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Class registrations for the fall 2000 semester were for the first time completely on the Web.

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Curriculum sparks debate at University Senate meeting By Sean Bracken News Editor S.M.Bracken@iup.edu

IUP’s curriculum proved to be the hot topic at the University Senate meeting Tuesday at Eberly Auditorium. The faculty was divided over an oral and technical course proposed by the communications media department. The proposed course’s objective is to teach students about communicating face-to-face and through social media outlets like Facebook. The course lost the, vote of 55 to 52. Critics of the proposed course said the requirements to enroll were too easy. “The 25 cap is not realistic given the objectives of the course,” said William Radell, economics professor. “Departments are stretched to the limits now,” he said, referring to the problems over the university budget. But Sarah Wheeler, a political science professor, said that other courses, such as business education, were capped and turned out to be effective courses. A new vice chair of the senate was also named. David Bivens (senior, political science) was unanimously approved by the senate as vice chair for the remainder of the spring semester. He said that one of his goals is to “reshuffle” the SGA and address more of the students’ needs. He said he partially agreed with critics that say SGA does not do enough to address those needs. “We need to be representative to the students as a whole,” Bivens said. He said that he would like to see increased student participation in SGA and the local governments. “I am optimistic about our joint future,” Bivens said. An update was also given on the possible changes PASSHE could make to low-enrolled courses. Gerald Intemann, IUP provost, said the response forms for low-enrolled courses need revision, due to the chancellor’s office by

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April 27. These revisions will be reviewed at the Office of the Chancellor’s meeting May 21. He said the office will make recommendations to the Board of Governors and the Academic Affairs Committee by June 30 to prepare for the July board meeting. “As provost, I want to reassure everyone that we at IUP will continue to be respectful to the need for full consultation and input from the faculty whose academic programs are under review, as well as to adhere to well-established shared governance processes at IUP,” Intemann said. He also addressed IUP’s ongoing transition from WebCT to Moodle. Intemann said WebCT will be fully inaccessible by June 29. “IUP faculty have shown support for the WebCT move,” Intemann said. He said Moodle will be an “open source for an indefinite period.” Intemann also gave an update on IUP President Tony Atwater’s health. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer during the winter break. Atwater appeared to be in good health and working half days at IUP and continues working at home during the afternoon, Intemann said. Atwater was expected to attend the meeting but was not present.

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Borough police reported that at 3:19 a.m. Thursday, Matthew R. Emery, 18, York, was arrested and charged with underage drinking, loitering and prowling, disorderly conduct and possession of a controlled substance after he was found intoxicated while loitering around a residence in the 300 block of Carpenter Avenue. Police reported that he was found in possession of an illegal substance after he led officers on a foot chase for several blocks.

Criminal mischief

Someone broke the front door window of a business in the 00 block of South Sixth Street sometime between 10 p.m. Feb. 19 and 5:30 p.m. Sunday, according to borough police. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police at 724-349-2121.

Disorderly conduct

At 10:19 p.m. Monday, Joel Phoebus, 22, Indiana, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after he took off on foot when officers attempted to question him about a warrant in the 300 block of Church Street, according to borough police. Police reported that he continued to resist arrest after he was caught. He was lodged in the county jail, police reported.

Trespass

Borough police reported that sometime between 5 and 9:30 a.m. Sunday, someone entered the Delta Zeta and the Alpha Sigma Alpha sororities uninvited. Police reported that a woman woke up in her bedroom to see a man standing there at 5:30 a.m. Police reported that the man tried convincing her that he was partying with her all night before he fled the house. According to police, he entered another residence at 9 a.m. and was found leaning over a sleeping woman. He was reportedly wearing a green hoodie, black Dickies pants and black Reebok shoes at the first house, police reported. Police reported that he had a black jacket, black fitted cap and light-colored jeans at the second house. He was also described as about 5 foot 7 with short hair and a tattoo on his neck, police reported. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police.

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Maryland to become fourth state to ban BPA in products By Meredith Cohn The Baltimore Sun MCT

A bill to ban the chemical bisphenol A from baby bottles and sippy cups passed its final hurdle in the Maryland General Assembly Thursday. The Senate passed the BPA bill 46-0, following the House, which passed an identical bill last week. Gov. Martin O’Malley hasn’t reviewed the legislation, but a spoke man said he doesn’t believe he would have objections. If the bill is signed, Maryland would become the fourth state to ban the chemical linked to developmental problems in young children, reproductive troubles in women and other diseases. The legislation would go into effect in 2012. Consumer groups and some lawmakers have been sounding the warning about BPA for years, and the

effort got a boost last month when officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reversed an earlier position and said they had concerns about its safety. A multi-agency task force plans to spend the next 18 to 24 months conducting more research and recommended consumers avoid BPA in the meantime. “Baby bottles and sippy cups are one of the greatest sources of exposure to BPA for our little ones, and we commend the Maryland General Assembly for protecting our children from its toxic effects,” said Jenny Levin, environmental health associate for the consumer group Maryland PIRG. BPA is used in many plastic food containers and the linings of metal cans, as well as some water bottles and retail receipts. Several manufacturers and retailers already have stopped making and selling products with BPA.

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Humans VS Zombies petitions for game alternatives By Sean Bracken News Editor S.M.Bracken@iup.edu

Humans VS Zombies, an IUP student organization, added a new chapter to its long story Wednesday. The next phase came after a meeting between officers of the organization and Terry Appolonia, associate vice president for student development and dean of students. The 10:30 a.m. meeting was closed to the press. Both sides reported that progress was made for approval to have the game played on campus. Michael Nelsen (sophomore, political science), vice president of Humans VS Zombies, called the meeting a “moderate success.” “Although I am disappointed that the administration has rejected the full-scale version of the game, I am glad they have not chosen to simply ban it entirely,” Nelsen said. According to Nelsen, the organization would have to present a new form of the game. He said the place

would be a single predetermined location and would take place after classes. Another member, Miles Holenstein (junior, English), said he was worried that the organization would be banned. He said the game would need revised to fit the safety needs of the campus. “If we have a good few runs this semester and in future semesters, we hope to eventually be able to have a game that was more like the original,” Holenstein said. Appolonia said progress was made, but added that the issue remained about the time, place and manner as to how the game would be played in accordance with the university’s regulations. He said the organization requested to have the game take place in the Oak Grove, which would continue over the span of a week. Appolonia said the game could involve people that were not a part of it. He said the conflict was over a misunderstanding with the organiza-

tion about the game being banned. Appolonia said the organization is recognized by the university and is not banned. He added that the game was not approved because it could disrupt the three university functions, which are residential, academic and administration. “Any requests need to ensure those three functions are not disrupted,” Appolonia said. “The organization is revising their request and we look forward to working with them to review their request,” Appolonia said. Nelsen said he is optimistic that the administration will allow them to play more once they see successful runs of the game without incidents. He added that he worries that the game would be too watered down and would make the it boring. “Keeping the game interesting and yet in the parameters of what is permissible is one of the highest priorities for the moderators of the club,” Nelsen said. “We have our work cut out for us.”

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Student Co-op board of directors denies funding to OnStage By Heather Blake Editor in Chief H.E.Blake@iup.edu

The Student Co-op board of directors voted 6-4 Thursday to deny funding to OnStage for the 2010-11 year. OnStage’s request for $145,875 in funding was denied after debate about the organization’s recurring deficit, the discount removal and remarks that the shows brought to IUP through OnStage are not aimed at students and that students are not involved in the selection process. “I think [OnStage] is a great program … usually I try to look at things from a business perspective … but now I’m starting to look at it like a student. This is $145,000 of our money. This is going toward a program that is not benefitting us,” said board member James Collins. Collins said he feels there are other ways of obtaining the money, such as fundraising through the community, since they are the ones who go to the kinds of shows OnStage books. OnStage adviser Frank DeStefano, who was not present at the meeting, will have the opportunity to appeal the decision at the next Co-op board meeting in March. Board member Sara Selan said she would like to see two things happen: She would like OnStage to come up with an actual plan to pay back its debt and shift its focus back to the students. She added that she wants some sort of guarantee from OnStage that changes will take place. According to information from the Finance Committee, OnStage went over budget by $145,000 in 200405, spending $287,000. In 2005-06 it

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went over budget by $91,000. When OnStage was shipped out of the Co-op in the 2006-07 school year, it owed the Co-op $171,000. Of the more than 10,000 tickets sold for OnStage shows this season, 522 were student rush tickets, where tickets can be purchased for $10 one hour prior to the show, according to Finance Committee information. Only one student rush ticket was purchased for Michael McDonald in September, and 20 were sold for the Irish Guards performance in January. The total dollar value of student rush tickets as of October 2009 was $1,300, out of $745,000. Due to misuse of the discount, DeStefano proposed an option last fall to keep the student rush tickets in place and offer 1,500 student tickets a year, but added regulations that allowed only one ticket per student, all student tickets must be purchased the night of the show at the box office and students must show identification when picking up tickets at the

Will Call window. Mark Staszkiewicz, board chairman, stated at the beginning of the meeting that he wanted the board to separate the OnStage recommendation from the other budget recommendations, and then consider “deferring the OnStage motion to a future date.” “I will reinforce my belief that the Finance Committee acted properly in making its recommendation,” he said “I will reinforce the right of this body to vote on that recommendation, and I will reinforce my conviction that each voting member has the right to vote his/her conscience on this issue.” “I do believe in the concept of ‘the greater good,’ which would suggest that we do some things that not everyone benefits from because it is good for the total group,” he added. “I’m not, however, willing to accept that any one individual has the right to dictate what the common good has to be.”

A&F employee fined for wearing head-scarf By Henry K. Lee San Francisco Chronical Scripps Howard News Service

A Muslim college student has lodged a complaint with federal officials after she said she was fired from her job at a clothing store for refusing to remove her hijab, or head scarf. Hani Khan, 19, said she was terminated from her job Monday at a Hollister clothing store. Her firing came a week after a district manager visited the store, called her into a meeting and said she was not supposed to wear the scarf while at work, said Khan, who is of Indian and Pakistani descent. A representative from human resources joined the meeting by phone, and Khan said she was told that she was in violation of the store’s “look policy.”

“I thought it was quite unfair,” Khan said in an interview Wednesday. “It was really surprising, especially in the Bay Area, because everybody’s so open-minded and accepting of everybody. It’s really surprising to see blatant discrimination against someone who is of an Islamic state who is wearing a hijab.” Khan contacted the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, a Muslim advocacy group. On Tuesday, the organization filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Abercrombie & Fitch, which operates Hollister stores. The commission cannot confirm or deny the existence of a complaint, a spokesman said Wednesday. Abercrombie & Fitch officials did not respond to requests for comment. Khan, a political-science stu-

dent at the College of San Mateo, said she wore her hijab to her job interview before she was hired as a part-time stockroom worker in October. She said her direct supervisors had no problem with her headwear, so long as they were of the company’s colors — navy, gray and white — which she said they were. CAIR spokeswoman Zahra Billoo said it was “unconscionable” for Abercrombie & Fitch to treat Khan this way. “Firing someone explicitly for a religious reason or practice is, in our view, against the law,” Billoo said. In September, the EEOC filed a civil suit against Abercrombie & Fitch for allegedly discriminating against a 17-year-old Muslim in Oklahoma by refusing to hire her because she wore a hijab. The case is pending.

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By Chuck Shepherd Universal Press Syndicate

The Continuing Crisis

The Importance of the Dictionary: • When Donald Williams was publicly sworn in as a judge in Ulster County, N.Y., on Jan. 2, offices were closed, and no one could find a Bible. Since holy books are not legally required, Williams took the oath with his hand on a dictionary. • Merriam Webster’s 10th edition dictionary is so influential that the Menifee Union School District in Southern California removed all copies from its elementary schools’ shelves in January in response to a parent’s complaint that the book contains a reference to “oral sex.” Texting While Driving Is Not the Problem: • Briton Rachel Curtis, 23, was sentenced to 12 months in prison by Bristol Crown Court in October for leading police on a high-speed chase while injecting heroin. • Authorities in Scottsboro, Ala., in December arrested a man after a high-speed chase during which he allegedly had methamphetamine cooking in the front seat.

• Long-haul trucker Thomas Wallace was charged with manslaughter in Buffalo, N.Y., in January after his rig struck a parked car, killing the occupant, while Wallace was distracted watching pornography on his laptop computer. Too-Swift Justice: • It is not unheard of for someone to commit a crime and then immediately surrender, usually for safety or for the comfort of a warm jail cell (such as Timmy Porter, 41, did in Anchorage, Alaska, in October immediately after robbing the First National Bank Alaska). • However, Gerard Cellette Jr., 44, tried to be even more helpful. Knowing that he would soon be arrested (and probably convicted) for running a $53 million Ponzi scheme in the Minneapolis area, he walked into a county judge’s chambers in December and offered to begin serving time. The judge explained that Cellette would have to wait until charges were filed and a plea recorded. • Timing Is Everything: Guido Boldini (and his mother Constance Boldini) pleaded guilty last April to soliciting a hit man to take out Guido’s ex-wife, Michelle Hudon, after a contentious child-custody battle in

Keene, N.H. The “hit man” was, of course, an undercover cop, and the son and mother are now serving a combined 12 to 35 years in prison. However, unknown to the Boldinis, Michelle Hudon had been diagnosed with cancer, and in September, she died.

Bright Ideas

• An official in Shijiazhuang, China, told Agence France-Presse in December that the city’s new “women only” parking lot was designed to meet females’ “strong sense of color and different sense of distance.” That is, the spaces are 3 feet wider than regular spaces and painted pink and purple. Also, attendants have been “trained” to “guide” women into parking spaces. • Lenoir County, N.C., sheriff’s deputies raided a suspected marijuana farm in January and learned that the grow operation was all underground. The 60 live plants were being cultivated inside an abandoned school bus, which had been completely buried, using several backhoes, accessible by a tunnel and with a garage built on top of it.

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Helmut Kichmeier, 27, a hypnotist “trainee” who appears as Hannibal Helmurto in Britain’s Circus of Horrors, accidentally hypnotized himself in January as he was practicing in front of a mirror. (Being in such a trance helps him swallow swords on stage.) His wife called Kichmeier’s mentor, Dr. Ray Roberts, who, as a “voice of authority,” was able to snap Kichmeier out of it over the phone.

Fine Points of the Law

A death-row inmate has a right to question the fairness of the sentencing jurors if they appear to be so friendly with the judge that they give him (and the bailiff) post-trial gag chocolates shaped like breasts and penises. The U.S. Supreme Court in January ordered a lower court to consider a rehearing request from convicted killer Marcus Wellons of Georgia.

Least Competent Criminals

• Two men tied up employees at a recycling company in Chicago in December, intending to take away the ATM on the premises, which is normally used to pay people who bring in scrap metal. However, the

two men fled empty-handed after realizing that they were not strong enough to carry the 250-pound machine out to their truck. • Lloyd Norris, 57, was arrested in Gwinnett County, Ga., in February and charged with mortgage fraud, after he tried to buy a house with “cash” consisting of a nonsensical $225,000 “U.S. Treasury” promissory note, supposedly “certified” by Secretary Timothy Geithner. Norris had prepared $1 billion worth of the documents on his computer and apparently assumed that banks would not look too closely at them.

News of the Weird Classic (April 2005)

Dr. Thomas Perls, director of the New England Centenarian Study at Boston University Medical School, told a conference in Brisbane, Australia, in March 2005 that he donates blood regularly, largely because he believes it will prolong his life. Women outlive males, Dr. Perls believes, mainly because they menstruate. Perls said iron loss inhibits the growth of free radicals that age cells. “I menstruate,” he said, “every eight weeks.”

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‘Intern Queen’ advises students on landing internship opportunities By emily eberhart Contributing Writer E.E.Eberhart@iup.edu

“Intern Queen” Lauren Berger spoke to students about the importance of internships, sharing her story along with some tips on landing an internship. The 2006 graduate of the University of Central Florida in Orlando spoke to IUP students Tuesday at Eberly Auditorium. Berger completed 15 unpaid internships while pursuing her undergraduate degree. In the spring of her freshman year at UCF, Berger’s mother encouraged her to pursue an internship. After the career center on campus turned her away because she was a freshman, she submitted her resume to a company called Zimmerman Agency in Tallahassee. “This generation isn’t really into the whole ‘no’ thing,” said Berger, regarding her initial rejection from the career center. “Companies would rather have an exciting, eager freshman than a senior who doesn’t have these qualities.” The Zimmerman Agency contacted Berger, and after an interview, she got her first of 15 internships. At one point, Berger had three different internships with three different companies in three different departments in Los Angeles. The summer after her junior year, Berger landed internships with NBC, MTV and FOX while working a parttime job. “It’s definitely possible, with the right focus and preparation, to manage an internship and a job,” Berger said.

Shane Dreistadt/The Penn “Intern Queen” Lauren Berger explained how important internships are for students aspiring to compete in the difficult job market Tuesday.

Following a job with Creative Artist Agency (the biggest talent agency in the world), Berger founded The Intern Queen Inc. upon realizing that none of her friends had internships, while she’d completed 15, because they weren’t going out to get them. Therefore, she wanted to become “the intern queen” to be the liaison between students and internships. “She’s enthusiastic and funny,” said Justin Hyatt (junior, journalism) major. “I feel like she pulled the crowd in and had some genuinely great tips.” Berger’s advice to getting an internship includes making a list of 10 companies you’d love to work for. Also, resumes should be no longer than one page. Writing your own letter of recommendation (and keeping it modest) and having a professor or

employer read over it and sign it may be better than a template they’d otherwise use. This will provide a unique element to your letter of recommendation and it will save your professor or employer time. Berger also encouraged students to invest in stationery. “Send a hand-written thank-you note after each interview,” she said. The “Intern Queen” also encouraged students to monitor their Facebook pages, as many employers will check it. Finally, following an internship, she encourages students to write thankyou notes to everyone and to keep in touch at least once a semester. To learn more about Berger and for more tips, tricks and helpful advice, visit her Web site, InternQueen.com.

Students leave teach-in regarding ‘Compton Cookout’ By Larry Gordon Los Angeles Times MCT

Nine days after an off-campus student party mocked Black History Month, University of California, San Diego went through a day of protests, tumult and self-examination Wednesday, especially concerning the small number of black students enrolled at the beachside campus. University administrators sponsored a teach-in on racial tolerance that attracted a standing-room-only crowd of more than 1,200 students, faculty and staff to an auditorium in the student center. But halfway through what was to be a two-hour session in response to the offensive racial stereotypes at the Feb. 15 “Compton Cookout” party, most students walked out in protest. They then held their own noisy but peaceful rally outside the building.

Administrators may have thought the teach-in “would make us quiet,” said Fnann Keflezighi, vice chairman of the Black Student Union. But she said minority students don’t believe that UC San Diego will take significant steps to make them feel more comfortable on campus and increase their numbers. The controversial party, she and others contended, was just the spark that ignited new activism about longsimmering issues at the university. Many wore special black and white T-shirts that proclaimed: “Real Pain, Real Action, 1.3 percent” — a reference to the percentage of blacks among the campus’ undergraduates, thought to be the lowest in the UC system. The teach-in moderator, Mentha Hynes-Wilson, a black who is dean of students at UCSD’s Thurgood Marshall College, continued the meeting for several hundred people who remained

“I was not necessarily offended or taken aback by their actions ... That’s what they needed to do and we need to honor that.” — Mentha Hynes-Wilson, dean of students at UCSD’s Thurgood Marshall College in the room after the walkout. “I was not necessarily offended or taken aback by their actions,” she said of the student protest. “That’s what they needed to do, and we need to honor that.”UC San Diego Chancellor Marye Anne Fox attended the teach-in but did not speak publicly. Administrators said the campus is taking many steps to boost recruitment of black students and to provide more counseling and security on campus.

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Opinion

Utah’s new bill: Illegal abortions now include ‘reckless’ behavior By Sarah Morrow By Emily Franey and emily Mross Contributing Columnists The-Penn@iup.edu

Twitter. Tweet. Tweeted. These are all words that over a year ago would most likely have brought either birds or gibberish to mind. When people in the media try to discuss the Twitter phenomenon, they still regularly mess up the terms and misunderstand the practice. We are proud Twitter users. We are also both students in the journalism department, which has recently incorporated Twitter into the curriculum as part of a special topics class on social media in public relations. Microblogging has academic relevance now. An art exhibit in Sprowls last semester even utilized Twitter. The exhibit on digital literature featured a laptop with an endless poem, composed entirely of Tweets. Twitter. It’s art, poetry, news and entertainment. It is the one thing you might not know you’re missing on the Internet. Stop dragging your feet and send

a tweet. Messages of 140 characters or less helped tell the world what was really going on during the Iranian elections over the summer. Social media broadcasted a hushed political uprising, giving the service a new level of legitimacy. Twitter, unlike Facebook and MySpace, seeks to extend this legitimacy with the verified account program. If you see a celebrity account with a blue checkmark icon, Twitter has verified that the account owner is actually that celebrity, be it faux newsman Stephen Colbert or real newsman Anderson Cooper. Twitter has become a news source and an important news tool, for both journalists and readers. Breaking news can be sent out rapidly, and reactions or eyewitness information can be shared just as quickly, along with links to pictures and videos. We hear people argue that Twitter is just a rip off of Facebook, and is unnecessary. Tweeting is a lot like updating your Facebook status, and you can even link your Twitter account to your Facebook account for that very purpose. But Twitter is simpler and cleaner than Facebook. No clutter, no ads – just informa-

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tion from the people businesses, and organizations you choose to follow. If the university chose to harness its Twitter power, they could tap into a better way to communicate with students. Think about it like Reverse 911, without all the glitches. Most campus organizations get their announcements lost in the Campus Events list, but having an individual account puts you in direct contact with interested students and similar organizations on other campuses. IUP’s chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America has its own Twitter account, linking the student members to each other in Indiana, and chapters at other Pennsylvania universities like Penn State and Temple. The Entertainment Network, which brings musicians, comedians and speakers to campus, has its own account, too. It is clear that IUP organizations have information they want heard. Adding Twitter to your arsenal will not hurt. We hope that the university and more campus groups join the Twitterverse. In a completely nonstalker context, we would love to

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Utah’s Senate has taken an uncomfortable step by passing HB0012, a bill that will criminalize any “intentional, knowing or reckless act of the woman” who is pregnant that results in the death of an unborn child. The wording is intended to address the issue of illegal and/or unintentional abortion acts that result in death. This is proving to be something of a hot-button issue for many people, understandably. The biggest question, for better of worse, that has been brought forth is whether the term “reckless” should be included in the bill as an identifying factor for criminal homicide. What is the legal definition of reckless? According to legal dictionaries, it is written as “in both negligence and criminal cases, careless to the point of being heedless of the consequences.” When addressing issues like reckless driving, we can see where this definition comes from and how it could be applied. When discussing the death of an unborn child, there are worries that it could create a large gray area. Utah Democratic Sen. Luz Robles brought this issue to the attention of her peers and the writers of the bill in the hopes of amending the wording. The concerns that were brought forth included whether or not this new application of the term “reckless” could be seen as a way to prosecute women who remain in abusive situations that lead to miscarriages. These concerns were noted, but no changes were made. Interestingly, the bill has not made stipulations for actions to take against others (such as the fathers) in the event of an unintentional illegal abortion. Previously passed, there are provisions for intentional actions in this realm. While

medically conducted abortions are legal in the state of Utah, the HB0012 does not take into consideration the needs of those who may not be able to afford such procedures. The bill is currently on the desk of the governor of Utah, Gary Herbert, awaiting finalization. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Utah has publicized a letter to Gov. Herbert in an effort to illustrate a need for vetoing the bill. The letter attempts to highlight the point that for many women who do not have access to health care, the bill will effectively criminalize them regardless of what they do. Examples included women accidentally utilizing a physician who did not accurately represent his qualifications or a woman with a substance abuse problem who was not capable of seeking prenatal care. The ACLU states that under the wording of the bill that both cases could now be criminal cases. This bill is something of an affront to the rights of women and mothers. I am in no way encouraging people to seek out pregnancy termination from anyone other than a physician, just to be clear. However, this bill has the potential to attack women for accidental or unintentional behaviors that result in pregnancy termination. There are an overabundance of hypothetical situations in which this could turn very dark, very quickly. What about forgetting to wear a seatbelt? What about just missing that crosswalk sign? The real world presents too many situations in which this bill could hurt more women than it would help unborn children. While the situation that led to this bill is terrible (a 17-year-old girl paid someone to beat her until her pregnancy had been terminated), the resulting implications of this bill’s passing could prove worse yet.

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If students help finance OnStage, program should cater to our needs

Gov’t should handle all student lending MCT

Given a choice, would you use taxpayer money to subsidize banks, or to help students pay for college? It’s rare for a public policy question to be this big a no-brainer. But that’s the right way to describe the Obama administration’s proposal to save an estimated $80 billion over 10 years by making all student loans directly through the government rather than private lenders, and direct that money toward education programs. The House has passed legislation to eliminate the middleman _ companies such as Sallie Mae _ from the process, but the proposal is stalled in the Senate amid filibuster threats. U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan wants to use the money for programs that help students get to college and succeed there, crucial steps for the country if U.S. companies are to compete globally long-term. The biggest of these programs is a $40 billion increase in Pell Grants, which would improve affordability for students now and reduce indebtedness later. The plan also includes $8 bil-

lion for early childhood education, an essential ingredient for success later in life, and more money for community colleges, low-interest Perkins loans and college-tuition tax credits. In concept, the proposal isn’t that dramatic; the government already makes the majority of student loans. However, a very profitable slice currently goes through private companies that lend out federal money and collect fees and interest, even though taxpayers bear the risk of default. This piece of the market would be eliminated. Lenders, supported by some lawmakers from both parties, are arguing against the plan, trying to protect what Duncan calls their “free ride.” Perhaps sensing that public opinion isn’t on their side, they’ve suggested an alternative that would limit their profits but also save the government far less. One of the primary arguments against the bill is that it represents a government takeover. But this argument is purely political, not substantive, as the government provides virtually all the capital for student loans already. The industry also says the bill will cost jobs. Sallie Mae estimates

it would be forced to lay off some 2,500 people, though it doesn’t account for positions that would be regained because the plan calls for private companies to service the loans. Regardless, saving these jobs isn’t worth $80 billion. The lenders argue they can serve students better, and they’re at least partly right, which is why the government would still contract with them to service the loans. But during the economic collapse, many private lenders stopped offering loans altogether, forcing colleges to turn to the more reliable direct lending programs instead — hardly a shining example of excellent customer support. It’s one thing to lose your car loan when credit markets freeze up. It’s quite another to be unable to attend college. Student lending is too important to be left to market vagaries. This plan eliminates corporate welfare and funds key education programs without adding to the deficit. The Senate should pass it without delay so that colleges will have time to implement it in time for the next school year.

If you are an IUP student, the likelihood that you have been to a performance brought to campus by OnStage is pretty slim. While the organization brings the occasional performance that is interesting to the people of Indiana who aren’t staring retirement in the face, most of the shows they sponsor don’t sell any significant number of tickets to students. They hit the mark once or twice a year with a popular musical – this year it was the raunchy puppets of Avenue Q, which sold out and clearly had a college audience. But the other shows – Michael McDonald? Lord of the Dance? Clearly, the 18-25 crowd was not the target audience. And this has been the pattern with OnStage events. The Co-op board made the right move in denying OnStage funding for the 2010-11 school year. Out of 13 shows this season, less than five could easily be considered as targeted to the demographics of university students. The reported ticket sales have confirmed this. Student ticket sales for most OnStage shows were abysmal, even when they were discounted to $10. If OnStage wants funding that comes mostly out of students’ pockets, it needs to schedule a season of shows for which students, not community members, are the target audience. The benefits that the OnStage program is supposed to provide student audience members is barely beneficial. Everyone knows that we stereotypical college students never have any money – and unless you were willing to tempt fate and wait until the last second to buy tickets, you usually had to pay at least $20, often for the worst seats in the house. How is that beneficial to students? If part of our activity fee goes to sponsor a program that caters more to year-round Indiana residents than university students, something is wrong. That is not how university programs are supposed to work. You rarely hear people say that denying funding for an arts program was the right decision, but in this case it was.

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New fashion provides support for men’s stomach By joseph v. amodio Newsday MCT

As a tribe, men tend to be a loud bunch. We snore, snort, and those past a tender age grunt when sitting down and groan on the way back up. But what would it sound like if every American adult male suddenly, voluntarily, sucked in his gut? We’ll never know, because men no longer have to stress about such things. They now have specially designed T-shirts, briefs and other manly type girdles — “mirdles,” they’ve been called — to do the gut-busting for them. We’re talking “men’s shapewear,” a category that’s grown in recent years, achieving landmark status last month when Spanx, the sassy, uberbrand of women’s shapers, launched a much-anticipated line for dudes. Sara Blakely has her work cut out for her. Getting guys to buy gear named Spanx may be tough. And there’s already lots of competition. For men not used to clothes that feel different, “it’s a shock at first, but sales prove they’re willing,” said Jason Scarlatti, creative director of 2(x)ist, another male shapewear line. “Fitness and body image have become infused in our lives,” he says. “And men will do what it takes to feel good about themselves.” Translation: We’ll still belly up to the bar, but those bellies will be compressed. Men’s Cotton Compression Undershirts from Spanx, $55 to $58, promise to firm (chest), narrow (waist), flatten (gut), improve (posture), and support (lower back), among other verbs; in crew, vee or tank styles, at spanx.com. 2(x)ist goes for a “weight belt” or boxing short look in their new “Form”

line of stretch cotton briefs, $18, and trunks, $24, with funneled elastic to slim the waist; at freshpair.com, hisroom.com and barenecessities.com. Equmen, an Australian line of men’s “Core Precision Underwear,” utilizes a “helix mapping” cross-stitch designed by physical therapists to pull back shoulders and compress that gut; $89 and up for tees, tanks, $49 and up for bottoms, at Saks Fifth Avenue and equmen.com. Yummie Tummie founder Heather Thomson calls the “RIPT Fusion” a “classic men’s undershirt on steroids,” with a compression mid panel and soft cotton chest, in crew or v-neck, $58 ($62 for big and tall); at riptfusion.com. The Ultimate Body Sculptor crewneck tee, around $62, by Atlanta bodyshaper brand Julie France, is made of seamless, lightweight microfiber with contouring panels that wick, shape pecs and support his core; at juliefrance.com. Slix launched in Dallas in November, offering the Downsizer tee, $39, (in seamless, moderatecompression mesh knit) and wicking boxer briefs, $19, at getyourslixon. com. Go Softwear, makers of underwear and athletic wear “with an edge,” shapes men in all directions; the Slimming Tank is $30; at gosoftwear. com. Sculptees is sure “you’ll feel like you’ve been hitting the iron” in their top-selling, high-compression meshknit T-Slim crew ($78), at sculptees. com, freshpair.com and lovemybubbles.com. Women have squeezed into shapewear for centuries, but guys may need coaxing. So brands are hyping practical benefits, from posture support to renewed energy. Spanx testers, including founder Sara Blakely’s dad, felt such items could even “improve an aching back — and their golf game,” she noted.

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Danielle Bashore/The Penn Students attended the “Table Talks” event, based on this year’s Common Freshman Reader, Monday. There were 21 tables hosting activities to encourage students to discuss the themes in the novel.

Six O’Clock Series consists of ‘Table Talks’ of Common Freshman Reader By EMILY EBERHART Staff Writer E.E.Eberhart@iup.edu

Students from the business college honors program created activities to generate discussions about this year’s Common Freshman Reader Monday at the HUB Ohio Room. The event was designed by using the “speed-dating” concept to bring only professionals and students from many disciplines to discuss themes from the book, “Make the Impossible Possible,” by Bill Strickland, according to an IUP news release. There were 21 tables hosting different activities to encourage students to discuss the themes in the novel. All activities lasted

approximately 15 minutes each. Students were asked to visit six tables over the course of the program. In his book, Stickland uses his own life experiences and those of others to demonstrate how people can overcome their circumstances and build on their passions and strengths to achieve success and help mentor and inspire others, according to an IUP news release. One of the tables used Legos to encourage the students to participate. “We’re using Legos to symbolize how Bill Strickland used his creativity and artistic ability to create something out of nothing,” said Matt Swackhammer (junior, accounting), referring to their table that was called “Make Something out of Nothing.”

Another table, which was called “Backgrounds Don’t Make the Person,” used examples of famous people who have come from difficult backgrounds and still became successful, such as J.K. Rowling and Eminem. A number of the faculty and students that were present also attended Bill Strickland’s presentation last semester. According to a news release, IUP President Tony Atwater established the Common Freshman Reader program, now in its fourth year. The goal was to set the tone for academic excellence by encouraging new students to read the same book. Each new student receives a book and is encouraged to read it before the start of the school year.

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People paid to blog on Twitter, other social Websites By sarah benson McClatchy Newspapers MCT

Whitney Mathews gets paid to blog, tweet and Facebook. Last fall, she nabbed a job as social-media strategist for The World Co. in Lawrence, Kan., which oversees a cable provider, TV station and newspaper. Consider Mathews, 25, the social-media liaison between The World Co. and its customers. Sounds like a cushy job, right? Not exactly. “I’m immersed in the online world for 10, 11 hours a day,” Mathews said. On her desk is a laptop, computer monitor and iPhone. She needs all three screens to fence in the plethora of programs and applications she runs constantly at work: Facebook, e-mail, Google chat, a music player, spreadsheets, photo- and video-editing programs and Twitter, to name a few. “It’s media overload on a daily basis,” Mathews said. In the past four years, social-networking use among adults skyrocketed. According to an October report by The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, 46 percent of online American adults are plugged in to a social network such as MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter. That’s up from 8 percent in 2005. Most of us started using social networking to stay in touch with friends. But in the past year or two, social media has morphed into a powerful tool at work. Take Mathews’ job, for example: It didn’t exist before last fall. On a typical day, Mathews catches up with industry blogs, responds to tweets, plans online contests and giveaways and uploads content to the Lawrence Journal-World’s Facebook page. Mostly, she learns as she goes, but Mathews does have a background in this stuff. Two years ago, she was working as a producer at a local TV station when she began experimenting with new ways to tell stories online. In 2008, she began live blogging and posting video from, say, election events and basketball games. And she began using social networking more and more. Tweeting and blogging became second nature. About 46 percent of information-technology professionals say social networking has business value, according to a 2009 study by Internet-security company FaceTime. The workers said that social networking improved communication among employees, helped with marketing, amped up productivity and generated sales leads. Not buying it? You’re not alone. About 12.5 percent of those IT professionals said social media provided

zero benefits at work. Chris Kovac, 34, used to think that way. “I was a socialmedia naysayer,” Kovac said. Kovac, who’s now the director of social influence at Kansas City, Mo., marketing agency Nicholson Kovac, eventually discovered social media’s business potential. It began with a tweet: Kovac posted something about needing a dining-room table. A few minutes later, the vice president of a local furniture company replied, offering to take Kovac on a personal tour of the showroom. “Wow,” Kovac said. “How compelling is that?” Now it’s his job to guide clients through

the socialmedia jungle. Only, he doesn’t really have a map — no one does. Kovac said most jobs in Dreamstime social media came about 18 to 24 months ago, when Facebook and Twitter reached a “tipping point” in popularity. Twitter use exploded 1,382 percent between February 2008 and February 2009, according to Nielsen media research company. Facebook grew 228 percent in the same period. So because social-media jobs are in their infancy — and because this technology is evolving — this new form of social work “can be scary at times,” Kovac said. Especially if you can’t tell whether all those tweets and status updates are doing any good. “I think a lot of companies have no idea — that’s why they’re hiring people who are knee-deep [in social media] every day,” said Chase Hawkins, a 24-year-old Kansas City entrepreneur who co-developed an event-based social-networking site, Zappn. Workers who specialize in social media are sometimes labeled as “social-media gurus,” a title Hawkins can’t stand. “A lot of people in Kansas City love to talk about social media and how it works. And then there are the people that actually do it,” Hawkins said. Even companies that haven’t hired full-time social-media gurus are finding ways to incorporate social networking. For example, Boulevard Brewing Co. has four employees — one brewer and three marketers — who keep up with blogs and update Twitter throughout the workday. Likewise, several employees at Hallmark take turns blogging, tweeting and

Facebooking. Small businesses do it, too: Celina Tio owns her own restaurant, Julian, in Kansas City. She tweets several times a day about restaurant news, specials or what she’s eating. When followers tweet her, she tweets back. “One of my followers came in for dinner, and I recognized his name on the books,” she said. “So I went to his table and said, ‘Nice to meet you in person, fellow tweeter!’ He and his table were surprised that I do the tweeting myself, and that I made the connection to his name and went out of my way to meet him.” That kind of instant gratification is rare in social-media work, mostly because it’s hard to measure the effectiveness of a tweet or Facebook post. Shannon Schlappi, 34, wants to solve this problem. Schlappi, who runs a Kansas City social-media marketing firm called Locker Partner, is developing a site called RockDex that measures a band’s or brand’s buzz — positive and negative — in the social-media realm. Say you’re in a band. If you subscribe to RockDex (the price depends on the size of your company and how often you use RockDex), you can use the site to look up how many times fans play a certain song on your MySpace page, or how many people tweeted your band’s name in the past month. Schlappi said companies have to pay close attention to what’s going on in the social-media world if they want to stay relevant. “To me, this is the future of business,” Schlappi said.

Get marketing help with new social media books By RICHARD PACHTER McClatchy Newspapers MCT

It looks like this social media thing for business could be a solid accompaniment to your company’s marketing and advertising initiatives — assuming that you still allocate resources to those things. But the temptation to devote time to Facebook, Twitter, blogging and other so-called “social media” is strong. After all, they’re free! Everybody is either doing it or saying that you should. And doesn’t Dell sell a zillion computers through Twitter? Here’s a look at a selection of current books offering wisdom and advice on the process of leveraging social media for business. “The Social Media Marketing Book” by Dan Zarrella. O’Reilly Media. I reviewed Mitch Joel’s terrific “Six Pixels of Separation” a few months back. For those who have little to no understanding of the whys and wherefores of these tools, you can do no better than grab that book. Joel’s deep understanding of old school marketing and how it can be transformed by canny deployment of the right tools is worth the price of admission. His engaging writing makes the experience quite pleasant, too. You’d do quite well with that book as a guide to your online marketing journey. Of the latest crop of books, I’d recommend Zarrella’s taut little catalog of ways and means. It’s surprisingly broad, given its size, but the author knows his stuff well

enough to realize that each business requires a unique combination of resources. Zarrella lays ‘em all out, so you can pick and choose what you think will work best for you. “Friends With Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook,” by Darren Barefoot and Julie Szabo. No Starch Press. 312 pages. Barefoot and Szabo, a married couple, present a smart survey of current online connection tools and how they’re being used by a variety of people in business and out. The pair provide plenty of examples and suggest ways to initiate the deployment of social media tools by integrating them with legacy marketing methods, along with embarking upon different ways to engage new markets and constituencies. I’m not sure that they offer anything radically new or unique to the discussion other than their own experiences and perspectives, but that may well suffice. “Get Connected: The Social Networking Toolkit for Business” by Starr Hall, Chadd Rosenberg. Entrepreneur Press. Hall and sidekick Rosenberg get into the nuts and bolts here with a fine primer. Their no-nonsense approach serves to make the confusing array of choices a bit more comprehensible and actionable for clueless newbies. They review the sites, provide case studies and offer opinions. It’s a very good approach and their book might be the perfect one for small businesses and practices that have limited resources and limitless ambitions.

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Backing up information on cell phone could save important dates, stress By ALYSON WARD McClatchy Newspapers MCT

We give up our land lines in favor of cell phones that go anywhere. We take piles of pictures with their builtin cameras. We surf the Web in waiting rooms, download songs in the car. We tweet. We text. We bank online. And we carry around an enormous amount of crucial data in our pockets. But if cell phones are a form of power, they’re also an Achilles heel. We rely so heavily on our pocket-sized gadgets that, if

“It was,” she said, “the worst day of my life.” Bolin can laugh about it now, but it wasn’t pretty. She was in her car when the phone slipped out of her hand and plopped into a cup of water. By the time Bolin could stop and rescue it, little bubbles were rising to the surface: Her BlackBerry was filled with water. She fished it out. Tried to turn it on. It made a loud buzzing sound and died. “It wasn’t until the next day,” Bolin said, “[that] I realized: that is the only place I keep my appointments, my contact Dreamstime numbers, my everything.” Yes, everything. The whole family’s yours schedule was saved on that phone: Bolin used it to keep up with every- gets lost, stolen one’s activities, school events and or dunked in water, it’s not just an inconvenience. It kind doctor’s appointments. She also had a contacts list of more of shuts down your life for a while. McCall Keahey lost his iPhone the than 200 phone numbers. But not week before Christmas. And when it anymore. “It was terrible,” Bolin said. “I had disappeared, he lost his most important tool for navigating through the it backed up nowhere.” A few days later, she replaced day. “Literally, my life just came to a her dead phone with an iPhone, but those data weren’t coming back. Bolin standstill,” said Keahey. “You don’t hadn’t just lost her phone — she’d lost think about how dependent you are.” He had to make calls from a pay her whole schedule and network of phone. No one was able to reach him. contacts. And — most important — Keahey She and the kids missed a couple of appointments. She didn’t have any- lost his data, including vacation photos and more than 300 personal and one’s phone number. She felt lost. “My daily routine was I’d get up in professional contacts. Of course, with the morning and check my BlackBerry an iPhone, you should be able to sync to see what I was supposed to be your new phone to your computer and doing that day,” Bolin said. Even now, get all that data back. But that’s not foolproof: Keahey she wonders every morning: “Was I had synced his iPhone with a lapsupposed to do something today?” In this modern world, superfast top that he’d given to his stepdaughsmart phones put the world at our ter. And she’s away at school — in Australia. fingertips.

The way Keahey figured it, “it’s either a $3,000 plane ticket to Sydney or just deal with it.” So he’s dealing with it. Since replacing his phone, he has been collecting numbers all over again — adding contacts to his list as people call him, e-mailing friends to ask for their numbers. And he’s being extra careful: Keahey doesn’t want to lose it all again. “It’s my main objective in life right now: to sync my phone every 15 minutes,” he said. OK, actually it’s more like once a week. But it’s not a bad idea to be prepared. Think about this: If your phone disappeared, would your data go, too? Would you lose photos, files, music, a long list of phone numbers you need? The time to back it all up is now. Here’s what you can do to protect and save the information stored on your phone — so that if it gets fried or goes missing, you won’t lose anything more than a chunk of plastic. IF YOU LOSE YOUR PHONE Once your phone is gone, it’s gone. Here’s what to do. • Track it down. Is it possible your phone is just in the laundry hamper or hiding under the car seat? Call it. If you don’t have a land line, go to WheresMyCellPhone.com and type in your phone number. The site will call your cell phone so you can listen for its ring. • Shut it down. If you think your phone might be stolen, get in touch with your service provider and suspend your service as soon as possible. • Change your passwords. Does your phone offer one-click access to your e-mail? Facebook? Your bank? If your phone is stolen, then someone else has one-click access, too.

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American Kennel Club opens some events to mutts By SCOTT FARWELL The Dallas Morning News MCT

Like many proud pet owners, Peggy Thompson thinks her mutt Tulie is the best dog in the world. That’s why she’s both pleased and peeved at the American Kennel Club. Pleased because last month the nation’s largest nonprofit dog registry decided it would list dogs like Tulie — a Basenji and Jack Russell terrier mix — and allow them to compete in agility, obedience and rally events. Peeved because the AKC stopped short of full integration. Mutts will be allowed to compete only against other mutts, and the most coveted prizes will still be preserved for the purebreds. Mixed breeds also will be barred from the most prestigious shows, such as those held at the Westminster Kennel Club in New York. “I’d put this girl right here up against any dog in the world in an agility competition,” Thompson said one recent afternoon at the White Rock Lake Dog Park, flashing a “youdon’t-want-any-of-this” grin. Nearby, Tulie leapt like a gazelle after a thrown stick. “She’s smart, too. Those show dogs just go round and round in a ring,” she said. “That girl right there can go get cheese out of my refrigerator. How many dogs do you know who can do that?” Thompson’s pride in her dog begins to explain the frustration felt by many mixed-breed owners — who for years have been shut out of AKC competitions and now feel like they’re only being let in through the back door. To understand the other side of the debate, one must consider the

exclusive history of the AKC. Back in the day, all dogs were mutts. But in 1884, a group of 12 sportsmen (read: aristocrats) met in the Kennel Club of Philadelphia and planted the seed of an organization that would set “breed standards” defining how dogs of each type should look. Over the years — with careful documentation, discriminating breeding and even DNA tests — fanciers refined many canines into purebreds with an established lineage. That work is valuable and should not be compromised, said Lori Hooper, a dog fancier in Dallas with a prize-winning Keeshond — which looks like a wolf with a Don King haircut. She said her concern isn’t with all-American mutts — which everyone adores — but with designer dogs produced by puppy mills. Hooper fears the AKC’s aboutface will legitimize unscrupulous breeders who, she said, are responsible for hybrids such as cockapoos (cocker spaniel-poodle) and labradoodles (Labrador-poodle). “Those breeders are not concerned about genetic issues,” she said. “My concern is that with AKC’s acceptance, it will give people a sales pitch.” “As for now, they will compete separately,” Peterson said. “As for what the future holds, who knows?” Cindy Leung, president of the Mixed Breed Dog Clubs of America, said time and increasing tolerance eventually forced the AKC to revise its century-old policy. Why did it take so long? “I think because they didn’t have to change, because they had enough money and the fanciers and conformation and pureblood people were being elitist,” she said. “But the AKC has fallen as registrations have fallen, and they’ve seen their legislative power wane.”

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Dry cleaning cashmere sweaters is an expensive way to clean them, but not the best way, according to a number of authorities. Cashmere and camel hair knits should be hand washed in a soap for fine washables and laid flat on a towel to dry, according to The Cashmere and Camel Hair Manufacturers Institute in Boston. Similar advice is given for mohair sweaters by The Mohair Council of America in San Angelo, Texas. Many folks know the drill for hand washing sweaters. We wash each item separately in cold water, rinse a couple of times and gently press out the water. These days, women who wear so many sweaters have shortcuts, including laying sweaters on an over-thetub sweater rack to dry. I still wash cashmere, angora and beaded sweaters this way, but am fortunate to have a small laundry room I can close off. I lay the washed sweater on a towel on top of the dryer while it is running with other laundry. This not only dries the sweater much faster, but dries the ones Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve laid out in the same way on the ironing board. I turn them over once and inside out at least once, since the sides need to air dry first.

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Unemployment is hovering near double digits. Employers receive 100 applications for every job. Even McDonald’s isn’t hiring. What a great time to ditch the evil corporate world and move back home. Just imagine how thrilled Mom and Dad will be to have you hang out on their couch all day. If you spend your days fantasizing about unemployment lines, here are 11 tips guaranteed to land your butt on the street. After all, you can’t beat the hours! 1. Be a clock watcher You’re only working for the paycheck, so why put in free overtime? Arrive at one-minute-to-9 and leave at one-minute-after-5. They can’t fire you if you’re never late. 2. Gossip Be the king of the water cooler. Make sure everyone knows the handsome receptionist is getting a divorce and the boss is having an affair.

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conversations about your cheating wife. You won’t have to live in a cubicle farm for long.

3. Ignore customers That stuff about the customer always being right is so 15 minutes ago. You have better things to do than help whiny people — like making endless personal calls while examining your hair for split ends.

6. Send lots of e-mails Your e-mails are works of art. Forward them to everyone in your office address book and mass-distribute every humorous, political and chain e-mail you receive. “Reply All” when you send a snarky response to your boss’ e-mail so everyone knows you’re better than her.

4. Flub deadlines Deadlines are just a matter of opinion. Make the world move to your beat. So what if it backs up the whole show and makes the boss look bad? You’re having a bad hair day and just can’t be bothered. 5. Ignore cubicle etiquette Drench all available surfaces with pictures, statues and knick-knacks of unicorns, dogs dressed as people or whatever takes your fancy. Talk endlessly about Miss Meow Meow and show everyone 50 photos of your cat staring at the camera. Loudly clip your finger and toe nails and leave the clippings on your desk. Make loud and detailed phone

7. Be a drama queen Smothering emotions isn’t healthy, so let those water-works flow when a customer or supervisor criticizes you. Roll your eyes constantly, yell and stomp off at the slightest provocation. Soon you can take your act on the road. 8. Be rude Isolate yourself. Saying “good morning” and “thank you” is just a waste of time and who really cares about your co-worker’s vacation? You didn’t need these people on the way up and you certainly won’t need the on the way down.

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9. Dress like a slob Sweats and T-shirts are incredibly comfortable, so why waste money on expensive clothes? Alternately, make everyone uncomfortable by showing lots of cleavage and leg. And don’t forget the lip, nose and eyebrow rings! 10. Climb ego mountain You’re irreplaceable and everyone should know it by now. Tell

co-workers how to do their jobs. Don’t bother upgrading your skills. Be as boring, trivial and obnoxious as possible. 11. Take credit for others’ work Knives belong in your co-workers’ backs, not on the dinner table. Besides, your boss will never know your underling actually came up with that great idea. If they complain, act surprised and deny everything.

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IUP survives overtime thriller against Edinboro, locks up third place in PSAC West By vaughn johnson Sports Editor V.M.Johnson@iup.edu

Forward Hillary Shope’s free throws lifted IUP above Edinboro in overtime by a score of 64-63. Shope hit the two free throws with 1.6 seconds left in the extra session and helped IUP survive a 3-point attempt by guard Samantha Reimer to get out of Edinboro with a victory. “Hilary Shope came up huge,” Head Coach Jeff Dow said. With the victory, IUP (16-9, 9-4) locked up the third spot in the PSAC tournament and sets up a date with Cal U in the PSAC quarterfinals March 2. The match-up will mark the fourth year in a row the Crimson Hawks and the Vulcans have crossed paths in the postseason, with the Hawks winning the last three — all of which were in the championship game. Cal U (20-6, 10-3) locked up the second spot in the PSAC West after a 77-63 win over Slippery Rock Wednesday night. The loss for Edinboro (15-11, 6-7) sets up a de-facto PSAC tournament play-in game against Clarion (14-12, 5-8) Saturday night with the fourth and final spot in the PSAC tourna-

ment up for grabs. The game between IUP and Edinboro resembled a pendulum as momentum swung back and forth between both teams. The lead changed hands 10 times during the contest. Shope scored a team-high 16 points and scored seven of IUP’s nine points in overtime. “She was getting some great touches, and we did a great job as a team executing our plays to get her the ball inside,” Dow said. Guards Lacy Claar and Eryn Withers joined Shope in double figures, scoring 14 and 13 respectively. Claar was one rebound shy of a double double as she grabbed nine rebounds. Edinboro posted two players in double figures as forward Kelsey Conklin and guard Renee Brown scored 18 apiece. For Edinboro, it was more about who didn’t score in double figures than who did, because for the second time this season, Reimer, Edinboro’s all-time leading scorer, was held below 10 points — this time only scoring seven points on two of 14 shooting in 36 minutes of playing time. In the two games against IUP, Reimer shot a combined two of 26 and scored a combined 12 points — a

stark contrast from her average of 18 points. “[Reimer] has knack for drawing fouls and she’ll just literally just kind of hurl her body into you and hopes she gets the call,” Dow said. “That’s one thing we’ve stressed every time we’ve played them: You got to be disciplined, you got to get your feet moving. Don’t bail her out of a bad shot.” “Don’t try to block it, don’t try to strip her, just be still and just let her initiate all of the contact,” he added. IUP will wrap up the regular season at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Field House against Slippery Rock (6-20, 3-10). It will be Senior Night, the last home game for the two seniors on the squad: Shope and guard Kierstin Filla. Despite knowing who and where they are playing in the first round of the PSAC tournament next week, Dow is not taking the foot off the pedal quite yet. “By no means can we look ahead,” Dow said. “[Slippery Rock] clearly hasn’t just flicked it in even though they’re not going to make it into the conference tournament, so we got to be ready to play,” he added. “We’re not so good that we can just overlook anybody. Let’s not kid ourselves.”

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Crimson Hawks cruise past Edinboro, post six in double figures By vaughn johnson Sports Editor V.M.Johnson@iup.edu

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IUP won its school-record 12th conference game after easily defeating Edinboro 88-73 Wednesday night. IUP improved its record to 24-2 overall and 12-1 in the PSAC West, but will likely remain in the No. 2 spot in the Atlantic Regional Rankings as the team ahead of it, West Liberty, did not falter in any games this week. With this loss, Edinboro dropped to 4-9 in the PSAC West and will miss out on the postseason for the first time in 10 years. Despite not having much to play for besides a position in the NCAA tournament, IUP came out with guns blazing and put the game out of reach for Edinboro fairly early.

IUP got its first double-digit lead at the 13:53 mark in the first half after guard Kevin Stewart drained a jumper to put IUP up 18-7. From there, the Crimson Hawks built their lead as big as 20 and held a 19-point advantage going into halftime at 45-26. It almost seemed academic in the second half as IUP built leads as big as 26 before Edinboro slowed the onslaught. The offensive barrage was spearheaded by IUP posting six players in double figures. Guard Thomas Young led the way with 25. .Others in double figures were forwards Darryl Webb (15), Willi Estrella (10) and Akida McLain (12), who also recorded a double double with 14 rebounds along with guards Stewart

(12) and Ashton Smith (11). With half of the roster scoring double figures, the shooting percentage was naturally high. IUP shot nearly 53 percent from the field in the first half and improved to 65 percent in the second. The Crimson Hawks shot 77 percent from the free-throw line as well. While IUP was having a historic night, Edinboro had a mediocre night on offense. Although Edinboro had four players score in double figures, it shot only 33 percent during the game, which included 23 percent in the first half. IUP closes out the regular season at 7:30 p.m. Saturday against rival Slippery Rock at Memorial Field House during Senior Night where the two seniors, McLain and Young, will be honored.

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Les Mills, the world’s leading group fitness class, is coming to IUP and will be at the HUB Fitness Center March 2. The Les Mills program is an exercise regiment that incorporates music and choreography with fitness, and is becoming the one of the world’s largest. Five million people a week take part in the programs in 13,000 clubs in more than 70 countries, according to the Les Mills Web site. “Our system provides quality assurance and consistency,” said Club

Coach of Les Mills Mid-Atlantic Katie Guthrie, during a phone interview Wednesday. She will be here to teach the classes, which are expected to fill to capacity. Despite having clubs all around the world, having clubs at universities is a new venture for Les Mills. The company either has or will soon have clubs at University of Georgia, Virginia Tech, William and Mary and Drexel University. During the visit to IUP, there will be a BODYPUMP Masterclass, where people can take the first program offered by Les Mills at IUP. BODYPUMP is a non-impact exercise that works

every major muscle group in the body using weights. It conditions, strengthens and tones muscles, according to the Les Mills Web site. “It has good music, it’s easy to follow and it gives results,” Guthrie said. Guthrie and Les Mills will return later in March to find people who can be certified teachers of Les Mills exercise in order to have a full Les Mills program up and running at IUP by next fall. Pre-registration for the classes is required and is available at the front desk of the HUB Fitness Center. “The ultimate success will be that every piece of equipment is being used,” Guthrie said.

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The Crimson Hawks have not played a game since their win over Slippery Rock Feb. 13., but they are hoping that their 11-5 victory over the CHMA regular season champions will be enough to boost them through the CHMA playoffs. Through 14 conference games, Slippery Rock managed to pull ahead of West Virginia by three points to take the No. 1 spot. While both teams were 10-4, two of West Virginia’s wins set them above. Two of its wins in overtime (one in a shootout), were enough to set them back three points behind Slippery Rock, given that four points are awarded for an overtime win, and only three points are awarded with

a shootout win. The first two games of the playoffs are today and the second two games are Saturday. The CHMA championship game is Sunday. The No. 4 seeded IUP Crimson Hawks will take the stage against the fifth-seeded Pittsburgh Panthers. In two games this season, the Crimson Hawks proved their dominance over the Panthers by a combined score of 7-1. The Crimson Hawks have played in games where they beat strong teams like Slippery Rock 11-5, but have lost to weaker teams like the Youngstown State Penguins 6-2. Maybe that big win IUP had over Slippery Rock will be enough to fire up this team for a win. The puck drops at 9:50 p.m. Friday. Before the Crimson Hawks play, there will be a game

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the new guy take his place. his career. You can find someAs for Jeff Reed, he will have body who can take his spot the franchise tag put on him. either through free agency or That takes care of two of the the draft. bigger holes the Steelers were However, he knows the concerned about. defense well. He and Troy Now they have to Polamalu work well decide what to with together and he Ryan Clark and Willie would help the young Parker. guys out. I can’t see the I look at the Steelers offering that Steelers, and they much to either Clark have three issues or Parker. Parker is going into next a back that is past season. his prime and isn’t If they are going much more than By anthony scherer to let Parker go, a back-up right there are few guys Sports Columnist now. If he wantout in free agency A.J.Scherer@iup.edu ed to stay as a who are willing to contender for less money, then come in a reduced role for less I can see the Steelers wanting cash that might interest the to keep him. Steelers. One of those guys is As for Clark, he is 30 and LaDainian Tomlinson, who is could be on the downside of looking for a contending team

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