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Police blotter Alcohol violations
• At 1:15 a.m. Thursday, borough police responded to a call regarding a shoplifter at Sheetz at 768 Wayne Ave. Police were told by security that Sasha T. Williams, 20, Hellertown, had eaten a pack of cookies inside the store and left without paying. It was discovered that Williams was underage and had consumed alcohol. She was cited for underage drinking and retail theft, police reported. • At 11:06 p.m. Tuesday, borough police responded to a call of a man causing a disturbance in the 200 block of Philadelphia Street. The woman caller reported that a man was pounding on her door and would not go away, but was walking toward Sheetz. Richard Treese Jr., 26, Indiana, was located and found to be intoxicated. He was cited for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct and was placed in the county jail on detainer, police reported.
Assault
At 3:19 a.m. Wednesday, borough police responded to a call of domestic violence in the 1100 block of Oak Street. Daryl Dunmire, 28, Indiana, was placed under arrest for domestic assault and charged with simple assault and harassment, police reported.
Criminal mischief
• Borough police reported that sometime between 10 p.m. Monday and 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, someone flattened all four tires on a van parked in the 300 block of Water Street. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police. • Borough police reported that at 10:44 p.m. Friday, someone damaged the gate at a parking garage at 650 Water St. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police.
Disorderly conduct
• At 12:07 a.m. Saturday, borough police were called to the 600 block of Philadelphia Street due to a disturbance. It was discovered that Heather R. Stiteler, 21, Shelocta, had slapped a man several times. Stiteler was cited for disorderly conduct and harassment, police reported. • At 1:47 a.m. Saturday, borough police reported stopping a vehicle in the 600 block of Philadelphia Street. While police interviewed the driver, passenger Lisa Vazquez, 30, Indiana, shouted obscenities at the officers. Police reported that Vazquez then exited the vehicle and interfered with the investigation taking place on the sidewalk. After being found intoxicated, Vazquez resisted arrest and attempted to flee the scene. She was charged with obstruction of justice, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness and released to a sober adult.
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Borough police reported that sometime between 4 p.m. Friday and 11:30 a.m. Monday, someone entered an apartment at 888 Wayne Ave. and took clothing and a laptop. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police.
SGA election results announced Thursday after Qualtrics delay By Sean Bracken News Editor S.M.Bracken@iup.edu
Results from this year’s SGA elections are in, following a delay because of complications in the voting process. The results came in via e-mail Thursday afternoon from Kate Linder, associate dean of students, student life and community engagement and adviser to SGA. The results came in for the SGA president, vice president, senators at large, write-in senators at large, senators for the College of Natural Sciences and Math and the Co-op board of directors. According to the results, David Bivens (junior, political science) and Andrew Longacre (freshman, safety sciences) received 294 votes. Bivens and Longacre ran unopposed after their opponent Anthony Royster (senior, manage-
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A WyoTech student was found dead in his dorm Wednesday afternoon near the school’s Burrell Township campus. Indiana County Coroner Michael Baker said Stephen Ardell Erman, 22, Newark, Ohio, was found unresponsive at about 3:30 p.m. He said Erman was found by a friend who went to check on him after he
did not see Erman attend any of his regular classes. An autopsy was scheduled to be performed Thursday morning at the Memorial Medical Center in Johnstown. Baker said that he does not expect foul play to be involved in Erman’s death. Erman was pronounced dead at about 4:20 p.m., according to Baker. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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for the College of Natural Sciences and Math. James Braden Chancellor received 176 votes, and Laich received 149. Elected members of the Co-op board of directors included Bergman with 143; Kressley and Stayman with 19, Josh Amelio with 16 and Kelly Welde with 15, according to the results. Robbin Zirkle will be the alternate with 13, according to the results. The elections were held April 14-15 through Qualtrics, a survey program, which was designed to help engage more students into the process and make voting easier, according to Linder. Results were delayed because of problems with Qualtrics, which had difficulties in distributing the survey in a timely manner before Friday’s deadline. An election for the write-in candidates was held Tuesday and Wednesday so that all students had the opportunity to vote, according to SGA elections chair Eddie Cervantes (management).
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ment) dropped out for undisclosed reasons. The senators at large included 12 winners. Eight received more than 100 votes. Zachary Stayman (sophomore, political science) received the most votes with 142. Other winners with more than 100 votes included Bridget Widdowson, 139; Brittany Millner, 129; Mike Keith Nelsen, 128; Braden Chancellor, 112; Anthony Royster, 110; Greg C. Fleming, 103; and Alyssa McCole, 102. The senators at large included four other winners: Michael G. Kennedy, Julian Renwrick, Brian Laich, and Christopher Bergman. According to the results, seven other senators were elected through write-in campaigns. Those senators are David Burkett and Meghan Lupole, 19; Justin Hileman and Elizabeth Judge, 18; Ryan Kressley, 14; Josh Amelio with 12; and Casey Madden, 11. Two senators were written in
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MCT The Supreme Court heard the issue of a Christian student organization’s campus rights at the University of California’s Hastings College.
Supreme Court takes up religious group’s campus rights By Michael Doyle McClatchy Newspapers MCT
A San Francisco campus conflict between religious devotion and human sexuality will now give Justice John Paul Stevens a final opportunity to apply the First Amendment in the 21st century. Oral arguments, which began April 12, were the first since Stevens announced his retirement from the Supreme Court. More critically, the case involving a Christian student organization at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law is the year’s most closely watched freedom-of-religion fight. The first thing lawyers do is fight over what the fight is about. “It’s a skirmish in a long-running battle to create more space to discriminate against gay people,” said Paul M. Smith, an attorney for a gay student group called Hastings Outlaw. Alternatively, conservatives say the case, Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, is about devout organizations maintaining their integrity and about public institutions not playing favorites. “Religious groups have a very important purpose in ensuring that members abide by their moral code,” said Luke Goodrich, of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a conservative group that says it supports freedom of religious expression. “Groups can’t survive if the government can force them to take unwanted members.” Hastings is a public law school, one of several affiliated with the University of California. It’s tantamount to the government, in other words. The school’s students partici-
pate in about 60 formally recognized organizations, from the Hastings Association of Muslim Law Students to the Hastings Democratic Caucus. One organization, the Christian Legal Society, draws a particularly bright line for membership. Students must sign a “statement of faith” to join. The statement recognizes “the Bible as the inspired word of God” and requires officers to “abstain from acts of the sinful nature.” “Unrepentant participation in or advocacy of a sexually immoral lifestyle is inconsistent with an affirmation of the Statement of Faith,” a Christian Legal Society resolution states, specifically condemning “all acts of sexual conduct outside of God’s design for marriage between one man and one woman, [including] fornication, adultery and homosexual conduct.” Hastings officials deemed the Christian Legal Society’s bylaws a violation of the school’s prohibition against discrimination on the basis of religion or sexual orientation. Consequently, the school denied formal recognition to the organization. Loss of recognition cost the Christian Legal Society a $250 grant. Without official recognition, the society also lacked other benefits, including use of the school’s logo, office space and audio-visual equipment. The students consider this discriminatory. “The ability to participate in a campus forum on equal terms with other groups is the very lifeblood of a student organization,” Stanford University law professor Michael McConnell wrote on the Christian Legal Society’s behalf.
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Experts discuss security risks with social media By Casey Contres Contributing Writer C.C.Contres@iup.edu
Security experts stressed the importance of understanding threats in social networking Monday at the HUB Ohio Room. The Six O’Clock Series “Social Networking and Information Security Risks” gave the audience a glance at how important it is to be careful with what one puts on the Internet. Brian King, a computer scientist for the FBI, and Greg Porter, founder of Allegheny Digital, presented tips and examples of ways to enjoy social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter while staying safe. About 99 percent of people ages 18-24 have at least one social network profile, according to Porter. “Understand the vulnerabilities you face,” King said. “There are people out there that want to steal your identity and money, and it is very easy to do so.” King said that the threats people face today aren’t the same threats from a few years ago. Firewalls and antivirus software used to be sufficient, but in today’s world, it takes more responsibility from the social network user. King talked about the risks with Facebook friend requests. He said people must be careful when they accept strangers. King said that someone could gain privileged knowledge from Facebook statuses. Even the most harmless personal information on one’s page could be sufficient enough to
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steal an identity. Facebook groups are also a risk because a large group of people with the same interest is an easy target for constant spam mail. “Once your information gets on the Internet, there is no taking them back,” King said. King suggested blurring out important information in pictures, such as street signs, so someone just can’t type the address in on Google maps and find out where you live. “I already knew it was not that difficult to get your identity stolen online, but I didn’t realize it was this easy,” said Shane Serafin (sophomore, computer science). King said that employers also
look at Facebook a lot when hiring. He said inappropriate photos and statuses could prevent one from getting a job. “If you wouldn’t want your employer to see it, don’t put it online,” King said. Wireless networks can also lead to security problems. Porter showed examples of how easy it is to hack into someone’s computer. He suggested not using the default network names for routers and to change configuration passwords routinely. “There is no patch for ignorance,” Porter said. “Build hurdles for the people trying to hack into your information.”
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Social media mining opens door to privacy issues By Jim Wyss McClatchy Newspapers MCT
Cynthia Hetherington is a dangerous librarian. With just a few keystrokes, Hetherington tracked down a government employee who has access to sensitive intelligence information and then – using social networking sites he frequented, such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter – found his telephone number, home address and pictures of his newborn twins. Then she mused on the hypothetical of how she might kidnap his children and exchange them for access to the critical database. The presentation on Friday was the capstone of a three-day meeting of the International Association for Asset Recovery on Miami Beach. While much of the conference focused on the nuts and bolts of working with financial companies and national and foreign courts to track down hidden and illicit assets, it also veered into the burgeoning field of social-network mining. Hetherington, who was trained as a librarian and is now using those skills as a private investigator, asked a reporter not to name the man whom she raked over the digital coals during her presentation before some 300 people. But we can say he works at a government agency that starts with a C, ends with an A and may have an I
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in the middle. “You have to be cognizant of what you are posting on social networking sites and lock up your security controls,” she said. While most people don’t have access to national security secrets, they should still be very wary of what they share online. The walls between a buttoned-down professional profile on, say, LinkedIn and your carefree persona on Facebook are thinner than you think, she said. “If you are an electrician, it’s probably OK to be using social networking sites,” she said. “If you are the CEO of a large company, you shouldn’t be social networking at all.” Charles Intriago is the president of the International Association for Asset Recovery, which he founded in 2008 after selling his previous Miami
company, Alert Global Media, the publisher of Money Laundering Alert. The new association is designed to bring together government and private sector experts whose job it is to recover property derived from illicit activity or that is being withheld from its rightful owner. “This is the first time social media have been brought into our conferences as a way to find the way to hidden assets,” he said. Judging from the audience reactions, future conferences will also highlight social networking, he said. “I am going home and taking down my Facebook page,” one participant mumbled after the presentation. The organization’s next asset recovery conference will take place in England in October.
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‘The Blind Side’ inspiration speaks at IUP Wednesday By Sean Bracken News Editor S.M.Bracken@iup.edu
All across America, people heard the story of “The Blind Side” in a bestselling book and a $200-milliongrossing film. But Wednesday, IUP students heard the story in person from “The Blind Side” inspiration, Leigh Anne Tuohy, at 8 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium. Tuohy began by telling how her family’s story began to receive national attention. The Tuohys took in young Michael Oher, now a player for the Baltimore Ravens, when he had no one else. “This journey that the Tuohy family has been on has been unexpected,” she said. Tuohy said Michael Lewis, author of “The Blind Side” and a former writer for the New York Times Magazine, visited her husband, Sean, for an interview and saw Oher walking around the house. She said Lewis spent months writing the article.
“Everyone can do something, and that is what you see when you watch ‘The Blind Side.’ Your name could be in place of ours.” — Leigh Anne Tuohy, inspiration from “The Blind Side It was later published into a book and eventually made into a movie. “$320 million later, I am standing in a place in Pennsylvania telling my life story,” Tuohy said. She said the movie-making process was “interesting,” and her family was comfortable with director John Lee Hancock’s product. “He knew the pulse of the family,” Tuohy said. “When the movie came out, it obviously hit a nerve with America,” she said. Tuohy said she believed everyone could connect with her family’s story. “Everyone can do something, and that is what you see when you watch ‘The Blind Side,’” she said. “Your name could be in place of ours.” Tuohy said that when she found Oher on the side of the road, society
deemed him as “totally valueless.” “There was not one soul in the world who cared if he lived or died,” she said. Tuohy said Oher had 12 siblings, and he did not know all of their names. His father died, and he had no relationship with his mother. Oher did not even know his birth date. Tuohy said University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban, who is a friend of the family, visited to watch Oher practice. She said Saban predicted correctly that Oher would be an AllAmerican. Oher was a first-round 2009 draft pick for the Baltimore Ravens for a salary of $20 million a year. Tuohy said she has also been involved in Washington, D.C., to pass legislation to help more people find families. She said that she met a
22-year-old man who said she was the first person to compliment him about something. “I tell my kids every day that I am proud of them for something,” Tuohy said. “All it took was a little hope, love and a little opportunity.” Since the film’s release, many people have contacted Tuohy about the effect it had on their lives. “We get letters and phone calls, and you can’t imagine the stories people tell,” Tuohy said. She told the audience she would do it again because people’s lives have been changed and will continue to be changed. “They need your time, and they need you,” she said. “You can do something because the little things add up and make a difference,” Tuohy said. Tuohy is a native of Memphis, Tenn., and went on to graduate from the University of Mississippi with a bachelor’s of science in Interior Design. She owns “Flair I,” an interior design firm with her mother and partner, Virginia Roberts. Tuohy and her husband have three
MCT Michael Oher, Baltimore Ravens football player, was part of the inspiration behind the film, “The Blind Side.”
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• In January the California Historical Resources Commission formally claimed, on behalf of the state, about 100 items of property on the surface of the moon having been left behind during the 1969 Apollo 11 landing (since California companies were instrumental in that mission and since only the moon surface itself is off limits to ownership claims under international law). Among the items declared are tools, a flag, bags of food and bags of human waste left by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. • Nicolas Damato, 20, filed a lawsuit in March against Media, Pa., police officer Matthew Bellucci for false arrest after a 2008 traffic stop. Bellucci claimed Damato threatened bodily harm. Damato acknowledged sending two letters to Bellucci’s home, one of which said in part, “God is just, and
you will be punished. F you! You are an a------! A f------ a-- ----!” Damato said it was not a threat but that he was merely expressing a “religious” opinion. • Louis Woodcock, 23, testified at his Toronto trial in March that he was not involved in the 2005 shooting of a woman, despite being seen on surveillance video approaching the woman and holding his hand inside his jacket until gunshots rang out. He said he often kept his hand inside his jacket to keep from sucking his thumb, which is a habit he picked up in childhood and which did not go over well on the street. • In February, Jesse McCabe, 29, was spared jail time for his conviction in connection with a missing $18,000 in bank deposits he was to have made for his employer in New Port Richey, Fla. Police discovered 13 deposits, from a six-week period, in McCabe’s home, but all the money was recovered, and McCabe persuaded the judge that he just hadn’t been able to
make it to the bank yet.
Ironies
• Karen Salmansohn, 49, prominent author of self-help books for women with relationship and career problems, including “Prince Harming Syndrome” and “How to Make Your Man Behave in 21 Days or Less Using the Secrets of Successful Dog Trainers,” filed a lawsuit in March against cad Mitchell Leff. Salmansohn said Leff had strung her along for months with promises of marriage and a baby, but abruptly cut off support when she became pregnant. Said Salmansohn, “I’m a selfhelp author, not a psychic.” • Former baseball star Lenny “Nails” Dykstra recently started accepting clients for his investment advice service, charging $999 a year, according to a March Wall Street Journal report. His website discloses that while Dykstra is “NOT” (his emphasis) a “registered” financial adviser, his “proven track record has caught the attention of many.” • In March, Monica Conyers, plead-
ing insufficient funds, was granted a court-appointed lawyer to appeal her bribery conviction stemming from her work as a city councilwoman in Detroit. Conyers is the wife of John Conyers, the Michigan congressman who is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
Cream de la weird
What stunned officials in Polson, Mont., the most wasn’t that Brent Wilson, 53, was charged in March with attempting to illegally acquire ownership of someone else’s house. It was that Wilson had attempted to register the title as property located on the “third planet from the sun” and as a conveyance from God, in a transaction that has yet to take place. Authorities believe Wilson might have fallen for the elaborate teachings of a scammer who conducts seminars on outsmarting the law governing foreclosures. Wilson was also charged with breaking into the house illegally and changing the locks. Said the record-
ing supervisor of Gallatin County, “I can’t explain why people do what they do.”
News of the weird classic (April 2005)
In October 2003, West Point, Ky., hosted 12,000 visitors for the weekend Knob Creek Gun Range Machine Gun Shoot, billed as the nation’s largest, with a separate competition for flame-throwers. Especially coveted is “The Line,” where 60 people get to fire their machine guns into a field of cars and boats, and during which a shooter might run through $10,000 in ammunition. Among the champions: Samantha Sawyer, 16, the top women’s submachine gunner for the previous four years. One man interviewed by the Louisville Courier-Journal said he met his future wife at a previous Shoot, impressed that “she could accept flame-throwing as a hobby.” Said another: “This is one of those times when you know [America] is the greatest place on Earth.”
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For Earth Day, we must rethink our way of life By Winona LaDuke MCT
Monikawaaning Minis, Madeline Island, is a place I call home for some of the year. This Wisconsin island is the seventh resting place of the Ojibwe in our migration, the place we were instructed to go to by our prophets. Madeline Island sits amid the Apostle Islands of Lake Superior, which, ironically, Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, the great leader of the original Earth Day, annexed to make a national seashore. It is strange: He did a good thing to challenge America to make a better way of living on this land, but at the same time, he lacked compassion for the people who had lived on this land for 9,000 years or so. We’re still challenged by a lack of compassion. At Bristol Bay, Alaska, and in the deep north of Hudson Bay, Canada, mining companies are ready to create 10 billion tons of contaminated waste just above Indian communities. And Indian nations are preparing themselves for the next round of nuclear proliferation. We are the ones who have dug the uranium. We are the ones who get the nuclear waste dumped on our land. We are on the front lines of Earth Day, and we still have the same
questions: Why does the predator not change? When will the brilliance of humanity restore an economy that is just and respectful? And when will our lands have peace? It is 40 years after the first Earth Day. We’ve managed to fend off some major uranium mines, coal mines and clear-cuts. In Wisconsin itself, the Mole Lake Band of Ojibwe fought a 28-year battle successfully to stop a big copper zinc mine. We’ve saved our planet from a few projects, but more are on the horizon. Until we shift the paradigm and change the level of consumption, our Earth will still be threatened. Look, 70 percent of the U.S. economy is based on consumption. That consumption has broken the bank — and polluted the environment. Our Ojibwe people, if Sen. Nelson had taken a moment to talk to us, would have offered a different way to go. Our teachings talk about a path that is green. This is what an Earth-friendly energy system would look like: We would have an entirely non-nuclear, non-fossil-fuel economy based on solar and wind. We would have localized solar heating panels to reduce combustion on most of our houses and perhaps solar water, as well. We would have 3.8 million wind turbines worldwide taking up a total area
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smaller than the size of Manhattan. Indian communities are struggling to create this next energy economy. Take the Shakopee Band of Dakota. The tribe produces enough biodiesel to meet 100 percent of its summer diesel needs and is in the process of finalizing a 1.5 MW wind turbine to satisfy a substantial portion of the community’s electricity demands. In the Southwest, the shutdown of the Mohave Generating Station in Nevada, matched with the recent closure of the Black Mesa coal strip mine in Arizona, presents an opportunity for a just transition. Grassroots Navajo organizations have successfully pushed forward an innovative proposal to replace Mohave power with wind and solar. And the Navajo Nation has passed a Navajo green jobs bill. The Navajo Nation also has a moratorium on new uranium mining, and is fighting the federal agencies to enforce this moratorium. Reducing expenses through efficiency makes sense, as does localizing and owning energy systems. That is how a strong and durable economy is built. And a healthy one, with dignity at the point of production, not coal miners dying at the bottom of endless mazes in the Earth, or uranium miners leaving behind widows or children with birth defects.
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Watching the events unfold around Massey Energy Co.’s Upper Big Branch coal mine the last few weeks created an uneasy sense of deja vu. And it had less to do with 29 miners’ bodies below ground than with power plays and corporate hubris above it. The deadly West Virginia mine explosion came four days after the 100th anniversary of the start of a lengthy Colorado coal strike that eventually led to open guerrilla warfare between miners and the Colorado National Guard. The nadir of that showdown was what came to be called the Ludlow Massacre when, at the end of a daylong gun battle on April 20, 1914, National Guardsmen torched a strikers’ tent colony where 11 children and four mothers were hiding in a large pit beneath the wooden floor of one of the tents. All but two of the mothers perished. Few people these days have heard of the Ludlow Massacre. Fewer still know about the circumstances in which it occurred. In the face of abject regulatory failure, at least 75 people were killed over a seven-month period during the strike, as several thousand coal miners openly rebelled against a corrupt local political and economic system. West Virginia has its own history of violent mining confrontations, including the 1921 march on Blair Mountain when 13,000 armed miners faced off against mine guards, local militia and government troops. Sixteen men, most of them miners, were killed before the U.S. government sent in one of its newest weapons — planes — to intimidate the miners into retreating. It worked. But there had been no defusing the conflict in Colorado, where the mine owners — led by the Rockefellers’ Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. — were so powerful that they effectively created their own laws, stole elections at will and installed mine superintendents to rule small fiefdoms enforced by hired thugs. As if short-circuiting democracy wasn’t bad enough, the coal operators ignored government safety regulations, considering them an intrusion on their right to make a profit. In the eyes of the Rockefellers’ man in Colorado, Lamont Montgomery Bowers, the miners had a simple choice: Work under the operators’ terms or find another job, safety be damned.
Don Blankenship, who runs Massey Energy, would have fit right in among those Colorado coal barons. Media reports have detailed Blankenship’s efforts to dominate state politics, including trying to stack the state Supreme Court as it was considering cases involving Massey. Other media reports have detailed widespread safety violations at Massey mines. In one internal memo, Blankenship warned mine managers that they were to ignore any directive “to do anything other than run coal. ... This memo is necessary only because we seem not to understand that the coal pays the bills.” The Colorado strike began in the northern mines on April 1, 1910. After it faltered, the United Mine Workers expanded the strike in September 1913 to southern Colorado, covering the eastern foothills of the Rockies. Most of the miners’ demands were already required under Colorado law, including that they be paid for “dead work” they had been doing for free — namely, shoring up mine roofs with timbers so they wouldn’t collapse and kill them. The expanded strike was a nasty, brutal affair, and after a series of attacks and murders on both sides, Gov. Elias M. Ammons sent in the National Guard as peacekeepers. At the same time, state budget problems began delaying paychecks, which led many of the Guardsmen to walk away. The hated private mine guards took their places, and the peacekeepers morphed into the miners’ enemy. Then came the deaths at Ludlow on April 20, 1914. Over the next 10 days, amid a national union “call to arms,” thousands of marauding miners and their supporters went on a rampage of retribution. At least 30 people were killed as the makeshift guerrilla army seized control of 275 miles of the Colorado Front Range. Unable to stem the insurrection, Ammons sought help from President Woodrow Wilson, who sent in the Army to supplant the National Guard. The miners, with their immediate enemy gone, laid down their arms on May 1, and the fighting was over, with the miners winning the war but losing. It would take an additional 13 years and the Wobblies to gain union recognition there. Yet much of the political and economic oppression in the region ended. To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, a little revolution wasn’t a bad thing for the miners of Colorado. Let’s hope it doesn’t take the same kind of action to redress the very deep grievances in West Virginia.
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Letter to the editor If you regularly read The Penn, many of you will have noticed that Rachael Goss, an IUP alumna from 2006, wrote a letter to the editor for last Tuesday’s edition. In it, she championed free speech, rights of all genders, religions and creeds, and noted rather horrifying statistics of violence against women. For this, she should be applauded, as not enough people speak out on such important issues. However, finding a good conclusion is always the hardest part of writing, and in her letter to the editor, Rachael falls terribly short. The accusations against two Student Government members because of their independent actions are unjust, unfair and entirely uncalled for. As Rachael questions “the students’ abilities to separate their moral beliefs with their responsibilities to uphold the rights of students,” I, in turn, question her ability to separate what students do in their spare time versus the important and beneficial work that they have done all year for students as senators and executive board members of SGA. The implications of her article are even more offensive. As she states, “I would have thought that members of student government would understand and protect these very real needs,” she is obviously not only discussing the potential lawsuit in question but instead suggesting that SGA not only has a Christian conservative bias, but also supports discrimination against homosexuals
and sexually active females, as well as the coup de grace, sexual and physical violence against women — all “needs” she previously mentions. Because Rachael does not attend SGA meetings, much less go to IUP anymore, I feel it is my job to inform her and the rest of the alumni who may be reading The Penn that not only are these implications ridiculous, but they are also patently false. First off, Student Government is in no way associated with the potential lawsuit in question, neither supporting or opposing it. It was done by members on their own time, acting on their own belief system, and SGA in no way controls its members outside of the organization. Second, Student Government is currently engaged in activities directly opposed to Rachael’s implications. SGA is always actively involved in Take Back the Night, an event specifically targeted to address violence against women. SGA is also not content to wait for a Multicultural Center that may or may not be built, and instead is reaching out to various minority groups on campus such as the NAACP, Pride Alliance, LASO and many others in the interest of promoting diversity at IUP. Promoting multiculturalism on campus is too big of an issue to wait around for. Perhaps most importantly is that SGA does not rule on or preside over moral issues. Our sole prerogative is to represent students, and this includes students from the left and
the right, those gay and straight, those religious and not and everyone in between. In conflicts between the administration and the faculty union, conflicts about where money is being spent in our tough economic times and conflicts regarding new policies directly impacting students that SGA actually has influence over, the question of morality is seldom present. Gay marriage, abortion and healthcare are noticeably absent from our jurisdiction. As SGA has no influence over, and thus no involvement in, the potential lawsuit in question, there is simply no need to slander the organization, its members or bring Student Government into the debate at all. The rights of others, freedom of speech and denouncing violence against women are all things many members of Student Government believe in. Perhaps it is time to focus on the many things we agree on instead of feeding into the “gotcha” culture where only differences are highlighted, baseless accusations are made and defense letters such as this are all too necessary. I invite anyone to e-mail me personally at D.C.bivens@iup.edu or come to an SGA meeting if you wish to further discuss this or any other issue on campus. I will always welcome input, opposition or concern and will address them as timely as I can. — David Bivens (junior, political science/pre-law)
Name. Age. Relationship status. Address. Phone number. Place of employment. College and major. All of those spring break photos. And, depending on how often you update your status, what you’re doing throughout the day. Just how much personal information of yours is floating around out there on the Internet? More importantly, is it damaging your image, your reputation or your future? Social networking websites have become integrated into our everyday lives so much so that we don’t think twice about posting those pictures from the last girls’ night out or expressing not-so-censored anger in a status update. Everyone wants their own web presence, but not many realize how accessible that information can be. A quick Google search of our names brings up not only our Facebook pages, but the pages of people we’re friends with, too. Not only does a link to Twitter come up in the search results, but also the text of the latest Tweet. It is being consistently reported that employers are checking out potential employees’ social networking sites. A few not-so-appropriate photos or expletive-filled statuses could seriously harm your chances for employment. And, in some cases, the Internet is forever. A quick Google Image search of someone’s name could bring up a photo used on his or her Twitter or Facebook profile that they may have taken down more than six months ago. Those who are already employed need be wary as well. There’s always the case of a Georgia teacher who was fired last November due to photos she had posted to her Facebook page. Spokeo.com, a site that bills itself as a “people search,” can give information regarding your relationship status, address, whether or not you own your home, your credit rating, wealth and hobbies. Spokeo also reveals people’s subscriptions to magazines and whether or not someone has pets. The site says that it pulls information from — among other places — social networking sites. So set your privacy settings so that not just anyone can see your profile. Think before you post. And if it’s not something you want people all over the web to see — don’t post it.
Editorial Policy The Penn editorial opinion is determined by the Editorial Board, with the editor in chief having final responsibility. Opinions expressed in editorials, columns, letters or cartoons are not necessarily that of The Penn, the university, the Student Cooperative Association or the student body. The Penn is completely independent of the university.
Letter Policy The Penn encourages its readers to comment on issues and events affecting the IUP community through letters to the editor. Letters must be typed in a sans serif, 12-point font, double-spaced and no more than 350 words long. Letters may not be signed by more than five people, and letters credited to only an organization will not be printed. All writers must provide their signature, university affiliation, address and phone number for verification of the letter. The Penn will not honor requests to withhold names from letters. The Penn reserves the right to limit the number of letters
published from any one person, organization or about a particular issue. The Penn reserves the right to edit or reject any letters submitted. Submitted materials become the property of The Penn and cannot be returned. Deadlines for letters are Sunday, and Wednesday at noon for publication in the next issue. Letters can be sent or personally delivered to: Editor in Chief, HUB Room 235 319 Pratt Drive, Indiana, Pa. 15701 Or e-mailed to: the-penn@iup.edu Letters not meeting the above requirements will not be published.
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‘Glitz and Glamour 2’: Khaki makes fashion statement, flexes twill power for hardworking The Fashionable Retake By the penn staff
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Khaki is back. But more than that, the humble military-inspired staple of the 80s preppy wardrobe — and hallmark of the 90s casual Friday era that followed — is marching upmarket. This spring, dusty brown cotton twill has moved far beyond the beige pant, riding the Army/safari trend deep into designer ready-to-wear territory. On the women’s spring-summer 2010 runways of New York and Europe were crisp safari dresses and lace-up ponchos at Celine, sleeveless militaryofficer-style shirt dresses at Chloe and a cornucopia of khaki colors at Alexander Wang, crafted into corsets, pieced alongside leather and heather gray knits in slouchy mixed-fabrication trousers and even shaped into a sexy, belly-button-baring dress. Even the casual sportswear arena — khaki’s home front — has revisited the tan trouser with fervor. The new LL Bean Signature collection updates the cut of the beige bottoms (lowering the rise a bit — and raising the price tag about $30 in the process), and Banana Republic, which long seemed bent on escaping its jungle safari roots, has returned to them in full force. “We’ve actually turned it into the center of the (Banana Republic) lifestyle,” said Simon Kneen, the brand’s creative director and executive vice president. “It’s been cool in Europe for a while, and we just felt there was starting to be this kind of cool factor surrounding the chino here.” He pointed out that the latest take on the tan twill includes washing the fabric down to a super-soft hand, crinkling it up by adding metallic threads and offering a platoon of pieces, including military-flavored jackets, skirts and pants.
MCT This spring, dusty brown cotton twill has moved far beyond the beige pant, riding the Army/safari trend deep into designer ready-to-wear territory.
“There is definitely a resurgence in khaki,” said Macy’s men’s fashion director Durand Guion. “And we’re just at the beginning of it. We’re anticipating that as we go through fall and into next spring, it’s going to be huge.” By itself, the word “khaki,” derived from the Hindi word for dust, traditionally refers to a specific color — a shade of tan or beige — and the term was used as far back as the 1840s to refer to the cotton twill uniforms worn by British colonial forces in India. (A 1999 book “Khaki: Cut From the Original Cloth,” commissioned by Levi Strauss & Co., goes so far as to anoint British Lt. Henry Lumsden as “the inventor of the khakis,” fixing the year at 1846 in Punjab, India.) The word “chino” can refer more widely to the durable twill fabric. In the U.S., it often refers specifically to the military-inspired khaki-colored trouser of the same fabric, which “The Fairchild Dictionary of Fashion” traces to an early point of origin: before
World War I, back when the U.S. Army’s summer uniforms came from China. Khaki’s first wave of popularity came in the 1950s, when American soldiers returning from World War II helped them make the transition from military barracks to college campuses. After the denim-drenched ‘60s and ‘70s, khaki came back around in the ‘80s as the color-inside-the-lines alternative to the jeans worn by counterculture hippies. “From 1990 on, [Dockers] made a huge effort to establish khaki in the workplace — and it worked,” said Karen Riley-Grant, Dockers’ director of global consumer marketing. “After that, khaki never really went away.” But the ubiquity had its downside. “It just faded into the background and became the choice of complacency. You wore khakis because you had to, not because you really wanted to,” she said. “And that’s not a good place to be.”
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IUP students and professional drag queens alike participated in an entertaining variety show featuring dances and fashion at the HUB Ohio Room April 16. The show, scheduled to start at 8 p.m., was delayed, but the late start did not dampen the enthusiasm of the audience and other participants at all. The turnout was impressive, welcoming late-comers to a room so full that it became standing-room only. The event, sponsored by RHA, BACCHUS and Pride Alliance, brought students to the Ohio Room for entertainment and to expose the IUP community to different styles of performance. Opening the show, Michael Kane (sophomore, English) danced to “Party in the U.S.A” by Miley Cyrus, receiving much enthusiasm and cheering from the crowd. A group called Lil’ Hizzle ended the first act. It included three students: Heather Weleski (junior, special education/clinical service), Samantha Kiernan (junior, political science) and Amanda Cowan (junior, criminology/accounting). After their performance, a 15-minute intermission gave audience members and participants the chance to dance on stage to the music. After intermission, professional drag queen Sasha performedfor the second time that evening,
and danced through the audience, encouraging participation and cheers. Based on crowd reaction, the most popular performance that night was Christina Santiago’s (senior, management) performance as “Essay Loco,” with backup dancers including Joanna Hopkins (junior, psychology/nursing) and Orianna White (senior, respiratory care) as back-up dancers performing to a mix of Ne-Yo and LMFAO. They received a standing ovation at the end of their portion of the evening. Other performers included Allison Wonderland, brandishing a prop umbrella for her dances, Ritmo Latino, a dance crew that upholds the Latino culture through the art of dance, and last year’s drag queen winner, Daniel “Scarlet Fairweather” Minkel (junior, communications media). At the end of the show, a panel of judges including RHA staff and Katrina McGaughey, aka the Foster Dining Hall ice cream lady, voted for Queen and King of Glitz and Glamour. Essay Loco was crowned king for the third year in a row and Casey “Anita Mann” Ryan (sophomore, international studies/Spanish) was crowned King. The show was the final part of “Safe Zone Visibility Week,” an event designed to assist the GLBT community on campus and to celebrate Safe Zone’s 10-year anniversary.
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Make cleaning fun with trendy cleaning products By EMILIE LE BEAU McClatchy-Tribune News Service MCT
Brooms, buckets and brushes. These everyday items are rarely on a grocery list. Few shoppers buy a mop or dust mitt for fun, and it’s easy to forget how these products have evolved. Brooms, for example, had wooden handles and metal dust pans through the 1950s. Plastic handles were introduced and broomcorn bristles were replaced with a synthetic version. The evolution continues as manufacturers crank out cute cleaning products. Stylish colors, designs and shapes are the latest development in cleaning products. Here are five examples of the trend. Classy cuffs: Cleaning while wearing gloves is old-school and the Mr. Clean Fashion
Cuffs are a modern, bright twist. The Fashion Cuffs are 100 percent latex gloves with a polyester cuff. The cuff has a retro flower pattern and an extra long fit. The latex is textured at the palm and fingers to provide grip. Reusable, available in three colors, $3.49 at various grocery stores. Chic colors: Many dusting cloths come in bright neon colors that make an annoying job more irritating. There are now dusting cloths that come in lovely, rich shades. The Microfiber Wash & Dust mitt from neatHome is a reusable, microfiber mitt with a light purple shade. The mitt is double-sided and can be used wet or dry for dusting and washing. Machine washable, $7.48 at Lowe’s stores. Smart shapes: The typical dish brush is about function, not form. There are some designs that are now about
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Miss IUP pageant holds first informational meeting, accepts applications By Mohammad aljayyousi Staff Writer M.I.Aljayyousi@iup.edu
Alpha Sigma Tau’s Miss IUP scholarship pageant has started. The winner will be crowned in fall 2010 and will receive a $500 scholarship. The pageant committee’s first informational meeting was held Wednesday in Northern Suites. Katherine Kelley, Miss IUP committee coordinator, introduced herself, her assistants and committee members: Leah Glass, Missy Sattazahn, Mia Hooper and Madeline Herman. The attendants then introduced themselves by turn. Kelley started by giving an overview about the pageant which, she said, is organized by IUP chapter of Alpha Sigma Tau. The proceeds will go to Pine Mountain Settlement School and The United Way of Indiana. The application form, in addition to a contact information sheet were then distributed around. Kelley said that the expected date and time of the competition is Nov. 6 at 10 a.m.
[Katherine] Kelley said judging will include a seven-minute interview, a three- to four-minute talent act, formal wear with judges’ questions and IUP spirit wear, which will be donated by the Co-op Store. She then went through the application form, explaining the main requirements for application. Applicants must have a minimum 2.5 GPA; Kelley said that it is the national standard of Alpha Sigma Tau. Applicants must also have two recognized sponsors. Kelley said that more information will be given on this particular requirement in the next meeting. Kelley went on to say that the contestants must also be able to learn a choreographed dance. This, from her point of view, is a good requirement that will introduce a lot of fun to the contestants’ competition experience.
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Applications will be accepted until Sept. 27, but Kelley said the earlier, the better. For those who wish to apply this semester, applications are due Wednesday, April 28. They can be turned in at any informational meeting or at 303 Pratt Hall to Amber Valentine, the staff representative of the committee. Kelley said judging will include a seven-minute interview, a three to four minute talent act, formal wear with judges’ questions and IUP spirit wear which will be donated by the Co-op Store. The winner will hold the title Miss IUP for an entire year. In addition to the scholarship, Miss IUP will also receive a crown, sash and prizes, Kelley said. She also said they plan to have the winner involved in Homecoming and similar events for next year. The next committee informational meeting is at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 28, at 204 Northern Suites. For more information or questions, contact Kelley K.A.Kelley2@iup.edu or 717-609-3826.
A collection of sepia-tinted, artfully abraded men’s trousers in a color palette ranging from pale putty to slate gray sits at crisp attention on the military-industrial shelving of L.A.’s trendy American Rag Cie boutique, beneath a sign that declares in all capital letters “BEFORE CORNERS WERE CUT.” Nearby, a glass case displays the detailed construction of a pair of the pants that have been turned inside out. Tags dangling from the waistbands show prices as high as $200. When you chat with Karen RileyGrant, Dockers’ new director of global consumer marketing, about the brand’s bid for the high-end business, there’s no need to dance around the big khaki elephant in the room. “There’s a negative perception out there that we have to overcome,” Riley-Grant admitted. “It’s the idea of the pleated-pant cube-dweller with the blue Oxford and the brown shoe.” She said the San Francisco-based brand, which is owned by Levi Strauss & Co., had lost its way since the early ‘90s heyday of chino-clad business casual. “We launched in 1986, making great khaki pants for men; then we quickly grew into doing women’s [pants], and doing head-to-toe,” she said. “We went through a kind of midlife crisis, splintering the message, and our advertising started looking like everybody else’s. And we weren’t innovating; we were making the same pleated pant over and over again.” But now Dockers is on the offensive, claiming its rightful place in the pantheon of pants. A label stitched into some pairs of the premium trousers proclaims: “Khakis may not be fancy, but it probably isn’t a good idea to call them boring either. Men
wearing khaki won two world wars, wrote the great American novel and discovered a little thing called relativity. Nope, khaki may not be fancy. But it is far from ordinary.” Still, reinvigorating a label like Dockers might seem like a Sisyphean task, especially since the men’s and women’s casual pant business is down. New York-based market research firm NPD Group said sales dropped 9.5 percent to $10.3 billion for the 12 months ending Jan. 30. But Riley-Grant said there are a few things that make it more than an exercise in fashion futility. First, she pointed out that today’s twentysomethings have grown up pretty much swaddled in denim from day one. So there’s a potentially huge untapped market in the Millennial generation. Second, she shared the belief held by retailers and trend watchers that the denim market has embellished, dip-dyed and deconstructed itself into oversaturation, and that consumers will soon be clamoring for something new and different but just as multi-purpose. And as someone who used to work on the marketing side of Levi’s Vintage Collection, Capital E and Levi’s RED premium denim subbrands, Riley-Grant happens to have a handle on what kind of things can elevate a hard-wearing, utilitarian, everyday fabric to the level of covetable clothing worth three figures. Which means the new K-1 Khaki Collection will tap into a rich military history by copying the style of an actual WWII U.S. Army-issue trouser and using a heavy-duty cotton twill called “Cramerton cloth” on some styles. In addition, buttons are burnished, interior seams are taped to resemble selvedge, pocket bags tout the masculine history of khaki, and fabrics are washed until the crispness of khaki crumples to buttery softness.
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Shoe company pairs runners with dream shoes By mohammad aljayyousi Staff Writer M.I.Aljayyousi@iup.edu
The Gingerbreadman Running Co., 714 Philadelphia St. is a new company for running shoes, accessories, and technical apparel, co-founded and coowned by Matt Gaudet, a recent IUP graduate. Gaudet ran at IUP for four years. As stated in the staff section in the company’s website, Gaudet grew up in Zelienople, Pa., and started running in junior high for Seneca Valley. Ever since then, he hasn’t been able to stop and plans to continue running for many years. Gaudet said he founded this company with his friend and co-owner, Chris Geddis, a Slippery Rock alumnus, in October 2009. Geddis grew up in Worcester, Mass., and moved to Pennsylvania right before high school. He started running at Seneca Valley. He spent four years competing for Slippery Rock University and graduated in 2008. Gaudet said that they came up with the idea after graduation. It appealed to them because it related to both their field of study and life-long interest in running. According to their website, the company’s mission is “to promote healthy
Lord of the Dance sways toward IUP By amber grady Staff Writer A.N.Grady@iup.edu
Courtesy of Gingerbreadman Running Co. Students spent class time at Gingerbreadman Running Co. in search of business tips and were impressed by the company’s work ethic.
activity among athletes of all ages and experience levels,” and that they aspire to be “the premier specialty running and walking store in western and central Pennsylvania.” According to Gaudet, they take customers through a full gait analysis, discuss their fitness
goals and injuries and make recommendations on shoes based on their review of the customer’s needs. Jennifer Schneider (junior, sports administration and business administration) thinks that this is the best thing about the company, especially for IUP athletes. It will help
them avoid injuries in their future careers. Gaudet said there is a 10percent discount for IUP students and that they have a “Fun Run” every Thursday at 7 p.m. For more information, visit The Gingerbreadman Running Co. website: gingerbreadmanrunning.com.
OnStage will present “Lord of the Dance” at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 29, at Fisher Auditorium. The performance is the final OnStage event this year. “Lord of the Dance” is an international dance phenomenon created and directed by Michael Flatley. The show combines precision dancing with state-of-the-art lighting and pyrotechnics. The story, based on Irish folklore, revolves around the Little Spirit, who travels through time with the Lord of the Dance to help his people fight against Don Dorcha, the Dark Lord. “Lord of the Dance” premiered at The Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, July 2, 1996, and has established itself as the No.1 dance spectacular for the past 11 years, selling more than $500 million in tickets. For more information, visit lordofthedance.com or onstageatiup. com.
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‘Supreme Commander 2’ attempts to close gap between PC and consoles By billy o’keefe MCT
The bad news about “Supreme Commander 2” is the same bad news that’s held true for every realtime strategy game developers have attempted to migrate from PCs to consoles: If you’re playing it this way, you’re settling. The good news? You’re settling a lot less this time around. Contrary to the buggy volcano that erupted when Hellbent Games ported the first “Supreme Commander” to the Xbox 360, “SC2” generally functions as it should. It isn’t as pretty as on a top-shelf PC, but it’s pretty enough, and outside of the occasional framerate dip, it keeps up on the performance side as well. A handful of interface changes also makes “SC2” more accessible to consoles without neutering the depth that has made the series what it is. The number of unit types in each faction has decreased in favor of fewer unit types with higher upgrade ceilings, and the new tech tree and research points system make upgrading these units notably less laborious than it was in the first game. That adds up to a less imposing learning curve than what “SC1” threw at players, which allows the game to get off to a faster start and drop players into battles that neither overwhelm nor insult them. Most importantly, “SC2” does not
— as happened in “Halo Wars,” for instance — nullify players’ ability to build units and structures how and where they want. “SC2” softens the curve without flattening it, meeting players halfway for an experience that’s approachable but free of the lingering suspicion that the kid gloves are on. This isn’t to suggest “SC2” completely closes the gap between a controller and the keyboard and mouse. The game maps all major commands to buttons in ways that make sense, and the one-button shortcuts that allow players to select multiple units certainly help. Fortunately — arguably — “SC2” is designed in a way that encourages players to face off against equally disadvantaged human competition. There are three campaigns (one for each faction) and a so-so story accompanying each, and the Skirmish mode allows solo players to set up custom matches with computer-controlled opponents and allies. But online play is the real heart of “SC2,” which supports any combination of four human and A.I.-controlled players one can devise using the three factions. The large maps and lack of unit construction restrictions become enormous assets when combined with customizable victory conditions, and the shortcomings imposed by the controller become less of an issue when they apply to everyone equally.
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‘Red Steel 2’ falls short of franchise expectations, previous game By billy o’keefe MCT
Remember how awesome “Red Steel” was going to be, and how the amazingly immersive mix of first-person shooting and motion-controlled swordplay promised to take action games to an entirely new plane? And remember how none of that happened at all? Oh, you do? Well “Red Steel 2” would rather you didn’t, because three years later, all those empty promises finally have a game on which to hang their hats. Fundamentally, what “RS2” does is similar enough to its predecessor to bear the franchise name. It’s still a first-person shooter and motion- controlled swordfighting game cobbled together as one. But everything about “RS2’s” methods stands in stark, and entirely welcome, contrast to its predecessor. For starters, and maybe finishers, it’s just plain fun. Unlike the first game, “RS2” allows players to switch between gunplay and swordplay whenever they want instead of when the game dictates, and Ubisoft puts all the pieces together to make what should be a complete controller nightmare into a slightly unwieldy but astonishingly pleasant ride. The cursor-based shooting feels considerably more intuitive this time around, and switching from gun to sword and back, while inevitably a bit disorienting
given the disparity in control styles, works plenty well enough to avoid becoming the source of frustration it so easily could have been. Though some inevitably won’t like it, Ubisoft’s decision to not just support but flat-out require Nintendo’s MotionPlus controller attachment pays off enormously on the swordplay side. The game guides players’ movements to a small degree, but overwhelmingly, striking, thrusting and parrying are mapped precisely to how players hold the Wii remote. Superficially, the story isn’t much different. The bland, overly serious storyline from the first game is scrapped in favor of an exuberant mix of Asian cinema, post-apocalyptic dark comedy and spaghetti western, and “RS2’s” narrative structure now breaks down, “Borderlands”-style, into bite-sized missions that players eventually can accept by the handful. The “Borderlands” approach extends to “RS2’s” visual presentation, which combines realistic and cel-shaded graphic design to create a game that would look good on any system and stands head and shoulders above most of its Wii counterparts. That the art style also suits the storyline and action so perfectly — everything about “RS2’s” approach in all three departments seems developed with a brazenly fun- first spirit in mind — certainly doesn’t hurt matters.
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“We voted to authorize a strike because Aramark is committing unfair labor practices and refusing to negotiate a new contract with our union. We work hard, and our families depend on these jobs, but Aramark thinks they can violate our rights and bully or intimidate us. We’re not going to take it. We’re ready to do whatever it takes to get Aramark to stop breaking the law.” Gina Livingston, The Hub On Thursday, April 15th, Aramark workers at IUP voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike protesting Aramark’s unfair labor practices.
Last year, IUP food service contractor Aramark stopped recognizing its workͲ ers’ lawful union. Even after the Federal government through its National LaͲ bor Relations Board (Region 6) determined that the PA Joint Board of the unͲ ion Workers United, SEIU still represents PittsburghͲarea workers like those at IUP, Aramark refused to change its behavior or begin negotiating a new union contract.
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Paul Szelc was in Columbus, Ohio, not long ago — he travels frequently for his job as a college basketball official — and was in the mood for a burger. So he turned to the Urbanspoon application on his iPhone and found Thurman Cafe. Although he might have found the restaurant another way, a user review of the place mentioned that diners needn’t worry about the long lines stretching out the door — the restaurant turns tables quickly, and single diners often can find a seat at the bar. “Had I driven up to it without reading that review, I probably would have said, ‘I don’t want to wait all day,’” the Wauwatosa man said. Instead, he got in line and presently was sitting down to the burger he’d been craving. Apps for Apple’s iPhone and other smart phones are helping users in all sorts of realms; they’re helping diners select restaurants, navigate their way to them, pick a sure thing from the menu and calculate the tip, too. Of course, other avenues exist for finding the information, though none as handy as having all the resources with you as you’re walking down the street, phone in hand. Users say the apps aren’t perfect but are a big help nonetheless. For example, Szelc noted that he uses the free Urbanspoon app in tandem with Zagat to Go — at $9.99, one of the priciest dining apps. Casual places such as burger and pizza joints are more prevalent on Urbanspoon, but if he’s looking for someplace more upscale — like the Italian restaurant he recently visited in Detroit — he turns to Zagat to Go. From the same people who produce the Zagat guides, this app includes useful categories, ranking restaurants by food, cost or decor. Szelc said he’s less likely to trust the Urbanspoon rankings, turning a skeptical eye on
something like a “most romantic restaurant” rating for Olive Garden. Another caveat with Urbanspoon that Szelc noted: A glowing review could just as easily have come from a restaurant owner or employee, whereas Zagat ratings come strictly from diners before being compiled into an aggregate score. Apps that help find a restaurant are most valuable when he’s traveling, Szelc said, although he’ll use them locally to retrieve a restaurant’s phone number or menu. And he did try the applications first in town, where he knows the restaurant landscape, to see whether he could trust the recommendations. A LAST-MINUTE VICTORY Andrea Avery, gallery manager and curator for the Union Art Gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a graduate student at the Peck School of the Arts there, relies on iWant — which combines Yelp and Urbanspoon restaurant reviews with nearby movie showtimes and Yellow Pages — and OpenTable apps. In town, she mainly uses the apps to provide visiting artists with restaurant options. Traveling, though, is when they really pay off. Last year, when she went to New York for restaurant week, she was able to score last-minute, hard-to-get reservations at the vaunted WD-50 through OpenTable. “It turned out to be an unforgettable time, and we were invited to take a kitchen/lab tour,” she said. There, she met chef-owner Wylie Dufresne and his pastry chef, Alex Stupak. THE DOWNSIDES Apps have their limitations and frustrations. Avery’s annoyances with the restaurant finders mainly have been with bad directions and closed restaurants. And relying on apps does remove the human element. “There is pride in finding a gem on your own or getting a suggestion from a local about ‘that one’ amazing dish you ‘have to try’ at some place that is off the beaten path,” she said.
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Hemp becomes chic, creates new fashion statement By SUSAN CARPENTER Los Angeles Times MCT
It’s durable. It’s versatile. And when it’s used in textiles, it’s easier on the environment than, say, cotton. Yet its cannabis connection has slowed its widespread use. We’re talking about hemp, and, by extension, hemp fashion — a concept that seems like an oxymoron but is quietly being embraced by the mainstream as major designers and clothing retailers take on the material that has long been equated with burlap and granolamunching hippies. Stella McCartney, Giorgio Armani and Calvin Klein are among the designers who’ve seen through the smoke and incorporated hemp textiles into their lines. And Whole Foods, Urban Outfitters, American Rag and Fred Segal are some of the better-known stores selling fashionforward hemp brands, such as Livity Outernational, Jung Maven, Satori and Hemp Hoodlamb, all of which exploit hemp’s various attributes in chic items that run the gamut from technical outerwear to dresses that would hardly be the first choice of the
dreadlocks-and-doobie crowd. “Hemp clothing has definitely come a long way,” said Al Espino, the owner of two hemp clothing boutiques called Hempwise in Santa Barbara and Isla Vista. “Ten years ago, a lot of the hemp clothing played on the connection with marijuana with labels saying ‘contains marijuana fabric.’ There was a lot of confusion and I think it held back the industry. Now, there are a lot of small [fashion-forward] companies. It’s gone from a niche market with an illegal drug connection to appealing to the organic and natural crowd.” Hemp is an industrial, nonpsychoactive plant that is part of the cannabis family; the fibers are different and stronger than a marijuana plant, making it suitable for textiles. What’s drawing designers to hemp textiles are their natural performance attributes and their low impact on the environment. Hemp fibers are highly absorbent, UV resistant, antimicrobial and long lasting. Growing it also requires less water and fewer pesticides than cotton. Growing hemp in the U.S. has been prohibited since the 50s, so most of the hemp used by American clothing designers comes from China. “It’s so high
value and so much lower impact in every other way that it eclipses the carbon generated through shipping,” said Isaac Nichelson, founder of the Santa Monica-based hemp clothing line Livity Outernational. Eco-chic is a rising tide in the fashion world, and the use of hemp is swelling — aided by technological advances that have produced appealing and increasingly refined hemp textile blends, the most common being hemp and organic cotton and hemp fibers woven with recycled plastic, both of which soften a material that can be coarse. Still, hemp’s illicit image is hard to shed. Two teenage girls read the sign for Hempwise and giggled before walking into the shop on a recent weekday to peruse the women’s section, which is stocked with slinky hemp-blend T-shirts and Capri pants and asymmetrical mini-dresses. All of it was set out in displays that play up the “eco” with only the merest hint of “Rasta.” A mint green Vespa was parked inside the doorway on bamboo flooring that led to displays of backpacks and wallets, hats and menswear — all made from hemp. One of the brands sold at Hempwise is Livity, which
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Nichelson started after a friend pointed out that the materials he was using as a clothing designer weren’t in sync with his environmental beliefs. “I was using nylon, PVC, Teflon — every toxin known to man wrapped up in a garment that we were putting on ourselves and dropping in a landfill later,” said Nichelson, who started to look for alternatives and found one in hemp. Eight years later, he’s running a multimillion-dollar business
that sells outdoor-wear to Whole Foods and Urban Outfitters. On April 22 — Earth Day — he’ll be opening his first branded store on Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica, Calif., so strong is his belief that hemp is “headed straight to the mainstream. Eventually it won’t even be perceptible. Hemp is as high performance and functional and as cool and flashy and sexy as any conventional product, but it doesn’t impact the planet in terrible ways.
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IUP Chain Gang participates in national tournament, co-hosts Indiana Open By vaughn johnson Sports Editor V.M.Johnson@iup.edu
The IUP disc golf team, better known as the IUP Chain Gang, was confident they would have an impressive showing at the 2010 Collegiate Disc Golf Championship in South Carolina last week. However, the team did not meet its own expectations and finished 20th out of 24 teams in the competition. According to club co-founder and IUP alum Sara Lamberson, it wasn’t about how poorly IUP played; it was more about how good the teams from around the country were — something that surprised the players from IUP. “It was eye-opening,” Lamberson said. “They are college kids that are playing, but they probably could compete with some of the pros in the country, too.” Another thing that caught the team by surprise was the course itself. The disc golf course in Indiana is a rather simple course with a hole and basket, according to Lamberson. The course in South Carolina, however, was a bit more difficult than the one IUP is used to playing on. That course had elevated baskets, baskets that hung from trees, baskets that were level to the ground and a lot less open space for players to work with, according to Lamberson. “It had a lot of character,” Lamberson said about the course. “It was a lot of different elements to think about.”
Despite finishing near the bottom of the standings, the IUP Chain Gang did not measure its success by the scoreboard, but instead by the experience of just being on the national stage and garnering more attention for the year-old club. “I think we all enjoyed it, and [the players] kind of know their level of competition now and want to go back next year,” Lamberson said. The other founder of the club, IUP student Dave Viscomi, made the most out of his experience and finished 16th in the individual standings, landing him Second Team All America honors. “I think we definitely left a mark at the tournament. We got to know the tournament director, and as a school we had really good spirit,” Lamberson said. “I think [the players] are happy that they didn’t finish dead-last as a school. I think that’s a positive thing,” Lamberson said. “It was really cool just networking. They met a lot of people that they’ll keep in touch with.” Some of the schools the team met in South Carolina had their trips to the competition fully funded by the school — something that the IUP Chain Gang hopes to accomplish one day from its own school. “We left a good mark down there. I don’t know how that’s come to help us up here,” Lamberson said. “I hope we get money, but it’s really up to the Co-op depending on how much money they have, how much money they can give out to us,” she added.
While the team is still lobbying to receive funding from the school, there is another important disc golf tournament the team has to worry about. The Indiana Open, hosted by the IUP Chain Gang and the Indiana Disc Link Association, will take place Saturday at the IUP College Lodge Disc Golf Course. The tournament is an official PDGA Tour event, and professional disc golf players are expected to be in attendance. As of Wednesday, Lamberson, who also helps organize the tournament, said there were four professionals that had pre-registered, including Alanna Poole and Jay Thompson, both from Indiana. In total, 25 people had pre-registered as of Wednesday. Lamberson expects 25 to 30 people to sign the morning of the tournament. All in all, Lamberson expects 15 to 20 professional disc golfers to compete in the tournament. As for sponsors for the tournament, Lamberson has been working to hard to gain some, and it has paid off, as the tournament has sponsors from all around Indiana, including H&R Block; Grub’s Sports Bar, who provided T-shirts and $25 gift cards; Indiana Schwinn Cycles, who provided portable disc golf baskets; and Spaghetti Benders, who will provide food. Every hole on the course will have a sponsor as well. For people interested in playing, entry fees range anywhere from $30
Photo courtesy of IUP Chain Gang IUP student Seth Diehl helped IUP leave a positive mark while at the Collegiate Disc Golf Championship April 15-18 in North Augusta, S.C.
to $60 depending on what division someone plays in. Every amateur that comes will receive a disc, a 36-ounce water bottle, and a key chain, among other things, in a bag provided by H&R Block. There will also be Closest-tothe-Pin Throw-Off, where people will throw the disc at the 18th hole
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Heane’s, Rogeaux’s complete games help Crimson Hawks sweep Seton Hill By kyle Predmore Staff Writer K.R.Predmore@iup.edu
The IUP baseball team won both games in its doubleheader against PSAC rival Seton Hill Tuesday. With the two victories over Seton Hill, IUP improves its record to 26-21 overall, and its conference record to 15-5. The Crimson Hawks lost to Seton Hill twice in March, each game by one run. In the first game, Seton Hill took a 1-0 advantage in the second inning when first baseman Michael Leviseur scored on a wild pitch. The Crimson Hawks took little time to tie the game back up when shortstop Paul Bingham hit an RBI double to right that brought home Jamie Smith. Seton Hill took the lead for the second time in the game in the sixth inning when designated hitter Josh Logan got an RBI single to put it ahead by one run. The Crimson Hawks took little time
to put some runs on the board again. After a single by Bingham, first baseman Kyle Stryker brought him in with an RBI triple, which tied the game at 2. Catcher T.J. Nichols and center fielder Frank Sirolli brought in the last two runs with two RBI singles, which gave the Crimson Hawks a 4-2 lead. After three quick outs, the Crimson Hawks sealed a victory in the first game of the doubleheader. Pitcher Kyle Heane picked up the win for IUP, throwing a complete game. Heane gave up only two runs on eight hits, picked up four strikeouts and kept Seton Hill from stealing a victory late in the game. Seton Hill Pitcher DJ Cannon was dealt his second loss of the season, giving up three runs in five innings of work. In the second game, Seton Hill took an early 1-0 lead from an RBI single by designated hitter Pat Trettel. Seton Hill kept the lead until the third inning, when Bingham hit a triple to bring in Smith for the tying run.
Seton Hill was unable to take the lead in the fourth inning, but the Crimson Hawks did manage to put a few runs on the board. Second baseman Robbie Zinsmeister singled to left field, bringing in two runs. The third run of the inning came when Smith was walked with the bases loaded, bringing in Sirolli. Bingham hit an RBI single that brought in a run and kept the bases loaded. The last run came from a sacrifice fly from Stryker to bring in the fifth run of the game, putting the Crimson Hawks in the lead 6-1. Seton Hill managed to put up one more run from a Trettel double to left field. Crimson Hawk pitcher Jake Rogeaux picked up his second win of the season and also pitched a complete game, allowing just two runs from six hits and recorded six strikeouts. The Crimson Hawks will stay at home to face PSAC West rival Gannon. The doubleheader starts at 1 p.m. today.
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Crimson Hawks sweep Shepherd Tuesday, break school record for regular-season victories with 33 “I wasn’t even aware that we broke the record at the time. It’s a testimony to how hard the girls have worked this season.”
By a.j. pagano Staff Writer A.J.Pagano@iup.edu
— Bill Graham, IUP softball head coach
The IUP women’s softball team has been opening eyes and breaking records this year. During Tuesday’s doubleheader against Shepherd, IUP took care of business, sweeping the series. In the process, the team has broken a regular-season-wins record with 33. “I wasn’t even aware that we broke the record at the time,” Head Coach Bill Graham said. “It’s a testimony to how hard the girls have worked this season.” A big part of the team’s success is junior pitcher Erin Holloway’s 23-4 record. “She has had an absolutely outstanding season,” Graham said.
“She performed at a high level and displayed good leadership.” In the first game of the Shepherd series, IUP scored two runs in the bottom of the third inning when junior outfielder Kristen Tunno hit an RBI single that brought home sophomore outfielder Monica Iachini. Sophomore first baseman Megan McCormick scored on the same play on an error. IUP kept the lead to 2-0 until the sixth inning when Shepherd put its only run on the board. Holloway was a big part of the win, striking out 12 batters and giving up only four hits. The Crimson Hawks started the second game a little slowly, only collecting three hits in the first four
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innings. The bottom of the fifth was a busy inning when senior catcher Sam Goettman led off with a single. Freshman Jen Beaver came in to pinch run for Goettman and moved to second on a single by Iachini. Both runners scored when McCormick doubled to make it 2-0. IUP tacked on six more runs in the bottom of the sixth to take an 8-0 lead. Just two wins away from the overall school record for wins in a season, the Crimson Hawks start playoff action at 11 a.m. today against East Stroudsburg at Cal U’s Lilly Field. They will then play against the hosting Vulcans later that afternoon. “We are excited and know it will be challenging,” Graham said.
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Brunt: Habs have goalie problems By Stephen Brunt Toronto Globe and Mail Scripps Howard News Service
It is the coaching Hail Mary, the classic what-the-hell move at a time when there’s not much left to lose. Sit down the goaltender that got you there, albeit by the skin of your teeth. Bring in the other guy, brilliant, star-crossed, once beloved, microanalyzed, not yet the sum of all of those fevered expectations and crazy comparisons and therefore everyone’s favorite whipping boy. Because, who knows? Because perhaps lightning will strike, perhaps a guy who had won all of two games in calendar year 2010 might go out there cold and steal one from the best regular season team in the NHL and at least forestall what surely seemed inevitable. Thus Jacques Martin played his last big card in the Montreal Canadiens’ first round playoff series against the Washington Capitals at the Bell Center Wednesday night. Emotionally devastated by their collapse in game two when they had the Caps on the ropes in Washington, the Habs had gone into freefall, down 2-1 entering Game 4 at home, but in a hole that seemed much deeper than that. No one was pretending that they could lose another and still have a chance to win a series in which they were prohibitive underdogs from the start. So out of the net came Jaroslav Halak, quite possibly for the final time in the bleu, blanc et rouge, since this summer the town and the team and especially the salary cap probably won’t be big enough for his aspirations. In came Carey Price, who, in a city where the emotional ebb and flow around this game is more operatic
than anywhere else on earth, has become an object of absolutely conditional love. Be great and win and be adored. Do anything less and be reviled, be mocked, be blamed for your sins and everyone else’s. No in-between. For a while the goaltending gambit worked, albeit not in the traditional sense, since Price wasn’t required to steal much of anything. Instead, his teammates seemed invigorated by his presence, and played hard. The teams traded goals in the first period, the Caps first, with Alexander Ovechkin scoring on a wrist shot that would get by most goalies in this league on most nights, and the Canadiens replying on Mike Cammalleri’s second goal of the series. The Canadiens had trouble with the Capitals’ superior size and strength when the puck was in their own end, but had their moments on the counterattack, and made Washington look vulnerable in retreat. In the second period, play shifted their way, and they dictated. The Capitals seemed a touch unfocused, like a team not all that concerned at this stage in what they hope will be a long spring, while Montreal was appropriately desperate. Only some stellar work by Washington goalie Semyon Varlamov held the Habs to a 2-1 lead, though they were on the power play as the period drew to a close. Near the halfway point of the final frame it all came apart for Montreal, Ovechkin putting the Capitals ahead, Jason Chimera making it a two-goal lead a little less than a minute later, and Price, in a moment that summed up his entire season, dragging the puck out of the net and firing it at his opponents as they celebrated, drawing an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, which, if nothing else, drained two more precious minutes off the clock.
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The series is on. A rivalry lives. And the question of how many games it will take the Mavericks to dispense with the old, tired San Antonio Spurs has been shelved. It’s not necessarily panic time in Dallas, just because the overrated concept of homecourt advantage shifted south with the Spurs’ 102-88 Game 2 win at American Airlines Center. The Mavericks have been an outstanding road team all season. Besides, it’s just par for the course in the balanced Western Conference playoffs, where Phoenix and Denver also lost one of the first two at home, and the Lakers had to hang on in the final seconds Tuesday to
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MCT Spurs forward DuJuan Blair helped the team grab 51 rebounds against the Mavericks Wednesday night.
hold off Oklahoma City. The series isn’t over, it’s just getting started. But make note that this was no ordinary win to even a series. The Spurs did more than just respond to the challenge the Mavericks issued here Sunday night. In addition to getting 19 points from Richard Jefferson, the Spurs won when their Big Three of Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker proved too much for Dallas to handle. It’s one thing for Dirk Nowitzki to score 36 points, as he did in Game 1, causing some to question whether the Spurs had any defensive answers for the Mavericks’ 7-footer. But it’s another when the Mavericks go to San Antonio trying to figure out what adjustments to make to keep Duncan from scoring 25 or Ginobili 23 or Parker coming off the bench to contribute 16 points and eight assists. If you had to pick a Spur to worry about the rest of the way, it’s probably Ginobili. His fourth 3-pointer of the night came with 1:48 to play. During the timeout that followed, the American Airlines Center seats emptied. When the Mavericks beat San Antonio in five games in the first round last spring, the injured Ginobili wasn’t even dressed for the Spurs. But he ended this season on such a run that the team felt compelled to extend him with a three-year, $38 million contract. There was no reason to question his value Wednesday night, when he scored 23 points while missing only five shots. For now, it simply means Nowitzki was the top player in Game 1 and Ginobili in Game 2. But based on what we saw Wednesday, you have to wonder if the Spurs have more players who can fill that role as this
series moves on. When a best-of-7 features teams as evenly matched and as familiar with each other’s central figures as the Mavericks and Spurs are, it figures that different players will produce outstanding performances. When it was 80-60 San Antonio with 3:20 to go in the third quarter, all the stars other than Mavericks supersub Jason Terry were wearing Spurs jerseys. The problem for Dallas wasn’t simply that the Big Three had showed up. It was that Jefferson, a bust much of this season and the lead “dog” that Spurs coach Gregg Popovich mentioned after a four-point night in Game 1, had 17 before halftime. The Mavericks nearly buried themselves in the game’s opening minutes. If the Spurs were more accurate at the foul line, the visitors might have run away and hidden. As it was, San Antonio built a 9-0 lead before Caron Butler got Dallas on the board with a 3-pointer with 7:45 left in the first quarter. By then, Nowitzki already was on the bench with two fouls. And, of course, no points. The two shots he missed before collecting a quick second foul matched his total missed shots for Game 1 when his 36 points led Dallas to a 100-94 win. He finished with 24 points, but it came on 9-of-24 shooting from the field. The Spurs did nothing special to turn Nowitzki into a challenged scorer in Game 2. In fact, maybe they didn’t spend the last three days worrying about it, since Nowitzki was a 40 percent shooter against them this season. If he continues in that 40 percent range this weekend in San Antonio, no one’s going to be asking how many games it will take Dallas to win this series.
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