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“A Million Little Pieces,”

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Students attend workshop for finals

“A Rock and a Hard Place,” by Anthony Godby Johnson

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“Satan’s Underground,”

by Lauren Stratford

“I, Rigoberta Menchu,”

by Rigoberta Menchu

Gums like Nicorette replaced cigarettes as expensive, addictive habits.

The Residential Revival brought new vision to campus with the Tri-halls destruction.

$2.12 million funded the initial construction of the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex.

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At 12:13 a.m. Thursday, campus police observed Kyle D. Berger, 19, Warrington, throwing his cell phone into the intersection of Grant Street and Pratt Drive, annoying and alarming other pedestrians. Police stopped Berger and discovered he was intoxicated. Berger was cited for underage drinking and public drunkenness, police reported.

Assault

At 12:35 a.m. Tuesday, borough police were called to a report of a man punching and breaking a window at the American Legion Social Club at 534 Philadelphia St. Bradley Johnson, 20, Denton, Texas, was found by police to have several lacerations and was covered in blood. He was transported to Indiana Regional Medical Center where he attempted to assault a police officer by headbutting him in the groin area. Johnson was lodged in the county jail and was charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, disorderly conduct, terroristic threats, public drunkenness, underage drinking and false identification to law enforcement, police reported.

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• At 12:39 p.m. Sunday, Laura A. Biondino, Hanover; Nicholas W. Rossello, Mechanicsburg; and Christine Thomas, Heidelburg, were arrested by campus police for criminal mischief after writing on several doors with paint in the Pratt Suites.

• Borough police reported that sometime between 5 p.m. Friday, April 16, and 4 a.m. Sunday, April 18, someone threw a rock through the rear window of a vehicle parked in the 1000 block of Wayne Avenue. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police at 724-349-2121.

Drug violation

At 8:56 a.m. Tuesday, borough police found Patrice Fordham, 22, Pittsburgh; Edward Fordham, 23, and Jennifer Carlisle, 26, both of Carnegie, in a car in a parking lot at 131 N. Fourth St. Upon investigation, police seized suspected “crack” cocaine from the vehicle. All three were charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell and possession of drug paraphernalia. All were lodged in the county jail on a $25,000 cash bond, police reported.

Harassment

At 1:42 a.m. Wednesday, borough police were called to a residence relative to a woman being harassed earlier at Wolfendales Bar at 560 Philadelphia St. It was found that the victim had been struck by Katherine Vitale, Clarks Summit, while at the bar. Vitale was cited for harassment, police reported.

Hit and run

Borough police reported that at 4:30 p.m. Monday, an older model white vehicle was traveling east in the 600 block of Philadelphia Street when a pedestrian walked into the side of the vehicle. The car is not believed to be damaged and the pedestrian suffered minor injuries, police reported. Both parties left the scene prior to a police response. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police.

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• At 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, borough police received a report from the Giant Eagle at 435 S. Seventh St. that William Ward, 26, Home, had attempted to steal merchandise. Ward was caught after he attempted to steal approximately $40 worth of merchandise. Ward was arrested for retail theft and then released, police reported.

• Campus police reported that sometime between 5 and 7:30 p.m. Monday, someone took a bag containing clothing and a pair of shoes from Zink Hall. The bag was black with Pittsburgh Women’s Basketball printed on the top. Anyone with information is asked to contact campus police at 724-3572141.

– compiled from police reports

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Students charged in fraternity rumble

By Sean Bracken News Editor S.M.Bracken@iup.edu

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Five arrests have been made relating to a large fight involving knives and cinder blocks, which took place between members of several fraternities, borough police reported Tuesday.

Those charged are Phillip M. Saxby, 22, Doylestown; Paul D. Richardson III, 20, Pittsburgh; Daniel E. Cosme, 19, Erie; Meagan K. Schuyler, 19, Hellertown; and Geoffrey R. Walls, 21, West Grove. The fight was said to have started outside Giant Eagle in the 600 block of Locust Street at 2:18 a.m. April 17.

“After conducting numerous follow-up interviews, it was determined that the suspects had an active role in this incident,” borough police said in the news release obtained Tuesday.

Police reported that Saxby, a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, used a baseball bat during the fight.

He was charged with riot, aggravated assault, simple assault, disorderly conduct, harassment and recklessly endangering another person, police reported.

Richardson, a member of Alpha Chi Rho Fraternity, was charged with riot, aggravated and simple assault, disorderly conduct, harassment and recklessly endangering another person, police reported.

He is said to have attempted to use a machete during the fight, according to police.

Richardson is not a student, according to Michelle Fryling, IUP’s media relations director Cosme, a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, was charged with riot, aggravated and simple assault, disorderly conduct, harassment and recklessly endangering another person after he used a shovel in the fight, according to police.

Schuyler was charged with riot, disorderly conduct and theft of lost or mislaid property and receiving stolen property after she was said to have stolen someone’s crutch, which she attempted to use during the fight, police reported.

Walls was charged with riot, disorderly conduct and simple assault after he reportedly used the cast on his arm as a weapon, police reported.

Police reported that all suspects were arraigned before Magistrate Guy Haberl in Indiana.

Officer Thomas Dessell said in the court docket that he

saw several people disperse in all different directions the night of the fight when he arrived on the scene.

He said he attempted to chase the man with the baseball bat, but lost sight of him shortly after he had hopped a fence and proceeded in a southeastern direction toward South Sixth Street.

A witness said he heard a disturbance while at his girlfriend’s apartment, according to the court docket.

He said he went outside to see a large crowd fighting on the roadway when he called for assistance.

Dessell said in the docket that he interviewed members of the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity house located at 640 Locust St. He said those interviewed told him members of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity “rolled up to their house” and began attacking them.

“According to the males, a group of approximately 30 individuals came up to the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity house,” Dessell said. “The males advised that they arrived with bricks, baseball bats, shovels and cinder blocks, at which time they began to attack the people on the front porch.”

He said in the court docket that Richardson was among those interviewed.

Richardson said other fraternities were involved in the fight, including a man known as “Chowder,” who belonged to the Tau Kappa Epsilon.

He said “Chowder” swung a shovel at several people through the course of the fight.

Richardson said he grabbed a machete from the house because he had feared for his life, according to the docket.

Fryling said Wednesday that the students involved will face “appropriate university judicial action.”

She added that the fraternities involved are suspended.

“The two fraternities received a summary sanction of suspended recognition from IUP effective April 20,” Fryling said. “This suspension of recognition will continue until all information is considered by appropriate university officials.”

Schuyler was given a $5,000 unsecured bond and the other four suspects were given $10,000 unsecured bonds, police reported.

The preliminary hearing is scheduled for all suspects May 6, police reported.

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Jesse Smart/The Penn Students studied at the library in anticipation of final exams next week.

Workshop prepares students study to for finals

By Casey Contres Staff Writer C.C.Contres@iup.edu

Final exams at IUP are just around the corner, which means students will be opening up their textbooks and studying.

The Department of Development and Studies attempted to make preparing for finals easier with a workshop at 8 p.m. April 21 at Pratt Hall.

The workshop gave tips on how to have the best possible finals experience. Deanna Meek, a peer educator for the Department of Development and Studies, instructed the workshop.

Meek stressed the importance of preparing for a test.

She gave some studying tips such as using a change of environment.

Meek said that sometimes students gets easily distracted if they study in the same place for too long, so going to a different study environment may be a good change.

She also said to give oneself enough time to prepare for an exam.

Pressure can cause a lot of students to do poorly on finals.

Meek suggested getting to an exam early so one can become comfortable with the work environment.

“People think that finals are extremely different than regular tests,” said Brian McRae (freshman, communications media). “But they’re just another test for the most part.”

When it is finally time to take the test, it is important to concentrate.

Reading the directions cannot be overlooked.

“People think that finals are extremely different than regular tests. But they’re just another test for the most part.”

— Brian McRae (sophomore, communications media) Meek gave some tips on different kinds of tests.

She said when reading a true/ false question, watch out for keywords like “never,” “always” and “only.”

Usually something is rarely any of those words, so the question is most likely false.

Her tip for multiple-choice questions was using process of elimination.

She said to cross out the obviously incorrect answers first.

Sleep is also an important factor in doing well on finals.

Meek said to try and get seven hours of sleep per night.

She said it is also important to eat before the test so one can think properly.

Meek had one major tip that she shared with students.

“Start studying now if you are able to,” Meek said.

Other workshops aimed at helping students study for final exams were also put together using social media websites like Skype, where video communication could be used through the Internet for computers that have a webcam.

“Many of the same tips were provided to students,” said Sally Lipsky, peer assistance coordinator for the Department of Developmental Studies.

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Newman Center to provide pancakes to students for finals week

By Kat Oldrey Staff Writer K.E.Oldrey@iup.edu

Students tired of being in the library, haunting the computer labs or hitting the books are encouraged to head to Pancakes at Midnight at St. Thomas More University Parish next week.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Newman Center of the St. Thomas More University Parish will serve free pancakes, known informally to many as “Jesus Cakes,” to stressed-out students during finals week, according to Cynthia Schillinger, a pastoral associate.

Volunteers from the parish start preparing pancakes around 10:30 p.m. and keep them warm in ovens until the doors open at 11:55 p.m.

Students begin to line up around 11 p.m., often extending out of the

“The students are very thankful. They are very appreciative of us doing this for them. Just hearing the laughter and all of the talking and all of the fun ... is very fulfilling for us.”

— Cynthia Schillinger, pastoral associate church, down the sidewalk and into the parking lot.

The volunteers keep serving until the last students leave with full stomachs, usually around 1 or 1:30 a.m.

Pancakes at Midnight has taken place during every finals week since the fall semester of 1988, according to Schillinger.

They serve anywhere between 400 and 500 students each time, adding up to a grand total of around 1,300 pancakes.

Aramark provides the majority of the ingredients, but the volunteer time comes from the St. Thomas More parish, according to Schillinger.

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Friday 7:45 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday 1 p.m. to 2 a.m.

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Students are encouraged, but not required, to bring a canned or boxed non-perishable food item for donation.

“The students are very thankful,” Schillinger said. “They are very appreciative of us doing this for them. Just hearing all the laughter and all the talking and all the fun … is very fulfilling for us.”

She said that the church volunteers are happy to provide students with some fun and relief from studying.

Students can find out more information by visiting the Newman Center at 1200 Oakland Ave. or calling 724463-2277.

Jesse Smartt/The Penn The Newman Center at St. Thomas More University Parish will serve pancakes at midnight May 4 and 5 to help de-stress students during finals week.

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Pest-sniffing canines hunt bedbugs, termites

By Matt Ehlers Raleigh News and Observer Scripps Howard News Service

When the termite inspector arrived at the Orange County, N.C., home, he didn’t immediately strap on a backpack filled with chemicals or crawl on his hands and knees into the depths of the garage, shining a flashlight into the corners.

Instead, he opened the door of his car so Silas, an energetic black dog of Labrador and terrier ancestry, could hop out and get to work.

Rick Wade, a professional dog trainer and pest-control agent, walked Silas around the outside of the house, commanding him to sniff for termites. About six weeks earlier, while homeowner Ed Jenkins was in the midst of remodeling an upstairs bathroom, termites were discovered beneath the shower. Terminix workers treated the areas where they could find termites but had trouble discovering the infestation’s entry point into the house.

So Silas was called in to help.

Specially trained to sniff for termites and bed bugs, Silas represents a small but growing trend in the pest-control world: employees that work for food, or even a few minutes chewing on a rolled up towel. “They can find them where we can’t,� Wade said of the bug-sniffing canines that search for microscopic pests and their even tinier eggs. “We’re looking for them, and the dogs are smelling them.�

The emergence of pest-sniffing dogs mirrors the national resurgence of bedbugs, said Greg Baumann, who is based in Raleigh, N.C. and is the senior scientist for the National Pest Management Association. Recent years have seen the number of bed bug infestations rise, with apartment buildings, dormitories and hotels falling victim to insects that are less than one-quarter inch long and extremely difficult to find.

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Scripps Howard News Service Heidi, pictured June 29, 2009, at a building in Philadelphia, is one of 50 dogs in the United States that is trained to sniff out bedbugs.

noses come in. “It’s an ideal situation for a scentdetecting canine,� said Baumann, who added that studies have shown the dogs to be more than 95 percent accurate.

Ned Dillon, deputy director of structural pest control programs for the state of North Carolina, figures there are fewer than one dozen pest-sniffing dogs in the state. Pestcontrol workers are welcome to use dogs for detection.

The highly trained dogs aren’t cheap. Jeremiah Smith of Raleigh, who owns a bedbug-sniffing terrier named Scout, said a trained dog costs in the neighborhood of $10,000. Smith, who runs his own business, Logos K9, purchased Scout from a trainer in Florida.

Pest control workers are licensed by the state. Those without licenses can work under another licensee, which is what Smith is doing while he works to obtain his own. He contracts with pest control companies who rely on Scout’s expertise to

find tiny critters.

Because people know about drugand bomb-sniffing dogs, they’re usually comfortable having a dog sniff their home, Smith said. He starts each job with a quick demonstration, hiding a small vial of bedbugs and asking Scout to find it.

Back in Orange County, Wade used his black Lab, Jack, to follow the run Silas made around the outside of the house. Neither found anything.

Then Jack sniffed through the garage, sitting next to a spot near the back wall. “Atta, boy,� Wade said as Jack attacked the towel. “Get it, get it!�

With two dogs, Wade can use one to check the other’s work. In addition to the spot in the garage, both dogs also found another spot in the basement. The termites had been burrowing through the cinder-block wall.

With the spots marked so another Terminix worker could treat for termites, Wade gave Silas his paycheck, a small handful of dog food from the fanny pack around his waist.

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Students who want to buy used textbooks at the Co-op Store will see lower prices next year, according to store employees.

Sara Ellenberger, Co-op Store textbook director, said used texts will be discounted an extra 10 percent in the fall. “We are making an unprecedented change here at the Co-op Store,�

Ellenberger said. “Instead of pricing our used books at 25 percent less than the new prices, they will be 35 percent less. A $100 new book that would have cost $75 used will now only cost only $65.�

She said that several other options have been used at the Co-op Store to make books more affordable for students. “We now offer a variety of e-books, as well as numerous looseleaf books,� Ellenberger said. “Both of these options offer a significant savings over the traditional textbook.�

She also said the store has offered lower prices on selected used titles for several years. “As an example, for the 2010 spring semester, I had 72 used textbook titles at significantly lower prices, and I was also able to offer 25 different loose-leaf titles and an assortment of e-books,� Ellenberger said.

The Co-op Store was also involved in donating more than $4,000 to the Stapleton Library through their partnership. “The titles selected were based on an average retail of over $100 and the number of faculty and students who could take advantage of having them available at the reserve desk at the library,� according to a news release from the store.

Co-op Store Director Timothy Sharbaugh said Wednesday that prices were lowered because their competitor, The College Store, will be closing sometime in May. “We felt now was the right time to drop prices,� he said.

Sharbaugh said he expects to pick up business from The College Store closing, which would make up for any possible lost revenue they might face with the higher discounts.

Sharbaugh said he is trying to show that the Co-op Store is “an advocate for students.� “If we are going to benefit [from the closure of The College Store], we feel the students should benefit too,� he said.

Ellenberger said that she was involved in the process of making textbook prices cheaper for students. “I have already been trying to do all I can to lower the prices of textbooks here at IUP, and this new pricing is another way to do that,� Ellenberger said. “I fight for lower prices every day,� she added. “I frequently talk instructors into sticking with old editions, rather than switching to the new expensive new editions in favor of keeping the prices low. We fight highpriced new packages by buying back the package pieces and making our own used packages.�

She said that she is excited about the new pricing and she hopes this will demonstrate to students that the Co-op Store is on their side. “I do truly care about how much IUP students have to pay for textbooks,� Ellenberger said.

The Co-op Store is a part of the Student Cooperative Association, a private company that works to provide benefits to students.

Sharbaugh said the Co-op Store funds the Student Co-op, which helps keep student activity fees low and funds the company’s budget.

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Student group demonstrates for multicultural center

By Sean Bracken News Editor S.M.Bracken@iup.edu

The fight pushes on for a group of students who wish to have more representation on campus for different cultural groups.

The fight came in the form of a demonstration, held by the IUP student group Mosaic, which promotes diversity of all cultural groups on campus.

The demonstration was held Monday in front of Sutton Hall.

Mosaic held the demonstration as part of its push to have a multicultural center on campus, according to Mosaic President Carlos Gonzalez (senior, sociology).

It included several members walking around the Oak Grove with a petition for students to sign to show their support for the multicultural center.

“Our goal is to get over 1,000 signatures to have a multicultural center on campus,” Gonzalez said.

Four Mosaic members held a banner with slogans like “die-in for diversity” written on it.

Demonstrators started chants like “No more ignorance, no more hate” and “What do we want?

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Now!” as they stood in front of Sutton.

“We would like students of all backgrounds to be represented in the multicultural center.”

— Mosaic President Carlos Gonzales (senior, sociology) The demonstration then proceeded into the Oak Grove, where members continued the push to attract more supporters of the multicultural center.

Rain pushed the demonstration into the library, where Mosaic members walked around collecting more signatures.

Gonzalez said there are students of several cultures that currently have no place to go to be represented on campus.

“We would like students of all backgrounds to be represented in the multicultural center,” he said.

Mosaic Vice President Jennifer Casanova (senior, chemistry) said the multicultural center promotes all kinds of diversity, including sexuality, religion and race.

“The purpose is to bring more diversity to campus and promote awareness about different issues,” she said.

Casanova said that the IUP community needs to come together on diversity issues.

“We feel we do not have a center where that is being enhanced,” she said.

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Police put brakes on medical marijuana mobile

By Leslie Parrilla Los Angeles Times MCT

The first thing people see when they step into a converted 1985 Pace Arrow motor home here is a glass display case filled with chocolatecovered cannabis cookies and medical marijuana labeled “blueberry” and “cheese.”

The medical-marijuana collective has been on the road for seven months, but this month its operators were cited by Norco and Corona police for possessing drug paraphernalia and operating a dispensary, said Stewart Hauptman and his wife, Helen Cherry, who run the collective.

The couple plans to contest the citations and challenge zoning laws in the two cities that ban dispensaries.

The motor home collective is parked at the center of a legal debate over whether municipalities have the authority to ban collectives despite a state law that permits them. Marijuana became legal for medicinal use in 1996 in California, and municipalities are

permitted to regulate them.

Cherry said her August 2008 experience filling a medical marijuana recommendation for chronic back pain in Los Angeles led her and Hauptman to open the nonprofit Lakeview Collective. The clinic she went to was less than appealing, she said.

“The paint was coming off the walls and [there were] bars on the windows and no medical equipment to be found. I was like, what the heck is this? This doesn’t look legitimate,” said Cherry, 60.

Six weeks later, she teamed up with two physicians to open Serenity Medical Evaluations in Norco, where recommendations are written.

Patients then join the Lakeview Collective to purchase the medical marijuana. The collective has about 700 members from the Inland area and as far away as Las Vegas, Cherry said.

“We really want to take care of patients. We’re not looking for the 18-year-old stoners,” Cherry said. “We have people coming in wheelchairs, in walkers.”

ond year Mosaic is gathering a petition for the multicultural center.

She said the petition collected around 500 signatures last year, which former SGA president Alyssa Stiles (junior, pre-dentistry) took to IUP President Tony Atwater’s office.

Casanova said nothing has been done by the administration with last year’s petition, leading to a new petition this year.

“We are requesting that the administration takes a stand,” she said. “The administration can make it happen.”

Casanova said it is time for a change in the university’s diversity policy and said the petition is a “movement of students to come together.”

She said there is also an online petition students can sign at the website ipetitions.com/ petition/iupmulticulturalcenter/ ?e.

Gonzalez said the demonstration is part of a weeklong event to gain signatures for the petition.

He said Mosaic participated in the “Day of No Hate,” a national day

Shane Dreistadt/The Penn IUP student group Mosaic demonstrated Monday afternoon in front of Sutton Hall for a multicultural center to be brought to campus.

promoting diversity on American campuses.

The “Day of No Hate” involved a ceremony in the Oak Grove at 12 p.m., where students of all diversities held hands together.

The day concluded with a candlelight vigil at 8 p.m. Wednesday in remembrance of hate-crime victims.

Information about hate crimes was also chalked as part of the

Sidewalk Commentary Day, held in the Oak Grove Wednesday afternoon.

As of Thursday afternoon, Mosaic was able to collect several hundred signatures for the multicultural center, according to Gonzales.

IUP is one of three schools within PASSHE that does not have a multicultural center, according to Gonzales.

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When I was 18, I went out to a drinking party with my buddies and did something really stupid!

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Recently, I’ve applied for hospital privileges and a few training opportunities, but I have not been able to apply to certain institutions due to the fact I’d have to answer those questions on a criminal background questionnaire and that would raise red flags in the healthcare environment and immediately remove me from consideration from a training position or a potential job.

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10 Years ago I was at a party where I drank way too much alcohol. One the way home, I stole a few things at the convenience store. I thought I had paid for my punishment back then, but now I am unable to volunteer as a block parent at my children’s school, help coach my daughter’s softball team and I’d like to take a better paying position to pay off student loans, my house and fund my son’s college expenses but my criminal record is holding me back.

A lot of students don’t realize how one moment of bad judgment can mean that you’ll have to alter you future plans.

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Haitian colleges struggle to rebound

By Frances Robles

— Sen. Lamar Alexander, (R-Tenn.)

McClatchy Newspapers MCT

On a recent weekday afternoon at the University of Haiti, students huddled under a large tree while a professor lectured over a megaphone, his voice booming over the rumble of generators and squeals of homeless children at play.

None of the students will get credit for attending this outdoor religion lesson, as the vast majority of Haiti’s 25,000 university students have been shut out of class since the Jan. 12 earthquake toppled about 90 percent of the school buildings.

“There is no hope for this year, so our only hope is that our government will find a plan for next year,” said Jeff Lefevre, a communications student.

“We hear a lot of speeches about tents and food, but not about higher education. It’s not what anybody is thinking about.”

It has been more than three months since the 7.0-magnitude earthquake destroyed nine of the state university’s 13 campuses, and the country’s largest institution of higher learning is still looking for tents and space to offer classes outdoors.

Some universities have reached out to schools in the United States, such as Florida International University, to form partnerships and seek help. FIU has worked for months with the University of Haiti to assess its needs.

Still, officials at both public and private universities in Haiti say that with food and shelter straining resources in a nation wracked with problems, higher learning is low on the list of priorities.

The quake served to unmask an already crippled education system where even university presidents lack doctorate degrees and students complained they had to offer their professors sex to graduate.

As educators scramble to count the losses, some experts say that the devastation will serve as the opportunity to create a higher education system from scratch, or risk forever becoming a leaderless nation depen-

“It’s really indefensible in the current environment for universities not to be exploring more efficient use of their facilities and how to save students time and money.”

Three-year bachelor’s degree program gains popularity

By Larry Gordon Los Angeles Times MCT

MCT A Haitian college faced extensive damage after an earthquake hit the area in January.

dent on foreign aid.

“Higher education in Haiti was a mess prior to the earthquake,” said Louis Herns Marcelin, a University of Miami anthropologist who is the chancellor of Interuniversity Institute for Research and Development, a research and higher education organization in Port-au-Prince.

An INURED study showed 80 percent of Haiti’s 159 universities were in the quake-ravaged capital of Portau-Prince. Of the 32 they surveyed, 28 were destroyed.

Anywhere from 3,000 to 6,000 students died.

Marcelin said the state university needs $2.5 million immediately just to get temporary structures up, but the issue is not on the government – the U.S. or Haiti’s – agenda.

Opening schools and institutions of higher education in preparation for the new school year is among Haiti’s priorities, the government said in a needs assessment report presented to the March 31 international donors conference at the United Nations.

Although it did not distinguish between lower and higher education, the report says more than 1,300 education institutions collapsed as a result of the quake.

The government estimates that it will cost $915 million to relaunch Haiti’s education system over the next 12 months, and $3.5 billion to build an education system over the

next decade.

A Ministry of Education official acknowledged that the emphasis has been on lower education, because of an urgent quest to get children off the street.

The government is worried that the international community’s solution will be to offer scholarships to Haiti’s gifted university students, who will leave the country and not return.

A plan to relocate and centralize the school’s various divisions on a field location outside Port-au-Prince is still in the planning stages, officials said.

“The state university has big problems because 90 percent of our buildings are collapsed,” said rector Jean Vernet Henry. “Our big priority is finding money, funding, financial resources to buy prefabricated structures to begin courses.”

He said at least half the university’s student body has left the capital, so he is eager to begin virtual learning programs.

“This could become a catastrophe,” he said. “We need to get students reintegrated into society and have a sense of normalcy, or there could be massive strike and rioting by students.”

In fact, many students were saved by the quake because they were out protesting the day the quake toppled their buildings.

Kayla Bortolazzo is about to finish college in just three years, a rare accomplishment that some educators around the country hope to make more common.

A resident of Redding, Calif., Bortolazzo is enrolled in a special program at Southern Oregon University that waives some introductory classes for academically gifted students and gives them first dibs at course registration.

So, in the fall, the 20-year-old English education major will head to graduate school and then, she hopes, a teaching career – with a year’s worth of unspent tuition dollars still in her family’s pocket.

Bortolazzo said she knows that finishing college in three years won’t work for most students and that many are not rushing to graduate into a depressed economy.

But she recommends a fast track “to anybody who is really motivated, feels they have the time to commit to it and really wants to get out in the job market.”

Students like Bortolazzo are drawing attention these days as families look to reduce tuition bills and colleges try to stretch limited budgets and classroom space.

About a dozen mostly small U.S. colleges and universities now offer formal routes to earning a degree in three years instead of the usual four or five.

And many others, including the University of California, are studying ways to start such an option.

“It’s really indefensible in the current environment for universities not to be exploring more efficient use of their facilities and how to save students time and money,” said Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), a former U.S. Education Department secretary

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who is a strong advocate of three-year degrees.

Even if they make up a minority of college populations, he said, “some well-prepared students can do their work in three years, and colleges should create a track for them.”

Not everyone agrees. Some educators worry that academic quality could suffer in three-year programs, which usually waive some requirements or push students to take very heavy course loads.

Others say that most college students just need the extra year to grow up – and to explore.

Daniel Hurley of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities said it is misguided to focus on three-year degrees when most college students struggle to graduate in five or even six years.

Many such students are underprepared academically, have financial problems or can’t enroll in oversubscribed classes, he said.

Hurley, the association’s director of state relations and policy analysis, also said it was unrealistic to assume that most students start with the fixed major and career choices that a three-year degree requires.

“Many students change majors, and thank God we did. Otherwise we would be miserable and underemployed,” he said.

Nevertheless, the number of such programs is growing, experts say. Among schools that offer or will soon launch three-year degree programs are Seattle University, Bates College in Maine, Hartwick College in New York, Lake Forest College in Illinois, Manchester College in Indiana, Lipscomb University in Tennessee and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Public universities in Rhode Island and Arizona also are studying the idea.

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Solar-power technology far from emission-free

By Stephanie Tavares Las Vegas Sun Scripps Howard News Service

Solar power is the green energy darling of the Southwest.

It could create an entirely new economy for the region, help free the nation from its dependence on foreign oil, and allow for the phasing out of power plants that are polluting the air and contributing to climate change.

But the most popular type of industrial solar technology has a dirty little secret: Many of these plants are not emission-free.

Solar thermal plants concentrate the sun’s heat to boil salt water or oil to run a steam turbine. The technology is more popular for large-scale energy generation than photovoltaics, which convert the sun’s rays directly into electricity.

Solar thermal creates more electricity for the investment and has the potential to store the heat to create electricity at times when photovoltaic can’t, such as at night or when the sun is blocked by clouds.

The problem is, some solar thermal power plants release greenhouse gases and particulates into the air.

The amount is minuscule compared with what is spewed from natural gasfired power plants of the same size.

But with potentially dozens of solar thermal plants expected to be built across the Southwest in the next few years, the cumulative effects could be problematic.

Nevada Solar One, among the first to be built in decades, has been operating in Boulder City, Nev., since June 2007.

The 64-megawatt power plant is the only solar thermal plant operating in the state, and it is emissionfree.

But a new generation of larger and more powerful solar thermal power plants is planned for the Southwest.

Unlike Nevada Solar One, many of these plants would need to be jump-started each morning by

natural gas or propane gas-fueled heaters and boilers.

And that’s where the air pollution comes in.

Environmental impact statements for two projects planned near Las Vegas – BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah Solar Field and Solar Millennium’s Amargosa Farm Road solar project – note that those boiler-enabled solar thermal power plants will send carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide and particulates into the air.

Together, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide are the major components of ozone or smog. Breathing ozone can trigger a variety of health problems including chest pain, coughing, throat irritation, permanent scarring of the lungs and congestion.

It’s particularly problematic for children, whose lung tissue is still forming, and for the elderly. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing more stringent regulations regarding how much ozone can be in the air.

Solar thermal plants can emit particulates, microscopic particles of liquids and solids, from heaters and boilers and from maintenance vehicles used on site.

Exposure to these particles can be bad for lungs and hearts, according to the EPA. Scientific studies have linked exposure to particle pollution to respiratory problems, decreased lung function, chronic bronchitis and heart attacks.

The bright side of the solar thermal plants for the region is that individually they will create less air pollution than comparable-power fossil-fuel plants, said Ben Machol, who manages the clean energy and climate change office for EPA’s Region 9.

The 400-megawatt Ivanpah project, for example, is projected to emit 33 tons of carbon monoxide a year.

A combined-cycle natural gas plant putting out the same amount of electricity would release 400 tons a year.

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The U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia recently ruled that the Federal Communications Commission has no authority to tell Internet service providers how to manage their networks.

The case stemmed from Comcast’s move three years ago to slow the access of peer-to-peer users such as Gnutella whose large file transfers consumed lots of Comcast bandwidth. Public advocacy groups argued that Comcast was violating FCC rules. Comcast stopped the slowdown and changed how it managed its network.

But then the FCC ordered Comcast to disclose its new network management regime. Comcast went to court to challenge the FCC’s basic right to intrude on how it operated its network.

The appellate court has now sided with Comcast, ruling that the FCC had “strained the outer limits” of its authority and, with the Comcast case, “seeks to shatter them entirely.”

The judicial rebuke certainly hasn’t fazed the FCC. It is determined to regulate the Internet.

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski declared that the court decision “does not change our broadband policy goals, or the ultimate authority of the FCC to act to achieve those

goals.” The strategy, he said, is “to connect all Americans to broadband, unleash innovation and investment, enable job creation, and ensure a bright future of economic opportunity and prosperity.”

We couldn’t agree more with the goals. But the best way to achieve them is for the FCC to leave a good thing alone.

There was a time when the FCC knew that. The commission in 2002 recognized that fast-evolving Internet innovation could be strangled by regulation.

Inflexible government rules lock in place the competitive landscape and make it hard for players to respond quickly to technological or market changes.

The FCC determined that the Internet is an “information service” and would not come under its decades-old regulatory purview of “common carrier” providers of telephone and television service.

That hands-off attitude has helped the Internet to grow and thrive. Nearly every American has access to some form of broadband service now, and many have access to competing services. That competition helps to keep a lid on prices for Internet service. Telecom companies invested $50 billion in the last two years in broadband, according to the FCC. That money has flowed

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Underlying the Comcast case is the company’s brief attempt to slow access to services that made the heaviest use of its broadband.

Internet providers want to keep the option to charge more for heavy use — to price their own products.

Proponents of so-called net neutrality argue that the government must command that everyone has the same access.

That heavy government thumb on the scale would discourage the investment that has allowed Internet use to mushroom.

The FCC could appeal the Comcast ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.

It could try to craft new rules in a way that doesn’t violate the court ruling. It could revisit its 2002 decision and determine that Internet service providers are common carriers of telecommunication services, like telephone and cable television, and subject to the same regulation. Some members of Congress are tempted to step in.

Here’s an idea: Regulators can stand aside and marvel with the rest of us as this incredible communications tool continues to expand and create jobs, foster investment and deliver more information to your home and office than you once ever dreamed possible.

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By Bob Edgar MCT

Sorry, folks, a majority just isn’t good enough anymore.

As Senate Democrats tried to begin debate on financial regulatory reform this week, 57 were in favor and only 41 opposed. That does not, however, add up to victory in the U.S. Senate, where 60 votes are needed to cut off a filibuster, and almost everything is at risk of being filibustered. As a result, a mere 41 senators can block nearly everything.

To any observer outside the beltway, this is shocking to say the least.

Despite a global financial meltdown, the resulting economic pain on Main Street and a daily succession of Wall Street outrages including a fraud case against Goldman Sachs, could regulatory reform really fail even with the support of 57, or even 59 senators?

Meanwhile, rumblings of a filibuster are growing over President Obama’s not-yet-named nominee to the Supreme Court. Even a liberal nominee would make no change to the current 5-4 split on the court. But Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, refused to rule out a filibuster, declaring only a “mainstream” nominee could prevent it.

These senators are not operating under any pretext that they need more time to deliberate and consider how to vote. Instead, the goal is to prevent debate entirely.

Originally fairly obscure, the filibuster has grown out of control, taking on a dominant role in Senate lawmaking.

Today filibusters are not just reserved for the biggest fights in Washington, but for everyday business. In fact, since the current session of Congress began, there have been 50 votes to end filibusters. The 50th came last week when Sen. Tom Coburn moved to block an extension of unemployment benefits for jobless Americans.

(Colburn had placed a hold on it before Easter recess, leaving 200,000 families without a paycheck while Congress went on vacation.)

Senators no longer take to the floor to filibuster. They merely threaten it.

By making the filibuster standard operating procedure and setting the bar at 60 votes before holding an up or down vote, the Senate has rigged the game against progress and in favor of endless obstructionism that paralyzes the entire government. This arcane tactic may earn the chamber more attention from the president and colleagues in the House, but it also cements its reputation as a swamp of inaction.

The filibuster has always been remarkably undemocratic (just 21 states can provide the necessary 41 senators), but some politicians argue that protecting the rights of the minority is exactly the point. In reality, the Senate is already designed to do this through equal representation of small states _ and with remarkable power. When the first Senate met, the population ratio of the largest state, Virginia, to the smallest, Delaware, was 12 to 1. Today, California has 70 times the population than tiny Wyoming. The minority is very wellprotected.

The filibuster is a political tool, not a part of checks and balances.

Democrats and Republicans both know it. It has been used by both sides to block up or down votes.

Progressives note how the threat of a filibuster took the public option off the table for health care reform, endangers the Employee Free Choice Act, and delayed historic civil rights legislation until it was long overdue.

Conservatives balk at failed oil drilling in Alaska’s wildlife refuge, the defeat of Robert Bork, or attempts to reform Social Security.

The unprecedented abuse of the filibuster is getting worse, hurts both parties, and cannot be tolerated.

With all the work that is left to do this year, including finance regulatory reform, the appointment of a new justice to the Supreme Court, and more, America cannot afford rampant obstructionism. The Senate created these undemocratic rules, and now it needs to end them.

Have a safe summer and check us out next year!

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Look, it’s an illegal, right?

By Gregory Rodriguez Los Angeles Times MCT

If Arizona's Republican legislators weren't so dumb, they'd be dangerous.

Or maybe they're dangerous because they're dumb.

Either way, once they stop celebrating the passage of what should be dubbed the “We really, really, really don't like illegal aliens” bill, they're going to have to figure out how law enforcement is supposed to identify the culprits.

Did you catch the part about “reasonable suspicion”? How is a cop going to know by sight who is or isn't legal? What about a person will elicit suspicion?

Opponents of the measure argue that the open-ended nature of “reasonable suspicion” will lead to widespread racial profiling of all Latinos.

They're probably overstating their case. Something tells me someone who looks like, say, blond Mexican pop singer Paulina Rubio won't be stopped.

The truth is that Mexicans are hard to racially profile. Five hundred years of racial mixture has given many Mexican families a decidedly kaleidoscopic racial quality. To wit: Not everyone with Mexican ancestry shares the same skin color.

The law's proponents say that it's not about race anyway, it's about legality, but that isn't entirely true either.

Presumably, certain physiognomic features will stand out. And presumably so will class signifiers and certain ethno-cultural accoutrements.

We can safely assume that most illegal immigrants in Arizona are of humble origins, right? So, should the police “reasonably suspect” people with darker faces? What about fairskinned Mexicans? Are work boots or jeans a dead giveaway? Would someone draw more suspicion driving a truck or an Audi?

And what about accents? Is there a marked difference between the accents of a legal and an illegal immigrant? Should a legal immigrant refrain from blasting ranchera music from his Toyota for fear of being “reasonably suspicious?” It's easy to imagine this law creating a climate in which both foreign- and native-born legal residents try to avoid being targeted by suppressing any outward signs of ethnicity.

Last Wednesday, Joe Arpaio, the cartoon-like sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County — he was wearing a gold tie tack depicting a semiautomatic pistol — assured a CNN anchor that he and his deputies “know the criteria when we come across people who may be here illegally in the country.”

I'd love to see the criteria. Maybe he could set up a hotline, so everyone can be on the lookout for real illegals.

I'm not saying the new law won't help catch and deport some illegal immigrants. But at the very least, the “rea-

sonable suspicion” clause suggests that the process will be hit or miss, and plenty of legal residents could be wrongly suspected and generally harassed. Proponents might say that that's a reasonable risk to run, but I'm pretty certain that most of them won't be subjected to the indignities of having their right to be in this country questioned.

It also puts law enforcement in the awkward position that Southern train conductors once faced, fretting over whom they could risk offending. Booker T. Washington writes about the dilemma in his 1901 autobiography. He describes a conductor inspecting a lightskinned passenger seated in the “colored” compartment.

The official examines the man's eyes, nose and hands. If the rider is black, he doesn't want to send him into the white coach. If he is white, he doesn't want to insult him by asking his race.

To solve his quandary, the conductor bends over to glance at the man's feet. At last he is convinced the passenger is seated among his own kind.

I guess you could say that Arizona has sent its state law enforcement officers down the road to becoming America's latest foot soldiers. In the process, they've also made their state a little bit more like that segregated train car Washington once rode in.

The summer is so close now. The only thing standing in our way is finals week, so take care of yourself and take the steps necessary in order to have a successful end to the semester. For some, you’ll have four sweet months to relax on your own time and gear up for fall. For others, scrambling for a job or getting ready for grad school will be on the itinerary.

Whatever it is you choose to do with your time, we encourage you to continue learning. Maintaining intellectual curiosity and the means to research your questions is one of the main purposes of college that seems to get overlooked by the unending race after a degree that supposedly proves your worth as part of the work force.

We hate to sound cliché, but we live in such a wide world filled with an array of experiences, thoughts and unanswerable questions that to mentally stagnate would be doing yourself a great disservice. It’s not always easy to fit in the time for personal education if you’re working or starting a family, but learning need not necessarily be restricted to reading books (though this is always a good idea!).

If you can manage, travel, or you can find ways to intelligently utilize the Internet (besides falling back on Wikipedia articles).

Also, look for opportunities to utilize what you’ve learned in school, whether it involves volunteering at an organization or interning at a company for which you might enjoy working. This gives you the experience and may help you pare down the options in your particular field.

You might even want to eschew the typical “beach reads” in your summer tote and bring along more mentally stimulating literature or periodicals.

E-mail professors and see if they will send you a book list for the upcoming semester. If you get a head start on sizeable tomes before exams, papers and work pile up, your life will be less stressful come fall.

See this summer not only as a time for fun, but for self-improvement.

Do something you can be proud of when you come back to campus in a few months.

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‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ as latest in long line of horror remake

By LARRY GORDON Los Angeles Times MCT

The only things Hollywood likes as much as sequels are remakes — and no genre is better suited to constant reincarnation than the horror film.

Hey, if it scared them once, it’ll scare them again! Right? Well, yes.

And no. I am not one of those hardliners automatically outraged by the news of a horror classic’s being rehashed for a new generation.

As a concept, remakes have great potential, especially when you’re dealing with a movie that has not aged well (and many horror films are products of their times and don’t weather the years).

In honor of Friday’s arrival of a new take on “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” we’ve compared a few recent horror remakes and their originals. This is only a partial list. A comprehensive one would fill a book.

“THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE” — Made on a tiny budget by director Tobe Hooper, the original 1974 shocker drew its considerable power from the feeling that it was

really happening, shaky acting and all.

Despite the ominous title, the film contained little to no gore — the opposite of the graphic, tedious 2003 remake, in which director Marcus Nispel included a shot through the gaping hole in the head of a woman who had just blown her brains out.

The original was genuinely disturbing — the stuff of nightmares. The remake is just gross and nihilistic.

“DAWN OF THE DEAD” — George A. Romero’s seminal 1979 classic set a standard for graphic gore — and made flesh-eating zombies as popular as vampires and werewolves.

The notion of a remake seemed blasphemous — until you saw director Zack Snyder’s from 2004, which cleverly spun the shopping-mall setting into a larger, more apocalyptic scale.

Snyder also did inventive things with the undead, including the appearance of the first (to my knowledge) zombie baby, ravenous right from the womb.

Unfortunately, the characters spent much of the film needlessly bickering (the lazy screenwriter’s crutch) and were not nearly so memorable as the original’s quartet of heroes.

But the remake gets bonus points for one of the best death-by-chainsaw bits ever filmed. Watch where you point that thing!

“LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT” — Wes Craven made his directorial debut with this nasty 1972 shocker about two young women who run afoul of a gang of murderous creeps.

Inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s “The Virgin Spring” but as shoddy-looking as a snuff film, the movie was a product of its tumultuous era — Vietnam, the Charles Manson murders and the curdling of the free-love 1960s into rampant drug addiction and crime.

The 2009 remake lacked subtext, and director Dennis Iliadis filmed in a sleek style that was the mirror opposite of Craven’s documentary realism. But the remake was still surprisingly effective, especially when the bad guys took shelter in the house of one of the girls they had brutalized, and the parents exacted sweet revenge.

Craven’s film was unpleasant and crudely harrowing. The remake settled for a gory good time that answered the burning question “What would happen if you stuck someone’s head in a microwave?”

MCT Jackie Earle Haley stars as Freddy Krueger in “A Nightmare on Elm Street.”

“THE HILLS HAVE EYES” — Another early Craven effort, made in 1977 about a family stranded in a desert populated by cannibals, showed considerable growth on the director’s part.

Its menacing feel hinted that even major characters could get killed at any moment, and some — remember the shocking massacre inside

the trailer? — did.

Director Alexandre Aja’s 2006 cover was brutally sadistic, sometimes to the point of being unwatchable, but Aja did not shy away from duplicating the surprise twists of the original.

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Mind-enhancing music can result in efficient studying

By AMBER GRADY Staff Writer A.N.Grady@iup.edu

The time has come to study for finals. But you’re having trouble finding the focus you need to begin studying. Or maybe you’re still sleep-deprived from the weekend and need something to help you feel energized.

You’ve been binge-drinking coffee and chugging five-hour energy drinks, but nothing seems to be working.

Feeling more attentive and concentrated on studying can be as easy as picking up your iPod. A Stanford University School of Medicine study in 2007 found that music engages the parts of the brain related to paying attention, making predictions and updating the event in memory.

The study’s researchers had participants listen to short symphonies by an obscure 18th-century composer. “Music engages the brain over a

Feeling more attentive and concentrated on studying can be as easy as picking up your iPod. period of time, and the process of listening to music could be a way that the brain sharpens its ability to anticipate events and sustain attention,� said Jonathan Barger, a co-author of the study.

While this study’s participants listened to classical music, any music can help you stay more engaged and focused while studying, as long as it’s not too distracting or loud.

Upbeat music, like rap, is good to listen to right before you begin studying.

When the time comes to actually study, it’s a good idea to choose music that is easy to tune out.

So before you start cramming for your finals, grab your laptop and search for study playlists on websites like lastfm.com or YouTube.

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Jesse Smartt/The Penn A variety of places, such as the Oak Grove, Stapleton Library and the HUB, serve as great places to study during Finals week.

Finals week provides great places to study on, around campus An always-popular loccation is inside Stapleton Library where studying just seems That big test is just around the more natural.

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corner, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not too sure how well youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to do on it.

Looks like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to break out the old, trusty notebook, handouts and your textbook, then start the oh-so-enjoyable undertaking that is studying. But where should you do it? For some, the great outdoors is destination No. 1 when it comes to a study spot.

It must be something about the shining sun, chirping birds and azure skies that lighten the burden of poring over notes for hours on end.

If this sounds like your style, there are plenty of places both on and off campus that can provide you with a serene study environment.

You can lay out a blanket in the Oak Grove and get to studying at the heart of campus, find one of the tables in the quad outside of the suites or, if you want to get away from the hustle and bustle of the campus, take a drive out to either the Co-op Recreational Park or head down Route 422 toward Yellow Creek State Park.

However, if the rain starts pouring down or the temperature

just isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t what you would like it to be, both of which are all-too-familiar circumstances, then it would probably be a better idea to stay indoors whilst reinforcing knowledge.

An always-popular location is inside Stapleton Library where studying just seems more natural.

If you prefer to study in groups, the basement and first floor are where you should head, as the second and third floors are dedicated to quiet study.

Alec Dushack (freshman, international business) prefers to do his studying on the second and third floors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in the cubicles, it makes me feel like I have privacy,â&#x20AC;? he said.

But cubicles â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the library â&#x20AC;&#x201D; arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for everyone. Rachael Koontz (sophomore, nursing) likes to study in her bedroom because â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quiet, and if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in the library I like to people-watch. But when Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in my bedroom, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just me.â&#x20AC;? The comfort

of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own room is often where many people execute most of their studying.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a place where you are in charge and free to do whatever it is that helps you study. For Ben Diehl (junior, communications media) itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s having the TV on that helps out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The library is too quiet, which makes it hard for me to study,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I need a little background noise.â&#x20AC;? A lesser-known destination for studying that often slips under the radar is Foster Dining Hall.

It may seem like a noisy, inconvenient place to study, but if you bring along some music or just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mind the noise, it can be one of the best places to do your studying if you have a free afternoon.

Once inside, you can break out your materials and get to studying.

After youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve eaten your breakfast or lunch, hang around a little longer and do more studying.

When you just canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t study anymore, it will probably be time for dinner. And guess what: You wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to go far.

These are just a handful of places to study, and you may have your own secret place. So whether you like to study outside or indoors, remember to find a place where you are most comfortable and relaxed.

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Survive finals week with handy study tips By mohammad aljayyousi Staff Writer M.I.Aljayyousi@iup.edu

It is almost finals week, and every student feels overwhelmed, especially after a long semester of classes, labs and projects. Obviously, it’s a stressful time, and one of the most challenging parts of college life. To survive this demanding week and achieve your academic goals successfully, you need to prepare and study well. This can be done in a variety of ways. Here are some effective methods to get the most of yourself during finals. In fact, the underlying principles in all of these tips – organization, dedication and taking care of our biological needs – apply to all times and challenges.

The following tips are adapted from a sheet prepared by Sally Lipsky, study skills coordinator at the Learning Center: 1. Find as much as you can about each exam – day, place, time, type and number of questions and material covered.

2. Begin studying NOW — Use a weekly schedule or calendar to jot down extra hours for studying each

subject. Prioritize the subjects according to time of exam, difficulty of the subject and length of material.

3. Choose a place to study – one that’s comfortable with few distractions. Often you need to move away from the distractions of your room or apartment and go to the library, a study lounge or an empty classroom.

4. Develop study sheets that summarize important information — These serve three purposes: a. They require that you review material; b.

They require that you select the really important ideas and organize them is some manner and c. They provide you with a condensed set of notes to use to refresh your memory the day before the exam.

5. Develop practice questions — for yourself similar to the format of questions that will be in the exam. With a classmate, quiz each other on the material.

6. If you haven’t already, now is the time to establish a healthy lifestyle – get adequate sleep, eat regularly, provide yourself with breaks and leisure activities and don’t overdo it on weekends.

7. Finally, be prepared — Nothing

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beats the feeling of confidence that comes with knowing you did the best job you can in studying for each final exam.

The Penn State University website includes the following useful tip: 8. Vary the subjects you study — It’s hard enough to sit down and review your chemistry notes, but to look at calculus right after is even worse. What you study one hour directly affects your ability to understand what you are studying the next hour. Review for a science course, and then look at English or a foreign language — something different.

It makes studying less tiresome and you’ll remember the information better.

Eating right is stressed in all tips about study. Here are some specific guidelines about this important component of healthy lifestyle that many students underrate, also from the PSU website: • Research shows that eating smaller meals more frequently is vital to maintaining high energy levels.

• Avoid foods with high sugar and fat; they will make you sluggish.

• Breakfast boosts your energy and

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metabolism throughout the day, so be sure to include it in your diet if you are working hard. Regarding how to manage stress while preparing for finals, the IUP Center for Learning Enhancement provides the following useful tips: 1. Relax Your Body: • Deep breathing: While sitting, lying down or standing, close your eyes and breathe in slowly. Let the breath out for a count of 5-10 seconds.

• Stretching: Practice simple stretches such as the “neck stretch”: stretch your neck by gently rolling your head in a half-circle, starting at one side, then dropping your chin to

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• Exercise: All kinds of physical activity help to reduce stress.

• Listen to relaxing music. Take a long shower or bath.

2. Relax Your Emotions: • Talk: Take the time to talk with a friend, mate or parent. Express feelings you might have been holding in.

• Laugh: Go see a funny movie or spend time with a funny friend.

• Read: A good book or magazine is a great escape.

• Do something you enjoy: When you enjoy yourself, you relax your emotions.

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Studio quality audio on the go available for music lovers

By Gregg ellman

By DIANE DREHER

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The digital era has consumed many enthusiasts with capturing photos and video, but not far behind is the need to capture high-quality audio.

Most of today’s devices that capture digital images and video, along with many of the current laptop and desktop computers have built-in microphones.

They work OK, but many capture the audio in poor quality and, in some cases, even record the sound from the motors in the camera lenses.

Samson has several microphones to capture studio-quality audio without the need for the studio.

The Samson Go Mic ($59) produces excellent quality audio, which can be used for movie voice-overs, podcasts or most any project where sound is needed Just as the name says, the Go Mic has been produced for those on the go who want to capture studio-quality audio.

The compact USB directional condenser microphone works in a simple plug-and-play manner for both Mac and Windows systems, but requires no drivers or software.

Testing the microphone on a Macbook Pro using GarageBand was as easy as can be.

Just like many other people think about hearing me, I don’t like hearing myself talk, but was quite impressed with the clarity, even when I turned up music in the background.

Users will get professional-quality audio with a frequency response of 20Hz to 18Hz. A 3.5mm headphone output is built into the microphone along with professional-grade windscreens on the front and back of the unit.

In addition to the outstanding quality the microphones generate, when they are not in use they have a compact design for storage or travel and come with a storage case. The Q2U Recording Pack from Samson ($89) takes the audio to another

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level with different options.

This USB microphone connects to any computer and has an XLR connection making it ideal for many of today’s digital cameras that have microphone input ports or a mixing console. Included are both USB and XLR to cables, a desktop tripod stand, padded DJ style HP20 headphones and Cakewalk Music Creator software.

All the microphone ports are conveniently located on the bottom (XLR, USB and headphone input) while the on/off switch and volume controls are on the side.

Just like the Go Mic, the Q2U does not require any drivers or software and works in a plug-and-play manner.

Several years ago a co-worker told me people will not deal with good videos containing bad audio but will stay with lesser quality video and good audio.

Details: samsontech.com Western Digital (WD) has unveiled a free app for the iPhone/iPod Touch called the WD Photos Photo Viewer, which is available at the Apple iTunes App Store.

With it users can access up to 250,000 of their photos from anywhere in the world by simply logging into their personal WD My Book World Edition network drive with the app.

The app has search tool, which gives users thumbnail previews and viewing options make it easy to find specific photos.

To make the photos eligible to be viewed by the WD Photos Photo Viewer app, photos must be copied into the “Shared Pictures” folder on the My Book World Edition network drive.

An application, which runs directly on the WD network drives, automatically creates optimized versions of user’s photos ahead of time.

This enables them to be viewed fast and easy with the app, and without any waiting time for them to load.

Users

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of the WD My Book World Edition may complete a registration with MioNet, WD’s secure remote access service before being able to use the app.

Details: westerndigital.com I often write about portable power supplies because today’s portable electronic gadgets are power hungry.

The design and usefulness of these portable devices are great, but what happens when you are not near a power supply to charge your portable power supply?

In many cases you will have to go iPhone-less, and I know many of you would rather starve than not have your finger dancing on the touch screen.

To the rescue comes the TuneJuice Universal portable charger from Griffin Technology, which runs on three AA batteries (included).

Once the batteries die, slide open the battery compartment and swap ‘em out with a new set and charge away.

The pocket sized charger has a USB port on the bottom for any USB charging cable, which comes with most any digital gadget these days.

It can be used to give a charge to many of today’s cell phones, digital cameras and portable MP3 players.

Users can even use rechargeable AA batteries, but once those are dead you’re back to the same problem of needing electrical outlets to charge them up.

Using AA batteries, users can know they can be purchased at most any convenient store or even at vacation area gifts shops for small fortune. For an example, Griffin states users will get 2.25 hours of talk time on iPhone, assuming the AA batteries are fresh. The exact amount of charge each device will get will vary from device to device.

The TuneJuice has no on or off buttons and is smart enough to do this on its own once a USB connection is made or disconnected. Details: GriffinTechnology.com, $25

This spring, 16 million college graduates will face a job market with nearly 10 percent unemployment and more than 7 million people out of work.

Finding a job, any job, will be challenging. Yet, paradoxically, this challenge offers a hidden opportunity to pursue a meaningful life, not merely a livelihood.

In stronger economic times, many graduates made hasty career decisions, picking the highpaying or prestigious job offered by recruiters at college job fairs without reflecting on their own strengths and values.

By taking that first job, they would jump onto a career track, only to wake up years later realizing they’d been living somebody else’s life.

Today’s challenging job market gives graduates time: time to focus on their strengths, ask important questions, and anchor their work to their deepest values.

Used wisely, this time can enrich their futures with discernment practices often ignored during times of job abundance.

Of course, we must all find work to support ourselves, but since work occupies nearly half our waking hours, it should mean more than a paycheck.

Research shows that people who find meaning in their work are happier and healthier, able to see new possibilities and make it through difficult times.

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl even found that a sense of meaning gave people the strength to survive in a Nazi concentration camp while others lost hope and died.

Finding meaningful work in these turbulent times takes strategic planning.

By balancing purpose with practicality, graduates can make this time work for them. I recommend three key strategies.

One, don’t panic. Stress and anxiety only sabotage us.

Neuroscientists have learned that fear shuts down our capacity for

long-range planning, impulse control, creativity, and problem-solving — skills needed to meet the current challenge.

Reduce stress by reflecting on your values, which a recent UCLA study found lowers cortisol levels and strengthens our immune systems.

Then begin a daily stress management practice: exercise, meditate, stay connected with friends.

Two, build positive momentum by discovering your strengths.

Recent Gallup studies have found that most people dwell on their weaknesses, but when we focus on our strengths, we are happier, healthier, and more successful.

Ask “What am I good at?

What do I love to do?” Reflect on what brings you joy, take a personal inventory at the college career center, or find your “signature strengths” with the VIA-IS survey on authentichappiness.org.

Three, make a plan. Short term: get a temporary job to pay the bills through the college career center, but don’t give up on your dreams.

Chart a direction that combines your strengths and values and set a specific “stretch” goal you could reach in six months.

Map out three steps to your goal — you might join a professional organization, do volunteer work, get advice from alumni, find an internship, or arrange an information interview in your field.

Then think strategically: come up with one possible roadblock and back-up plan for each step — what you’ll do if that step doesn’t work out.

Maintain your motivation: see yourself achieving your goal, remember a time when you overcame a challenge, and tell yourself, “I can do this, too.”

Finally, keep your eyes and ears open. Learn from the process and build on your plan.

If something doesn’t work out, try something else — but keep moving forward. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”

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Cutting back on training can improve sport performance, activity By wina sturgeon Adventure Sports Weekly MCT

Do you want to be better at your sport or activity? Then start by breaking training.

Yes, right now, when the hint of summer creates a feeling of excitement, do something totally different from your regular training — and your regular sport.

If you’ve been scheduling disciplined planned runs, break off and take a series of treks through uneven wilderness or parkland.

Create your own ad hoc obstacle course over bumpy terrain and low walls. Run through rock gardens or across the stones in a creek.

Have you been training for triathalons or road races?

Get off the smooth road. Rent a BMX or mountain bike, cover your hairless legs with denim and try some small bumps or single track trails.

How about team sports? Have you been training in one position for basketball, baseball or another sport?

Try playing its opposite. If you’ve been out front, take some time to play defense. Better yet, try a different team sport — or a pick up version of your own sport.

The reason all this will help you be

a better athlete is because your body will be forced to move differently, out of its comfort zone.

The forward motion of your running or pedaling legs will no longer be enough; as you dash through unaccustomed terrain, you’ll have to make lateral moves with quicker feet to adjust for balance.

If you only guard in a game, a change means you’ll have to make the opposite move and learn to get away from the guard.

This will all do wonders for your athletic ability. First, you will greatly extend your range of motion. This will work to make you faster, because a greater range of motion will make you instinctively more sure footed.

Your mind may not be aware of the improvement, but your body certainly will be. You’ll know you’re faster, even if you don’t know why.

Running over self-designed obstacle courses improves your agility, which is the ability to move quickly with just enough motion to get through a tight spot.

If you’re agile, you can run through a pack of people swiftly, without stutter-stepping or having to slow down because someone is in your way.

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Many athletes get so accustomed to the exact balance they need for their sport that they never realize their balance is actually limited.

If they have to move out of their familiar range of motion, or if they need extra agility to pull off a move, it will have to go through their heads.

Any time an athlete has to THINK during play or competition, it slows them down. The best athletes always move instinctively, because their bodies know what to do. You can imagine how much more time it takes for the brain to figure out the right move and direct the body to do it.

Doing a different activity or sport shocks the body out of its comfort zone so you physically learn how to move differently.

The results are like an athletic gift — a wider range of motion, more agility, better balance. These additional qualities won’t go to your mind; they will go direct, to your body, and the way your body senses your ability to move. You’ll suddenly find your abilities have jumped up a whole new level; and all it took was a decision to break training and do something different.

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MCT Foursquare helps you discover places through your connections and see what spots are popular in your social circle or just nearby.

Free social media apps check out venues

By STANLEY A. MILLER II Milwaukee Journal Sentinel MCT

Social media apps that let people share their whereabouts with friends from their mobile phones are not a fly-by-night novelty.

They are relevant tools for connecting people and information, and I think the best is yet to come.

Admittedly, I am getting ahead of myself.

First, a few words about how these free apps work using Foursquare (foursquare.com) as an example — although Gowalla (gowalla.com), a similar program, also has fans.

After downloading the program — available for Apple’s iPhone, Android devices such as the Nexus One and BlackBerry phones — you set up an account and find friends.

New subscribers will most likely track down Foursquare friends by scanning the other social networks they’re already using, such as Facebook or Twitter.

Now that you’re connected, you can use the app to see where your friends have “checked in” recently, including restaurants, cafes, bars and stores.

Foursquare helps you discover places through your connections and see what spots are popular in your social circle or just nearby.

The app lets businesses offer discounts to customers checking into their venues, notifying users when deals are nearby.

The program also lets users make recommendations, and it’s these commenting features and location-promotion tools that are both the most exciting and, to date, a bit disappointing.

As a moderate Foursquare user with more than 100 “total nights out” and 600 check-ins, I’ve noticed that

Social media apps that let people share their whereabouts with friends from their mobile phones are not a fly-by-night novelty. many of the comments people leave just aren’t very helpful.

It’s not that the comments are terrible. They’re just shallow, which got me thinking about how more content could be added to Foursquare without cluttering things up.

I’d like to see the system Foursquare uses to promote menu discounts and drink specials built out to route users to more in-depth editorial content.

It’s a natural upgrade adding a lot of value, and the content providers getting their feet in the door first win another way to promote their websites.

For example, visitors checking into the Milwaukee Art Museum — or any other source of art in the city — could be quickly linked to Art City (jsonline.com), the definitive local arts blog written by Journal Sentinel critic Mary Louise Schumacher.

Or Milwaukee diners checking into the Iron Horse Hotel, Stack’d Burger Bar or A.J. Bombers — which already offer specials to Foursquare fans — could be directed to reviews from Journal Sentinel dining critic Carol Deptolla. Checking into places can win virtual awards that Foursquare calls “badges,” and these also are a fun fit.

Players could unlock a “gallery night” badge for visiting 10 art spots during an event, or earn a special festival badge for city-wide arts events.

And Milwaukee and other cities’ tourism organizations could take a cue from Explore Chicago and sponsor a collection of tourism badges.

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By CHRIS O’ BRIEN San Jose Mercury News MCT

It’s been a week since the Facebook developers conference, and I can’t escape the feeling that it represented a pivotal moment in the history of the Internet.

We will look back on that day as the point where Facebook usurped Google’s position as the most important company on the Web. There’s almost no way to overestimate the impact of what Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled during his keynote address.

The ambitious new set of features will make Facebook the central nervous system of the Web. This will grant Facebook an astonishing amount of power.

While that has the potential to bring an array of benefits to users, it also means we must become more vigilant about our privacy, and that Facebook must recognize its new responsibilities.

Let me set some context for why this is so important. Not only did Zuckerberg confirm that Facebook has 400 million users — up from 200

million in April 2009 — but he said its growth is accelerating. Because of that massive gravitational pull, everything that Facebook does will be a big deal.

So let me dig deeper into what Facebook announced last week and the impact it’s already having.

At the conference, the company announced a new platform with the infelicitous name the “Open Graph API.” There are some critics of exactly how “open” this new feature is, but that’s a subject for a different column.

The way this change appears to most folks is the suddenly ubiquitous “Like” button spreading across the Web. If you click on the “Like” button, it posts a link on your profile in Facebook that everyone will see. The site can then add a widget that allows you to see what your Facebook friends have been doing at that site.

Facebook will now be able to dig its tentacles so deeply into other sites that it will have a reach and power that Google can only dream of.

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, but it does this largely from the outside. Now

Facebook will be embedded into websites, allowing it to become the organizing point for our social interactions online, something that I think will prove more valuable to marketers and advertisers over time than Google’s online advertising.

Given Facebook’s size and growth curve, it will be next to impossible for any major website to resist implementing the Open Graph.

They simply cannot turn their backs on the ability to leverage that massive an audience.

All those users will be feeding their actions back to their Facebook friends, given the website’s powerful viral promotion.

And by seeing what all your friends are doing at a site such as CNN.com, you’re likely to spend even more time clicking around CNN.com, creating more engagement and more ad dollars for CNN. Now, your Facebook network will just travel with you seamlessly across the Web. This is the “instantly personal” experience Zuckerberg described in his keynote. This will make social networking far simpler and more effective for the vast majority of users.

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Ball for All basketball league hosts fifth annual all-star game this weekend By vaughn johnson Sports Editor V.M.Johnson@iup.edu

The Ball for All League will host its fifth annual all-star game at 1 p.m.

Saturday in the main gym in Memorial Field House.

The game is sponsored by The Uptown Cultural Center and Nellie Bellz, two student-owned businesses and is hosted by Voices of Joy from the Victory Christian Assembly.

“I think this all-star game is a good for everybody to get a chance to see a talent showcase in basketball, but to see what we’re doing out in the community as well,” said Qui’en Simmons (senior, sport administration), league organizer and part owner of The Underground.

The student-run league is trying to take the NBA approach to its allstar by not just having a game with the league’s best players, but also have a slew of festivities surrounding it, creating the big weekend atmosphere that the NBA has perfected for decades.

“We just want to make it a real allstar weekend,” said Richard Simmons (junior, marketing), owner of Nellie Bellz. “It gives people something to

remember. Anybody can just put two good teams together and call it an all-star game, but you got to actually work to put a 3-point contest and a dunk contest and to get people motivated to even participate in it.”

Along with the game there will be an upperclassmen versus lowerclassmen game, which pits the juniors and seniors of the Ball for All League up against the freshman and sophomores of the league.

Next on the docket will be a 3-point shootout hosted sponsored by Nellie Bellz, and a slam-dunk competition sponsored by The Underground. The festivities will end with the allstar game itself, which pits the best players from the league’s two divisions in the league title Division A and Division B. Nine players make up the two teams, selected by coaches, managers and officials based on statistics during the season and overall contribution to the team.

Notable players are members of the men’s basketball team including Division A all-stars Chris Edwards, Thomas Young, Willi Estrella and

Division B all-stars Kevin Stewart, Scooter Rankin and Ashton Smith.

“I’m looking to do my thing in the all-star game and to have an allaround good time,” said player Chris Harris (junior, criminology).

According to Qui’en Simmons the all-star game is the culmination of the growth that Ball for All League has seen in its five years of existence.

“Each year we’ve been getting bigger and bigger with the Ball for All League and a lot of the companies and campus organizations are starting to recognize what we’re doing,” Qui’en Simmons said.

The league, which is not a part of IUP intramurals, is completely student-run and began as a six-team league with the purpose of playing competitive basketball and, more importantly, a way to keep out of trouble.

“If you’re from South Philadelphia, from where I’m from or wherever in Philadelphia, you’re used to the YMCA leagues, the PAL leagues, the recreational leagues,” Richard Simmons said. “You can go to any neighborhood

rec and participate in a league, but up here, all you have is the intramurals.”

The league did not keep statistics, did not hand out awards and the teams were made up of mostly black students. The league has expanded from six to 13 teams and keeps statistics, hands out awards and keeps records.

“Each year, it’s just getting more and more advanced,” Qui’en Simmons said.

More importantly, the teams have become more diverse.

“It’s something that not just African-American community can appreciate, but some the other communities can appreciate and get a chance to come out and show their skill sets,” Qui’en Simmons said.

Qui’en Simmons attributes the growth of the league to the competitive nature of the league. He said there is never an easy game for any team.

“Everybody comes out to win,” Richard Simmons said.

According to Qui’en Simmons, the Ball for All League is going in one direction — up.

“Every year it comes around, the anticipation goes up, but it’s always the same crowd,” Qui’en Simmons

said.” “We’re trying to make it more of a campus-wide thing rather than an African-American community thing.”

“I just hope that Ball for All can be bigger,” Richard Simmons said.

“I think it’s more important than we think it is, because it’s the IUP community doing something for IUP. It’s not the administration helping.

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MCT Sidney Crosby scored five goals during the first round of the playoffs against the Senators.

And then there were eight Bottom seeds in East knock off higher seeds, prep for second round The NHL is down to the final eight in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Each series has its own storylines to cover.

Philadelphia vs. Boston The Flyers will need to find help on the offensive side of the puck.

They lost Jeff Carter and Simon Gagne to foot injuries in their last Montreal vs. Pittsburgh series, and neither will be available in This is the best scenario for the this series.

Penguins. When the Canadiens won Also, the Flyers will need to stay against the Washington Capitals out of the penalty box if they want Wednesday, it made the to win this series. They were Penguins the favorite to fortunate that New Jersey come out of the Eastern went 4-32 on the power Conference. play in the first round.

The Penguins will If they keep being too need goaltender Marcphysical, it could come back Andre Fleury to play betto bite them in this series. ter than he did against the The Bruins will have Marc Ottawa Senators, because Savard back for this series, the Canadiens play great and he should provide help defense, and scoring By anthony scherer to the offense. against them could be Savard has been out Sports Columnist difficult. of action since suffering A.J.Scherer @iup.edu The Penguins are a concussion after being 3-0 on the road this postseason. hit in the head by Pittsburgh’s Matt However, if the Penguins don’t pro- Cooke. I think this series will be physiduce on power plays and succumb to cal and will go to a seventh game. the same failures that Washington I predict that the Bruins win because did on power plays, then they could Savard is coming back, and the Flyers struggle. are just too beat up right now.

If Montreal can control Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Jordan Detroit vs. San Jose Staal, then it has a chance.

This series has the Sharks, who I don’t see that happening. have been the best regular season The Penguins win in five games team in the Western Conference for and sit comfortably awaiting the win- the past two years. ner of the Boston-Philadelphia series.

They are going against the Red

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Wings – the best playoff team in the Western Conference the last two years.

If San Jose can put those demons behind it and play the same way it did in the regular season, then I think it has a chance.

However, it showed in the last series against Colorado that it is fragile when under pressure.

If the Wings can come out early and jump on the Sharks, then I see them moving on.

The Wings have made changes since last year, but they are team that is still relying on older players like Nicklas Lindstrom and Henrik Zetterberg to carry the load.

I am going with the Red Wings in seven games.

Vancouver vs. Chicago This series comes down to how much Vancouver’s goalie Roberto Luonogo can handle the pressure of the playoffs. If he plays the same way he did in the gold medal game for Canada, then he might be trouble.

Luonogo has never been consistent enough for Vancouver to win in the playoffs.

If he can handle the big time players for Chicago, including Penguin favorite Marion Hossa, he will do fine.

I like Chicago in this series in seven.

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After Ryan Howard’s mega-deal, Brewers’ Prince Fielder has much to gain

By Phil rogers Chicago Tribune MCT

Gulp. That was the sound emanating from Milwaukee on Tuesday, when the Phillies announced they are stinking rich.

The twice-defending National League champions made that proclamation by signing first baseman Ryan Howard to a five-year, $125-million contract extension, moving quickly so Albert Pujols wouldn’t set the bar.

Brewers owner Mark Attanasio and general manager Doug Melvin must want to vomit.

That’s because the shrewd deal they put together for Prince Fielder two years ago ends after this season.

He can’t go to free agency until after 2011, but the Brewers can’t wait that long to decide what they're going to do with him.

Don’t be surprised if the homerhitting first baseman is playing for the Red Sox or someone else by the end of July, maybe even the White Sox. Attanasio would love to keep Fielder long term, but assuming he keeps hitting the way he did from 2007 to 2009 (an average of .286-33123 with 95 walks), he will be in line for

a bigger deal than Howard.

At 26 in May, he’s four years younger and as a five-plus arbitration guy he can compare numbers with anyone in the game next winter, including Pujols, Mark Teixeira and Howard.

Then he can demand his own supersized long-term deal as a free agent.

Does it make sense for the Brewers to pay $25 million-plus a year to keep him? Probably not, considering three factors — they are 25th in the majors in revenue, according to Forbes; they have the equally productive Ryan Braun signed through 2014; and they have been only a .500 team the last couple of years thanks to a pitching shortage.

The Padres’ Adrian Gonzalez, yet another run-producing first baseman, has generated a ton of trade talk the last year, most of it coming out of Boston.

But unlike Fielder, he’s signed to a team-friendly contract through 2011.

It seems more likely Fielder, not Gonzalez, will be the biggest name available before the July 31 deadline.

Like the Red Sox, the White Sox have the parts to do a deal if they decide they’re not going to re-sign Paul Konerko.

What about Fielder to the White

Sox for a package built around pitching and Triple-A first baseman Dayan Viciedo? John Danks certainly would get Melvin’s attention.

Gavin Floyd might to a lesser degree, and both Daniel Hudson and Sergio Santos have a ton of value.

Hudson gives the Sox the flexibility to deal a big-league starter, assuming he doesn’t have to be in the package himself. It’s hard to see the Sox having the will to keep Fielder long term, however, which makes it a huge risk to give up young talent for one seasons of his mashing.

But what if the Brewers are interested in Alex Rios, who is signed through 2014 at a level just beyond what they have paid Fielder?

Trading for a veteran is easier than signing a proven player through free agency.

If Rios went to the Brewers in the deal, the Sox might be able to sign Fielder to a Teixeira/Howard contract long term.

After 2010, he would replace Konerko and Rios on the payroll, with Andruw Jones (if the Sox can keep him) or Jordan Danks in center.

Fielder to the White Sox is probably a long shot.

But so is Fielder staying put.

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Men’s basketball a part of highlights, football team a part of lowlights of 2009-10 school year IUP athletics By vaughn johnson Sports Editor V.M.Johnson@iup.edu

Historic.

That’s the one word that describes the school year that was for IUP athletics.

Not all of the history was good.

Not all of it was bad, either, but it was historic nonetheless.

The 2009-10 school year saw some unbelievable celebrations and

some major disappointments.

I will begin with the latter during the fall semester.

The fall semester saw the field hockey team follow up a 15-3 season in 2008 with a mediocre 6-8 in 2009. The team did finish 5-3 in the PSAC West, but narrowly missed the PSAC playoffs by losing a tiebreaker to Mercyhurst. The team now has a new head coach, Gary Agard, who served as an assistant on a Bloomsburg team that was a perennial power in the PSAC. Then IUP had possibly its biggest let-down in quite some time: the football team.

The IUP football program traditionally is one of the most successful and revered on the Division II landscape.

It was always a cut above the rest of the conference, and it showed from the talent it gathered to the respect and reputation it garnered throughout the country.

In 2009, however, it looked like every other program. The team stumbled and hobbled its way to a 5-6 season — its first losing season since 1982. It took more than 30 years for the football program to build up its

son to remember, but instead 2009 was — for all of the wrong reasons.

By October going into November, when they were losing one game after another, the team seemed normal. It seemed like they were asking the same questions that everybody around Indiana was asking: What happened to the football team? No one seemed to know. When I talked to the players and coaches after the Hawks defeated Kutztown in the final game of the season, it didn’t seem like they were happy about the big win. It seemed they had

luster and only one season to lose it.

I covered the team for The Penn from beginning to end. It almost seemed like two different programs from August until the season was over in November. In August, the team had hopes of getting back to the NCAA tournament after missing it in 2008.

It had the confidence that an IUP squad usually has. At that time, a disappointment would have meant missing the postseason again. By season’s end, missing the postseason was just the beginning of its problems. Their problems made 2008 look like a sea-

more of a sense of relief that the turbulent season they had all suffered through was finally over.

While those disappointments were happening, there were some high points of the fall semester. The golf program continued its success by winning its third consecutive PSAC championship. Individual honors were handed out as well. Hillary Mugun of the cross-country team was named PSAC Freshman of the Year and was named an All-American.

The spring semester was kinder to

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IUP athletics than the fall, with only the women’s lacrosse team suffering a losing season at 8-9.

Individual awards were handed out in abundance in the department.

Jackie Hyson of the swim team earned All-American honors in both the 200 backstroke and the 200 butterfly.

The track team had one of its best years in the program’s history. Nafee Harris was the headliner, winning the NCAA Indoor title in the long jump and earning Atlantic Region Indoor Field Athlete of the Year honors. Three others were named All-Americans:

Leander Toney, Brianna Liebold and Laurie Ajavon. Despite those great accomplishments, nothing had more storylines and grabbed more headlines than what took place inside Memorial Field House.

First, the women’s basketball team: The team came into the season not expecting make much of an impact after losing the best senior class in the program’s history. Couple that with the departure of Jill Perdue and the dismissal of Sylvie Tefan, both key contributors, and it seemed IUP had its fair share of obstacles to overcome. The team finished 17-10 and 10-4 in the PSAC West, but failed to make the NCAA tournament and did not win its fourth consecutive PSAC tournament title.

In other circumstances that would seem like a letdown, but in the case of IUP and what they went through, it was a pretty good season as they exceeded expectations.

Players that were role players the year before stepped into leadership roles: Lacy Claar, Eryn Withers, Hilary Shope and Kierstin Filla. Players new to the program who were originally slated as role players became key contributors: Brianna Johnson, Vianca Tejada, Katelyn Marshall and PSAC West Freshman of the Year Sarah Pastorek. While covering the team and being around the players, I saw them grow individually and collectively right before my very eyes.

That was a big story, but it paled in comparison to the men’s basketball team. I could say every cliché word in the book to describe this past season, and they would be justified.

The team came into the season coming off the heels of a NCAA tournament run in 2008-09 into the second round. That momentum, along with the addition of Boston College transfer, Akida McLain, earned IUP a preseason ranking as high as No. 6.

It turned out the expectations were

warranted, as the team opened the season winning the first 11.

The team playing well in conference was an understatement. The team was dominant. So dominant that during a Feb. 3 game against Edinboro, Darryl Webb had a number of dunks that people around that were worthy of being on SportsCenter. It turns out ESPN thought so as well, and in the early hours of the morning Feb. 10, Webb and IUP were showcased on a national scale. This had the campus buzzing for about a week.

Turns out that was only the beginning of the buzz surrounding the team

as it kept winning. Then came March 16 — a date that this campus will not soon forget. For the first time in 15 years, Memorial Field House was sold out because it was the NCAA Atlantic Regional final against West Liberty.

I personally never saw an event in my three years attending this school with more anticipation than this game. They were turning people away 30 minutes before the game — a rare occurrence at IUP. As everyone knows by now, IUP won 84-72, but what happened after the game is what will always stick out to me. When the clock finally struck zero, the students rushed the court in celebration of the team’s win. Rushing the court was something I had always only seen on television on the Division I level. It was something that I always wanted to see in person, and to finally get see it was something special.

I did not participate in rushing the court myself (I had to maintain some professionalism), but it was still an unforgettable experience nonetheless.

The team made it all the way to the national championship game and, of course, fell to Cal Poly Pomona, but it didn’t take away from the success the team had. It was a success for the number of wins and the attention it gained, but more importantly because it brought spirit back to IUP — something that has been missing for quite some time, in my opinion.

As is the case with almost every year, the year in athletics was eventful, but 2009-10 was truly historic. It was only appropriate that it ended with Akwasi Owusu-Ansah being the seventh player in IUP history to be selected in the NFL Draft; just another note in the history books.

For all of the history, for all of the highs and lows, I can personally say that I had the best seat in the house for all of it. It was truly historic.

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MCT The Capitals failed to make the conference finals for the third consecutive season.

Capitals collapse in first round of playoffs against Canadiens By sean gordon Toronto Mail and Globe Scripps Howard News Service

It happened in Game 6 of the Washington-Montreal first-round playoff series and was an uncharacteristic play for an instinctive, predatory hockey player: Having gone around the water tower that is Montreal defenseman Hal Gill, Caps star Alexander Ovechkin didn’t barrel to the net.

He didn’t shoot. He passed — to no one. Ovechkin is usually remembered for his bone-rattling hits or ripping wrist shots off the goal post and in, but in the 2010 NHL playoffs, the enduring memories will be of things such as blind passes, missed attempts at holding the puck in on the power play, and wayward shots.

And for all the plaudits the Washington winger has won for his alluring mix of power, skill and personality — remember the sly shot about Montreal Canadiens goalie Jaroslav Halak’s quaking hands? — he will now face serious questions as to his ability to marshal his team to victory.

He’s also lost some ground to Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney Crosby in the best-player-of-his-generation discussion.

Washington forward Brooks Laich said in the early going of the best-ofseven series that ended Wednesday night with the Habs’ 2-1 win in Game 7: “Everybody says we’re a skilled team, well, only one skill matters to me, and that’s the skill of winning.”

While it’s unfair to blame Washington’s first-round exit on one player, the Caps are Ovechkin’s team

“Everyone says we’re a skilled team, well, only one skill matters to me, and that’s the skill of winning.”

— Brooks Lalch, Washington Captials forward — and if one can’t quite affirm that he lacks the skill Laich talked about, it seems to be in short supply in the Caps room.

Ovechkin’s regular-season body of work— the Hart Memorial Trophies, scoring championships and a firstoverall finish — stands up to anyone’s, but come April, things get complicated. If Crosby has won the Stanley Cup — having played in the last two finals — and an Olympic gold medal, Ovechkin is still waiting for silverware.

Where Crosby has won eight playoff series (and counting), Ovechkin has won just one — an exhausting seven-gamer against the New York Rangers in the first round last season.

He is now 1-3 in Game 7s in the last two seasons. In the games where Ovechkin played well, the Caps dominated.

He also went on a four-game goal-scoring streak, but in the end, it wasn’t enough.

But as Washington coach Bruce Boudreau said last Tuesday: “If he was to rise to the occasion ... then everybody will build that up probably twice as much as it should have been.

And if he doesn’t succeed, they’ll build it up twice as much as it should have been.”

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Padres, Rays are early surprises

By Rick Hummel St. Louis Post-Dispatch MCT

Three weeks into the season, baseball has had its usual highlights and lowlights. Let’s examine: Surprise teams (good) The San Diego Padres, generally picked for last in the National League Western Division because they don’t have Jake Peavy anymore and they have no offense beyond Adrian Gonzalez, won six games in a row and took over first place in the division.

The Padres’ starters were 3-0 with an 0.75 earned-run average in the six games and didn’t allow a home run.

All the games were played at Petco Park, with three-game sweeps against Arizona and San Francisco.

The Tampa Bay Rays were World Series contestants two years ago, but after dipping last year, they’re better than ever.

Their four-game sweep of Boston in Fenway Park may have signified the changing of the guard atop the American League Eastern Division, where the Rays now could be the contending sidekicks to the perennial power, the New York Yankees.

Of the Rays’ first 10 road games, all on the same trip, they won nine.

To put this into perspective, consider that in their first 12 years, they never have had a winning record on the road for a season (40-41 in 2008) and, before this season, they were a staggering 265 games under .500 on the road in 12 seasons.

Surprise teams (bad) The Red Sox decided to go with pitching and defense this year, at the expense of a possible offensive decline.

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Drew, even with his grand slam, was at .148. The pitching?

Boston, even with its threepronged tier of aces in Josh Beckett, Jon Lester and John Lackey, ranked 13th in ERA at 4.73.

The defense? Outfielders Jacoby Ellsbury and Mike Cameron both went on the disabled list.

And the Red Sox, with knuckleballer Tim Wakefield starting, gave up nine stolen bases to the Texas Rangers — in the same game — and allowed 38 steals in the opposition’s first 39 tries.

Incidentally, in the ninestolen-base game, two players from the same team (Texas’ Nelson Cruz and Elvis Andrus) stole three bases or more for only the ninth time in history.

Three of the eight other times involved Cardinals players.

Willie McGee and Vince Coleman each stole three in the same game in 1985; Coleman had four and Ozzie Smith three in a 1990 game, and Smith and Ray Lankford had three apiece in a 1991 contest.

Where did everybody go?

In the first three weeks, Cleveland, Toronto and Baltimore, which used to be cash-cows with their new ball parks, all drew the smallest crowds in the history of their now relatively new parks, all hovering in the 10,000 range, with Baltimore bottoming out at 9,129 for a game with Tampa Bay. Toronto had three straight crowds under 13,000 with the Chicago White Sox, with the lowest 10,610, and then had two more under 11,000 against

Kansas City last week, with the lowest 10,314 on Monday.

How far has the fall been?

In 1993, when Toronto’s Rogers Centre was called Sky Dome, the Blue Jays averaged 50,098 and had better than 4 million fans for the season.

Last year, they drew 1.88 million, down more than 500,000 from the previous year.

In 2000, the Indians drew 3.46 million, averaging 42,670.

Last year, they averaged half that, at 21,358, and attracted just 1.73 million overall.

And in Baltimore, the Orioles seem headed for a third straight season under 2 million.

Last year, they drew just 1.91 million, averaging 23,545.

Ten years ago, they averaged 40,704 per game.

Of course, this still beats the final year’s attendance for the Orioles’ predecessors, the St. Louis Browns.

In 1953, the lame-duck Brownies drew 297,238, an average of 3,860 per game.

But this decline is not confined to the American League. Cincinnati attracted just 12,965 for traditional rival Los Angeles on Tuesday and 12,203 on Wednesday, and the Washington Nationals had a record low (for their new park) with 11,191 for Colorado on Wednesday. In Pittsburgh, 9,936 showed up to watch the Pirates and Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday.

Nineteen major-league clubs through Wednesday reported decreased attendance this season. The New York Mets, in their second season at Citi Field, had suffered the largest drop, drawing 6,663 fewer fans per game.

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