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(James Cannon/ The Penn) Many students fill the library to prepare for difficult exams in the week before finals.

Students advise organization, tears for finals

By STEPHANIE BACHMAN

If you need tips by finals week, you might already be doomed.

Lead News Writer S.L.Bachman2@iup.edu

With finals just around the corner, students are working hard and getting ready for four days of exams, projects, papers and presentations.

The culmination of multiple classes in a few days is a challenging week for all students, regardless of year and major. The stresses of the week do not always get easier over time, but students do learn how to better handle the challenges.

Some students shared their own tips and tricks for getting through the last week of the semester:

1. Preparation “Study at least a week in advance and take some time for yourself,” Kristen Kundrod (sophomore, speech language pathology) said.

Spencer Williams (senior, physics education) said it’s never too early to start planning for next se-

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-Matthew Lees (senior, physics)

(James Cannon/ The Penn) Most students said cramming information before a test is a bad plan during finals week.

mester, and “nothing is better than simply showing up to class and being there for the material.”

Others agreed that preparation before the intense week was key.

“If you need tips by finals week, you might already be doomed,” Matthew Lees (senior, physics) said.

Vicky Nalbone (senior, art education) said for her, finals week consists more of projects than tests, so she advised other students in a similar situation to “be aware of due dates and break large tasks

into manageable steps.”

Most students agreed that cramming was not the best strategy, and students should focus on being more successful throughout the semester.

2. Study Tricks “Make songs in your head,” Aleah Krug (freshman, theater) said. “Color code and make flash cards. Repetition is the best thing possible for studying – the more you say it, the more you remember.”

Maxwell Moser (junior, criminology) said using notecards helps him.

“Have a list for anything you know will be on the test and things you think might be on the test. The

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more info you study, the more likely it will be to show up.”

Students also suggested simply reviewing and rewriting to help with the memorization process.

“If your professor has slides, it helps some students when you personally dictate them,” Lewis Dominguez (junior, chemistry premed) said. “Write them down and study them. This is especially helpful for classes where you might have heavy memorization.”

Victoria Jakicic (junior, mathematics/psychology) referenced psychological research in support of a study method she called “elaboration.” She said it is “the best way to remember stuff.”

Jakicic described elaboration as the process of not looking at your notes or books when you first study the material. Instead, you just write down everything you remember.

The idea is to not study the material, but recall what you know and talk it out. After doing this, you pick up your notes to see what you remember and what you forgot.

“This does work,” Jakicic said.

“I do it. You’ll remember it.”

3. Life Balance Despite this negative sentiment, Lees did give some advice to help others that has worked for him.

“Honestly, try to integrate what you learn into real life,” Lees said.

“The more you integrate what’s going on into your real life, the more it helps.

“It also helps if you have friends that are willing to let you teach them about the subject. Teaching helps reinforce the material.

It can really help people who are not even in the same major as each other.”

Other students took a more lighthearted approach to studying for finals by offering sarcastic or pessimistic advice.

“Try not to [do] bad,” Amy Baker (freshman, criminology) said. “Don’t eat, don’t sleep, don’t study and don’t die.”

Meanwhile, Christopher Pagan (sophomore, biology education) simply advised other students to “cry.”

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• Justin Jones, 19, of Lansdowne, was cited for underage drinking and public drunkenness at 12:30 a.m. April 23 on West Avenue, according to IUP University Police.

Drug Violation

• Sebastian Buerk, 22, of Hummelstown, and Tristan Flood, 22, of Covington, were charged with possession of a small amount of marijuana at 6:10 p.m. April 22 on Wayne Avenue, according to university police. Buerk was also charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, according to university police.

Assault

• Brandon Conti, 19, of New Castle, and Asia Basham, 19, of Butler, were charged with simple assault, harassment and disorderly conduct at 10:53 p.m. April 27 at Northern Suites, according to university police.

Trespass

• Tyler Lewis, 20, of Philadelphia, was charged with trespass at 1:08 a.m.

April 20 at Wallwork Hall, according to university police.

• Jeremy Stone, 24, of Indiana, was charged with criminal trespass and false ID to law enforcement at 12:30 a.m. April 26 in Stapleton Library, according to university police.

Scattering Rubbish

• Angela Wess, 40, of Philadelphia, was cited for scattering rubbish at 9:12 p.m. April 21 at Wallwork Hall, according to university police.

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Second man charged in relation to Indiana homicide case

By STEPHANIE BACHMAN Lead News Writer S.L.Bachman2@iup.edu

Indiana Borough Police Department detectives made another arrest in relation to the shooting and death of Carlos Recalde-Campos March 25.

The shooting took place at 1228 Oakland Ave. during the university-unsanctioned IUPatty’s weekend. Nobody involved was an IUP student.

Initially, the only arrest related to the incident was made to Matthew McNevin, 20, of Indiana.

However, charges were filed April 28 as part of an ongoing investigation against Matthew Ohler Jr., 19, of Indiana, in relation to the homicide, according to a borough police news release. A week before the killing, Recalde-Campos was reportedly involved in a theft related to McNevin.

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“McNevin sought out RecaldeCampos and the two engaged in a physical confrontation before McNevin produced the stolen pistol and confronted RecaldeCampos again, resulting in the shooting,” according to The Indiana Gazette.

Ohler has been charged with criminal conspiracy to homicide, criminal conspiracy to aggravated assault and criminal conspiracy to recklessly endangering another person, according to the news release.

Indiana Borough Police Detective John Scherf interviewed

Ohler during the time of the initial investigation, but he was released at the time. Scherf said the reason for the new arrest was because of new information that arose from “a couple of witnesses that were not interviewed initially.”

Ohler is currently incarcerated at the Indiana County Jail awaiting trial without bail. Scherf also said that he does not anticipate any new suspects to arise in the future. As part of the investigation, McNevin, who was charged March 25 on all related charges including criminal homicide, is currently awaiting trial.

IUP community mourns deaths of two faculty members IUP faculty members Joann Janosko and Robert Witchel died this week, according to emails from President Michael Driscoll Tuesday and Wednesday.

Janosko, an electronic resources/collection development librarian, passed away Monday evening

after being involved in a car accident.

Janosko joined the IUP community in March 2000. She was the serials/acquisition librarian and a member of the University Senate and the university-wide graduate curriculum committee.

Witchel was a counseling department faculty member and had been a member of the IUP community since 1981.

He served for two years as associate professor and director of the Counseling and Student Development Center and for three years

as the assistant vice president and director of the Center for Student Development.

He was a Pennsylvania licensed psychologist and National Certified Counselor in private practice.

He was “instrumental in the development of the delivery of the

Counseling Department program at the IUP Monroeville Graduate and Professional Center,” according to the Wednesday email from Driscoll.

Funeral arrangements for both parties were incomplete at the time of the emails.

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STATIC hosts stress-reducing SGA kicks back at casual final meeting event for students before finals

By NATHAN ZISK Staff Writer N.Zisk@iup.edu

(The Penn archives) At the final meeting for the semester, SGA handed out superlatives, such as Most Likely to Talk About Chickens.

By KATIE WILLIAMS Staff Writer K.L.Williams9@iup.edu

The IUP Student Government Association (SGA) met Tuesday to announce results for the year and next year’s executive board.

To begin the meeting, the minutes from the previous meeting were passed.

After this, the current executive board members thanked the other members for a great year and wished everyone luck on the upcoming finals.

Caleb King (sophomore, mathematics), SGA’s chief justice, gave a final farewell, as he will not be returning to SGA next year.

There were no senator reports, community reports or old business to attend to.

The executive members staying on the board – Brian Swatt (sophomore, political science), president; Carson Nicolas (sophomore, political science), vice president; and Vincent Lowerre (junior, communications media), treasurer – were congratulated on a successful year and wished good luck for next year. They were reminded to utilize their advisers and senators.

The members of the executive board for the 2017-18 year were then introduced.

These members were Kayla Thrower (junior, political science) as the chief justice, Lowerre, Nicolas and Swatt.

While Swatt was being announced, the advisers told him to

remember that he was not an autocrat and therefore should make sure to make the organization open to the campus and keep the students’ best interest at heart as he prepares to serve another year as president of the organization.

All of the executive board members were told to never hold their own opinions above the opinions of the community and to let the group’s discussion remain open to all ideas and opinions.

They were reminded that SGA serves all students and should be working to build a better community.

The board members then got sworn in to their positions.

In total, only 87 students of the more than 12,000 at IUP voted in the polls sent to students’ imail April 20 and 21 via CrimsonConnect, according to Brian Swatt.

After this, King gave out superlatives to the group, including Best Beard, Best Bromance, Most Swagged Up and Most Likely to Talk About Chickens.

Swatt then handed out certificates to all the senators and board members.

For new business, the new senators who had earned enough signatures were voted back into the group.

There were six senators who got enough signatures, all of which accepted the vote back into the group.

Finally, Lowerre requested a budget of $450 for supplies for the SGA office. The vote passed.

STATIC (Student Activity Committee) will present its third annual Finals Study Break event from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday in the Hadley Union Building Ohio Room.

This year’s event features food, an oxygen bar, four massage therapists, bubble wrap, do-it-yourself spa kits and stress balls, video games, a make-your-own cereal bar station and more. The event is free to IUP students and faculty.

Finals Study Break started in 2015 as a way for students to unwind before finals week.

“We wanted to do an event that gives students the opportunity to unplug,” said Zach Clark, director of student activities and assessment. “Students can come, kick back and relax to help them focus for finals.”

Clark said that he is excited for the oxygen bar.

“The oxygen bar is novelty

(The Penn archives) STATIC invites students to chill out before they stress out.

entertainment where people can breathe in 100-percent oxygen for a euphoric experience,” Clark said. “It’s a therapeutic novelty, which can come in different aroma-therapy flavors.”

Callie Campbell, the cultural events chair of STATIC, organized this year’s Finals Study Break.

Campbell said she is excited to participate in this year’s event, as well.

“I love this event because peo-

ple become hectic this time of year and want to relax,” Campbell said. “I’m excited for the massages and food.”

Campbell said that this year, STATIC is adding DIY jelly stress balls to the event. The event typically attracts 400 to 500 people.

Campbell suggested that people come early while supplies last.

“People sometimes show up in the last 20 minutes and are surprised that we are out of food and supplies,” Campbell said. “If people want to enjoy the event and eat lots of food, they should try to come early.”

Finals Study Break is being presented the Friday before finals to give people an opportunity to take a break from the craziness this time of year brings.

“Everyone I’ve talked to is overwhelmed with the end-ofthe-year rush,” Campbell said.

“We all just need a break. So STATIC gathered a bunch of food and crafts to give people that break.”

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With a push from Trump, House Republicans pass Obamacare rollback

By LISA MASCARO and NOAM N. LEVEY

Tribune Washington Bureau TNS

House Republicans narrowly passed legislation Thursday to roll back the Affordable Care Act, delivering on a yearslong campaign promise despite mounting concerns from patient advocates and health care groups that the legislation would strip protections enjoyed by millions of Americans.

The tight vote, 217-213, with all Democrats opposed, underscored the limited appeal of the American Health Care Act, which passed thanks to last-minute deal-making and the personal intervention of President Donald Trump. Even so, 20 Republicans defected to vote against the measure.

After House GOP leaders had shelved previous attempts to advance the bill because of a lack

(TNS) Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, walked through Statuary Hall Thursday in Washington, D.C.

of support, Thursday’s vote was a major legislative victory for Trump, likely providing momentum for his other priorities and bolstering his efforts to be seen as a leader who can govern with the Republican majority in Congress.

“Make no mistake, this is a repeal and replace of Obamacare,” Trump said at a Rose Garden reception for Republicans at the White House immediately after the vote. “It’s dead. It’s essentially dead.”

But the future of the bill remains highly uncertain as it moves to the Senate amid deep reservations among Republicans there about the potential that Americans will lose their health care coverage under the measure.

The narrow passage, which was uncertain until the final votes were cast, ensured that health care once again will be a dominant issue in the mid-term elections.

Needing every vote they could get, Republican leaders pressed many of their members from swing districts to vote for the bill.

Democrats are likely to use those votes against Republicans when they run for re-election, just as Republicans did ousting Democrats after Obamacare was passed in 2010.

Democrats sang, “Hey, hey, hey, goodbye,” on the House floor as the bill was being approved, taunting that voters would boot Republicans from office as a result.

Protesters chanted “Shame on you!” outside the Capitol as Republicans boarded buses to whisk them to the White House.

House Minority Leader Nancy

Pelosi, D-Calif., orchestrated a fullscale floor opposition Thursday against what she called the “moral monstrosity of Trumpcare,” but in the end, Democrats were unable to block the measure.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, RWis., told lawmakers this was their moment to make good on their promise to voters.

“Are we going to be men and women of our word? Are we going to keep the promises we made? Or are we going to falter?” Ryan said.

The full cost and impact of the final changes to the bill remain unclear because GOP leaders called the vote without first waiting for a new analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. A previous analysis, before amendments were made to appease both conservative and centrist factions of the party, estimated the GOP plan would leave 24 million more Americans without health care coverage by 2026.

The legislation cuts more than a $1 trillion in federal health care assistance to low- and moderate-income Americans, primarily through a historic retrenchment in Medic-

aid, the half-century-old government health plan for the poor. It stands to reverse an expansion of health care under Obamacare that has brought the nation’s uninsured rate to the lowest level recorded, an additional 20 million Americans have gained coverage.

The vote was swiftly condemned by a wide range of patient advocates, physicians and other health care groups.

“American lives are at stake,” warned Dr. Georges C. Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, who urged Senate leaders not to be as “reckless, shortsighted and heartless” as the House.

Potentially faring best in the House bill would be wealthy Americans and the insurance industry, which would benefit from as much as $600 billion thanks to the bill’s elimination of taxes under Obamacare that have helped pay for the coverage expansion.

Several studies have shown that Trump’s own supporters, living in conservative, rural areas, would fare the worst, paying higher premiums or losing benefits.

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Study shows correlation between class attendance, grades Even with class materials posted online, it can still be extremely difficult without the assistance of a professor.

By SETH WOOLCOCK Lead Culture Writer S.M.Woolcock@iup.edu

The trend between class attendance and final grades in college is a growing debate at campuses across the U.S. Today, students pay thousands of dollars for classes they will rarely attend.

Many of these students then still expect to receive a respectable grade despite their absences.

Journalism classes at IUP are often an example of students missing classes and expecting a better grade.

As some journalism classes are typically writing-intensive, some students think their above-par writing abilities will make up for their sub-par attendance.

They are then often surprised when they receive their final grade.

Dr. Erick Lauber, an IUP journalism professor, has more than 28 years of teaching experience across six different departments.

“I think there is a definite correlation between attendance and grades,” Lauber said.

“I think it especially holds up at the bottom of the distribution.

Normally, if a student receives an ‘F’ in my class, poor attendance often comes into effect.

“Although I do have students with perfect attendance that don’t receive an ‘A,’ I have never had a student that has had perfect attendance and received an ‘F’ in my classes. You just don’t see that.”

I have never had a student that has had perfect attendance and received an ‘F’ in my classes. You just don’t see that.

-Erick Lauber (journalism professor)

In the foreign language department, attendance can be crucial to the outcome of a grade.

Dr. Marveta Ryan-Sams, a professor at IUP since 1999, has taught all levels of Spanish.

“I would say there is generally a strong correlation between regu-

-Sydney Dyne (University of Pittsburgh, pre-pharmacy)

(Pixabay) Many IUP professors agree that lower attendance usually results in a lower grade.

lar attendance and good grades,” Ryan-Sams said.

“In other words, I think that students have a higher chance of getting the grade they want if they come to class every day, participate, study and get help outside of class.”

As a student’s skill and experience with a foreign language can also affect his or her grade, attendance proves to be extra important.

In Spanish classes at IUP, a departmental attendance policy imposes a 2-percent deduction on the final grade for each unexcused absence above the limit, according to Ryan-Sams. The limit is three in a three-credit class and four in a four-credit class.

“Not attending class regularly can lead to students missing important information and having to struggle to understand the material,” Ryan-Sams said.

“Chronic absences can lead students to feel less motivated to try to do well in the course.

“Some of my students who have missed at least one class a week have ended up withdrawing or just no longer coming to class toward the end of the semester.”

This trend holds true at other universities as well.

Sydney Dyne is a pre-pharmacy student at the University of Pittsburgh. Dyne attends just about every class and has a 4.0 GPA.

“I think that a class’ final grade can often reflect a student’s attendance,” Dyne said, “especially when it comes to classes such as chemistry and biology. That type of material is very hard to learn on your own.

“Even with class materials posted online, it can still be extremely

difficult without the assistance of a professor.”

Although most professors post course materials online through tools like Desire2Learn (D2L) and Moodle, students who skip classes usually take a larger amount of outside time to comprehend the materials.

While some students who do not regularly attend class are still learning the basic materials, students like Dyne are often ahead in assignment completion and exam reviews.

In his article “Skipping Class: An Analysis of Absenteeism Among First-Year College Students,” Dr. Gary Wyatt, a former sociology professor at Emporia State University, explains three major find-

ings in his research on first-year college students and their class attendance.

Wyatt discovered that students who scored the highest on his tests were the students who attended the highest percentage of classes.

He also discovered that females tend to skip more classes than males.

In his conclusion, Wyatt wrote, “If academic life can be made more appealing and exciting, I believe that students with lower grades will attend more frequently.”

Although academic life may not be as appealing as social and Greek life, it still has its benefits.

Just as hard work and punctuality are often not the most attractive parts of college, these are attributes that give college students the best jobs and opportunities available.

Students pay for these classes and can receive degrees for them whether they choose to attend or not, but isn’t the knowledge available in these classes more valuable than the actual degree?

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Students to be charged in Penn State frat house death

By SUSAN SNYDER

The Philadelphia Inquirer TNS

Charges are likely against several people in the death of Pennsylvania State University student Tim Piazza, who fell down stairs during a fraternity pledge-night party in February, according to a legal filing last week by Centre County prosecutors.

The filing was made in a dispute between the fraternity chapter’s housing corporation and prosecutors over whether video that police obtained from the fraternity, Beta Theta Pi, of the night the sophomore engineering major fell should be returned.

Prosecutors said in court filings that portions of the video were presented to a grand jury and “will bear to a great degree on the question of probable cause to arrest a number of individuals and play a critical role in the prosecution of these individuals.”

The fraternity has argued that

(Wikimedia) A student died at a Beta Theta Pi party in February at Penn State.

it needs the video returned to prepare its defense. Prosecutors said that the video is subject to grand jury secrecy requirements and should not be returned.

Centre County Judge Thomas King Kistler, who supervises the grand jury, sided with the fraternity in an April 25 order. Prosecutors appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which declined the prosecutors’ request. Prosecutors have asked Kistler to reconsider.

Bruce L. Castor Jr., special assistant district attorney, wrote in

an April 26 filing that the investigation “is likely to lead to the arrest and prosecution of a number of individuals for conduct surrounding the death of another person.”

Piazza, of Lebanon, N.J., was pledging the fraternity and attending a bid-night party on Feb. 2. He was intoxicated and fell about 11 p.m. Members of the fraternity did not call for emergency help until about 12 hours later. Piazza, who suffered a collapsed lung, ruptured spleen and nonrecoverable brain injury, died the next day.

Penn State has permanently banned the fraternity, citing evidence of hazing, forced drinking and other illegal activity.

Michael P. Leahey, a lawyer for Beta Theta Pi, said Monday that the fraternity had not yet received the video, which under the judge’s order should have been returned by last Thursday afternoon.

Kistler declined to comment.

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Saudi Arabia will be Trump’s first foreign visit

(TNS) President Donald Trump plans to visit Israel and the Vatican after his first foreign visit in Saudi Arabia.

By FRANCO ORDONEZ

McClatchy Washington Bureau TNS

Saudi Arabia will be the first country President Donald Trump visits since his inauguration, the White House announced Thursday.

The president will then visit Israel and the Vatican before attending previously announced summits in Belgium and Italy, the White House said.

Senior administration officials, briefing reporters on the condition of anonymity, said Saudi Arabia was picked as the first country to counter a narrative that Trump doesn’t get along with Saudi officials. Trump had told the Reuters news service last week that Saudi Arabia was not treating the United States fairly and Washington was losing a “tremendous amount of money” defending the kingdom.

Administration officials provided few details about the dates for the visits or which cities Trump would visit other than to say the

stops will occur before the president attends a NATO meeting in Brussels on May 25 and the Group of Seven summit of leading industrial nations in Taormina on the island of Sicily on May 26-27.

Trump hailed the planned visits as important to building a coalition of partners who share the goals of fighting terrorism and bringing safety and stability to the Middle East.

“Saudi Arabia is the custodian of the two holiest sites in Islam,” the president said. “And it is there that we will begin to construct a new foundation of cooperation and support with our Muslim allies to combat extremism, terrorism and violence and to embrace a more just and hopeful future for young Muslims in their countries.”

A senior administration official said Trump had been “very involved” with the trip’s planning and thought that working toward peace in the Middle East was “one of the things that he has to try to do.”

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Survey: Republican staffers see harm from Freedom Caucus

By SHAWN ZELLER CQ-Roll Call TNS

The Freedom Caucus, the conservative House faction that stymied Republican efforts to repeal the health care law in March and, before that, upended the speakership of John A. Boehner, is deeply unpopular with the bulk of Republican staffers.

That, anyway, was the case among the respondents to the April Capitol Insiders Survey, CQ Roll Call’s email poll of congressional staff.

Asked if the caucus was a positive or negative force for the party, 71 percent of GOP respondents said it was negative, while 22 percent said it was positive.

The remainder were unsure.

The poll was emailed to aides on April 26 and they had until May 2 to respond.

Of the 201 who did, 100 said they were Republicans, 94 Democrats and 7 independents.

House Republican staffers who took the poll were only slightly

(TNS) John Boehner, former Speaker of the House, is entitled, like all former U.S. House speakers, to taxpayer-funded offices for five years after leaving office. Some want to end the practice.

more positive, with 64 percent critical of the caucus, compared to 27 percent who were positive.

Perhaps it’s a function of the caucus’s growing might, said Jeffrey Taylor, managing partner of U.S. Government Relations International and an ex-aide to former GOP Rep. David M. McIntosh of Indiana.

“They’ve figured out how to use their power to move Speaker (Paul

Congress gives final approval to $1 trillion spending bill

By LISA MASCARO

Tribune Washington Bureau TNS

Congress gave final approval to a sweeping $1 trillion spending bill Thursday, sending President Donald Trump the first notable bipartisan accomplishment of his administration.

The Senate voted 79-18 to pass the bill that will keep government running for the next five months, easing the threat of a federal shutdown until the next spending battle in the fall. The House approved it earlier.

Trump initially groused over the final compromise because Democrats in Congress used their leverage as the minority party to deny the president his top priorities, including funding for his promised wall along the border with Mexico.

But the White House later em-

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braced the outcome. The measure will boost spending on defense, but not as much as Trump wanted, and provides money for disaster relief, medical research and other bipartisan priorities, including the fight against opioid addiction.

It also props up a struggling health and pension fund for coal miners that was important to both parties.

Trump is expected to sign it swiftly into law, averting a shutdown ahead of Friday’s deadline, when current funding expires.

D.) Ryan and Majority Leader (Kevin) McCarthy.”

On the other hand, it could be simply the result of the health care debacle, in which the Freedom Caucus, with the help of some GOP moderates, momentarily blocked Ryan’s bill to repeal and replace the 2010 health care law on the grounds that it did not sufficiently deregulate the health care system.

Asked what the effect of that will be, if Republicans don’t regroup and repeal the law, 72 percent of GOP respondents said it would help the Democrats in the 2018 elections.

“I think it’s one thing for them to be obstructionist when Democrats are in charge, but to do it when Republicans are in charge is another thing,” said Brendan Daly, a former spokesman for House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi when the California lawmaker was speaker.

“It doesn’t look good.”

The poll results provide ample evidence that Republicans in Congress are struggling for the unity they need to get big things done.

Nearly two in three said the party hasn’t yet put aside the differences that emerged during the presidential campaign, when President Donald Trump’s success cleaved the party.

Nearly as many said Trump’s temperament and approach to governing had hurt GOP efforts to move a conservative agenda.

And asked what grade they would give Trump for his first 100

days in office, 58 percent said a C, D, or F. Only 8 percent would give Trump an A, and 34 percent a B. Yet the Republicans remained remarkably optimistic about their chances of enacting much of Trump’s agenda.

“They are making progress on tax reform,” Taylor said.

Democratic staffers, meanwhile, are licking their chops and feeling unified.

More than three-quarters of them said they were more inclined to block the Republican agenda than find areas of compromise.

“It’s Democrats in Washington seeing the lay of the land now,” said Kevin Murphy, a former aide to Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut.

“All the Democrats now realize there’s a huge appetite from the base for Democrats to stand up.”

Nearly as many Democratic respondents said they expected that Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer would be able to hold his caucus together, even as 10 of his senators face re-election in 2018 in states Trump won last year.

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almost there: academics aim to ace exams

(James Cannon/ The Penn) Left to right: Cynthia Rodriguez (junior, nursing), Makiyah Karriem (junior, marketing and fashion merchandising), Tana-Shay Newton (sophomore, English) and Kiara Sanchez (junior, nursing) worked hard studying to earn good grades during finals next week.

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Go with your gut

The most dreaded time of the year for college students is upon us: finals week.

To some, this time of year can be more stressful than doing taxes. But just like taxes, it’s the time to show what we’ve done and be rewarded for our hard work.

But how much do tests really tell us? Studies have been conducted to see whether the outcome of tests really measures intelligence. Much of the data shows that it does not.

“Measuring intelligence through examination is, inevitably, as limited as the examination itself,” a June 2015 Telegraph article said.

There are many different types of learning, and they can’t all be evaluated with a test. So if tests aren’t your thing, don’t stress.

Stress can just make things worse. When you stress out, it is harder to retain the information you are trying to cram into your head, just to regurgitate during the test.

Think: Could you study if you were being attacked by a herd of squirrels? Probably not. When the body is stressed, the brain is not focusing on how to learn and store information. Instead, it is trying to figure out how to regulate the stress in the body and rest. Take your time. Don’t fret. Medita-

tion works.

Meditation might sound cliché, but it has been proven to work. If you meditate periodically, you are giving your brain a chance to rest, therefore allowing the information to store in your memory without overloading it. Don’t try to fit too many things into the box if it is starting to fill up. You’ll run the risk of making the information useless in your brain.

An article in The Atlantic from September 2013 set out to define the different types of memorization: raw rehearsal, mnemonics and building.

Raw rehearsal, reciting a fact over and over, led to the subject being able to recite the information, but later forgetting it.

Mnemonics, such as creating little jingles to remember facts or using acronyms, showed effectiveness, but not as much understanding of the information or being able to apply the facts.

Lastly, there is building, which was most effective. It involved taking the information and making personal connections to it. This form of memorization promotes using logic, which makes memorization and applying the information easier.

One last bit of advice: Don’t second-guess yourself. If you are going to choose an answer because it is your gut feeling, don’t back away. Chances are, you know the answer. Don’t waver just because you just chose “C” for the last three answers, so this one can’t also be “C.” If the answer sounds right, go for it. Your subconscious just might be telling you the truth.

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Growth ditch: A meager GDP expansion won’t suffice (TNS) The following editorial appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Wednesday, May 3: It’s too early to draw any large conclusions about the performance of the U.S. economy during the Trump administration, but the first quarter of 2017’s growth rate, 0.7 percent, is distressingly low.

North Korea’s growth rate is estimated at between 1 and 1.5 percent, by comparison.

The U.S. stock market, among the economy’s leading indicators, continues to go up.

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The investor class reaps immediate benefit, pension plans and 401(k)s get a boost, and consumer spending is bolstered by the wealth effect.

Yet a large number of Americans do not realize gains.

A Pew Research Center study released last week found that between 1991 and 2010 the American middle class had shrunk, from 62 to 59 percent of adults in middle-income households.

The number of rich and the number of poor had increased as the middle class was hollowed out. Income, in effect, was redis-

tributed from the middle class to the upper-income class as economic inequality widened.

The same Pew study found that U.S. performance with respect to the fate of the middle class was worse than that of the other 11 countries in the study.

Advocates of globalization will find it hard to argue that America is benefiting from the present arrangement.

The contraction of America’s middle class has led to frustration with and distrust of its ruling political elite, contributing to the vote for Trump in November,

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particularly from the “forgotten people.”

Political developments such as the non-repeal of the Affordable Care Act, the non-rocket start of the tax reform bill, and the threat of yet another war, with North Korea – as opposed to progress on infrastructure construction and repair – are undoubtedly making those who voted for Trump in hopes of an economic resurgence, including growth and jobs, begin to wonder.

Yet turnout at his rallies would suggest that he still has time.

As far as overall economic prospects for America are concerned, the long-term decline of the middle class in favor of the rich and the poor, and the economy’s feeble 0.7 percent growth rate so far this year, are real signs of reason for grave concern on the part of our leaders.

We have seen distress already in three-and-four-job families, opioid deaths and people just dropping out of the economy, but the Pew study and the sub-North Korea growth rate has placed frightening data meat on the bones of concern.

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From left to right: Alyssa Colen, 13; Ben Vetter, 13; associate professor Linda Jennings; Bridget Gardner, 15; and Sila Schiera, 14, rehearsed Wednesday for their recital in Cogswell Hall.

IUP music teaches students to conduct performers of various ages

By RENÉE WILLIAMSON Staff Writer R.A.Williamson@iup.edu

IUP students will conduct children ages 5 to 18 during a free recital at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Gorell Recital Hall.

The IUP String Project provides students with hands-on music education experience.

This semester, a group of IUP music students conducted one-on-one string lessons for 27 students in the community.

“It is also a teacher training program,” Linda Jennings, IUP String Project program director, said. “All of the lessons and ensembles are taught by IUP music majors. So they get training in what they’re eventually going to do.”

The performances will be mainly solos with two ensembles.

IUP’s branch of the National String Project Consortium began in 2004. Jennings studied at The University of Texas, where the

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original string project began.

“That’s been going since the 1950s,” Jennings said. “My teacher there was the lady who really built it up into a real national, international program.”

Jennings’ duties as program director include overseeing the students in the program, giving students feedback on their teaching, coordinating program logistics and teaching the accompanying course that student teachers are required to take.

“It’s one of my favorite parts of my job,” Jennings said. “It’s really wonderful, the energy of the young students. It’s great to see them growing and great to see our IUP students growing in their teaching.”

Morgan Herrington (junior, cellular/molecular biology and music) has been a cello teacher in the program since her freshman year and is a previous student in the program.

“I got into it because I was in the project,” Herrington said. “I know how it helped me

really love music and get really far in playing my instrument.”

She teaches five students this semester, ranging from an elementary student to a professor at a university.

“I do private lessons with each of them,” Herrington said. “They’re either half an hour, 45 minutes or an hour. In our solo lessons, we usually work on solos to play in the recital.”

The IUP String Project has helped Herrington gain experience with teaching.

“It’s a nice way to see what teaching is like before I actually have to teach at a school,” she said. “It’s been a really good experience.”

Josh Hudson (sophomore, music education) has been a cello and bass teacher in the program for three semesters.

He is teaching four students and will be directing one of the ensembles during the recital.

Hudson chose IUP because of the project.

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“It was actually one of the driving forces of me choosing to come here because I’m out of state,” Hudson said. “I’m from northern Virginia. I picked to come up here primarily for the string project and the strength of the education program.”

Hudson has gained experience shaping a lesson to a specific student during his time in the program.

“It started out a little rough with my first student, who I’ve now taught for three semesters,” Hudson said. “He was just really stubborn, and it was hard to get him to focus. I figured out I had to talk to him about video games to be able to reel him in to want to work on cello.

“My last lesson with him for the semester was yesterday afternoon, and in his card thanking me for the semester, he left me a GameStop gift card because of how much we’ve talked about video games. That was a cool culminating thing for me because we forged a connection. It’s very rewarding.”

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IUP alumni start seven-city tour

By RENÉE WILLIAMSON Staff Writer R.A.Williamson@iup.edu

An Indiana-rooted band will end its monthlong spring tour at 9 p.m. Friday at The Coventry Inn. The Inner Urge started its seven-city tour, including Harlem, N.Y., April 13 and will conclude in Indiana with a performance from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at The Artists Hand Gallery and 9 p.m. to midnight at The Coventry Inn. “We just did one week on the eastern side of the state,” said Alex Price, The Inner Urge guitarist and violinist. “We did one week in Pittsburgh, Indiana and Johnstown last week.”

The Inner Urge band members are IUP graduates Price, bassist and saxophonist Andrew Koss, drummer Jesse Griffith and vibraphonist and percussionist Michael Garbett.

The band described its sound as funk/ambient with a jazz foundation.

The Inner Urge formed after a faculty member asked Garbett to form a jazz group to play at an event on campus.

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From left to right: Alex Price, Jesse Griffith, Michael Garbett and Andrew Koss make up The Inner Urge.

“We got together and were pretty much an ordinary jazz combo at that moment, but the group evolved over time into a funk/ ambient group, although it’s still heavily rooted in jazz and improvisation,” Price said.

The band name comes from an ironic meaning.

“At our first show, we played a song called ‘Inner Urge,’” Price said. “It was a song written by the famous saxophonist Joe Henderson. And it’s a really crazy-sounding, kind of schizophrenic, really fast song with lots of chord changes that don’t seem like they’re very well-related. It’s all over the place, and we messed up really bad. It was terrible. So, we named ourselves The Inner Urge.”

The band aims to play one or

two shows a semester in Indiana and can most likely be found at The Brown Hotel or The Coventry Inn. Price’s favorite performance so far was at The Brown Hotel in January.

“It was a really fun time,” Price said. “It was the weekend before the semester started. Most of the music majors show up before the semester starts so they can get ready for auditions and stuff.

There’s a lot of our friends there.

And I remember the owner, Sean [Howard], was kind of worried about turnout, but we packed that place, and we had a bunch of people sit in with us.”

The Inner Urge recently began working on a new album they hope to release in the summer.

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Green Day made its debut in 1986.

Students share their final playlist

By SETH WOOLCOCK Lead Culture Writer S.M.Woolcock@iup.edu

With final exams just around the corner, students will begin searching their Apple Music libraries, Spotify accounts and YouTube to find that perfect playlist to help accompany them to study for finals.

“What I listen to usually depends on what I’m studying,” Allison Crowell (sophomore, biology) said. “Typically it’s classical when I study because I can’t sing along, and it provides good background music so I don’t get distracted.

“If I’m memorizing information, I like to listen to throwbacks or songs I know by heart so I can sing along but not really think about it.”

Ashley Reynolds (freshman, marketing) also turns to throwback music when studying.

“I usually listen to 2000s punk music, like Green Day, Simple Plan, Fall Out Boy and Panic! At the Disco,” she said. “I think I listen to it because it reminds me of simpler days and puts me in a good mood.”

Reynolds isn’t the only student that resorts to nostalgic noise.

“While I study, I normally listen to Green Day, The Offspring and Eminem,” Chris Cummings (sophomore, physics) said. “I don’t really know why I listen to it still, but it’s just become natural sounding to me.”

Just as students seem to enjoy the throwbacks while they study, some students also enjoy the peace and quiet.

“I don’t listen to music while I study because I end up thinking more about the music than the material I’m trying to learn,” Dylan Lyle (sophomore, journalism) said.

Kyle Sharon (sophomore, marketing) also enjoys some silence in his studies.

“I think I can understand and concentrate better with silence,” Sharon said. “Music just ends up distracting me eventually.”

Some find the distraction contagious.

“I like to sing along with the music, so when I study, I can’t have it playing,” Jack Kocjancic (sophomore, business administration) said.

Although listening to albums in music libraries is a popular choice while studying, YouTube can also be a useful studying aid.

“I listen to lo-fi hip-hop mixes on YouTube when I study,” Chris Ward (sophomore, information systems and decision science) said. “They help me concentrate and focus while also providing good background music that isn’t distracting because there isn’t many lyrics.”

Others just venture into a world of music they don’t know to keep the noise going, just not something they can follow.

“I like to listen to songs I don’t really know so I can’t sing along,” Justin Westerburg (sophomore, criminology) said. “I’ll find some newer country songs on YouTube, and as long as I don’t know the lyrics, it works.”

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‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ is just right

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What an oddball corner of the Marvel space-time continuum the Guardians of the Galaxy occupy.

They can do quantum leaps between interstellar dimensions while bopping to carefree ‘70s dance-pop on a cassette player.

They battle big, bad aliens while name-checking Mary Poppins and David Hasselhoff, and discuss their complicated interpersonal relationships through references to Sam and Diane from “Cheers.”

Their high-flying dogfights happen amid audiovisual arcade game nods to Galaga and Pac-Man. You don’t get more back to the future than this wholehearted embrace of sci-fi and golden oldies nostalgia. No franchise is so gifted at exploiting the popularity of superhero movies while satirizing the genre. “Deadpool” was too over the R-rated top. “Ant-Man” was too small scale for non-geeks.

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” is just right. It’s hyperbolic nonsense wrapped in the colors of a neon rainbow, bouncing from one artfully wacky scenario to the next.

Here it’s sleekly futuristic, there it’s older than mud. It’s the world’s silliest thrill show.

The film continues the threads we saw formed in the Guardians’ initial appearance as small time mercenaries turned half-hearted defenders of the universe. We know that Peter Quill, aka Star Lord, is a cocky swashbuckler with a neurotic core, the kind of fixable bad boy Chris Pratt was born to play. Zoe Saldana is his female counterpart as Gamora, a hard-

fighting green gladiatrix with an ornery streak and a tendency to tell the girlfriend-craving Peter to drop the mushy stuff since such a thing as romance between their species could never happen for real anyway. Dave Bautista’s Drax is a comically plain-spoken goliath, now trying to understand humor and laughing at every wrong moment. Voicing Groot, the massive walking extraterrestrial tree that was felled and returned to life as a cute, little, humanoid twig, Vin Diesel has his deep bass tuned to a squeak, while Rocket the genetically enhanced raccoon (spoken

by Bradley Cooper) remains as abrasive as an electric grinder. His interest in once again saving everything from Armageddon is “we’re really gonna be able to jack up our prices if we’re two-time Galaxy savers!”

Here the threats arrive on jumbled story lines. A society of gold-colored tech nerds attack the Guardians for running off with a bag full of priceless light bulbs.

Gamora’s jealous sister Nebula (Karen Gillan) arrives to prove she’s the family’s most efficient assassin by killing her sibling. A space army of Ravagers led by blue-skinned Yondu (Michael Rooker), who snatched young, orphaned Quill from Earth and became his shady papa figure, comes after them to settle scores of their own.

Meanwhile, in a nearby subplot, Peter meets Ego (Kurt Russell), the universal life force that actually created him. Peter and Ego have a heart to heart while interpreting the lyrics to Cat Stevens’ “Father And Son,” giving the maudlin song a feeling of real pathos.

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Students share favorite flicks, show picks for study breaks

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

This article contains opinion.

If you are going to take a break, it’s important that you don’t end up wasting time watching awful reruns of reality TV or some movie that has a 10-percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The key to a successful media study break, ironically enough, lies in doing your homework. But never fear: Your fellow IUP students are here to help out with that, as well. Several IUP students offered up their opinions on what their favorite movie or TV show is to turn to when the weight of finals week proves to be just a bit too much.

For Noah Crissman (sophomore, communications media), some of the more popular content on Netflix is what draws his atten-

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tion, as he is currently watching the hit show “Stranger Things.” While “Stranger Things” focuses on the disappearance of a young boy in a small town and the potential dark forces and mystery surrounding his disappearance, when it comes to movies, Crissman recommends something a bit less mentally taxing.

“As for a movie, I’d probably have to go with a superhero

do in the future,” she said.

Hannah Hughes (junior, theater) said she has “been watching a lot of ‘Shameless’ for finals.” Hughes recently started the series, thanks to a recommendation from a friend.

“My friend got me into it because she told me that I needed to watch it, so I started it on Netflix,” Hughes said. “I am trying to get through the series so that I can

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film, like ‘Spider-Man,’” Crissman said.

Maggie McCanna (sophomore, natural sciences) prefers to rely on “Grey’s Anatomy” when she needs some time off from studying. McCanna said the show is a perfect respite for her because it also serves as inspiration and a bit of an educational experience.

“It pertains to my major, so it reminds me of what I am wanting to

catch up.”

David Micik (junior, communications media) also tends to lean toward TV programming when he is looking to unwind. “‘The Big Bang Theory’ is a great one,” he said. “I really recommend that show, that’s always funny and humorous and uplifts your mood.”

Micik also suggested turning to sports entertainment due to its continuous nature and accessibility.

“ESPN is on all the time, so I watch a lot of ESPN throughout the day,” he said.

While a little media break is fine, when you end up watching more TV than actually studying, you might end up struggling a bit when it comes time to take that dreaded final.

So, stick to this advice from your fellow IUP students, and you should be just fine.

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Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, co-hosts of ‘Morning Joe,’ are engaged

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Viewers now can get a steaming shot of romance with their cup of "Morning Joe," as co-hosts of the MSNBC morning show Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski have confirmed their engagement.

In an interview with Vanity Fair, the pair revealed a recent breathless jaunt to the south of France, where Scarborough popped the question to a relatively unsuspecting Brzezinski.

Both Scarborough and Brzezinski have been married before – twice for him, once for her – and have kept their relationship cloaked until now. As for sitting down with Vanity Fair in such a public fashion to announce their engagement, the couple attributes

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Mika Brzezinski (left) and Joe Scarborough (right) are hosts of “Morning Joe.”

the choice to the six children they have between them.

"We know that our kids have a lot of options about what they read about us. We wanted to do one interview on the record. To answer the question is just as important for them as it is for us, to say it once that we're together and we want to be together forever," the pair expressed.

The wedding date remains un-

known. However, they've already ruled out one offer from a highprofile frenemy.

During a January visit to the White House, Scarborough and Brzezinski had dinner with President Trump, Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner.

In the midst of the meal, the president told the couple that if they decided to get married, they should do so at Mar-a-Lago or the White House. He even offered to officiate.

Given the tenuous relationship Brzezinski has with Trump, it's hardly surprising that they passed on the offer.

Though what little girl doesn't dream of growing up and being married by a man who called her "neurotic," "insecure" and "not very bright"?

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S PO R T S PSAC semifinal matchup with East

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Stroudsburg awaits for IUP lacrosse

By BRAD O’HARA Staff Writer

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IUP lacrosse made it through to the semifinals of the 2017 PSAC Championships after defeating Slippery Rock University in the quarterfinals Tuesday.

Angela Lontoc (junior, pre-med chemistry) made 12 saves on 16 shots, holding Slippery Rock to only four goals.

This brought Lontoc up to 437 career saves, which is the thirdmost in IUP history. Lontoc already holds records of her own, as she possesses the most wins in a career by an IUP goalkeeper and is one game away from playing the most minutes in a season.Although she is quickly making her way into the history books, Lontoc credits her success to those around her.

“I have my friends and teammates to thank for that,” Lontoc said. “This sport is a team effort, and we are all there to accomplish the same goal together.”

Hannah Bertolo (senior, marketing and finance) also made it into the record books, picking up two groundballs to break the IUP single-season record with 60 on the season.

“I was told after the game by my coach that I had beat [the record], but in all honesty, I was just so elated that we were progressing to the semifinals, I pushed it to the backburner,” Bertolo said. “It does feel good to beat a record like that, but it feels 10 times better to be going to the semifinals with my girls.”

Bertolo also caused three turnovers in the game to bring her season total up to 40 caused turnovers

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on the season. That gives her the third-most caused turnovers in a career, six short of the most in a season.

Leading the offense for the Crimson Hawks were Riley Greenleaf (junior, finance), with two goals; Kelly Shields (freshman, marketing), with four assists; and Ally Burrows (sophomore, biology), Adriana Greco (sophomore, undecided) and Katie Martyn (sophomore, criminology) with one goal each.

The semifinals will be a rematch against East Stroudsburg University after they beat IUP, 16-8, to end the Crimson Hawks’ regular season. The Warriors will be looking to repeat the success that they had last time, with the help of homefield advantage and almost a full week of rest to prepare for this game due to a first-round bye.

“It’s going to be a game of confidence,” Lontoc said. “Yes, they defeated us in the past, but like our coach tells us, it's difficult to beat the same team twice. Our team is taking this to heart. We have to go into this game with so much heart and passion that it drives us to the win.”

Bertolo said she also believes in this IUP team and has confidence that they can reach where no IUP lacrosse team has gotten to before.

“After going over film and realizing how fixable our breakdowns were, I am confident that we can pull through with the win and get to the championship for the first time in IUP history,” she said. “All it's going to take is more movement around the offense, better communication on the defense and heart.”

(IUP Athletics) The Crimson Hawks’ defeat of Slippery Rock University sets the team up for a rematch with East Stroudsburg University in a PSAC semifinal matchup.

(IUP Athletics) Riley Greenleaf (junior, finance) scored two of the team’s five goals in the 5-4 victory over Slippery Rock in the PSAC quarterfinal matchup Tuesday.

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Crimson Hawks drop first two games of PSAC Championships to end season

(IUP Athletics) The IUP softball team was eliminated from the PSAC Championships Wednesday after losses to Shippensburg University and California University of Pennsylvania.

By JARROD BROWNE Lead Sports Writer

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The IUP softball team’s season came to a close Wednesday after dropping two games in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championships.

The Crimson Hawks began the day with a 5-4 loss to Shippensburg University.

IUP turned to Lauren Zola (sophomore, hospitality management) to pitch. After pitching 6.1 innings, Zola allowed four runs while earning eight strikeouts. To close out the game, the Crimson Hawks turned to Megan Risinger (junior, nursing).

Despite allowing only one run, Shippensburg capitalized with the go-ahead home run in the top of the eighth inning.

The IUP offense gave the Crimson Hawks a 4-1 lead in the fourth inning, but got quiet after that.

However, six players collected hits for the Crimson Hawks: Zola, Kaitlyn Beers (freshman, criminology), Lauren Goetz (sophomore, kinesiology), Hannah Mercer (senior, marketing), Amanda Parrish (junior, accounting) and Alaina Laverick (freshman, physical therapy).

In Game 2, the Crimson Hawks

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played California University of Pennsylvania.

IUP turned to Risinger to open up the game, and she pitched 5.2 innings while allowing three runs and zero strikeouts.

Zola led the way offensively, recording two hits and scoring the lone run in the 3-1 loss. Beers knocked in the run for IUP. With the loss, the Crimson Hawks’ season came to an end. IUP finished the season with a 24-19 record and will be saying goodbye to two seniors: Mercer and Amanda Spindler (senior, mathematics and secondary education).

“This season meant everything to me because as a team, we were able to overcome extremely large degrees of adversity and still reach success,” Mercer said. “To make the playoffs, even in the face of all the injuries we faced as a whole, said a lot about how much we are competitors, but also how much we care about each other because we truly went on that field wanting to win for each other.”

Although Mercer and Spindler were two large factors to the Crimson Hawks’ success, Mercer believes that the future is bright for the young team.

“The future is so bright for this group,” Mercer said. “If you look at the lineup we had for the majority of this season, you would see the words ‘freshman’ and ‘sophomore’ occurring vastly. I am very excited to see what they do these next couple of years.”

(IUP Athletics) Megan Risinger (junior, nursing) was attributed with losses in both of the team’s PSAC Championships games Wednesday. Risinger finished the season at a team-best 10-3 and struck out 48 in 83 innings pitched.

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IUP baseball senior spotlight

By SARAH MOLTZ Staff Writer

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IUP baseball’s seniors are looking to become the first senior class since 2011 to lead the Crimson Hawks to the postseason.

This group includes left fielder Scott Hess (safety science), catcher Matt Eperesi (accounting) and pitchers Justin Charles (math and computer science) and Dillon Swanger (criminology).

IUP enters its regular-season finale against the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown holding on to third place in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) West division.

Justin Charles A graduate from Northern York High School in Dillsburg, Charles has been a member of the IUP baseball team for the past four years.

Rebounding back from an injury that nearly took away his entire 2016 season, Charles has appeared in six games so far this season.

Charles has been playing baseball since the age of 6, and he aspires to carry out his baseball career after college by possibly joining a local twilight baseball league.

“Play as many positions as you can,” Charles said. “Don’t just rely on one position, because if you branch out, you’ll be more valuable to your team.”

Charles said he will always be thankful that former manager Jeff Ditch recruited him to come play Division II baseball for IUP. However, Charles said that he’s very glad to be a part of everything that current manager Anthony Rebyanski has done for the team this year and for helping them reach their full potential.

Matt Eperesi Also a four-year IUP baseball veteran, Eperesi is third on the team in home runs this year, with a .239 batting average on 92 at-bats.

The catcher from Cranberry has

appeared in 37 games this year, starting 32 of them.

Baseball has been a part of Eperesi’s life for the past 16 years.

“It’s hard to imagine not having to go to practice or play baseball for the rest of my life,” he said.

Pursuing a degree in accounting, Eperesi said he plans on working at Deloitte in September after he graduates and that he hopes to play for a couple of years for the men’s league in Butler County.

“Work as hard as you can,” Eperesi said. “If baseball is really what you want, go after it because it’s worth it. The experiences and friendships I’ve made here are amazing.

“Also, be ready when the time comes. It’s a yearlong grind, and you want to be as prepared as you can be.”

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(IUP Athletics) Justin Charles (math and computer science)

Dillon Swanger From James Bennett High School in Salisbury, Md., Swanger has enjoyed a breakout year so far this season for the Crimson Hawks.

A transfer from two previous junior colleges, Swanger joined the Crimson Hawks last season and currently holds an ERA of 3.86.

“It’s a bittersweet moment knowing that my time playing baseball is near its end,” Swanger said.“I wouldn’t trade anything in the world for being able to do what I love everyday for so long.”

Swanger said that his most memorable IUP baseball experience had to be the time he shut out California University of Pennsylvania at home.

Scott Hess Hess is a three-year starter and second on the team this year with five home runs.

In 2016, Hess had a batting average of .281 with four home runs and 26 RBIs, which was tied for second on the team.

In 2015, Hess played four different positions, including three outfield positions and catcher.

One thing Hess said he’ll never forget was when the team played Slippery Rock last season and won in extra innings.

Scott Hess (safety science)

(IUP Athletics)

(IUP Athletics) Dillon Swanger (criminology)

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IUP tennis wins Atlantic Regional

By AMBER BAILEY Staff Writer

A.L.Bailey2@iup.edu

The IUP tennis team defeated West Virginia State University, 5-0, Tuesday to take home the Atlantic Regional title and advance to its seventh straight NCAA Division II round of 16 appearance.

Rachel Wood (senior, criminology) was all smiles as she recalled how it felt taking home the title.

“It feels like all the hard work we put in daily has paid off, and I could not be prouder of both myself and my awesome teammates,” Wood said. “I probably haven’t stopped smiling since.”

Doubles started off swiftly and ended just the same. Raquel Gonzalez (senior, business manage-

ment) and Wood set the pace with an 8-2 win over the No. 2 doubles team.

Jarka Petercakova (senior, international business) and Luise von Agris (junior, international business) followed their teammates’ lead with another 8-2 victory at the No. 1 spot.

Finishing out doubles was Sophie Butland (senior, exercise science) and Katya Minchenkova (freshman, undeclared business) with a win of 8-3 at the No. 3 spot, helping the Hawks secure a strong lead of 3-0.

After winning all three doubles matches, the team needed two more single-match victories to earn the win. The women did not disappoint.

In singles, Wood quickly disposed of her opponent after a

6-1, 6-0 victory at the No. 5 spot.

Minchenkova followed with a winning match of 6-4, 6-1 to secure a total shutout for the team.

The week ahead for the team is quite busy.

Due to nationals being held during finals week, the whole team will have to take their exams before they head to Florida.

“It’s so exciting for us all that we are going to Florida,” Wood said.

“First, we have to focus on academics for a few days, rest up and be back on the grind Friday ready for departure. I am ready to spend the final week of my college career with my best friends, go out and do what we all do best.”

The team is expected to face Midwestern State University at noon Wednesday in Altamonte Springs, Fla.

(IUP Athletics) From left to right: Sophie Butland (senior, exercise science), Luise von Agris (junior, international business) and Rachel Wood (senior, criminology) posed for a photo after winning the PSAC Championship April 22 in Bloomsburg.

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(TNS) Pirates first baseman Josh Bell slid into second base in a game against the Miami Marlins in April. The Pirates are currently in last place of the National League Central heading into the weekend.

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Penguins hoping to clinch series with Caps sooner rather than later

By SEAN FRITZ Sports Editor

S.D.Fritz@iup.edu

The Pittsburgh Penguins’ quest to repeat as Stanley Cup Champions is one win away from becoming an even more attainable goal.

The Penguins are up three games to one on the rival Washington Capitals as the series shifts back to Washington, D.C., for Game 5.

Washington is coming off its second straight year of winning the Presidents Trophy, which is awarded to the team with the most points in the NHL and grants home-ice advantage throughout the playoffs.

Despite being the top seed, Washington has not dominated as it had hoped, with its first series going six out of a possible seven games and the current series with Pittsburgh putting it on the brink of elimination heading into just Game 5 of the series.

The questions have already begun to appear: With Washington on the verge of another elimination, will the Caps choke again?

Washington, which entered the league in 1974, has never won a Stanley Cup and has only reached the Stanley Cup Final one time in its history despite having some very talented teams over the years.

The drafting of superstar winger Alexander Ovechkin a little more than a decade ago hoped to turn the tides of the franchise in D.C., but it has not paid dividends.

The Capitals have failed to push past the conference finals in the Ovechkin era despite winning multiple Presidents Trophies in the regular season.

Year after year, hockey fans have heard the same line over and over: “Is it the Caps’ year?” Still, the team has yet to prove that to be true.

Could this year be the same as the others?

We’ll have to wait and see if Ovechkin and his teammates can find a way to fight and claw back

into the series and knock off the reigning Stanley Cup champion Penguins.

As for Pittsburgh, the time to close the series starts Saturday, as the sooner they can put the Caps away for good, the better rested they’ll be moving forward.

But the idea of defeating the Caps in five games is easier said than done, given Washington’s talent, depth, experience and veteran leadership.

Pittsburgh will also have to accomplish this feat without the onand off-ice presence of the world’s top player and team captain, Sidney Crosby.

Crosby has been at the center of conversation all week around the NHL following his exit from Game 3. Crosby took a stick to the head in Game 3 from his former teammate and now Washington Capital Matt Niskanen.

The hit has been subject to a lot of debate and discussion in recent days, many arguing whether the hit was an intentional blow to the head of Crosby in hopes of knocking him out of the series.

Whatever the take is, it has been controversial and has only added to the intensity and passion of this series and rivalry.

Pittsburgh has found other options on the ice, one of which is rookie forward Jake Guenztel, who scored his eighth goal of the postseason in Wednesday night’s Game 4 win in Pittsburgh.

With Guentzel surrounded by other offensive contributors such as Evgeni Malkin, Patric Hornqvist and Phil Kessel, Pittsburgh appears to have the depth to carry on without Crosby.

Game 5 will begin at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday at Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., as Pittsburgh will hope to end Washington’s season.

Should Washington survive Game 5, Game 6 will return to PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh and Game 7 would return to Washington if necessary.

(TNS) Penguins goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury has been excellent for Pittsburgh in the first two rounds of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Pittsburgh’s effort in the defensive zone with high shot-block totals has been a huge advantage in reaching the 3-1 series lead over the Capitals.

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