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THE Merciad MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY

EST. 1929 VOL. 87 NO. 18

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2014

Big weekend at ’Hurst Events crowd campus with students, families

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(Above) Students and incoming freshmen browse through the university’s selection of registered RSCO’s. (top, right) The annual career fair was a success as students came out to check out prospective job opportunities. (bottom, right) Kids and Sibs boasted a positive turn out of Mercyhurst students and their siblings. Quite a few came out to see the Ocelot. Taylor Bookmiller photo

Adult students recognized for academic excellence By Mathew Anderson Editor-in-Chief

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From left to right, Carl Best, Chance Nye, Kerry Dieter-Roward, Cynthia Dunn and Tiffany Patterson after being inducted into ASL

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Last Thursday, April 3, the National Honor Society for Non-Traditional Students, Alpha Sigma Lambda, welcomed eight new inductees from Mercyhurst. The society’s aim is to recognize the academic success of adult students. They were recognized in this way because, in most circumstances, they are doing more than attending classes and completely projects. Adult students have the challenge of balancing school work with their home life while also dealing with their work schedule. According to its mission

statement, Alpha Sigma Lambda “is dedicated to the advancement of scholarship and recognizes high scholastic achievement in an adult student’s career.” The ceremony was started off by Kylie Peters, graduate intern, with a quote by Bernard Edmunds, “To dream anything you want to dream, that’s the beauty of the human mind. To do anything you want to do, that’s the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits, that’s the courage to succeed,” a very important lesson that all students should keep in mind. To be inducted into the honor society, an adult student must have completed at least 24 credit hours while

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maintaining a 3.2 grade point average on a standard 4.0 scale. The Mercyhurst inductees involved in this ceremony included Eduardo Ortega JR., Carl Best, who served as an Intelligence Analyst and is now majoring in Intelligence Studies with a minor in Russian Studies, Juan Quevedo and Rachel Curtis, a Sociology major who has three children and a husband. Curtis is back in school after getting her degree from Mercyhurst North East in early childhood education. Also inducted were Cynthia Dunn, who cares for two girls and is attending Mercyhurst as a Public Health Major with goals to create support groups for at risk young girls in the

community, Kerry Dieter-Roward, Chance Nye and Tiffany Patterson, who plans to gain her master’s degree and, eventually, her Ph.D. to further her career after Mercyhurst. During the ceremony, Peters gave a brief explanation to what Alpha Sigma Lambda meant. “Alpha is the first letter in the Greek alphabet; therefore it stands for ‘first.’ The letter Sigma corresponds to the letter ‘S,’ and is symbolic of scholarship. Lambda corresponds to the letter ‘L,’ and denotes leadership. Thus, Alpha Sigma Lambda forms the framework of our motto, which is ‘First in Scholarship and Leadership.’” @TheMerciad

Tom Ridge to visit ’Hurst Former Pennsylvanian Gov. Tom Ridge will be at Mercyhurst University on Friday, April 11, at 10 a.m. for the official announcement of the establishment of the Tom Ridge School of Intelligence Studies and Information Science. The event will take place in the board room, room 300 of the CAE. University officials and ridge will discuss new school. Ridge is a native to Erie, a two-term governor of Pennsylvania and the first secretary of homeland security.


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