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ob Woodward’s hard work in reporting sparked an interest in the field of investigative journalism through the movie “All the President’s Men,” based off the No. 1 national bestselling book he and Carl Bernstein wrote regarding the Watergate scandal.

IUP students crowded in the HUB for MTV’s Campus Invasion. The Bands Lit and Garbage performed and video interviews took place for “The Real World 2000.”

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Ronald Reagan wins in a landslide in the presidential election and takes 49 states.

Renee Paroda, and IUP fitness major, took an internship with a professional basketball team in Ulm, Germany, as the team’s fitness coach. “I believe her techniques and ideas will help our team tremendously,” Head Coach Mike Taylor (IUP Alumin ‘95) said.

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Police blotter Alcohol violations

• At 2:05 a.m. Wednesday, Neil D. Hartshorne, 23, Sunbury, was found intoxicated after he was observed having trouble walking in the 1100 block of South School Street, according to borough police. Hartshorne was cited for public drunkenness and was released to a sober adult, police reported. • At 12:55 a.m. Wednesday, Percy L. Spearman, 29, Mesa, Ariz., was charged with DUI following a traffic stop for multiple violations at Grant Street, Pratt Drive and Garman Avenue, according to campus police. Spearman was lodged in the county jail, police reported. • Borough police reported that at 12:42 a.m. Sunday, Andrew J. Wagner, 20, Arlington Va., was found intoxicated after he was observed spitting on the floor of Sheetz at 768 Wayne Ave. Wagner was arrested and taken to the borough police station, where he then reportedly beat his head against the wall and spit on the floor. Wagner was cited for public drunkenness, underage drinking and disorderly conduct, police reported.

Assault

Campus police reported that four IUP students were assaulted by three to four men on the sidewalk outside Pratt Hall at School Street at 12:25 a.m. Oct. 30. The students were treated at the scene by the EMTs. Anyone with information is asked to contact campus police at 724-357-2141.

Criminal mischief

• Someone damaged a window of a residence in the 1100 block of School Street at 1:55 a.m. Wednesday, according to borough police. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police. • Someone damaged a vehicle parked at a residence at 155 N. 10th St. sometime between 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Monday, according to borough police. Police reported the vehicle had a scrape along the middle of the driver side door. Anyone with information should contact borough police. • Someone threw a rock at a glass door of a residence at 132 N. Fifth St. at 1 a.m. Tuesday, according to borough police. Police reported the rock also struck a wall and damaged a picture frame. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police. • Someone set fire to four Halloween decorations that were hanging from the ceiling of the porch of a residence at 452 Gompers Ave. sometime between 4 and 7:30 a.m. Sunday, according to borough police. Police reported damage to the decorations and black burn marks to the porch ceiling. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police at 724-349-2121.

Disorderly conduct

• At 1:04 a.m. Wednesday, Mark Benedetto, 21, Sharon, was found damaging property and kicking over several signs at Culpeppers Bar at 653 Philadelphia St., according to borough police. Police reported Benedetto fled on foot after employees confronted him before police located him. He was arrested and cited for public drunkenness, disorderly conduct and criminal mischief, police reported. Benedetto was lodged in the county jail on a detainer, police reported. • At 1:07 a.m. Saturday, Daniel Cosme, Erie, and Scott Richards, Edinboro, were cited with disorderly conduct and criminal mischief at the HUB after security cameras caught them on tape flipping over a picnic table, borough police reported.

Drug violation

At 1:12 a.m. Sunday, Robert Abraham, 19, and Marco Sibeto, 19, both of New Castle, were found to be in possession of drug paraphernalia at 458 S. 13th St., according to borough police. Both were charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, police reported.

Public urination

Borough police reported that at 1:41 a.m. Sunday, Tyson Anderson, 22, Ford City, was found urinating along the 700 block of Klondyke Avenue. Anderson was cited for public urination and was released from the scene, police reported.

– compiled from police reports

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Six O’Clock Series presents RoadTrip Nation, challenges students to define their roads in life By Rose catlos Staff Writer R.V.Catlos@iup.edu

RoadTrip Nation’s co-founder and last year’s Roadtrip IUP participants challenged students to define their own roads in life at Monday’s Six O’Clock Series. Southern California native Brian McAllister and three of his post-graduate friends drove across the nation in 2001, hoping to uncover the secret of passionate living. Three-and-a-half months and 85 interviews later, the crew found themselves thrust into the limelight. News about RTN spread, and book deals, MTV appearances and speaking engagements soon surfaced. But McAllister insisted the group never aimed for fame. “We didn’t feel like we were anything special,” he said. “We just felt kind of lost.” That lost feeling has led to hundreds of opportunities to reach out to others, a PBS TV series and copycat programs like RoadTrip IUP. Career

Development Center Director Mark Anthony saw the series and pitched a similar idea to his staff last year. So Brandon Roudebush (senior, communications media) filmed Justin Rossi (junior, criminology/prelaw), Emily Dowdell (senior, Spanish education) and DeAnna Allen for five days last spring break as they interviewed successful IUP alumni in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. But IUP’s production is gaining its own fame, as it won the Golden Award for Best Documentary in the International Hermes Creative Awards. And Roudebush’s videography earned him a nomination at the College Broadcasters National Student Media Production Awards for Best Special Broadcast in Austin, Texas. His advice to other IUP students: “Now’s the time to take the opportunities we’re given and run with them,” he said. “Don’t settle.” McAllister showed video clips from seasons past to give students an idea of the diverse people Road trippers have interviewed, including Wanda

Sykes and Paul Mercurio, a writer for “The Daily Show.” Both Sykes and Mercurio left secure jobs to pursue their comedic dreams. Sykes forfeited benefits at her National Security Agency job in favor of stand-up comedy because she was unhappy, she said. One interviewer struggling with applying to medical school empathized, she said. She knows that upon graduating medical school, she is guaranteed a job with benefits. “But will that make you happy?” Sykes asked. Those words resounded with one audience member, Rebecca Amick (freshman, communications media), an aspiring photographer and road tripper. Amick wants to publish a photo journal of her cross-country trek this summer, she said. She hopes to live in New York or Los Angeles as a fashion photographer and to write and direct her own films. “I think it’s very important to do what you love,” she said.

Government in process of owning college loan pool By MARA ROSE WILLIAMS McClatchy Newspapers MCT

College students are facing a sea change in borrowing to pay for their degrees — unfortunately, many would still be drowning in debt. The change, perhaps as soon as July, would end the Federal Family Education Loan program that has dominated the federal student loan pool for more than 40 years. Banks and other private sources would be cut out of the process by the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, passed in September by the U.S. House. The measure still must be considered by the Senate. The trend was accelerated by many private lenders dropping out of the business when the economy tanked. That led Congress to pass temporary legislation — expiring in June — to assure that students and families still would be able to get loans for school. In the last two years, students already were relying more on federal loans. The volume of loans from private sources fell by 52 percent in the 2008-2009 school year, according to a recent report by the College Board, a nonprofit organization that watches trends in higher education.

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Small banks suffer, no bailout for them By KEVIN G. HALL McClatchy NewspaperS MCT

Just as the housing sector appears to be recovering, gathering problems in the commercial real estate market threaten to become a new drag on the economy. The collapse in home prices sunk many big banks last year, but this year smaller lenders and community banks are going bust at an alarming rate because of their exposure to souring commercial real estate loans. At least 115 banks have failed this year, many because of their exposure to deteriorating commercial loans for retail space, office buildings and industrial parks. As of June 30, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was monitoring another 416 institutions as “problem” lenders. How dire is it? Unable to find enough sound banks to acquire failing banks, the FDIC relaxed its rules earlier this year to allow private-equity funds to bid for troubled lenders. Banks hold about 50 percent of all outstanding commercial real estate loans, many of them smaller regional players. Another 20 percent of commercial real estate loans have been pooled together by investment banks and sold as commercial mortgage bonds, which also are experiencing high default rates. The rising rate of delinquency and default in commercial real estate jeopardizes efforts by the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve to get much-needed lending flowing again. “When you ask people at the Fed what the biggest worries are, this [commercial real estate] is at the top of their list,” said Laurence Meyer, a Fed governor from 1996 to 2002. “The danger here is not the direct macroeconomic impact but the potential impact on the safety and soundness of the banking system.” After the political uproar over last year’s $700 billion taxpayer bailout of banks, however, there’s little appetite in Congress for additional taxpayer rescues of financial firms of

any size. So regulators late last week attacked the problem another way: They encouraged banks to modify the terms of their commercial real estate, or CRE loans. “While CRE borrowers may experience deterioration in their financial condition, many continue to be creditworthy customers who have the willingness and capacity to repay their debts,” the joint guidance from bank regulators said. Regulators also relaxed reporting requirements so that small and midsized banks don’t have to value these loans at today’s deflated real estate prices. “One of the problems was that even performing commercial real estate loans, where the borrower is still making payments, were being forced to be partially written down,” said Paul Merski, the chief economist and senior vice president for the trade group Independent Community Bankers of America. That group would like to see some of last year’s bailout money given to smaller banks, under less onerous terms, since community banks are suffering from the broad economic downturn, not their own reckless behavior. “The government has been picking winners and losers, and in many cases the losers have been too small to save,” Merski said. “We’ve been asking for some fairness in that whole process.” Smaller banks’ problems create problems for small businesses. Small firms depend on local and community banks for loans, so the deteriorating commercial loan environment hurts employment, since small businesses do most of the hiring nationwide. “If we want to get a broad-based recovery going in this economy, we have to ... help small businesses get access to lending again, and commercial real estate is an indirect threat to that,” said Meyer, now a vice chairman of the consultancy Macroeconomic Advisers. “Smaller banks are failing at a high rate and they’re key to what happens to small business. Small business are ... basically closed off.”

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College grads must work harder to find jobs By Gregory Karp The Morning Call MCT

College students graduating in December and May are likely to be the first in a generation to enter a job market featuring double-digit unemployment. That has colleges and universities across America scrambling this fall to revamp their career-placement offerings to help new grads land jobs. Autumn is one of the crucial recruiting seasons, especially for students who want to find employment at Fortune 500 companies. But the outlook for coming college graduates is decidedly grim. On top of a 22 percent decline in college-grad hiring last year, employers expect to chop those entry-level hires by an additional 7 percent this year, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers. “What we’re seeing is they’re really being cautious,” said NACE spokeswoman Andrea Koncz. That dismal hiring forecast is even worse than hiring plans following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when hiring came to a virtual standstill. Average starting salaries for 2009 grads dropped 1.2 percent from the year before, to $48,633. Those facts are why career counselors across the Lehigh Valley have worked to shift the mind-set of soon-to-be grads entering the work

force. The basic message: You’ll have to bust your butt to land a job in this lousy job market. “What students did years ago isn’t enough today,” said Amy Saul, director of career development at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pa. For example, today’s students are encouraged not only to participate in an internship program, but in two or three to boost their chances of being hired. “Competition is much more fierce than it has been in the past for entrylevel candidates,” she said. And the tough economy has created a distressing paradox. Just as students most need career-placement services, many colleges are cutting budgets in their career centers as part of their own belt-tightening. About 55 percent of college career centers nationwide are cutting their 2009-10 spending plans, according to preliminary results of a survey being conducted by NACE. Lehigh Valley college career centers haven’t made sharp cuts, but some are running leaner. Worse yet, career-services departments are now catering to more than just current students. Recent grads who haven’t found work or were laid off are returning for help. In fact, some alumni are returning decades after graduation to use job-placement services. For Kate Hunter, director of career services and internships at DeSales University, that meant she had to brush up on techniques to help people

land mid-career jobs. “Sometimes, we’re combing through 20 years of experience on an old resume to find skills that are transferrable to the current job market,” Hunter said. To cope with the bad job market — unemployment is 9.8 percent nationally — local colleges are launching new programs, revamping old ones and tapping alumni for help. At Lehigh University in Bethlehem, job postings dropped off a cliff in the spring. The career center started e-mailing alumni who might help. That doesn’t sound extraordinary, except that for the first time it e-mailed every single living alumnus it had an address for — an estimated 10,000, said Donna Goldfeder, director of career services. Goldfeder corresponded personally with every alum who offered a job lead. The result? Some 300 job opportunities for Lehigh grads, she said. “We broadened our net with employer outreach too, but to be honest, that didn’t have nearly the effect of reaching out to the alums did,” Goldfeder said. By the spring semester, the career center plans to have a new online database to help students contact alumni directly. “It’s not about going online and looking for jobs anymore,” said Hunter of DeSales. “It’s about getting your face out there and getting your resume into the right hands. It’s going to take a lot more legwork.”

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Hospital bill stuns slain student’s parents By Sam Stanton McClatchy Newspaper MCT

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everything they could,” Gan said. She said the bill accurately reflects the services provided but that the hospital regrets that the bill and letter were mailed to the family. She said the matter would be resolved through Hawkins’ insurance company. The suspect in Hawkins’ beating death is 19-year-old Quran Jones. Hawkins, who had Asperger’s syndrome, a mild form of autism, had been attending CSUS since August, when his parents drove up to Sacramento with him and helped him move into his dorm. His parents described him as a gentle, quiet son with a love of learning and fascination for history.

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“It was just one more unpleasant process,” she said. “I was crying through the whole thing.” The parents also sent a note to the billing department noting that their son was not indigent and that he carried full medical coverage through a Kaiser Permanente plan. Contacted by The Sacramento Bee on Monday, Carole Gan, a hospital spokeswoman, called the mailing “a mistake.” She said she was limited in what information she could provide about the medical care provided to Scott Hawkins, but said he arrived at the emergency room at 3:11 p.m. Pacific time and was pronounced dead five minutes later. “The trauma team did

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On Saturday, 10 days after Scott Hawkins was beaten to death inside his dormitory at California State University, Sacramento, his parents got a letter in the mail. It contained a bill from the University of California Davis Medical Center for $29,186.50 along with a form letter addressed “Dear Patient” that implied they were indigent and stated that the hospital no longer could provide them services. “UC Davis can no longer provide follow-up care or any other non-emergency care to you,” it read. “Please go to a County clinic for all non-emergency care or to get a referral to another doctor.” For Gerald and Elizabeth Hawkins, it was just too much to bear. “It was just devastating and insulting,” Gerald Hawkins said. “It’s just hard to grasp for words. My wife and I were near collapse.” The couple said the mailing tore at the wounds opened by the loss of their 23-year-old son. “We were just very upset on Saturday, it just all spiraled downward,” Elizabeth Hawkins said. “We called a crisis counselor and he came over and spent several hours over here.” As a means of coping, the family made a copy of the letter, took it into the backyard of their Santa Clara, Calif., home and burned it. Monday morning, they picked up the phone to straighten things out. Gerald Hawkins said he first called the UC Davis billing department, but was so distraught he lost his voice and handed the phone to his wife.

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Woodward tells tales of history By Heather Blake Editor in Chief H.E.Blake@iup.edu

He uncovered the Watergate scandal and helped to bring down a presidency. And Wednesday evening in Fisher Auditorium, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and investigative reporter Bob Woodward recounted stories and experiences of presidents past and provided lessons for what President Obama can take from their successes and failures in “From Nixon to Bush: What Can President Obama Learn from Presidents Past?” “The president has to force the people who work for him to be transparent, to explain,” Woodward said. “It is not just the job of the citizens or the journalists … Government should explain itself to its clients, to the voters, to the citizens.” Woodward spoke of the Watergate scandal, which he and Carl Bernstein covered from 1972 to 1974, and how he gave Nixon “high credit for having the intellect to be able to understand and identify so eloquently that hate was the poison that destroyed him and his presidency.” “You look back and … the hate is the piston driving him … and if it becomes the policy – as it did in the Nixon presidency – to hate, then you destroy yourself,” he said. He added in regard to Nixon’s pardon by President Ford that “what looked like the highest corruption was, in fact, the highest act of courage.” Woodward said that a president’s job is to “determine what the next stage of good for a majority of people in the country is.” “After defining that next stage of good – it can be winning war, fixing the economy, improving the environment – after that is established, then set an agenda and then attempt to execute it,” he said. When Woodward interviewed former President George W. Bush in May 2008, one of his questions regarded bringing additional troops into the

Jessica C. Brown/The Penn Author and investigative reporter Bob Woodward signed books after his lecture Wednesday evening at Fisher Auditorium.

war. Stephen Hadley, Bush’s national security advisor, said in the interview that the decision came about from Hadley’s discussion with Gen. Peter Pace, former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman. According to Woodward, Bush responded with, “OK, I don’t know that. I’m not at those meetings, you’ll be happy to hear. I’ve got other things to do.” “[That showed] a level of disengagement from the responsibilities as president which absolutely astonished me,” he said. “Lesson: Bush cared about these things. … His intentions were good in the Iraq war and through his management of it.” But he added that there is a factor in the presidency which people, including presidents and their staff, overlook: fatigue. “In these interviews in May 2008, Bush was grayer, he was drawn, he was irritable, he was impatient,” Woodward said. “… He had disengaged in a way that I found astonishing – not out of neglect, but I think out of fatigue.” Woodward went on to speak about the copy of a classified 66-page report on Afghanistan he was given six weeks ago during his research for his book on Obama’s presidency. After reading the report, Woodward went to the Washington Post’s new editor

and then back to the sources saying the document had to be published because it was relevant. After discussing it with White House officials, the Post was able to publish 64 of the 66 pages on the newspaper’s Web site, and the story ran Sept. 21. “Lesson: There are certainly military and intelligence matters that need to be secret, but you can’t take the public out of the equation,” he said. “Too often presidents want public support for what they’re doing, and they plead for it and campaign for it, but they won’t let the public in on the nitty gritty of what that debate is,” he added. “It is absolutely essential that we know what that is and that we have the details. Only on the details can we do a decent job in that ultimate function which we all have … and that is the function of citizens.” Woodward said what we should worry about the most is secret government. “That’s what Nixon tried, [there was] too much in the Clinton administration and too much in the Bush administration by far … too much unnecessary secrecy,” he said. “I think it is proven, and history shows that democracies die in darkness, and that will happen here … if we are not included in this process.” Another lesson for Obama, Woodward said, is that presidents can’t have an on-off relationship with a key adviser, referring to Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney, who held private conversations that no one else knew about. “What happened was so many [of the private conversations and advice] just went untested. You have to have an open discussion among the advisers.” Woodward followed up his lecture by taking questions from the audience. One student asked if it is possible for a journalist to report fairly if he or she has ill feelings for a president. “In journalism, you quickly learn you may have feelings, but you put them in your back pocket. … It looks one way and it turns out that it’s the exact opposite.”

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Did you ever worry that outside sources or government sources would try to keep you quiet about Watergate?

[The stories] were heatedly denied by the White House. The White House press secretary Ron Ziegler would get up and denounce us for 15 minutes, a halfhour each day every time we ran a story. The book shows the source Mark Felt, who was No. 2 in the FBI, told people stakes were so high, lives could be in danger. I took that literally. I think it was my paranoia, so we worried about ourselves and about our phones being tapped. Since then there’s no evidence to surface to show that was true. But there was a lot of paranoia.

What do you think about the integrity of journalists today? Do you think there is a lot of laziness when it comes to reporting?

In journalism, there is a lot of integrity. In many cases there’s a lot of opinion and I don’t particularly care for that. I think on the cable news shows, the extremes from the left and the right don’t shed a lot of light on what’s going on. … If I ever taught a course in journalism it would be in empiricism – facts. … The problem is that so many reporters are spending so much time trying to predict the future or be clever or voice a partisan opinion, which I don’t think is as useful as it could be.

What are your views on infotainment? Where should journalists draw the line between real news and entertainment?

One of the nice things about the First Amendment is that … you can’t draw lines. People are going to do what they’re going to do. It doesn’t bother me that much, but frankly all the blogs and all the stuff on the Internet – I was just reading some new Watergate conspiracy theories and so forth and it’s like the Kennedy assassination – it’s never going to stop. I think people should have their say and do their inquiries. Let [the First Amendment] work, let it function, which I think it does.

How do you feel about the future of print media? Do you think it will survive?

I suspect print media is going to survive. People like to read in a relaxed setting and not only on a screen. But in a sense the delivery mechanism, whether it’s print or on a screen, isn’t that important. What’s important is the quality of the information. Sometimes it’s great and sometimes it’s not so great. Newspapers are obviously going through a full-scale convulsion. My sense is that it will come back in some form and there will be this crisis, or we may have a gap of X number of years where the news media’s kind of asleep and then there will be that crisis ... and people will say, “We gotta fix this, we have to get newspapers back.”

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Alternative Spring Break at IUP Announces its 2010 Spring Break Trips

Trip #1 – Join the Hurricane Ike relief effort in Galveston, Texas. Trip #2 – Help build new hiking trails in Southern Tennessee. Trip #3 – Help provide rehabilitation for abused and neglected domestic and factory farm animals in Seguin, Texas. Trip #4 – Help build houses in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. This is a Habitat for Humanity project. Trip #5 – Help restore and upgrade the main facility of America’s oldest Buddhist Retreat Center in Barnet, Vermont. Trip #6 – Join the Hurricane Katrina relief effort in Lucedale, Mississippi. This is a Habitat for Humanity project. Trip #7 – Learn about intentional leadership while living in a community in the Buffalo National River, Arkansas. Total cost of each trip is still being determined but will be approximately $270 to $300 per person. Cost includes transportation, lodging, food, and a donation to the host site.

For more information and to secure your spot on one of these life-changing trips, come to our ﬁrst recruitment meeting (Tuesday, Nov. 10) in the Ohio Room (HUB) at 7:30 p.m. If you can’t make the meeting, check out our website (www.iup.edu/ccesl) for contacts and updates. Space is limited, so sign up now!! All ASB groups will depart from IUP on March 5 (Friday) and return to Indiana on March 13 (Saturday). Alternative Spring Break at IUP is supported by the Center for Civic Engagement and Student Leadership (CCESL).

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Tuesday was probably a day that most IUP students would like to forget. I know I would like to forget that Tuesday because of the pain I had to watch some of my friends go through. It was the day that students were signing up for campus housing. Students had to log onto their URSA accounts in order to sign up. The only problem was, students could not even sign in. Therefore, many students had to wait hours to even be able to have a chance to sign up for a room. if they could even log on to find a place at all. I think there are many reasons for why all of those problems occurred the other day. I am willing to bet that extremely poor planning by the Office of the Registrar and Housing and Residence Life was a large part of it. I mean, students only had one day to sign up for rooms. That was it. One day. All students who wanted to sign up for on-campus rooms knew they had to hurry up and sign them up, since this was on a first-come, first-serve basis. There are a lot of dorms and a

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lot of upperclassmen who want them. See where I am going with this? The server got backed up, which made the system very slow and unresponsive. Therefore, students had to wait for hours and hours until they were able to log into their URSA accounts. In addition, there were students that needed to use URSA for other purposes. I knew a couple of seniors who were first allowed to schedule for the spring semester courses they need to graduate. That backed the system up even further and made it more difficult for students to log into their URSA accounts and to sign up for housing. All in all, Tuesday was an absolute disaster for students wanting housing. The people working in high-up positions at IUP did an absolute terrible job in thinking about the possible problems that could come up from the plan they came up with. Whoever the person was that did come up with that sign up plan should be completely embarrassed right now. I know I would be. It was that terrible.

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As I rifled through an old box in my room a few weeks ago, I stumbled upon a stack of faded papers from my primitive years of elementary school. One of the assignments caught my eye. It was simple: look at the object pictured and write out its spelling beneath it on the lines provided. What I saw scribbled on the line beneath the Corvette sport’s car astonished me. The ‘c’ was correct, as was the ‘a’. But my ‘r’ was backwards. Around that time, one of my favorite stores to frequent was Toys “[backwards R]” Us. Yeah, you see where this is going? Anyway, I had taken such a liking to that backwards letter that it made me think it was correct. I reasoned that why else would they use it if they knew it was wrong? I sat there glaring at my first-grade paper and it dawned on me that this well-known kid’s toy store is not the only grammatically incorrect company name around. I’m not attributing some American’s inability to spell correctly to misspelled company names, but I am saying that these errors in advertising do make a stern impact on young kids. When they see the bill-

boards or posters promoting a company or organization, they will most likely remember it as it appears in print and not the way they were taught. It just irks me when companies like Krispy Kreme, MAJIK Rent-ToOwn or Chick-fil-A purposefully spell their company’s name wrong for no obvious reason at all. In their defense, maybe spelling it a unique, quirky way will make consumers remember it even if it’s not completely correct. This could very well be the case according to Brand Identity Guru Inc., a company whose sole objective is to cultivate a catchy, memorable name for up-and-coming products. They claim that “great brand names roll off the tongue” and the sound of the spoken name, regardless of its spelling or meaning, is a large part of a company’s goal of selling more product. They propose that if a word is pronounced the way a company spells it (and not the grammatical way), more people will remember the item and return to it in the future. To me, that’s logical but also detrimental. If I were the CEO or marketing direc-

tor of Krispy Kreme, for example, I would vie for the traditional spelling of “crispy cream” and still get the alliteration I think the wrong spelling strives for. How difficult is it, really, to pronounce or spell the word “school”? The marketing team at children’s toy giant Playskool apparently thought it was too tricky and went with a more phonetic spelling of the word. What about Google? It’s really an altered variation of the word googol, which is an enormous number beginning with a 1 and followed by 100 zeroes. That’s perhaps not the best example but it’s still an intended error, which isn’t really necessary. In today’s world where university students still can’t differentiate between your and you’re; their, there; and they’re, and to, two and too, I don’t think companies should further inflict their own dose of confusion on the brain cells of young minds everywhere. I don’t know why or care to extensively research the reasoning behind misspelled company names, but I do wish they’d knock off the first grade spellings and think up a name that is really uneek and kool.

D.C. sniper should not be executed By brian gilmore MCT

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John Allen Muhammad, the infamous Washington sniper, should not be put to death. But Muhammad will die Nov. 10 by lethal injection. He will be executed under the laws of the state of Virginia. No one will save him. Not the U.S. Supreme Court. Not Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine. Not President Obama. Each could do so but won’t. I understand why families of Muhammad’s victims want him to die: He terrorized a city, he ruined lives and he destroyed futures. I was living in Washington at the time, and I can still recall my own fear. But the justified anger of the victims’ kin does not justify state-sponsored killing. Capital punishment is morally wrong and irrational. A recent report, titled “Smart on Crime” and published by the Death

Penalty Information Center, exposes many of the basic problems with the death penalty. First of all, it is not a deterrent. According to “Smart on Crime,” the nation’s police chiefs rank the capital punishment last in reducing violent crime. Criminologists cited in the same report conclude that the death penalty does not effectively reduce murders in the United States. In fact, 88 percent of the nation’s top criminologists “do not believe that the death penalty acts as a deterrent to homicide,” the report says. Second, the death penalty is arbitrarily applied. Back in 2005, the Associated Press studied capital cases in Ohio over a two-decade period. It found that in one county, only 8 percent of those charged with a capital crime got a death sentence, whereas in another county, the rate was more than five times higher. Third, there is a pronounced racial bias. If you murdered a white person in Ohio, you were twice as likely to be

sentenced to death than if you killed a black person, the AP study found. Another major problem with the death penalty is the cost. For example, California, which was recently borderline insolvent, spends $137 million per year on its capital punishment program; yet, no one has been executed there in three and a half years. Other states report similar cost issues. Recently, the case of Cameron Todd Willingham again called our entire state-sponsored machinery of death into question. Willingham, executed in February 2004, was convicted of killing his own children by arson. However, the evidence used to convict him of deliberately setting the fire that killed his daughters has been proven to be not sustainable. In other words, Willingham did not set the fire that killed his daughters but was put to death for that very act. Even if we are confident that the person is guilty, however, as in the case of John Allen Muhammad, capital punishment is still wrong.

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Best is yet to disappoint: economic slump plagues young adults By Peter orszag MCT

All of us are keenly aware of the immediate struggles we face because of the current economic downturn. I’m sure many of your families are facing excruciating choices that, even a few years ago, would have been unimaginable. But what may be less appreciated is the long-term impact of this crisis — on our economy, on our fiscal situation and on our future. So, as we move from rescuing the economy to rebuilding it, it’s essential that we keep these long-term effects in mind — because only by addressing them can we succeed in building a new foundation for stable economic growth. A new body of social science literature demonstrates that an economic downturn has a long-term impact on workers and their families. Consider the effect of what economists call an “exogenous labor shock” — but normal people call a “lay-off” — on the life course not of those laid off ... but on their children. A range of studies have found that having a parent experience unemployment is significantly associated with whether you graduate from high school, whether you go to college, whether you get a job after college, and how much you get paid in that job. And the effect is persistent — with higher high school dropout rates and lower college enrollment rates evident even years later. Reflecting this, the children of

workers who were once laid off have lower average wages as adults — even decades later than those whose parents never experienced such setbacks. And even if you or your parent didn’t experience a layoff, the longterm repercussions of a recession are evident. In other words, the impact extends to those not directly affected by unemployment — by those entering the workforce for the first time ... the rising generation of workers. The adverse effect of entering the labor force during an economic downturn imposes a drag on career earnings that goes far beyond the duration of the recession itself. One recent study, for example, found that graduating during a period of high unemployment leads to depressed initial wages — roughly 6 percent on average for every 1 percentage point increase in unemployment. This negative wage effect declines only slowly over time: to 5 percent after five years, 4 percent after 10 years, and 3 percent even 15 years after graduation. Remember, that’s for each percentage point increase in the unemployment rate. When most of today’s seniors entered NYU, the unemployment rate was about 5 percentage points lower than it is today. You can do the math. Another way of looking at it: when one compares the wages earned by the class of 1982 (a peak unemployment year) with the wages of

the class of 1988 (a peak employment year) over the first 20 years of a career, the difference — on a net present value basis — averages $100,000. The evidence thus suggests that the recession hits young people particularly hard, knocking them off course for years to come. Now, for the students in the audience, if I haven’t totally depressed you — let me highlight one bright spot. Researchers also have found that so-called “recession graduates” are slightly more likely to go on to college or graduate school than counterparts in a boom year. In fact, the data suggest that community college enrollment has recently surged, pushing the overall college enrollment rate to record levels. And this is good news because the evidence is clear: the more you learn, the more you earn. The bottom line is that the administration and Congress did the right thing in forcefully responding to the current downturn: mitigating the depth and duration of the recession will help to lessen the extent to which its effects reverberate in the years ahead. The other lesson is that we need to invest in the education and skills of the youngest members of our workforce — making sure that they do not slip off that crucial first rung of the career ladder and are able to quickly climb it as the economy recovers.

Many IUP students and Indiana residents filled Fisher Auditorium Wednesday evening to see Bob Woodward, an investigative journalist for The Washington Post. Woodward’s reporting is the kind of reporting that is badly missed in America. Back when Woodward reported on the Watergate scandal, he was doing what an investigative journalist was supposed to do. He was keeping the public informed as to what was going on in the Nixon administration when it came to all of the corruption he and others were involved in. It was the kind of reporting that kept the government from being secretive. Woodward’s journalism he expressed then kept our democracy strong because the public was all informed. Journalism in the news media has changed a lot from what it was back during the time of Watergate. Now, there are fewer investigative reports, less objectivity and more biased sources of news, which selectively informs the public based on how that news station wants you to think. The journalism everyone is used to today is not good for our democracy. It is not good in keeping the public informed. This type of journalism is allowing people with power to get away with whatever they want to get away with. Today’s journalism could arguably be blamed for what happened in our financial system and why there has been so much corruption in our government. Journalists are not asking the tough questions anymore. They are also not investigating anything that people with power are doing. If journalists did their jobs by asking the tough questions and did investigative reporting, America might be in better shape than it now finds itself in. Today’s journalists should be doing more of the style of reporting Woodward did during Watergate. A journalist’s job is to inform the public as to what is going on in the world. But too often have we seen journalists not ask the tough questions or press people in power to give a straight answer to the questions people have. It almost seems that people view much of American journalism as a joke right now. Younger generations going into journalism should be strongly encouraged to follow in the footsteps of Woodward’s and other past investigative reporters’ footsteps, who have done so much to keep those in power accountable.

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Avenue Q: ‘Sesame Street’ for big kids By Katelyn nowicki Copy Editor K.M.Nowicki@iup.edu

Onstage Arts and Entertainment presented the touring Broadway smash hit, and Tony Award winner “Avenue Q” Monday night at Fisher Auditorium, to a packed house of more than 1,200 in attendance. The musical, as told by people and puppets, follows the lives of a group of friends and neighbors and their highs and lows living in New York City, on Avenue Q. At the beginning of the musical, the audience was introduced to Princeton, a recent college graduate (played by Brent Michael DiRoma) with a bachelor’s in English. He’s not sure what to do with a degree in English, and he’s even less certain about what his purpose is in life. While Princeton is settling into his new digs on Avenue Q, he and the audience are introduced to his new neighbors: Kate Monster, the kindergarten classroom assistant (Jacqueline Grabois); Trekkie Monster, an Internet porn addict (Jason Heymann); Brian, an unsuccessful comedian (Tim Kornblum) and his wife Christmas Eve, a straight-talking Japanese therapist (Lisa Helmi Johanson); and Nicky, a jobless – yet lovable – slob and his uptight Republican banker roommate,

Rod (Brent Michael DiRoma), who has a secret. As the musical continued, the audience was also introduced to the Bad Idea Bears, two adorable – and evil – little puppet bears (played by Jason Heymann and Kerri Brackin) who use their seemingly angelic charm to manipulate the cast into doing naughty things. And last, but not least, the audience learned that the superintendent of the building is none other than former child star, Gary Coleman (Nigel Jamaal Clark). While “Avenue Q” certainly aimed at getting laughs with songs like “It Sucks to Be Me,” “You Can Be as Loud as the Hell You Want (When You’re Makin’ Love),” and “My Girlfriend, Who Lives in Canada,” it also succeeded in getting laughs by exploring more adult themes, in songs such as “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist” and “If You Were Gay.” But the clear winner of the night was Trekkie Monster’s song, “The Internet is for Porn.” “’The Internet is for Porn’ song is hysterical. Trekkie is great. I couldn’t stop laughing through the whole song,” said Stephany Rerko (sophomore, family consumer science education). Even Cole Comstock (junior, English) agreed, “The ‘Porn’ song [is the best]. It really speaks to society

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today. Ninety percent of the Internet really is filled with porn.” It is easy to find comparisons between “Avenue Q” and “Sesame Street.” Nicky and Rod could easily substitute for Bert and Ernie, while Trekkie Monster’s obsession with porn is eerily familiar to the Cookie Monster’s obsession with cookies. According to Jovana Ramos (freshman, theater), “‘Avenue Q’ is ‘Sesame Street’ for the big kids. ”The musical concluded with Princeton and his Avenue Q neighbors raising money to help Kate Monster open her own monster school. The last musical number, “For Now,” featured the cast singing about life, living for the moment, finding purpose and how nothing lasts. “It was fantastic,” said Kelsey Dowling (junior, theater/international studies). “And it’s very funny and it shows how the world really is, people are just too afraid to say it.”

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Pelham 1 2 3: Travolta is back and loves playing dirty If you have ever thought to yourself, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wow, I would really love to see Denzel Washington go head-tohead with John Travolta in a thriller,â&#x20AC;? Tuesday was your lucky day; and you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even know it. This week Columbia Pictures brings us â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3â&#x20AC;? in all of its DVD glory. Starring Washington as a regular-Joe MTA dispatcher and Travolta as a bad-ass terrorist with a grudge against New York City, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pelhamâ&#x20AC;? is really more or less just like every other thriller youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever seen. When a group of terrorists led by a man named Ryder (Travolta) hijack a subway train in New York City, Walter Garber (Washington) is forced to play the role of hostage negotiator from his MTA dispatcherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s desk. Ryder asks for $10 million or he will shoot the hostages on the train, and he wants it in an hour. The situation worsens when NYPD hostage negotiators try to take over the negotiation from Garber â&#x20AC;&#x201D; really not much of a surprise, however. Did anyone really think they would let Denzel just leave the

film halfway through? Fat chance. It is great to see Travolta back on the big screen after recently losing his son. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no doubt the winner of more than 30 film awards can act, but when he plays the role of â&#x20AC;&#x153;bad guy,â&#x20AC;? he really shines. Washington is never one to let another actor steal the center stage, however, and his role in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pelhamâ&#x20AC;? is just as great as you would expect. Although the film is certainly not lacking in talent, additionally featuring John Turturro and Luis Guzman, unfortunately the plot isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t all that unique. What it boils down to is the same plot as every other thriller using a terrorist attack as its base; bad guy hijacks something, good guy struggles with him, bad guy slips up, good guy outsmarts him, bad guy still gets away, but eventually... well I will let you just figure out the ending. Even though the plot is relatively basic, it does cover all the bases and the film is still really entertaining. It gives you just enough tension and suspense to keep you on edge without ever actually calling its bluff. The

special effects arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t too terrible or unbelievable, either, something that is great to see â&#x20AC;&#x201C; stuntmen with their career intact. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re out looking for a good suspense featuring two of Hollywoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest actors, well, this should be an easy choice. Give it a rent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pelhamâ&#x20AC;? wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t disappoint.

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Insomniac’s 4th PS3 offering doesn’t disappoint By Jared clark Contributing Writer J.M.Clark6@iup.edu

Sometimes you just gotta love a developer. Insomniac has been putting out nothing but quality titles for Sony since the PS2 days. I mean, “Resistance: Fall of Man” was a good game that got a great sequel, and “Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction” was a great game and it’s getting a great sequel with “Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time.” The story picks up where the first game (and the downloadable middle chapter) ended. Clank has been

kidnapped by the mysterious Zoni race, who turn out to be the guardians of time itself. Clank has been taken to be the new caretaker of the “Great Clock.” This huge space station – that they call a clock – controls the passage of time in the entire universe. Naturally, one of Ratchet’s old nemesis wants to use the clock for his own personal gain, so our Lombax friend must stop the bad guy, all the while searching for his lost companion, Clank. “Ratchet and Clank” is a hybrid platformer – third-person shooteraction adventure game in space, and

it’s just as awesome as it sounds. The core game play consists of exploring a level while fighting off hoards of enemies, with the occasional light puzzle to break up the mayhem. In this adventure, Clank has his own levels that help to divide multiple story arcs, much like in a movie. This is the most cinematic game in the series and has been compared to playing a Pixar movie. Like previous “Ratchet and Clank” games, the weapons are the star of the show. You are given numerous ways to take down the swarms of baddies you will encounter in this

game, and each one is unique. There is a gun that shoots saw blades, a grenade that makes all nearby enemies dance and even a robot guardian called Mr. Zurkon, who helps you fight while saying lines like “I shall let you live little alien … sike!” Both the writing and the voice-overs are spot-on and consistently funny. The graphics are as good as they can get in this art style. The color palette is quite rich and this vision of deep space is as pretty as they come. The controls are tight and responsive. I would occasionally fall off a platform, but it was nearly

always my fault. Clank’s puzzle sections are well crafted and far from frustrating. The logic is solid and the puzzles are solved the way you think they should be, as long as you play by the game’s rules. This is yet another step in the right direction for this series. Even after more than five games, I still want to play more. The amount of content is definitely worth the price of admission, and any fan of “Ratchet and Clank” shouldn’t miss this one. If you’ve never played a “Ratchet and Clank” game, this is a great place to start.

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The IUP Symphony Band and the IUP Jazz Band will perform a free joint concert Saturday at 8 p.m. at Fisher Auditorium. The Symphony Band will be under the direction of Jason Worzbyt, while the Jazz Band will be under the direction of Keith Young. “I believe the students will enjoy the diverse compositions and large [Symphony Band] and smaller [Jazz Band] ensembles,” Young said. According to a music department press release, the Symphony Band will open the concert with Vincent Persichetti’s “Divertimento for Band.” This will be followed by James Barnes’ “Wild Blue Yonder,” which will be conducted by music graduate student Adam Hilkert. Next will be the world premiere of “Chorale Prelude on Beach Spring” by music professor and director of bands, Jack Stamp. The symphony band will close with Samuel Hazo’s “Exultate.” The Jazz Band will open with George Gershwin’s “Strike Up the Band.” This will be followed by a performance of Thad Jones’ Consummation, which will include instrumentalists from the Symphony Band. The concert will close with Pat Metheny’s “5-5-7” and the band’s version of Benny Goodman’s “Sing, Sing, Sing.” No ticket is required at the door and the concert is open to the public.

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The Crimson Hawks won a close one over rival Mecyhurst 1-0 Tuesday, and advanced to the PSAC semifinals. The Crimson Hawks remain unranked on the national level. However, they continue to be a threat as they are ranked fourth in the Atlantic Region. The Crimson Hawks ended the season 12-5-1 (9-4-1) in the conference, which had them placed second in the PSAC west, just three points behind Cal U. Mercyhurst was the Crimson Hawksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first challenge in the PSAC tournament. During the regular season, the Crimson Hawks managed to outscore Mercyhurst by a score of 5-3, winning once and tying in the other meeting betwenn the two. The Crimson Hawks outshot Mercyhurst 11-6 in the first half. It was this strong offensive start that assisted them in getting the games only goal. Allison Keller scored her third goal

of the season in the 22nd minute of the game, with the assist coming from Kim Dowalski. Mercyhurst held the Crimson Hawks to one shot in the second half, and recorded seven of their own. However, even with such a defensive stand, Kelly Brennan was making all the plays as she recorded her fifth shutout of the season with 10 saves. Top seeded West Chester, being the host of the PSAC semifinals and conference championship, defeated Bloomsburg by a score of 3-0 in its quarterfinal match in the PSAC tournament. Cal U defeated Gannon 2-0, while Kutztown defeated East Stroudsburg 4-1. The Crimson Hawks will play West Chester at 11 a.m. Friday while Cal U will face Kutztown at 1:30 p.m. The winners of those two games will face each other in the conference championship game at 11 a.m. Saturday. The last time the Crimson Hawks played West Chester was during the 2006-2007 season, when West Chester went 4-0 against IUP. The Crimson Hawks were outscored 11-4 in four games.

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IUP student Lauren Fisher wins national boxing championship By vaughn johnson Sports Editor V.M.Johnson@iup.edu

“Fight your fight, throw punches in bunches and stay positive,” are the words permanently ingrained into the mind of newly crowned national champion boxer Lauren Fisher. Whether it is popping up on her cell phone or mumbled out of her mouth on the way down to the ring, Fisher uses those three ideals to carry her through her fights. Those three ideals even carried Fisher all the way to 2009 Police Athletic League Championship in the 119-pound division on Oct. 24 in San Antonio. “It’s pretty amazing,” Fisher, said about the accomplishment. “Even when they said that I had won, they said my corner and I looked over and I said, ‘Oh, that’s me.’” Those same three ideals could possibly carry her all the way to the Summer Olympics in 2012. “That’s all I want is the Olympics right now. I want that gold medal. I want to say that I’m an Olympic champion in the first year of Olympic boxing. That’s history,” Fisher said. Could Fisher land a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team? Yes. Fisher is considered one of the best boxers in the nation in her weight class and is arguably the best poundfor-pound.

She has lightning-quick hands and feet and tremendous stamina and when she hits people, she hits them with knockout power, unusual for a fighter her size and style. On top of being that good, Fisher knows she is that good — a dangerous combination for opponents. “I’m a fast fighter, but I also hit hard. It’s a weird mix, but I like to say Sugar Ray Robinson and Mike Tyson because I like to move fast, but when I do throw punches I want to hit them hard and I want to damage that person in every way I can,” Fisher said. “I don’t really get scared of the person I’m fighting. I just get nervous that I’m not going to do the things that I know how to do,” she added. The scary thing about Fisher is that she is more than likely only going to get better. Fisher has reached a level that usually takes years of training and a number of fights to get to, but Fisher’s championship fight was only her 12th and she has been training for only a year and half. Her opponent in the championship fight, however, had more than 60 fights in her career and was a former two-time national champion. “I wasn’t scared of anything about her. I knew she was a two-time national champion,” Fisher said. “In the first 30 seconds I realized that she couldn’t hit me as easy as I thought she might be able to, and

that’s when I started to throw my jabs out there. After that it was I was just picking her apart.” Fisher was a member of the IUP women’s basketball team that went all the way to the Sweet 16 in 2007. She decided to leave the team and pursue other interests, one of them being boxing, where she had no prior experience. She joined the IUP Boxing Club and began working at the craft of boxing. The rest is history. Being so good so fast can be harmful to some because the fighter might reach her peek too early, but Fisher has only had 12 fights and tries to improve everyday. Could anyone imagine how good she could be with 60 fights under her belt? The rest of the nation is probably shuddering at the thought. “It’s just hard work. I study boxing. Somehow I ended up boxing and now I just love it and it’s something I just study and I learn as much as I can from everybody I meet, because I meet people for a reason,” Fisher said. “That’s the advantage I have, I guess. I try to learn from everybody, all the good that people have and even the bad. I figure out what to do and what not to do.” History is what she intends on making in 2012, as it is the first time women’s boxing will be held at the Summer Olympics. Fisher is jumping at the opportunity to be the first women’s gold medalist in boxing.

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“Some people are, ‘Oh, you should go pro.’ And I’m like no, I’ll stay amateur just for the Olympics because the Olympics is a big deal. Just to go, just to see people and get to see Michael Phelps.” As for the future, Fisher confident-

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IUP travels to Kutztown for final game of season By vaughn johnson Sports Editor V.M.Johnson@iup.edu

The final game of this soonto-be infamous season of IUP football will be played at 1:05 p.m. Saturday when IUP travels to Kutztown to take on the 3-7 Golden Bears. Although the Crimson Hawks play against Kutztown Saturday, much of the talk around the town has still been about their embarrassing 29-3 loss to Gannon that guaranteed IUP its first losing season since 1982. Head Coach Lou Tepper is still surprised of what has become of the IUP football program. “Coming into the season, I don’t think that any of us thought that this was possible. Any more than we thought it would have been possible the previous three years. We felt very similar to that,” Tepper said during his weekly press conference Tuesday morning. The players felt the loss was due to poor execution and that was the same sentiment of Tepper Tuesday morning. “The effort was there, but the execution was poor,” he said. “We certainly have to execute better or we have no chance of beating anybody,” he added. Although the team did not execute well against Gannon, it wasn’t for a lack of another “e” word — excitement. “I thought we were probably as excited to play as any game we’ve played, but it certainly didn’t show in our performance,” Tepper said. As for a reason for the losing season, Tepper harkened back to a problem the Crimson Hawks had before the season even began – the lack of live snaps during fall camp. IUP usually has a scrimmage against another school to get the team prepared for the season, but since it scheduled 11 games as opposed to the usual 10, they could not schedule a scrimmage against another school as it is against NCAA rules.

Brock Fleeger/The Penn Tight end Nate Morrow caught IUP’s passes during the loss to Gannon Saturday.

As a result, IUP only had 11 live snaps during the fall camp. “You can’t have 11 live snaps and prepare guys the way you want to, and yet we felt through the first three games that we were getting there if we can just keep that lineup solid and it just never stayed solid,” Tepper said. “You attempt to have about 120 scrimmage snaps in fall camp and we weren’t close to that,” he added. Another reason why Tepper believes the season has turned out the way it has is because the revolving door the Crimson Hawks had on the offensive line and in the secondary, which lost key players starting all the way back the Spring Game with Jimmy O’Rourke and into the season with Andre Henderson going down with nerve damage in his shoulder during the Mercyhurst game. Those two units, according to Tepper, are the two units who needed playing time together the most.

“The two units that need cohesiveness and time together are the offensive line and the secondary more than any others,” Tepper said. “We felt really good about our secondary and we felt very good about our offensive line coming into it, but those two units just haven’t had the chance to do what we had hope they would do.” As for Kutztown, the last time these two squads met was in the last game last season, which IUP saw cruise to a 34-7 victory. With that said, this is a much different IUP team from last season. Although Kutztown hasn’t changed much as far its standing in the PSAC East, IUP has dropped to the bottom of the PSAC West making this usual blowout the biggest game of the year as it is the chance for IUP to end the season on somewhat of a good note and have something to look forward to going into next season.

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