200-yard breaststroke. Bochanski came within 0.37 seconds from setting a new school record in the event.

Hale finished the week as the team’s second-leading individual point getter, placing seventh in the 200-yard indi-

vidual medley and 10th in the 200-yard freestyle.

Bochanski had a great freshman season for the Raiders. He holds the school record for the 200-yard breaststroke, and he ranks fifth all-time at SU in the 100-yard breaststroke, 10th in the 200-yard individual medley and fourth in the 400-yard individual medley.

Freshmen Vin Salvatore and Dawson Mohl finished 12th and 13th respectively in the 1,650-yard freestyle. It was the first collegiate “mile” for Salvatore.

The women’s swimming team’s fifth-place effort was headlined by a good set of performances from junior Gabriella Johnson. The team totaled 633.5 points in the PSAC Championships, totaling 32 individual scoring performances.

Johnson claimed the gold in the 200-yard breaststroke in what was one of the most exciting finishes of the week.

She out-touched Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Claire Mikesell by one-tenth of a second to win that event.

Johnson finished the event in 2:17.71 — a personal-best time for the 200-yard breaststroke.

“I was a little nervous, but I was also very determined and confident. I knew that I was ready physically and mentally,” Johnson said after the meet.

Johnson contributed 87 points for the Raiders. In ad-

dition to the 200-yard breaststroke, she finished seventh in the 200-yard freestyle and swam on four of SU’s relays.

“My team’s support is one of the most important aspects of my success. I am extremely grateful and blessed to not just have one team but to have two teams that are right there with me through everything,” Johnson said.

“I’m especially grateful for the swimmers support and for welcoming me halfway through the season. Their genuine happiness for me is something special and I hope that they know it is reciprocated in all of their success.”

The 200-yard backstroke proved to be one of the more successful events for the Raiders in the PSAC Championships, as five different members of the team reached the finals.

Senior Carly Alvarado finished sixth with a time of 2:05.43, just 0.26 seconds off her lifetime best. Alvarado placed in this event in all four of her years at Shippensburg.

Sophomore Mari Reott tallied 59.5 points throughout the week, finishing sixth in the 100-yard backstroke, 16th in the 100-yard butterfly and 17th in the 200-yard individual medley while also contributing to the 400-yard medley relay.

Overall, the men’s and women’s swimming teams completed their season with successful PSAC Championships.

Men’s basketball survives in OT

Photos courtesy of Bill Smith/SU Sports Info.

Jake Biss scores 22 points in the Raiders’ win over Mansfield on Saturday. He made a game-tying layup in the final seconds that sent the game into overtime.

Chris Wurtz Asst. Sports Editor The Shippensburg University men’s basketball team held off a resilient Mansfield team Saturday to escape the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference matchup with a thrilling 74-72 overtime victory.

Shippensburg (20-6, 14-4 PSAC) started slow out of the gate, shooting just 27 percent from the field in the first half.

SU trailed 30-21 at halftime, as Mansfield (4-23, 1-18) used a sharp shooting performance from behind the arc to build its halftime lead.

SU hit huge shots in the final seconds of both regulation and overtime.

Sophomore Jake Biss tied the game at 62 with 0.6 seconds left in regulation on a driving, contested lay-up.

It took until overtime for

the Raiders to grab their first lead of the game, and they later extended the margin to three after a 3-point play from senior Antonio Kellem.

The lead didn’t last long, as Mansfield narrowed it to one with a quick basket and then regained the lead with two free throws after an SU turnover.

Trailing by one point with 15 seconds to play, the Raiders drew up a play which saw Biss dish to Kellem, who knocked down the game-winning 3-pointer with three seconds remaining.

Biss, Kellem and junior John Castello carried the load for the Raiders all afternoon. Biss scored a gamehigh 22 points on 8-of-15 shooting. He recorded three assists and also made his presence felt on the defensive end, notching one steal and one block.

Kellem poured in 21

points, while also grabbing four rebounds and dishing out three assists. He recorded two steals on the defensive end.

Castello registered his 10th double-double of the season, scoring 14 points and grabbing 14 boards while also recording two steals.

Redshirt-freshman Dom Sleva gave SU valuable minutes off the bench, scoring seven points and pulling down 10 rebounds of his own.

The Raiders looked like a brand-new team in the second half. In the first half they trailed by as many as nine, SU shot 27 percent from the field and 21 percent from 3-point range.

The Raiders improved those figures to 44 and 40 percent, respectively, in the second half.

Shippensburg’s victory secured the team’s fourth con-

Antonio Kellem (left) finishes Saturday’s 74-72 win over Mansfield with 21 points, including a game-winning three in overtime. secutive 20-win season. SU joins Indiana University of Pennsylvania as the only two PSAC men’s basketball teams to hit the 20-win mark in each of the past four seasons (2016-19). Before this fouryear run, Shippensburg had

reached 20 wins in a season just twice in program history.

The win is Shippensburg’s third in as many tries, as they remain in third place in the PSAC East behind West Chester and East Stroudsburg.

SU will host West Chester Wednesday at 8 p.m. in a crucial late-season conference battle. The Raiders will honor Kellem and Manny Span as they celebrate Senior Night.

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Lacrosse wins season opener

Photo courtesy of Bill Smith/SU Sports Info.

Lacrosse kicks off its season with a strong 15–9 win.

Courtesy of SU Sports Info.

The Shippensburg University lacrosse team got goals from 10 different players in its 2019 season opener on Saturday, including a hat trick from junior Kami Holt, as the Raiders defeated Wilmington (Del.), 15-9, on a cold and dreary day at Robb Sports Complex.

Shippensburg (1-0) raced out to a 10-5 halftime lead over Wilmington (0-1) before the pace turned more deliberate after halftime — as the two teams combined for just three goals in the first 20 minutes of the second half.

SU had leads of 4-1, 6-3 and 8-4 in the opening half and led by as many as eight goals in the final 90 seconds.

Holt, who scored six goals in her debut season, achieved her first collegiate hat trick and finished the day with four points.

Sophomore Alana Cardaci, senior Madi Newman and freshman Hannah Seifried each scored twice, while sophomore Jena MacDonald

had a goal and two assists.

Other Raider goal scorers on the day included seniors Morgan Stone and Kyra Shank, junior Lauren Twomey, sophomore Maddy Siejk and freshman Gabby Savarino.

Shippensburg finished with a 15-11 edge in draw controls. Newman won five, while Seifried and senior Valerie Hertz each totaled four.

Hertz added three groundballs and a caused turnover.

Newman also led the Raiders with four groundballs, while Stone and Siejk each added three.

Holt, Shank, Cardaci, freshman Clairanne Chairs and sophomore Jessica DeMarte each were credited with multiple groundballs.

Several young defenders made a major impact in the game. Freshman Julia Leishear paced the Raiders with three caused turnovers, while Seifried had two.

Freshman Shaely Gamble earned the win in her debut as the SU goalkeeper, making seven saves.

SPORTS Baseball wins two of three in Maryland Courtesy of SU Sports Info.

The Shippensburg University baseball team began a three-game series with Slippery Rock on Sunday with a 9-8 victory over The Rock in a non-conference, nine-inning game on a windy evening at Harford Community College in Bel Air, Md. SU clinched the victory by throwing out the tying run at the plate to end the game.

Shippensburg (1-3) raced out to a 7-0 lead behind a solo home run from senior Jack Goertzen, an RBI single and a three-run home run from sophomore Scout Knotts, and a two-run home

run by senior Tommy Baggett.

Slippery Rock (0-1) mounted a comeback and entered the bottom of the ninth inning trailing 9-7.

Hope induced a groundout and struck out the next batter, but the Rock countered with a double and an infield single. With runners on the corners, a bloop double plated the first run, but SU’s successful relay ended with Goertzen making a sweeping tag at the plate for the final out.

Senior Zack Sims got the win, while freshman Noah Nabholz worked in relief and senior Michael Hope closed for the save.

February 26, 2019

Photo courtesy of Mike Slade

Baseball improves to 2–4 after its latest series.