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Crimson Hawks fall short of national title
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-Megan Guza Illusionists performed magic tricks and mind readings in Foster Dining Hall.
Pairs of boots were placed in the lobby of the Commonplace Coffeehouse to represent soldiers lost in the Iraq War.
Six O’Clock Series got IUP talking about racism.
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The Jewish ritual feast that marks the freeing of the Jews from the Egyptians. Mazal Tov!
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Google says mobile features in China are blocked By David Sarno Los Angeles Times MCT
Google Inc. on Monday confirmed that some of its mobile features in China had been partly blocked, raising the specter that its position in that country was deteriorating even further. The company was not specific about the nature of the block, saying the availability of its online services fluctuates regularly, and that it was too early to confirm if the block would be permanent, or even if it was related to the feud with China. Google users in China might be experiencing a service disruption for features the company provides to users of Google-powered phones, according to a status Web page Google has been updating daily since last week. Those services include the mobile version of its search, e-mail, mapping and social networking services. Google posted the page as part of its decision to close its search engine in China and route users to an uncensored version in Hong Kong.
The company has pointed out that the Chinese government could at any time opt to turn off Google’s services on mainland China by cutting links to the Hong Kong site. Until now, there has been no public indication that any of Google’s services have been disrupted there. Of the 12 services listed on the status page – which includes “Web” and “News,” the “Mobile” category is the only one that has changed since Google posted the status page last Monday. Some of those services, like YouTube and Google’s blogging site, have been blocked for months, and have remained so. Reports from China have indicated that the Chinese government is likely blocking a range of search terms on topics it considers objectionable – for instance, Falun Gong or Tiananmen Square. Google has said those instances of censorship would not be reflected on its status page, which is intended to reflect the broad availability of its services in China. Because of the huge number
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of mobile phone users in China, analysts have said that Google would likely want to continue competing in that country’s mobile market, even if it was forced to shutter its search operation. Adding to Google’s travails was an announcement last week from China Unicom, one of the country’s largest telecommunications providers, which said it would no longer allow Google’s search engine to work on its Android phones.
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They wanted a speaker who would generate attention, and they got it. Complaints and questions have descended on the California State University, Stanislaus, Foundation since it announced last week that former vice presidential candidate and ex-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin would headline a black-tie fundraiser in June for the university’s 50th anniversary celebration. A state senator from San Francisco wants to know how much the foundation is paying Palin, pointing out that very few students could afford the $500 ticket price. A student group is organizing a protest and its own event in response. A professor started a Facebook group “Sarah Palin, Terrible Choice for 50th Anniversary of CSU Stanislaus.” Matt Swanson, president of the university foundation, said he expected a vigorous response to Palin’s selection.
“I didn’t know it would be this big, this fast,” he said. “But first and foremost, this is a fundraising event. We saw Gov. Palin as somebody who is obviously a big celebrity and on the forefront of the public eye.” Swanson said tickets have been selling fast. “This is a great opportunity to do something that would make fundraising fairly easy,” he said. “I think that part has borne itself out.” The foundation is a nonprofit that raises money to support the university. The chairman of its board is university President Hamid Shirvani, but the foundation technically is a separate entity from the school. Turlock businessman John Gavin is among those asking the foundation to rescind its invitation. “While I’m sure that Mrs. Palin has her good qualities, she also has many characteristics about her that make her a poor choice for this honored event,” he said in a letter to the 50th anniversary committee. “Mrs. Palin is a polarizing and divisive celebrity with no connection to our school or community.”
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Police blotter • At 3:19 a.m. Sunday, Nathan R. Overly, 18, Leechburg, was observed shouting vulgarities in the parking lot of Sheetz at 768 Wayne Ave. Borough police found him to be intoxicated and underage. Overly was cited for disorderly conduct and underage drinking and released from the scene, police reported. • Borough police reported that at 2:59 a.m. Sunday, Alexander Bodgen, 19, York, was observed by security trying to leave Sheetz at 768 Wayne Ave. without paying for a bottle of Pepsi. He was found to be intoxicated and underage. Sheetz security handled the theft while borough police cited Bodgen for underage drinking and then released him, police reported. • At 2:28 a.m. Sunday, borough police stopped Karla A. Silvestri, 18, Wappingers Falls, N.Y., and Marla C. Benzenhafer, 18, Pottstown, in the 700 block of Washington Street after Silvestri was observed stumbling and being helped down the road. Benzenhafer was cited for underage drinking and released from the scene. Silvestri was arrested for public drunkenness and underage drinking. She was lodged for in the county jail, police reported. • Borough police reported that at 11:40 p.m. Saturday, Jacob Mumford, 19, New Castle, was observed intoxicated and lying on the sidewalk in the 900 block of Wayne Avenue. Mumford was admitted to Indiana Regional Medical Center and cited for underage drinking and public drunkenness, police reported. • Borough police reported that at 12:37 a.m. Saturday, Wynter L. Nail, 20, Tyrone, was found intoxicated after she fell down the steps and was injured at a house at 24 N. Ninth St. Nail was taken to IRMC and cited for underage drinking, according to police. Mark K. Irvin, Windsor, was found to be the host of the party and supplier of alcohol. Irvin was charged with furnishing to minors, police reported.
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• Borough police reported that sometime between 12:15 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Friday, someone damaged a black Audi A4 in a private parking lot in the 1000 block of Gompers Avenue. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police at 724-349-2121. • At 9:11 a.m. March 18, borough police observed a damaged gate at the Indiana Borough Parking Garage at 650 Water St. Someone damaged a wooden gate arm on one of the exit gates. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police.
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Borough police reported that sometime between 2 p.m. Thursday and 10:30 a.m. Friday, someone entered a residence under construction in the 600 block of Locust Street and took construction materials from inside. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police.
– compiled from police reports
IUP student dies at home News Editor S.M.Bracken@iup.edu
An IUP student died Thursday, according to Cambria County Coroner Dennis Kwiatkowski. Jacob David Adams, a former criminology freshman from Portage, was found dead at home in Cambria County, according to Kwiatkowski. He said the cause of death is unknown and he did not know what might have been the cause. Kwiatkowski said Adams’ death remains under investigation. A toxicology test is currently under way to see if he was under the influence of a controlled substance, according to Kwiatkowski. He said the test began over the weekend. “[The toxicology test usually]
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takes us between six to eight weeks,” Kwiatkowski said. IUP President Tony Atwater released a statement Friday morning about Adams’ death. “Obviously, the death of any member of the IUP community is tragic and difficult to bear for members of the IUP community,” Atwater said in an e-mail sent to students. “I am sure you join me in expressing concern and sympathy for Jacob’s friends, family and the criminology department.” He said the IUP Counseling Center is providing crisis counseling to students impacted by Adams’ death. Students can contact the center by calling 724-357-2621 to make an appointment or speak to a counselor. A 24-hour crisis hotline is available at The Open Door, which students can contact by calling 724-465-2605.
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Students interested in serving in the military attended a viewing of two Army helicopters that landed on campus last week. The display took place Thursday behind IUP’s Miller Stadium. Both helicopters landed at approximately 2 p.m. with local members of the U.S. Army in attendance to teach students more about the military. The event was organized by the IUP Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, a military organization based in Pierce Hall. Matt Zamperini (senior, military science), a member of ROTC, said helicopters at the event were an Apache and a Blackhawk. Sgt. Brandon Sedlmyer, an Army member from Johnstown, said the Apache was made by Boeing in the 1980s. He said the Apache was worth about $17 million. “[The Apache] shoots a 30-millimeter cannon and has two rocket pods on each side,” he said.
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“[The Apache] shoots a 30-millimeter cannon and has two rocket pods on each side.” — Sgt. Brandon Sedlmyer, U.S. Army The Apache includes a missile, which can be issued to destroy tanks and similar targets. “This aircraft can actually do a lot,” he said. Sedlmyer said the Apache was used in missions, including a 200506 mission to Kosovo. Sometimes it flies over Pittsburgh Steelers games. He said the helicopter has not been used in any combat operations in Iraq or Afghanistan. The helicopter contains a gunner, co-pilot and a turn pilot. He said the reason he got involved with helicopters was because he was “fascinated with helicopters since I was a kid.” The second helicopter, the Blackhawk, contains a medic who treats wounded soldiers in battle, according to Maj. Richard Block, a military science instructor. He said the Blackhawk also has two pilots and a crew chief. Sgt. Aaron Patterson, a mem-
ber of the U.S. Army who presented the Blackhawk to students, said the helicopter could be used to rescue people in disasters like Hurricane Katrina. He said the Blackhawk costs about $7 million to $8 million. Patterson said a blade costs about $75,000, and an engine costs about $200,000. He said it has two engines and four blades. “When a blade fails, it causes a lot of problems,” Patterson said. Todd McTavish, an IUP military science instructor, said that to become a flight aviator, students must take and pass a test before they take a flight physical. “Take [the test] as soon as possible,” he said. He encouraged students interested in becoming aviators to take the test early in case they fail. McTavish said if they fail, they would have to wait six months to take it again.
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Forecasters say weather patterns are conspiring to produce a busy hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean, with one meteorologist predicting more than a half-dozen storms coming ashore in 2010. This follows a quiet 2009 season, in which the U.S. mainland was not touched by any of the giant tropical storms. “This year has the chance to be an extreme season,” said Joe Bastardi of Pennsylvania-based AccuWeather, who correctly predicted 2009’s quiet season and the record-setting snowfall this winter along the East Coast. “It is certainly much more like 2008 than 2009, as far as the overall threat to the United States’ East and Gulf coasts.” Don’t cancel your August or September beach vacations quite yet. Not all the forecasts are in. For example, the National Hurricane Center’s seasonal prediction won’t come until late May. And some forecasters plan to finetune their outlooks later this spring, when conditions become a bit clearer. Besides, long-range hurricane forecasts have been unreliable in the past. But meteorologists say they are getting better at predicting months ahead of time, as they learn more about the inter-relationships of various trends responsible for storm formation. Perhaps no forecast is more closely watched than that from the Colorado State University team of Philip Klotzbach and William Gray. In December, they predicted 11 to 16 named storms this season, with three to five becoming major hurricanes. Their next update is due in about a week. AccuWeather’s Bastardi is calling for 15 named storms, with two or three major hurricanes (Category 3 or stronger on the Saffir-Simpson scale of 1 to 5) making landfall on the U.S. coast. Both those predictions are considerably above the nine named storms in 2009. That compares with 15 named storms in 2008, when five systems made landfall on the Gulf Coast. The 2008 hurricane season had a major impact on oil refinery operations in Louisiana and Texas, triggering a gasoline shortage in Charlotte, N.C., and other parts of the Southeast in late September of that year. The reasons most commonly cited for the 2010 forecast: A weakening of El Nino, the weather pattern that creates warmer-than-
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Common Freshman Reader author speaks at multicultural event “I hope that regardless of circumstances, you can change the world.”
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A two-day multicultural conference included several events and speakers to promote diversity on campus. The conference’s keynote speaker, Bill Strickland, author of this year’s Common Freshman Reader, “Making the Impossible Possible,” presented a slideshow to the audience about different communities he was building. The speech took place Saturday at the Crimson Events Center in Folger Hall. Strickland said it does not matter if someone is rich or poor, because they can still make a contribution to society. “I hope that regardless of circumstances, you can change the world,” he said. Strickland began his speech by congratulating IUP Voices of Joy, a choir that sang two songs designed to inspire the audience. He said that he built a school for children in a poor area of Pittsburgh because he wanted to “treat the poor to the best conditions.” “I believe that people are born into the world with essence,” Strickland said.
— Bill Strickland, author of “Making the Impossible Possible”
Mohammad Aljayyousi/The Penn Bill Strickland, author of “Making the Impossible Possible,” spoke to an audience at a multicultural event Saturday.
He said there has never been a criminal incident at his school in the 26 years it has been open. Strickland said he built his school to include glass because he wanted to let the sunshine in and that it was not just for rich people. He said poor people can be a function of little things, not just big things. Strickland provided statistics about his school he built: 92 percent of his students go on to attend college and another 90 percent find work within a year of graduating. “[This shows] great demonstration
of the power of spirit,” he said. “Nobody can tell me that poor folks can’t make a contribution,” he said. Strickland said children have plenty of talent, but they just need the tools to succeed. “Children are children,” he said. “We are built about the same, so we treat them the same.” Strickland said he has also opened centers in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Grand Rapids, Mich., and San Francisco. He said 8 percent of students dropped out at the Cincinnati site and 5 percent dropped out in Grand Rapids. Strickland also said that 95 percent of seniors graduate on time. He said he is also planning on opening other schools in Austin, Texas; Boston; Charlotte, N.C.; Chicago and Columbus, Ohio. Strickland also has international sites for his school in places such as Halifax, Nova Scotia; Limerick, Ireland; San Jose, Costa Rica and even a site in northern Israel. “Why don’t we start building these schools all around the world?” Strickland asked.
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“This pilot just changes the process and hopefully will make it more efficient.” — Jan Mellon, interim associate registrar
Wait list piloted for 2010 fall semester By Emily Eberhart Staff Writer E.E.Eberhart@iup.edu
A course wait list will be presented online to enable students to reserve certain courses for the fall semester. A wait list has been implemented, on a limited basis, to the Web registration process in order to allow students to be put on a list if a class is full, rather than contact the chair of that department to be put on a wait list. In turn, when a seat becomes available in that class, an e-mail will be sent to the next person on the list, informing that student that he or she has been added to the class. “It is important that students realize that being on the wait list for a course is not the same as registering for it,” said Jan Mellon, interim associate registrar. Mellon said the student is notified
of a seat availability and then has to go in and register for the course. “Being on a wait list does not guarantee that a seat will eventually become available to the student,” he said. “The intent of the wait list is to help academic departments better gauge student demand for courses.” The following courses should implement a wait list for the fall: ELED 313, ENGL 202, GEOS 103/104, MATH 100, MATH 101 and MATH 217, according to Mellon. “This pilot just changes the process and hopefully will make it more efficient,” Mellon added. “Rather than a student going to, calling or e-mailing a department to get on a wait list, they will do it via Web registration.” Detailed information on the wait list pilot, including complete instructions for students, can be found on the Office of the Registrar Web site at iup.edu/registrar.
Insurers debate coverage for pre-existing conditions By Chen May Yee Minneapolis Star Tribune MCT
With the ink barely dry on Congress’ landmark health care legislation, insurers are already disputing whether they must cover children with preexisting medical conditions starting this year. The president says yes. Insurance companies say no. In recent speeches, President Obama has described the new protections in no uncertain terms. “Starting this year, insurance companies will be banned forever from denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions,” he said at a rally in Virginia March 19. But even as their lawyers pore over every comma, the nation’s insurers deny the law says that. America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the industry trade group, agrees that in six months, they must cover pre-existing conditions for a child whom they choose to enroll. But they say the law doesn’t require them to offer coverage to a child with pre-existing conditions – not until 2014, when they will have to guarantee coverage to everybody. “Our industry is moving forward with implementing all of the
reforms in a manner that will minimize disruption for the more than 200 million Americans we serve,” AHIP spokesman Robert Zirkelbach said in a statement Monday. Congressional intent? The debate applies only to those who buy their own health insurance in the individual market. Those who are covered by an employer don’t have to worry about being denied for pre-existing conditions. “It sounds like the language that was signed into law doesn’t reflect the intent of Congress or the president,” said Julie Brunner, executive director of the Minnesota Council of Health Plans. With legislation this sprawling, there seems to be no shortage of confusion. The day after the bill was passed, people were calling up health plans saying “I have a pre-existing condition. You can take me now,” Brunner said. Meanwhile, employers are peppering their insurers with questions on which parts of the bill apply to them and which don’t. “This is the first of a number of interpretation issues we’re going to be dealing with,” Brunner said.
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National novelist speaks to students in Oak Room By Emily Eberhart Staff Writer E.E.Eberhart@iup.edu
Alafair Burke, a former Portland Deputy District Attorney and now a nationally known novelist, spoke to IUP students at 3 p.m. Friday at the Oak Room. Prior to working in the DA’s office in Portland, Burke earned degrees from Reed College in Portland, Ore., and Stanford Law School. Burke spoke to about 40 students and faculty about her profession during an informal question-and-answer gathering. She began by explaining how she first began writing as a novelist. “I started to think of myself as a writer, even though it was just me messing around at my desk,” said Burke, describing the summer that she took off after five years working at the DA’s office and teaching for a year. As much as she loves being a novelist, Burke explained that she enjoyed working at the prosecutor’s office more than she had intended. In fact, some of her books are based from the desk that she worked at while she worked for the DA. She also revealed that all of her books are based on real events. Burke juggles being a successful novelist with her profession of teaching law at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. Students and faculty in attendance asked questions ranging from her experience as a writer to what advice she would give to students aspiring to be published authors.
John Bonanno/The Penn Novelist Alafair Burke spoke to students at the Oak Room Friday.
Writing and reading as much as possible were among pieces of advice Burke gave to students. “If you’re stuck, figure out why you’re stuck,” said Burke, while addressing the issue of writer’s block. She advised that if you’re stuck because you’d rather be doing something else: “Too bad, you’re a writer.” If it’s because your inner writer is telling you to take a break, then take a break. “Write for yourself, and that’s where your best writing will come from.” Burke finished her discussion by outlining the process of how she writes her books, which sometimes involves her going to a coffee shop or restaurant where she doesn’t have access to the Internet to avoid distractions such as Facebook.
IUP makes top 25 for ‘Rate My Professors’ By Emily Eberhart Staff Writer E.E.Eberhart@iup.edu
IUP made the 2009-10 list of highest-rated professors and faculty, coming in at No. 23, according to the Web site RateMyProfessors. com. As the largest Internet destination for collegiate professor ratings, mtvU’s RateMyProfessors.com posts ratings for more than 6,500 schools, 1 million professors and 10 million ratings, according to the Web site’s top lists ranking methodology. For each of the professor lists, the individual rating value was first standardized around its average. Using the standardized score dating back to 2007, weighted scores were computed. “I’m not surprised that IUP has
such great ratings,” said Brianne Thomas (sophomore, mathematics education). “They work hard to help students succeed and are passionate about what they teach, and I think that really says something about the quality of education here. ” “When professors have a high rating, those that rated them highly also give useful information as to why they liked them,” said Emily McGilvray (senior, theater). Jaleesa Taylor/The Penn IUP joined the ranks of colleges Arden Hamer, a developmental studies including the University of South professor is among the faculty that made Carolina, No. 24; University of San the top 25 for “Rate My Professors.” Diego, No. 21; Millersville University, No. 12; Arizona State University, nearly 9 million U.S. college students, No. 5; and Southeastern Louisiana making it the largest, most comprehensive television network for University, No. 1. Broadcast to more than 750 college students, according to mtvU. college campuses, mtvU reaches com.
FBI arrests nine in group allegedly plotting to kill officers By David G. Savage Tribune Washington Review MCT
Nine members of an anti-government militia that posted its warrior exercises on the Internet and allegedly plotted to kill police officers were indicted Monday in Detroit on conspiracy and weapons charges. The indictment said that members of Hutaree see law enforcement as the enemy and that they planned to kill a police officer, possibly at a traffic stop, and then attack the funeral procession to kill more officers.
U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade said federal agents moved to arrest the leaders of the group over the weekend because they had discussed carrying out an attack in April. The group’s Web site refers to the Hutarees as “Christian warriors.” It also posted videos of their militarystyle exercises. Government officials said they were uncertain of the group’s motives and aims. “This is an example of racial and extremist fringe groups which can be found throughout our society,” said Andrew Arena, the FBI special
agent in charge. The leader of the group was among eight people taken into custody. He is David Brian Stone, 45, of Clayton, Mich. Also indicted were his wife, Tina, and two sons, Joshua and David Jr. The FBI said they have not arrested Joshua Stone, who is classified as a fugitive. The federal charges include seditious conspiracy against the government, attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and possessing a firearm during a crime of violence.
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Schools are friending social media By Allie Shaw Minneapolis Star Tribune Scripps Howard News Service
At first glance, the first-graders in Mrs. Stephan’s classroom at Scenic Heights Elementary in Minnetonka, Minn., appear to be chatting online with their pals, Facebook-style, instead of learning math. As their classmates’ names and profiles pop up – listing favorite foods, pets and hobbies – their eyes stay fixed on their screens. Each student follows an animated turtle that scales mountains, windsurfs and embarks on other adventures, based on how well the child correctly answers math questions. Sarah Stephan walks by and pauses. Instead of scolding them, she urges: Keep going. Minnetonka is one of the nation’s first school districts to try Planet Turtle, a new educational software program designed to drill kids on early math skills. Once viewed as a hindrance to learning at best, and a threat to student safety at worst, social-networking technology is now being embraced by more schools.
“We see a definite need to reach kids in the medium of the way they’re living life right now,” said Dave Eisenmann, technology integration specialist for Minnetonka Public Schools. A recent report by the National School Boards Association urged school leaders to consider using social-networking tools in the classroom. “We wanted to educate the public and say this is what kids are doing outside of school,” said Ann Flynn, director of education technology for the NSBA. As social networking becomes more mainstream, teachers and school leaders are becoming more comfortable with it, Flynn said. This school year, Roseville, Minn., school leaders unblocked Facebook and YouTube from school computers, allowing students to access the sites. Gregg Martinson, media specialist at Roseville Area High School, said the change has been a mixed blessing. He spends a fair amount of time telling students to stop socializing online and reminding them to use those sites only for schoolwork. “For classroom teachers, the
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Bank glitch bequeaths billions temporarily By Keith W. Kohn The Orlando Sentinel MCT
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challenge is how do I, if I’m teaching, say, word processing, make sure that they’re doing that and not just flipping to their Facebook [page] while they’re doing that,” he said. High-school officials in Roseville also have created smaller social networks that, while closed to the wider cyberspace world, allow only students in a specific class or activity to join the site. In recent years, a host of education curriculum firms have introduced products to help teachers create contained social-networking sites such as Planet Turtle for school use.
When Paul Fischer went to transfer money from one business account to another Friday night, he didn’t even look at the balance on the account as he completed the transaction. At first. Then Fischer, chief financial officer of the Windsor Group Inc., a jewelry concessionaire to Central Florida theme parks, noticed his company’s bottom line: $88,888,888,888.88 – nearly $89 billion. He called SunTrust Bank to report the error in his favor. “Can you imagine being a billionaire for a day?” he asked Saturday. Several people across the country can. That’s because a glitch in SunTrust computers made it appear that billions of dollars were in some accounts, a company spokesman said. The money really wasn’t there, though. “We have had reports of that today,” said spokesman Mike McCoy.
He described the problem as a glitch and said the billions of dollars never were really in the Windsor Group account, or any of the others affected. He said it didn’t appear anyone tried to transfer the money from the suddenly fat-with-cash accounts. “I’m not aware of that,” McCoy said. Still, Fischer can keep dreaming. One store manager even suggested he fly out of the country and transfer the money offshore. Fischer came up with another idea, asking a SunTrust account representative Friday night whether he could move the money to an interest-bearing account and then donate the interest to charities once the money was reclaimed by the bank. That would have amounted to about $7.3 million. “She said no.” “You say, ‘Eighty-eight billion, what can I do with that?’ “ Fischer said. Fischer said the company’s account had been stripped of its riches as of Saturday morning. “It’s all gone. I’m poor again,” he said. “I was a billionaire for five hours.”
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McConnell unapologetic for trying to block Democrats’ agenda By Halimah Abdullah McClatchy Newspapers MCT
If it seems as if the political maneuvering over health care legislation has resembled a championshiplevel chess match, consider that one of the major players, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, is widely acknowledged as a preternaturally skilled tactician. For his part, the Kentucky Republican has been uncharacteristically forthcoming about his strategy on the health care bill – kill it, rather than try to negotiate something more palatable to Republicans – and acknowledges that early on he set about trying to block key Obama administration efforts. While Democrats may see such efforts as obstructionist, McConnell – as the head of a caucus that’s clawing its way back to a place of leverage – makes no apologies for how he navigated his party through the historic health care debate. He vows that Democrats will come to rue their efforts on the issue this fall. “I can tell you with regard to the campaign that will continue with the American people, I think the slogan will be, ‘Repeal and replace. Repeal and replace,’” McConnell said last week. What followed as the Senate considered the final piece of landmark health care legislation was a GOPled “vote-a-rama,” a series of nonstop votes that lasted until 2:45 a.m. Thursday. Republicans tried to insert changes, forcing votes on 40 amendments or procedural points, including a ban on using federal funds to provide erectile dysfunction drugs to incarcerated sex offenders. Democrats rejected each on party-line votes Wednesday and Thursday. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., the Senate’s Democratic leadership and the White House have felt near apoplectic over what they see as an exercise in blanket obstructionism. Under McConnell’s leadership during the 111th Congress, Republicans have attempted to filibuster – block legislation by defeating efforts to cut off debate – more than 30 times. McConnell, who for years has wielded the filibuster relentlessly, had worried that the then-60-member Democratic Senate majority would fast-track much of President Barack Obama’s agenda through Congress. However, his fortunes changed once Republican Scott Brown won the Massachusetts seat that late Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy had held for 47 years. “Whether or not [Republicans] are willing to put aside Senator McConnell’s plan to oppose everything and seek to be part of a governing
solution, we’ll just have to see,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said last week. Democratic operatives this month stepped up efforts to paint McConnell as an obstructionist for his continued opposition to the health care overhaul and most of the rest of the Obama administration’s agenda. A Democratic National Committee memo circulating on Capitol Hill advised Democratic lawmakers and staffers to highlight McConnell’s tactics and question whether he’s interested in reaching bipartisan solutions or in scoring points for his party. However, McConnell’s laserlike focus on staying on message, coupled with his highly effective efforts at keeping his caucus in line during the health care debate, has helped create a huge opportunity for Republicans this fall, Ross Baker, an expert on Congress at Rutgers University, said recently. “This is another question McConnell has to answer: How vigorously does he go out and attempt to undercut implementation? Will he say, ‘We lost,’ and move on to other things but lead a post-conflict insurrection against health care reform?” Baker said. “Any effort to undercut the health care reform once it’s passed will set up a demand for repeal. “That happened in the case of catastrophic health insurance reform efforts in the 1980s. “The chairman of Ways and Means [Committee] had his car mobbed by a bunch of citizens. “I refuse to believe the tea party folks are going to dissolve into despair and drift away. It may energize them.” Heading into the fall elections, as insurance companies go into the policy renewal season, Republicans will ramp up the discussion of what this bill really means for Americans, said Jennifer Duffy, a senior editor at the Cook Political Report. “It’s a giant chessboard, and you always have to think three steps ahead,” she said. “Republicans’ interpretation of this bill and what it means could mean problems for Democrats, in that they won’t have a lot of examples of where this worked out.” McConnell is keenly aware of all these facts, and his comments increasingly have been directed at the electorate. “With all due respect, you don’t pass a bill the American people didn’t want, then try to sell them on it. You win their support first, then pass it, on a bipartisan basis, just as we’ve done on every other piece of major social legislation we’ve passed over the past 45 years,” McConnell said on the Senate floor earlier last week, just after the president signed the health care bill into law. “The American people aren’t fooled.”
High school shooter sentenced to 25 years in prison for classmate’s murder By Tonya Alanez Sun Sentinel MCT
Dillard High School shooter Teah Wimberly was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday for gunning down a fellow student because of unrequited love. In court, the 16-year-old convicted murderer issued an apology to her victim’s mother, as well as to her own family, that made many of the people listening weep. “I make myself physically sick with disgust,” Wimberly said. “I will never forgive myself for what I have done, and I don’t expect you to forgive me.” Broward Circuit Court Judge John Murphy could have sent Wimberly to a high-risk juvenile facility for six years, as the defense requested, or to adult prison for life. The judge followed the wishes of the prosecutor and imposed a prison term of 25 years. In December, a Broward County jury rejected Wimberly’s insanity defense and convicted her of second-degree murder for the November 2008 shooting death of Amanda Collette, 15. On Friday, Wimberly, her hands trembling, unfolded a piece of yellow lined paper and read a message of apology, remorse and selfloathing to Collette’s mother, Joyce. “You have no idea how sorry I truly am,” said Wimberly. Tears streamed down Joyce Collette’s face as she sat in a far corner of the courtroom, a glazed, faraway look in her eye. “Mama, Papa, Grandma, I wanted
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to apologize for causing you so much grief, so much anger and being such an embarrassment, disappointment and disgrace. I am sorry.” Collette’s family members did not speak at the sentencing hearing, and declined comment as they left the courthouse. Anthony Thompson, Collette’s father, told the Sun Sentinel it was soothing to finally hear Wimberly express a measure of remorse, and that he was satisfied with the sentence. “It was uplifting to us,” he said of Wimberly’s apology. “I think she got a little closure within herself just saying that to us.” During the trial, Wimberly’s MCT defense attorney, Larry S. Davis, emphasized his client’s turbulent Teah Wimberly, 16, was sentenced Friday childhood and struggles coping with to 25 years in prison for her classmate’s her emotions. Wimberly was left murder. to be cared for by her grandparents accountability and therapeutic rehaat 6 weeks old, sexually molested bilitation for girls scarred by abuse by a family member at age 6, and and trauma, Murphy ordered. When she turns 21, Wimberly will severely beaten by a mother with bipolar disorder and a father now be transferred to an adult prison serving a 25-year prison sentence for to serve the remainder of her sentence and, after release, must spend attempted murder. According to trial testimony, another 20 years on probation, the Wimberly lashed out when she felt judge ruled. After Murphy meted out the rejected by her fellow magnet arts student, shooting Collette in the 25-year sentence, the packed courtback in a school hallway between room sat in silence but for the click of handcuffs fastened around classes. Wimberly suffers from recurring Wimberly’s wrists. She was led away to a holding cell nightmares, cannot sleep in the dark and now takes lithium to treat a to be returned to jail. Outside court, Wimberly’s grandbipolar disorder, a psycholgist told father, John, 70, expressed regret the judge. Wimberly will spend the first years over Collette’s needless death and of her sentence at a high-risk juve- optimism for his granddaughter’s nile facility geared toward punitive future.
Know Your Right to Know!
A public symposium: “The New Pennsylvania Right to Know the Law: Power to the People” This public event will discuss the new law, show how new media have used it and answer questions about how citizens are using it, too. Panelists include -Eric Ebeling: Executive editor, The Indiana Gazette -Barry Fox: Deputy Director, Pa. Office of Open Records -Mark Scotfore, Reporter, Associated Press, Harrisburg -Melissa Melewsky, Media Law Counsel, Pennsylvania Newspaper Association -David Loomis, Moderator, IUP Journalism Professor
March 31, 7:00-8:30 PM HUB, Ohio Room IUP Campus
Questions? Please contact: David Loomis, Ph.D: DOLoomis@iup.edu 724-357-4411 Sponsored by the IUP Journalism Department, the IUP Chapter of Society of Professional Journalists and the Elizabeth Ray Sweeney Trust
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By Chuck Shepherd Universal Press Syndicate
Can’t possibly be true
• It’s Good to Be a British Welfare Mother: Under the government’s Local Housing Authority, Essma Marjam, age 34, unemployed and the mother of six, is entitled to rental assistance for a five-bedroom home, and the only suitable one she could find is in an exclusive London suburb in which her neighbor is Sir Paul McCartney. Luckily, the generous allowance (equivalent of more than $9,000 a month) covers the rent on the nearly $3 million (U.S. equivalent) mansion. (Additionally, according to the Daily Mail, Marjam’s non-housing government benefits total the equivalent of about $22,000 a year.) • Alan Rosenfeld, 64, a New York City lawyer and real estate entrepreneur, is also a full-time schoolteacher, although he has been prohibited from teaching since 2002 because of
accusations of leering at female students. He is thus a “rubber room” teacher whose union contract requires full salary and benefits even though the Schools Chancellor has barred him from the classroom as a “danger” to students. The Department of Education pays him $100,000 a year plus health care (plus retirement benefits worth at least $82,000 a year). The New York Post reported that Rosenfeld reports to “the room” each day but works exclusively on his business affairs.
Inexplicable
• In January, Aretha Brown, 66, who has lived in the same house in Callahan, Fla., (pop. 962) for 30 years, suddenly became unable to leave her yard unless she crawled between CSX railroad cars blocking her access to the road. Tracks had always been in place, but the railway only began storing train cars on them this year. CSX told The Florida Times-Union that it would soon build Brown an access road to the street.
• The entertainment manager at Thorpe Park in Surrey, England, announced in February a contest seeking foul-smelling urine. The park has introduced a live action horror maze based on scenes from the “Saw” movie series and decided that it was missing a “signature stench” to “really push the boundaries” of disgustingness. Manager Laura Sinclair suggested that submissions’ pungency would be enhanced after consumption of such foods as garlic and asparagus and offered a prize of the equivalent of about $750 for the winning urine. • The Times of London reported in February that at least six local government councils have been so avid about enforcing street-parking rules that they have issued tickets to vehicles registered to their own governments. In at least two recent incidents (involving Islington and Kingston), the councils pursued collection all the way to traffic court (though only in the latter case did the adjudicator actually
require the council to hand over a fine to itself).
Sub- “Zero tolerance”
Seventh-grader Rachael Greer was suspended from River Valley Middle School in Jefferson, Ind., in February, even though she apparently did exactly what her parents and the school want kids to do (“just say ‘no’” to drugs). When a classmate handed her a prescription pill in gym class, she immediately handed it right back. Nonetheless, an assistant principal, after investigating the incident, suspended her for five days because she had touched the pill. (He expressed regret but said it is school policy.)
Questionable judgements
A recent epiphany caused millionaire Austrian businessman Karl Rabeder, 47, to be depressed about his wealth, and by February, he was in the process of giving away an estate worth the equivalent of about $5 million.
Two luxury properties are for sale, with proceeds going to charities he established in Central and South America, and he plans to move into a small hut in Innsbruck. “Money is counterproductive,” he told a reporter. “I had the feeling I was working as a slave for things that I did not wish or need.” (According to London’s Daily Telegraph, Rabeder’s wife was with him at the time of the epiphany, but the story curiously is silent about her view of his decision.)
Least competent police
• In March, on duty on opening day of the jail at the new Adair County judicial center in Columbia, Ky., sheriff’s deputy Charles Wright accidentally locked himself in a cell and was fired after he tried to shoot open the lock. • A Collier County, Fla., sheriff’s deputy suffered a broken ankle when he and a colleague accidentally locked wheels while patrolling in Naples on their Segways.
ONE WEEK FROM TODAY Come to the Annual Pan-African Studies Lecture:
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 7:00 PM. Eberly Auditorium Attendance vouchers will be provided.
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His 2009 book Wrong Place, Wrong Time is now available at the Co-op Store and will be sold at the lecture. Only $18 including tax on and before the night of the lecture! This event is co-sponsored by the Pan-African Studies Program, the College of Health and Human Services, the Department of Criminology Speaker Series, the Latin American Student Organization, and the Anthropology Club. Questions? Contact Dr. Marveta Ryan-Sams at mmryan@iup.edu.
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Experts: New health care system might take years to build By Lee Bowman Scripps Howard News Service
Studies suggest great white sharks may migrate to eat squids By Jill leovy Los Angeles Times MCT
In what could be the ultimate marine smack-down, great white sharks off the California coast may be migrating 1,600 miles west to do battle with creatures that rival their star power: giant squids. A series of studies tracking this mysterious migration has scientists rethinking not just about what the big shark does with its time but also about what sort of creature it is. Few sea denizens match great white sharks and giant squids in primitive mystique. Both are the subject of popular mania; both are inscrutable. That these two mythic sea monsters might convene for epic battles on the stark expanses of the Pacific is enough to make a documentarian salivate. For more reserved scientists, the possible link between sharks and squid, suggested by marine ecologist Michael Domeier of the Marine Conservation Science Institute in Fallbrook, Calif., is just one part of emerging research that has altered their understanding of the great whites. The shift began eight years ago with the surprising discovery that great white sharks migrate, somewhat as humpback whales do. That and subsequent studies have demolished the iconic image of Great Whites lurking in relative shallows, ready to snatch an errant swimmer, as popularized in the movie “Jaws.” Domeier said he believes the animals “are not a coastal shark that comes out to the middle of the ocean. They are an ocean shark that comes to the coast. It is a complete flip-flop.” The team used hooks that could cradle a volleyball. They wrestled the sharks onto platforms, lifted them aboard their vessel and put towels over their eyes. The 4,000-pound predator is only a minor threat out of water, Domeier said. But after being thwacked off his feet, he learned to tie up their tails. Funded by Newport Beach’s George
T. Pfleger Foundation and others, Domeier arranged a voyage with a National Geographic Channel television crew to follow the sharks in a 126-foot boat. The crew used the tags to track the sharks to an area of the deep Pacific about 1,500 miles east of Kauai that scientists consider an ecological desert because it is so biologically unproductive. There, the sharks abruptly ended their migration, and satellite tags showed them milling around and diving. Despite hours of surveys and trolling during last spring’s monthlong voyage, members found barely any fish or other prey that the sharks might be eating. But there was an exception: squids. Purple and neon flying squids were easy to find. There also were leaping sperm whales, a marine mammal known to feed in spawning areas for large squids. To Domeier, it was clear: The sharks had found a squid-based ecosystem with big enough prey to attract sperm whales. Finally, the crew found a whitish carcass of a giant squid that had been chewed on, perhaps by various predators. Because of the lack of alternative food sources, and the pinging tags that traced deep and frequent dives, Domeier said, he formed a speculative conclusion: The sharks go to the area for the same reason as sperm whales: to feed on large squids, including the giant ones in the area, and on various predators the squids attract. The weather turned bad, and the investigation ended early. The trip back was boring enough for the crew to form a band, then break up. Domeier said he believes the sharks return to the coast to breed. His tags showed that some females stayed out at sea full-time. The idea has set off robust debate. Some scientists argue it remains possible that the sharks mate offshore, and all agree that more research is needed to determine exactly what, and when, they eat. And it’s highly unlikely anyone will ever see a shark making an easy kill of giant squid.
It’s going to take four years for federal and state officials to set up systems to cover as many as 32 million Americans now lacking health insurance under the legislation approved by Congress and President Barack Obama last week. In the meantime, stop-gap measures tucked in the bills are expected to give some regular access to health care for about half of the uninsured. But the burden of health expenses will continue to erode family budgets of the insured and uninsured alike, experts warned in a new study released Thursday. “The uninsured are not all uninsured for the same reasons – a lot are unemployed, others are in jobs that don’t offer coverage or coverage they can afford, or they opt out for various reasons. But we can expect their numbers to keep growing at least until the economy gets stronger,’’ said Peter Cunningham, a senior fellow at the Center for Studying Health System Change. Cunningham said he doesn’t expect the reforms will do much to reduce premiums or out-of-pocket costs for most Americans in the near term.
Nationally the study found that as of 2006, almost 20 percent of families with insurance and more than 15 percent of those without coverage were spending 10 percent or more of their incomes on health care. “For the lower-income families who qualify for Medicaid or hefty subsidies or for families that are paying 50 percent of their income for an individual policy, they’re probably going to see their burden decrease [with reform], but everyone else will still be facing fairly stiff costs,’’ Cunningham said. One group that is expected to gain early help is adults with medical conditions that have caused them to be denied health coverage for at least six months. Thirty-four states operate highrisk insurance pools for people with pre-existing conditions now, but they serve only about 200,000 individuals, in part because premiums are steep. Jennifer Tolbert, a policy analyst for the non-profit Kaiser Foundation on Medicaid and the Uninsured, said it’s likely the federal government will try to contract with those existing state plans – and perhaps encourage the remaining states to set up pools – as part of the $5 billion program to subsidize coverage for the medicallydisqualified that’s supposed to be in place later this year.
“Basically the subsidy will go to the plan, and the person with the medical condition would pay the same rate they’d otherwise pay if they did not have that condition,’’ Tolbert said. Probably the biggest boost for the uninsured could come from provisions in the reform package that would double the capacity of federally subsidized community health clinics over the next five years. The reform plan, counting the update package slated for final approval by the Senate and House Thursday, allocates some $9.5 billion in new operating subsidies for the clinics, which could double the number of health center sites to around 15,000, according to the National Association of Community Health Centers. “With $2 billion from the economic recovery package, we’ve been able to serve about 2 million more clients; this funding would allow us to almost double our patient-load to about 39 million,’’ said Dan Hawkins, senior vice president for public policy with the association. More than 40 percent of the clinics’ clients are uninsured and another 30 percent are on Medicaid. And with the reform plan still not expected to reach about 23 million uninsured people by 2019, there will still be plenty of demand.
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IUP’s programs in danger of proposed cuts By Sarah Morrow Senior Staff Writer S.E.Morrow@iup.edu
A lot of talk has been flying around campus regarding the budget problems that the university is up against for the next year and beyond. More than one plan of action has been proposed, and all of them seem to be resulting in educational losses for the students. At the most recent University Senate meeting, Provost Intemann discussed the fact that there is a projected deficit of upwards of $5 million. How are we as a university going to support each other during a difficult time in our community? Why, by cutting temporary faculty, of course! What a novel concept. The administration defended the action by saying that the cuts would not cross faculty lines due to the fact that only temporary faculty that are not filling open positions would be cut. All current searches to fill empty faculty positions will continue. This still means that 4 percent of the faculty could be cut. I am sure that not crossing faculty lines will be a comfort to those that might be losing their jobs. It has also been announced that
the university is anticipating increases in tuition coming down from Harrisburg and PASSHE. What are the other possibilities regarding protecting IUP from financial woes? Cutting programs. If all else fails, PASSHE seems to think that you can always take away more academic departments in the pursuit of excellence. While what exactly “cuts” means has not yet been defined, it has been hypothesized that the cuts may result in the loss of entire departments. According to a list created by the administration, in conjunction with the deans and PASSHE, the programs that are in the most danger of being cut are so-called “lower enrolled programs.” These programs include French, German, Inter-disciplinary Fine Arts, philosophy, music performance, physics, applied mathematics and more at the bachelors level. Masters cuts could include IT, Chemistry, Geography, Art, Physics, and more. Where does that leave the students? Only time will tell. With the increased enrollment projections (up to 15,000 undergraduate), the shortage of on-campus housing and increased class sizes being projected for the impending curricula changes, IUP’s students and faculty may soon
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With the increased enrollment projections ... the shortage of on-campus housing and the increased class sizes being projected for the impending curricula changes, IUP’s students and faculty may soon be at more of a disadvantage than ever. be at more of a disadvantage than ever. As we come to the close of this academic year, there are many questions that are lingering in the minds of concerned students and faculty. If we, as a university, are projecting a deficit significant enough to warrant cuts to academic programs, then why are we still expanding? KCAC is still being constructed despite a lack of funds, though the revenue from it may turn out to be significant. The Five Year Planning Committee is still projecting multimillion-dollar increases to athletics budgeting. The activity fee is still increasing next year. When do we need to stop expanding and start focusing on the education we are receiving? I would say the sooner, the better.
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Ease of digital music silences old ways of appreciating art form By Steve Almond Los Angeles Times MCT
When I first encountered iTunes, the wildly popular music app that allows fans to compile their own collections and digital library, I was agog. After 20 years of amassing music, I had more than 4,000 albums, most of them stacked precariously in my basement. The more I used iTunes, the more slavish my devotion grew. If I wanted to play a particular song, I no longer had to go hunting through those stacks. I just clicked a button. If I wanted to make a mixed CD — a process that had taken me hours, particularly in the cassette era — I had only to create a new playlist. And if I heard a killer song at a party or on the radio, there was a handy online store where I could instantly download that track for a buck. Not only was my musical archive more organized, it was portable too. Thanks to the wonders of the evershrinking iPod, I could carry thousands of songs with me wherever I went, on a device barely larger than a postage stamp. (If you had presented me with this gadget even a decade ago, I’m pretty sure I would have proclaimed you the Messiah.) But for all the joys of such wizardry, I’ve been experiencing a creeping sense of dread recently when it comes to iTunes, a dark hunch that technology has impoverished the actual experience of listening to music. See, back when I was a kid in the ‘70s, the way I listened to music was pretty simple. I put an LP on the turntable, dropped the needle, then sat on the living room rug and listened to every single note. If I liked the record a lot, I would listen to it two or three times in a row, usually with the album cover on my lap, so I could study the lyrics and artwork. In other words, I considered listening to an album an activity in and of itself. It was not something I did while working on homework, let alone while checking e-mail or thumbing out text messages. If I listened carefully enough, in fact, the songs allowed me to tap into certain volatile emotions that felt otherwise out of reach. When I
closed my eyes and immersed myself in Stevie Wonder’s “Sir Duke,” for instance, I was overcome by a rare and all-encompassing optimism. AC/ DC’s “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” filled me with the intoxicating power of my own aggression. “Can’t Stand Losing You” by the Police allowed me to accept my own romantic woe as entirely justified and maybe even somewhat comic. I really miss the fact that listening to music used to be a concerted sonic and emotional event, rather than the backing track to some flashing screen. It was more inconvenient, to be sure. But for me, this inconvenience was part of the whole point. I liked that I could only listen to my albums on a turntable in the living room. I liked yearning for my favorite records. I can still remember spending the entire day at school counting the minutes until I could get home to listen to the transcendent power chords of Styx’s “Paradise Theater.” I even liked that there was a whole process involved before you got to the songs. You had to thumb through your collection, put the record on the turntable and then set the needle down with the utmost care. Listening to the opening notes of my favorite songs sent shivers down my spine. I felt the same way about listening to them on the radio. I used to lie in bed for hours, waiting for KFRC in the Bay Area to play Alan O’Day’s wonderfully cheesy single, “Undercover Angel.” The song, when the DJ finally played it, felt like a gift fate had bestowed specifically on me. Look, there’s no question that technology has made music cheaper and more accessible. But I wonder if it hasn’t been made less sacred. The ease with which we can hear any song at any moment we want no matter where we are (and often for free) has diluted the very act of listening, rendering it just another channel on our ever-expanding dial of distractions. I’m sure if I tried to explain this line of reasoning to a teenager, it would sound like a lame and predictable celebration of the olden days. Then again, chances are today’s teenagers will look back on iTunes with the same misty nostalgia I reserve for my LPs and CDs.
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We should not enable Wall Street’s gambling problem By SARAH ANDERSON MCT
After the financial meltdown of 2008, I remember thinking that I wouldn’t be running into Wall Street lobbyists much anymore in the halls of Congress. If you’d just driven the economy off a cliff, wouldn’t you be embarrassed to show your face on Capitol Hill? And surely, I thought, these firms wouldn’t spend their taxpayer bailout money on high-priced lobbyists. Boy, was I naive. Last year alone, Wall Street spent more than $200 million to block efforts to rein in their recklessness. And the investment is paying off. The financial reform bills moving through Congress are full of holes for greedy bankers to exploit. Just look at the Senate Democrats’ new bill. One place you can see the Wall Street lobbyists’ handiwork is in all the exemptions for derivatives, the complicated financial instruments blamed for accelerating the crisis. Analysts say the bill would exempt up to 40 percent of derivatives from being traded on open exchanges. This means that high flyers could still do their riskiest gambling in secret — far
from the eyes of any regulator cops. This type of over-the-counter trading is kind of like backroom poker. In most cases, it adds no value to the real economy, so it’s exactly like betting. Except if the game goes really badly, it’s not one unlucky gambler who stands to lose his shirt — it’s the entire economy. You’d think we would’ve learned this lesson after the AIG debacle. The insurance giant was a hopeless gambling addict. It issued gazillions of so-called credit default swaps, particularly crazy deals that were supposed to be like insurance against bad investments, but weren’t backed up with actual capital. Thanks to deregulation, AIG was able to conceal its bets from government regulators, much like the husband who hides his gambling problem from his wife until the goons show up to collect. Once the subprime mortgage crisis erupted and the market began to crash, AIG couldn’t make good on its bets. But instead of getting whacked in the knees, AIG got a $180 billion taxpayer rescue. And AIG was hardly playing alone in the backroom betting parlor. Although government regulators still should’ve seen the crash coming, Wall Street’s frenzied betting in the
We at The Penn would like to congratulate IUP men’s basketball team for an exemplary season. It’s not easy for basketball fans in Western Pennsylvania — if you haven’t noticed, regardless of how important or exciting certain basketball games are throughout March Madness, they tend to fall by the wayside for regular season Penguins games. There aren’t any local professional teams to bolster appreciation for the sport. So it goes. Speaking of March Madness, you may have noticed a distinct improvement to the weather. It’s almost April, and we have about six weeks left in this semester. Scary? At least a little intimidating? Now is the time to kick your studies into high gear for the final push until summer. It’s easy to get distracted, of course, particularly with the bustling activity that occurs in the Oak Grove as the weather gets warmer. You might have to dodge footballs or Frisbees on the way to class, and it seems like puppies just start sprouting out of the ground and dropping from the trees. Really, opening up your home to a pet is a very sweet gesture, but we feel that one should really understand the responsibility involved with taking on a small, fuzzy mouth to feed. Ask around and you’ll hear horror stories about apartments abandoned to filth that new tenants have to clean up before they can adequately move in and so on. Both Four-Footed Friends and the Indiana County Humane Society are within a very short drive from campus, and if you feel strongly enough about helping out animals, we suggest volunteering at either of these establishments before taking in a pet. It’s difficult to find housing, and even if you do find a place that allows pets, you can’t always guarantee that you’re not going to live with people who will mistakenly leave your cats out in the rain during a kegger. Taking in a dog or cat in particular is a commitment that can last anywhere from 10-20 years. Pet ownership should not be taken lightly.
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secret derivatives market made it more difficult. While we’re still struggling to recover from the catastrophe, it should be unimaginable that derivatives not be subject at least to a modest requirement that they be traded on exchanges. This reform alone wouldn’t be enough to prevent another crisis. But if Congress can’t crack down on backroom betting, are they up to the bigger job of transforming our casino economy into one that meets real economic needs?
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Restaurants get greener, buy from eco-friendly farmers By MARY MACVEAN Los Angeles Times MCT
When Neal and Amy Knoll Fraser move their Los Angeles restaurant Grace downtown to the rectory of St. Vibiana’s later this year, diners will be hard-pressed to miss the earth-totable connection. Fraser intends to plant a garden — and not just a few containers of herbs, but 450 to 500 square feet right outside, cater-corner from Los Angeles Police Department headquarters. It will be tended by the kitchen staff, and Fraser said it could yield as much as a quarter of the produce for his kitchen. He’s eyeing a parking lot for more garden space. As they renovate the rectory — more than a century old, with hand-painted ceilings and arched walkways — to build a 100-seat restaurant with patio dining, an upstairs bar and four private dining rooms. They plan to use paints with low or no volatile organic compound to install cisterns so water from prep sinks can irrigate the garden. And they’ll make compost. Fraser has an idea for taking diners into the garden to pick, say, five ingredients for a tasting menu. The couple were early converts to making their restaurants, Grace and BLD, green. At Grace, they filter the water and offer it without charge.
Grace’s used oil is recycled to run a family car. “We really do have to take this seriously and do as much as we can. It’s so difficult. Everyone is busy, and operating a restaurant is not a piece of cake,” Knoll Fraser said. Whether for the bottom line or for the highest of ideals, more restaurateurs are working toward “sustainability.” There’s no legal definition for a sustainable restaurant, but sustainability — in restaurants, economies or relationships — generally means serving the needs of the present while preserving the ability to meet the needs of the future. Chefs often take that to mean using locally grown produce, buying supplies from companies that respect the environment and encouraging frugal practices in their kitchens. By turning off lights, installing water filtration systems, recycling cooking oil for biodiesel and using hybrid vehicles for delivery, owners have branched out from just buying chickens that toddle free around a farm. “There are thousands of restaurants who have owners who believe they need to do their part,” said Joel Makower, executive editor of the online publishing company GreenBiz. com. LOOKING FOR OPTIONS Matt Lyman takes his restaurants’
carbon footprint very seriously, all the way to the gloves. The staff at Tender Greens, a small, salad-centric chain of restaurants that Lyman owns with two partners, mixes salads by hand in front of diners, wearing disposable gloves — lots of them — that end up in landfills. He’d like to find some that could be recycled or composted. “I have everyone I know trying to source them. If enough people ask, someone will come up with them,” said Lyman, who has worked hard to make as many environmentally friendly choices as possible in the restaurants in San Diego, Culver City, West Hollywood and Hollywood. Until then, Lyman said that despite any amount of hand-washing, customers are reassured by the gloves, and tongs are a nonstarter. “Tongs break up the lettuce and kind of destroy the essence of what makes our food so good,” he said. Lyman and his partners have, however, solved many problems. They plan soon to dispense with soda bottles by making their own beverages using fruits in season. They bought some old bleachers and turned them into a counter. The staff uniforms are organic cotton T-shirts. They serve high-quality fast food, and buy produce from local growers such as Scarborough Farms in Oxnard.
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The hometown of Jimmy Stewart will host another event in honor and celebration of the legendary actor and national icon. The Jimmy Stewart Museum has announced its Spring Film Festival on its Web site. The festival will celebrate films that have major anniversaries of their premieres in 2010. The festival is held in conjunction with IUP and the support and direction of professor Tom Slater. Slater and some of his students will host the events and provide insight and discussion for each film. The first film in the series of presentations, “Mortal Storm,” was shown Thursday at the museum to a small but enthusiastic audience. Tracy Lassiter, a doctoral student, gave a presentation on the film prior to the screening and led a discussion afterward. The film, released in 1940, was the first movie to depict the Nazis,
according to Lassiter. When it was released, Hitler banned all MGM movies in Nazi-occupied Europe because of the negative depiction. “The U.S. was in a state of isolationism and was reluctant to get involved in World War II — this movie helped the US sympathize with its Allies and join in the fight, but beyond this, it really is not a war film,” Lassiter said. The film’s messages “still resonate with us today in the 21st century,” Lassiter said. “More Americans ought to heed those messages.” “I’m very glad I had the chance to work with this film, Dr. Slater, the museum and the community on this project,” said Lassiter about her impressions of the experience. “I learned much, and I’m glad the community and the English department could share our interpretations together.” The next presentation will be Thursday. “The Philadelphia Story” will be screened. Presentations will continue each Thursday until April 21.
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Honeybees threatened by weather, face scary spring By MISTI CRANE The Columbus Dispatch MCT
Honeybees continue to struggle for survival throughout the nation, putting in peril the well-being of everything from California almonds to backyard cucumbers. As the weather has warmed, Ohio beekeepers checking into their hives have been finding significant numbers of dead bees, sometimes in the 70 percent range, said Barry Conrad, a Canal Winchester, Ohio, beekeeper. “It might be the worst in history,” said Conrad, who like other beekeepers has come to expect a 30-percent loss over the winter, up from the 10 percent he used to expect. Though colder-than-normal weather is being blamed for bee losses in warmer climates, the losses are more likely being exacerbated by limited
honey in the hives over the winter, Conrad said. Snow, in and of itself, isn’t a problem and might even serve as an insulator. “Bees don’t hibernate. They’re just sitting there watching TV, drinking cheap beer and waiting for the weather to change,” said Jim Tew, a beekeeping expert with the Ohio State University Extension campus in Wooster. And without enough honey during that time, they starve to death. It’s too soon to know for sure how severe the losses have been overall in Ohio — and nationally — this winter. The next few weeks of weather could make or break many hives, especially those with broods of developing bees, Tew said. Bees tending to babies have to generate a lot of heat. The colder it is, the more they have to move, and the more they have to move, the more they have to eat.
Last year was marked by recordlow honey production nationwide, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Compared with the year before, honey production dropped 12 percent — about 20 million pounds —to 144 million pounds. Honey production and weather are only part of the story. For several years, beekeepers have been grappling with obstacles including pests, disease and chemicals in pesticides, worrying both bee experts and farmers, who rely on the bees for pollination. A little-understood problem called “colony collapse disorder” that causes bees to abandon their hives is likely due to a combination of factors, Tew said. A study published recently in the scientific journal PLOS ONE found that about six in 10 samples of wax and bee pollen contained at least one systemic pesticide, a chemical
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a year to Georgia for replacement hives, said he’s hearing daily from beekeepers who’ve suffered significant losses. He’s taking orders for new hives, which cost about $75 each, but many beekeepers can’t afford to replace all that they’ve lost.
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IUP Native American Awareness Council presented a performance by contemporary artist Michael Jacobs last Wednesday at Beard Auditorium. Jacobs, a Cherokee Native American from Oklahoma, blended contemporary and traditional styles to form an altogether pleasing sound. Strumming his acoustic guitar, Jacobs opened up the night with a piece called “They Come Dancing,” a song about coming together and dancing in joy and union. The verses were punctuated by a powerful chant which conjured traditional Native American imagery. Although Jacobs’ lyrics spawned mental images of traditional Native Americans, he made it a point to bring the audience up to date with the Native Americans of the current era. “Many of you probably expected to see an Indian dancing around with a headdress on singing, ‘Hey-how-areya, hey-how-are-ya,’ but that’s not what most Native Americans are like anymore,” Jacobs said. “We’re modern people who embrace and respect our heritage, but wouldn’t know what to do without air conditioning.” After singing a few more songs, Jacobs took a break from playing guitar to serenade the audience with his Native American flute. He described that traditionally, these flutes were used by men in the courting process, but assured the audience members he wasn’t going to try and seduce them. After a brief murmur of laughter shot forth from the crowd, Jacobs
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put the flute to his lips and began to play a melancholy, yet peaceful, tune. The flute’s airy sound swept over the audience as Jacobs skillfully played it. Once the song was over, a kink nestled itself in his voice as he described that the song was written as a memorial for one of his friends who had passed away. He apologized for getting choked up and then placed his flute aside and once again returned to his guitar. Although Jacobs’ flute performance garnered a powerful applause from the audience, he said that he preferred to use his voice and a guitar because, “the messages I am trying to convey are too complex for traditional art forms … We’re all human beings who value honor, respect, wisdom, peace and justice.”
These values presented themselves in the other songs from Jacobs’ set list. His song “Take Me Down” was about finding cleansing in the modern world, and it drew from his Cherokee roots. He described that the Cherokee people go down to the river for spiritual cleansing. “Touch the Sky” was an inspirational song which spoke of reaching one’s potential. The lyrics urged humanity to come together, rise up and follow our dreams in an effort to metaphorically “touch the sky.” Once his set was finished, Jacobs was rewarded by a hearty applause from the audience. To listen to and find out more about Jacobs, visit his MySpace at myspace.com/sacrednation.
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Nine tips to less water wasting, more money saving By paul mcrandle
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When I bathed as a young child, my grandmother took it upon herself at times to let me know that the nurses in the first World War washed up with only a cup of water. This seemed so outlandish I immediately dismissed it, especially since she might make me try it. But now you don’t have to suffer the deprivations of war or live on Cyprus or Malta, island nations that have drained their aquifers, to worry about water. The American Southwest has been long used to drought, but in recent years, the Southeast has suffered from water shortages as well. Worse still, as underground water reserves are depleted, salt water from the Atlantic has seeped into aquifers rendering the remainder brackish. Furthermore, the water we use is flushed back into waterways with a new tide of chemicals ranging from pharmaceutical drugs to phosphates in dishwasher detergent. On average, we each use an astounding 170 gallons every day — that’s about three full bathtubs — but all that wasted water (not to mention the energy to heat it) provides plenty of opportunity for conservation without inconvenience. And every gallon we save means money saved on water and energy bills. Here are some simple, but meaningful ways to conserve water without building up a thirst. 1. Fix leaks. This is the single most important thing you can do to save water at home. If your indoor or outdoor taps are dripping you could waste 90 gallons or more of water every day. Take a tour of your home and note any taps that need maintenance. For tips on DIY repair and more, see the EPA’s WaterSense site: epa.gov/ watersense/water_efficiency/howto. html.
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2. Take two minutes off your shower — you’ll save about five gallons every time. Or think of those WWI nurses and trim your showers to five minutes, which will keep about 12.5 gallons for a better use. 3. Install a low-flow showerhead. New aerating showerheads can reduce the flow from 2.5 gallons per minute (gpm) to as low as 1 gpm, while maintaining water pressure by mixing in air. 4. Shower with a bucket. This may sound a little strange but you can capture a gallon or two while you shower. It’s actually a perfect way to wash exercise clothes without having start a new load in the clothes washer. 5. Don’t rinse plates; scrape food off instead. Most dishwashers are built now to remove food residues, and pre-rinsing can waste as much as 20 gallons per load. 6. Use the dishwasher rather than wash by hand. Although some people are very efficient at washing by hand, most of us aren’t and that means up to 27 gallons of water per load. A new Energy Star-rated dishwasher can consume as little as 3 gallons per load. 7. Use a carwash or, better yet, go waterless. Washing your car by hand not only can use from 80 to 140 gallons of water in one go,
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but will also result in contaminated water containing brake fluid, oil and other automotive fluids entering waterways through storm drains. Carwash services are required to channel water to treatment plants and only use approximately 50 gallons per wash. Waterless car washes, such as those produced by Eco Touch (ecotouch.net) and Lucky Earth (luckyearth. com), can tackle dusty surfaces with no need for the garden hose. 8. Water your garden with a hose with an automatic shutoff nozzle. Garden hoses spray water at a rate of about 8 gpm. That can add up to 80 gallons in 10 minutes, but if you add a nozzle with an automatic shut off you can cut that down to 3.2 gpm. 9. Plant a native garden. Flowers, grasses and bushes native to your area have adapted to regional rainfall rates and they have better defenses against predators. As a result, you can water less or not at all without harm and take a pass on pesticides. As an added plus, they foster healthy soil and insect life, which attracts birds and enhances overall biodiversity. To find plants from your area, see the Native Plant Database at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center: wildflower.org/plants.
It seems like a clash of cultures when you compare the razzle-dazzle of American life and the tranquil practice of Buddhism. But the two are completely compatible, said documentary filmmaker David Grubin, whose two-hour film, “The Buddha” premieres April 7 on PBS (check local listings). “We try to set his life in its historical context, but it’s so long ago that we don’t know what he really did,” said Grubin at a press gathering. “But what I realized is, what he really did doesn’t really matter. What matters is the story, and the meaning of that story and the message of hope that the story carries. “And so, you won’t find in this film a searching for the historical Buddha. What you do find is a great story with great interpreters of the story,” said Grubin, who has made films on Napoleon, Teddy Roosevelt and J. Robert Oppenheimer. One of Grubin’s sources is American Buddhist Dr. Mark Epstein, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist who promoted TV’s “In Treatment” and played himself on “The L Word.” The disciplines of psychiatry and Buddhism may seem hectares apart, said Epstein, but that’s not so. “Buddhism is all about looking at your own mind; the power that self-awareness has to actually heal,” he said. “And psychotherapy is the same.
It’s about looking at your own mind in the presence of another person, using the help of conversation to look at your own mind. “The idea being that self-awareness actually can help people change. So to me, they are two versions of the same thing.” Grubin agreed. “I think I’ve always been interested in psychology in my films,” he said. “I think that’s probably one thing that you can see from ‘The Secret Life of the Brain’ to ‘LBJ’ to ‘Napoleon.’ “And the Buddha, you know, was really the first psychologist. He really thought about the human mind, the way our mind — our thoughts buzz and buzz and buzz and what that all means and what to do about finding a way to be more in touch with our lives and ourselves. “He was searching for a kind of serenity. As W.S. Merwin said, he was trying to understand suffering in the world. And he came up with some ideas about that, which I wanted to explore — aside from the fact that I think I’m reaching the age where I’m looking for maybe a deeper kind of wisdom than you could find in a film about LBJ.” Epstein, whose father is a doctor, first became interested in Buddhism in college. “I was studying psychology with a vague notion of wanting to be a psychotherapist, but not really knowing what that would involve, and I must’ve been taking a religion class’” Epstein said. “I started reading some of the psychological teaching of the Buddha and I thought, ‘This really makes sense.’
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IUP Dance Theater pays touching tribute to alumna By sarah morrow Senior Staff Writer S.E.Morrow@iup.edu
Over the weekend, the IUP Dance Theater brought its annual spring dance performance to campus. Running Friday through Sunday, it featured a wide range of pieces that outlined both the touching and the whimsical moments of life. Director Holly Boda-Sutton described the production as “eclectic” and without an overarching theme. She went on to say that each piece shows unique aspects of life. With four different choreographers creating the production, the evening showcased a variety of views and ideas. Pieces such as “Chain Gang” and “Are Diamonds Still a Girl’s Best Friend?” made classic pop songs new again through expressive dance and new twists. “Fanfare for Tambourines” brought the dance company and part of the IUP Percussion Ensemble together for an energetic and exciting rhythmic experience. As members of the percussion ensemble played their tam-
bourines and drums, children could be seen dancing in the aisles. A brief change in the tone of the pieces came from Joan Van Dyke’s “Sealskin/Soulskin,” which was an overview of the little known myth of the Irish Selkis. Other pieces such as “Peace and Pieces” and “Grandma’s Hands,” by guest choreographer Rebecca Inman, brought the audience a look at the difficulty, struggle, and beauty of the human condition through the use of fluid, precision movements. The highlights of the evening came in the form of two dances that were dedicated to the memory of Inter Disciplinary Fine Arts and Dance alumna Erin A. (Potthast) Burkett. Burkett, a member of the dance company from 1998-2000, passed away in 2009. After graduation, Burkett went on to teach dance to children. The beginning of the show run was marked by the dedication of a memorial to Burkett that is housed in the Zink Auditorium. The first dance in Burkett’s memory was the heartfelt “Pretty Ballerina.” Music for the piece was composed and performed by Burkett’s father, Chuck
Potthast, an employee of the Co-op. Potthast’s tribute to his daughter was truly moving. As he told the tale of watching his daughter grow up as a beautiful young dancer, more than one audience member was moved to tears. The dance featured students Alex Hull and Evan Grabowski as the loving parents of their own little ballerina, a part played by local youth dancers Sarah Johnston and understudy Angelica Tait. The second piece dedicated to Burkett closed the performance. “La Fiesta de Loca” came as something of a surprise to the audience. The dance, simply put, was joyous. The dancers entered the stage smiling beneath crazy hairstyles. It was irreverent and uplifting to all who saw it. Originally premiered in 1999 and choreographed by Boda-Sutton, “La Fiesta de Loca” was reconstructed by alumna and rehearsal director Anna Ponak-Shively. Ponak-Shively and Burkett both performed in the premier of “La Fiesta de Loca” more than a decade ago. Boda-Sutton indicated that
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the piece was one that Burkett had loved since they began it. The meaning behind the evening was clearly not lost on the audience. While leaving the auditorium, a father and daughter were seen standing in front of a large photo of Burkett. The young girl looked up at her father and asked who was in the photo. The father carefully pulled her
close, explaining whom the lovely young woman was and what the importance of “Pretty Ballerina” had been. The production was a tribute to not only Burkett, but to the connections she had created with others through her art. The IUP Dance Company gave the audience a wonderful look at their talents and the community that they have created.
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End of a great run Crimson Hawks give good effort, still fall in national championship game to Cal Poly Pomona, 65-53 By vince deANGELO Staff Writer V.A.DeAngelo@iup.edu
Courtesy of Amanda Rogerson IUP never held a lead at any point of its loss to Cal Poly Pomona during Saturday’s national championship game.
The Crimson Hawks’ offense was forced to slam on the brakes, and their defense was silenced by nothing but Cal Poly Pomona hitting the bottom of the net time after time, leading to a Broncos’ 65-53 victory against IUP at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, Mass., Saturday afternoon. CPP’s shooting surprised IUP. It sunk five buckets from beyond the arc in the first half, and after five minutes of play, the Broncos had only missed one shot, while IUP had missed them all. “I thought our guys gave a great effort,” Head Coach Joe Lombardi said. “We didn’t have the performances that we usually have, but I’m still very proud of [my team], and I’m thankful to have the opportunity to end our journey in the finals.” The Broncos’ solid defense made it hard for IUP to drive through the lane, let alone put in a layup. When IUP did take a shot, it went in only 30 percent of the time. The Crimson Hawks had only three triples — two of them released
“We didn’t have the performances that we usually have, but I’m still very proud of [my team], and I’m thankful to have the opportunity to end our journey in the finals.” — Joe Lombardi, IUP basketball head coach by Julian Sanders. “Our shots weren’t dropping for us like they usually do,” senior Thomas Young said. “Overall, we have to give it up to [CPP] for playing really good defense.” Leaders for IUP were all-tournament team-honored Darryl Webb with 12 points and 13 rebounds and Akida McLain with 10 points and seven rebounds. Ashton Smith and Sanders scored nine apiece, and Young put up seven points and seven rebounds. IUP came prepared, but the weight of the ball wasn’t falling its way. The Crimson Hawks worked hard rotating the ball around the arc, but they took tough shots, and even when they got a clean look at the basket, the ball would roll out of the hoop or drop off the iron. The Broncos took a 35-25 lead into the break and the Hawks, known for their second-half turnarounds, did not have anything left to pull out of the magic hat.
The second half was as dreary for IUP as the first. “[Their defense] was a learning curve that we had to go through,” Lombardi said. “They don’t give up a lot of easy buckets and didn’t give us second shots. We dug ourselves into a hole, and the mountain was just a little too high to climb.” The Hawks kept their heads up high, but they just couldn’t start a run or grasp hold of any momentum. The Broncos had done too much damage for IUP to put a dent in their lead. By the time the game clock read zero, IUP was right back where they had started at halftime by being down by double-digits. Despite not claiming the national title, IUP did finish out with the most successful season in school history. It was its first appearance in the NCAA Division II National Championship, and the Hawks also set a new record for most wins in a season at 33.
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Penn reporter Vince DeAngelo gives fans perspective on historic national championship game Covering the IUP men’s basketball major and Crimson Crazy leader Jordan team was the highlight of my college “The Crutch” Ottavio grasped on to a experience. thought. I wrote a lot of clips for my portfolio “After I found out [IUP] was comon quality basketball games, and I ing to Massachusetts, I talked to my also obtained a lot of valuboss and supervisor,” Ottavio able experience — somesaid. Ottavio works at the thing that is priceless in the ticket office in the HUB and journalism field. planned the bus rides up to But, more importantly, the MassMutual Center. I got to see a special group “[My bosses] did most of players mature into a of the work, but I planned championship-caliber team the idea and I’m glad we got before I leave this May. it done. We got 87 people As a journalist, a student to come [to Springfield]. and a college basketball By vince DeANGELO The trip was at night fan, the Crimson Hawks so there wasn’t a lot of Staff Writer won me over on all three traffic. We got here at V.A.DeAngelo@iup.edu perspectives, and their 6:30 a.m., got breakfast, sense of pride is spreading across the hung out at the MassMutual Center IUP campus, which was evidenced by for three hours and came here to see how many fans drove to the game our team.” Saturday. The IUP players and Head Coach After learning about the team Joe Lombardi were grateful for the fan advancing to Springfield, criminology support they had accumulated as the
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season went along. “I know [the support] was really rewarding for our guys, and that is the most important thing,” Lombardi said. “On a personal level, it is important to me because I went to Indiana. I didn’t just want to build a basketball team; I wanted to build a program, and part of building a program is engaging the students and the community in what is going on. We wouldn’t be here without their financial support.” Seniors Thomas Young and Akida McLain agreed. “It meant a great deal to us that so many people were willing to come all the way out to Massachusetts just to see one basketball game for a few hours and go right back,” Young said. “I have a lot of respect for the student body and townspeople that came out, and we want to thank them for their support because most of them have been there all season and they will be there next season.”
Courtest of Amanda Rogerson At the NCAA Division II National Championship Saturday in Springfield, Mass., 3,762 people were in attendance. Hundreds were estimated to be from or supporters of IUP.
“The fans helped out a lot, and they definitely helped us get here,” McLain said. “They gave us an edge and gave us momentum at times. Having them here was a good thing and I was glad to see them come out.”
After the game, hundreds of Crimson Hawk fans chanted “I-U-P” as the NCAA presented the national championship trophy to Cal Poly Pomona, letting their team know the 2009-10 season was one they’ll always remember.
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Crimson Hawks split weekend doubleheader with SRU, improve record to 8-13 much more intensity in the second game of the double header. During the first two innings, the Crimson Hawks picked up six runs on The Crimson Hawks baseball team five hits. The score in the beginning of the split their doubleheader in Erie against PSAC rival Mercyhurst over the week- fifth inning was 6-4 in favor of the Crimson Hawks, but that changed end. During the first game of the quickly. Designated hitter Dylan Songer doubleheader, the Crimson Hawks couldn’t overcome Mercyhurst’s initial brought in two runs with his double to center field. five runs. Mercyhurst catcher Outfielder Kofi OseiAdam Gray hit a homerun Aning also knocked in two to left field, and with the runs on his double to right three runs brought in, the field. score increased to 5-0 in the Right fielder Jamie Smith first inning. batted in an RBI with his The Crimson Hawks got single and increased IUP’s on the board in the third lead to 11-4. inning when shortstop Paul From then on, the Bingham picked up an RBI Crimson Hawks were on a fielder’s choice. Bruno able to keep Mercyhurst However, Mercyhurst at bay and pick up their was able to answer that run with a run of its own when out- seventh win of the season. The Crimson Hawks are 8-13 on the fielder Trey Bennett homered to left season and 3-1 in the PSAC West. field to bring the score to 6-1. Eric Bruno picked up his second Mercyhurst picked up two more runs when Infielder Ethan Santora win, pitching four innings, allowing knocked out Mercyhurst’s third two runs on four hits and getting four strikeouts. homerun. Instead of playing at home, as Despite the four runs that the Crimson Hawks were able to score in the original schedule had posted, the the fifth inning and the single runs in Crimson Hawks traveled to Mercyhurst the third and sixth, Mercyhurst was to play the double header. The home opener has been still able to pick up the win. Crimson Hawks pitcher Jake rescheduled twice due to field condiRougeaux pitched four innings and tions at IUP. Until further notice about the gave up eight runs on eight hits. Mercyhurst’s Mitch Perez pitched into field’s condition, the home opener for the fifth inning before Stephen Cooke the Crimson Hawks will be at 1 p.m. Saturday against another PSAC rival, was brought in to close the game. The Crimson Hawks were given Slippery Rock. The Crimson Hawks’ next game will their 13th loss on the season by a be on the road against PSAC opponent score of 9-6. The Crimson Hawks came out with Mansfield at 1 p.m. Wednesday.
By kyle predmore Staff Writer K.R.Predmore@iup.edu
Bradford works out for NFL scouts The Oklahoman Scripps Howard News Service
Former University of Oklahoma star quarterback Sam Bradford worked out for NFL scouts and coaches Monday in Norman at the Everest indoor practice facility. It was the first time scouts had seen Bradford throw since Oct. 16, when he re-injured his shoulder against Texas. Bradford, who said he’d only been throwing for four to five weeks, looked crisp and fluid on his throws. “I thought I made a lot of great throws,” Bradford told ESPN’s Todd McShay during an interview after the workout. “I felt like I performed very well.” Bradford threw a wide variety of routes to familiar receivers. Former Sooners teammates Brody Eldridge,
Chris Brown and Adron Tennell caught passes from Bradford who worked out of “under-center” and shotgun formations. The passes ranged from short 5-yard outs to deep 50-yard go routes. Representatives from just about every NFL team were in town. Cleveland Browns general manager Mike Holmgren, Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carrol and St. Louis Rams coach Steve Spagnuolo were all in attendance. Bradford underwent reconstructive surgery on his right (throwing) shoulder on Oct. 28. After suffering an AC-joint sprain in a loss to BYU in the Sooners’ season opener on Sept. 5, Bradford returned to the field against Texas, but reinjured the shoulder during the first quarter.
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Penn columnist Alycia King has advice for troublesome Steelers Roethlisberger, Reed Is anyone else sick of Big Ben Roethlisberger being in the news for sexual assault? He now has as many sexual allegations as Super Bowl rings. If the fans in Pittsburgh aren’t questioning the off-field activities of their star quarterback, they might want to start now. If you search for Ben Roethlisberger images on Google.com, you will find pictures of Ben inebriated at parties and bars. A picture of Roethlisberger at a party wearing a shirt that says “Drink Like a Champion Today” isn’t exactly helping his public image. In fact, if you type “Ben Roethlisberger” into Google Search, a list of topics appears to help you narrow your search. “Drunk” is the second or third one down on that list. Though Roethlisberger gets all the publicity for his visits to the bar, his
teammate Jeff Reed also enjoys the on the field. nightlife. Both Jones and Vick were Both of these players are loved suspended from the league. by Steelers fans. You would I would hate for the think they would watch Steelers to have to deal their activities when they with more bad press from are off the field. Roethlisberger’s stupid deciAn NFL coach once sions. said, “Nothing good hapRoethlisberger needs to pens after midnight.” As an be wary when he goes out. NFL player, Roethlisberger He has money, and lots should know that most of it. When he is drunk and a people know his face woman claims he sexuBy alycia king regardless of where he ally assaulted her, not Sports Columnist is. many people are going A.L.King@iup.edu Whether he is in to automatically side Pittsburgh, Georgia or with him. Nevada, he needs to be aware of his He is putting himself in situations actions and how they affect him. that compromise his standing with There are consequences for actions. the Pittsburgh fans. Adam “Pacman” Jones knows this all One allegation may be forgiven, too well. but that does not mean he can go out Michael Vick also has learned and put himself in the same situation the hard way that what you do off again and expect his fans and team to the field can affect what happens be forgiving.
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MCT Ben Roethlisberger was accused of sexual assault after an incident March 5.
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One surprise team, four favorites comprise Final Four in Indianapolis Well, we are finally here. After of their experience and ability to countless hours of buzzer beaters and play tough defense. classic games, we have reached the They were helped out by Northern Final Four. Iowa winning against Kansas and This isn’t the Final Four the experts by Tennessee winning against Ohio thought we would see, but it should State. I think if they had to play be a classic. We have four Kansas or Ohio State, they teams that took four difwould have lost. ferent paths to arrive in However, you can’t take Indianapolis for the last away what Michigan State part of March Madness. did, even if it had some luck Michigan State along the way. I wish I could I said at the start of take credit for my predicthe season that I thought tion, but I jumped off the Michigan State was good Michigan State bandwagon, enough to make the I won’t jump back By anthony scherer and Final Four. on. Sports Columnist However, after seeButler A.J.Scherer@iup.edu ing how the Spartans Siena was my choice played this season and back in November as how they lost in the Big Ten tourna- my mid-major to go to the Final Four. ment to Minnesota, I had a change I should have known then not to pick of heart on how far I thought they against the Butler Bulldogs. would go. The Bulldogs have shown throughWhen the brackets came out, I out this tournament that it doesn’t thought the Spartans were good matter what conference you play enough to make the Sweet 16 because in. What matters is how you play. I
had them going out in second round against Murray State. So, when they moved on to play Syracuse in the Sweet 16, I thought their run would end there. It didn’t, and it proves once again as long as you play great team defense, you can beat anybody in the country. It isn’t as surprising as George Mason was back in 2006, but Butler was still a shock to a lot of people based on who else was in this bracket. West Virginia West Virginia is the last team from the Big East left in the field and should be one of the early favorites to come back with the national championship trophy. This has been the one consistent team throughout the tournament, as it was never really was challenged by any of its opponents. West Virginia won its last two games without starting point guard Darryl “Truck” Bryant, who was one of its best players all year. I will take credit for this prediction,
because I said two teams would make it to the Final Four out of the Big East, and one of those teams was West Virginia. I am now patting myself on the shoulder for that selection. If the Mountaineers can get Bryant back for the Final Four, West Virginia might be taking back a national championship trophy to Morgantown come next Monday. Duke I will admit I was very down on the ACC this year. I didn’t think any of the teams were great. I even had Duke going out in the Sweet 16 to Siena. After the brackets came out, a lot of experts said Duke’s region didn’t have a lot of good teams in it. I didn’t agree at the time because it did have Villanova and Baylor, and those two teams were at the top of their conferences throughout the season. However, Villanova lost in the second round and Baylor showed Sunday that it wasn’t ready for the big stage. Duke’s path to the Final Four might have been easy, but it still had to
come out and play tough every night to secure that trip to the Final Four. Predictions I am going with Butler winning against Michigan State in the first game. I think the injuries finally caught up to Michigan State. Also, I am going with West Virginia winning against Duke. I think West Virginia is too strong inside and should be able to defend Duke’s three-point shooters. Finally, I am going with Butler winning against West Virginia in the National Championship. I just think it is time that a mid-major wins the whole thing.
A Final Four worth watching, barely By chris dufresne Los Angeles Times MCT
Let’s cut to the Indy car chase and say what most of America and CBS is thinking: this year’s Final Four got saved Sunday by Michigan State and Duke. Pour yourself a beverage, perhaps a Captain (Raymar) Morgan. What might have been —Tennessee vs. Butler in one game, West Virginia vs. Baylor in the other — would have been a reason next weekend to, what, clean out the gutters? Not that Tennessee isn’t a fine team, once you set aside a season filled with gun charges and player suspensions. Or that Baylor, no matter how Waco it might have been, didn’t deserve a trip to Indianapolis. A tournament already missing UCLA, North Carolina, Connecticut and Indiana, though, didn’t really need a Final Four that resembled the NIT. It needed star power. So thanks, Michigan State, for hightailing out of the Midwest after a thrilling one-point victory over Tennessee in St. Louis. Duke, in beating Baylor on Sunday to claim the South, became the only No. 1-seeded team to make it to the last weekend. Michigan State and Duke hardly could have gotten here by more different routes.
The Spartans sweated out four tournament wins by a total of 13 points, while Duke won four games by 64. In Michigan State’s Tom Izzo and Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, Indianapolis gets celebrity coaches who have combined for four national titles and 17 Final Fours. This is the sixth trip for Izzo, which ties him with Denny Crum and Adolph Rupp on the all-time list. The only coaches who have appeared in more are John Wooden (12), Dean Smith (11), Krzyzewski (11) and Roy Williams (seven). Welcome to a Final Four that works — and has something for everyone. It blends familiar story lines with new ones and features lightning-rod Duke, the franchise people either love to hate or hate to love. This year’s Final Four epitomizes a season that really made no sense. “This is a bizarre year, I’ve got to admit,” Izzo said Sunday. Michigan State vs. Butler is a No. 5 vs. a No. 5. Anybody have that? These teams have matured since November, when they were showered with preseason hype they didn’t live up to. Michigan State made a run to the national-title game last year before losing to North Carolina, but the vibe just wasn’t there early as Izzo dealt with discipline problems and the erratic play of Durrell Summers, who scored 21 in Sunday’s win.
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Major League Baseball has responded to the embarrassing sight of its showcase event being played in rain, sleet and 30-degree temperatures by trimming an off day from this year’s league championship series. So it’s on to the next problem. I don’t mean to be flippant, but playing the World Series when most people are about to buy their Thanksgiving turkeys is a serious flaw in the schedule that cannot be resolved by applying Band-Aids to the affected area. It was almost painful watching the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies trying to perform at a high level in last year’s World Series, as they wiped ice crystals from their caps. The best thing that could be said of the Series is that nobody caught pneumonia. This was not baseball at its best or even close. After awhile, survival became the No. 1 objective, and never mind the Series’ other dilemma: games ending at 1 in the morning. But that is an issue for another day. Last week, the Special Committee for On-Field Matters, assembled by Commissioner Bud Selig last fall, came up with the recommendation to eliminate the off day between the fourth and fifth games of both league championship series.
The suggestion was accepted by Selig and will be adopted for the 2010 postseason, cutting one day off the length of the playoffs, which again, are not scheduled to end until November. The four division series don’t begin until Oct. 6, with the first LCS game set for Oct. 15 and the World Series opener Oct. 27. Keeping the postseason within the confines of early fall is an undertaking fraught with obstacles. For starters, it will take the cooperation of the owners and the players union. The only way to fix this problem is to shorten the regular season, and the only way the owners and players would consider such a radical — albeit logical — move is to agree on what’s best for the game during the long term rather than next year or two years from now. Add four day-night doubleheaders to every team’s schedule, making the season four days shorter and — this is the tough part — trim the season from 162 games to 158. Selig shot down both of these ideas, and for good reason: He knows the owners won’t go for either. There was one other element to the recommendation: Start every season April 1 rather than the first Monday in April, which sometimes adds almost a week to the schedule. Selig was not presented with this option, so I don’t know what he would say about it. As a group, owners despise split doubleheaders (unless
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there’s a rainout and they stand to lose a gate by making up the game with a conventional doubleheader), because they tend to cut down on attendance. And they have no desire to slice four games off the schedule (two home games), even though it would theoretically reduce their game revenue by only 2.4 percent. Add to this the certainty that the players would refuse to cut their salaries by 2.4 percent. Were these three suggestions to be adopted, the season would end — believe it or not — Sept. 19 and the playoffs would begin Sept. 21. The way it would have worked this year, the season would start on a Thursday and end on a Sunday.
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“I put my high school for sale. [My friends and I] put over 1,000 ‘For Sale’ signs up all over town.” —Ben Savory (sophomore, theater) “I fake asked a girl out.” — Kevin Pomorski (freshman, mathematics)
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