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Student entrepreneurs win Pitt’s ‘New Venture Competition’

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

Founding members of the Military Philanthropic Organization (MPO) at IUP, Tony Juhasz (sophmore, journalism/public relations and economics) and Dillon Hagy (senior, business) won first place at the University of Pittsburgh’s first “New Venture Competition” for the Humanity of Business Project for their idea, American Philanthropic Apparel (APA).

The two started MPO last year because they felt there weren’t many local efforts to support those who have served our country, including on a local level such as in police and fire departments.

“We saw that there was a gap in the community where [veterans] weren’t getting the gratitude they deserve,” Juhasz said. “[We felt] they were heavily underappreciated.”

Inspired by the need to help, Juhasz and Hagy came up with APA to give back to veterans by designing T-shirts that show support and patriotism.

The two found outside help to

(IUP website) Senior Dillon Hagy (business), right, and sophomore Tony Juhasz (journalism/public relations and economics), left, entered in the University of Pittsburgh’s “New Venture Competition” after already starting to plan their T-shirt sales.

design the shirts and conducted research to see where online competitors went wrong. T-shirts are currently $30 with almost all proceeds going back to the club’s cause.

The competition at Pitt, however, was an afterthought for the duo.

The two students already had a plan and a product in the works when Hagy’s business professor,

Dr. John Lipinski, caught wind of their idea.

The students didn’t realize the New Venture Competition was taking place until Lipinski emailed the website link to them.

“We didn’t start the proposal until October,” Juhasz said. “We, [the club], were looking for a way to be sustainable, and then once we saw this [Business of Humanity Project], the lightbulb kind of

went off. We realized we could be sustainable while giving back.”

Juhasz thinks one of the main reasons they beat the other contestants led back to his organization and the humanitarian plans that were already underway.

The Business of Humanity Project’s goal is to “improve decision-making in organizations,” especially in businesses that give back to others.

According to its website, the primary objectives of the study included rethinking strategy criterion and developing business models to involve “humanity.”

The overall project also included the “New Venture Competition,” which allowed students from various colleges around Pennsylvania to submit business proposals and compete.

Students from these colleges submitted proposals online until October.

Various business models were weeded out until the top-five finalists were selected to present their projects in person Nov. 3 at Pitt.

Hagy and Juhasz competed against students from Slippery Rock, Robert Morris and Edinboro

universities as finalists.

“The most difficult part [of the competition], by far, was figuring out the numbers for our target market, revenue, cost and profit,” Juhasz said. “Not only did we have to conceptualize how big our market was, we had to have a realistic view on how much we can make and how much everything’s going to cost.”

Last year, Juhasz and Hagy registered the club with the Student Government Association (SGA) and began recruiting.

This semester, the club has grown from around 20 members to more than 50, and Juhasz said he believes the overall cause and community service to which the club brings awareness is undeniable.

The group’s prize for first place was $5,000, which Juhasz plans to use for the MPO’s T-shirt fund.

Other side projects involving MPO’s shirts include making them more appealing to more demographics and creating more affordable $10 T-shirt options.

The MPO has sites on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat.

Senior uses her own experiences with disabilities to help others

By STEPHANIE BACHMAN Staff Writer S.L.Bachman2@iup.edu

Aside from just her in-class experiences, Jessica Wertz (senior, disability services) has been doing a lot to raise awareness and support for individuals with disabilities.

Wertz, who is hard-of-hearing herself, recently won IUP’s Emerging Student Leader Grant Award for her proposal for her Disability Education and Awareness Video Project. Wertz said there are two main parts to her project.

The first part will be interviewing IUP students and community members with disabilities so they can share their experiences about living, working and learning on campus.

She also is interested in their

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(Submitted photo) Jessica Wertz (senior, disability services) won IUP’s Emerging Student Leader Grant Award in April.

thoughts on the accessibility of IUP’s campus.

The second part of the project

is a supplemental video series designed to educate faculty and staff about how to best work and help students with disabilities be successful in the classroom.

Wertz hopes her project will “be able to educate IUP students, faculty and staff about people with disabilities at IUP and promote awareness and understanding among everyone who is a part of the IUP community by creating meaningful video resources that can be shared for years to come.”

Her project is not only for students with disabilities. Ablebodied people can help, too. This is why, Wertz said, advocacy and awareness efforts are important because people do not generally think about the barriers individuals with disabilities face unless it affects them.

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dents that people with disabilities are capable of doing literally anything that they want to do,” Wertz said. “They just might do it a little bit differently than one might expect. People with disabilities are just like anyone else, and we are not defined by our disabilities.”

Wertz has also helped students with disabilities through her peer mentor job in the IUP Labyrinth Center.

The center is a support group for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders that helps students adjust to college, learn how to become independent, build relationships with others and be successful inside and outside the classroom.

Wertz teaches self-advocacy skills to students at the center.

Wertz has used her own personal experiences to connect with

other students with disabilities and share what she has learned in regard to navigating college.

“I love it when I am able to share my experiences of having a hearing loss,” Wertz said, “because, through my experiences, I can spread awareness and knowledge to people who do not have disabilities as well as advocate for people with disabilities and people who are deaf and hard-ofhearing.”

Outside of IUP, Wertz has helped deaf and hard-of-hearing students through her job as a Resident Assistant at the Summer Academy for High School Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing.

The program is a summer transition program for high school students.

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Part of Wertz’s job was to teach others how to work with and help students who use American Sign Language or various types of assistive technology to hear.

Wertz also promotes advocacy through her writing.

In spring 2016, she won the Advising and Testing Center’s Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) essay contest. The contest was held to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the passing of ADA. She has been published on websites such as Healthy Hearing and The Mighty, where she wrote about her own hearing loss and her journey through college as a student with a disability.

After graduation, Wertz plans

(IUP website) Jessica Wertz (left) posed with Annah Hill (right), her mentor, after winning IUP’s Emerging Student Leader Grant Award in April.

to pursue a master’s degree in deaf education so she can work with students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.

“Self-advocacy is the key to success, both inside and outside of the classroom,” she said.

“Once I started learning how to advocate for myself and stopped trying to hide my hearing loss from others, it became so much easier for me to keep up in my classes, and I found myself participating in on-campus clubs and activities more frequently.”

Wertz also suggested that students should utilize on-campus tools, including the Department of Disability Access and Advising, the Labyrinth Center and the Disability Awareness Resource Room.

Police Blotter Theft

• A blue Giant Hybrid bicycle was reportedly stolen from the garage of a residence sometime between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Nov. 12 in the 500 block of Poplar Avenue, according to the Indiana Borough Police Department. Anyone with information about the incident should contact borough police at 724-349-2121.

Hit and Run

• A maroon BMW SUV reportedly struck a parked vehicle and did not stop at 4:15 p.m. Nov. 8 in the 100 block of South Third Street, according to borough police. Anyone with information about the incident should contact borough police.

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• Kwhamira Broaster, 18, of Philadelphia; and Dayonna Nasir, 20, of Philadelphia, were charged with disorderly conduct and harassment at 6:48 p.m. Nov. 6 in the Stapelton Library, according to the IUP University Police Department.

Puerto Rico requests $94 billion from Congress for hurricane recovery

By ALEX DAUGHTERY McClatchy Washington Bureau TNS

Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rossello unveiled a $94.3 billion disaster relief request to Congress on Monday, a massive sum that he said will help the U.S. territory adequately recover from Hurricane Maria.

Rossello also promised that the island’s recovery effort will be the “most transparent” in U.S. history as the governor faces criticism over awarding a now-canceled $300 million contract to a small Montana-based power company to rebuild the nation’s electric grid. Over half of Puerto Rico is still without power 54 days after Hurricane Maria made landfall.

The largest chunk of Rossello’s request, $31 billion, would go to housing assistance, with another $17.7 billion to rebuild the island’s power grid and $14.9 billion for health care.

“This is a critical step forward in the rebuilding of Puerto Rico,” Rossello said, “where we’re not only looking to rebuild as was before but we want to make it much stronger and much more resilient and make Puerto Rico a model for the rest of the Caribbean.”

The $94 billion request will likely be pared down by Congress and the Trump administration, as fiscally conservative Republicans will likely oppose such a massive long-term aid package, as they did after Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

The package is over $30 billion more than a $61 billion relief requested by Texas Gov. Greg

(TNS) Hurricane Maria left parts of Puerto Rico destroyed, and residents look to rebuild with the help of Congress.

Abbott after Hurricane Harvey flooded parts of metro Houston and East Texas.

“I’m making a commitment that this will be the most transparent recovery effort in the history of the United States,” Rossello said.

“What we’re asking for is equal treatment. A natural disaster does not look at politics, at race or location, it just devastates.”

Resident Commissioner Jennifer Gonzalez, Puerto Rico’s nonvoting member of Congress, was also present at Monday’s press conference.

She expects Congress to devise two more hurricane relief packages before the end of the year, one

by Thanksgiving and the other by Christmas.

“As it happened with (Hurricane) Katrina, they received several supplementals (disaster funding packages) over a 10-year period,” Gonzalez said. “We hope not to go to a 10-year period; we

want to rebuild the island quickly and faster.”

The biggest federal entity that Puerto Rico is requesting funding from, the Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant Program, was once on the Trump administration’s chopping block.

Puerto Rico is requesting $46 billion from the agency.

Gonzalez also said that additional disaster funds could come from amendments to legislation before the end of the year.

Rossello, a Democrat, and Gonzalez, a Republican, both support Puerto Rican statehood, though they said disaster recovery remains their main priority during upcoming discussions with the White House and congressional leadership.

“You need to treat 3.4 million American citizens equally,” Gonzalez said. “I will be pushing for statehood; we both ran on that

platform. For me, statehood is equality and I will be pushing for that equality.”

Florida Gov. Rick Scott set up three disaster relief centers in Mi-

ami and Orlando to help families displaced by Hurricane Maria.

At least 140,000 Puerto Ricans have moved to Florida in the past two months.

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Senate GOP still figuring out how to eliminate tax bill’s deficit

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As Republicans race to enact a tax overhaul this year, most of the focus has been on the cost of the cuts over the next decade. Under Senate instructions, the package can’t add more than $1.5 trillion to the federal deficit over 10 years.

But the biggest hurdle to passing a tax bill could be what happens in year 11.

An arcane Senate provision known as the Byrd rule requires that any bill approved by the Senate by a simple majority vote using the budget reconciliation process must not increase the deficit after 10 years.

With near universal Democratic opposition, Senate Republicans need to use reconciliation to pass a tax bill.

That means any tax package must not only fall below the $1.5 trillion threshold for the first decade, it must pay for itself after that.

And although House and Senate Republicans are confident they can meet the initial 10-year target, no one is quite sure how to comply with the Byrd rule, short of possibly having the long-coveted tax cuts expire after 10 years, as has happened before.

If Republicans don’t find a solution, Senate Democrats could try to prevent them from using the reconciliation process, which would require Republicans to have 60 votes for a tax bill rather than 50, assuming Vice President Mike Pence breaks a tie.

No congressional analysis has been done yet of the budgetary impact of the Senate Republican tax bill in 2028.

But the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has estimated that the House bill would add about $155 billion to the deficit in 2028, violating the Byrd rule.

And based on congressional number-crunching already done for 2018-27, the Senate bill would most likely add to the deficit in 2028, said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the conservativeleaning American Action Forum economic think tank and a former director of the Congressional Budget Office.

“They have a problem in the Senate,” Holtz-Eakin said of Republicans.

The Senate Republican bill

(TNS) Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, may need to rely on a tiebreaking vote from Vice President Mike Pence, right, to pass his tax bill.

would increase the deficit by $167 billion in 2026 and $217 billion in 2027, according to the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation.

Those large budget deficits won’t “magically go away” in 2028, Holtz-Eakin said.

Republicans have predicted that the tax cuts will promote so much economic growth that all costs will be offset by new revenue.

But history has shown that hasn’t happened and such optimistic projections may not be enough to satisfy the Byrd rule.

In 2001, Republicans got around the Byrd rule problem by having major individual tax cuts pushed by President George W. Bush expire after 10 years.

But President Donald Trump, key Republicans and major business groups are pushing for the corporate tax cuts now being proposed to be permanent.

Also, a 10-year expiration might not work this time.

The Joint Committee on Taxation said in April that cutting the corporate tax rate to 20 percent even for just three years – from 2018-20 – would lead to lower federal revenue for several years afterward.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who drafted the Senate bill, has acknowledged the Byrd rule challenge.

“The House has to understand that we have to comply with the Byrd rule ... I think they understand that we have difficulties,” Hatch told reporters Thursday.

It’s just one of the obstacles for Republicans as the House pushes toward a vote on its bill this week

and the Senate Finance Committee began considering its own legislation Monday.

Trump reinserted himself into the tax debate with requests for additional changes that congressional Republican leaders already have rejected because of their cost or a lack of party support.

In a tweet Monday, Trump suggested that the top individual tax rate be reduced to 35 percent from the 39.6 percent level in the House bill and 38.5 percent in the

Senate bill.

And Trump wants the legislation to repeal the mandate in the Affordable Care Act that all Americans have health insurance.

The bills are centered on a big reduction in the corporate tax rate and a change in individual tax brackets as well as the scrapping or scaling back of some popular deductions for individuals.

There are key differences between the House and Senate bills that would have to be resolved.

Holtz-Eakin suggested that Republicans could try to resolve the Byrd rule problem by proposing some sort of tax increase that would take effect in 2028 that would offset any deficit problem that year.

Republicans then would have 10 years to figure out another solution before the tax increase hit, he said.

“It solves their problem on paper but they would hope (the tax increase) never happens,” he said.

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Keurig pulls ads from Sean Hannity’s Fox News show

By STEPHEN BATTAGLIO Los Angeles Times TNS

Fans of Fox News host Sean Hannity are fighting back against coffee-maker company Keurig, which announced Sunday that it has pulled its ads from his program.

Vermont-based Keurig is one of several advertisers that have moved their commercials out of Hannity’s program after he defended Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Alabama, against allegations that Moore pursued romantic relationships with underage girls 40 years ago.

Hannity said that Moore should be given the benefit of the doubt and questioned the veracity of the accounts of the women, which first appeared in the Washington Post last week.

In response to Keurig’s move, Hannity shared Twitter posts from his fans that made derisive

comments about the Keurig coffee maker. His supporters have also posted images showing the destruction of Keurig machines, which retail for $99.99 and up.

Boycotts have been called against Hannity before over positions he has taken on his show.

None resulted in a significant economic impact.

Hannity’s fans have pressured advertisers to reverse their decisions to pull out in the past.

USAA, which provides insurance to members of the military, reversed its decision to pull its ads from Hannity’s show in May after a backlash on social media.

DNA testing website 23andMe, plus-size women’s clothing retailer Eloquii and vitamin maker Nature’s Bounty have also reportedly pulled ads from the “Hannity” program, which has scored the highest ratings in cable news in recent weeks. Realtor.com has removed a Twitter post that said it pulled its ads.

Keurig and Fox News did not respond to requests for comment.

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As usual, when it comes to the world of sports, there is never a lack of drama or suspense, and that remains true with the recent happenings involving three UCLA men’s basketball players who were on a team trip to China.

LiAngelo Ball, Jalen Hill and Cody Riley are the three Bruins players who have been the subject of much discussion lately after reports surfaced of the three being arrested and charged with shoplifting at a high-end mall in Hangzhou, China.

The Bruins were set to open their season over the weekend with a game against Georgia Institute of Technology, but the three athletes were picked up by Hangzhou police and taken into custody after video surveillance showed the men shoplifting sunglasses at a Louis Vuitton store as well as several other locations at a mall located near the team’s hotel.

Ball, Hill and Riley were released on bail Wednesday morning but have since been placed on a type of house arrest at the hotel by the Hangzhou police until the legal matters get resolved.

Ball is the most notable piece to this case since his family has risen to fame with the emergence of Big Baller Brand, a company started by his father, Lavar, and his older brother Lonzo, who was taken No. 2 overall by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2017 NBA Draft.

The Ball family has become a household name among sports fans in America, especially after the multitude of outlandish and downright ridiculous comments made by Lavar over the past year.

The incident comes in the middle of another famous American’s visit to China.

President Donald Trump was meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss policy between the two countries in Beijing during the UCLA visit.

It was reported that Trump brought up the three UCLA freshmen in a discussion with Xi and urged him to assist in working out the case. Nothing further has come from the incident, though, other than the three players being kept under house arrest at the team hotel for the foreseeable future.

Either way, whether the three are held for much longer or even charged with the

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By JONATHAN BERNSTEIN (TNS) LaVar Ball sat with one of his two sons LiAngelo as the Los Angeles Lakers held a news conference introducing the Lakers’ first-round draft pick, Lonzo Ball at the team’s training facility June 23.

crimes, they are getting off easy compared to what a Chinese citizen would get.

According to Yahoo Sports, a Chinese citizen suspected of committing a similar crime can “be detained for up to 37 days before even determining if they will be charged with the crime.”

Ball and his teammates are lucky that they have received such special treatment because it could be a lot worse if they were treated like Chinese citizens.

No matter their status as athletes, these three should be charged with the repercussions of the crime they committed in the country in which it was committed.

If the evidence shows that they are guilty, then they should be treated accordingly under Chinese law.

People don’t just get to go somewhere and do whatever they want and not have to think about or deal with the consquences.

It’s understood that shoplifting charges may not be as harsh in America, but when Americans go somewhere else, they need to be conscientious of where they are and respectful of that country’s culture and laws, just as we should expect foreigners to do when visiting our country.

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There’s a difference between taming the bureaucracy and decimating it. What President Donald Trump and Secretary Rex Tillerson are doing to the State Department is the latter, making it far more difficult for the department to advance U.S. interests around the world.

The secretary of state’s plans to reorganize the department may well make sense. But the details have been kept from the public as well as the rank-and-file, raising unneeded suspicion. Meanwhile, the president has given every indication that he doesn’t believe in a cornerstone of democratic governance: the idea that a career diplomatic corps can be relied on to discharge its duties regardless of who’s in office.

High-ranking Foreign Service officers have been pushed into retirement. Only nine out of 28 undersecretaries or assistant secretaries of state have been nominated or confirmed.

Among the dozens of ambassadorships without even a nominee are those for vital partners such as Australia, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea and Turkey.

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Asked about the department’s many empty slots, Trump responded, “I’m the only one that matters, because when it comes to it, that’s what the policy is going to be.”

Tillerson’s plans to “redesign” his department have resulted in a hiring freeze and rescinded job offers, as well as a crude effort to encourage middle-ranking officers out the door by pushing them into clerical work. Yet he seems puzzled by reports of poor morale. It’s not that Tillerson doesn’t have some good ideas. There are too many special envoys. Foreign aid does need to be more strategic and effective. The department’s legendarily bad computer systems need an overhaul.

And, not to put too fine a point on it, the department’s tribal bureaucratic culture needs to be opened up. But neither Tillerson nor Trump has helped the cause of reform with their morale-sapping words and actions. It will be up to Congress, which has put forward a more robust budget, to check the worst aspects of Tillerson’s plan, much of which would require legislative approval anyway.

And it will fall to civic and business leaders – not to mention policy wonks, aka the Blob – to more forcefully articulate, to the president and the public, the value of robust diplomacy.

“Only nine out of 28 undersecretaries or assistant secretaries of state have been nominated or confirmed.”

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The 2017 Scholarship Show at Sprowls Hall was held on Thursday. (Kieren Mcully/The Penn)

Local bar follows trend, joins live music scene

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

Maudie’s Sixers is a local restaurant right outside of Indiana at 8033 Highway 286 West that recently started to host live music events, such as open mic nights.

Maudie’s just re-entered the live-music scene two months ago.

Its first open mic night was Oct. 26.

On Thursday nights at Maudie’s, guests can enjoy live music from 7 to 10 p.m. The open mic nights are held every week, except for this upcoming Thursday due

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to the Steelers game and Nov. 23 due to Thanksgiving.

The venue is small and can seat only 33 people at the bar area, where live music is performed.

Maudie’s also has a dining area

that seats roughly 50 people.

Here, guests can hear the live music, but they cannot see the performance.

Matthew Holupka, a cook and entertainment and booking assistant at Maudie’s, said that

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Maudie’s half-priced pizza deal on Thursdays goes great with open mic nights.

“We have a crowd [who] comes in for the half-priced pizza,” Holupka said. “Now they can enjoy live music and not pay an arm and a leg for food.”

Also, Maudie’s hosts a live musician and a DJ to provide entertainment for its guests every other Friday, and it alternates between karaoke and live musicians on Saturdays.

Justin Cook, lead singer for the band Slant Six, and Dan Haynes frequently perform at Maudie’s.

Now that the live events are at-

tracting more attention, Maudie’s plans to host a variety of performers.

Maudie’s has been networking to promote its live music events.

Holupka said he is friends with Sean Howard, a general manager at The Brown Hotel. Holupka said the two venues promote each other.

“Their open mic night is on Tuesday from 10 p.m. on, and we close at 10 p.m. So, people can enjoy their open mic night,” Holupka said. “Then, on Thursday, Sean will tell people to come to our open mic night because they typically don’t have anything going on.”

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Beach Boys to take Indiana to Kokomo on Thursday

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

It may not be surfing season, but the classic rock band that defined some of the most iconic sounds of summer will perform Thursday at IUP. The Beach Boys will perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex (KCAC).

Tickets are available through the complex’s box office. Doors are expected to open an hour before the show and tickets can be purchased via etix.com or by following the IUPTIX. com link via the Facebook event description.

The Beach Boys have been making music since the ‘60s and are well known for upbeat hits like “Surfer Girl,” “Fun, Fun, Fun” and “Help Me Rhonda.”

According to the KCAC Facebook page, fans will get to see the only currently active co-founder and

BEACH BOYS BEST HITS Wouldn’t It Be Nice Kokomo Good Vibrations God Only Knows Surfin’ USA Barabara Ann I Get Around (Facebook) The Beach Boys debuted in 1961.

lead singer, Mike Love, in action.

Other members touring with Love include Beach Boy “vice principal” Jeffrey Foskett, John Cowsill, Scott Totten and others.

Although The Beach Boys are from another generation, some IUP students are looking forward

to the show.

“I grew up really listening to their music,” Juliana Senyk (junior, music education) said. “So, it really makes me want to go and [experience] the nostalgia.”

Many disagreements and legal suits have followed the band

throughout the years, especially the ongoing feud between Love and Brian Wilson, who is seen by many as the technical and lyrical brains behind the band’s early years.

The feuding doesn’t stop with the music, though. Aside from

touring, Love’s most recent project is the completion of his autobiography, “Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy,” which was published Sept. 13, 2016.

Contrasting his recollections is Brian Wilson’s own autobiography, “I am Brian Wilson,” which was released during the fall of 2016, as well.

Love has sued the band and Wilson more than once over claims of defamation and lack of authorship credit.

The Beach Boys was formed in Hawthorne, Calif., in 1961. Beginning as a garage band, the group consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson; their friend, Al Jardine; and Love.

Love, who is actually a relative of the Wilsons, is credited with being a major contributor and one of the more outgoing members.

Throughout their careers, the band has won many awards, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.

The Beach Boys won its first award, the NME Award, in 1966.

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HOLIDAY HOAX

Culture

This is a satirical news column

Turkey pardoning gone ‘a-rye’

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

This article contains opinion Turkeys at the farm stood aghast as President Donald Trump pardoned the only turkey known to be the sole editor of a monthly newsletter that expresses white nationalist political viewpoints.

Trump arrived Friday to a farm in Virginia to select a lucky turkey to pardon for the Thanksgiving feast.

Upon arrival,

Trump said he would take a nonpartisan approach, unlike Obama, for picking (Facebook) a turkey.

“The turkey pardons in Obama’s administration,” Trump said, “were the worst pardons in history. Crooked Hillary only pardoned her emails. I will ensure that I will make turkey pardoning great again.”

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In the distance, one turkey stood out among the rest. While the others gobbled, this turkey could be heard squawking, “Wall, wall!”

Trump instinctively looked to this turkey with pleasure. It was at that very moment Trump made his choice.

“Folks, I’ve gotta tell you.

I’ve gotta tell you,” Trump said.

“There are good turkeys on both sides of the farm. Both sides. But, I will be pardoning this turkey for Thanksgiving. He shows great promise and an even greater demeanor.”

Trump stood and posed for cameras with the turkey then got back into his vehicle with the secret service and left the farm.

On the farm, however, some turkeys were outraged at Trump’s choice in his presidential pardon.

Turkeys have always viewed the pardoning as a nonpartisan and sacred event. They were all, but one, confused.

Turkard Spencer, sole editor of Turkbart, a white nationalist turkey newsletter, was the turkey who received the pardon.

“Gobble, right?” Spencer said. “I’m just worried about my children finding a job in the future.

That’s why the wall is a great idea.

The other turkeys just don’t get it.

They’re clucks.”

Spencer then strutted away and ate some grain as a show of victory in front of the other turkeys. The other turkeys were not impressed.

John Turkalurkey was among the crowd displeased about the whole event. Turkalurkey is a reporter for the New Turkey Times and has been covering Turkard Spencer for months.

“Gobble, I can’t tell you how many times Turkard has referred to the New Turkey Times as ‘fake news,’” Turkalurkey said. “We fact check everything and have a bare minimum of three sources for each story. All he does is insert his own opinion in his ‘articles’ and creates baseless accusations. It would be foolish to even consider it hearsay.”

Neighboring farms are appalled to hear the news, as well.

Turkeys across the nation do, however, want to wish everyone a very happy Thanksgiving. But, they do warn everyone to be on guard for Thanksgiving dinner.

The Turkey Association Board (TAB) issued a statement saying, “Gobble, gobble. You know that your uncle is going to go on a political rant during dinner. When he does so, just look down at your stuffing and continue eating. Do not let the turkey on the table die in vain. Remain peaceful if possible. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.”

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‘Murder on the Orient Express’ boasts star-studded cast

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

This article contains opinion.

“Murder on the Orient Express,” a movie featuring lead character Hercule Poirot, selfproclaimed “world’s greatest detective,” much like Sherlock Holmes, was released Friday in movie theaters.

The story was created by British author Agatha Christie. The impressively mustached Poirot is one of Christie’s most iconic characters, and his literary adventures have been adapted into a variety of television, film and radio programs over the years.

“Murder on the Orient Express” is the most recent adaption of Christie’s. The movie is based on one of Poirot’s most famous adventures.

This is the second time the novel has been adapted into film form. Although the film was enjoyable, it is doubtful it will gain the critical acclaim that its predecessor did, which was six Academy Award Nominations.

“Murder on the Orient Express” does not try to reinvent or modernize the character of Poroit in the way the recent Guy Ritchie and Robert Downey Jr. films do for “Sherlock Holmes.” Fans of the “Holmes” series will most likely be less thrilled with this much slower-paced film.

While the movie certainly contains several action sequences, and Poroit shows early on that he is not afraid to engage in a physical altercation, this is by no means an action movie.

(Facebook) Agatha Christie is the author of “Murder on the Orient Express,” the book.

Poroit uses his powers of observation and deduction to solve the crime with which he is faced.

While the slower pace of the film at points presents some issues,

this is often due to a desire to showcase the incredible visual effects, costumes and props of the film. Besides a few very minor CGI issues, for the most

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2017 PSAC Champions

IUP secures top seed, first-round bye in playoffs

By JARROD BROWNE Lead Sports Writer

J.W.Browne@iup.edu

The IUP football team defeated West Chester University (WCU), 24-7, to win the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championship on Saturday at West Chester. Leading the way for the Crimson Hawks was quarterback Lenny Williams (junior, accounting), who threw for all three IUP touchdowns and tallied 212 yards to win the game’s most valuable player award.

“Well, it was big because not only did we take care of the business at hand, but what it leads to [is] having a week off,” head coach Paul Tortorella said. “So, that’s like another win. So, this game was worth two wins because when you don’t play, you can’t lose.”

IUP opened the scoring in the first quarter when Williams connected with Dom McNeil (redshirt freshman, kinesiology) for a 15yard touchdown pass to close out a 13-play, 78-yard drive. IUP continued to add to its first-quarter lead after Williams found Chris Wuestner (graduate, business) less than six minutes later for a 7-yard touchdown pass to send the Crimson Hawks into the second quarter with a 14-0 lead. WCU began a scoring drive in the first quarter but wasted no time in the second quarter finding the end zone. Less than a minute into the second quarter, quarterback Dan Neuhaus connected with Paul Dooley for a 36-yard touchdown pass for WCU’s lone score of the day. IUP answered the WCU big play before halftime when Williams hit Kolbe Hughes (redshirt sophomore, ac-

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counting) for a 40-yard touchdown pass to send the game to halftime with IUP on top, 21-7. “[Williams] took the game over in the first half,” Tortorella said.

“He had a great first half, and when we got up, 21-7, we kind of got a little bit conservative in the second half because we felt like they would have trouble scoring again.”

The second half proved to be an offensive struggle for both teams as the second half went scoreless until Dillon Sarka (redshirt sophomore, mathematics) hit a 20-yard field goal for the final score of the game, giving IUP the 24-7 victory.

The IUP defense felt the benefits of a total team effort limiting the Golden Rams to 197 yards of total offense. The IUP defensive line had one of its best outings as Deandre Easterling (junior, management) had two sacks, and Dondrea Tillman (junior, business) had one, as well. Justin Weldon (senior, kinesiology) also helped the defensive line’s effort with two tackles in the backfield. The secondary also had a strong day, forcing four interceptions. Mike Pietropola, (junior, kinesiology) Mikale Makle, (junior, communications media) J.R. Stevens (redshirt sophomore, kinesiology) and Max Redfield (senior, philosophy) all pulled in interceptions for IUP. “Probably the best game [defensively] from start to finish,” Tortorella said. “We had a blown coverage that cost us a touchdown.

“Other than that, we pretty much controlled the game defensively from start to finish.”

IUP will now have a bye week before hosting the winner of this weekend’s WCU and Shippensburg University game on Nov. 25.

(Ishaaq Muhammad/ The Penn) The IUP football team won its first PSAC Championship since the 2012 season after defeating West Chester University, 24-7, on Saturday afternoon. The win secured IUP the top seed in the region and a first-round bye in the playoffs.

(Ishaaq Muhammad/ The Penn) IUP safety Mike Pietropola (junior, kinesiology) was one of four Crimson Hawks defenders to force turnovers. Pietropola came up with an acrobatic catch along the sideline to come down with the interception. The Hawks held the Golden Rams to just 7 points in the win.

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IUP splits pair of games on opening weekend

By DARNELL TURNER Staff Writer

D.M.Turner4@iup.edu

IUP split a pair of home games over the weekend at the annual IRMC and Hilton Garden Inn Classic at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex (KCAC).

IUP picked up its first win of the season at home against Urbana University on Friday night. It was a balanced scoring attack from the Crimson Hawks as they had five players in double figures.

Leading the charge was Blake

Danielak (graduate, business) with 20 points on 8-for-12 shooting, including four 3-pointers made in 24 minutes of action. It was a good day from the field for IUP, shooting 56 percent and connecting on 15 3-pointers.

IUP was active on the defensive end, holding Urbana to 36 percent shooting and forcing 16 turnovers.

The starting backcourt of Anthony Glover (senior, marketing) and Dante Lombardi (junior, finance and legal studies) combined for 33 points and 11 assists.

First- and second-year players Jalen Vaugns (freshman, kinesiology health and sport sciences) and Malik Miller (sophomore, communications) contributed off the bench. Miller had 13 points, and Vaugns had 10 points.

Saturday night was a different story for IUP as it fell to 1-3 after

(IUP Athletics) Anthony Glover (senior, marketing) scored a team-high 21 points in IUP’s loss Saturday.

a 69-64 loss to Virginia State University.

After the offensive explosion Friday, the Crimson Hawks’ offense could not stay hot, shooting just 35 percent from the field.

IUP is a different team when it struggles to hit 3-pointers. It was a tough day in that department, as the team could make only five of its 22 attempts from 3-point range.

Even though shots were not falling, they stayed in the game and got to the foul line, where the team shot 17-for-20.

Glover was a bright spot on offense again, this time scoring a game-high 21 points.

He is off to a terrific start this season, averaging 18 points per game on an efficient 46 percent shooting. Jacobo Diaz (junior, eco-

nomics) had his second doubledouble of the season, posting 15 points and a season-high 12 rebounds.

It was competitive throughout the entire game as IUP trailed, 4035, at halftime.

IUP took a 4-point lead and gained momentum in front of the home crowd.

But Virginia State went on a 9-0 run late in the second half to take a 5-point lead.

IUP cut the lead to 1 down the stretch, but Virginia State iced the game at the free-throw line and held on with a 5-point victory.

IUP will be back home for its next set of games Saturday and Sunday.

The Crimson Hawks will host Lock Haven University and Bloomsburg University in crossover conference play.

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(IUP Athletics) The IUP women’s basketball team is off to a 2-0 start after picking up wins over the weekend in front of the home crowd at Memorial Field House.

Crimson Hawks off to strong start

By JOHN FORAN Staff Writer

J.N.Foran@iup.edu

Luck had little to do with IUP’s women’s basketball team winning both its games over the weekend.

IUP, who is ranked 20th in Division II women’s basketball, started its season Saturday.

The Crimson Hawks (2-0) were slow entering their first game, allowing West Virginia Wesleyan College (0-2) to take a 17-15 lead at the end of the first quarter.

IUP struggled with turnovers throughout the first half but came back to end the half, 32-28. IUP had only a 7-point lead to start the fourth quarter.

However, a 22-2 run helped the Crimson Hawks finish off the Lady Bobcats, 82-54. Four IUP players finished in double-digit scoring, including Lauren Wolosik (redshirt junior, business), 17 points, Carolyn Appleby (junior, safety science), 16 points, Megan Smith (senior, management), 12 points and Brittany Robinson (junior, education), 11 points.

The Crimson Hawks shot 48 percent from the field, 37 percent from behind the 3-point line and 74 percent from the free-throw stripe.

IUP played again against West Virginia State University on Sunday in the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex (KCAC).

Before the game, a ring cer-

emony took place to honor the team for winning the 2017 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championship last season.

In a much stronger start than their season opener, the Crimson Hawks ended the first half, 32-16, against the Yellow Jackets (0-2).

IUP held its commanding lead over West Virginia State all the way to the end, winning the game, 7247.

Both Maura D’Anna (sophomore, kinesiology) and Audrey Stapleton (junior, kinesiology) scored in double digits points, and Brittany Robinson (junior, early childhood/ special education) brought down 15 rebounds in the IUP win.

Neither team shot well from the field. The Crimson Hawks shot 32 percent, and the Yellow Jackets shot 21 percent.

There were 121 shots missed throughout the game, and IUP had the upper hand in rebounds over its opponents, 64-49. IUP’s defense, however, was stellar, forcing West Virginia State to commit 20 turnovers off of 11 steals and six blocks.

Wolosik recorded four steals and Halle Denham (senior, nutrition) had three.

The team finished last season with a 24-7 record and defeated California University of Pennsylvania in the PSAC Championship.

It was the fifth PSAC Championship win in the program’s history.

The team will return to action this weekend with a pair of backto-back games against Lock Haven University at 1 p.m. on Saturday in the Memorial Field House and the Bloomsburg University Huskies at 1 p.m. on Sunday in the KCAC.

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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FALL 2017 IUP PLAYOFF TEAMS!

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