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Not many college sophomores get a shot at their dream job so early in life.

Bridgette Schaffer, a predentistry student, got one step closer to blending her passion and a career by trying out as a Phillies Ballgirl.

On Jan. 10, Schaffer stepped out onto the field at Citizens Bank Park with a group of college and Philadelphia-area athletes all looking to obtain one of the 10 spots on the ballgirl team.

A lifelong Phillies fan, Schaffer wanted to be a part of the organization that she had spent so many years supporting.

The Phillies Ballgirls act as ambassadors for the Phillies organization. They “represent educated, athletic and energetic women who hope to serve as role models in professional sports for young girls,” according to the Phillies’ website.

These women, along with attending the baseball games, go out into the community for appearances and participate in the Red Goes Green environmental initiatives.

Schaffer heard about this opportunity from a friend who is a current Phillies Ballgirl.

She decided to try out, feeling confident in her 14 years of softball experience, which included playing for IUP her freshman year.

She began playing as a way to hang out with her friends, but she said softball always stuck out to

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(The Phillies/Miles Kennedy) Bridgette Schaffer (sophomore, pre-dentistry) advanced to the next round of interviewing to be a Phillies Ballgirl Jan. 10 after submitting an application video to the organization.

her among the many sports she played.

That’s why she wanted to jump on this opportunity.

“I wanted to be with girls that share the same love of softball that I do,” Schaffer said. “The ballgirls give back to the community, and that’s something I also try to do.”

The first step in the tryout process was sending in a video highlighting the applicant’s skills and pitching herself to the decision committee as a good fit for the position.

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Schaffer received an email inviting her to advance.

Schaffer said the day of the tryout, fear set in as she was lined up with the other girls. A large number of applicants and only 10 spots meant many wouldn’t get a call back.

The girls took a quiz, testing their knowledge of the Phillies.

They also did a few fielding and hitting drills to demonstrate their softball skills.

Afterward, they sat down with a panel and were interviewed about their interpersonal skills and

baseball knowledge.

But at the end of the day, only 10 girls could fill the slots.

Schaffer decided to try again next year, and said she does not feel discouraged from this year’s outcome. After speaking to some of the other girls, she said she learned it sometimes takes two or three attempts before being chosen for the team.

She said she will focus more on the interview next year by studying Phillies history and information about the organization since she now knows the process.

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For most, ‘New Year, New Me’ really means ‘Maybe’

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

By Dec. 31, social media was flooded with all kinds of New Year’s resolution memes and declarations.

“New Year, new me” was one of the most common comments for the beginning of 2018.

Whether the resolution is to save money, be healthy or pursue other long-term goals, the unlucky majority often find themselves back at square one.

Though it might be common knowledge, the number of people who do not follow through with their New Year’s resolutions seems unusually high.

Several online sources like Forbes and Business Insider claim that as much as 80 percent or more of New Year’s resolutions are bound to fail.

Some of the reasons behind these include half-hearted motivation, negative perspective or just the lack of attainable outcomes.

Even people who start the month of January on a high note tend to fizzle out fast with “only 46 percent [of resolutions] lasting longer than six months,” CBS

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While there are many theories as to why the “new me” part of the new year rarely works out, students at IUP have their own ideas about the fad.

Daniel Wethli (junior, philosophy and Asian studies) said that yearly resolutions are something that has been “ingrained” in our culture, but the tradition still has

(junior, interior design) see the new year as more of an “excuse” to wait longer to begin new commitments. Stiffler said that people who really want to change will just do it without any prompting.

While most Americans falter, there is still the other 20 percent.

Wethli said he stays focused on his resolutions by writing them down.

Capps said learning self-discipline is vital, and Hannah Winters (junior, archeology) said doing research is an important first step to maintaining a New Year’s resolution.

There are plenty of apps available that can be useful, too. For financial goals, the app “Mint” is a useful monitor that tracks spending habits; “Pocket” saves articles and videos for people who want

some validity.

“They motivate people, but it’s cliché,” Daniel Weth said.

Téa Capps (junior, English literature) said that New Year’s resolutions are usually made because of “the hype” of the new year. Capps said she usually forgets her resolution by April or it does not work.

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Simpler, pre-installed apps like “Tasks” or “Notepad” and reminders or alarms can help, too.

For fitness or weight loss, Carson Nicholas (junior, political science) suggested apps like “MyFitnessPal” or “Lose It” from his own experience.

Aside from being proactive on-campus, Nicholas described himself as a very motivated person who takes his goals one day at a time.

“I don’t place so much emphasis on the ‘New Year, new me’ [idea],” Nicholas said. “It’s more ‘New day, new me.’ When I want to do something, I just say ‘OK, how do I do this?’ and I just do it.”

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Lepley Natatorium offers courses, free swim

By MADELINE ROGERS Contributing Writer M.T.Rogers@iup.edu

A pool might not be the first facility students think of visiting when it’s time to get a workout routine in – but there are many health benefits to swimming.

Lepley Natatorium, located in Zink Hall, offers a wide variety of programs, classes and equipment to the students of IUP. Lepley Natatorium is one of many exercise facilities on IUP’s campus, but it is far less used than the gym and other exercise facilities.

Swimming is completely free with the swipe of an I-Card.

Dr. Adam B. Katchmarchi, an assistant professor at IUP, is the aquatic director in the department of kinesiology, health and sport sciences.

Katchmarchi has created several water fitness courses in

(IUP Website) Zink Hall houses Lepley Natatorium, a pool that offers free swim hours to members of the IUP community with an I-Card.

Lepley’s facility to increase student interest. According to Lepley Natatorium’s spring 2018 programming, the facility offers programs such as“AquaAerobics,” “Hydrocise,” “Lunch Time Fat Burners” and “Hydro X.” All water aerobic courses are only $1 for students. Classes such as “Hydro X” were designed specifically to offer students a more intense workout.

IUP’s gyms are typically full of students working out almost every day, while the pool may remain close to empty some days.

“It is a beautiful facility,” Katchmarchi said. “We’re lucky to have a pool of this quality. The more students that use the pool, the more we’re able to do for them.”

Lepley’s pool offers a variety of equipment and lap-swimming lanes for students to exercise their bodies in a different way, compared to the gym.

“In the water, you only weigh 10 percent of your body weight. So it seems easier to exercise in the pool than on land,” said Gabrielle Hammer, a lifeguard at the pool.

“But the water creates resistance, giving you a full-body workout.

You don’t feel the pain until after the workout is over.”

Along with the exercise programs, Katchmarchi is working on establishing a new activity for Lepley called “Dive-in Movies.”

A projector is going to be

installed into the facility and students are welcome to come watch a movie on Friday nights, while swimming in the pool.

Lepley offers other similar activities for students who want to just hang out with friends and swim.

The pool has inner tubes and a basketball hoop, offering daily open-swim hours.

Students can rent out the pool for any event when the facility is not in use.

The pool briefly closed for free use in the fall semester of 2016 due to lack of student use. Since the closing, Katchmarchi has received more funding and created a variety of new programs to regain student interest.

“The president’s office stepped up and gave us funding,” Katchmarchi said. “President Driscoll recognized that this pool is for the students and allowed us to reopen after Thanksgiving in 2016.”

According to Katchmarchi, the

Co-op is also covering student membership fees, allowing the pool to be open for free use. With more students putting the pool in use, the facility will see more opportunities to create activities for students.

“Our total goal is to take the non-traditional swimmer and give them something to do in Zink pool. One of my dreams is to get a rock climbing wall installed over the deep-end of the pool in the next few years,” Katchmarchi said.

According to IUP’s website, Lepley Natatorium is open daily for IUP students and the community, with free swim hours to accommodate students’ schedules.

The hours are 6 to 9 a.m. and again from 5 to 9 p.m. MondayThursday. Its hours on Friday are almost identical, except it closes one hour earlier in the evening. In addition, the pool has weekend hours, consisting of 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday and 1 to 7 p.m. on Sunday.

Snapchat will now allow you to share and watch videos outside its app

By DAVID PIERSON Los Angeles Times TNS

Snapchat’s appeal has largely been limited to young people who can navigate its famously confounding interface. It’s one of the reasons why Instagram has nearly three times as many users.

But in a major shift that could make Snapchat more enticing to new users, the video messaging app announced Tuesday it will allow its public content to be shared across other social media platforms – not just inside its mobile app.

The Venice company, which long eschewed a serious web presence, said users can now share links to videos curated by Snapchat in the app’s Our Stories and Search Stories features as well as videos from celebrities and other public figures known as Official Stories. The links will open on a web player hosted on Snapchat.com.

The hope is that the added exposure will demystify the Snapchat experience and help reverse user growth that has slowed to a pedestrian pace – in no small part because of competition from Facebook and its photo-sharing app Instagram.

(TNS) Bobby Murphy, 29, left, and Evan Spiegel, 27, co-creators of Snapchat, were seen through a window of the company’s offices on Ocean Front Walk on May 6, 2013, in Venice, Calif.

Snapchat will now allow videos to be watched and shared outside its app.

Compared with Snapchat, both Facebook and Instagram welcome the sharing of content outside their platforms: consider how common it is to see an Instagram photo embedded online compared with a Snapchat screenshot.

By allowing users to share links, Snapchat is joining the ranks of other platforms in the business of trafficking that elusive content known as viral videos.

All that added attention could persuade reluctant visitors to create their own Snapchat accounts,

but it could also undermine Snapchat’s core proposition to its users: ephemerality.

To address that, the company said it will treat links shared outside its app the same way as public videos inside the app by erasing them after a few weeks (they also disappear if the creator of the video chooses to delete them). Posts from celebrities and other public figures, known as Official Stories, will remain viewable for only 24 hours.

The company said it will not

include advertising in the videos shared outside Snapchat, though it did not rule out doing it in the future.

Snapchat said publishers also urged the company to provide more ways to view videos tailormade for the app. Snapchat partners with a host of media organizations for content, including Vice, BuzzFeed and NBC. This isn’t the first time Snapchat has made its content viewable outside its app – though it is by far the most significant. In 2016, the company posted select Snapchat videos from the Academy Awards on its website.

Snapchat’s parent company, Snap Inc., had been rumored to be looking at offering content beyond the app since last year. In December, the video news outlet Cheddar reported that a recently hired executive, Rahul Chopra, would lead an initiative called Stories Everywhere. Chopra had previously served as chief executive of Storyful, a sort of news agency for user-generated videos.

Building more exposure to Snapchat outside the app does come with some risk. The company could find it harder to negotiate rates with advertisers if users are seeing content outside the app.

And there’s no guarantee people will flock to Snapchat the more they see it. Twitter’s ubiquity in the Trump era, after all, hasn’t resulted in any meaningful user growth for the company.

The sharing feature is accessible beginning Tuesday to users who have the recently redesigned Snapchat app, which will become available to more people in the coming weeks. To link stories, users must press and hold a story tile on the app, which will bring up options to share. That can include sharing over email or on platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, the company said.

The new strategy comes after a punishing first year as a public company. After pricing shares at $17 for its March IPO, Snap saw its stock soar to as high as $27.09 only to crater six months later at $11.83. It closed Monday up 13 cents, or less than 1 percent, at $14.17.

The company, which is set to post its fourth-quarter earnings Feb. 6, has also been hampered by its short-lived foray into camera-mounted sunglasses called Spectacles, complaints about its chief of human resources and a report the company was threatening employees who leaked information with a lawsuit or jail time.

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College students today strive for perfection, study finds

By ANNA ORSO

The Philadelphia Inquirer TNS

Alison Malmon was wrapping up the end of her freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania in 2000 when she got the news: Her older brother Brian, a student at Columbia University, had killed himself.

He’d struggled for years with mental illness, Malmon said, but concealed his symptoms. Determined to help, Malmon formed a group at Penn a year and a half later to empower students to talk openly about mental health.

Her group, Active Minds, blossomed into a national organization that today has more than 450 campus chapters. Leaders with the organization spend their time planning programming and talking with college students about the now well-documented pressure today’s young people face.

“What you hear often is just a need to be perfect,” said Malmon, now the group’s executive director, “and a need to present oneself as perfect.”

A new study out of the United Kingdom shows just that today’s college students want to be perfect, and more so than their

(TNS) An aerial view of the Stanford University campus features the Hoover Tower on Sept. 2, 2015, in Stanford, Calif. A recent study found that today’s college students want to be perfect, moreso than their parents did.

parents did. But the reasons behind that, the researchers say, are deeply ingrained in today’s culture.

Two British researchers studied more than 40,000 students from the United States, Canada and Britain in what they believe is the first study examining perfectionism across multiple generations.

They found that what they called “socially prescribed perfection-

ism” increased by a third between 1989 (when Gen Xers attended college) and 2016 (with a mix of millennials and Gen Zers), and that culture could be driving up rates of mental-health disorders.

Lead researcher Thomas Curran said that while so many of today’s young people try to curate a perfect life on Instagram, social media’s grip isn’t the only reason for perfectionist tendencies.

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That comes from new norms like greater numbers of college students, standardized testing, and parenting that increasingly emphasizes success in education.

“We now have forms of competition where it never used to be,” said Curran, of the University of Bath. “Forcing to compare, compete, and keep up with social comparisons in turn is forcing them to develop perfectionist tendencies.”

Curran and co-author Andrew P. Hill, an associate professor at York St. John University, analyzed college students between 1989 and 2016 who completed the “Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale,” a survey that puts a figure on perfectionism.

The survey asks respondents to agree or disagree on a scale with statements like: “When I am working on something, I cannot relax until it is perfect,” or “Anything that I do that is less than excellent will be seen as poor work by those around me.”

The study, published Dec. 28 in the journal Psychological Bulletin, concluded that three categories of perfectionism, which they define as “a combination of excessively high personal standards and overly critical self-evaluations,” increased since 1989: Self-oriented perfectionism – a self-imposed desire to be perfect – increased by 10 percent.

Other-oriented perfectionism, or the practice of holding others to irrationally high standards, increased by 16 percent.

Socially prescribed perfectionism, or the perception that there are unrealistically high expectations from others, increased by 33 percent.

It’s the latter dimension that gives researchers the most concern. Curran and Hill describe socially prescribed perfectionism as “the most debilitating” and said it’s a better predictor of depression and suicide than the other two.

So where’s that socially prescribed perfectionism come from?

Curran said it would be “easy” to attribute the rise to social media, and while he admitted those platforms “put the problem on steroids,” he said there are other factors, like an increase in meritocracy among millennials.

The researchers say today’s hypercompetitive society tells young people: Have the highest grade point average, get into the best school, obtain the highest-paying job, and the perfect life can be yours.

For example, in 1976, half of high school seniors expected to get a college degree of some kind. By 2008, more than 80 percent expected the same, but actual degree attainment didn’t keep pace.

The researchers say this suggests expectations are increasingly unrealistic. They also said changes in parenting style over the last two decades might have had an impact.

Curran and Hill wrote that as parents feel increased pressure to raise successful children, they in turn pass their “achievement anxieties” onto their kids through “excessive involvement in their child’s routines, activities or emotions.”

Those in the mental health community like Malmon say they’re concerned about the impact the culture of perfectionism has on mental health on campuses. She’s comforted, she said, by students working to destigmatize the issue.

“Mental health has truly become this generation’s social justice issue,” she said. “It’s our job to equip them with the tools, to let people know that it’s not their fault, and that seeking help is a sign of strength and not weakness.”

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As victims pile up, only the outrage dies

By DONNIE COLLINS

The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa. TNS

In a trial of horrors, a spectacle of sadness that should have sickened us, perhaps the young woman whose story pained most was Emma Ann Miller.

She needed her mother for support, quite literally, as she stared down Larry Nassar in a Lansing, Michigan, courtroom earlier this week, took a deep breath and told a judge how the former Michigan State physician and USA Gymnastics national team doctor sexually assaulted her in a supply closet during a medical appointment in August 2016.

She’ll never forget the date.

Partly because, she said, Michigan State Sports Medicine was still trying to bill her for the appointment.

The university said shortly after the testimony that it will no longer attempt to bill former patients of the once-beloved doctor. That is big of the school, considering most of the more than 160 victims who stood in front of Nassar this week as part of his plea agreement actually took part of their allotted time to rip Michigan State, wondering why school officials muted their voices when they raised concerns with the doctor’s practices over the years.

“Are you listening, MSU?” Miller vented during her statement. “I’m 15 years old, and I’m not afraid of you, nor will I ever be.

At 15, I shouldn’t know the inside of a courtroom, but I’m going to become real comfortable in one.

So should you.”

On Wednesday, Judge Rosemary Aquilina sentenced the 54-year-old Nassar to 40 to 175 years behind bars for abusing seven women, telling him it was her “honor and privilege” to sign his “death warrant.”

It’s been 2,290 days since that night in State College when rioters gathered and cars overturned and anger spilled over as tear gas saturated a town where nothing newsworthy ever seemed to hap-

(TNS) McKayla Maroney (left) and Aly Raisman (right) testified against former USA Gymnastics national team doctor Larry Nassar.

pen away from the football field.

That was Nov. 9, 2011, the night the Penn State Board of Trustees fired football coach Joe Paterno and brought the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal screaming to the national forefront.

We’ll never see anything like this again, this kind of story, this kind of anger, I thought that night.

Now, less than seven years later, I sincerely wonder why we haven’t.

Public outcry steadily increased this week as Nassar’s victims lined up to tell their stories. But compared to the national media’s outcry in November of 2011 at what happened at Penn State, scars for the university and the athletic program that still linger, the response at Michigan State has been relatively mild from a public perspective, considering the severity of the charges and the apparent cover-up from both Michigan State and USA Gymnastics rallying around Nassar existed for more than a decade.

What happened at Penn State is no less horrible, no less damaging to Sandusky’s victims today than it was back then, even given the scope of what happened at Michigan State. If anything, it makes how Michigan State is dealing with the Nassar fallout more disgusting.

During an interview on a Lansing sports radio show earlier this week, Michigan State board of

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trustees vice president Joel Ferguson offered as backward a take on this issue as one could imagine, given that Penn State provided a template of both how to deal and not deal with a crisis like this.

When asked why the board has overwhelmingly supported the university’s leadership and longtime president Lou Anna Simon, he praised her work as a fundraiser, adding “there’s so many more things going on at the university than just this Nassar thing. When you go to the basketball game, you walk into the new

Breslin (Center), and the person who hustled and got all those major donors to give money was Lou Anna Simon.”

Penn State was criticized roundly for putting too much emphasis on its sports programs in the wake of the initial allegations against Sandusky in 2001. Well, it’s worth wondering where Michigan State is putting its emphasis now.

It certainly wasn’t on a potential investigation by the NCAA, which the governing body of college sports launched Tuesday by sending a letter of inquiry to

Michigan State.

“Why?” Ferguson laughed.

“This is not Penn State.”

Basically, he wanted to make clear the Sandusky scandal was a failure of Penn State’s athletic department to stop a predator, while simultaneously distancing his own athletic department, for which Nassar worked, from the actions of “that pervert.”

No, it’s not Penn State. It’s unbelievably a greater abuse of power and authority not getting the scorn it deserves. The same Michigan State leaders Ferguson and the board backed are the ones who reportedly waited six months after the Nassar scandal broke in 2016 to contact female athletes, notifying them in a mass email of the allegations and subsequent changes in school policy.

They are the same university leaders who, according to The Detroit News, ignored allegations against Nassar dating back to 1992 on a rather widespread basis.

Victims recounted telling Michigan State coaches and trainers of Nassar’s abuse, then were practically told that reporting the incidents would have consequences for both Nassar and the victims.

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Solar panel industry still optimistic despite new tariffs

By IVAN PENN

Los Angeles Times TNS

Tariffs on solar panel imports imposed this week by the Trump administration threaten to increase customer costs and cut solar energy growth by as much as 11 percent over the next five years, but the industry remains optimistic that the roadblock will be temporary.

The new tariffs probably will add about $650 to the average solar power system a homeowner would buy, said Bernadette Del Chiaro, executive director of the Solar Energy Industries Association.

But the added cost is unlikely to stop consumers and businesses from going solar, or to force solar companies out of business, she said.

“I think in the long run, there’s no turning back,” Del Chiaro said.

Analysts at GTM Research, a division of Boston-based Greentech Media, estimate that the federal government’s decision to impose tariffs on cheap, imported panels, which have fueled the industry’s explosive growth, will mean a cumulative reduction in

(TNS) A car drove past some of the 347,000 mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Ivanpah Valley in California on Feb. 13, 2014.

solar installations of about 7.6 gigawatts, or 11 percent, through 2022, compared with what would have been installed without the levies.

The analysis found that the big utility-scale solar power systems would be hardest hit by the tariffs, which starts at 30 percent and decreases 5 percentage points each year of the four-year fee.

Emerging solar markets in Southern states such as Texas,

Georgia, South Carolina and Florida are expected to be heavily affected by the tariffs, which are intended to bolster domestic production and sales.

Two U.S.-based firms filed the case for tariffs at the International Trade Commission, arguing that their businesses have been hurt by cheap imports from Asia and Europe, which produce about 90 percent of the solar panels installed in the U.S.

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In a 4-0 decision last month, the commission voted in favor of imposing the tariffs to prevent the demise of U.S. solar panel manufacturing, although the tariffs are not widely viewed as helping to salvage the nation’s struggling panel production industry.

Tariff proponent Edward Harner, chief operating officer of North Hollywood-based Green Solar Technologies, told the International Trade Commission that his company found it increasingly difficult to offer U.S.-made solar panels to its customers.

“If America is one of the leaders in adoption of solar, we should also be one of the leaders in production of solar,” Harner said. “We were the only nationwide installer to testify in favor of these tariffs.”

Harner told the commission that over the past five years, solarpanel prices dropped 50 percent, which led many companies to use foreign imports. That, he said, has contributed to driving U.S. companies out of business.

Harner also said he is concerned about the quality of the products from the foreign manufacturers.

“This might cut out some of the

riffraff,” Harner said. “All in all it kind of keeps the industry honest.”

As for the increased cost to consumers, Harner argued that the price of electricity from the utility companies continues to rise too. So slightly higher solar panel prices will still be a good deal for consumers, he said.

“I would argue the price of panels has been artificially low,” Harner said.

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Simon learned of allegations in 2014, when the university launched a Title IX investigation that coincided with an investigation by university police. They found no wrongdoing.

This is at its base a more widespread version of what brought Penn State to its knees in 2011: A very large school where those who should know how to deal with serious allegations like these don’t, and where the concerns are swallowed up by a chain of command more content to wait it out than press the issue and, maybe, more concerned about the university’s bottom line than the victims’ wellbeing.

Where Penn State couldn’t get away with anything but total retreat in the days after Sandusky, Michigan State is attempting to maintain the status quo, because the spotlight isn’t shining quite so bright on its issues.

We should ask ourselves why that is, why Sandusky’s young male victims got all along the sympathy Nassar’s young female victims had to fight so hard to get. Because really, this shouldn’t be about boys or girls, big-time football or gymnastics.

It’s about a sickness infesting itself just out of our sight, that we’ve failed to stop when we’ve had chances, and that is sadly becoming less of an outrage as the years pass.

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• “Jumanji,” “Pocahontas,” “Casper” and “Braveheart” comes out in theaters • The U.S. Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian Mir space station for the first time • OJ Simpson is found innocent • JavaScript is introduced • IUP football wins the homecoming game against Cal U 62-33 the previous season The Oak - 1995

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#MeToo movement has lawmakers talking about consent

By REBECCA BEITSCH Stateline.org TNS

Fueled by accusations against titans of Hollywood, industry and politics, the #MeToo movement will prompt state lawmakers across the country this year to consider bills that could fundamentally change the culture of dating and sex.

States are expected to grapple with legislation to establish affirmative consent – known as “yes means yes” – and rewrite rape and sexual assault laws.

Legislatures already are considering more than two dozen bills that would strengthen laws against rape, teach students that both participants must consent to sexual activity, and extend the time to prosecute or sue those accused of sexual assault. They also will weigh measures to clarify sexual assault survivors’ rights, improve rape kit testing, and change the rules for sexual harassment settlements.

State lawmakers have debated such bills in the past. But this year a slew of accusations of sexual assault, misconduct and harassment – along with accounts such

(TNS) Fueled by accusations against titans of Hollywood, industry and politics, the #MeToo movement prompted state lawmakers across the country this year to consider bills that could fundamentally change the culture of dating and sex.

as the anonymous accusation against comedian Aziz Ansari – have given legislators greater momentum in pursuing policies that do more to crack down on abusers and support survivors.

The bills have been introduced primarily by Democrats, but many have Republican co-sponsors.

“I’m hoping we are just reaching a time where people realize this is not a fad,” said Maine state Sen. Mattie Daughtry, a Democrat who introduced a bill this year to teach consent as part of sex education. “There is a wave. This

is women stepping up for change, and this cannot be put on the back burner.”

Legislators and victims’ rights advocates say many current laws put too much of the onus on victims, requiring them to prove they resisted sexual advances. And they say requiring victims to come forward quickly is unfair to those abused as children, who may take years to understand and grapple with what happened to them.

“The steady stream of people coming out and saying ‘me too’ led to this moment that I think is

going to lead to a lot of change,” said Ilse Knecht, director of policy and advocacy with the Joyful Heart Foundation, a New Yorkbased group that pushes states to improve rape kit testing.

Many states are considering bills that would toughen their existing rape statutes by no longer requiring proof that the perpetrator used force against his victim, or that the victim actively resisted.

“When you look at the neurobiology of trauma, we hear about fight or flight, but there’s a third response: there’s freeze. ... Some women undergoing trauma, their body may choose to freeze,” said Washington state Rep. Tina Orwall, a Democrat who has sponsored a bill that would remove the force requirement from current rape law. “We don’t want victim-blaming. It shouldn’t be the victim’s fault for not fighting back.”

More than half the states have laws that require a show of

force by either the perpetrator or the victim, according to a 2015 analysis of state laws by Deborah Tuerkheimer, a professor at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law who studies sexual assault issues. Only four states – Montana, New Jersey, Vermont and Wisconsin – have what Tuerkheimer considers a strict affirmative consent standard that requires both parties freely consent to sexual activity, rather than relying on the victim to say no.

The topic of consent has been brought to the forefront especially by allegations against Ansari. The comedian recently made headlines after a murky sexual encounter with an unnamed woman that he says he thought was consensual.

Tuerkheimer said those opposed to affirmative consent bills often argue that communication during sex can be a gray area and that too many would be punished for failing to meet a gold standard. But when she reviewed cases in states with an affirmative consent law, she found the types of rape cases being prosecuted did not differ greatly from those in other states.

“They’ve had these laws, and the sky has not fallen, and the cases that have been brought are the exact kind of cases we want prosecutors to bring,” she said of the states with existing affirmative consent laws.

In Nebraska, state Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks, a Democrat, introduced a bill that would scrap the force requirements for both perpetrators and victims in the current law while imposing a new affirmative consent standard.

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#MeToo Movement seeks change Continued from page 10.

“The old law didn’t do enough,” she said. “I guess the theory was, How could a woman not want sex? She has to prove herself she didn’t want it. ... If you require that there be force, then someone has to fight off someone to say no. That’s not a reasonable standard.”

One of the most popular videos for explaining affirmative consent is a British public service video comparing sex to offering someone a cup of tea.

If someone isn’t sure if they want tea, changes their mind about wanting tea, or passes out, the person who brewed the tea shouldn’t force it down the other person’s throat.

Pansing Brooks said she plans to send the video to all the legislators in her state, adding that she has heard some confusion on talk radio there, with hosts arguing it’s not always clear whether someone wants to have sex. “’How are we supposed to know?’ Well, ask her,” Pansing Brooks said. “It’s yes or no if you want to have sex. ... You better be darn sure, or you could be liable.”

Some lawmakers are pushing for an affirmative consent standard to be taught in schools. Bills in Pennsylvania and West Virginia would make affirmative consent part of the code of conduct for college students. Bills in Maine and Michigan would require teaching affirmative consent as part of sex education in K-12 schools.

“Before MeToo, a lot of the conversation was about college campuses,” said Daughtry in Maine. “I think it’s critical to introduce it at an earlier age.”

State Rep. Abdullah Hammoud, a Democrat, sponsored the Michigan bill as a way to change the conversation around consent.

“I think what we’re trying to do is change a culture,” he said.

“Personally I believe you change a culture with our youth. It’s important to provide that information and context at an early age.”

At least eight states – California, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Washington, Wisconsin and Vermont – also are considering bills that would extend the time for sexual assault victims to file a civil suit or for dis-

trict attorneys to prosecute.

New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Democrat seeking to extend the statute of limitations in the state, said current law protects abusers, particularly those who prey on children who may not address the issue before turning 23, as the law now requires.

“There’s this widespread revulsion among survivors that their abusers have remained unidentified and continue to prey on young people with abandon,” Hoylman said. “A constituent told me that he had been abused by his coach and shared that traumatic story with me but also added that wasn’t the worst thing to him. What was most outrageous was that his former coach was still at his school.”

Hoylman’s bill would extend both the criminal and civil statute of limitations going forward, and it also would create a one-year exception for people whose claims have expired to file a civil suit against their abuser.

Such windows have been used before in other states, despite claims from critics they would lead to a wealth of false accusations.

Marci Hamilton, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, studied the short-term windows used in five other states. Of those states, Hamilton said there was anecdotal evidence of only five false claims reported in California, out of 1,150 filed.

Still, such bills often face resistance in state legislatures. A bill to extend the statute of limitations in New York was voted down last year after hard lobbying from the Catholic Church, saying a oneyear civil suit window would be financially devastating. And some prosecutors have also expressed concern, arguing older cases can be harder to prosecute.

Other state legislators are pushing the rights of victims of sexual assault and harassment.

Some lawmakers want to outline the rights sexual assault survivors have – often dubbed a bill of rights for survivors – and push stricter guidelines for how rape kits should be tested. Bills in New Hampshire and New York would forbid charging victims for a rape kit. An Iowa bill would require victims to be notified as their rape kit proceeds through testing.

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Ex-boxer denies sexually assaulting young student last year

By JOSEPH SERNA Los Angeles Times TNS

An Olympic gold medalist and youth boxing coach in East Los Angeles pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges he molested one of his students and possessed child pornography.

Paul Gonzales, 53, was charged this month with eight felony counts, including four counts of committing lewd acts upon a 13-year-old girl, prosecutors said. His bail has been set at $545,000.

Prosecutors say Gonzales groomed one of his young students and molested her before

a family member reported the misconduct in December.

Gonzales won a gold medal at the 1984 Olympics. He’s been a boxing coach for the last 10 years at the Eddie Heredia Boxing Club, which is operated by the Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation Department.

He was arrested Dec. 29 and is being held at Men’s Central Jail.

He was still employed by the county at the time he was first charged but was no longer being paid, said Terry Kanakri, a spokesman for the parks agency.

The victim was molested between May 1 and Aug. 9 of last year, according to Gonzales’

felony complaint.

Gonzales coached youths 8 to 19 years old, said Lt. Todd Deeds of the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department Special Victims Bureau. At any given time there are 40 boys and 15 girls enrolled in the boxing club’s programs, he said.

Deeds said investigators are also looking into whether any adults at the club knew about the acts Gonzales is accused of or protected him.

Kanakri said Gonzales was a full-time employee who coached boys and girls at the center every day. Gonzales was hired in 2007.

Gonzales faces up to 18 years in prison if convicted.

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Congress will try again on immigration reform — but will this time be different?

By LISA MASCARO

Tribune Washington Bureau TNS

As Congress searches for a deal to protect so-called “Dreamers” from deportation, there are parallels to 2013, when immigration legislation won widespread support in the Senate only to be roundly ignored in the more conservative, Republican-led House.

But for all the similarities to that undertaking, there are also stark differences this time around in the politics, players and public opinion, which bring a new dynamic as lawmakers once again try to tackle immigration.

On Tuesday, Congress got to work on relief for the nearly 700,000 Dreamers, young immigrants who grew up in the United States after arriving illegally as children, but now face possible detention and expulsion.

President Donald Trump decided to end the program as of March 5, though a federal judge has ordered that it remain in place pending a court challenge.

As part of the agreement to end the federal shutdown this week, Congress gave itself less than three weeks to resolve the issue before the next shutdown threat, Feb. 8, when temporary funding to run the government expires.

“Now, there’s a deadline.

Kids’ll be deported or lose their job or lose their schooling,” said Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who was a member of the original “Gang of Eight” senators who crafted the 2013 deal and is at the center of this effort. “That’s the forcing mechanism. That’s why it’s different.”

Many immigration advocates were displeased with the deal to reopen the government, fearing it created little incentive for Republicans to compromise with Democrats on immigration, which was a problem in 2013, too.

At the time, the bipartisan Gang of Eight helped pass a bill that, after weeks of hearings and debate, collapsed without consideration in the House under the weight of Republican opposition to President Barack Obama and any hint of “amnesty” for those here illegally.

Then-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost a primary election to an unknown newcomer, Rep. Dave Brat, R-Va., in part

(TNS) U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham , R-S.C., spoke during a press conference to introduce legislation to curb sexual harassment in the workplace on Capitol Hill on Dec. 6 in Washington, D.C.

(TNS) Nery Lopez (top), a DACA recipient, right, carried the “Dream Key” as she led supporters of Dreamers – made up of immigrant youth, mothers and community members.

over Cantor’s willingness to consider help for the very youngest Dreamers, those in kindergarten.

Then-House Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, quickly abandoned the immigration bill, but he, too, was later pushed to resign by his party’s conservative flank.

Much of that standoff in Congress remains. A bipartisan group of senators, who represent states rather than narrowly tailored House districts, are working on a compromise, while Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., has assured the conservative House Freedom Caucus – which helped oust Boehner – that he will not bring up an immigration bill that does not have support from the majority of House Republicans.

“We have a decent shot to get something through the Senate.

We have no shot to get something in the House,” said Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, the immigrant advocacy group. “But if we pass something in the Senate, it puts pressure on Trump to do something.”

Unlike 2013, Republicans now have majority control of the House and the Senate, and a president from the same party in

“I said, ‘You have the political capital to actually do something, and do something big,’ “ Menendez said.

The president, he said, responded, “ ‘We want to make a deal.’ He didn’t say which deal – but ‘We want to make a deal.’ “ The outlines of a potential agreement are within reach for Congress, but would require both sides to accept politically painful compromises that they, as of yet, are not publicly willing to make.

An agreement would center on protections for the Dreamers in exchange for border security, including money for Trump’s border wall, and changes to family and diversity visas.

A bipartisan group led by Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., also members of the 2013 gang, proposed such a bill, but it was roundly rejected by Trump. The White House dismissed it Tuesday.

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., sweetened the offer ahead of the shutdown by putting Trump’s $20 billion border wall request on the table, a concession that drew outrage from liberal Democrats, even though the White House disputes it was ever made.

the White House.

The president has given mixed views on immigration, but he has said he wants to do something “nice” for Dreamers, despite his harsh rhetoric and actions toward immigrants and his promise to build a wall on the border with Mexico.

Confused senators jokingly speak about the “Tuesday president” and the “Thursday president” – referring to the week when Trump welcomed lawmakers to the White House for a wellreceived televised immigration meeting in which he embraced a bipartisan “bill of love,” only to follow that up two days later by rejecting a compromise and making vulgar comments about excluding immigrants from poorer, African countries.

After the cameras clicked off at that Tuesday meeting, Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., another member of the 2013 gang, said he appealed to the president’s place in history.

“I said to him, ‘Nixon went to China. He was the ultimate anticommunist and he could do that.

Ronald Reagan was against all taxes and ended up raising taxes to meet the nation’s needs,’ “ Menendez said in an interview.

But Trump walked away from that deal, and Schumer said Tuesday that negotiations were starting anew. “The wall offer is off the table,” he said.

The contours of what is under discussion now are more modest than in 2013.

At that time, the Senate agreed to offer some 11 million immigrants here illegally a path to citizenship, which would take 13 years for most, though Dreamers could qualify in less time. In exchange, the Senate approved a $46 billion border surge – with 24-hour drones, fencing and 20,000 new border patrol officers – all funded not by current citizens, but from the fines and fees the immigrants would have to pay over the decade on their path to legal status.

Trump has indicated he has interest in a big deal like that _ one that could go beyond the Dreamer issue and make more comprehensive fixes to immigration law.

Lawmakers are game, but also mindful of first steps.

“Dreamers are like the motherhood and apple pie of immigration,” Menendez. “If you can’t do Dreamers, forget about a bigger deal.”

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Justice Department weighs in on UC Berkeley free speech

By BENJAMIN ORESKES Los Angeles Times TNS

The Trump administration is jumping into the fracas over free speech at the University of California, Berkeley.

The Justice Department on Thursday filed a statement of interest supporting two conservative groups who sued the school last year.

The groups alleged that administrators and campus events policy unfairly hampered their ability to book right-leaning speakers like Ann Coulter and ultimately led to the events being canceled or modified.

Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand wrote in a Fox News opinion piece that certain Berkeley policies relating to location restrictions – among other things – are onerous and applied selectively. “It doesn’t require much creativity to turn this policy into a heckler’s veto,” she wrote Thursday.

She criticized the policies of several colleges across the country but was sure to single out Berkeley.

“Free speech is under attack at college campuses across the country,” Brand wrote. “The problem is not limited to a few colleges barring radical speakers to avoid a riot. Universities large and small, public and private, are restricting students’ and professors’ speech or enabling others to silence speech with which they disagree.”

In its legal brief, the Justice Department took aim at the campus events policy, writing that the “allegations, if proven, would sufficiently demonstrate the high risk of viewpoint discrimination inherent in the Policies’ grant to administrators of unchecked discretion over student-sponsored speech.”

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been outspoken on his department’s desire to protect free speech on college campuses.

In a September speech at Georgetown University, Sessions poked fun at the fact that Berkeley offered counseling to anyone in the community in advance of conservative speaker Ben Shapiro’s

(TNS) Ann Coulter spoke during Politicon at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, Calif., on July 29.

appearance on campus.

“In the end, Mr. Shapiro spoke to a packed house,” Sessions said.

“And to my knowledge, no one fainted, no one was unsafe. No one needed counseling.”

Partly as a result of its liberal legacy, Berkeley last year became the center of a national conversation about free speech on college campuses.

Controversial right-wing speakers including Milo Yiannopoulos, David Horowitz and Coulter all attempted to speak on campus and were met with protests, which sometimes turned violent.

After Coulter’s April appearance was scuttled, the Berkeley College Republicans and the Young America’s Foundation sued university officials. That case was thrown out, but the plaintiffs filed an amended complaint in November.

The lawsuit alleged that “though UC Berkeley promises its students an environment that promotes free debate and the free exchange of ideas, it had breached this promise through the repressive actions of University administrators and campus police, who have systematically and intentionally suppressed constitutionally-protected expression by Plaintiffs (and the many UC Berkeley students whose public policy viewpoints align with Plaintiffs), simply because that expression may anger or offend students, UC Berkeley administrators, and/or community members who do not share Plaintiffs’ viewpoints.”

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Trump remains hypocritical with accuracy

(TNS) A man holding a sign that says, “CNN is Fake News” and “infowars.com” positioned himself into photos while the media covered an Impeachment March in downtown Los Angeles on July 2.

the MLK bust was no longer on display.”

The inaccurate reporting that the MLK bust was not displayed was corrected, and TIME issued a statement about the inaccurate reporting within an hour of it being posted, as is protocol for most news organizations.

This is not an example of “fake news,” but a mistake that was quickly corrected. While the press is quick to correct inaccurate reports when they may occur, the president is not when he or his administration report verifiably inaccurate information.

Trump retweeted videos that allegedly showed muslims performing violent acts Nov. 29. Among

the videos was one with the caption “Muslim Migrant Beats Up a Dutch Boy on Crutches.”

The boy in the video who perpetrated the act was later confirmed as neither Muslim nor a migrant. However, Trump did not undo his retweet or make a correction that the video he promoted was inaccurate.

Trump talks about “fake news,” but does not meet the protocol standards of most news organizations about verifying information before reporting it and correcting any inaccurate information.

Another example of a disregard for accurate information among the Trump administration was when the White House

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The social climate involving the press in the U.S. seemed to change with the new administration.

The term “fake news” started to be thrown around, especially

by President Donald Trump, which puts a negative connotation on the accuracy of the press, even if the information presented is verifiably correct.

On Nov. 27, 2017, Trump announced on Twitter his idea to host a “fake news” contest, which would not include Fox News.

“We should have a contest as to which of the Networks, plus CNN and not including Fox, is the most dishonest, corrupt and/or distorted in its political coverage of your favorite President (me).

They are all bad. Winner to receive the FAKE NEWS TROPHY,” Trump said in his Nov. 27 tweet.

On Jan. 17, that idea came into fruition on the Republican National Committee’s official website with “The Highly-Anticipated 2017 Fake News Awards.”

Some of the stories that were considered “fake news” were stories that were corrected for inaccuracies. One such story was a TIME article that stated “More decorating details: Apart from the return of the Churchill bust,

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sent former Press Secretary Sean Spicer to the briefing podium for the very first time after Trump’s inauguration to say “this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period.”

In any news organization, that information would have been easily verified by a reporter as inaccurate and not published. If it did by chance get published, the news organization would have quickly issued a correction and statement about the inaccurate reporting.

But instead of offering a correction, the administration did not say the information was inaccurate, even though it had since been verified as inaccurate, and instead said the information was “alternative facts” in a Jan. 23, 2017, interview with Kellyanne Conway conducted by Chuck Todd of CNN. No. 10 on Trump’s “fake news awards” was “The New York Times FALSELY claimed on the front page that the Trump administration had hidden a climate report.”

The New York Times quickly offered a correction to the inaccuracies in the story.

An Aug. 15, 2017, correction on the New York Times article said “An article last Tuesday about a

sweeping federal climate change report misstated the professional credentials of Katharine Hayhoe, who contributed to the report.

She is a professor at Texas Tech University, not a government scientist.”

“Good Lord is this flipping serious? What happened was a dude in the fact-checking department mislabelled my expertise (then corrected it) -- and that somehow invalidates a story about our entire federal climate report,” Hayhoe said in a Jan. 17 tweet in response to Trump’s “fake news awards.”

Trump also frequently tweets and retweets stories by Breitbart News Network, an alt-right commentary publication that is known for producing verifiably false information in its commentary.

Despite how often Trump talks about “fake news,” and how bad the “dishonest media” is, he and his administration would not even meet the requirements of a college newspaper for verifying information before reporting it and correcting inaccurate information. .

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(Facebook) Bud Light, Coors Light and Miller Lite are now the top-three-selling-beers in America.

Students say cheers to America’s favorite beers

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

CNN recently ranked the topseven-selling beers in the nation, listing Bud Light, Coors Light and Miller Lite in the top three.

Budweiser placed fourth, followed

by Corona Extra, Michelob Ultra and Modelo Especial. Natural Light, the brand that held seventh place in the past, was surpassed

by Modelo Especial last year.

While the rest of America already weighed in, The Penn posted its own Twitter poll and conducted an in-person survey to see how the IUP students’ tastes compare to the rest of the country. For the in-person survey, 50 students were asked whether cost or taste mattered more when they purchased beer. Out of all of the participants, 18 said cost, 30 sided with taste and two had no opinion.

Patrick Santry, a non-traditional student majoring in hospitality management, does not worry about price. “[Bud Light] is what I drink,” Santry said. “I like the taste. I don’t really care about the cost of anything.”

Jackie Sutton (senior, anthropology), Kaitlyn Cline (junior, anthropology and sociology) and Paige Coacher (exercise science) said Bud Light was the “American beer” and discussed Bud Light and Budweiser’s iconic Clydesdale and puppy commercials from the

2014 Super Bowl.

Other students like Chandler Draughn (junior, general management) and Bryce Peters (junior, software engineer) said Bud Light, Corona Extra and Miller Lite are the beers they see most on television. Draughn also attributed the top seven’s success to heavy marketing and low cost.

While IUP’s top picks seem to align with the rest of the country, some students like Santry, were surprised a darker brew like Yuengling didn’t make the cut over Natural Light.

Rayne Davidson (junior, social studies education) said he was not surprised with the top seven beers and would swap out Natural Light to put Guinness on the list.

“I’m not surprised because dark beers aren’t as popular in America, from what I’ve seen,” Davidson said.

In spite of being the leastpopular choice, Doug Adams, the owner of Duquesne Beer Distributing, places Natural Light as one of the top three he sells alongside Bud Light and Miller Lite.

Adams attributed Homecoming and IUPatties as big events that increase sales for the three brands.

CNN writer Nathaniel Meyersohn attributed CNN’s findings to “sales estimates from the trade publication Beer Marketer’s Insights, which has kept tracks since the mid-1970s.” Although Meyersohn said that beer sales were down in 2017, craft beers are becoming more popular alongside wines and spirits.

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Oscar voters spread their love far and wide with 2018 nominations

By JOSH ROTTENBERG Los Angeles Times TNS

(Facebook) Logic, Kendrick Lamar, Ed Sheeran and Khalid all hope to take home Grammy Awards.

Hip-hop could take center stage at Grammys

By KIRSTEN SCHLORFF Staff Writer K.B.Schlorff@iup.edu

This article contains opinion.

CBS will broadcast the 60th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony Sunday, live from Madison Square Garden in New York City for the first time in 15 years.

With the Grammys right around the corner, you are probably hoping that your favorite artists will take home awards during the ceremony. Tune in at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday to watch stellar performances during a show filled with glitz and glamour galore, hosted by late-night TV talk show host James Corden.

Below is a list of this year’s predicted winners for the most popular musical genres: In the general music category, the song “Despacito” by Luis

Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber has a good chance to win the Record of the Year award. Kendrick Lamar might claim the Album of the Year award for his platinum-selling album “DAMN.” Although a bit unknown and unfamiliar, the suicide prevention song “1-800-273-8255” by Logic, featuring Alessia Cara and Khalid is a strong contender for Song of the Year. Coincidentally, Khalid, is also predicted to win the Grammy for Best New Artist.

Meanwhile in the pop music categories, Ed Sheeran’s hit song “Shape of You” is expected to win the Grammy award for Best Pop Solo Performance. It also comes as no surprise that the “Despacito” has a chance to win the award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. Ed Sheeran has a good shot to win another Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album for his platinum-selling album “÷

(Divide).”

Bruno Mars is predicted to dominate the R&B category, with his smash hit “That’s What I Like.”

His sensational album “24K Magic” might also claim the award for Best R&B Album.

Lamar will take over the rap category of the Grammys this year, for “LOYALTY.,” featuring Rihanna, for “HUMBLE.” and his recent record “DAMN.” Last, but not least, a variety of winning country artists could take home Grammys this year.

However, Sam Hunt’s “Body Like a Back Road” is a strong contestant for Solo Performance and Best Country Song. Little Big Town has a good chance at Best Country Duo/Group Performance. Not surprisingly, just like all other music award shows, Chris Stapleton is predicted to win Best Country Album for his traditional country record “From a Room: Volume 1.”

The most unpredictable Oscar season in years finally came into focus Tuesday as the 90th Academy Awards nominations were announced, with nine films representing a wide range of genres earning picture nods, from a sweeping World War II epic to a hot-button, racially charged horror film to an intimate portrait of a feisty teenage girl growing up in Sacramento.

Guillermo del Toro’s fantastical fable “The Shape of Water,” which fuses an old-fangled love of Hollywood films of yesteryear with a timely message of inclusion and tolerance, led the field with 13 nominations. The story of a mute janitor who falls in love with an aquatic humanoid creature picked up the first directing nod for del Toro along with nominations for lead actress Sally Hawkins, supporting actor Richard Jenkins and supporting actress Octavia Spencer.

For del Toro, who co-wrote the film with Vanessa Taylor and was inspired by his boyhood love of classic monster movies such as 1954’s “Creature from the Black Lagoon,” the bonanza of nominations just one shy of tying the record was deeply gratifying. “What is beautiful is to get there being faithful to the images you have loved all your life,” he told the Los Angeles Times Tuesday morning.

“My 6-year-old self would say, ‘Way to go!’ “ One of the summer’s biggest box-office hits, the World War II thriller “Dunkirk,” followed with eight nominations, including picture and the first directing nomination for Christopher Nolan.

“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” a dark morality tale about a mother seeking justice for her murdered daughter also made a strong showing with seven nods, including for picture, lead actress Frances McDormand and supporting actors Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson.

Rounding out the picture category were the romantic drama “Call Me by Your Name,” the Winston Churchill biopic “Darkest Hour,” the coming-of-age dramedy “Lady Bird,” the period romance “Phantom Thread,” the Pentagon Papers drama “The

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Post” and the smash hybrid of horror and social satire “Get Out,” which picked up four nominations overall, including writing and directing nods for Jordan Peele and a lead actor nomination for Daniel Kaluuya.

The Oscar potency for “Get Out” defied the conventional wisdom that films released early in the year (“Get Out” came out last February) often struggle to get awards love, as do horror films.

Then again, it’s only fitting for a film that bent genres and played with cultural taboos to buck norms, said Kaluuya. “There are no rules,” said the first-time nominee. “That’s what I love about this movie. Just tell the truth and give everything.”

In a year that has been dominated by discussions about lingering inequities in the entertainment industry, the nominations in many ways reflected a motion picture academy that has been remaking itself in public view. In the wake of two years of #OscarsSoWhite protests, the academy began taking dramatic steps in 2016 to bring more women and people of color into its historically overwhelmingly white and male membership ranks, and as a result the pool of academy members now numbering roughly 8,400 has become younger and more diverse.

Reinforcing those broader trends, “Lady Bird” writer-director Greta Gerwig became only the fifth woman ever to score a nomination for directing, while Peele became the fifth black filmmaker to score a nomination in that category and just the third person to receive picture, directing and writing nominations for a debut feature. Rachel Morrison became the first woman nominated in the cinematography category for her work on the period drama “Mudbound.”

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(Facebook) Activities such as reading, cooking and working out are great ways to keep productive during the cold weather of winter.

How to stay cool with winter weather

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

know – it may come in handy one day.

Who doesn’t like money?

This article contains opinion.

Whether you need to get work done or get in shape, staying productive and busy during this winter weather can be challenging, especially when it comes to finding indoor or at-home activities. Here are a few tips on how to get ahead of the game and be your most productive self while staying out of Mother Nature’s way:

Read! Read! Read!

As college students, the last thing most of us want to do is read, but reading is important.

With almost everything available at our fingertips, reading has never been easier.

While it’s still cold outside, set aside some time to read and learn about something new. You never

OK, so obviously there’s a little bit of a catch here. It’s not just like someone is handing you free money or money is falling from the sky. You’re going to have to work for it. Ouch. Yeah, I said it.

Getting a job can be a good way to help add discipline and balance to your life, and the best part is that you get to make money. Think about it this way: If you aren’t able to go out because of the cold weather now, if you work and save money, you’ll have some to spend when the weather gets warmer.

You can thank me later.

HUB Fitness Center

Maybe getting an early start on that summer bod is something you’ve always dreamt but never actually got close to achieving.

Well, wait no more. The Hadley Union Building (HUB) Fitness Center offers a gym free to IUP

students with their I-Cards. The gym includes exercise equipment, showers and locker rooms, as well as a second gym that houses an indoor track and indoor basketball courts. If you start going now, you might have that bod ready in time for spring, or maybe that’s just wishful thinking.

Coffee

This may sound cliché, but coffee is the perfect start to a day and can help to increase awareness, productivity and alertness throughout the day. You can drink coffee all year round, but let’s all agree that there’s nothing like leaving the freezing outdoors and being welcomed in with a hot cup of joe.

going out with them. At the end of the day, you need to do whatever it takes to achieve all those goals, both big and small, that you set your mind to.

Library

If being at home is too much of a distraction for you, then the library is the perfect place to go get things done. Sometimes being surrounded by other people that are busy and focused on their assignments can spark more enthusiasm and morale in you. The Stapleton Library is open 24 hours on weekdays with hours differing on the weekends. Students have access to computers, printers, textbooks, novels and even movies.

What’s in your stomach?

It’s ok to be a homebody

If staying home is what you need to do to be productive, then don’t worry about getting teased or taunted by your friends for not

Did you know that the contents of your stomach can determine how productive you can be?

Eating a well-balanced diet with enough proteins, fruits, vegetables and grains can help increase

productivity and alertness. Many college students lack good eating habits, but you don’t have to be one of them. While it’s snowing outside, grab a cup of hot chocolate and cozy up next to your cat, dog or anything (or anyone) else of equal importance and spend some time reading about how to increase your productivity and energy throughout the day by improving your diet.

Don’t overdo it

Sometimes the key to being productive is being unproductive. Whether we realize it or not, we all need to take time out to have a lazy day and do absolutely nothing but energize, refresh and relax our minds, souls and bodies.

Even the best of us need these days, so don’t feel guilty – instead, take advantage of the cold, snowy weather. Overworking yourself can not only be exhausting but can end up taking a toll on your body.

Don’t overdo it and remember to slow down and breathe.

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Journalists disgruntled after Fakie snub

By DAVID FORADORI Staff Writer A.D.Foradori@iup.edu

Thousands of journalists all over the nation were devastated after reading President Donald Trump’s “Highly-Anticipated Fake News Awards” to see that they were not included on the list.

Of those journalists, staff at The Penn, past and present, were apoplectic to see that the objective reporting of this hallowed university newspaper was not deemed by our commander-in-chief as fake news.

Heartbreak, indeed, swept over the nation’s journalists who hoped for a fake news award. This included Amanda Ward of the Associated Press.

“I just can’t believe it,” Ward said. “I’ve been writing unbiased, objective articles ever since I left college. A Fakie award from the POTUS would be more honorable than a Pulitzer.

“I will learn from my mistakes.

I will be sure to find four sources of information, and I will attempt to wri te as objectively as I can to qualify for a Fakie.”

In an exclusive interview with The Penn, a disgruntled would-be contestant gave forth a few comments on the Fakies.

An angry, anonymous source from the Wall Street Journal was hoping for a late-entry consid-

eration after quoting Trump correctly in a Jan. 13 article.

“I thought that if we quoted him correctly,” the source said, “we would get into the Fakies. I mean, he even attacked us on Twitter for quoting him correctly!

What more could we have done to qualify for the Fakies?”

I am breaking the fourth wall to demonstrate my concerns in this article. This is no longer journalistic; this is a conversation.

The Penn gave me permission to do extensive investigative reporting. Such investigative reporting has allowed me to expose the Unholy Meter Attendant Society, how freshmen can’t (Facebook) properly tap kegs, how President Trump first coined the Fake News Awards in a tweet. cute dogs on campus can cause bodily harm to over-excited students and how aligning chakras are the path to create a petition to send to Trump success at IUP. to express the urgency of The Going undercover and discoverPenn deserving a Fakie. Journaling such activities take a lot of hard ism is sacred to a democracy, and work, time and patience. I’ve paid the champions of journalism must my dues. I’ve worked my beat. I put be noted for history. Create the my safety on the line for the sake of petition and make me, I mean, our readers!

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Logan Paul pledges $1M to suicide prevention after controversial video

By NICOLE BITETE New York Daily News TNS

YouTube star Logan Paul pledged $1 million to suicide prevention groups in an effort to educate himself on the topic after posting a tone-deaf video of a dead suicide victim on his account.

Paul, 21, shared a seven-minute video to his YouTube page on Wednesday where he interviewed people who have attempted suicide, as well as the director of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

“I was shocked to discover just how big this is,” Paul told Bob Forrest, the founder of Alo House Recovery Centers, in the video.

When Forrest asked if he had ever known someone who committed suicide, Paul responded “no.”

“That was part of the problem, my ignorance on the subject,” he said.

The controversial filmmaker, who posted the insensitive video shot in Japan’s Aokigahara forest on New

Year’s Eve, shared that he wanted to be a part of the solution moving forward in preventing suicide.

He also said he is trying to be more compassionate.

“It’s something I’m learning.”

Paul went over the five steps to preventing suicide in the video.

In the caption of the video, titled “Suicide: Be Here Tomorrow,” he listed the contact information for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

Paul conducted an interview with a man named Kevin Hines, who survived a suicide attempt off the Golden Gate Bridge 17 years ago.

“From this point now on I want to make an effort to contribute and immerse myself in the conversation, so I’m pledging to donate $1 million to various suicide prevention organizations.”

Paul said he would immediately be donating $250,000 to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline so they could start helping those in need.

YouTube decided to cut ties with Paul on Jan. 10 after he faced immense backlash for his video.

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(Facebook) N.E.R.D, Mac Miller and Tyler, the Creator were just a few of the artists that were busy dropping new material over winter break.

Spring semester rolls in with new sounds

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

This article contains opinion.

With the time spent on holiday celebrations and playing catch-up with old friends over winter break, your playlist may be a little outdated. Here are some albums and songs for you as you settle into the spring semester:

N.E.R.D — “NO ONE EVER REALLY DIES” Released: Dec. 15 After staying in the dark for seven years, the innovative trio is back with its new album “NO ONE EVER REALLY DIES.” N.E.R.D is an alternative group from Virgina. Known for its pop/rock sound, the band turns an ear to a more pop sound with “NO ONE EVER REALLY DIES.” The album features Rihanna, Gucci Mane, Kendrick Lamar, Ed Sheeran, Future and more. The always-changing band did not miss a beat with this 11-track album.

BROCKHAMPTON — “SATURATION III” Released: Dec. 15

“Saturation III” is the exclamation point on a major year for BROCKHAMPTON. After releasing two other albums in 2017, “Saturation III” is a loud, in-your-face album that is sure to make you rethink your top-10 album list. The boyband uses hard raps and crazy synths to put together one of the best albums released last year.

Lil Wayne — “Dedication 6” Released: Dec. 25 Still locked into a one-sided deal with former friend and boss Birdman, Lil Wayne released “The Carter 6,” his newest mixtape. Wayne has never sounded better, continuing the Dedication mixtape series adding his southern touch to some of the biggest songs out today.

Kali Uchis — “After The Storm (feat. Tyler, The Creator & Bootsy Collins)” Released: Jan. 12

One of the brightest stars in R&B released another single from her highly anticipated debut album at the beginning of the new year. Let the lush chords draw you in, as Kali Uchis’ smooth voice throws you into a cloud-like state of mind. Tyler, The Creator also drops some loveinspired bars that will make you want to run off and marry the next person you see.

Released: Jan. 12 Leading up to his sophomore album, Carnage dropped a banger of a single. The hungry MadeinTYO provided a catchy hook while Mac Miller did what he does best by dropping a vicious verse. Carnage provided yet another speaker-breaking beat that will leave you waiting for his upcoming album.

Slow Hollows — “Heart” Released: Jan. 16 Two years after the release of Slow Hollows’ album “Romantic,” the California band dropped an

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By DARNELL TURNER Staff Writer

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While others may have been taking it easy over winter break, the IUP men’s basketball team was racking up wins.

The team won seven of its eight games over winter break, with wins over rival Slippery Rock University, Edinboro University and Fairmont State University.

Against Fairmont State on Dec. 19, IUP held last season’s national runner-up to a season-low in points in a 74-59 win.

IUP’s defensive effort fueled a 15-0 run in the second half. IUP held Fairmont State to just 32 percent shooting from the field.

On the offensive side of the ball, the team was led by Anthony Glover’s (senior, marketing) 24 points.

The Crimson Hawks also won their next two games before facing The Rock, a 12-2 team at the time.

IUP pulled out the win in a tight game, 89-85, at home.

Not only did IUP pick up an impressive win, but it was a milestone game for Glover, who surpassed the 1,000-point mark in his career as a Crimson Hawk.

Glover was not done there, as he poured in a career-high 34 points.

He made six 3-pointers and shot an efficient 8-for-15 from the field overall, including 12-for-12 at the foul line.

Glover’s milestone comes as

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(IUP Athletics) Willem Brandwijk (redshirt junior, marketing) recorded his first career double-double against Seton Hill University on Wednesday.

(IUP Athletics) Guard Anthony Glover (senior, marketing) scored his 1,000th point at IUP over winter break in the team’s win over Slippery Rock University.

a testament to his hard work, according to his coach.

“It’s nice to see the benefits of all of his hard work pay off,” head coach Joe Lombardi said. “I don’t think there is a guard in the league having a better year than he is scoring the basketball, and he’s also done a good job with his leadership role.”

The only loss over the break came against East Stroudsburg University, 85-82.

IUP was doomed by turnovers, turning the ball over 28 times, leading to 31 points for the Warriors.

IUP was led by Glover and Jacobo Diaz (senior, economics) with 22 and 17 points, respectively.

IUP held a 9-point lead midway through the second half before

their stretch of great play in a blowout win Wednesday night over Seton Hill University at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex, 92-70.

Balance has been the approach all season on offense for IUP, and they showed that once again with four players posting double figures in points.

Glover was one of the many hot hands from deep, shooting 6-of-10 from 3-point range in route to 24 points.

This was the 10th 20-plus-point performance from Glover this season.

Joining Glover in double figures was Willem Brandwijk (redshirt junior, marketing), who posted his first career double-double with a season-high 16 points to go along

the turnovers piled up and led to a 14-2 run by the Warriors before they closed out the game and ended IUP’s six-game winning streak.

IUP won its next two games before welcoming many students back with an all-around performance against Clarion University.

Another stout defensive effort led to the Crimson Hawks holding Clarion to just 46 points and 31 percent shooting.

Diaz posted his ninth doubledouble of the season with 15 points, 11 rebounds and two assists.

Glover had a game-high 20 points, and Dante Lombardi (junior, finance and legal studies) also scored in double figures, adding 10 points.

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with 10 rebounds.

Lombardi also had a standout performance, scoring and making plays for others.

Lombardi scored a season-high 23 points, making five of his eight 3-point attempts and dishing out eight assists, which tied a careerhigh.

The Crimson Hawks have won 10 of their last 11 games and moved to 15-5 on the season.

“A lot of our success over the last month has been our improvement on the defensive end, and the other part is we have a couple guys that are getting healthy,” Lombardi said.

The Crimson Hawks will hit the road this weekend to take on the Mercyhurst University Lakers at 3 p.m. Saturday.

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(IUP Athletics) The IUP women’s basketball team is off to a 17-1 start to its season. The team’s lone loss came at the hands of California University of Pennsylvania on Jan. 17.

By JARROD BROWNE Lead Sports Writer

J.W.Browne@iup.edu

The sixth-ranked women’s basketball team improved to 17-1 after beating Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) foe Seton Hill University, 86-60.

The Crimson Hawks were led by forward Megan Smith (senior, management), who scored 24 points in just 29 minutes of play.

“She’s amazing, and it’s been so fun to watch her growth over the years,” head coach Tom McConnell said. “She’s playing with so much confidence, and scoring the basketball at such a high level.”

Smith was not the only Crimson Hawk who had a double-digit night, as Brittany Robinson (junior, education) and Carolyn Appleby (junior, safety sciences) got in on the scoring with Robinson scoring 14 points and Appleby adding 11 points.

With the help of Robinson, IUP was able to continue the trend of its balanced offense.

“It’s everything to us,” McConnell said. “We want to be a team that wants to be balanced and unselfish. So when we are able to get balanced scoring like that, it’s a positive.”

Not only were the Crimson Hawks proficient on offense, but

IUP had a strong night on the defensive end.

The Crimson Hawks were able to force 10 turnovers and kept the dynamic Seton Hill offense quiet.

Seton Hill averages 76.9 points per game, but the IUP defense contained them to 60 points and contained Seton Hill to shooting just .317 from the field.

“That was a very good scoring team we played. Our team is playing with a lot of energy on the defensive end,” McConnell said. “I thought we did a good job at protecting the rim and helping each other out on the defensive side.”

Moving forward, IUP will travel to play Mercyhurst University at 1 p.m. Saturday.

Despite the Crimson Hawks handing Mercyhurst a convincing 89-38 loss in the beginning of January, IUP will not take the Lakers lightly considering their strong play on their home-court this season.

Mercyhurst has also shown an ability to beat good teams with its victory over California University of Pennsylvania (Cal U), who is the only team to hand IUP a loss to this point.

“We know they are a really good basketball team,” McConnell said. “We know they are good at home. They just beat Cal U. So we know we have a tough battle on our hands.”

(IUP Athletics) Megan Smith (senior, management) scored 24 points in the Crimson Hawks’ latest win over Seton Hill University on Wednesday.

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Patriots, Eagles set for rematch in Super Bowl 13 years later

By ELLIOT HICKS Staff Writer

E.Hicks@iup.edu

(TNS) Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie (left) and coach Doug Pederson (right) celebrated with players following the team’s 38-7 blowout victory in the NFC Championship game last Sunday. Philadelphia will square off with the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII on Feb. 4.

After another long NFL season full of many ups and downs, the matchup for Super Bowl LII has been set.

The New England Patriots are again representing the AFC, which surprises very few who have witnessed their dynasty over the past decade and a half.

This year’s big game will be the 11th Super Bowl that head coach Bill Belichick has been involved in, as well as the eighth in the 18-year career of quarterback Tom Brady.

The team from Foxboro, Mass., didn’t have an easy route to the big game, as the Jacksonville Jaguars showed that their victory against the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Divisional Round the week before was no joke.

The Patriots jumped out to a 3-0 lead at the end of the first quarter, but Jacksonville scored two touchdowns in the second quarter, holding a 14-3 lead before a touchdown run by last year’s Super Bowl hero James White made the halftime score 14-10.

The Jaguars’ impressive defense held New England scoreless in the third quarter, forcing three punts while adding to their lead via a Josh Lambo field goal from 54 yards out.

Lambo also tacked on a 47-yarder at the start of the game’s final quarter, and the Jaguars were seemingly sitting pretty with a 2010 lead. Jacksonville then forced a fumble on the ensuing drive, and anyone rooting for the Jaguars (or against Brady) thought they were in good shape.

That being said, counting out Tom Brady is a foolish man’s act, and sure enough, the five-time Super Bowl champion started on the comeback trail.

Brady hit Danny Amendola for two fourth-quarter touchdowns, in-

cluding the game-winner with just under three minutes left to ensure a 24-20 victory.

Despite a great day from Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles, which included gaining more yards passing than Brady and more net yards than the Patriots, the young Jaguars team was eliminated after their first playoff berth since 2007.

While the AFC Championship was a close, suspenseful game, the NFC Championship in Philadelphia featured no such suspense, as the Eagles lived up to their No. 1 seed even without star quarterback Carson Wentz. Backup Nick Foles led the team to victory over the Minnesota Vikings, 38-7.

Foles was brilliant in the game, completing 26 of 33 passes for 352 yards and three touchdowns.

The Vikings got off to a quick start, which included the first touchdown of the game on a pass from Case Keenum to Kyle Rudolph.

However, the momentum swung toward the Eagles following a 50-yard interception return for a touchdown by cornerback Patrick Robinson, and from that point on, the Vikings never had a chance.

The Philadelphia offense spread the ball around in the passing game, with five different players gaining at least 20 receiving yards, including midseason trade acquisition running back Jay Ajayi, who added a team-leading 73 yards rushing. While the Philadelphia defense proved to be too much for Keenum and the Vikings, notably with the Eagles causing two more turnovers feauturing a strip sack and a late-game interception.

The Vikings’ dream of being the first team to play a Super Bowl in their own stadium ended just one win away.

As for Philadelphia, the team heads to just its third Super Bowl appearance in team history. Its most recent came in 2005, when it fell to the Patriots, 24-21, on a late field goal.

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Villanova sitting at No. 1 as college basketball season begins to heat up

(TNS) Villanova University basketball coach Jay Wright discussed a call with an official during Villanova’s 81-61 win over the University of Connecticut Huskies on Saturday.

By KEVIN BOHAN Staff Writer

K.J.Bohan@iup.edu

As the football season winds down, college and pro basketball start to take center stage.

This season of college basketball has had its fair share of storylines that have the sports world buzzing. Here are a few of the top stories from around the sport thus far.

Before the season started, University of Oklahoma’s Trae Young was nothing more than a decent recruit.

Now he is a frontrunner for the Naismith College Player of the Year award and has made his way up in various different mock drafts.

Young is often compared to Steph Curry with his ability to shoot the ball from 30 feet and beyond. Young is also on pace to become the first player in college hoops history to lead the league in both points, averaging 30.3, and assists, averaging 9.6.

With stats like these, Young has put Oklahoma in good position to compete in a loaded Big 12 Conference.

This year in college basketball has featured frequent changes at the top of the league. Top teams have been dropping left and right, and it has made for some exciting television.

Teams such as Villanova University, University of Virginia, Duke University, University of Kansas, Michigan State University and Xavier University have all bounced

around the top 5 for most of the year.

What separates these teams from the rest of the pack is their coaching and star power on the court.

Having a good coach and a player with the ability to take over the game in crunch time is what sets a good team apart from a great team.

One of the top stories coming into this season featured a player who is still in high school. Zion Williamson, a senior at Spartanburg Day School in South Carolina, made himself one of the most talked-about high school players since LeBron James.

His viral highlight tapes have millions of views on YouTube, and his college announcement was broadcasted live on ESPN 2. While it was assumed that Williamson would rather stay in state and go to nearby Clemson University, it came as a shock to almost everyone that he chose to go to Duke and play for Coach Mike Krzyzewski.

With Williamson making his commitment, Duke now has the highest-rated recruiting class going into next year.

The recruiting class contains three of the top five players in the class, with Duke still in contention for two other top-10 prospects.

With all the firepower the Blue Devils are bringing next year, it will be exciting to see how all of the talent meshes together.

With more than half the season over and conference play coming into full swing, the season is hitting one of its most crucial points.

(TNS) Zion Williamson of Spartansburg Day School in South Carolina has been one of the nation’s top recruits in recent years and has become most notable for his spectacular dunks. Williamson has been in the news lately after committing to Duke University.

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NFL to honor undefeated UCF team at 2018 Pro Bowl

(TNS) UCF quarterback Mackenzie Milton ran for a first down in the team’s regular season finale over the University of South Florida. Milton led the Knights to a Peach Bowl victory over Auburn University on New Year’s Day.

By SHANNON GREEN Orlando Sentinel TNS

(TNS) The University of Central Florida Golden Knights celebrated after winning their American Athletic Conference Championship in 2017 to finish their regular season, 12-0. Many thought the team had a shot to make the College Football Playoff due to its undefeated season but was left out by the committee and denied a chance for a national championship.

The NFL plans to recognize UCF's 13-0 undefeated football season during the 2018 Pro Bowl at Camping World Stadium on Sunday.

Players have been invited to walk out on the field for a celebration after the first quarter.

"When we thought about UCF and the amazing season they had going undefeated and their bowl game win, we thought there was really no better way, especially in the city of Orlando, to do something for that college celebration of football than to honor the UCF team in stadium on Sunday," said Matt Shapiro, director of events strategy for the NFL. NFL representatives and UCF had been in talks for weeks about ways to promote the game in the city. The idea originated from the NFL Events team, which first approached UCF with the opportunity, said NFL spokesman Kamran Mumtaz.

The mission of the Pro Bowl is

to promote the sport on all levels from youth to pros and NFL representatives wanted a stronger college presence surrounding the event this year.

So the timing could not have been better for UCF's perfect football season, opening the door for the timely recognition.

While the NFL is saluting the Knights, they won't be introduced as national champions.

"I think we're going to focus on their undefeated season," Shapiro said. "I don't know that we're going to get into the business of labeling them national champions.

But we're just excited to honor them and celebrate them."

Several UCF players are expected to attend the Pro Bowl.

Former players Shaquem Griffin, Tre'Quan Smith and Jordan Akins, however, are unlikely to make an appearance. They will compete in the Senior Bowl this weekend in Alabama.

Sunday will likely mark the team's final moment celebrating last season's success as players and the new coaching staff, led by Josh Heupel, shift their attention toward the 2018 season.

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Four stars headed to Cooperstown

By BILL SHAIKIN

Los Angeles Times TNS

Vladimir Guerrero, who captivated a generation of Angels fans with his easy smile, rocket arm and an almost otherworldly ability to hit even the worst of pitches for the best of results, was one of four players elected Wednesday to the Hall of Fame.

Chipper Jones, Jim Thome and Trevor Hoffman also were elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA).

The quartet elected Wednesday will be joined in the July 28 induction ceremony

by Jack Morris and Alan Trammell, selected last month by a Hall of Fame veterans committee.

Edgar Martinez finished at 70.4 percent, closest to the required 75 percent. Next year will be his 10th and final year on the BBWAA ballot.

Guerrero got 92.9 percent of the vote, joining Pedro Martinez and Juan Marichal as the third Dominican player in the Hall of Fame. At 42, Guerrero is the youngest current Hall of Famer. Guerrero has yet to say whether he will wear the cap of the Angels or the Montreal Expos on his Hall of Fame plaque. He played seven full seasons in Montreal and six in Anaheim; his statistics were better with the Expos but he won his lone MVP award with the Angels in 2004.

Hoffman, the San Diego Padres' longtime closer, fell five votes short last year. His 601 saves rank second in major league history to Mariano Rivera.

The National League reliever of year award is named in Hoffman's honor.

In 2013, the first year Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens appeared on the ballot, the BBWAA elected no one. In the five years since then, the BBWAA has elected 16 players, a record for a five-year period.

Bonds, the all-time home run leader and only seven-time MVP, and Clemens, the only seven-time Cy Young winner, likely would have won election on their first try had they not been linked to the use of steroids.

Clemens got 57 percent of the vote this year and Bonds 56 percent.

Each has four years left on the BBWAA ballot. Each got 54 percent of the vote last year.

Jones, the 1999 National League most valuable player, is the only switch-hitter to hit 400 home runs with a .300 batting average, .400 on-base percentage and .500 slugging percentage. Jones, an eight-time All-Star, played all of his 19-year career with the Atlanta Braves.

Thome hit 612 home runs, ranking eighth on the all-time list. The five-time All-Star played for six teams in his 22 seasons.

The Angels' Albert Pujols, still active, has hit 614 home runs.

The only other players ranking among the top 15 in home runs who are not in the Hall of Fame have been associated with the use of performance-enhancing substances: Bonds, Manny Ramirez and Sammy Sosa, all of whom fell short of election again this year; Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro, who were dropped from the ballot after garnering too few votes, and Alex Rodriguez, who is not yet eligible for the ballot.

The newcomers to the ballot next year include Rivera, Todd Helton, Andy Pettitte and the late Roy Halladay.

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Log jam continues in Metropolitan Division at All-Star break

By BRAD O’HARA Staff Writer

B.L.Ohara@iup.edu

The midpoint in the NHL season has come to pass, and some of the standings are unexpected.

The Vegas Golden Knights are currently in first place in the Western Conference and the Tampa Bay Lightning sit atop the Eastern Conference.

Despite Tampa Bay holding the top record in the conference, the Metropolitan Division proved to be the most competitive division in the league.

In the Golden Knights’ first year in the league, they already reached a milestone for having the best record for an expansion team with 35 games left to play.

As long as the Golden Knights can win three more games, they will be the first expansion team to have a winning record in its first season.

Vegas is not as focused on setting expansion team records as it is making the playoffs.

The Golden Knights are ranked second in offensive production, averaging 3.4 goals a game.

William Karlsson has scored the second-most goals in the NHL. But what makes Vegas dangerous is its offensive efficiency mixed with its incredible goaltending.

Vegas’ starting goaltender, MarcAndre Fleury, has the highest save percentage and the lowest goals against average in the NHL. In the Eastern Conference, Tampa Bay, of the Atlantic Division, proved to be one of the most consistent teams in the league.

Led by the league’s leading point-getter Nikita Kucherov and captain Steven Stamkos, the Lightning will look to continue their stellar play in the second half of the season and secure home-ice advantage in the playoffs.

The Eastern Conference is one of the tightest races seen in recent years with all eight teams in the

Metropolitan Division separated by only 11 points entering Thursday’s games.

The New Jersey Devils and the Philadelphia Flyers are both playing beyond what anyone had expected.

After the Devils ended last season third from the bottom and the Flyers came in 11th in the conference standings, they are neck-andneck as they chase the Washington Capitals for first place in the division.

The main difference for the Devils from last season to this season is an increase in their offensive productivity.

New Jersey was averaging 2.2 goals per game and increased that to 3 goals per game this season.

The Devils have also improved their penalty killing by receiving 4 percent more powerplays per game.

The Flyers improved in the same areas as the Devils.

Although, Philadelphia started to rely more on star power for its offensive efficiency. Claude Giroux and Jakub Voracek both rank in the top 10 for points this season, and Sean Couturier has scored the fifth-most goals in the NHL. The Pittsburgh Penguins have not truly looked like the reigning Stanley Cup champions they are.

The Penguins lost some key players over the offseason.

Coming into the new year, the Penguins have begun to turn their season around.

They won seven of their last 10 games heading into Thursday’s matchup with the Minnesota Wild and are starting to figure out their goaltending woes.

If Pittsburgh can keep from losing more players to injury, it might get back to its normal level of play just in time for the playoffs.

With more than 30 games left in the season, the All-Star break still to come and a looming trade deadline, there’s still plenty of time for any team to make its case for a playoff spot.

(TNS) The Tampa Bay Lightning have posted the top record in the Eastern Conference as the NHL heads into the All-Star break. Tampa Bay has been led offensively by the league’s top point producer Nikita Kucherov, center, who celebrated with teammates after a goal last week.

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