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(Katie Mest/ The Penn) Michael Hood served as the master of ceremonies Monday morning at the September 11 memorial in the Oak Grove.

He, along with IUP President Michael Driscoll and Caleb King (junior, mathematics and economics), shared his memories from that day.

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(Paul Marchwinski/ The Penn) The remnant of the World Trade Center in the Oak Grove, which is on long-term loan from the Kovalchick family of Indiana, serves as a memorial for three IUP alumni: William Moskal, Donald Jones and William Sugra.

Sixteen years later, IUP remembers the fallen

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“It was a beautiful day. The sky was bright blue, little or no clouds.

The morning air was cool. The leaves were starting to become a little dry; they hadn’t started to fall. It was a typical Tuesday.”

Though there are many recollections of Sept. 11, 2001, all begin relatively the same way.

IUP President Michael Driscoll recalled the normalcy of the day and how nothing seemed out of the ordinary until he received news that a plane crashed into the World Trade Center.

At 8:30 Monday morning, professors, students, faculty, first responders, veterans and community members joined in front of the September 11 memorial in the Oak Grove to remember the events that occurred 16 years ago.

The 13-foot fragment of the

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World Trade Center sits between Sutton Hall and Stapleton Library on long-term loan from the Kovalchick family.

Michael Hood, College of Fine Arts dean, began the memorial by recounting his own experience.

He started the day sitting in the Eberly College of Business board room and watching the events on the news in a daze.

In his speech, Hood used his time in the Navy as a base for his viewpoint on the terrorist attacks.

Hood heard his call to duty early in the Vietnam War and spent his tour with a detached radar bomb scoring unit in Ashiya, Japan.

Twenty years earlier, his father fought in the Marine Corps and participated in the occupation of Japan.

Growing up viewing Japan as the enemy, Hood found it ironic that he ended up being sub-

merged in Japan’s culture and reliant on its local economy.

He was surprised to learn that the Japanese people around him didn’t meet him and his colleagues with hatred but with affection.

He emphasized the importance of not using differences in culture as an excuse for hatred and war.

“I found myself wondering why we, as humans, had not figured out how to avoid the horror and the waste that is war,” Hood said.

“I have that same question now, after we have been at war for nearly two decades.”

Caleb King (junior, mathematics and economics), the student trustee on the IUP Council of Trustees, spoke after Hood, offering a younger generation’s perspective.

King had just celebrated his 5th birthday and remembered playing with his presents when his mom

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told him the news. He couldn’t William Moskal, Donald Jones “grasp the evil” in how someone and William Sugra were among could intentionally hurt all those the 2,977 victims of the terrorist people. attacks.

He urged the students to live “For all the fear, loss, heartlives of kindness through serache, destruction and sorrow that vice and continue educating the resulted,” Driscoll said, “difficult younger generations, who know as it may be to believe, we can only of the event as a tragedy in find some positives. I remember a textbook, that patriotism because “we soared.” owe it to the He urged victims and students to take survivors.”

King’s advice As a way to and find a way get involved, to do good in King noted dedication of a project those who were -President Michael Driscoll in which a lost that day. group from Stapleton IUP planted Library will trees at the Flight 93 memorial show an exhibit about the attacks with a goal of 150,000 trees. throughout September, including Driscoll ended the memoitems from IUP graduates who rial service by honoring the IUP participated in cleaning the site in alumni who perished that day.

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Police Blotter Criminal Mischief • Someone reportedly damaged a solar light in a person’s yard and a flower pot on the front porch at 7:10 a.m. Sept. 10 in the 100 block of South Fifth Street, according to the Indiana Borough Police Department. Anyone with information about the incident should contact borough police at 724-349-2121.

Theft • A silver Razor E300 scooter with an electric motor in the rear tire was reportedly stolen by a white male wearing tight blue jeans, a black T-shirt, a dark-colored baseball cap and black shoes with a white design on the side at 4:46 a.m. Sept. 9 in front of a store in the 700 block of Wayne Avenue, according to borough police.

Anyone with information about the incident should contact borough police.

• Two cell phones were reportedly stolen from a restaurant table at 2:09 a.m. Sept. 8 inside I Luv NY Pizza at 570 Philadelphia St., according to borough police.

Anyone with information about the incident should contact borough police.

Alcohol violations • Aaron Dobrolsky, 18, of Hershey; Sean Ovington, 19, of Warminster; Alexis Campana, 19, of Kittanning; Jasmine Raudys, 18, of Homer Glen, Ill.; and Brenda George, 20, of Broomall, were cited for underage drinking after reportedly knocking over trash cans at 11:09 p.m. Sept. 7 at 500 South Fifth St., according to borough police.

Drug violations • Richard Miller, 23, of Saltsburg, was stopped for a traffic violation and found to be in possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia at 2:17 a.m. Sept. 4 in the 00 block of South Taylor Avenue, according to borough police.

• Tyler Hartman, 22, of Altoona,

was charged in a criminal complaint with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia at 9:26 p.m. Aug. 31 in the 500 block of Philadelphia Street, according to borough police.

• Chad Stineman, 19, of Coral, was charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia at 6:34 p.m. Aug. 22 in the 900 block of Wayne Avenue, according to borough police.

• Isaiah Faulk, 18, of Philadelphia, was charged with possession of marijuana at 11:04 p.m. Sept. 7 in Ruddock Hall, according to IUP University Police.

• Nijaye Johnson, 18, of Philadelphia, was charged with possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia at 7:52 p.m.

Sept. 6 in Suites on Pratt, according to university police.

• Shamir Elliot, 18, of Philadelphia, was charged with possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia at 7:52 p.m. Sept.

6 in Suites on Pratt, according to university police.

• Nadeev Yisrael, 18, of Philadelphia, was charged with possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of drugs by an unauthorized person at 8:20 p.m. Sept. 3 in Wallwork Hall, according to university police.

Disorderly Conduct • An unknown actor was reportedly throwing trash on a resident’s sidewalk sometime between 10 p.m. Sept. 7 and 6:30 a.m. Sept. 8 at 1100 Washington St., according to borough police. Anyone with information about the incident should contact borough police.

Domestic Disturbance • Travis Kendrick, 26, of Indiana, was taken into custody for charges relative to a domestic act at 9:18 a.m. Sept. 11 in the 400 block of Water Street, according to borough police.

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(TNS) Students at the University of Baltimore stand against Kurt Schmoke’s decision to invite Betsy DeVos, above, to speak at the university’s fall commencement.

By TALIA RICHMAN The Baltimore Sun TNS

University of Baltimore President Kurt Schmoke defended his decision to invite U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to speak at the school’s fall commencement, even as dozens of students protested against the invitation Monday and hundreds more signed a petition demanding he change his mind.

Schmoke, a former mayor of Baltimore, said students should reserve judgment on the controversial member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet. Hosting DeVos, he said, is “in the best tradition of the university.”

“The university stands for freedom of speech,” Schmoke said. “My bottom line conclusion is the university stands for debate on controversial issues. I do feel that having the U.S. secretary of education on our campus is something that’s very important for the

university, and in the long run, I believe that students will recognize that whether they agree with her position on issues or not.”

Dozens of students participated in a “class walkout” demonstration Monday afternoon, the first of two protests planned for Monday.

UB junior Tracy Johnson stood up midway through her global ethics class and walked out, carrying a neon orange sign that read #NeverBetsy.

“Commencement is not the place for Betsy DeVos,” Johnson said. “She stands against everything we represent.”

DeVos supports “school choice” and is a proponent of charter schools and school vouchers. She says her vision will create competition and improve public schools, but teachers’ unions and other supporters of public education say the secretary’s ideas would undermine the schools that serve the majority of America’s students.

“Your graduation day speaker is supposed to represent the best ideals of your school and highest aspirations of the students,” Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous said at the rally. “Betsy DeVos is quite simply the most anti-public education secretary of education our country has ever had.”

Alec Ross, another Democrat running for governor, stood beside Jealous to listen to students at the event.

In a survey disseminated Friday by the student government association, more than 80 percent of respondents said they did not want DeVos to speak at the Dec.18 graduation ceremony.

Nearly 3,000 had signed a petition asking Schmoke to rescind the invitation by the time the rally began in Gordon Plaza.

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Die-hards remain in Keys as Irma presses onward

By MOLLY HENNESSY-FISKE Los Angeles Times TNS

As Hurricane Irma barreled into Key West, Fla., Peter Borch stood atop the oldest guesthouse in the city, a converted Victorian mansion built in 1880, to film the unfolding mayhem.

Storm gusts bent nearby palm trees nearly in half, stripping and scattering fronds down empty streets. The horizon was nearly obscured by a white wall of surf roaring in.

“The eyewall is about to hit here in Key West. No power. Trees down. No flooding,” Borch, 31, shouted in an attempt to be heard over the wind.

Then, he shifted focus to a porch below, where an older man sat, shirtless, sipping coffee from a mug, oblivious to the onslaught.

Keys residents are a hardy, proudly eccentric bunch, accustomed to surviving storms. Many refused to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Irma, including residents at the tip of the island chain in Key West known as conchs. The keeper of Ernest Hemingway’s historic home stayed put to care for his brood of six-toed cats. Watering holes such as the Blue Macaw stayed open, offering a drink special called the “Bloody Irma” (five shots of Tito’s vodka). But as the storm descended Sunday, some denizens reconsidered and headed for shelters of last resort such as a school on Sugarloaf Key. Others hunkered down, set up live feeds and promised to stay in touch.

One holdout filmed himself nearly getting washed away by storm surf striking the red and yellow buoy at the southernmost point of U.S. Route 1. Florida snowbirds and other island regulars posted queries online: How were the federally protected Key deer faring? Key West’s roaming roosters? Initial reports were good.

Then the power went out, cell service ceased and with it, the live feeds. Only those with satellite phones and land lines could stay in touch with the outside world.

Those at the Sugarloaf School were among the lucky few with

(TNS) John Krowzow, 74, is desperate to check out his home in Corkscrew Woodland, a park with 640 senior mobile home units in Estero, Fla.

a satellite phone and used it to report that those sheltering there had survived the storm unscathed.

Volunteer rescuers used an app on their cellphones called Zello to report what else they were seeing.

“I’m in Key West and we’re all right down here. I never do run from a storm,” said a man who identified himself as P.J. Judy Cox searched online for signs of her friend Borch, one of several Key West neighbors who decided to weather the storm.

She last heard from him at 9 a.m., about an hour after he posted his last video. She said he told her “it was windy and not a lot of flooding. Some trees down and no power since last night.”

Now, she was worried.

She had trouble reaching another friend, a boat captain, who was weathering the storm by Schooner Wharf, she said.

“Last I heard he was on his boat,” Cox said.

In many cases, however, people were unreachable simply because they had lost cellphone service. Relatives even had trouble reaching Key West Mayor Craig Cates: He doesn’t have a land line.

Longtime Key West resident artist Richard “Dick” Matson answered his land line around noon.

“I’m cooking breakfast in what’s left of my home,” he said.

His shutters had been damaged, and he had not been able to assess the rest of the storm’s impact because it was still raging.

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Number of guests that stayed at the Key West Marriott Beachside Hotel

“I’m fine,” Matson, 81, said by phone as he cooked his eggs.

“Better than I would be if I was out there.”

Why did he stay?

“I stayed through five storms: Hugo, Bob, George and Andrew.

I’ve stayed here 40 years. This is my home and I’m going to stay here until I die,” he said.

As for how Irma compared with Hurricane Andrew in 1992, he said,

“It’s bad.”

Cox had evacuated Wednesday, first to Tampa, then farther north along the coast to Wilmington, N.C., after the storm’s path shifted Thursday.

Some of her friends booked flights out of the Key West International Airport only to see them canceled at the last minute, she said.

By Saturday, she said, many of

those who stayed were afraid to leave. “The thought of getting stuck for hours in traffic with no gas was more terrifying to people than staying at home,” she said.

As the storm approached, emergency managers for Monroe County had to move their headquarters farther north from Marathon, which was hard hit.

Larry Kahn, editor of the Keynoter newspaper, reported from a shelter at Marathon High School that the school had lost power and water as the neighborhood became submerged from the storm surge.

“Everything is underwater, I mean everything,” Kahn wrote, noting that about 50 people at the shelter expected to be stranded for days. “Everyone here seems to be just walking around in a fog.”

About 500 guests stayed at the Key West Marriott Beachside Hotel, which weathered the storm without major damage. “The building is fine. We are standing strong. We have no power.

We have no water. We have no internet. But we have our lives,” Esa Sawyer, a guest service agent at the hotel, said by phone.

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(TNS) A fence collapsed on a car after an 8.1 magnitude earthquake hit southern Mexico Friday.

Quake, hurricane hit Mexico

By KATE LINTHICUM Los Angeles Times TNS

The death toll from Thursday’s massive earthquake off the coast of southern Mexico rose to 61 Saturday as emergency responders scrambled to clear debris, restore power and provide housing for thousands of displaced people in one of the country’s poorest and most remote regions.

In a televised address Friday night, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto declared three days of mourning.

“The power of this earthquake was devastating,” Pena Nieto said, speaking from Juchitan de Zaragoa, a city in Oaxaca state where at least 36 people died.

“But we are certain that the power of unity, the power of solidarity and the power of shared responsibility will be greater.”

Rescuers successfully pried several survivors from the rubble in Juchitan on Friday, but also discovered others who had perished. The magnitude 8.1 earthquake, which struck shortly before midnight local time in the Pacific Ocean, about 60 miles off the coast of the state of Chiapas, leveled hospitals, churches and the city’s main government buildings.

One in three homes is now uninhabitable, Pena Nieto said. On Friday evening, some residents pulled mattresses outside and slept in the streets.

As Mexican authorities rushed supplies and help to the regions most battered by the earthquake, Hurricane Katia struck the east

coast of Mexico early Saturday as a Category 1 storm.

Luis Felipe Puente, head of Mexico’s national emergency services agency, said two people were killed by the hurricane, which roared ashore in Veracruz state, pelting the region with intense rains and winds.

The hurricane quickly lost strength after hitting land and was downgraded to a tropical storm.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the storm’s maximum sustained winds had dropped Saturday morning to about 35 mph.

Still, the hurricane center predicted the storm could bring three to six inches of additional rain to a region with a history of flooding and deadly mudslides.

Meanwhile, the earthquake’s death toll appeared likely to rise as authorities continued to comb through rubble in southern Mexico.

Pena Nieto said the earthquake killed 45 people in the state of Oaxaca, 12 in Chiapas and four in Tabasco, on Mexico’s Gulf Coast.

The earthquake, one of the biggest in Mexico’s history, was felt hundreds of miles away in Mexico City, where people fled violently swaying buildings.

Aside from a few damaged buildings, the capital city was fine. That is thanks in part to its distance from the earthquake’s epicenter but also because of an earthquake warning system and stricter building codes established after thousands of people were killed in the city and whole neighborhoods leveled in a devastating earthquake in 1985.

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EDITORIAL With the number of tropical storms in the Atlantic Ocean increasing in frequency and size, climate change has become a more visibly pressing issue, especially in politics.

Only 16 days after Hurricane Harvey devastated Rockport, Texas, another Category 4 hurricane made landfall in the U.S. Hurricane Irma first hit the Florida Keys early Sunday morning.

Both hurricanes sustained winds above 130 mph. This is the first time two Atlantic Category 4 hurricanes have ever been recorded to make landfall in the U.S. during the same year.

Atlantic hurricanes reaching Category 4 or stronger making landfall in the U.S. are rare, with only 27 recorded since 1851. The last Category 4 hurricane to occur in the U.S. was Hurricane Charley in 2004, which also hit Florida.

With destruction and death-toll tallies on the rise, scientific evidence points to climate change for intensifying these storms.

But, the discussion of the root of this hor-

Science is out, ignorance is in: Politicians bury

their heads in the sand following Hurricane Irma

(TNS) Andrew Perini walked his neighbor’s dog, Arnie, along 10th Avenue and Polk Street in Hollywood, Fla., the day after Hurricane Irma hit. Perini said he’s lucky his home did not flood.

rifying reality has been subdued.

According to a Monday article by the New York Times, Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), said it is insensitive to discuss climate change in the midst of deadly storms.

“To have any kind of focus on the cause

and effect of the storm versus helping people, or actually facing the effect of the storm, is misplaced,” Pruitt said during an interview with CNN ahead of Hurricane Irma. “To use time and effort to address it at this point is very, very insensitive to these people in Florida.”

In Washington, science is viewed as a bipartisan issue. The fact that oceans and the atmosphere are warming and heat is intensifying tropical storms into hurricanes and superstorms is considered a political debate.

But Tomás Regalado, the Republican mayor of Miami who had to evacuate his citizens before Hurricane Irma, has a different opinion.

“This is the time to talk about climate change,” Regalado said in a Friday article in The Miami Herald. “This is the time that the president and the EPA and whoever makes decisions needs to talk about climate change. If this isn’t climate change, I don’t know what is. This is truly, truly poster child

for what is to come.”

President Donald Trump has thrown climate change aside as a hoax. Pruitt has denied scientific evidence claiming man-made carbon dioxide emissions are a contributing source to global warming. The EPA has even removed mentions of climate change from its website and continues to repeal regulations that reduce man-made carbon dioxide emissions.

With Trump and Pruitt discrediting climate change and its adverse effects, and the overwhelming scientific evidence showing otherwise, catastrophic events like Hurricanes Harvey and Irma will continue to happen.

Until the U.S. takes drastic measures to address climate change as a real, scientific issue, and not a bipartisan one, the U.S., as well as the world, will only continue to suffer from its adverse effects.

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Letter rotito dTO Ethe eTHE htEditor otEDITOR retteL LETTER Dear Editor: This letter is a comment on IUP conversations about a recent incident of racist hate speech.

If the university enacted a policy by which IUP students would be in any way academically sanctioned for engaging in racist hate speech on private social media, the story would probably run in The Penn. It might get picked up by regional news agencies.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) might get wind of it in that way and file a suit against IUP, on behalf of a perpetrator, for violating a U.S. citizen’s First Amendment right to freedom of speech. The ACLU would win, and then it would win again on appeal, if challenged to that stage. The uni-

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versity would risk losing all federal funding, including Federal Work Study, and federally funded academic research.

First Amendment absolutism – ”we can’t criminalize anything except speech likely to cause immediate, proximate harm” – is backed by a great deal of case law, and so, at present, it is settled law. When officials of the university say, “We can’t punish speech,” they aren’t obfuscating.

This doesn’t imply, however, that a university is excused from acting, substantively, to respond to racist hate speech. Balanced against the Constitutional constraints of the First Amendment is another body of settled law: civil rights law, deriving from the 1964 Civil Rights Act and its amendments.

Every time an IUP student posts rac-

ist hate speech on social media, and the news spreads, another nail has been driven into the social construct by which the black community of IUP is socially subjugated and subordinated: its subordination made socially real. The injury of racist hate speech is partly a matter of deeply hurt feelings, but if any IUP students of color are already so inured to racist speech as to feel nothing at all when a new incident occurs, still those students have been wronged. They have incurred the political injury of disregard for their legal rights to full civil status at this institution.

The President’s Commission on Diversity and Inclusion has been charged to recommend to the president a vision for IUP that demonstrates an institutionalized, sustain-

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able and enduring commitment to actualizing the principles of diversity and inclusion.

The Commission and its sub-committees are working to meet this charge and related charges. This work must come to completion before recommendations are implemented, but it is my fervent hope that the entire IUP community will commit now to promoting the full civil equality of all IUP students, within the intransigent constraints of the First Amendment. Civil rights law compels us. Brave student leaders within the IUP community rightly demand it. We simply must do this, and we must do it wisely and effectively.

Mary MacLeod, Chair and Professor IUP Philosophy Department

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Bastille ignites Steel City Sunday night

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

This article contains opinion.

The London-based band Bastille is known for two things.

One is that it makes sad songs that get you dancing.

The second is its Top-40 hit, “Pompeii,” from 2014.

The indie-rock group, however, proved it’s more than just a onehit wonder.

Sunday’s performance at Pittsburgh’s X Fest not only showcased the band’s vocal and instrumental abilities, but the members’ dorky dancing skills and humility.

From the very beginning of the show, the energy in the venue was high. Frontman Dan Smith had a great stage presence from the get-go, as he jumped and danced around the stage to “Send Them Off!,” a song from sophomore album “Wild World,” which was released Sept. 9, 2016.

With his dance-like-nobody-iswatching attitude, Smith made the

(Paul Marchwinski/ The Penn) Dave Smith, Bastille’s lead singer, had great stage presence at Stage AE Sunday.

(Caitlin Denny/ The Penn) Bastille released its debut album “All This Bad Blood” on Aug. 20, 2012.

crowd feel comfortable, whether they were in the pit in front of the stage or on the lawn at Stage AE. The crowd mirrored his actions for the majority of the show. When he danced, they danced. When he put his hands up, they put their hands up. When he jumped, the entire crowd followed.

With all the movement on the stage, one would think Smith

would get winded. However, he sounded better live than he did on either of Bastille’s two albums.

Fans closest to the stage were in for a treat when Smith went into the crowd for “Flaws,” a song off the band’s debut album, “Bad Blood.”

About halfway through the show, the band did a cover of TLC’s hit “No Scrubs,” which

undeniably sounded original, but also like the chorus was made just for it.

The highlight of the show was “Two Evils,” an intimate, slow song with few instrumentals, which made Smith the star of the show. This song showed his vocal range, which had an eerily beautiful tone. Immediately after, the band transitioned into “Blame,” a guitar-driven song that seemed to be a crowd favorite.

Smith also displayed his leadership to the crowd during “Of The

Night” when he told everyone to crouch down before the last chorus of the song and jump when the chorus dropped, to which he received full crowd participation.

It was no surprise that “Pompeii” was the last song, but the band tweaked it a bit for a unique factor with Smith singing while playing piano. After the first few lines, it transitioned back to the normal arrangement of the song.

Seeing Bastille perform demonstrates what live music is all about: unity.

Fall brings colder weather and colorful sitcoms

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

As September rolls on, the days become a little shorter, the temperature becomes a little cooler and the leaves in the Oak Grove start to change color. This can only mean one thing: Fall is upon us. With it comes a variety of different seasonal events.

To some, the start of fall signals the beginning of classes and a new school year. To others, it’s the highly anticipated return of NFL and college football. This time also marks the return of everything pumpkin, especially the cult favorite PSL at Starbucks.

However, the beginning of fall also signals a new season of television shows. Luckily, there is a

(Facebook) “The Orville” premiered Sunday on Fox.

variety of TV shows for every type of students’ viewing pleasure.

The show that Nathan Faris (freshman, criminology) said he was looking forward to most isn’t on traditional TV. He said he likes watching the series “The Ranch,” with Ashton Kutcher, on Netflix.

However, Faris also said he was excited to hear about the return of an iconic show that has been missing from TV schedules for the past

few years: “American Idol,” after a few seasons off the air. This time, the fan-favorite talent show will be with a different network.

“American Idol is always fun,” Faris said.

But not all students are forced to wait for the TV shows they want to come back.

Ezekiel Evans (senior, accounting and management operations) said the show he enjoys most never takes a break.

“Well I typically watch ‘SportsCenter,’” Evans said. He added that he was also interested in the fall return of “Shark Tank,” which will premiere at 8 p.m. Oct. 8.

One new show that piqued Evans’ interest was “The Orville,” which premiered Sunday on Fox. This new, live-action comedy from “Family Guy” creator Seth Mac-

Farlane will spoof “Star Trek.”

“I’ve always been interested in “Star Trek.” So I’ll definitely be willing to check that out,” Evans said. “‘Family Guy’ always has funny jokes. So I’ll definitely be interested in looking into that since it’s by the same producer.”

One new show that Evans will most likely not be tuning into is the new season of “American Horror Story,” titled “Cult,” which returned to FX Sept. 5.

“As far as the horror, I’m not really into self-brought spook. So horror shows aren’t really for me.”

Another student who won’t be checking out the latest offering from the FX horror anthology is sophomore Shanice Drummond (business management) who, despite enjoying the movies that come out during Halloween, was

adamant that this show is too much.

However, Drummond was interested in a lighter new show this fall, “Young Sheldon,” which premieres Sept. 25 as CBS’s prequel to its hit, “The Big Bang Theory.”

One major theme this fall seems to be all things superhero and comic book related.

A prime examples of this is Fox’s “The Gifted,” which will appear Oct. 2 and focus on younger mutants from X-Men. Another addition to the Marvel Comics universe is ABC’s “The Inhumans,” which will launch in theaters before moving to television Sept. 29.

Whether one is looking for a new series to start or the return of an existing favorite, students will be able to find a few shows to keep them busy.

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Life isn’t Thomas Rhett’s only change

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

This article contains opinion.

Country star Thomas Rhett released his third studio album, “Life Changes,” Friday as an enjoyable, albeit not particularly revolutionary, addition to the current landscape of country music.

As is the case with many of contemporary, male music groups and musicians in this genre, like Florida Georgia Line, Kip Moore or Luke Bryan, Rhett's latest album is more of a pop-country effort than a purely traditional country offering.

However, this assessment is not meant to be a criticism of the album but an evaluation and warning to those who are expecting a pure country album.

Despite this caveat, there are a variety of catchy songs on the album. Predictably, the strongest

(Facebook) “Life Changes” was released Friday.

works tend to be the songs that Rhett released as singles, including the album-opening duet, “Craving You,” featuring Maren Morris, and the reflective “Sixteen.”

Many recent country artists have seen their work influenced by pop. However, Rhett takes the genre-crossing further than most with this album. Beyond the usual

pop-country sound, Rhett tries his hand at his own version of a popballad-slow-jam crossover with “Kiss Me Like A Stranger.”

Rhett pushes himself even further stylistically on the song “Leave Right Now,” which starts out sounding like a traditionally slower country song about serenading the pretty girl in the corner to take a chance on the infatuated singer, only to completely surprise the audience with a chorus that features an EDM-style drop and the introduction of synths, autotune and bass.

While a country-EDM crossover is a rare combination, it actually works rather well.

Some may point out Rhett's failure to draw more on his recent life experiences and adjustment to fatherhood – with the notable exception of the title track itself – as a missed opportunity to set his work apart from his fellow country artists. But, the biggest issue

found with the album actually lies in the song order.

The album starts with three faster-paced songs, followed by the song with the fastest tempo on the entire album, “Drink A Little Beer,” all of which work fine until the fifth song, which is immediately after the fastest.

This one, titled “Marry Me,” is the slowest-paced song on the album. The abrupt transition from an upbeat party song to a melancholy ballad about missed opportunities and lost love is quite jarring and off-putting for the listener. Ultimately, it ends up detracting from the overall listening experience.

Rhett said that one of the goals of his album was to get people who don't usually listen to country music to give it a shot.

While it remains to be seen if he will accomplish that goal, he has certainly done everything in his power to craft blend genres.

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Craving You ft. Maren Morris

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Unforgettable

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Marry Me

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Leave Right Now

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Smooth Like the Summer

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Life Changes

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When You Look Like That

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Sweetheart

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Kiss Me like a Stranger

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Renegades

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Gateway Lovers

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Dog craze overwhelms IUP

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

Amanda Puppers (sophomore, nursing) remains hospitalized due to exhaustion over seeing too many “cute puppies.”

On Saturday, Puppers was out (Flickr) enjoying her day as she usually does.

As she was walking through the Oak Grove, she was inundated by the number of dogs being walked around campus.

Pupper’s friend John Dogface (junior, interior design) was with her dur-

ing the incident. ing a novel. I was sitting “She just couldn’t outside of Starbucks with stop running after all of laptop and the dogs to pet them,” a copy of a Dogface said. “It was Fitzgerald like watching a marathon book out runner. She has always for the world loved dogs. to see. I’m a “We never knew what novelist. It’s this intense of a love just what I do.” could do to her.”

Whiskers The dog was darting wouldn’t comment toward at the time of on what hapher collapse was owned pened because he

by Jack Whiskers (junior, felt the inspiration English). he needed to “make Whiskers was sitting this chapter amazing” outside Starbucks with and excused himself to his pet when Puppers return to his writing. fainted.

IUP spokeswoman “At first, I figured she Miranda Catlady issued was running over a statement concerning to ask the dog-craze that is if I was overwhelming writing the a novel,” IUP Whiskers said. student “I mean, of populacourse I’m writtion.

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“We must warn students,” Catlady said.

“They need to limit how many dogs they freak out over. Two per week should suffice.

We believe that this is a safe number for many students, and we certainly do not wish for (Flickr) any more hospitalizations.

“In the meantime,” Catlady added, “I suggest we all focus more of our attention on kittens, as they are a safer animal for obsession.”

Puppers remains at IRMC with what doctors are calling “Cute Puppy Syndrome,” or CPS. Puppers’ family is asking for her classmates to send good vibes over Twitter.

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Ben Rector knows you’ve probably never heard of him ALLISON STEWART Chicago Tribune TNS Singer-songwriter Ben Rector’s songs have been downloaded millions of times, and his album sales are well into six figures. But he knows you’ve probably never heard of him.

When he opens for Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, “the majority of people will be like, ‘Who’s that guy?’” Rector said in a phone call from a tour stop in Texas. “That’s exciting to me because that’s not the kind of thing I run into much anymore.”

Rector’s meticulously crafted, shamelessly romantic folky pop albums have generated a weird, on-the-bubble kind of fame: He is unusually, intensely beloved by fans and an obscurity to everybody else.

If you are a 20-something former sorority girl from the South, his songs probably served as

Rector released “Brand New” in 2015.

the soundtrack to your wedding montage video and, possibly, your life. He is now in the process of figuring out if that fame translates to the broader world.

Rector, born in Oklahoma, started making a decent living as a touring musician while he was a student at the University of Arkansas. He eventually moved to Nashville, self-released a string of increasingly successful albums and slowly built a following. His last al-

bum, 2015’s “Brand New,” debuted in Billboard’s Top 10 and put him on the radio, thanks to a distribution deal with a Capitol Records subsidiary; his next one, still in the works, could break him nationally.

Rector, an exhausted first-time father to a onemonth-old girl, talked about how he got famous, and what might happen next. Excerpts from that (TNS) conversation follow: By the time he hit 30, he had already been a touring musician for 10 years.

“Sometimes I feel like a kid and I’m still just starting, and there’s a lot of times I feel like, wow, this has been a long time.” Rector said. “One of the roads I was driving on today was a highway I (traveled on college tours). I was like, man, I did this drive a lot of times in my Honda Accord, with a keyboard in the back. It’s hilarious

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that I’m still doing this, though. I don’t have a keyboard in the back of my car. In that sense, it feels like a lifetime ago, but sometimes I feel like everybody does. Like I’m still 18.”

He never thought he would make it this far.

“I’m a pessimist by nature.

I wish I wasn’t. When I was in college, and it looked like I was gonna do this as my job, I didn’t think it was gonna go as far as it has. I was like, ‘I’m probably only going to do this ‘til I’m 30.’ Doing this by yourself is an incredible amount of work. I was like, I don’t think I can do this forever.”

That’s probably a good thing.

“I think some of the pessimism maybe kept me kind of grounded.

The first few years, I loved it, but I didn’t have a model for how I could do it. I’m surprised, when I look back, that I was able to finish college. There were definitely times when I probably should have

focused a little more on school. I’d play shows all weekend and come back on Monday, and there’d be a test I’d forgotten about. But I’m not as flighty as some people are.

I’m a little more practical. I used to feel weird about that, like that wasn’t very artisty or cool of me, but that’s what I got.”

He’s not necessarily sure he wants to be more famous.

“I go back and forth. I want to do really good work. I’m more driven by that than by, ‘I want to be ‘X’ amount of famous.’

“The amount of small, baby steps to fame I’ve had, that doesn’t feed me, that doesn’t feel great to me. I don’t love that. I realize now, enough stuff has happened that you start to see the pattern, like, this is never gonna make me happy. No amount of people going to a show or selling any amount of single records I’m never gonna be like, ‘I did it,’ because there’s always gonna be someone else ahead of me.”

S PO R T S IUP’s offensive outburst lifts P

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

team to 38-14 win over ESU

By JARROD BROWNE Lead Sports Writer

J.W.Browne@iup.edu

The No. 6 IUP football team improved to 2-0 on the young season after defeating Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) foe East Stroudsburg University, 38-14, Saturday afternoon at Miller Stadium.

During the victory, IUP accumulated 607 yards FOOTBALL of total offense, 324 of which came on the ground from four different running backs.

Duane Brown (freshman, kinesiology) led the team with 137 yards and a touchdown.

Following Brown was Samir Bullock (sophomore, management) with 82 yards and a touchdown.

Justice Evans (freshman, management) totaled 45 yards and Malik Anderson (sophomore, kinesiology) had 28 yards.

Despite the strong offensive output, the Crimson Hawks are still looking to improve their offensive efficiency.

“Well, the yardage is great, but we left a lot of points on the field,” said head coach Paul Tortorella. “If you gain 600 yards, you need to score more than 38 points.”

One key aspect on offense IUP has struggled with early in the season has been its red-zone efficiency. The Crimson Hawks managed to take the ball into the red zone

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four times on Saturday but capitalized on only two of them.

“We probably work the red zone more than any other team in America, to be honest. Maybe we work it too much, for all I know,” Tortorella said. “But I think it’s a little bit of rust, maybe, and [there] may be some things that we can do better.”

Not only did the Crimson Hawks have a strong day offensively, but the defense executed its game plan to limit East Stroudsburg to 14 points and 223 yards of total offense.

Although IUP allowed 142 rushing yards, the Crimson Hawks were mainly focused on stopping the Warriors’ passing game.

“We were more concerned with stopping the deep ball,” Tortorella said.

The Crimson Hawks prevented big plays through the air with a strong push from the defensive line which recorded three sacks Saturday.

The line also forced the quarterback to make some poor throws with the applied pressure.

One of the throws resulted in a 38-yard interception return for a touchdown by JR Stevens (redshirt sophomore) in the second quarter.

Moving forward, the Crimson Hawks will compete in their third straight home game as they welcome cross-state PSAC rival Cheyney University.

IUP will host Cheyney at noon Saturday at Miller Stadium.

The IUP football program has dominated Cheyney in recent matchups, outscoring the Wolves 222-0 in the last four matchups dating to 2012.

(Ishaaq Muhammad/ The Penn) Running back Duane Brown (freshman, kinesiology) came into his own in just his second game as a Crimson Hawk after his 137-yard rushing performance against East Stroudsburg University on Saturday. Brown also recorded his first career touchdown Saturday.

(Ishaaq Muhammad/ The Penn) The Crimson Hawks improved to 2-0 with Saturday’s 38-14 victory over East Stroudsburg University. The team remained at No. 6 in the latest coaches poll. Quarterback Lenny Williams (redshirt junior, accounting) was named IUP Male Athlete of the Week by IUP Athletics.

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IUP tennis starts season at Bucknell Invite, places second in doubles

By JOHN FORAN Staff Writer

J.N.Foran@iup.edu

While many tennis fans were fixated on the final grand slam tournament of the year, the IUP tennis team started the fall season over the weekend playing at the Bucknell Invite.

Doubles team partners Luise von Agris (senior, TENNIS international business) and Nicole Beidacki (freshman, kinesiology health and sport science) placed second overall in Flight 1 of the women's doubles bracket Sunday.

The pair earned victories over Howard University (6-4) and two different Bucknell University teams, as well (6-2), (6-2).

Von Agris and Beidacki then lost to a team from Loyola University (64) in the final doubles match of the tournament.

Von Agris is coming off an exceptional season, winning IUP’s Women's Athletics Performance of the Year award for her stellar performances all season.

She and her previous partner, Jarka Petercakova (senior, international business), won the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference

(PSAC) doubles championship last year at Bloomsburg University.

This was the first time IUP had ever won the doubles championship in the program’s history.

Flavia Flandoli De Oliveira (freshman, athletic training) and Mariana Valenzuela (sophomore, cell and molecular biology) also performed well, making it to the semifinals of the Flight 2 doubles bracket where they were eliminated by another pair from Loyola (6-3).

De Oliveria, Valenzuela and Maria Magraner Grau (freshman, pre-medicine) all earned wins in their respective women’s singles bracket, but all were eliminated in the second round.

The young players are hoping to learn from this weekend, while the returning four have hopes set high for upcoming tournaments.

Last year’s PSAC Championship-winning team can use this past weekend’s tournament as an example for what to work on for its next tournament stop.

The Crimson Hawks will travel to Mercyhurst University Saturday for the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Atlantic Regional Championships.

IUP beat Mercyhurst for the PSAC title last year, and von Agris explained why beating them again is important.

“They are a very good team like us and have been our biggest rivals,” she said. “The matches are always close and exciting.”

(IUP Athletics) Luise von Agris (senior, international business) is one of the team’s top returnees from last season. Von Agris and her new partner, Nicole Beidacki (freshman, kinesiology), placed second overall in women’s doubles at the Bucknell Invite over the weekend.

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Crimson Hawks look to rebound after up-and-down weekend

By BRAD O’HARA Staff Writer

B.L.Ohara@iup.edu

The IUP volleyball team split its four road matches on its journey through West Virginia this weekend.

The Crimson Hawks won their first match of the road VOLLEYBALL trip against Notre Dame of Ohio, 3-0.

The win was a team effort, as each player stepped up to help offensively.

Alexis Anderson (senior, marketing) led the team in kills with 13 and also had three blocks. Gabby Egler (senior, psychology) led the team in blocks for the match with seven and had 11 kills in the contest.

Natalie Cignetti (senior, natural science/ pre-med) made her mark on the match, leading the team in aces with five and had the thirdmost kills with eight. She also led the team in digs with eight.

The Crimson Hawks’ luck did not remain, though, as they lost their next match to the University of Charleston in a very close contest. IUP lost by a score of 3-2, with the final set coming in at 15-13.

However, IUP bounced back after the tough loss and managed to secure a three-set sweep against West Virginia State University to win the match.

Katie Miller (senior, anthropology) was a big contributor with 38 assists in the victory.

After another momentum shift on the women’s road trip, the Crimson Hawks lost their last match of the weekend, 3-0, to Urbana University.

“Hitting efficiency has been hurting us in our three losses, and being able to make good decisions in and out of system

situations,” said head coach Scott Pennewill.

“The other aspect of our development is being able to play our best against tougher opponents when the outcome may not be so obvious. We need to play our best when our best is required.”

The IUP volleyball team has a short break before it goes back on the road to take on Concord University.

IUP will also face off against Notre Dame of Ohio in a rematch from this past weekend. Both games will take place Friday in South Euclid, Ohio.

Concord holds a 3-5 record on the season and has a 1-2 record for matches held at a neutral site.

Notre Dame of Ohio is 4-5 on the season and has yet to play at home.

WE NEED TO PLAY OUR BEST WHEN OUR BEST IS REQUIRED. –Head coach Scott Pennewill IUP will play its next five games on the road.

“The non-conference schedule for us usually requires a lot of road trips after we host the home opener,” Pennewill said. “It is something we are familiar with and for the most part is a neutral match, as the opponent is also on the road. All of this tournament play is to prepare us for conference play, which requires us to show up every day. There are no easy matches in the west side of the conference.”

Until Friday, the Crimson Hawks will spend time regrouping and preparing for the upcoming road games as they look to hold onto their winning record.

(IUP Athletics) Alexis Anderson (senior, marketing) was the standout player in the volleyball team’s 3-0 sweep over Notre Dame of Ohio on Friday.

Anderson recorded a team-high 13 kills along with three blocks in Friday’s win.

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