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(APSCUF Website) The Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties welcomed IUP’s Jamie Martin following her election to the APSCUF board on April 17. Martin replaces Dr. Kenneth Mash, who served six years as the board’s president.

In addition to Martin, Dr. Chris Hallen (Bloomsburg) was elected vice president, Dr. Clifford Johnston (West Chester) was elected treasurer and Dr. Michele Papakie (IUP) was re-elected as the APSCUF secretary.

ANNA MECHLING Lead News Writer A.Mechling@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

On April 17, delegates elected IUP’s criminology department chair Dr. Jamie Martin president of the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF).

Martin previously served three terms as APSCUF’s vice president.

She was a member of the faculty and coaches’ negotiations teams in 2015-2016 and 2019-2020.

“I was honored and humbled when I discovered I was elected president,” Martin said. “I know we are in unprecedented times, but I feel I am well prepared. President Mash has been a remarkable president, and I certainly have big shoes to fill. I am thankful to have worked with him for six years and lucky to have him available to help with the transition.

“The outstanding Harrisburg staff and office managers will be of great assistance as I take over as president. The other officers elected today are dedicated, competent and hard-working. I am very lucky to be able to serve with them. There’s going to be a lot of work to do, but I am so lucky to have such a competent and dedicated staff at APSCUF. I

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know that I will need the help and support of all our members.”

She said she wanted to run for APSCUF president because she has been a member of APSCUF since she began teaching at IUP. “I was aware of some of the issues that we face here, but when I became involved at the state level, I learned about issues that affect our 14 campuses,” Martin said. “I was fortunate to be part of the faculty and coaches' negotiations teams for the last two contract negotiations. After these experiences, I wanted to continue serving my fellow faculty and coaches.”

The challenges Martin is looking to tackle focus on providing students affordable and quality public higher education.

“I am looking forward to working with my fellow APSCUF members to fight for appropriate state funding for higher education, continuing to bring the issue of student debt to the forefront and combating the attacks on labor unions as a whole and on APSCUF specifically,” she said.

Elections took place during APSCUF’s legislative assembly, and like most business and education-related things, it took place over Zoom.

“APSCUF’s legislative assembly is where faculty and coach representatives from all 14 state system

campuses convene three times a year for union businesses,” said Kathryn Morton, APSCUF’s communications director. “Typically, this happens in person, but during this atypical time, our regularly scheduled April assembly took place over Zoom. Dr. Martin ran unopposed, and she was elected by affirmation during the assembly.”

Martin is the second woman elected APSCUF president.

Pat Heilman was elected as State APSCUF president in 2004 and represented 5,500 faculty and 600 coaches across the 14 universities.

“I was the first woman elected as president since the union’s beginning in 1971,” Heilman said.

“I had served as IUP-APSCUF president from 1998 to 2002, and I was on the statewide negotiations team from 2002 to 2004.

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“IUP's faculty union has a long history of mentoring newer faculty into leadership roles. Because we are one of a few state universities to have term limits on IUP-APSCUF presidencies, IUP has churned out a significant number of state and local leaders.”

Heilman recalls Martin’s involvement with APSCUF before she was elected president.

“Jamie Martin served as a representative to our local council when I was state president, and I watched her career blossom at the state level, where she served as a delegate to legislative assembly and later as state vice president as well as a member of the state negotiations team,” Heilman said. “I am so proud of Jamie and the work she has done for the union. I know she will do a wonderful job as state president.”

Martin said she wants to raise awareness toward one of APSCUF’s biggest advocacy issues, which is making sure State System universities are properly funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

“When the State System began, the state funded about two-thirds of a student's education, and now that is flipped,” Martin said. “Pennsylvania ranks at or near the bottom, no matter how funding is measured, and as students, you've felt the pain of

this in your tuition and fees.

“APSCUF speaks with legislators regularly about the importance of fair funding and the crisis of student debt. Students can speak up, too, by contacting your legislators and sharing your stories.”

For more information about where to contact legislators, visit apscuf.org/issues-and-advocacy/ contact-your-legislators/.

Others who were elected on APSCUF’s board include: Dr. Chris Hallen of Bloomsburg University, vice president; Dr. Clifford Johnston of West Chester University, treasurer; and Dr. Michele Papakie of IUP, secretary, according to an April 17 APSCUF news release.

Delegates elected to the audit committee include Dr. Ellen Foster of Clarion, Dr. Eric Hawrelak of Bloomsburg and Dr. Mark Lepore of Clarion. Delegates elected to the budget committee include Dr. Michael Malcolm of West Chester, Dr. Michelle Amodei of Slippery Rock and Susan Drummond of IUP. APSCUF represents more than 5,000 faculty and coaches at state’s 14 publicly owned universities, which include: Bloomsburg, California, Cheyney, Clarion, East Stroudsburg, Edinboro, Indiana, Kutztown, Lock Haven, Mansfield, Millersville, Shippensburg, Slippery Rock and West Chester.

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“At first, it was somewhat different since it was such a new process for everyone, but our screening instructions or algorithm has not changed since March 30, so that has helped with the process.”

Here Comes the (Dann-)Payne Professor pulls double duty during pandemic (IUP Website) IUP’s department of mathematics and computer science held physical tutoring sessions in Stright Hall Room 319.

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Worrying about getting the help you need is not something you should be stressing about during a pandemic. IUP offers many tutoring services that will be continuing to be held via Zoom for the remainder of the spring semester.

The department of mathematical and computer sciences gives students the tools necessary to organize and analyze data while also providing the theoretical background of the topics that will help students better understand them.

Mathematics tutoring normally would have occurred in Stright 319 during the spring semester. It will continue with the same graduate assistant tutors being available during their regularly scheduled hours in distanced format. Tutors request that students have their questions prepared when joining a Zoom meeting.

There are four different rooms that students can join Monday through Friday with an array of times detailed on the mathematics tutoring website. When signing into one of the rooms, wait for a tutor to communicate with you.

They will answer questions you have or ask you to switch to a different room depending on activity in the room at the time.

There are also Zoom tutoring sessions scheduled for computer science help in the courses COSC 105, 110, 210, 220, 300 and 310.

They are held Monday through Thursday and Saturdays.

The Writing Center is also offering remote assistance to students.

“Online tutoring is available to all students by appointment

in 45-minute sessions, scheduled at least 24 hours in advance,” according to the IUP website.

The center is offering two types of tutoring to be more widely available to students all through WCOnline. Go to iup.mywconline. com to make an account and schedule your appointment to receive tutoring.

Online, or synchronous tutoring is a live, face-to-face session with a tutor with audio and video chatting. This type of online tutoring requires an appointment. you to log in to WCOnline at the time of your appointment and join the meeting with your tutor by clicking on your appointment in the schedule.

On the other hand, eTutoring or asynchronous tutoring is a form of online tutoring which occurs without direct contact with your tutor. For an eTutoring session, you need to login before the start of your appointment time and upload the document you need guidance with.

You can upload by clicking on your appointment in the schedule and selecting to edit. You are also able to upload your document at the time you make your appointment if you are finished working on it. eTutoring is offered this semester as a way for students without high-speed internet access and are unable to utilize video chatting to still have writing support.

There are multiple services now available remotely for students to receive help with their academics and tailored to their need whether they are international students or veterans. To see a full list, visit iup.edu/success/tutoring-schedules.

Nicole Dann-Payne, a professor in the food and nutrition department, continues to help IRMC fight COVID-19 while educating students through online classes.

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On April 22, IUP’s The Beak featured IUP faculty member Nicole Dann-Payne as one of many health professionals putting their lives on the line to help others.

Dann-Payne was already an employee of Indiana Regional Medical Center (IRMC) before the pandemic occurred. She has a part-time position at IRMC’s Institute for Healthy Living and Corporate Wellness as a registered dietitian nutritionist. When the pandemic struck, IRMC decided its employees would act as screeners for various facilities.

IRMC officials reassigned DannPayne and other employees to screen people 25 to 30 hours a week.

Dann-Payne has spent the past few weeks screening people who come into the IRMC in accordance with the COVID-19 regulations. She helps patients who come to IRMC seeking treatment and those who think they may have the virus based on signs and symptoms.

“I feel like it’s become easier over time, as we have all learned more about COVID-19,” Dann-Payne said. “At first, it was

somewhat different since it was such a new process for everyone, but our screening instructions or algorithm has not changed since March 30, so that has helped with the process.”

Although it’s a dangerous job being on the frontline helping people who may already be sick with the virus, it’s a responsibility Dann-Payne is taking on because she wants to help the greater Indiana community.

“I believe screening anyone who enters the hospital facilities protects the patients within our facilities,” she said, “along with our employees, and therefore our community.”

Like most establishments, IRMC has regulations for its patients and anyone who enters the facility to wear a mask. If they don’t have one, IRMC provides one.

Although the job itself puts employees like Dann-Payne at risk for catching the virus, she believes the community and people in general are grateful and appreciative of the work she and other health professionals are providing.

“Most patients are thankful for what we are doing,” she said.

“The community has shown so much support toward the hospital. I also feel that over time, people have become more under-

standing of the situation as more and more people arrive wearing masks.”

The outreach IRMC has provided toward larger companies, screening workers in the county, has been positive.

“Most employees are receptive, understanding and appreciative of the screening work we are doing,” Dann-Payne said. “I think it provides some reassurance for people.”

Dann-Payne provided information on what to do if individuals feel they may be ill with the coronavirus.

“If individuals feel that they may be ill with COVID-19, they should contact their physician,” she said. “If they do not have a physician, the PA Health Department has a phone number for people to call for advice.

“From there, their physician may order them a COVID-19 test dependent on symptoms.

However, if individuals arrive at the hospital with a fever, cough or shortness of breath, they are sent to a ‘respiratory screening tent’ that is located outside the emergency department, and from there, medical experts determine if an individual requires a COVID-19 test.”

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And everyone should follow health and safety protocols from the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that say to wear masks in public spaces and practice social distancing, as well as wash hands frequently.

Dann-Payne is an instructor for IUP’s department of food and nutrition and is the sports perfor-

mance nutrition services director.

Like most professors, is teaching all her courses online.

“I feel for everyone right now including patients and my students,” Dann-Payne said.

“I’m trying my best to be as empathetic as I can be since I just don’t know how they may feel or what they’re going through or managing. I’m trying to be as helpful and as I can be for my students. This situation has been challenging for everyone.”

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(COVID-19 Diaries iBlog) The Elephant in the Room series has focused on bringing inclusion and diversity to students for more than two years.

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The Elephant in the Room series normally holds in-person workshops that shine light on “conversation and action for diversity, equity and inclusion in the classroom and beyond,” according to its website, but program organizers are now looking at different ways to connect with students and faculty now that the only way to reach them is through online means.

What would have been workshops is now a regular blog that organizers are hoping will be able to host the conversations that would have come up at the workshops. The Elephant’s COVID-19 Diary kicked off with its first post April 13: “…most of all, this is about you. What you think and what you feel. This is your community. So, before we get down to business, how are you?”

So far, this post has been met with nine responses, many of which followed common themes Melanie Duncan, a sociology professor who is helping to facilitate the Elephant’s Diary, hears from her students. Participants commented on the struggles they’re facing and the emotions that have manifested over the first few weeks of being stuck inside.

What organizers are hoping to find through the blog are topics that many people wouldn’t initially think about because they might not be going through the struggles personally.

“Someone wrote about the fact that the reason why they didn’t want to go online as an

instructor is that it’s very difficult for them to be on the computer, and so they’re using dictation software,” Duncan said. “There are things that we don’t even think of when we talk about all of this that make it more challenging, not just from the student side of things.”

Elephant’s Diary is meant to be a place where the IUP community can go to talk about how these topics are exacerbated by COVID-19.

“We want to see with all of this, how can we change IUP?” Duncan said. “I say that as ‘how can we come out better from all of this? What are the lessons we’re learning? And how can Elephant help those conversations?’”

The blog encourages responses to its posts, as the whole point is to spark conversation.

Commenters can remain anonymous if they so choose.

Duncan said many of the people who are commenting right now are professors, but she hopes more students will want to engage in the conversations as time goes on. Her team is working to create an Twitter page to better connect with students on the platforms they’re already using.

Duncan and Dr. Lynn Botelho, director of the women’s and gender studies department, are taking the lead on the blog, but behind the scenes, an entire committee has helped to shape the Elephant series, including Stephanie Taylor-Davis, director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, and graduate assistant Angie Prencipe.

“Where [The Elephant in the Room] started and where it’s

been for the last two years is really trying to address some of the conversations we don’t have on campus and really talking about diversity, equity and inclusion, and not just from the perspective of in the classroom,” Duncan said. “And in this instance, how do all these DEI issues impact students, faculty, staff and community members.”

Women’s and Gender Studies and the Center for Teaching Excellence partnered together to host The Elephant in the Room series. The Elephant in the Room organizers wanted the workshops to focus on participants gaining skills that could then lead to application around campus.

“We often have a very narrow focus of [DEI], and there’s so much that’s under that DEI umbrella,” Duncan said. “There are things that predate COVID-19 when you talk about accessibility, when you talk about faith, when you talk about anything like that.”

Two spring The Elephant in the Room events that got postponed are “Strategies to Intentionally Use Group Work to Transform Hate, Facilitate Courageous Conversations and Enhance Community Building” with IUP’s Brittany Polard, Lorraine Guth and Hopeton Bailey and “Tools for Dialogue” with IUP’s Rachel DeSoto-Jackson.

The new dates for these events will be announced soon, according to The Elephant in the Room IUP page.

The Elephant’s COVID-19 Diary can be found at iblog.iup.edu/theelephantscovid-19diaries/2020/04/13/thecovid-19-diaries-elephant-style/.

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Charter companies want in on COVID-19 recovery package JESSICA WEHRMAN CQ-Roll Call TNS

Lawmakers allocated $61 billion to airlines, $25 billion to transit and $1 billion for Amtrak in the roughly $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package, but the motorcoach industry, which includes charter buses, private transit buses and passenger buses, said it has been largely ignored.

And if their industry goes under, they argue, an important and often overlooked leg of the nation's transportation system will disappear.

They've watched their ridership bottom out since the coronavirus pandemic began spreading in the United States in mid-March, and now they're asking for $15 billion – $10 billion in grants, $5 billion in loans – to help them survive the crisis.

"When the other modes don't run, we do," said Peter J. Pantuso, president and CEO of the American Bus Association, which represents 3,000 companies that

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employ about 100,000 people.

When transit and Amtrak break down, buses are often the fallback mode of transportation, he said. And after 9/11, he said, buses helped transport people after the airline system broke down. "We're there and available when other modes can't be or aren't."

His organization represents private transit buses that ferry commuters into cities from the suburbs charter buses and scheduled bus lines, such as Greyhound.

His association has sounded the alarm since the early days of the pandemic, even before Congress took up the $2 trillion

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bill that provided aid to other transportation services.

Now, it's hoping either for the Treasury Department to allocate some of that $2 trillion to the industry or to include it in whatever recovery legislation Congress passes next.

On Friday, the association received a hefty boost, when House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal, D-Mass., and House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter A. DeFazio, D-Ore., sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell asking them to carve out $5 billion in loans from the coronavirus spending measure passed March 27 for the motor coach industry. The law included $454 billion in loans to help struggling companies.

The lawmakers wrote that if the "bus companies go out of business, hundreds of thousands of travelers who rely on buses to get to their jobs and reach vital services, intermodal connections and educational facilities, especially in rural America, risk losing what may be their only means of transportation."

Pantuso said the letter helped the industry make its case, but "if we want to see the industry survive at some level – and I don't think it will ever be the same as it was before March – we need both grants and loans."

"If we want to keep the industry alive at some level, just

adding loan debt doesn't work for everyone," he said.

Doug Anderson, president of the Greenville, Pa.-based Anderson Coach and Travel, typically does his best business this time of year: College sports travel and student field trips to Washington make spring the most lucrative time of the year.

But not this year.

The company hasn't had a vehicle on the road since March 15. "We have not moved a wheel in the month of April," Anderson said. "Nor do we anticipate moving any wheels in the month of May." The company has had $4 million worth of cancellations to date. He has had to lay off all but seven of the company's 277 employees.

Were a bus operator to use social distancing measures in a 56-passenger bus, it could just accommodate 14 people, Anderson said. A college football team that historically needed three buses would need 10 instead.

He's not sure when or if the business will ever be the same.

Still, "we're hoping we can return to some sort of normal, whatever normal might be, in late summer or early fall," he said.

"We're like the hotel and the rest of the hospitality businesses," he said. "We're trying to weave our way through how we can get customer confidence back enough to allow them to feel comfortable sitting in a motor coach."

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IUP announced the new dates for spring commencement, which was postponed to promote safety during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Following a poll sent to graduating students, spring commencement will now take place on Sept.

12, and Sept. 13 will be used as an extra day in case original ceremonies limit the number of attendees due to social distancing.

There will be two undergraduate ceremonies at 9

a.m. and 1 p.m., and for graduate students at 5 p.m.

Students will be divided up by college, which means no departmental or college ceremonies will occur.

If in-person commencement restrictions are still in effect, commencement will occur in December.

The Commencement Committee announced that a finalized commencement schedule will be released in two weeks.

No one was inside a suspected stolen car found submerged in a Unity lake on Tuesday morning, according to Crabtree Fire Chief Bill Watkins.

Firefighters, paramedics and state police responded to Dom Lake near Crabtree shortly before 10 a.m. when the vehicle was spotted, according to a Westmoreland 911 dispatcher. The car was pulled from the water just before noon.

The lake, located along Latrobe Crabtree Road, connects to Crabtree Creek.

Eugene Lewis, who lives in the

nearby village of Greenwalt, said the Buick Century belongs to his son, James.

"James' wife got up at 7 to go to work at the Giant Eagle in Latrobe and their car was gone," Lewis said.

They soon learned from police that the car was in the lake. Another of the couple's vehicles also was rummaged through and some items were stolen, Lewis said.

Lewis said his son was up until about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday and believes the car was stolen after he fell asleep.

A neighbor spotted the car in the water.

State police in Greensburg are investigating.

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Even before the coronavirus swept through Latin America and the Caribbean, the region was ailing. With sluggish commodity prices and massive debt, economic growth was anemic – averaging just 0.7 percent annually over the last six years.

The coronavirus is threatening to turn that economic malaise into a full-blown disaster.

"Latin America has not been doing well over the last half decade," said Jerry Haar, an international business professor at Florida International University.

"This is like a kick to the groin to someone who already has a double hernia."

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean has been scrambling to revise its economic forecasts downward as the severity of the pandemic has come into view. The group now expects South American economies to shrink 5.2 percent this year, the Caribbean to contract 2.5 percent, and Central American GDP to slump 2.3 percent.

Overall, the region could see its economy fall by 5.3 percent.

"The effects of COVID-19 will cause the biggest recession that the region has suffered since 1914 and 1930," ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Barcena said this week. "A sharp increase in unemployment is forecast, with negative effects on poverty and inequality."

The usually staid World Bank described the region's situation as going from "lackluster to calamitous."

It comes as no surprise that the pandemic will be particularly cruel to countries that were already suffering. Venezuela – the region's oil-addicted basket case, which is also facing tough Washington sanctions – is expected to see its economy collapse an additional 18 percent this year. Argentina and Ecuador, both burdened by huge debt, will see their economies shrink by 6.5 percent, according to ECLAC projections.

Haiti was still recovering from last year's political turmoil that forced businesses to shutter for weeks at a time when the coronavirus hit. Since March, the country has been on lockdown, and the ECLAC now expects the hemisphere's poorest nation to see an economic contraction of

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3.1 percent.

Bernard Millien, the owner of a 16-room bed and breakfast and a men's clothing store in Haiti's capital, said the crisis would be nothing short of "catastrophic" for Haiti – and for him personally.

"People do not come to buy anymore," he said of his clothing shop. "You may see one person in three days, and they are buying $100 worth of merchandise from me."

"No one wants to buy clothes, only food," Millien said. "If you buy clothes, where are you going to go?"

Things are even worse for his bed-and-breakfast, where he has no guests but is forced to keep seven employees on payroll to keep the business from being ransacked or vandalized. Other hoteliers have also temporarily closed.

"Our economy in Haiti depends on the U.S., and with so many people losing their jobs, they are not going to send money to Haiti anymore," he said from Miami, where he has been stranded since the pandemic shut down airports. "Meanwhile, the local economy is so poor, it's affecting everyone."

The tiny South American nation of Ecuador has 11,183 coronavirus cases – more than any other nation in the region except Brazil and Chile.

Despite being a producer of crude oil, the country is facing the pandemic with an empty war chest, said Jose Hidalgo, an economist and general director for Ecuador's Corporation for De-

velopment Studies, a think tank.

"We didn't have conservative fiscal policies like Peru, for example, so we don't have a single dollar saved. ... We didn't save anything during the golden era" of high commodity prices, he said.

Now oil prices and tax revenue have collapsed just as the country's health costs are soaring.

"Ecuador, in particular, is the most vulnerable country in the region along with Venezuela, and we're getting hit from all sides," he said. President Lenin Moreno is pushing for tax increases on the wealthiest to get through the crisis, but he's facing push-back.

"We all want the government to be able to subsidize the payroll of companies ... or provide direct transfers to the neediest without more taxes," Hidalgo said. "But with Ecuador's fiscal situation that's not possible."

In many ways, Latin America and the Caribbean are stuck in an unenviable middle: too poor to effectively respond to the crisis but too rich to take advantage of some global initiatives.

Earlier this month, finance ministers of the G20 – the world's largest economies – agreed to halt debt collection through the end of the year for the world's poorest and least developed countries. That move is expected to free up some $20 billion that would otherwise go to debt payments.

But the only country in the region that might benefit from that measure is Haiti, said Eric LeCompte, a United Nations finance expert and director of the

Jubilee USA Network, a religious development group that has been a longtime advocate for debt forgiveness.

"Many of the Latin American and Caribbean countries don't qualify for any type of debt relief measure because they are considered too wealthy," LeCompte said. "We'd like to see it extended to Ecuador, Bolivia, Grenada, Jamaica and other countries that could benefit from a debt standstill but need even more relief."

And even what might be offered to Haiti isn't enough, donors said, given the nation's fragile economic state. During a recent emergency meeting of the CARICOM bloc of Caribbean countries, leaders agreed to lobby the G20 and international finance institutions for full-fledged debt write-offs and emergency funding for the rest of the Caribbean.

Also this month, the International Monetary Fund began offering below-market-rate emergency loans that might allow some countries to bolster health services or provide U.S.-style stimulus packages to keep workers employed.

For many nations it's simply piling debt on top of unsustainable debt, LeCompte said, but "it's better than nothing."

TYRANT FUEL? The looming COVID-19 economic crisis could also have deep political implications. Almost half of all workers in Latin America are part of the informal economy – living hand to mouth. For them, the lockdowns and quarantines

have been devastating. Already in places like Haiti, Colombia, Venezuela and Bolivia, there have been protests – sometimes near riots – against the measures. The uncertainty, desperation and anger are creating a toxic stew.

FIU's Haar said he fears that gangs will see their ranks swell in places where they're already powerful like Honduras and El Salvador.

"If you're marginally employed as it is ... and your country doesn't have a social safety net, what's going to happen?" he asked.

In other hard-hit countries, the economic malaise makes them "ripe for the pickings for a demagogue to come to power."

To complicate matters, no one knows how long the economic crisis will last.

Luis Fernando Nieto is the general manager of Don Eusebio Flowers outside of Bogota, Colombia, which usually produces about 50 million stems a year – 95 percent destined for export.

His company started feeling the effects of COVID-19 early this year as buyers in China, Japan and Korea got hit by the virus. Things only got worse as the COVID-19 crisis moved west.

"In Europe, business has died completely – Spain, Germany, Holland, Italy – (buying) in those countries shut down almost 100 percent," he said. "And now, for the last two weeks, we're feeling the whiplash from the United States."

Production is at about 30 to 40 percent of normal, and the company has had to reduce hours for its employees. Nieto said Colombian flower farmers were hopeful that the Asian markets might recover soon, but have been alarmed by news of fresh coronavirus outbreaks in China and Japan.

"The situation is incredibly complicated – and I don't think we're going to see a rapid recovery," he said. "We're selling a product that's not necessary for survival, we're not like bread, milk or meat."

Even if the world rushes out a vaccine or effective treatment against COVID-19, consumers are likely to be spooked for some time, Haar said. And that will be particularly true for Latin America.

"People are not going to just forget about this and go out and spend," he predicted. "I don't see a spark and a quick recovery – I see a slow crawl out of this."

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New normal shows dark side of everyday activities It’s been more than a week since Gov. Tom Wolf’s order that when entering a public store, one must wear a face covering of some sort that covers your nose and mouth and stays in place by itself.

I’ll be the first to admit, when news first came of the coronavirus, I rolled my eyes. OK, so it was just a bigger strain of the flu. It’s flu season. Big deal. But as time went on, the information that was being brought to light started planting seeds of doubt in my mind. Maybe this wasn’t “just a harsher strain of the flu” like I thought. Maybe this was something different.

Last week, I rolled my eyes again when I heard about the new order that face coverings are a must. How could they enforce that? Kick people out of stores? Give people fines?

Apparently, yes to both.

The first trip I made to the store after the order was invoked was with my mother. We went to Walmart; a store that is usually filled with noise of people talking, the loudspeaker, music, carts rolling, wheels squeaking, babies crying, toddlers whining.

What a wonderful place.

But this time, things were different. There’s a feeling in the air. Yes, we’re all in this together, but if one sneeze, cough, clearing of throat or sniffle is heard, it’s like an invisible scarlet letter is attached to that person. “Oh no, stay away, how dare they come out in public.”

In Walmart itself, it’s quiet. Too quiet. It’s as if even babies and children who may be too young to understand know that something has changed in their world.

Now, their noses and mouths must be covered. Now they can’t see people’s faces clearly. Things have changed drastically.

My mother, who is deaf, didn’t notice a difference in the noise until I told her. Even the music on the loudspeaker was lowered.

Barely any voices were heard.

Looks were exchanged between strangers with eyes and nods of the head and gestures. Rather than hugs, handshakes and approaching someone you know,

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(Facebook) Since Gov. Tom Wolf (top) made it manditory to cover your face in public, stores such as Walmart (bottom) have sounded quiet as you walk in.This has led many customers watching their movement more carefully to avoid getting sick.

everyone kept their distance from everyone else.

An invisible plague seems to have fallen and, in a way, it has.

The coronavirus has changed our normalcy, as seems to be the new slogan. Our “new normal” is one of quiet and distancing.

The news says that this could

be over by the summer, that heat may weaken or kill the strain. The CDC is insistent that social distancing will help curve those infected. This is all going to help us in the end.

As someone who thrives on physicality and human interaction, the very first idea of social

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distancing concerned me. The first day it hit home with me was cleaning off my desk at The Penn. I didn’t expect to do that until June, and here I was, in March, cleaning off my desk I’d grown to love. I was taking home little notes co-workers had given me, my snacks, pens, everything.

And for the first time, I hated something invisible. I hated this “new normal.”

Now, I still do. Yes, it is a germ that has no feelings, no preferences, no emotions, but I hate it all the same. Some of my close friends live in high-risk, high-infected areas, and it scares me. While this “new normal” of constantly wearing a mask in public is probably going to be around for a while, it doesn’t make it any less painful or frustrating.

My mother can read lips somewhat in order to communicate. Now, I need to go with her places in order to interpret, otherwise she has no form of communication with another person. Our last trip to the store, a little boy asked his mother why everyone “looked funny” and why he had to wear a mask. He couldn’t have been more than four or five.

This is challenging for all of us. We’re all in this together, yes, but we’re also distancing ourselves farther and farther away. This is going to change the way we view each other for years to come. Whether someone is completely healthy or may have a slight sniffle, everyone is going to be wearing an invisible scarlet letter to everyone else.

While I’m still the first to say that the virus has been blown out of proportion, I’m also realizing this can’t be ignored anymore. Sometimes we have to do things we don’t want to. It’s part of growing up. And while I hate the fact that simply going to the store means I have to wear a mask, there’s nothing that can change it.

I hate the quiet, and I can’t wait for the day campus is filled with students again, the stores are loud with whining children and restaurants have long lines that frustrate me because all I want is a strawberry milkshake and French fries. And when that day comes, all of this will have been worth it.

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(Facebook / Twitter) BACCHUS Bingo Night is usually held in the Hadley Union Building, however, with virtual events came a virtual Bingo Night, the first of which happened April 10.

BACCHUS, ATOD Office, end year with Bingo Night ANNA MECHLING Lead News Writer A.Mechling@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

This article contains opinion.

It is nearing the end of April, which means May is quickly coming around the corner. Finals are scheduled starting starting Tuesday and ending May 8.

There are a few weeks left of the remainder of the spring semester, but many services, resources and organizations are still operating and have different activities and events planned.

A popular event on campus that occurred on most Fridays was BACCHUS Bingo.

Bingo was hosted by the Al-

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cohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Office (ATOD) and was held in the Hadley Union Building’s (HUB) Ohio Room from 10 – 11 p.m.

Bingo wasn’t always held every Friday, but BACCHUS Bingo had a schedule they posted on social media to let students know when they could come, interact with other students, play bingo and potentially win prizes.

“Bingo is a very popular event typically attracting 100 or more students,” said Ann Sesti, ATOD director. “So, when the COVID-19 issues caused the university to move to online classes, we decided to also move bingo online.

“We felt it would be a way to provide some stress relief knowing

that with everything going on, students could benefit from something they enjoyed. We kept the original day, Friday, but moved the time to 8 p.m.”

Although there’s less participation for online bingo, there’s still a small number of dedicated students who participate each week.

“We've had a small but dedicated group of 15 participate each week,” Sesti said. “Unfortunately, there are no prizes, just fun and bragging rights of winning.”

ATOD wanted to continue the opportunity for students to participate in the widely popular event, even if it had to be altered

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to an online platform.

“The main challenge of moving bingo to a virtual game was how do you get bingo cards out to people,” Sesti said. “After researching, we found an online source where you can generate and email bingo cards to participants.

“That is why students need to email atod-oasis@iup.edu to play.

They are sent their bingo card and the login instructions.”

Although the platform is different and there are no longer prizes available to those who win, what remains the same is the host of bingo.

“What is the same is that Destiny Haynes is still hosting,” Sesti

said. “Destiny continues to do a phenomenal job.”

Just like STATIC and the Center for Multicultural Student Leadership and Engagement (MCSLE), ATOD are trying to ensure students have opportunities to be a part of activities they were a engaged in prior to the quarantine.

Virtual bingo started on Friday, April 10 and will have its last event Friday.

Students who are interested in virtual BACCHUS Bingo on Fridays at 8 p.m. can email atod-oasis@iup.edu. Students must email ATOD by 6 p.m. in order to receive a virtual bingo card and specific sign-in instructions.

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Celebrities honor graduating seniors with speeches from home ANNA MECHLING Lead News Writer A.Mechling@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

This article contains opinion.

It’s been an interesting semester, especially coming from a graduating senior.

The world has been in a financial and health crisis since COVID-19 took over. Although many countries are slowly trying to get back to a normal life soon, many businesses and schools have been operating online and remotely.

For some colleges, there will be no graduation ceremony, a postponed graduation ceremony or an online graduation ceremony.

I’ve always been the kind of person who wanted that day to celebrate my accomplishments.

I’ve worked so hard these past four years, and I want to have the honor to get dressed up, celebrate and invite my family to the ceremony and walk the stage. For me, it’s a personal accomplishment that I want to celebrate.

Walking down the stage means looking back at the past four years and saying to myself “Wow, you really accomplished a lot and worked so hard.”

For many universities and colleges, even those who have decided to postpone their graduation ceremonies, they won’t happen for a few months. Many seniors were devastated as half of their final semester disappeared in the blink of an eye, but as people are aware, there’s been an act of togetherness and community that’s been occurring throughout this worldwide pandemic.

According to CNN, celebrities are reaching out and want to sign up to do virtual commencement ceremony speeches.

The intended way of making this happen will be by recorded podcasts.

Some big-name celebrities who wish to make seniors’ virtual graduation ceremonies less depressing include: Jimmy Fallon, Halsey, John Legend and Hillary Clinton. They have all signed up to give inspirational speeches to the class of 2020 on a new podcast from iHeartMedia.

According to Conal Byrne, iHeartPodcast Network president, “Commencement: Speeches for the class of 2020”

(Facebook) Comedienne Chelsea Handler (left) and country music star Tim McGraw (right) plan to take part in the Celebrity Commencement speeches from home.

is expected to debut on May 15.

National Graduation Day is May 17.

High school and college seniors are always in need of inspiration, reassurance and life advice as they head into the next chapter of their lives, Byrne said. And that’s especially true this year because this podcast will bring together some of the most experienced and inspiring people in the country today to celebrate the resilience, strength and accomplishments of this year’s graduates.

Additionally, there are many other well-known celebrities who have signed up for to speak, which include Chelsea Handler, Eli Manning, Khalid and Tim McGraw, to name a few.

Celebrities giving speeches at commencement ceremonies is nothing new.

Many celebrities have gone back to their alma mater to speak to graduating classes.

According to Rolling Stone, in 2012, Oprah Winfrey went back to her alma mater, Spelman College, and spoke about empowerment in spirituality and self-possession and letting excellence be our own personal brands.

Additionally, other celebrities like Will Ferrell, Hillary Clinton and Robert De Niro gave speeches to the graduating classes at their alma maters in the past.

Although it’s not the same as an in-person graduation ceremony, I think it’s truly inspirational and a caring gesture to speak at a special commencement podcast.

Many people are trying their

best to continue to work or do schoolwork from home, and some people are in financial crises. Therefore, many seniors are aware of the dangers having an in-person graduation ceremony.

Seniors are lost just like every-

one else, trying to look at the light at the end of the tunnel, hoping that one day, after things go back to normal and the virus lessens, we will get a day to celebrate our accomplishments with our friends and families.

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‘Grey’s Anatomy’ actress, dancer offers online dance classes ANNA MECHLING Lead News Writer A.Mechling@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

The multi-talented actor, choreographer, dancer, director, producer and singer-songwriter Debbie Allen brought dance into people’s homes with a series of Zoom dance classes.

The classes, called “Debbie Allen Dance Academy Virtual Dance World,” began April 2.

Along with the Zoom classes, she has Instagram Live dance classes and asks those who participate in the Zoom classes to donate $3.

According to CNN, her first class was viewed more than 115,000 times.

Allen’s daughter, Vivian Nixon, has been helping her mother with the Zoom dance classes, and a video Nixon did that was targeted toward children was viewed more than 354,000 times.

On March 12, Allen’s Dance Academy studio closed because of concerns of COVID-19. Also on that day, production was suspended on “Grey’s Anatomy.”

(Facebook) Debbie Allen is a woman of many talents, including dance and acting.

Allen is both an actor and an executive producer on the show.

The virtual Zoom dance classes have a series of events scheduled on Allen’s Instagram and Dance Academy events website.

Like many celebrities, Allen found a way to connect with her fans and people who are staying at home.

“A lot of people need it, and it was a healing, releasing and motivational experience for so many people,” Allen told CNN. “I was just grateful to share what I do and

know that it could be essential.

“I know dance is not listed on the list of what’s essential right now, but you know, this kind of artistic spirit, it really is.”

Allen’s virtual dance sessions expand to other parts of the world too, including viewers from countries like Brazil and India.

Although some classes are aimed toward certain age groups, Allen tries to make her classes and dances accessible to everyone, regardless of age, dance levels, experience or physical skill.

Allen has received positive feedback from her dance classes, receiving posts from her fans and people on Instagram. She has also received videos from people of all ages dancing.

“Videos have been sent to me from little babies dancing,” Allen told CNN, “people who are serious dancers, people who just want to move, and, you know, guys who have bodies that look like they are the next Thor or Black Panther.”

Allen created these classes to connect with people who have been self-isolating in their homes for weeks, trying to create a community and a continued space for self-expression.

“We are all trying to heal, whether we have this virus right now or not,” Allen told CNN. “We are connected – every last one of us. Everyone knows somebody that has it. Everyone is in a community that is threatened by it.

There’s not a place on this planet that is free of it.

“So this dance is an expression of joy and freedom and self-will.

You are willing yourself to be powerful and you are willing yourself to breathe and be free and to face

any change.”

Allen isn’t the only celebrity who has tried to connect with their fans in times of self-isolation and quarantine.

Celebrities like Chris Hemsworth, Lizzo and Coach Monica Aldama from Netflix’s “Cheer” have made health and wellness videos.

In addition, like many popular networks and television shows, although it’s not live, SNL has continued to put out content to its viewers, making the sketches in their homes and being creative using programs like Zoom to do sketches “together.”

Allen is well-known as being a dancer and choreographer and opened the Debbie Allen Dance Academy in Los Angeles in 2001.

She also was a judge and choreographer on the hit dance series “So You Think You Can Dance” for many seasons.

She is also a successful actress, best known for role as Lydia Grant in the musical-drama television 1982-87 series “Frame.”

Allen’s most recent role is on “Grey’s Anatomy,” playing Catherine Avery.

Boy band may ‘light up the world like nobody else’ with possible reunion OLIVIA CARBONE

Staff Writer O.C.Carbone@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

2020 has been a very interesting year, but it has also been the year of reunions. From “Friends” to the Jonas Brothers and more, many people are feeling nostalgic at the moment.

A boy band who swept the nation known as One Direction may have a reunion in the works.

It’s been 10 years since the band was formed by Simon Cowell on the singing competition show “The X Factor.” They finished third in the competition and went on to make hit singles like “What Makes You Beautiful” and “Story of My Life.”

One Direction was made up of Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Liam Payne. Malik departed from the group in 2015.

According to capitalfm.com, Payne has been spilling the beans about a potential reunion.

Tomlinson told Payne he would “egg his house” if he continued to ruin the “surprise” for everyone.

“I can’t tell any plans at the mo-

(Facebook) One Direction members, from front to back, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles and Liam Payne.

ment because Louis will actually kill me,” Payne said in the interview. “The lines of communication are back open again. This pause with coronavirus going on and the fact we’ve got this massive anniversary coming up all play together.”

He went on to say that it was nice to be speaking to everybody again.

Horan, with Payne, proved a reunion was in the works when they hosted an Instagram Live chat

earlier in the week.

According to CNN, all the members are in London trying to arrange a FaceTime meet-up.

While the world is put on pause, this would be a perfect time for them to release new material without anyone knowing about it.

One of the questions on everyone’s mind is if Malik will return for the reunion.

According to CNN, the other four members followed Malik on social media again for the first time

in years, but that’s all we know.

Since 2015, all the boys have went on to release solo material.

Payne released his first album and Styles released “Fine Line” in 2019. Horan, Tomlinson and Malik have released successful songs as well.

One Direction’s first album, “Up All Night” was released in 2011 and contained the hit single “What Makes You Beautiful.” The song became the best-selling single in Sony Music history.

Along with that record, the band would go on to break numerous records, win multiple awards and released chart-topping hits.

The band went on hiatus in January 2016, allowing the members to pursure other projects.

Many Directioners around the world are very excited for this reunion. But some have mixed emotions about it.

“I feel like I’ve heard about that happening somewhere,” said Emily Encarnacion (freshman, nursing). “I was more of a Justin Bieber fan back in the day. I have my One Direction moments when I just have the urge to blast old songs.”

Others are looking forward to the band’s reunion due to the music alone.

“Only if they play their old songs,” said Alexis Smith (junior, biology).

In an interview with Insider, Tomlinson said a reunion was “inevitable.”

“I don’t know when, we don’t know when. I think we’d be stupid not to get back together.”

One Direction’s 10-year anniversary is July 23.

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Quarantine time is the perfect time for anime MARTY WEAVER Copy Editor zglz@iup.edu @mrweavs This article contains opinion.

Since we’re all stuck inside and undoubtedly going a little stir-crazy, why not use this time to try something new?

By “something new,” I mean watching anime.

I am by no means an expert, and my anime repertoire is admittedly limited. That being said, I can give y’all some tips on where to start. This article will address some common questions newbies have about anime, and look out for my personal recommendations in next week’s issue.

Isn’t anime for children?

Not at all. A significant portion of modern literature in Japan takes the form of manga (in layperson’s terms, the written form of anime). People of all ages in Japan read manga and watch anime, and in fact, the idea that animation is meant for children is a very Western idea.

All the anime I’ve ever watched is certainly not “meant for kids.” There’s violence, politics, gender issues and body horror, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Don’t let society’s view on anime deter you. You aren’t immature or weird for watching it.

I have personally driven a stake into the heart of cringe culture, so feel free to watch whatever you want.

Where can I watch anime?

Netflix has a fair amount of anime, and I’m going to assume that’s also true for other streaming services. However, those selections could be limited.

I use Crunchyroll for all my anime needs. It’s a website that serves as a sort of database for anime and manga. The subtitles are well-done and reliable, and if a series is ongoing, new episodes will become available on Crunchyroll within hours of their release in Japan, complete with subtitles.

(Facebook) Crunchyroll is a streaming service that offers different types of Anime, including Manga. Another streaming service, Netflix, offers Anime, including the film “Full Metal Alchemist.”

You can watch most anime on there for free with commercials, or you can shell out a few bucks a month to watch everything ad-free.

Dubs vs. Subs The classic anime conundrum: Should you watch the English dubbed version or the original Japanese voice-acting with subtitles?

I’m going to give somewhat of a controversial opinion and say that it doesn’t really matter.

Especially if you’re starting out, dubs can be really helpful to

understand some of the pacing.

Sure, some dubs are better than others, and I’m sure you’ve seen examples of questionable dubjobs.

I’ve gotten into subs fairly recently. I’m one of those people that has to have about fifty different things going on at once, so it was difficult to get into subs because I kept getting distracted from reading. Thankfully I started knitting a few months ago, so I can keep my hands busy while still looking at the screen.

Again, it really doesn’t matter.

If dubs help you get into anime, that’s great.

Isn’t there weird stuff in anime?

Depends on the anime. There are slice-of-life shows that don’t have any supernatural/fantasy elements or questionable morals, and there are plenty of shows that are the polar opposite (lookin’ at you, “Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure,” which is one of my favorites).

“Anime” just refers to the medium and is actually not a genre in and of itself. Technically speaking, anime also isn’t solely Japanese. The term can apply to a fair amount of East Asian

animation. Don’t let stereotypes cloud your judgement; there is an anime for every person.

Last but certainly not least, don’t let weirdos on the internet ruin anime for you. In fact, I’ve found that not interacting with fanbases makes anime much more enjoyable. You don’t need a bunch of fandom “discourse” to dampen your spirits during this time.

Let yourself explore new things, and I’ll see y’all next week with a laundry list of anime to check out.

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(Facebook) “The Andromeda Strain” (left) and “The Shining” (right) are two movies to satisfy your craving for thriller and suspense while in quarantine.

Watch others be quarantined with these movies EMILY LOOSE

Staff Writer E.D.Loose@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

This article contains opinion.

Right now, all of us are trying not to feel anxious from the current pandemic, so we are finding ways to keep ourselves occupied.

If you are like me, however, you want to watch movies that discuss situations similar to our own.

To keep you in the pessimistic spirit and to help you pass time, I have compiled a list of my favorite pandemic (and quarantine) films.

film sees the East Coast taken over by a zombie infestation. The zombies eat, kill or turn anyone that they come into contact with. It becomes so bad that the U.S. Army must get involved. Throughout the movie, we follow one man and his journey to survive the attack.

Terrifying for its time, the movie is somewhat cheesy, but still interesting to watch. Once you start with this one, I recommend watching the whole series. In fact, “Dawn of the Dead” was filmed at the Monroeville Mall in our area.

Romero is beloved for his films, so if you have yet to see them, check them out.

“Night of the Living Dead” (1968)

“The Andromeda Strain” (1971)

Zombie movies as a whole could be added to this list, but this is one of the classics. As it goes, being bitten by a zombie will turn any person into one as well. This would cause panic that twists into a pandemic and staying away from anyone that you can.

George A. Romero’s first film in “The Living Dead” franchise, this

This film is lesser known than others on the list, but does go into some important aspects regarding pandemics. Namely, it takes a look at how scientists try to battle viruses and find what the cause of it is.

A satellite falls in New Mexico, coming with it is an alien organism that turns its victims’ blood into powder and otherwise also makes

them go mad, committing suicide.

The scientists studying the organism soon find more answers, only to face trouble with the organism ­­­­— named Andromeda — as well as each other.

Though not the greatest film on the list, I found this to be an interesting look to how far scientists would go to find answers to diseases and problems. I feel as though we all glide over the scientists researching COVID-19 and think this film would help us think more.

“The Shining” (1980) Though this is not a film about any sort of disease or outbreak, it still works perfectly to express our time in quarantine. I myself have made jokes saying how being stuck with my family long enough would make me empathize much more with Jack Torrance.

The perfect example of “cabin fever,” this film based on the Stephen King classic follows the Torrance family as they stay in the Overlook Hotel to keep care of

it over winter. Hoping to use the time as inspiration for his writing, Jack takes a downward turn throughout the weeks, his wife and son finding themselves in similarly odd situations.

Though King did not care for Stanley Kubrick’s take on his novel, it remains a classic with many fans today. Though most of us have an idea on how the film goes, I still highly recommend it. It is the perfect chance to see what not to do during a quarantine.

Outbreak (1995) Currently one of the highest watched movies on Netflix, it is on this list for good reason. Even the name suggests it is about disease hysteria. As more cases of COVID-19 spread, the more people are paying attention to this film.

The outbreak in question is a virus known as Motaba. In the 1960s, members of the U.S. Army tried to keep it a secret, only for it later to come back 28 years later through a monkey. The virus

spreads throughout California with symptoms similar to the flu or Ebola. Panic spreads as the disease becomes worse. Despite its deadly nature, there are those who want to use the virus as weaponry.

I found this film to make me question a lot, particularly what the government and military may know and not tell us about different viruses or diseases.

This film is also one of the more plausible scenarios, as the virus in the film has so many similarities to viruses we have seen. If you want to know what all of the hype is about that it has become so popular recently, I recommend watching it.

There are many films out there that focus on pandemics and other sources of mass hysteria, but the four listed are some of my personal favorites. Once you start, you might find yourself wanting to look more into other films, or ways to survive a pandemic if it ever gets as severe as these cases.

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At a Standstill South Campus turf projects on hold JEFF HART

Lead Sports Writer J.R.Hart2@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

(Tori Garzarelli/The Penn)

The renovations at IUP baseball’s Owen J. Dougherty Field, top, are nearly complete, while IUP softball’s Ruth Podbielski Field is much further behind in its progress.

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Although significant progress has been made since renovations to the baseball and softball fields at South Campus began in mid-December, the projects have been on hold since March 12, merely weeks prior to the scheduled completion date.

Owen J. Dougherty Field, home of IUP baseball, is “a week or two of work” away from being completed, in IUP baseball coach Anthony Rebyanski’s estimation. Meanwhile, the same can’t be said for the home of IUP softball, Ruth Podbielski Field, which is much further behind.

Formerly all-natural surfaces, both fields are being upgraded with new synthetic turf fields, including pitching mounds, backstops and

foul territories. The outfields will remain natural grass, although Podbielski Field will have a turf warning track. Additionally, new home and away turf bullpens are being added behind each dugout. The project began the week of Dec. 9, and the renovations were expected to be completed by late March, according to the IUP athletic department’s news release on Dec. 30.

“We are thrilled to announce this new turf project and are looking forward to unveiling a new look on South Campus this spring,” IUP director of athletics Todd Garzarelli said at the time.

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Turf projects on hold Continued from Page 23 “As we continue to build the student-athlete experience, we feel that this project will allow our baseball and softball programs better preparation to perform at a high level and provide an IUP home field advantage.”

Other than some turf touchups and fence work in the bullpens, Dougherty Field is nearly complete. The turf has been laid, and all that remains is completing the trenches along the foul lines in the outfield where the turf and natural grass meet.

A few hundred yards away, Podbielski Field could be described as a muddy mess. Although the work has begun, the field is awaiting the foundation upon which the new turf playing surface will be laid.

Both Rebyanski and IUP softball coach Shawna Bellaud expressed confidence the projects will be completed before next season, though nobody can be certain when work will resume.

Nonetheless, both coaches still

feel the same sense of excitement about the future as they did when the project began.

“This is a great and exciting time to be part of IUP baseball,” Rebyanski said in December. “This is truly a game changer for us in many ways, especially from a recruiting standpoint. When we have a recruit on campus and they see the recent upgrades to Dougherty Field and our practice facilities, they will be excited to be part of the IUP baseball culture.”

“I am thrilled for the turf project that will upgrade Ruth Podbielski Field,” Bellaud said. “I am excited for a new, modern and specialized field for our program to be able to call ‘home.’

“It will be a great consistent surface for our players and will add to the overall student-athlete experience. The turf will give our spring schedule more flexibility and functionality which will allow us to play smarter on the field and help our student-athletes manage their academic and athletic plans.”

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Reliving the five best IUP games of 2019-20 for junior halfback Justice Evans and Shippensburg High School alumnus Adam Houser to contribute a score each.

All-American defensive back Damon Lloyd reached double digits in tackles (13), including one for loss.

Cornerback Nazir Streater continued his prolific season in the crimson and grey as he collected his PSAC-leading sixth interception by picking off Brycen Mussina in the late going.

All units were on point in the game which helped IUP defeat Shippensburg on the road and return to the postseason.

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News Editor J.C.Slebodnick@iup.edu @Jake_WIUP

Editor’s Note: This is the second of two parts reliving the best IUP games of the 2019-20 season, across all sports. Article contains opinion.

Last week, I unveiled five of the top 10 games of the year for IUP athletics. Those games highlighted the notable debuts and key victories for certain teams.

Taking it one step further, this week I will unravel the games that topped them all.

These games featured blowout victories, historic achievements and championship trophies.

No. 5: Lacrosse (March 9) IUP 21, West Virginia Wesleyan 2 Although the women’s lacrosse team completed only four scheduled games of the 2020 season, the Crimson Hawks appeared to be in mid-season form in the decimating road defeat of non-conference opponent West Virginia Wesleyan.

From the opening whistle, IUP had the upper hand in this game as the Crimson Hawks put up 14 goals in the first half, which proved to be a season-high in any half.

IUP continued its intensity through the remainder of the game, shutting out Wesleyan in the second half 7-0, and running away with a monstrous 21-2 victory.

Sophomore Victoria Kerkovich scored a career-high five goals on the day to go along with an assist and three ground balls on defense.

Also contributing to the scoring outburst was a trio of freshmen midfielders in Jenna Lund, Katie Hibinger and Maura Columbus, who had three goals apiece.

On the defensive side, Lauren Pieckneck and Carly Mansur split time in the net and tallied two saves each.

What made this game notable, aside from the individual performances, was IUP’s efficiency on offense. Limiting offensive turnovers (3) and taking advantage of draw controls (16) played a big factor in the Crimson Hawks’ second and final road game of the shortened season.

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(Teri Enciso/For IUP Sports Information) Senior Malik Miller, IUP’s second-leading scorer and one of the key cogs in the Crimson Hawks’ run to the PSAC title, is one of seven IUP players in the last 11 seasons to earn All-American honors by at least two outlets. He was named to the All-America third team by the Division II Bulletin on April 15, and he was also on the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) All-America team announced last month.

No. 4: Golf (Oct. 20) First place, PSAC Championships It’s always special bringing home hardware. It’s even more special when you have more titles than any PSAC school.

During the three-day conference championship tournament in Hershey, the IUP golf team had one of its best performances of the season, placing first and earning its 29th PSAC title in school history and the first conference title for new coach Dan Braun.

IUP shot a 53-over-par 905 on the weekend and ran away with the title, finishing 13 strokes ahead of second-place West Chester. In doing so, the Crimson Hawks saw multiple standout performances led by the trio of Shaun Fedor, Jeremy Eckenrode and Jack Buccigross.

Just a freshman, “Phenom Fedor” shot a 10-over 223 and achieved medalist honors after finishing in a three-way tie for first.

Eckenrode was just shy of finding his way into that tie, finishing fourth two strokes back with a 12-over 225.

Another freshman standout, Richie Kline, tailed Eckenrode by one stroke and tied for fifth place with a 226, while Buccigross finished 10th with a 231 as four IUP golfers nabbed Top 10 honors.

This was the metaphoric stamp on an admirable season for the IUP golf team.

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No. 3: Women’s Basketball (Jan. 29) IUP 81, Seton Hill 55 It seems that the IUP women’s basketball team does nothing except achieve excellence year-in and year-out.

The Crimson Hawks came into the season with many questions following the departure of three key players from last year’s team that made a second straight run to the Elite Eight. However, as the season progressed, IUP showed why the program as a whole defines success rather than a few star players.

This definition was cemented following a mid-season conference matchup against Seton Hill.

Entering the game with a 17win streak, IUP sought to make history that evening by winning its school-record 18th straight in front of a packed Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Conference (KCAC).

The Griffins kept the game within reach at the end of the first quarter as IUP only led by three points, but with an ignited offensive attack, which featured Natalie Myers and Courtney Alexander shooting for a combined 37 points on the night, IUP was able to make history at the KCAC. Alongside Myers and Alexander, who combined to shoot 11-for16 from 3-point range that night, Lexi Griggs collected 13 points on the night, and Justina Mascaro also reached double-digits with 10 points.

As a team, IUP shot 50 percent from the field and 48 percent from 3-point range, two of the Crimson Hawks’ strengths all season.

This victory broke the school record for consecutive wins in a season and kept IUP ranked in the top 10 in the national poll at the midpoint of the season.

No. 2: Football (Nov. 16) IUP 54, Shippensburg 24 It was a make-or-break game for IUP football as a return to the Division II playoffs hung in the balance.

After a disappointing 2018 season that saw IUP’s playoff hopes shattered in the regular-season finale at home against the Shippensburg Raiders, the Crimson Hawks sought retribution on the road in 2019.

Knowing a win would drastically increase their chances of returning to the postseason, the Crimson Hawks took full advantage of the opportunity.

The offense, headed by Quinton Maxwell, Samir Bullock and Duane Brown, posted a monstrous 580 total yards on the day – 316 rushing and 264 passing – and eight touchdowns to lead the Crimson Hawks to their 13th season of 10-plus wins and another national playoff run.

IUP took charge of the game out of the gate, and the Crimson Hawks never looked back. They outscored the Raiders 27-10 in the first half and put up 20 more points in the third quarter to blow the game open.

Maxwell commanded the aerial attack, posting all 264 passing yards and throwing four touchdowns on the day, two of them going to senior wideout JoJo Gause.

Bullock ran for 120 yards and a pair of touchdowns, leaving room

No. 1: Men’s Basketball (Mar. 8) PSAC Championship Game IUP 77, Shippensburg 59 ESPN needs a 30 for 30 on IUP men’s basketball following this season … or maybe a TPSN: Off the Court special.

The greatest game of the year goes to the IUP men’s basketball team for bringing home the hardware for the second consecutive year and capping in style a season full of changes to the team’s depth chart, game plan and atmosphere.

The Crimson Hawks knew this game wouldn’t be an easy feat, but IUP made it look effortless, building an eight-point lead at halftime and stretching it throughout the second half.

Junior guard Shawndale Jones, who was named the PSAC Tournament Most Valuable Player, scored a career-high 24 points and collected six rebounds in the championship game.

Jones scored 16 of those points in the second half, carrying IUP’s offense while its leading scorers battled foul trouble. During the PSAC tournament, he averaged 13.3 points per game while shooting 61.5 percent from the floor.

Sophomore Armoni Foster contributed to more than just the offensive side, tallying seven rebounds and four steals along with 17 points.

IUP’s defense smothered the Raiders, holding them to 27.7 percent shooting (18-for-65) from the field, including only 18.5 percent from 3-point range (5-for-27).

The win cemented IUP’s name into the NCAA Division II tournament and the Crimson Hawks second straight PSAC championship.

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Eagles’ drafting Hurts was unprecedented move On the heels of Wentz’s contract extension, timing of pick is peculiar JEFF McLANE The Philadelphia Inquirer TNS The Eagles aren’t the first team in the NFL to expend a high draft pick on a quarterback when they already had an established starter, nor are they the first to envision using him in an unconventional role on offense. But their selection of Jalen Hurts on Friday night stands alone in its peculiar timing.

Call it bold or bird-brained, no team in recent league history has drafted a quarterback in the second round or higher so soon after signing its starter to his first franchise contract extension.

There have been prospects chosen when the starter was far into his career, or had shown significant regression, or was near the end of his contract, or in one renowned case, had yet to play out his rookie deal.

But the Eagles’ drafting of Hurts with the No. 53 overall pick a year after they inked Carson Wentz to a four-year, $128 million extension is unprecedented during the salary-cap era. That doesn’t necessarily mean it was the wrong decision.

But to say it raised eyebrows across the NFL, and rankled many local fans, would be an understatement.

OF GREATER interest is how Wentz received the news. While the 27-year-old tweeted out a welcome to Hurts, he hasn’t yet been asked publicly about the newest member of the Eagles’ quarterback room.

“We have shown how we feel about Carson by our actions,” Eagles general manager Howie Roseman said. “We showed it by the amount of (draft) picks we put into him, and we showed it by the contract extension, and we believe this is a guy to lead us to our next Super Bowl championship.”

Wentz will likely say all the right things once he does hold a news conference. He is seemingly of great character and has already dealt with career setbacks – the most significant being season-end-

ing injuries the last three seasons.

But he is only human. While few could fault the Eagles for having contingencies in place should Wentz suffer yet another injury, the addition of Hurts could suggest to him that the team lacks full confidence in his durability.

The drafting of the former Oklahoma and Alabama quarterback was so far outside the box that Roseman was asked if Wentz – who has endured knee, back, and head injuries the last three years – was indeed currently healthy.

“Carson is 100 percent,” Roseman said. “He is a Pro Bowl, young quarterback that we’re totally excited about. The decision to draft Jalen Hurts is independent of Carson Wentz. This is about who we are, what we believe in, and what we think this player is about. Period.”

THE EAGLES have long invested significantly in the quarterback position. Every team does, of course, but they have previously stretched those boundaries. They drafted Kevin Kolb in the second round when they had Donovan McNabb. They acquired Michael Vick when they had both McNabb and Kolb. And they signed Nick Foles and reworked his contract when they had Wentz.

Having invested in the backup has paid off, most prominently during the 2017 season, when Foles stepped in for Wentz and led the Eagles to a Super Bowl victory.

The Eagles have also been able to flip reserves for compensation greater than their original investments (see: A.J. Feeley and Kolb).

But their record isn’t spotless, and with the current regime, there have been errors either in evaluation or instruction with free agent Chase Daniel and 2019 fifth-round pick Clayton Thorson.

“For better or worse, we are quarterback developers,” Roseman said. “We want to be a quarterback factory. We have the right people in place to do that.

No team in the NFL has benefited more from developing quarterbacks than the Eagles.”

That is up for debate, but the

When the Philadelphia Eagles drafted former Oklahoma and Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts in the second round of the NFL Draft last Friday, it raised questions around the NFL about the Eagles’ confidence in the durability of their franchise quarterback Carson Wentz.

(Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News/TNS)

Eagles wouldn’t have needed to develop so many quarterbacks if they had a guy who could sustain success over a period longer than a decade. Wentz was supposed to be that guy. He may still be.

BUT THE Patriots and Packers and other teams with Hall of Fame-caliber quarterbacks didn’t toss a highly drafted rookie into the mix until long into Tom Brady’s, Brett Favre’s, and Aaron Rodgers’ careers. Wentz hasn’t yet earned that kind of regard, but to draft Hurts so early into his career undercuts that premise.

When Rodgers was selected in the first round of the 2005 draft, Favre was 36 and entering his 15th season. When Jimmy Garoppolo was chosen in the second round in 2014, Brady was 37 and entering his 15th season. And when Jordan Love was chosen Thursday in the first round, Rodgers was 36 and entering his 16th season.

There have been younger starters with franchise contracts who watched their teams take quarterbacks with high draft picks. But Mark Sanchez had been regressing by the time the New York Jets chose Geno Smith in the second round of the 2013 draft. He also had only one guaranteed year left on his contract.

Teams have doubled down on young quarterbacks. The Chargers

memorably drafted Philip Rivers with the No. 4 overall pick when they already had Drew Brees in 2004. Brees held off Rivers for two years, before signing as a free agent with the Saints.

The Packers expended a second-rounder on Brian Brohm in 2008, three years after Rodgers and before he had even started in a game. That ended up being a wasted pick. The Redskins took Robert Griffin III with the second selection overall in the 2012 draft and followed three rounds later with Kirk Cousins.

THE CLOSEST comp to the Eagles’ circumstances could be the Ravens in 2018. Joe Flacco may have been five years older than Wentz, regressing, and near the end of his contract when Baltimore drafted Lamar Jackson with the last pick of that first round. But Jackson, like Hurts, was viewed as more than just a quarterback.

The Ravens utilized Jackson on offense – like the Saints currently do with Taysom Hill – as another dynamic weapon during his rookie season. With Flacco starting the first nine games, Jackson averaged 9.6 snaps and 4.4 touches.

Marty Mornhinweg, who returned to the Eagles this offseason as a senior assistant, was the Ravens’ offensive coordinator that season and was a resource for the

Eagles during the Hurts evaluation.

The Eagles intend to incorporate Hurts into next season’s game plan, but as coach Doug Pederson emphasized, he is a quarterback first.

And the Ravens thought the same of Jackson.

“It is a fair comp,” Pederson said Saturday of how Jackson influenced the Eagles’ decision to acquire Hurts. “Marty was obviously a part of that team that brought in Lamar Jackson. Obviously, he was a part of the evaluation process. ...

He felt very similar in Jalen as he did Lamar.”

DRAFTING A quarterback has increasingly become an all-in or toes-just-in enterprise. In the last five drafts, 20 quarterbacks have been chosen in the first round, four in the second, eight in the third, and 10 in the fourth. If you think a guy is the future, you’re willing to forfeit draft capital. If you’re not sure, you wait. Most teams don’t waste picks on prospects they only believe will be backups.

The Eagles clearly believe that Hurts will be more than a backup, and more than just a complement on offense, otherwise they wouldn’t have risked so much and set a precedent. But was it worth the gamble, especially at the expense of the most important player on your team in years?

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MLB reverses its ticket policy

NBA to allow limited workouts

BILL SHAIKIN Los Angeles Times TNS

DAN WOIKE Los Angeles Times TNS The NBA has told teams they can set a target date of May 8 to reopen their practice facilities if they play in a location where public health guidelines allow it.

“The purpose of these changes is to allow for safe and controlled environments for players to train in states that allow them to do so, and to create a process for identifying safe training options for players located in other states,” the NBA said in a statement that noted the May 8 date was fluid.

The NBA has mandated that no more than four players could be inside a facility at any time, with no head or assistant coaches present. Group activities are prohibited.

Players will be not be allowed to use public gyms.

Players must wear masks at all times inside the facility except when they’re taking part in physical activity, a source with knowledge of the memo told the Los Angeles Times. Coaches must wear gloves, and distancing must be at least 12 feet.

Teams also must designate a facility hygiene officer.

The NBA ordered practice facilities to be closed by March 20 after the suspension of play on March 11 following Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert’s testing positive for COVID-19.

(Tom Pennington/Getty Images) Kansas City Chiefs’ offensive lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, the only active NFL player who is also a medical doctor, is serving on the front lines of the COVID-19 epidemic as a doctor at a long-term care facility near his hometown of Montreal.

‘I just want to help’

NFL lineman turns focus to front lines CHUCK SCHILKEN Los Angeles Times TNS

Back in February, Laurent Duvernay-Tardif was a newly crowned Super Bowl champion, riding with his Kansas City Chiefs teammates on the top of double-decker buses along city streets lined with ecstatic fans.

It’s a scene that “is totally inconceivable right now,” Durernay-Tardif said in an essay published Monday by Sports Illustrated.

“Adding a million people in the streets? Piled up on top of each other? Drinking and cheering in subzero temps?” the offensive

lineman wrote. “It’s so wild to even think back to then, this time two months ago that feels like another lifetime.”

A few days before Super Bowl LIV, Duvernay-Tardif was asked by a reporter for his thoughts on the coronavirus outbreak in China. It wasn’t that odd of a question for the NFL’s only active player who is also a medical doctor. Duvernay-Tardif replied that he had read a little about the virus but mainly had been focused on the big game against the San Francisco 49ers.

But that focus quickly shifted.

COVID-19 became a global pandemic, and Duvernay-Tardif is on the front line as a doctor at a longterm care facility near his hometown of Montreal.

“A few days ago, health ministry officials started a campaign to recruit health care professionals, especially students in medicine and nursing,” wrote Duvernay-Tardif, who has a doctorate in medicine and master’s in surgery but hasn’t

done the residency portion of his program. “It’s now possible for me to go back and help. I had already wanted to, but when it’s real, it hits you, the gravity involved.”

After getting the Chiefs’ blessing and taking a crash refresher course, Duvernay-Tardif slept through the first round of the NFL draft Thursday night and worked his first shift the next morning. He is serving more of a nursing role right now and helping those in need in a time of crisis.

“It’s wild to think that just 10 weeks earlier I played in the biggest game in sports,” Duvernay-Tardif wrote in SI. “I was reminded of that even at the facility, when one of the people training me turned and said, ‘You’re the football player, right?’”

After Duvernay-Tardif answered yes, the trainer said, “Bro, you just won the Super Bowl.”

“Indeed,” Duvernay-Tardif replied, “and now I just want to help.”

With more than 400 major league games already called off because of the coronavirus outbreak, the league Tuesday reversed a policy that had restricted fans from widespread refunds on tickets to those games.

On a conference call, Major League Baseball informed team officials that they no longer needed to advise fans to hold onto those tickets, clearing the way for teams to announce refund policies for the games.

The change comes one week after MLB and all 30 of its teams were named as defendants in a lawsuit over the failure to refund tickets. StubHub, the league’s official resale partner, and three other ticket outfits also were named as defendants.

“While many businesses across this country have acted lawfully and ethically by providing consumers with refunds for events that will never occur during this pandemic, sometimes at the risk of bankruptcy, it remains notable that America’s pastime – baseball – is refusing to do right by its fans,” the lawsuit reads. “As stadiums remain empty for the foreseeable future, baseball fans are stuck with expensive and unusable tickets for unplayable games in the midst of this economic crisis.”

In a normal year, the regular season includes 2,430 games.

More than 400 have been called off, through the ones scheduled Tuesday. MLB has not announced a target date to start the season.