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SGA welcomes newly elected members with debate

By PAUL SHALOKA Staff Writer P.Shaloka@iup.edu

The Student Government Association (SGA) held a debate on more than just the state of the IUP library Tuesday in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Building.

Elections were held where candidates ran uncontested, and the main purpose of the event was to inaugurate the new electoral board and set the stage for the role of the organization moving forward.

According to SGA’s biography on Crimson Connect, SGA serves to provide students and organizations with a representative voice.

SGA relations with the broader student body was a key theme of the night.

Each newly elected member spoke on how to attract more interest in the program.

The newly elected treasurer, Attilah Ali (freshman, management) said she would “like to see SGA meetings become more open to the general population.”

Ali said chalking sidewalks and posting flyers would be a good way to attract students to SGA

(Ashley Garonzi/ The Penn) Student Government Association (SGA) members discussed ideas to get students more engaged with SGA in a debate Tuesday as a way to inaugurate the elected members into their new positions.

and get them more involved.

Ali said she enjoyed tabling around campus, which gave her direct access to the student body.

“Being seen by the public is important,” Ali said.

Beyond simply engaging more with the average IUP attendee, SGA focused on the need to integrate IUP more closely with the various clubs and organizations on

campus.

“We should have a meet-andgreet with the other organizations, so we can all get to know each other,” said Demir Moore (junior, philosophy pre-law), the newly elected chief justice.

As chief justice, Moore will review each organization’s constitution.

He said a closer relationship

between SGA and the leadership of different organizations would be beneficial moving forward.

Besides issues related to SGA specifically, a focus of the meeting was library “de-clutterization,” the removal of a significant number of underused library books to make way for new student spaces.

Newly elected SGA secretary Michelle Lengel (junior, political

science) said she was “initially lukewarm about the idea,” but later said it would be nice to have more space to meet up, as the library is a social hub.

Ali thought it made sense.

“I view it as being proactive,” Ali said. “Technology is more and more important. I think in 10 to 20 years, most libraries will have fewer and fewer books in them, anyway.”

Moore echoed Ali’s sentiments.

“My high school didn’t have a traditional library but an IMC, or instructional media center,” Moore said. “That worked well.”

Several students seemed concerned, as one student asked SGA members multiple times what they could do to ensure the transition actually worked.

“It’s just about an efficient use of resources,”said the current SGA president, Brian Swatt (junior, political science).

Swatt previously mentioned that modernization of IUP’s facilities was important moving forward.

“I have immense confidence in the e-board,” Swatt said. “They have my full support moving forward, and I’m sure they are going to do great things.”

Student veterans discuss struggles, ask for consideration in panel

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

The Student Veteran Organization held “Ask a Veteran” on Tuesday in the Hadley Union Building (HUB) Allegheny Room as a way to bridge the gap between veterans and students.

Veterans have a unique experience coming to school because of the experiences they had in military service.

The panelists discussed the hardships they faced coming to college at an older age and difficulties they had with professors when doing service while in school.

The veterans who spoke were Dillion Hagy (senior, entrepre-

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(Ashley Garonzi/ The Penn) Dillion Hagy (senior, entrepreneurship), Mark Lasher (2017 IUP alumnus), Giovanni Serrapere (junior, chemistry), Gregory DeValerio (graduate, safety science), David Peightal (junior, sociology) and Nathaniel Smith (junior, safety science) spoke to a crowd Tuesday about the challenges they have faced as student veterans.

neurship), Mark Lasher (2017 IUP alumnus), Giovanni Serrapere (junior, chemistry), Gregory DeValerio (graduate, safety science), David Peightal (junior, sociology) and Nathaniel Smith (junior, safety science).

The panelists each had reasons why they enlisted.

Lasher, Smith and DeValerio said they came from families where it is tradition to serve.

Lasher mentioned the pride factor in following in the footsteps

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of his past family members. Smith is a third-generation member of the Marine Corps.

On the other hand, Hagy said he was not sure what he wanted to do with his life right after high school and did not want to go to

school at that time. He joined the military knowing it was a way to make money, and he could use his military benefits to pay for school if he wanted to go to school later on in his life.

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Republican opinion on marijuana shifts

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States that have passed laws legalizing recreational marijuana in recent years appear to have found some new, unexpected supporters: Republican politicians.

Since voters began to pass recreational marijuana measures in 2012, the pro-pot movement has seen swift support from many Democrats, with Republicans often pushing back against legalization.

Those expressing concern or opposition have cited, among other things, the potential for pot to be a gateway drug, and they have regularly sided with law enforcement, which has established a unified front against recreational marijuana.

But a recent mix of public opinion, an influx in tax revenue and questions surrounding states’ rights has in part led to a shift in rhetoric and legislative proposals.

President Donald Trump last week spurned a threat by his Justice Department to crack down on recreational marijuana in states where it is legal, easing concerns about the possibility of raids and prosecution.

Trump’s directive Friday came in response to concerns from Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo.

Since January, Gardner has criticized an announcement by Attorney General Jeff Sessions that he would rescind an Obama-era policy that directed federal pros-

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Gardner had opposed recreational marijuana before Colorado passed its legalization measure in 2012, but has become one of the law’s staunchest defenders.

For him, the issue centers on states’ rights. Shortly after Sessions’ announcement, Gardner tweeted that it “trampled on the will of the voters in CO and other states.”

To date, nine states – Colorado, California and Nevada among them – have legalized marijuana for recreational use, allowing people 21 and older to purchase and possess up to an ounce of marijuana.

Many states that have legalized recreational use have seen a boom in tax revenue. In 2016, Colorado generated about $250 million in tax revenue from recreational pot. Washington state raked in even more, about $256 million. Most of the money goes toward public school systems, according to state agencies that are tasked with overseeing legal marijuana.

The cost of legal marijuana varies based on taxes imposed in states and cities.

In Denver, for example, marijuana costs an estimated $163 an ounce, according to MarijuanaRates.com, which tracks cannabis pricing.

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In Los Angeles, an ounce costs an average of about $250.

Neal Levine, chairman of the New Federalism Fund, a nonpartisan group that aims to maintain state and local authority over cannabis laws and has worked on policy with Republicans, said that over the years his organization has seen support grow in the GOP. “Siding with state governments over federal regulation is an important principle of federalism and consistent with conservative values,” Levine said. “The president himself has been a consistent proponent of states’ rights and letting the federal government get out of the states’ way on this issue. We expect our Republican champions on Capitol Hill will continue to lead on this issue and for those numbers to grow.”

He cited the work of, among others, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., who is the lead sponsor of the Respect State Marijuana Laws Act. The measure, which has more than a dozen Republican cosponsors, aims to prevent the federal government from criminally prosecuting individuals and businesses that are engaging in state-sanctioned activities specific to the possession, use, production and distribution of pot.

Other Republicans who have worked on marijuana legislation include Rep. Tom Garrett of Virginia, who last year introduced the Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017.

If passed, the bill would take marijuana off the federal controlled substances list – joining other substances such as alcohol and tobacco.

In addition, several other Republicans have crafted legislation to protect medical marijuana laws, which have been passed in more than two dozen states.

Even so, these measures have stalled in the Republican-controlled Congress.

Lawmakers have not made the issue a focal point, instead concentrating on such issues as tax reform.

Levine said it’s only a matter of time before more Republican members of Congress change their tune and make the issue a legislative priority.

Last week, former GOP House Speaker John A. Boehner announced that he was joining the

(TNS) Above: Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ announcement of rescinding a policy that told federal prosecutors not to go after businesses that could operate legally under state law.

Right: TNS collected data from the Pew Research Center for an April 19 graph in which voters answered legal, illegal or don’t know to what marijuana use should be.

advisory board of Acreage Holdings, a company with cannabis operations in several states, and that his position on legal marijuana had changed based on public opinion.

For years, Boehner had opposed legal marijuana, in part because he believed it was a gateway drug.

“As public opinion shifts, members’ opinions on this are going to shift – I’m a prime example,” Boehner told Bloomberg. “Over these last 10 years, my attitude has changed pretty dramatically on this.”

In October, a Gallup poll found 64 percent of respondents supported the legalization of recreational use of marijuana in the United States. For the first time, the poll found, a majority of Republicans surveyed – 51 percent – favored legalization. That number was up from 42 percent a year before.

Meanwhile, 67 percent of independents supported legalization in the October poll, compared with 72 percent of Democrats.

Other surveys have shown similar results.

Mason Tvert, vice president of communications for VS Strategies, a public affairs firm based in Denver that specializes in cannabis policy, said he expects the numbers will continue to trend upward.

“And that’s going to force politicians – especially Republi-

cans who have been somewhat reluctant – to continue to support the end of marijuana prohibition,”

Tvert said.

In recent years, some Republican governors have implemented

legalization efforts at the behest of voters.

Two years ago, Nevadans overwhelmingly passed a measure allowing the sale and possession of up to an ounce of marijuana for anyone older than 21.

Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval opposed the ballot measure but softened his language and worked to implement the law after voters passed the measure by a nearly 10-percentage-point margin.

And in January, Vermont Republican Gov. Phil Scott signed a bill that legalized recreational marijuana.

In Vermont, legalization has been debated for years, with most polls showing widespread support for it.

Among voters there, 57 percent supported allowing adults to possess and grow limited amounts of marijuana, according to a survey conducted last year by Public Policy Polling. Thirty-nine percent opposed.

“I personally believe that what adults do behind closed doors and on private property is their choice,” Scott said when he signed the legislation. “So long as it does not negatively impact the health and safety of others.”

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SVO panel talks integrating into civilian life, understanding from students Continued from page 3.

They discussed what the service meant to them and what they took away from the experience.

Hagy started the panel off saying that while it was hard and he suffered from depression after returning to the civilian world, he would not trade the experience for anything.

All the panelists agreed that they would not change a thing.

Serrapere said that the maturity helped him the most. When he first enlisted, he tried to fight the process.

He said he learned to embrace what he was going through, and that made coming back to school easier with that mindset. He said whatever situation he gets in at

school, it is not that bad.

The veterans all agreed they gained friendships deeper than they ever imagined, and they would never be able to meet and have friends that close in the civilian world.

DeValerio and Serrapere joined fraternities at IUP and shared how the brotherhood helped them.

“I’d tell anyone to join something,” Serrapere said. “Join any type of organization to feel a part of something.”

All the veterans said they would like to see improvements in the way they are treated on campus.

“Some professors teach like their class is the only thing that matters,” DeValerio said.

They agreed that tolerance is a two-way street.

They will respect the professors and their jobs and do the best they can to be normal students, but they are not normal students and they have other obligations.

The panelists said that is the biggest improvement veterans would like from IUP.

Manafort investigated as ‘back channel’ to Russia, US lawyer says

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Special counsel Robert Mueller’s interest in former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort stemmed in part from his suspected role as a “back channel” between the campaign and Russians intent on meddling in the election, a Justice Department lawyer told a judge.

The disclosure by U.S. prosecutors came Thursday during a hearing on whether Mueller exceeded his authority in indicting Manafort on charges of laundering millions of dollars while acting as an unregistered agent of the Ukrainian government.

Manafort’s lawyers say those alleged crimes have nothing to do with Mueller’s central mission – to determine whether anyone in the Trump campaign had links to the Russian government.

Defense attorney Kevin Downing argued anew to U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington that even Mueller’s appointment order permitting him

(TNS) Paul Manafort, then senior aide to Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, attended an event on April 27, 2016, on foreign policy in Washington, D.C.

to probe “any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation” wouldn’t cover the political consulting work Manafort did in Ukraine for a decade.

But Justice Department attorney Michael Dreeben said prosecutors were justified in investigating Manafort because he had served as Trump’s campaign chairman.

“He had long-standing ties

to Russia-backed politicians,” Dreeben told Jackson. “Did they provide back channels to Russia?

Investigators will naturally look at those things.”

Prosecutors hadn’t previously used such explicit language to describe their suspicions about Manafort. In a previous court filing, Mueller also cited business ties between Manafort and the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

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Any investigation of links between Russia and the Trump campaign “would naturally cover ties that a former Trump campaign manager had to Russian-associated political operatives, Russianbacked politicians, and Russian oligarchs,” prosecutors said in an April 2 filing.

“It would also naturally look into any interactions they may have had before and during the campaign to plumb motives and opportunities to coordinate and to expose possible channels for surreptitious communications,” prosecutors wrote. “And prosecutors would naturally follow the

money trail from Manafort’s Ukrainian consulting activities. Because investigation of those matters was authorized, so was prosecution.”

Jackson heard similar arguments about Mueller’s authority at a hearing on April 4, when Downing defended a civil lawsuit that also said prosecutors had no authority to charge Manafort. The judge expressed deep skepticism then about whether a civil lawsuit was the proper legal step. She didn’t say when she would rule in either case.

Mueller has charged 19 people, including 13 Russians, since his appointment. Five have pleaded guilty, including Rick Gates, a former Trump deputy campaign chairman and longtime business associate of Manafort. Gates is cooperating with Mueller’s investigation.

Aside from the Washington indictment, Manafort is also charged in federal court in Alexandria, Va., with bank and tax fraud.

Dreeben, who is helping Mueller with the investigation, has argued more than 100 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court as deputy solicitor general.

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Inhale the good, exhale the bad:

Marijuana has created a culture of its own – and a holiday?

In 1971, five California high school students, known as the Waldos – a name derived from their hangout spot, a wall outside their school – coined the term “4:20 Louis” to refer to a plan that involved following a grower’s treasure map to an abandoned cannabis crop.

The group was meant to meet at the Louis Pasteur statue on campus at approximately 4:20 p.m. After several failed attempts to retrieve the cannabis, the phrase was shortened to simply “4:20.”

The phrase eventually developed into a code word for teens and achieved its meaning of today: smoking marijuana.

The term has since developed into its own holiday of sorts.

Every April 20, tens of thousands of Americans celebrate the holiday by indulging in cannabis.

Cannabis, also known as marijuana, is a psychoactive drug from the cannabis plant, made of 483 compounds, including THC, the main psychoactive found within the plant. Common terms for marijuana today are pot, weed, bud, kush, Mary J and reefer.

According to a 2017 poll by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, 52 percent of American adults have tried marijuana, and 44 percent of those who have tried it still smoke marijuana today.

So what is it about this drug that makes it enticing enough to be a part of many people’s daily lives and have a culture of its own?

Well, maybe it’s the fact that marijuana can help relieve stress, pain and other hardships in life.

By the time most people have reached college age, they’ve experienced a lot of life. Weed

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People have a wide range of opinions about marijuana – from hating to relying on it.

can help these people cope with things they might be afraid to confront otherwise and help them look forward to what the future has in store.

Maybe this generation turns to weed so much due to the bonds it helps people form with each other.

Many lifelong friendships begin with the flick of a lighter or puff of a joint.

Everyone is aware of the bonding effects of smoking cigarettes, but it’s almost even easier to bond with a little bit of weed.

Marijuana is proven to help ease anxiety for some, which allows those who may have trouble opening up more likely to do so without the fear of being judged.

Maybe it’s the sheer number of people who have become massively successful while still smoking weed, proving that it’s the person, not the plant, that matters.

Robert Downey Jr., Morgan Freeman, Michael Phelps, LeBron James, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart are just a few people who have admitted to enjoying smoking marijuana.

Some people like Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, Bob Marley and Seth Rogen have become successful by building their careers and brands on their use of marijuana.

Musicians and writers can use it as inspiration while athletes and high-ranking officials often use it as a pain and/or stress reliever.

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Medically speaking, weed has been proven help with diseases that affect the immune system – such as HIV/AIDS or multiple sclerosis – and treat inflamation, pain seizures, substance use disorders and even some mental disorders, according to a March 7 Business Insider article.

And yes, weed can be harmful to a person if it isn’t used properly.

Chances are, if you roll out of bed and hit a bong until you can’t stand, you are not going to be successful.

If you walk into a messy house filled with the smell of reefer and paraphernalia, chances are that person also is drastically misusing the drug.

Just like alcohol or caffeine –

both legal drugs – it is extremely possible for people to go from recreational use to a damaging habit.

The presumption that marijuana itself is a gateway drug, though, is kind of unreasonable.

While it is a drug, so are alcohol and coffee, yet those are legal and widely accepted in society despite having potentially worse aftermaths.

The thing about marijuana that very few understand is that it can be used as a tool or an advantage.

Smoking can make many activities more enjoyable or otherwise more bearable.

It can also make some people more productive and creative.

Smoking at the end of a long day, can help one reflect on the day and prepare for the next one.

Whatever the reason people do or don’t like marijuana, we all need to agree on at least one thing: Weed alone isn’t a problem. It’s the people who misuse it – just like anything else – who are the problem.

Instead of judging and critiquing each other’s lifestyles, we should try to look at it from a different perspective.

At the end of the day, that’s all weed is: trying to look at things in a different perspective.

So happy 4/20 to those who celebrate, and just sit back and enjoy some cheaper food if you don’t.

In the words of Wiz Khalifa, “Grow some more weed and get medicated; every day is a holiday so we celebrate it.”

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Backstreet’s back to celebrate National Record Store Day

By CAITLIN DENNY Staff Writer C.M.Denny@iup.edu

The Artists Hand Gallery and Espresso Bar and Backstreet Records will host a pop-up shop for National Record Store Day from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday at The Artists Hand.

Dave Anderson, the owner of Backstreet Records, is excited to bring another record pop-up shop to Indiana.

“Last year, I worked with The Brown Hotel for this event,” Anderson said. “When my storefront was located in Indiana, I had just held our Record Store Day celebrations within my store. Indiana is the grassroots of Backstreet

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Records. So when the date comes around, I like to hold the event in the store’s hometown.”

The first Record Store Day took place April 19, 2008. Independent record store owners and employees created this holiday as a way to celebrate and spread the word about the unique culture surrounding nearly, 1400 independently owned record stores in the United States and thousands of similar stores internationally, according to the Record Store Day

website. Today, there are Record Store Day participating stores on every continent except Antarctica. Special vinyl, CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day.

Backstreet Records is now located in Punxsutawney.

According to Anderson, there will be approximately 1,500 records for sale or for exchange at the pop-up shop.

“The number could fluctuate depending on how many records we get prepared prior to the day of the event,” Anderson said.

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“Although we won’t be selling any of the limited-released products specifically for Record Store Day this year, we will be bringing an expansive selection of new and preowned product that we previously haven’t made available to the public prior to the date of the event.”

Customers can not only buy records at the pop-up shop but can exchange one of their own records for a used record.

“The idea of the record exchange is to get fellow record collectors around each other and trading with each other to obtain albums they might want and learn about albums they don’t know about through other vinyl enthusiasts,” Anderson said. “Of course, I’ll have several albums

available, but it’s nice to have other members of the record community interacting with each other, and we definitely encourage others to bring records to trade among themselves. I also have a box specifically designated for people interested in exchanging. They may help themselves to whatever is in the box, I just ask that they put some records back into the box to keep the concept going.”

There will be a live DJ spinning, coffee, plenty of records to buy or exchange and giveaways at the event. The main giveaway is a brand-new turntable.

“The records can go quickly,” Anderson said. “So I advise people to come on time so you don’t miss out on a hidden gem.”

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Kanye West announces release date for eighth album — plus a collaboration with Kid Cudi

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(Facebook) Some local restaurants and shops, including Pita Pit, offer deals as part of the unofficial 4/20 holiday.

Roll into 4/20 with these local deals

By VICTORIA CASSELL Staff Writer V.V.Cassell@iup.edu

In honor of April 20, there are some 4/20 deals offered by local restaurants, bars and shops near campus. Smoker or not, these deals will definitely give you the most for your money, if you still have any left, of course.

The “High” Five Got the munchies? Let Insomnia Cookies satisfy your sweet tooth with its deal to pick any traditional five cookies for $4.20.

Some of the traditional cookie flavors include chocolate chunk, sugar, peanut butter chip, white chocolate macadamia and double chocolate chunk. Insomnia Cookies’ 9-3 a.m. hours will definitely fulfill your late-night cravings. Its easy-to-order menu also has deluxe cookies, ice cream, ice cream sandwiches and even bulk deals for you and the squad. Order 50, 100, 200 or even 300 cookies.

Roll a Fat One This year’s 4/20 date falls on a Friday. So after the bars shut down, your booze wears off and you’re

starving, stop into Pita Pit for a $4.20 pita. Let them roll you a fat one and add as many toppings as you like, and yes, this includes avocados, too. This is the fifth annual 4/20 deal that Pita Pit has offered, and it lasts from 10:30 a.m. Friday to 3 a.m. Saturday. If you live on Philadelphia Street, Pita Pit delivers pitas for free. For locations off Philadelphia Street, delivery is $2.

No coupons or special codes are needed to take advantage of this deal.

Blowing Spaghetti-Os If you’re into casual Italian dining, then Spaghetti Benders is where you want to be this Friday.

This 4/20, Spaghetti Benders is offering salad and fresh Italian bread for the low price of $4.20 from 11 a.m. to 4:20 p.m. Voted the best Italian restaurant in Indiana County according to Spaghetti Benders’ website, the eatery has a wide menu to choose from with options ranging from homemade pasta, pizza and burgers to seafood. The restaurant also boasts a “build your own pasta bowl” option. The newly remodeled restaurant also hosts live music every second Friday and Saturday of the month, as well as karaoke every Friday and Saturday.

This is not just a God dream for fans of Kanye West – the rapper is dropping an album June 1.

West continued his viral return to Twitter with the announcement Thursday that his eighth solo studio album will consist of seven songs.

And that’s not all – the Yeezy designer also revealed he and former protege Kid Cudi are teaming up as Kids See Ghost to put out another album June 8. “me and Cudi album June 8th,” West wrote. “It’s called Kids See Ghost. That’s the name of our group.”

The big reveal capped off a string of nearly 50 tweets that saw the rapper, 40, waxing poetic on life, offering glimpses of upcoming designs for his Yeezy shoe line and diving deep into his own psyche.

“Fear often causes people to be manipulative,” he wrote Tuesday. “Be transparent as possible.

Stop setting plays. Stop playing chess with life. Make decisions

(Facebook) Kanye West and Kid Cudi will release a collaborative album June 8.

based on love not fear.”

He also addressed an upcoming book that he was “writing in real time,” and that he would be working on “when I feel like it.”

West’s upcoming record – which has yet to receive an official title – will be his first since 2016’s “The Life of Pablo.”

“Pablo,” which featured assists from stars like The Weeknd, Chance the Rapper, Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar and Frank Ocean, scored the star three Grammy nominations, including a nod for Best Rap Album.

Despite the album’s massive success, West has remained largely out of the spotlight over the last year following a mental breakdown that forced him to cancel a majority of his Saint

Pablo tour.

He returned to the stage in November for the first time since November 2016 to join Kid Cudi in his hometown of Chicago.

The pair performed a surprised rendition of “Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 1” – a welcome return for the star, whose mid-concert rants and erratic behavior one year prior got him placed under psychiatric evaluation at UCLA Medical Center.

West was rumored to be working on new material back in May, with TMZ reporting he was cooped up in Wyoming hard at work.

The rapper welcomed his third child with wife Kim Kardashian, daughter Chicago, in January.

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Carrie Underwood releases details of facial injury

By PETER SBLENDORIO New York Daily News TNS

Carrie Underwood went into detail for the first time about the gruesome accident she suffered last November that left her needing at least 40 stitches on her face.

The singer – who kept a low profile for months following the accident – revealed the injury she sustained occurred “around (her) mouth” and said it took place when she fell on a set of steps while walking her dogs.

“I went to catch myself and I just missed a step,” Underwood said Thursday on the radio program “The Bobby Bones Show.”

“If I had fallen anywhere else I would have been perfectly fine, but it was one step that messed everything up.”

Underwood also suffered a broken right wrist in the fall. She says she managed to hold onto the dogs’ leashes with her left hand during the fall, and tried to catch herself with the other.

“I was worried he would be scared of me,” Underwood said.

“But now if I put makeup on, he’s

(TNS) Carrie Underwood arrived at the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards show at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017.

like, ‘Mommy, your boo-boo’s all gone.’”

Underwood originally only informed fans about her broken wrist after the accident, but later opened up in a January post to her website that she also needed “between 40 and 50 stitches” on her face.

“You just don’t know how things are going to heal or end up,” Underwood told host Bobby Bones on Thursday. “It was important to me as I started resuming my life again and going to the grocery store and taking my kid and stuff like that I was like, ‘OK,

someone is gonna creep on me at the grocery store.’ And people are going to be like, ‘What happened?’ when they post it on Instagram.”

Underwood, who is married to NHL player Mike Fischer, stayed out of the spotlight following the fall, and refrained from posting photos of herself to social media until earlier this month when she shared a pair of pictures, including one showing her entire face.

She noted that she was wearing makeup over the injury during her appearance on Bones’ show, but says she feels fortunate that she’s been able to heal up well.

“I was lucky that when it happened, everything was kind of shutting down in the music world and we had the holidays and stuff like that,” she said. “But I was at a point where I didn’t know how things were going to end up. I didn’t know what was going to go on and didn’t know what it was going to heal like.”

Underwood made her return to the limelight over the weekend when she performed at the Academy of Country Music Awards, where she sang her new single “Cry Pretty.”

(TNS) From left, Naomie Harris as Dr. Kate Caldwell and Dwayne Johnson as Davis Okoye in the film, “Rampage.”

‘Rampage’: The Rock’s latest is enjoyably ridiculous

By RAFER GUZMÅN Newsday TNS

If you’re willing to buy Dwayne Johnson as a primatologist with a Special Forces background, then everything else in the enjoyably ridiculous monster-movie “Rampage” should be an easy sell. A tale of three normal-sized animals genetically transformed into citywrecking behemoths, “Rampage” mixes high levels of testosterone with something that can only be called preposterone, and the combination makes for absurdly good entertainment.

We’re hooked from the start, when a terrified doctor scrambles through a blood-spattered space station to escape from a severely disturbed lab rat. We don’t need much more than an uncaring female voice on the intercom (and 40 years of “Alien” movies) to deduce that a sinister corporation is behind all this. Three of the doctor’s canisters go tumbling to Earth and, as luck would have it, land in spots teeming with wildlife.

Among them is a San Diego preserve where staffer Davis Okoye (the always likable Johnson) has developed a deep bond with an albino silverback gorilla, George (a motion-captured Jason Liles).

They laugh, joke and make crude wisecracks, all in sign, but one morning Davis discovers that

George is growing at a frightening pace and developing a violent temper. It turns out George inhaled a mysterious gas from one of those canisters – as did a wolf in Wyoming and a crocodile in the Everglades.

One reason we buy all this nonsense is a deft script (by Ryan Engle and others) that doesn’t try too hard to turn what was originally a Bally Midway video game into plausible science fiction.

When geneticist Kate Caldwell (Naomie Harris) joins forces with Davis and says something about gene-editing – “the growth rate of a blue whale, the strength of a beetle!” – we’re basically satisfied. Likewise, the film’s villains, a brother-sister bio-tech team (Jake Lacy and Malin Akerman) are about as realistic as Saturday morning cartoon characters and every bit as fun. They’re the ones who lure the animals to Chicago with a special radio frequency that sounds like this: “beee-yooop!”

It’s all a hoot, energetically directed by Brad Peyton (now on his third film with Johnson) and filled with inventive special effects that turn downtown Chicago into a jungle gym for the towering creatures. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, as a vaguely defined government agent named Russell, sums up the film’s less-than-serious tone when he casually tells our heroes, “Thank you for saving the world.”

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This is a satirical news column

Old Man Winter faces alleged pay-for-play scandal

(Seth Woolcock/ The Penn) IUP faced a snow shower yesterday morning.

By CANDACE HOWELL Staff Writer C.J.Howell2@iup.edu

New evidence surfaced during legal proceedings in the ongoing Mother Nature v. Old Man Winter trial.

The charges are adding up against Old Man Winter after a little bird claimed he allegedly participated in a pay-forplay scandal that

resulted in a longer winter.

Residents of Indiana County continue to follow the ongoing trial of two influential forces, and although winter is a common and often celebrated season throughout the northern states and Canada, suspicions arose among the ranks of supernatu-

ral influencers when, on Feb. 2, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, predicting six more weeks of a harsh winter.

“It’s outrageous,” Father Time, the international time icon and hourglass enthusiast, said. “As if Daylight Saving Time wasn’t bad enough.”

Time, who is also acting as Mother Nature’s attorney, claimed Winter paid off the groundhog to extend the snowy and windy weather in exchange for a lifetime supply of Groundhog Punch: the “magic elixir” that has extended Phil’s life for more than 100 years.

Phil and his wife, Phyllis, along with the groundhog’s “Inner Circle” could not be reached for comment.

“It became obvious that this was all a dubious plan when April came and threats of snow kept coming,” Time said.

After being served with the official summons, Phil and Winter’s attorney, Jack Frost, called a press conference addressing the “bogus and unrealistic” charges against his clients, citing Phil’s past predictions and attacking Pennsylvania’s “snowflake” population.

“This isn’t our first rodeo with winter, folks,” Frost said. “As the late, great poet E.E. Cummings once said, ‘The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.’ So why start complaining now?”

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and invasion of privacy, claiming that Nature unlawfully used “the grapevine” to listen in on conversations between his clients.

Frost said the conversations were necessary for business and that Nature has had to have similar conversations with Phil in regards to weather reports in the past.

“This case is so much more than weather,” Mother Nature tweeted Friday. “It’s about the people and their right to spring

forward. It’s time to move on.”

Overall, the general consensus supports Mother Nature, citing the alleged scandal that Old Man Winter facilitated to gain further control of the season. County natives like Farmer John said the judicial system is taking its time when justice should be “swift and sure.”

“The old saying is, ‘April showers bring May flowers,’” John said.

“Not ‘April showers turn in to more sleet!’”

Tuesday’s Puzzle Solved

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P Sports Editor: Sean Fritz – S.D.Fritz@iup.edu Lead Sports Writer: Jarrod Browne – J.W.Browne@iup.edu

(TNS) Derick Brassard of the Pittsburgh Penguins scored a power play goal Saturday in Game 3 of their dominating 5-1 performance in which they defeated their cross-state rival Philadelphia Flyers. The Pens lead the series, 3-1.

(TNS) Marc-Andre Fleury of the Vegas Golden Knights stole the show in the Knights’ first-ever playoff series in the team’s opening-round sweep of the Los Angeles Kings. Fleury made 128 saves on 132 shots during the series.

Penguins looking to advance

By SEAN FRITZ Sports Editor

S.D.Fritz@iup.edu

The NHL playoffs are a week in, and there have been some exciting and shocking moments, as most of the first-round matchups continue.

In the Eastern Conference, the Metropolitan Division features two series between its teams that have been anything but identical.

The Washington Capitals, who earned the top seed in the division, hosted the conference’s top wild card seed in the Columbus Blue Jackets last Thursday to kick off the seven-game series.

With many analysts predicting the Caps to make a run with lower expectations and not as much pressure than in prior years, the Caps dropped both Game 1 and Game 2 on home ice to a tough,

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young Columbus club.

This series has been tight with the first two games being decided in overtime as well as Tuesday’s Game 3 matchup in Columbus, where the Caps got on the board after defeating the Jackets in double overtime. One of the biggest stories of the series has been the return of Capitals’ netminder Braden Holtby, who did not begin the series as the team’s starter but has since taken back control of the Capitals’ goaltending situation.

Elsewhere in the Metropolitan Division, the Pittsburgh Penguins took a commanding 3-1 series lead over the cross-state rival Philadelphia Flyers. After the reigning Stanley Cup champions kicked off the series with a 7-0 blowout win in Pittsburgh, the Flyers answered in Game 2 with an impressive 5-1 win of their own, leading fans and analysts to think there might be a

competitive series ahead.

That proved to be far from the truth, following back-to-back blowout wins by Pittsburgh on the road in Philadelphia in Games 3 and 4, where the Pens outscored the Flyers, 10-1, in just the two games.

Game 5, an elimination game, is set for 7 p.m. Friday at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh.

In the Atlantic Division, the Tampa Bay Lightning lived up to the hype of being the conference’s top overall seed by taking a 3-1 series lead on the New Jersey Devils.

The Lightning got off to a fast start in the first two games in Tampa but fell victim to a young and energetic Devils team in Game 3 on Monday in New Jersey.

Tampa held off the Devils’ surge in Game 4 to take the 3-1 series lead back to Amalie Arena for Game 5 on Saturday.

The Boston Bruins also came

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out flying in Games 1 and 2 over the Toronto Maple Leafs, and many thought the series may be quick.

However, the Leafs answered with a much needed Game 3 victory in Toronto on Monday night.

In the West, the Nashville Predators continued their stellar play from the regular season, in which they earned the President’s Trophy, and jumped out to a 3-1 series lead over a young Colorado Avalanche team, which finished last in the league a season ago.

The Winnipeg Jets controlled their series with Central Division rival the Minnesota Wild. It has been one of the physically tougher series of the postseason, as viewers could sense the intensity between the two clubs, which certainly have no love lost for one another.

Winnipeg won both Games 1 and 2 in a crazy atmosphere in Winnipeg and then split in Minne-

sota for Games 3 and 4 to take a 3-1 series lead back home, looking to eliminate the Wild in Game 5.

The Pacific Division featured the only sweeps of the first round with goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury leading the Vegas Golden Knights to four close victories in tightly checking contests against the Los Angeles Kings.

The four-game sweep does not tell the whole story of this series, however, considering the competitiveness of the series.

The San Jose Sharks will also move on for a matchup with the Knights in the second round, after sweeping Southern California rival the Anaheim Ducks, which proved they just didn’t have enough for an amped-up Sharks team.

The postseason got off to a great start for fans of the game, and there is a lot more excitement and intensity to expect.

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By CODY BENJAMIN Guest Columnist @CodyJBenjamin

I wasn’t ready to believe it.

When the ball hit the ground, ricocheting off an end zone painted nautical blue, the clock hitting double zeros, a final whistle barely overcoming gasps from the crowd, a referee affirming, “This is ... the end of the game,” I was not ready.

By the looks of the half-dozen Philadelphia Eagles who had retreated to defend a desperation bomb from the greatest quarterback of their lifetime, neither were a good portion of the men who had just won the Super Bowl, America’s most-watched TV event.

I wasn’t ready because there were a full 9 seconds left in the biggest game of the 2017 National Football League season when that final play began, but I wasn’t ready more so because I had grown up knowing a world that simply did not permit Philadelphia football championships – and learning to love the annual pains of having hope anyway.

When streamers started to rain from the enclosed sky of U.S. Bank Stadium and those Eagles finally realized the clock had, in fact, run its course, what commenced was something like the five stages of grief, except with utter, inconceivable jubilation.

Philadelphia, for years inseparable from my childhood and for eons before my time, gained something that too long had escaped its reach, and it gained it in the blink of an eye.

Unlike the bath of testosterone that is screaming alongside thousands of others from the stands of Lincoln Financial Field, what accompanied the instant evolution of Eagles Super Bowl history was not belligerent hooting and hollering.

For me, it was a hug. It was a clasping of hands on top of my head. It was a quiet entrance into disbelief.

(Twitter) Cody Benjamin, IUP class of 2016.

I could not yet comprehend that that was really it.

Two months later, I'm still not sure it's truly sunk in. I've gotten used to the phrase "Super Bowl champions," but I haven't yet gotten used to the idea that, that was it. It's a nice feeling, nonetheless.

It's a feeling I figure quite a few at IUP, my alma mater, share with me (unless, of course, you root for the other Pennsylvania team).

And it's one I'd encourage you to keep enjoying since seasons like that are hard to come by.

But how can you relive the run to the Lombardi? How can you put yourself back in that special season, embracing all of its euphoria?

Well, you can read about it. And – lucky for you – I've written an entire 180-page book just to help you out.

With 19 game recaps, profiles of every player, stories from the locker room and coverage straight from Super Bowl Week, which I was fortunate enough to cover from Minnesota, it's got everything you need to celebrate those Super Bowl champion Birds.

Oh, and I'm giving a copy away for free. So get on Twitter and follow me (@CodyJBenjamin) and The Penn (@ThePennIUP) for a chance to get it!

Cody Benjamin is a 2016 graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a writer for CBS Sports. His book, "Hatched: The Unofficially Definitive Guide to the 2017 Super Bowl Champion Eagles," is available on Amazon and at Barnes & Noble.

(TNS) Philadelphia Eagles’ Super Bowl LII-winning and game MVP Nick Foles celebrated the organization’s first-ever Super Bowl championship in Minneapolis in February.

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By SARAH MOLTZ Staff Writer

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The 21st-ranked IUP lacrosse team fell short, losing to Lock Haven University, 1413, in a comeback Tuesday evening at Lock Haven.

Junior Kelly Shields (marketing) scored three goals, adding four assists and four ground balls, as she ended the night with seven points.

After Tuesday’s loss, IUP is tied with Bloomsburg University for the No. 6 spot in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC), falling to 5-4 in conference.

The top six teams at the end of the regular season will advance to the PSAC tournament.

IUP has three games left on the schedule, with its next opponent being Bloomsburg on Saturday.

Lock Haven improved to 10-4 overall and 6-3 in conference. Adriana Greco (junior, child development) scored three goals for IUP, with two being in the final 9 minutes of the first half.

(IUP Athletics) Kelly Shields (junior, marketing) led the Crimson Hawks with seven points in the team’s one-goal loss to Lock Haven University on Tuesday night.

Lock Haven, however, took control of the lead 10-8 heading into halftime.

Greco totaled four goals, which was a team best, and assisted on five. The Crimson Hawks had two more chances in the final minutes of their comeback, but shot attempts by Katie Martyn (junior, child development) and Ally Burrows (junior, biology) failed, as Lock Haven held the clock and control of the ball to stop the comeback.

IUP outshot Lock Haven, 26-25. However, IUP turned the ball over more than its

opponent, 22-20.

The Crimson Hawks will prepare for their next game after Tuesday’s loss, as they travel to Bloomsburg to break the tie and advance in the conference. Bloomsburg (9-5, 5-4) recently fell to West Chester University, 21-6.

West Chester currently leads the conference with an undefeated 9-0 conference record.

Saturday’s game is scheduled to start at noon.

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IUP picks up two-game sweep over Clarion to win fourth straight game

(IUP Athletics) The IUP softball team won four straight games following back-to-back sweeps.

By JARROD BROWNE Lead Sports Writer

J.W.Browne@iup.edu

The IUP softball team swept Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) foe Clarion University in a doubleheader Wednesday at Podbielski Field in Indiana.

The Crimson Hawks opened Game 1 by sending Lauren Zola (junior, hospitality management) to the circle. Zola pitched a complete game, allowing four earned runs and recording eight strikeouts.

Alaina Montgomery (senior, information systems), Renee Wall (freshman, criminology), Amanda Parrish (senior, accounting) and Bryanna Lonick (senior, management) all led the Crimson Hawks offensively.

Montgomery led IUP with three hits, and Lonick finished with two hits while driving in three runs. Wall finished with two hits and an RBI while Parrish had a pair of hits and scored a run.

Despite the 12-hit effort, IUP found itself tied with Clarion, 4-4, entering the bottom of the seventh inning, until Olivia Gregorich (freshman, mathematics) hit her first career home run. The gamewinning home run scored two runs, which gave IUP the 6-4 victory.

“A big walk-off homer,” head coach Bill Graham said. “We were

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kind of owed that because we were walked-off on twice. So we were joking, maybe if we get to bat last, we will get one, and sure enough we did. So that was great for Olivia to get that in there.”

In Game 2. IUP sent Megan Risinger (junior, nursing) to the circle.

Risinger pitched a complete game, allowing one earned run and recording four strikeouts.

Wall, who went 3-for-3 while knocking in two runs to complete a perfect 5-for-5 day at the plate, led the Crimson Hawks offensively.

Kassie Kesneck (sophomore, English) and Kaitlyn Beers (sophomore, criminology) also had big games at the plate. Kesneck went 2-for-3 while knocking in three runs. Beers finished with a 2-for-4 effort with a pair of RBIs. “I thought our approaches were pretty good overall, hitting wise,” Graham said. “We had a lot of loud outs, which was good to see.”

With the two wins, the Crimson Hawks remain hot, improving to 12-10. IUP has victories in four straight games and five out of its last six games.

“It’s always good to get a couple of conference wins,” Graham said. “It doesn’t matter who you play. We were excited and we felt confident.”

Moving forward, the Crimson Hawks will stay at home to host Mansfield University for a doubleheader in a PSAC divisional matchup at 2:30 p.m. Friday at Podbielski field. IUP will continue its homestand this weekend, as the Crimson Hawks will celebrate Senior Day against PSAC opponent Lock Haven University at 1 p.m. Saturday.

(IUP Athletics) Olivia Gregorich (freshman, mathematics) hit a game-winning home run to propel the Crimson Hawks to a Game 1 win over Clarion University on Wednesday. Gregorich’s blast was a two-run shot that gave the team a 6-4 win in the bottom of the seventh inning.

(IUP Athletics) Amanda Parrish (senior, accounting) was one of four Crimson Hawks to record multi-hit games in the team’s Game 1 victory. Parrish recorded two hits and scored a run in the win. Parrish is hitting .308 for the season and has driven in nine runs.

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