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Companies, students to pack the KCAC on Wednesday

By SAMANTHA SHEEHAN Staff Writer S.S.Sheehan@iup.edu

The Spring Career Fair provides students with employment and networking opportunities in a variety of fields.

The fair takes place in the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Wednesday There is no pre-registration necessary to attend.

There will be 101 different companies in attendance offering part-time, full-time and summer jobs. There will also be internship opportunities available.

All majors are welcome, although many of the employers attending are in business, health care, behavioral sciences, social services and law enforcement fields.

The fair is open to any class level, including alumni.

The fair is also a great networking opportunity for people,

(The Penn archives) The Career Development Center will host a career fair Wednesday in the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex.

even if they are not looking for employment, according to Jan Shellenbarger, the special events, employer relations and technology coordinator at the Career Development Center on campus.

“Any time you can do oneon-one time with employers is a plus,” Shellenbarger said.

There will also be three graduate programs, two from IUP and one from Clarion University, to speak to students about graduate school.

Students can go to the career center to polish their skills before meeting up with employers at the fair.

Supreme Court extends relief for ‘Dreamers’

By DAVID G. SAVAGE

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The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a significant defeat Monday, turning down the administration’s plea for a quick ruling on the president’s power to end special protections for so-called Dreamers.

The court’s decision not to hear the administration’s appeal immediately could keep in place a legal shield for the nearly 700,000 young immigrants for the rest of this year, and perhaps longer.

The Justice Department had sought to leap-frog the U.S. appeals courts in California and New York.

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a nationwide order by U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco that required the government to maintain for now the Obama-era program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.The action the administration sought was rare.

It has been nearly 30 years since the Supreme Court granted review of a district judge’s ruling before an appeals court could weigh in. And the court said Monday it had no interest in following that course in the DACA case.

The justices, without dissent, turned down the administration’s petition “without prejudice,” meaning that the government could return to the high court once the appeals court rules.

“It is assumed that the Court

of Appeals will proceed expeditiously to decide this case,” the justices noted.

The action by the high court was procedural in nature, and not a ruling on the substance of the case, but its impact could be significant because it keeps in place Alsup’s nationwide injunction.

Last fall, when he announced that he would end the DACA program, President Trump gave Congress until March 5 to pass legislation to resolve the legal status of the Dreamers.

But lawmakers have failed to agree on new legislation. Last week, the Senate considered four proposals to change the immigration laws, but could not muster the required 60 votes to proceed on any of them.

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( Danielle DiAmico/The Penn) The pep band plays under the big screen in the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex for the men’s and women’s basketball teams.

Pep band keeps spirit alive during basketball season

By RYAN DILLON Staff Writer R.J.Dillon@iup.edu

The pep band has been around at IUP for a while now. But for the past three years, the pep band has adopted a new meaning to its classic concept.

Dr. Timothy Paul, the director of bands in the music education department, and Dr. Rhonda Luckey, vice president of student affairs, have been working hard to rejuvenate the band.

What started off at around 1420 members more than doubled since Paul became the pep band’s faculty adviser. Students of all majors and disciplines come together in the pep band over one simple thing: their love for music and school spirit.

The pep band provides upbeat music at IUP men’s and women’s

basketball home games, during timeouts and halftime. But Paul has a larger mission at hand: to bring students together and increase school spirit.

“We got people with a common interest to get together to support school spirit,” Paul said.

“It’s student bond and celebrating the excellence of athletics.”

The band reaches outside themselves, coordinating songs and routines with IUP’s cheerleading team. The band will often look toward Billboard’s top 100 so that everyone in attendance can participate.

And at the core of the pep band’s togetherness and self expression is one thing: the music.

Paul said the main goal of the pep band is “enriching the human experience through music, and through that music we bring everyone together.”

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Supreme Court refuses to rule now on Trump immigration plan Continued from page 3.

With the nationwide court order in place, Trump’s March 5 deadline is essentially dead. In their appeal to the high court, administration lawyers said the injunction would likely last well into 2019 if the appeals run their normal course in the lower courts.

Even if the court of appeals does act “expeditiously,” as the justices suggested, a ruling would be unlikely before summer. That would mean the earliest the case could return to the Supreme Court would be in the fall, with a ruling possible by the end of the year.

That’s assuming a speedy path for the litigation. A scenario in which the case doesn’t return to the high court until a year from now is quite possible.

Congress could change the situation at any time, but it would

(TNS) The Supreme Court decided not to hear the appeal of the administration’s plea to end Dreamers’ protection.

need to agree on a new law.

After Alsup issued his order last month, U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco surprised many observers by not asking the Supreme Court to grant a stay that would put the order on hold. He asserted

that such a stay would result in an “abrupt shift” in the enforcement policy, while the administration favored an “orderly wind-down of the DACA policy.”

Instead, Francisco insisted the high court should grant review of

After unthinkable tragedy, Generation Z emerges loud and clear

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His preliminary injunction required the administration to “maintain the DACA program on a nationwide basis.” However, he said nothing in his order would prevent federal authorities from “removing any individual, including any DACA enrollee, who it determines poses a risk to national security or public safety.”

The administration filed an appeal in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco, but the solicitor general opted to go directly to the Supreme Court to seek a quick reversal.

Last week, while the justices were considering the matter, a second district judge in New York handed down another order blocking the administration from winding down the DACA program.

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• Trenton Pelligreno, 22, of Pittsburgh, was seen urinating on the sidewalk and fled on foot when police officers approached him at 1:04 a.m. Feb. 23 in the 500 block of Philadelphia Street, according to the Indiana Borough Police Department. Pelligreno was charged with public drunkenness, disorderly conduct and public urination, according to borough police.

• Kevin Norris, 20, of DuBois, was cited with underage drinking and public drunkenness at 1:23 a.m. Feb. 18 in Stephenson Hall, according to IUP University Police.

• Sakody Gillaugh, 20, of Carlisle, was cited with underage drinking at 1:23 a.m. in Stephenson Hall, according to university police.

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Up until last week, most of us had never really considered what to call the group of American kids growing up behind the millennials.

Those born in the 2000s, who grew up alongside Facebook and Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram, have inspired plenty of commentary about the damaging effects of social media and selfies, but little reflection about what they might bring to the table. As with the two generations before them, they were not expected to change the nation in the way the now nearmythical Boomers did.

Then a gunman walked into a Parkland, Fla., high school on Valentine’s Day, killing 17, injuring at least a dozen and terrorizing hundreds more.

Generation Z emerged overnight.

It’s hard to remember another moment when a changing of the guard was captured as quickly and dramatically, on screen and in real time, as we’re seeing now in the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school shooting.

With a fearlessness born out of terror and loss, a generation maligned for being too soft and spilling all on social media was ready when a real cause came along.

Alsup’s opinion, hear arguments in the spring and then reverse the judge’s decision in a written ruling.

“The district judge’s unprecedented order requires the government to sanction indefinitely an ongoing violation of federal law being committed by nearly 700,000 aliens,” Francisco wrote, referring to the young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

In his ruling, Alsup said Trump’s advisers, led by Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions, had been wrong when they decided President Barack Obama lacked the authority to extend relief to the Dreamers.

Alsup agreed “a new administration is entitled to replace old policies with new policies,” but nonetheless concluded that the “flawed legal premise” set out by Sessions could not serve as a basis

Drug Violation (TNS) Hundreds of high school and middle school students gathered Wednesday in front of the White House in support of gun control in the wake of the Parkland, Fla., shooting.

In the week following the attack, the school’s surviving students and their peers inspired nationwide school walkouts, Capitol Hill sit-ins, CNN town hall meetings and a “listening session” with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence at the White House.

Determined not to let another mass shooting fade away in a cloud of thoughts and prayers, these students clearly and cogently refuted the usual politicized narratives pumped out of D.C. after each mass shooting, first on television mere hours after the attack and then directly on Twitter: #WeCallBS quickly rolled into #WeAreTheChange.

They called out the NRA directly on CNN and Fox, and demanded adults reframe gun control as an issue of safety rather than a red-versus-blue-politics argument as usual. They appeared on late-night talk shows, and were accused by alt-right agitators of being fictional crisis actors hired by gun-hating leftists.

But this group who grew up navigating spin hasn’t taken the bait.

“People are saying that it’s not time to talk about gun control, and we can respect that,” Cameron Kasky, a junior at the high school, said on ABC’s “This Week.”

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• Sharae Lewis, 18, of Philadelphia; and Brittany Spencer, 19, of Philadelphia, were charged with possession of drug paraphernalia at 9:14 p.m. Feb. 17 in Wallwork Hall, according to university police. Lewis was also charged with possession of a small amount of marijuana, according to university police.

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“Here’s the time: March 24,” Kasky continued. “In every single city, we are going to be marching together as students begging for our lives. This isn’t about the GOP. This isn’t about the Democrats.

This is about the adults. We feel neglected. At this point, you’re either with us or you’re against us.”

Politicians who haven’t budged from the standard “thoughts and prayers” stance since Columbine were caught off guard. By Wednesday’s meeting at the White House, it was clear they’d been rattled.

Trump’s numbered crib notes, which he carried into the televised discussion, went viral after being captured by photojournalists.

Point No. 5 read, “I hear you.”

Christened by gunfire and united by tragedy, Generation Z’s determination and ire didn’t just arrive with the media exposure of this particular school shooting, the latest in multiple such shootings of 2018.

This generation has grown up with “active shooter” school drills and “code reds.”

They were entering grade school when their first-grade peers were massacred at Sandy Hook Elementary and an unarmed 17-year-old named Trayvon Martin

(TNS) Hundreds of students in the Washington, D.C., area walked out of class Wednesday to demand action on gun control.

was killed while walking home by a gun-wielding adult.

No wonder so many of today’s fictional young people of television and film are fearless avengers who battle evil in smarter and more effective ways than their parents, protecting the adults who are supposed to protect them: “Stranger Things,” “Supergirl,” “Marvel’s Runaways,” “Black Lightning.”

As Parkland students marched toward their state capitol building in Tallahassee on Wednesday, they resembled a high school debate team, not superheroes.

As outrage continues, NRA loses sponsors and corporate support

By JACLYN COSGROVE Los Angeles Times TNS

As part of its pitch to prospective members, the National Rifle Association touts a host of benefits for those joining the organization, including “huge savings on car rentals, hotels and travel.”

In recent days, however, several travel and hotel companies severed ties with gun lobby group as outrage continues over the shooting that left 14 students and three adults dead at a Florida high school this month.

On Thursday at 1:05 p.m., First National Bank of Omaha was one of the first companies to announce via Twitter that it would end its relationship with the NRA, saying it would not renew its contract to issue the NRA Visa card.

Soon after, Enterprise Holdings, which operates Enterprise Rent-

A-Car, National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car, said it would end its discount program with the NRA, effective March 26.

Then on Friday morning, California-based cybersecurity company Symantec joined the list. Then came MetLife, Hertz and North American Van Lines, a trucking company.

Friday night, TrueCar, an automotive price comparison web site, tweeted that it would end its buying service agreement with the group effective Wednesday.

Next, on Saturday morning, Delta Air Lines shared on social media that it had plans to tell the NRA it would end the group’s contract for discounted rates through Delta’s group travel program. ”We will be requesting that the NRA remove our information from their web site,” Delta said in a tweet.

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An AR-15 was used by the Parkland shooter and they were there to urge lawmakers to impose tighter gun restrictions, even though legislation regarding the ban of military-style firearms had been struck down the day before.

Some of the students wore jeans and carried backpacks.

Others wore ill-fitting dress shirts and slacks that they appeared to have outgrown since the last formal event – Easter Mass or a friend’s bar mitzvah – they had attended. Their public speaking event, however, was anything but the usual academic exercise

associated with generations of high schoolers before them.

“When did politics and money from the NRA become more important than our lives?” asked Dimitri Hoth, a senior who described to the press and lawmakers the horror of surviving the attack.

The mild-mannered student, who recalled that his biggest concern in the hours before the attack was trying to get out of an after-school rehearsal, proclaimed: “NRA, we’re not afraid of you. You won’t silence us. Never again.”

It echoed this nation’s last big student uprising nearly a halfcentury ago, which also revolved around too many young people being shot at for no good reason.

Perhaps the renewed interest in the Pentagon Papers and Vietnam War in films such as “The Post” is no coincidence.

If millennials and Gen X helped usher in the changes that led to pot legalization, gay marriage laws and AIDS awareness, the teenagers of Gen Z might help break the logjam that has prevented changes in gun laws that the majority of Americans have wanted for so long.

The middle-aged who scoff at young people for their need of

“safe spaces” might now think twice given that they actually do need safe spaces to hide from monsters who storm schools, colleges, movie theaters, churches and concert venues with weapons of war.

What could be more nonpartisan than saving kids lives, asked student David Hogg on Wednesday to a reporter.

The media persisted in the usual manner. Fox’s “Outnumbered” host Harris Faulkner asked Hogg what he had to say about Trump doing more to address gun violence issues than any other president before him.

“I don’t know, actually,” he answered, then steered the interview back toward common-sense solutions for gun control.

The FBI made horrific mistakes, she said, how do you respond to that?

Hogg again brought it back to action rather than blame.

The Fox host complimented Hogg for being well-spoken: “You are a blessed young man. I know a lot of people will say that they are praying for you. Please know that we are. And that we mean it. And God bless you.”

Hogg wasn’t about to let that go: “Yeah, but please take action as well.”

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Communications media student leads SFA in his final year

By JEREMY STOUT Staff Writer J.W.Stout2@iup.edu

Tristan Weaver is a senior communications media major with a journalism and public relations minor who is involved in a number of activities across campus.

Weaver is the president of the Student Film Association (SFA) and is a crew member on the IUPTV show “Indie Rocker’s Ball.”

Weaver initially entered IUP as a business major with plans to one day open his own photography company, in which he has had an interest since high school. But he found the path of a business major was not for him after only one semester.

“I didn’t really like my business classes,” Weaver said, “and I

(Submitted photo) (Facebook) Tristan Weaver (senior, communications media) is the president of the Student Film Association and has been part of the club since his first year at IUP.

knew kids who were doing comm, and that just seemed like a lot more fun and way more stuff that I wanted to do.”

Once in the communications department, he found his way quickly to SFA, joining in his first semester.

“I went pretty much right away,” Weaver said. “I got involved in my freshman year.”

SFA’s goal every semester is to put out a short film.

Weaver said it recently finished production on “Written,” a romantic comedy.

Weaver said that while SFA usually holds its own event to screen the film, this semester is different, with the film premiering at the IUP Film Fest on March 31. The festival is a one-day event with the SFA getting its own block.

“We have a block just to show our stuff,” Weaver said. “We’re not in competition, because we have ties to the festival.”

Weaver said that while he still has an interest in photography, he prefers it more as a hobby and sees film as a likelier career path.

Weaver spends much of his

time watching as many films that come out as possible.

His goal is to build his knowledge base and expand his videography style.

Weaver said that he needs to look back at the classics, though.

“People ask me about older films, and I just haven’t gone down that road yet,” Weaver said. “I need to, though.”

Weaver said that he is less interested in directing and wants to work more as director of photography with Roger Deakins, being one of his main inspirations.

“It was actually through SFA, and once I was on a set or two, I realized there’s a lot of crossover [between photography and film], but it’s more involved and I liked the process more of filming something and making a story,” Weaver said.

NRA loses partnerships, support from big corporations after shooting Continued from page 5.

United Airlines followed Delta’s move, saying in a tweet that the company no longer would offer a discounted rate to the NRA’s annual meeting.

Over the last week, gun control activists and their followers have used social media to call out companies with business relationships with the NRA, with threats

that consumers who support the movement would not spend money with the company until the relationship with the NRA ends.

Progressive websites listed companies that offer benefits to NRA members, which helped rouse gun control supporters to speak out about the boycotts.

Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in

Parkland, Fla., where the Feb. 14 massacre occurred, have spoken openly and angrily about their experiences, rallying young people across the country to walk out of their schools and planning continued protests to change gun laws in the United States.

The NRA has been making the same arguments about Second Amendment rights it always makes, said Mary-Hunter McDonnell, a manager professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania who studies how companies respond to social activism.

“But when you have someone from the NRA facing a student who just went through that experience, and still making that argument, it sounds very tone deaf,” McDonnell said.

“And ultimately this pressure on firms is not about cutting the sponsorships to the NRA. It’s ultimately about demonstrating to politicians that links to the NRA are dangerous ... . This is sending a strong signal to politicians that they need to rethink their relationship with the NRA.”

NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said in a statement that the loss of a discount would have no effect on NRA members, as they still believe in the mission of the organization.

“The law-abiding members of the NRA had nothing at all to do with the failure of that school’s security preparedness, the failure of America’s mental health system, the failure of the National Instant Check System or the cruel failures of both federal and local law enforcement,” Arulanandam said.

“Despite that, some corporations have decided to punish NRA membership in a shameful display of political and civic cowardice.

In time, these brands will be replaced by others who recognize that patriotism and determined commitment to constitutional freedoms are characteristics of a marketplace they very much want to serve.”

After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012 in Newtown, Conn., a global advocacy site, Avaaz.org, urged its followers to go on Facebook and call out Best Western International

and Wyndham Hotel Group for affiliating with the NRA. On Facebook, Wyndham responded to the negative comments about its connection to the NRA by saying it tried to be responsive and respectful to it customers and partners. In a statement, it said, “As part of our Company’s core values, we serve diverse individuals and organizations.”

This time, companies are taking a different approach.

On social media, Best Western and Wyndham both responded more than 100 times on Twitter to users asking about their relationship to the NRA. “Best Western Hotels & Resorts does not have an affiliation with and is not a corporate partner of the National Rifle Association,” the company wrote to users.

“Hello. Please know, Wyndham is no longer affiliated with the NRA,” the Wyndham Rewards account said.

Business and political experts say the next thing to watch will be the actions of Republican lawmakers.

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Syrian threats don’t affect the West

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It seems that, at home and abroad, people are struggling to maintain their most basic human rights – including the rights to their very own lives.

On Thursday, activists in Syria published a list of 42 victims – mostly women and children – who were killed when a rocket hit their shelter in the village of Beit Sawa last week. Only seven people who were in the shelter survived, according to a Thursday article in The New York Times.

The United Nations Security Council, with opposition from Russia, failed to pass a resolution Thursday that would have imposed a 30-day ceasefire in Syria to allow humanitarian aid to a besieged Damascus suburb. With the reports of the rocket attack, the death toll this week in the rebel-held suburb, eastern Ghouta, rose to more than 300.

Britain’s representative, Stephen Hickey, described the conditions in eastern Ghouta as “hell on earth,” according to the article. Hickey also said the suffering of the civilians brought shame on all of humanity. But, to say we are appalled or that no words can describe the horror or even that we will do better next time is ineffective and weak.

The UN has accepted that it no longer has a role in Syria. With Russia’s veto, any meaningful resolution was obstructed when agreements were already hard to come by with the Assad regime, which stands accused of using sarin gas – again – despite

resolutions demanding the surrender of all chemical weapons.

Unless the West is ready to force a no-fly zone by taking Russian-backed jets out of the sky over Ghouta, we will remain complacent in this genocide.

And it’s the appointed mediators of the UN who are the real problem here. These are the people who should have been able to shed light on this situation. They should have been able to achieve the ceasefire. They should have prevented the loss of more human life.

Instead, they have “no words” to offer.

So far, Assad has lost an airfield and finds diplomatic agreements and international banking transactions to be exceptionally taxing. Nothing else has changed, nor will it if those with the power to help are too busy ripping each other apart over mass shootings and gun control issues.

This is not to minimize the repeated discussion of “never again,” but this is to call out the indifference that plagues the West. If it isn’t in our country, we don’t care how many die.

We are simply apathetic. The Western world will act when – and only when – the carnage in Syria extends to threaten its own cities.

The fantasy that our outrage or “thoughts and prayers” could reduce these massacres gives the people of Ghouta false hope that we may send aid.

We aren’t helping them, nor do we have any intention to do so. When the UN was established, it was a beacon of hope for the world. Now, it’s looking like just another failed experiment.

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The US is – and must remain – a nation of and for immigrants

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There are a few quotes and phrases that are so American – and so anodyne – that they amount to a kind of bipartisan lexicon, cited with equal fervor by Democrats and Republicans alike.

For example: Land of the free, home of the brave. All men are created equal. Liberty and justice for all. Government of the people, by the people, for the people.

For more than a half-century,

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the litany has also included a phrase popularized by President John F. Kennedy: “A nation of immigrants.” Time and again, presidents and leaders of both parties have invoked those four words to lionize the contributions immigrants have made to the U.S. In 1981, for instance, Ronald Reagan invoked it: “Our nation is a nation of immigrants. More than any other country, our strength comes from our own immigrant heritage and our capacity to welcome those from other lands.”

Why, then, has the U.S. Citizen-

ship and Immigration Services, which issues green cards and citizenship documents, deleted the phrase from its mission statement? Agencies are free to revise their mission statements, of course.But when the person in the Oval Office routinely employs nativist rhetoric, scapegoats foreigners, seeks lower levels of immigration, and makes it more difficult to obtain green cards and visas, it is nearly impossible to see the deletion as mere coincidence.

In fairness: President Donald Trump has used the phrase “na-

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tion of immigrants” at least once – albeit in a written statement defending his attempt to ban immigrants from seven Muslim nations.

But the totality of his comments makes clear his hostility toward immigrants, at least from non-European countries.

This is not the first time the Trump administration downplayed America’s immigrant heritage.

Last year, one of the president’s senior policy advisers dismissed the poem that is affixed to the Statue of Liberty – “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled

masses” – saying it “was added later; it’s not actually part of the original Statue of Liberty.” True enough, but it was written for the statue and came to define it.

Given the inanity of the president’s tweets, what the Trump administration chooses not to say is often more telling than what it does. While Trump may be a lost cause, Republicans ought to speak out against the nativism he displays – if not to defend historical truth and American values, then at least to prevent further damage to the party’s reputation.

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Michael Jacobs is a Native American singer-songwriter.

Wearing blue jeans and a blue, long-sleeve shirt, he gave an intimate acoustic performance to a small crowd of students Friday in Beard Auditorium in Stouffer Hall.

Jacobs performed 10 songs from his seven albums. ​All of Jacobs’ songs show that he has a passion to make a positive impact on the world. He sings about peace, justice, suffering, the environment and relationships.

Jacobs’ professional music career began as a songwriter and guitarist in Nashville, Tenn. He began his solo career in 2002, when he released his first album, “Sacred Nation.” Six more critically and commercially successful CDs followed, according to his website.

“I don’t think of myself as writing songs about Native American culture,” Jacobs said to the crowd.

“I write songs about people.”

The Cherokee singer has performed at more than 250 colleges and universities in 45 states, as well as numerous libraries, museums, festivals, fairs, house concerts, prisons and jails across the United States and Canada.

His music has also been featured in numerous documentaries and video presentations.

Before each song, Jacobs would discuss the meaning behind it.

“Environmental and gender issues are fundamental and affect all people,” Jacobs said. “We are human beings first. We have to realize that we are all connected, no matter our differences.”

It is clear Jacobs has strong views about making the world a better place with his music.

“Whether or not you believe in

(Danielle DiAmico/The Penn) Michael Jacobs performed Friday in Stouffer Hall.

climate change, we are destroying our Earth,” he said before playing “Oh Children,” a new song of his. “We are overusing all of our resources.”

While Jacobs sings, he closes his eyes, which shows he is pas-

sionate about the music he plays, and he doesn’t focus on anything else.

The music itself is very soothing. Jacobs is a skilled guitar player and he also has a calming voice.

“His music is fantastic; it should engulf you,” said Dr. Abigail Adams, an anthropology professor at IUP. Jacobs also showed his sense of humor onstage between songs while he tuned his acoustic guitar.

“Compared to Tennessee, it’s dry up here at IUP,” he said.

Not only does Jacobs write songs about issues happening in America, but he also writes songs about personal struggles.

“I write songs to help me with my friends’ journeys and struggles,” Jacobs said. “It’s OK to hurt but not OK to give up.”

“I thought it was an inspiring performance,” Brittany Joswick (freshman, psychology) said. “I like how his music is about global issues, since it puts my life into perspective and it inspired me to do good in the world.”

Jacobs’ music can be found at https://www.michaeljacobsmusic. com.

Ken E. Nwadike Jr. brings free hugs to IUP

By JESSICA TRUBY Staff Writer J.L.Truby@iup.edu

Ken E. Nwadike Jr. is a peace activist, inspirational speaker and video journalist popularly known as “the free hugs guy.” He shared his story Thursday in the Hadley Union Building (HUB) Ohio Room.

Nwadike was 8 years old when police raided his home and arrested his father. His mother moved him and his four siblings to a place right outside Los Angeles.

They moved right before the Los Angeles riots began, which did not help his view on police officers and people of authority.

The family was living in a homeless shelter. When Nwadike was in high school, he began running on the track team to feel like there was a place he belonged.

He became the star athlete and received a full scholarship to college. Nwadike left college to run professionally with Nike.

The bombing at the Bos-

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(Mike Corona/The Penn) Ken E. Nwadike Jr. shared his story Thursday in the Ohio Room of the Hadley Union Building.

ton Marathon is what sparked Nwadike’s enthusiasm for helping others.

“While viewing the devastation of the 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon, I was determined to be a participant in the next race,” Nwadike said.

During the qualifying race to participate in the Boston Marathon, runners must achieve a time

of three hours and five minutes or less. Nwadike was 23 seconds more than the limit, but he did not let that stop him from attending the marathon.

At the 2014 Boston Marathon was the beginning of Nwadike’s idea of the “Free Hugs Project.”

Since he could not run in the marathon, he wanted to give hugs and encouragement to the

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runners.

At first, none of the runners were stopping to hug him, but after one man did, it started a chain reaction.

“At that moment, politics, race, religion didn’t matter,” Nwadike said. “What mattered was spreading the love — not hate.”

Nwadike has since been organizing events and has helped on

the front line of many protests.

He first started directing outdoor events when he founded the Hollywood Half Marathon, which raises money for local homeless youth shelters.

Parkland, Fla., is Nwadike’s next stop to help the students grieve with their losses and show them that hatred is not the answer. He also plans to help in any way he can with the peaceful protests that are being planned.

“Fear and hatred will cease to exist when love is in abundance,” Nwadike said.

Students did not really know what to expect when they heard that the “free hugs guy” was coming to IUP. “It was really inspiring,” Alaina Baker (sophomore, nutrition/ dietetics) said. “I’m glad that I came.”

“I was only here for extra credit and I did not really know what this was about,” John Burwell (nursing) said. “I really enjoyed it, though.”

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Lord knows, CBS sitcom ‘Living Biblically’ needs more laughs

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Derek Woods Band (top left) and The Jukehouse Bombers (bottom right) will perform Thursday at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex.

Crisp Entertainment presents The First

By DYLAN LYLE Staff Writer D.S.Lyle@iup.edu

Crisp Entertainment will present The First on Thursday at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex (KCAC) Toretti Auditorium. This will be the first in a series of local and national acts in the Indiana area.

The Jukehouse Bombers, a local blues band, and The Derek Woods Band, a rock ’n’ roll, big jam group from Pittsburgh will perform Thursday.

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the box office. The show starts at 7 p.m. and will end around 10 p.m. Aramark will sell concessions, and alcohol will be served.

Chris Price and Kori Woods are co-owners of Crisp Entertainment, a small company with big aspirations. The event’s title has meaning beyond being on the first of

the month.

“Its called ‘The First’ because it’s March 1, the first in a concert series called Crisp Sound, the one-year anniversary of Crisp Entertainment and the first time Toretti auditorium is hosting local bands,” Price said.

Price has been in the entertainment industry for 12 years. In 2017, Price started Crisp Entertainment.

Price took a trip to Nashville, Tenn., and culture shock contributed to the company’s foundation.

“I went to Nashville to test the waters, and I fell in love,” Price said. “So I said, ‘our area needs this.’

“We started a full production company. We can help plan, design, market and execute the event — anything from festivals, concerts, benefits, you name it.”

The First is also Crisp’s first undertaking as a self promotion company.

“We have done shows at Levity Brewing Co., but we decided it was time to do our own show,” Price said. “This will be the first time we can say ‘Crisp Entertainment presents.’”

The Jukehouse Bombers play shows locally and around Pennsylvania. It will be opening for The First.

“The Jukehouse Bombers do blues and blues rock, and the owner, Jimmy Roach, has been around forever,” Price said. “Their music is fun, high-energy and they’re great to work with.”

The Derek Woods Band is headlining the event.

“The Derek Woods Band is pretty well-known in Western Pennsylvania,” Price said.

Crisp Entertainment will also be hosting a benefit concert in May at the Toretti Auditorium, featuring Jars of Clay, a Christian rock band out of Nashville, and opening with local talent.

Like a lot of failed sitcoms, CBS’ new “Living Biblically” probably seemed like a good idea at the time.

Inspired by A.J. Jacobs’ 2007 best-seller “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible” – a title that works as a tidy elevator pitch itself – the show arriving Monday centers on Chip (Jay R. Ferguson, best known as the amply bearded Stan Rizzo from “Mad Men”), a newspaper film critic and lapsed Catholic who follows in Jacobs’ footsteps to enter a sticky world of ancient absolutes to the chagrin of his friends, family and so on. Presumably, the facial hair will make a comeback too.

Except in the case of Jacobs – the writer of similar journalistic gadget-plays such as attempting to outsource his life and embarking on an effort to read every volume of Encyclopedia Britannica – the dip into the Bible was driven by a book that also examined other perspectives among the devout about faith and religious practice. Produced by “Big Bang Theory’s” Johnny Galecki, “Living Biblically” flips the concept by placing Chip at a personal crossroads between the death of a best friend and the prospect of impending fatherhood, two factors that lead him to follow the Bible in the hopes of becoming a better person.

While Chip is eventually encouraged to turn his efforts into a column at his paper, the motivational switch seems driven by an urge for a tidier narrative, which is part of the problem.

“Living Biblically” adheres to sitcom tropes so strictly, it’s as if those have also been written in stone, perhaps somewhere on a CBS backlot.

You have the preternaturally patient wife (Lindsey Craft), who weathers the complications spurred by her husband’s impulsive pursuit; the wisecracking coworker (Tony Rock); the intimidating boss (a wasted Camryn Manheim); and even a local bar where Chip talks theological

(Facebook) Jay R. Ferguson stars in “Living Biblically” on CBS.

matters with a willing rabbi and a priest (David Krumholtz and Ian Gomez, respectively), whom he dubs his “God squad.”

A spiritual crisis of the kind that would lead someone to return to their faith is rich material from a character standpoint, but you never get the sense that Chip is much more than a tourist. His Bible study leads him to consider his phone a false idol in the second episode, but “Living Biblically” mostly uses it to show it’s hard to live without one.

And rather than giving Chip a moral compass strong enough to tell a “bro-code”-spouting adulterer in the office to shut his mouth in the first episode, Chip eventually follows the Old Testament’s way, which strangely feels far less direct. In the early going, the show’s conceit is less of a means to consider faith, self-improvement and how both mingle with modern life than it is a desire to be told what to do.

But even setting aside the show’s lack of interest in the complexity of faith, it’s greatest sin is simply not being funny enough. The characters are too thin and familiar to generate laughs on their own, and some jokes rely too heavily on references while others just don’t make sense. “Who are you?

Kramer?” his priest asks as Chip barges into someone’s confessional, having evidently not yet discovered “The Golden Rule.”

The show’s failures are a shame because religion is a powerful enough presence in our culture to be approached with honesty and wit.

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Bateman just barely gets win for ‘Game Night’

By LAITH ZURAIKAT Staff Writer Laith.Zuraikat@iup.edu

While actor Jason Bateman has been featured in a series of successful television and movie comedies, one of his biggest hits was the surprisingly hilarious film “Horrible Bosses,” a movie that featured a strong ensemble of well-known comedic actors.

Like “Horrible Bosses,” Bateman’s latest feature, “Game Night,” attempts to recreate this formula by surrounding Bateman with other established comedic actors. The movie features actors like Lamorne Morris from Fox sitcom “New Girl,” and Rachel McAdams, a female lead that you don’t traditionally associate with comedies.

Unfortunately, this cast fails to achieve the heights of some of the aforementioned film, resulting in an enjoyable, albeit not spectacular, movie.

It is one of the lesser-known supporting actors in this movie

that steals the show. While the attractive but stupid male character role is by no means a new idea, actor Billy Magnussen does an excellent job fulfilling this stereotype, managing to make his complete obliviousness come across as endearing and humorous rather than annoying and repetitive.

The movie excels by not taking itself too seriously. A game night gone horribly wrong, which forces suburban couples to accidentally participate in a real-life attempted kidnapping only to continue pursuing this dangerous endeavor even after they realize that it is not being staged, is pushing the boundaries of what an audience will accept.

It’s a highly unrealistic concept.

But rather than trying to convince the audience that this could actually happen, the movie leans into the joke via a series of incidents that avoid crossing line to a level of total absurdity.

By accepting and acknowledging that the movie itself is in on the joke, “Game Night” allows

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viewers to suspend their disbeliefs at some of the more “out there” moments in the movie, and just laugh and enjoy them. This is a very positive result for the film, as there are several quite funny appearances, accidents and jokes.

While “Game Night” might not have you rolling on the floor with laughter, it will most likely provide several hearty laughs and a good time overall. More importantly, the humor in the movie is achieved thanks to an original idea and solid acting.

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(IUP Athletics) Nicole Smith (junior, dietetics) was one of the most successful swimmers for the IUP swim team at the 2018 PSAC Championships. Smith won the 200-yard freestyle and 100-yard freestyle events.

(IUP Athletics) Colter Long (junior, computer science) finished fourth in the 100-yard breaststroke on the third day of the PSAC Championships.

IUP swimming finishes third at PSAC Championships

By SARAH MOLTZ Staff Writer

S.J.Moltz@iup.edu

The IUP men and women’s swimming teams competed in the 2018 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Swimming Championships this past weekend at the Graham Aquatic Center in York. The competition started Wednesday and ended Saturday.

A total of 35 swimmers, 17 men and 18 women, competed in a combination of 38 events for IUP. Junior women’s swimmer Nicole Smith (dietetics) had an impressive weekend, posting four National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II B cut times, breaking her own school record and finishing first in two events.

On the first day, Smith placed fifth in the 50-yard freestyle with a

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time of 23.90.

However, in preliminaries, she swam faster, hitting an NCAA B cut time of 23.86.

On the second day, she grabbed a victory in the 200-yard freestyle event, breaking her own school record in the preliminaries with a time of 1:50.16 and responded in the finals with a faster time of 1:49.90 to take first in the finals.

In the last two days, Smith finished fourth in the 500-yard freestyle, posting a personal best Friday morning in preliminaries, 4:58.09.

This was her third NCAA B cut time of the championships.

To wrap up the championships, Smith ended on a high note, winning the 100-yard freestyle, posting her fourth NCAA Division II B cut time of 51.47.

“Honestly, I couldn’t be any more proud to be a part of this

team,” Smith said. “Everyone worked so hard this year, and it was evident that it all paid off. I couldn’t have done it without the constant support and positive attitudes that this team had.”

Smith wasn’t the only women’s swimmer who had B cut times this past weekend.

Junior Regan Chalk (psychology) finished fourth overall in the 200 individual medley (IM) on the first day of competition, posting a new personal best with a time of 2:06.53.

Chalk also hit an NCAA Division II B cut time in the 200 butterfly, swimming 2:04.64 in time trials.

Throughout the championships, Chalk finished second in the 100 butterfly, fourth in the 100 backstroke and fifth in the 200 backstroke.

“This year, we put a big emphasis on positivity and support, and

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it without a doubt showed,” Chalk said. “Not a single person was sitting during finals sessions. Everyone was up cheering for one another. It was an incredible feeling and atmosphere to be a part of.”

On the men’s side, R.J. Hammond (junior, criminology) had the best individual men’s finish on the first day of competition, finishing in sixth place with a time of 1:53.78 in the 200 individual medley (IM).

Hammond also finished fourth in the 100 butterfly and 13th in the 200 butterfly throughout the weekend.

Junior Colter Long (computer science) impressed on the third day, placing fourth in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 56.57.

Freshman Lucas Bellier set a new IUP men’s freshman record this past weekend, placing in fifth place in the 400 IM in 4:04.94.

Overall, the men finished in third

place with 466.5 points, following behind West Chester University (813 points) and second place Bloomsburg University (610.5).

This past weekend was the fourth time in the last five years that the IUP men’s team have finished in the top three at PSAC Championships.

The women also finished in third place, combining for 901 points and trailing West Chester (1884) and second place Bloomsburg (1159).

This is also the fourth time since 2014 that the women have finished in the top three at conference competition. Smith and several other Crimson Hawks await word on potential selections for this year’s upcoming NCAA Division II Swimming Championships, which will be held in Greensboro, N.C. The NCAA championships are scheduled for March 14-17.

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Crimson Hawks edge Seton Hill in regular-season finale

By DARNELL TURNER Staff Writer

D.M.Turner4@iup.edu

IUP men’s basketball finished its regular season with a close win over Seton Hill University, 65-64, as tempers flared Saturday in Greensburg.

Willem Brandwijk (redshirt junior, marketing) knocked down one of his two free throws with 2.5 seconds left to give IUP a 1-point lead.

He made the first and missed the second, before Seton Hill failed to get a shot off in the final seconds.

Brandwijk was fouled trying to grab a rebound off a missed 3-point attempt by Dante Lombardi (junior, finance and legal studies). Brandwijk finished with 8 points to go along with 10 rebounds.

IUP will host the winner of Edinboro University and The University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown on Wednesday.

Unfortunately for IUP, it will have to play that game without two of the team’s top scorers.

Anthony Glover (senior, marketing) is suspended for the game due to a second-half technical he received against Seton Hill.

IUP will also be missing Dante Lombardi due to a fracture in his hand.

IUP will be looking for everyone to step up in the absence of two of its three biggest playmakers.

The Crimson Hawks struggled offensively shooting from the field.

The team shot just under 37 percent.

Leading the team was Glover,

who scored 21 points in 35 minutes of action.

He was ejected with 5:59 to go in the game with his second technical foul.

“I thought the officials were quick to call the unsportsmanlike calls,” head coach Joe Lombardi said, “but it was a physical game.”

Glover shot 8-for-17 from the field, while the rest of the team shot just 16 of 48.

The team’s shooting from 3-point range kept them ahead in the game, as they knocked 11 3-pointers, five coming from Glover.

Jacobo Diaz (junior, economics) earned his 13th double-double of the season with 13 points and 15 rebounds, along with six assists.

Dante Lombardi and Diaz stepped up down the stretch without Glover after Seton Hill used a 9-0 run to tie the game at 60.

Both Dante Lombardi and Diaz made back-to-back buckets to give IUP a 64-62 lead before the Griffins tied the game at 64.

After earning a trip to the foul line, Brandwijk hit one of two free throws to give IUP the lead for good.

The Crimson Hawks finished the season 22-7 and 18-4 in the Pennsylvania State and Athletic Conference (PSAC).

Joe Lombardi said he couldn’t be prouder of his team.

“We played the toughest schedule in the history of IUP basketball and probably had to deal with the most injuries throughout the year that I’ve had to deal with since I’ve been here for 12 years,” Joe Lombardi said. “This team has really defined itself with its competitiveness and its resiliency to be able to overcome all the challenges that were presented throughout the year from within.”

The Crimson Hawks will host Edinboro University at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday night in a PSAC quarterfinal matchup.

(IUP Athletics) Forward Jacobo Diaz (junior, economics) recorded his 13th double-double of the season in IUP’s 65-64 win over Seton Hill University on Saturday.

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(IUP Athletics) Forward Megan Smith (senior, management) led the Crimson Hawks to a 86-71 victory over Seton Hill University on Saturday. Smith recorded a double-double with 28 points and 12 rebounds in the win.

IUP remains red hot heading into PSAC tournament

By JARROD BROWNE Lead Sports Writer

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The No. 9 IUP women’s basketball team defeated Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) foe Seton Hill University, 86-71, Saturday night in Greensburg.

Megan Smith (senior, management) led the Crimson Hawks.

Smith posted a double-double with 28 points and 12 rebounds while shooting 50 percent from the field.

IUP had a complete team effort as three more players recorded double-digit scoring efforts.

Carolyn Appleby (junior, safety sciences) finished with 20 points, while Lauren Wo-

losik (redshirt junior, business) and Audrey Stapleton (senior, kinesiology) both finished with 13 points.

“A really good win against a really good opponent who plays really well at home,” head coach Tom McConnell said. “Human nature is that we already clinched the first seed. It’s the last game of the season. We could afford to play bad, but they didn’t do that and had a really good game.”

Although the Crimson Hawks had a balanced offensive attack, IUP found themselves trailing in the third quarter, 43-40.

IUP answered the Griffins’ run with a second-half run of its own.

Stapleton began the 23-8 run and Smith led the third quarter charge hitting two of the three IUP 3-pointers in the third quarter.

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“We did something that game that I don’t think we did all year, going with four guards and a forward,” McConnell said.

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The opening round began Monday night at various schools across the PSAC. IUP had the luxury of a first-round bye.

Although the Crimson Hawks are still changing their lineup, IUP will continue to approach the postseason with the same mentality it has had all season.

“It’s the next game on our schedule; that is our mindset,” McConnell said. “The preparation and focus stay the same.”

That next game will take place at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday when the Crimson Hawks host Seton Hill at the Kovalchik Convention and Athletic Complex (KCAC) in their PSAC quarterfinal matchup.

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Winter Olympics come to a close

By JOHN FORAN Staff Writer

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All the medals have officially been given out in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

The closing ceremonies took place at the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium on Sunday. Attendees enjoyed live performances from musicians such as Dutch DJ Martin Garrix and the South Korean pop boyband EXO. Daughter and senior advisor to the United States president, Ivanka Trump, was also in attendance to watch the Olympics come to an end.

Fans from all over the world cheered on their respective countries’ athletes over the last twoand-a-half weeks in what was an exciting winter Olympics.

Of the 92 countries that sent athletes, 30 different countries earned medals in at least one of the 106 events.

The Olympics has grown exponentially this decade, comparing Pyeongchang to Sochi in 2014, where 26 of the 88 countries earned medals in 98 events.

Team USA took fourth place for the second Winter Olympics in a row.

The largest Olympic delegation ended with only 23 medals, including 9 golds.

The U.S. stayed afloat near the top, thanks to an underdog men’s curling team who won gold against Sweden, 10-7, on Saturday.

This upset was led by John Shuster, who was on the 2006 team that brought home a bronze medal.

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The part-time sporting goods store associate from Duluth, Minn., now proudly displays the U.S.’s first curling gold medal.

Finishing in third was Canada with 11 golds, 8 silvers and 10 bronzes.

Canada also placed in third for the second Olympics in a row.

Germany came in second with 14 golds.

But with only 10 silver and 7 bronzes, Germany’s 31 medals were far away from catching the 39 medals Norway achieved.

Norway was the highest-ranked country and won for its eighth time in Olympic history.

The 14 gold, 14 silver and 11 bronze medals all broke records for the country.

Norway, with a population of 5.2 million, has the most medals in Olympic history for ski jumping, cross country skiing and Nordic combined.

Marit Bjørgen, of Norway, become the most decorated winter Olympian of all time following her bronze finish in the women’s cross country team sprint.

The 37-year-old skier finished her final Olympics with 2 golds, 2 bronzes and a silver.

This brings her a lifetime total to 8 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze medals.

Only 22 countries have more gold medals than Bjørgen.

Following the closing ceremonies, Pyeongchang now metaphorically hands the torch off to Beijing in preparation for the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Beijing will become the first city to ever host both the Winter and Summer Olympics.

The opening ceremonies will begin Feb. 4, 2022.

Team USA celebrated its success in Pyeongchang as the 2018 Winter Olympics wrapped up with the closing ceremonies Sunday.

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