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Task Force discusses suicide prevention By BRIAN DAVIS Staff Writer B.G.Davis@iup.edu
Suicide is a tragedy that impacts everyone and is 100 percent preventable, representatives from the Suicide Task Force of Indiana County said. “To prevent suicide, however, requires all of us,” Dr. Ralph May, cochair of the task force, said. “To learn about it, to become aware of it, the warning signs and treatment, can always make a difference.” May, chief clinical officer of the Community Guidance Center; Jerry Overman, the Indiana County coroner; Dr. David Myers, psychologist at the IUP Counseling Center; and Craig Faish of the Open Door Crisis Intervention Hotline spoke to a overflowing crowd of IUP students in the Hadley Union Building Ohio Room Monday during a Six O’Clock Series program titled “The Impact of Suicide.” “Any death diminishes all of us,” May said. “All of us are involved with one another and are connected with one another. There is never a good suicide.” May said suicide takes the lives of approximately 39,000 people every year in the United States, and, within that group, about 4,600 are about the age of 18. Worldwide, May said, suicide claims the lives of about 880,000 people a year. “We think that’s a massive underestimate, because, in many countries, suicide is so frowned upon, there’s so much of a stigma, so much prejudice, that no one reports it,” May said. “It becomes an accidental death, or it doesn’t even get reported at all.” Overman, who is also a co-chair of the task force, talked about the suicide statistics for Indiana County. So far this year, Overman said, there have been four suicides in the county; all of them were male and died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. “It is important to realize that each of those numbers is a person,” May said. May told the crowd that suicide is the third leading cause of death of college age students in the United States. Myers said, of the 800 students the
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(Zach Nellis/ The Penn) (From left) Dr. Ralph May from the Suicide Task Force of Indiana, Indiana County coroner Jerry Overman, Craig Faish and Dr. David Myers from the IUP Center for Health and Well-Being took their turn talking to the packed audience about the different aspects of suicide Monday in the Hadley Union Building Ohio Room.
Counseling Center sees a year, about 40 percent of them have suicidal thoughts. The panel talked about the warning signs to look for in someone who is considering committing suicide. “The three big feelings that we look for are hopeless, helpless and worthless,” Faish said. “Very rarely do we come out and flat out say that they are killing themselves or that they’re thinking of suicide.” When those warning signs do appear, Faish said the best course of action is to listen to the person and reach out to get them the help they need. “Suicide is not a sudden dramatic act,” May said. “It is never something that just happens. It is a product of an erosion of person, a wearing down of the person.” The panel discussed how the stigma surrounding mental illness and depression make treating the diseases and preventing suicide extraordinarily difficult.
“Depression is a flaw of chemistry, not a flaw of character,” Faish said. “If someone is anxious or depressed, it’s not because they are a bad person or because they are weak, it’s because they have an illness. Nobody gets yelled at or blamed for having heart disease or having high blood pressure. “The brain is an organ of the body, too,” Faish said. “Just like the heart, pancreas, liver, just like any of those can get sick, so can the brain.” Before the end of the program, May reminded the audience about the suicide prevention resources available in the county, which includes the task force, the Community Guidance Center, the Open Door Crisis Intervention Hotline and the IUP Counseling Center. “There are probably people in this audience tonight that are seriously thinking about killing themselves,” May said. “We want you to come talk to us.”
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Gamers discuss Final Fantasy VII By DANIEL KIRBY Contributing Writer D.J.Kirby@iup.edu
A Critical Play Series in the Digital Humanities Center in Leonard Hall Room 204 gives students the opportunity to discuss their favorite games in depth. At the most recent meeting, students Cody Dunmire (senior, English) and Eliza Albert-Baird (graduate, English) discussed how Final Fantasy VII and games of its kind should be thought of as literary works instead of just games. Both students are taking the approach of looking at the game as a book or text and how they relate to certain literary works and theories. The presentation began with watching one of the Final Fantasy’s first advertisements for the game back in 1997. After watching the trailer, AlbertBaird began to discuss how some characters had deeper meaning to them and the psychoanalysis of certain important characters within the game. She dove deeper into this by showing how the game can be related to the Oedipal Complex throughout the gameplay and how on-screen memories affect the preconceived notions of one of the mostly highly regarded games. Characters like Cloud, Aerith and Sephiroth can be looked at as having much deeper meanings than just those of a fictional video game. Dunmire took a slightly different approach. Drawing on the works of writers like Melville, Hawthorne and other Romantic writers, he compared
certain elements of aspects and themes to some of their works. The presentation featured ideas of how character development is a key feature to the gameplay of a game and how it can help relate characters to different parts and eras of English literature. The idea behind this is how old ideas from previous novels and games are re-imaged for a modern age and new gameplay. Dunmire also related key parts of the game to books like “Moby Dick,” with the idea that FFVII is a basic story of chase and the need to prove one’s self, just like Captain Ahab did in the classic novel. Focusing on the romantic period, Final Fantasy VII is shown to be a somewhat futuristic society that has lost touch with nature and is on a crash course for destruction. The game expands into three discs and is packed with hours of gameplay to explore the world of FFVII while being able to use nine different playable characters. Its story begins many years before the game does. Shinra, the world’s biggest electric company, has come up with plans to expand its enterprise. With the recent discovery of mako, an energy source within Final Fantasy VII, Shinra creates reactors to extract the energy and in the process is slowly killing the earth. It is up to players to stop Shinra before it is too late. The next Critical Play Series presentation will be held April 15 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Leonard Hall in Room 204.
(Daniel Kirby/ The Penn) (Left) Eliza Albert-Baird (graduate, English) and (right) Cody Dunmire (senior, English) spoke to a group of students about the psychoanalytic aspects and parallels to classic literature of the classic video game Final Fantasy VII Wednesday.
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POLICE BLOTTER ALCOHOL VIOLATIONS
• Tyler Hagar, 21, of Willow Grove, was taken into custody and charged with public drunkenness at 11:58 p.m. March 21 in the 600 block of Washington Street, according to Indiana Borough Police. • Roman Viecelli, 19, of Herminie, was arrested for public drunkenness, underage drinking and public urination at 8:16 p.m. March 21 in the 700 block of Nixon Avenue, according to borough police. Viecelli was lodged at the Indiana County Jail, police said. • Casey Riccio, 23, of Indiana, was arrested for public drunkenness at 11:43 p.m. March 21 in the 500 block of Water Street, according to borough police. Riccio was lodged at the county jail, police said.
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• Dakota Scott Long, 19, of Friedens, was cited for retail theft and underage drinking at 3:09 a.m. March 22 at Sheetz, 380 Philadelphia St., according to borough police. • Jordan Menk, 18, of Lebanon, was taken into custody and charged with retail theft and underage drinking at 11:02 p.m. March 21 at Sheetz, 768 Wayne Ave., according to borough police. • Taylor Allison, 20, of Mount Pleasant, was charged with retail theft and underage drinking at 12:57 a.m. March 22 at Sheetz, 768 Wayne Ave., according to borough police. • Eric Imboden, 20, of Emporium, was arrested for retail theft at 11:27 p.m. March 21 at Sheetz, 380 Philadelphia St., according to borough police. Imboden was cited for retail theft and underage drinking, police said.
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• Derryn Selfridge, 20, of Butler, was arrested and transported to the Indiana Borough Police Station after police responded to call of Selfridge attempting to enter an apartment at 6:07 a.m. March 21 in the 400 block of South 13th Street, according to borough police. He was cited for public drunkenness, disorderly conduct and underage drinking and transported to the county jail, police said. It was later found that Selfridge damaged the door to the apartment, and he was additionally charged for criminal mischief, the report said.
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• Borough police observed Jamair Henderson, 23, of Braddock, fighting with a security guard and took Henderson into custody at 1:27 a.m. March 22 at Sheetz, 768 Wayne Ave., according to borough police. Police said they learned that Henderson had been refused entry into Sheetz but still attempted to enter the store. Henderson reportedly bit an employee while the Sheetz security guard was removing him from the store. Henderson was charged with simple assault, disorderly conduct, trespass and harassment, the report said.
DRUG VIOLATIONS
• Stephen McCormick, 19, of Bradford, was taken into custody after refusing to leave Sheetz’s property, 768 Wayne Ave., at 9:38 p.m. March 21, according to borough police. McCormick was found to be in possession of marijuana when taken into custody, police said. McCormick was charged with possession of a small amount of marijuana, trespass, underage drinking and disorderly conduct, the report said. • William Jackson, 19, of Sewickley, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia at 9:34 p.m. March 21 in Wallwork Hall, according to the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Police Department. • Jordan Brown, 18, of Chambersburg, was charged with possession of a small amount of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, and Takhi Turner, 18, of Harrisburg, was charged with possession of a small amount of marijuana at 8:13 p.m. March 22 on the third floor of Stephenson Hall, according to university police. •Elizabeth Evans, 19, of Erie, was charged with underage drinking and possession of drug paraphernalia, and Kayleigh Serafin, 19, of Oil City, was charged with underage drinking at 9:32 p.m. March 21 at Wallwork Hall, according to university police.
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(Photos by Sarah Bader/ The Penn) James Tarmin (senior, communications media) entertained an audience at The Artists Hand Gallery on Philadelphia Street Saturday. The performance was part of The Audio Graphics Show put together by communications media professor Thaddeaus Dachille and Anthony Messiano (senior, communications media). The performance mixed original audio created by Tarmin and a graphics show that played behind him as he performed.
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• Malika King, 19, of Pittsburgh, was cited for public urination at 1:34 a.m. March 22 when police observed King urinating on the west side of Reschini House, according to university police.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• Alexander Falcone, 21, of Exton, was taken into custody and cited for harassment and disorderly conduct at 11:28 p.m. March 20 at Sheetz, 768 Wayne Ave., after Falcone was found arguing with the Sheetz security guards and pushed one of the guards, according to borough police.
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Speech pathology major wins Dean’s Award for Excellence By STEPHANIE BACHMAN
Feminist Friday discusses conclusion of Women’s History Month The discussion continued from textbooks to books students have to read for Staff Writer English classes. M.W.Burris@iup.edu Many of the books read today, such The end of March and, therefore, as “Brave New World” and “Grapes of the end of Women’s History Month is Wrath,” were also on the recommended upon us. reading list more than 30 years ago. At the Feminist Friday meeting FriMany books are kept on the national day, students were abuzz conversing recommended reading list because of about how they felt the month went, as the stories they tell. well as how society can strive for equalStudents were surprised to see just ity throughout the entire year. how little this list has changed to reflect In the United States, Women’s Histo- the social climate in the U.S. as years ry Month was espass. tablished in 1987. Alicia Drew, Before this, Interthe leader of the national Women’s Feminist Friday Day was first celdiscussions, sugebrated in 1911 gested that stuand was extended dents check their to last a week by social media to the school district see where women’s of Sonoma, Calif., rights truly stand in 1978. on campus. Drew In 1980, Presicontinued saying dent Jimmy Cartthat the social clier issued a proclamate on campus is mation declaring exactly why womthat the week of en need a national March 8 was to be history month. National Women’s Michael MarHistory Week. quez (graduate, The National clinical psycholWomen’s Hisogy) agreed. tory Project cam“Until we no paigned to have longer see this disthe entire month parity in classes,” of March dedi- he said, “we do (graduate, clinical psychology) cated to women’s need Women’s history, which led History Month.” to the Women’s Drew was also History Month excited to ancelebrated today. nounce the Take Back the Night initiaIn a conference room in the Suites of tive that was cosponsored by the CreatMaple East, students from across cam- ing Higher Standards Group at Indiana pus discussed solutions to the modern University of Pennsylvania. Groups and problems of sexism and inequality be- organizations are encouraged to create tween genders. a short video announcing their support There were a few topics that garnered of Take Back the Night as well as invite the most attention, one of these being another organization or group to attend rewriting textbooks. These rewritten the event. textbooks would offer equal representaAny group interested in doing this tion of all genders, creeds and nation- should post their short video to social alities. A suggestion by Meghan Olbrys media with the hashtag #IUPTBTN, (graduate, student affairs in higher edu- which stands for “IUP Take Back the cation) was that these new curriculums Night.” Take Back the Night is schedshould be “integrated slowly but surely.” uled for Wednesday, April 15.
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Emily Romberger (senior, speech pathology) spent the past year conducting research related to her project that won her the Dean’s Award for Excellence in last year’s Undergraduate Scholars’ Forum. Romberger was one of the 2014 award recipients and the only winner from the College of Education and Educational Technology. The 10th annual forum will be held April 7 in the Hadley Union Building. Her project was titled “Impacts on Health and Hearing from Hydraulic Fracking,” and it involved determining if the consistent and loud noises associated with hydraulic fracking for natural gas can cause hearing loss or other health issues. Romberger tested this by going to nearby Finelyville and recording sound levels in different high-population areas of the borough. In addition to this, she had residents fill out surveys to get their feedback on living near the fracking site.
Although the sound levels were not high enough to cause hearing loss, the research and surveys did find some valuable data. Negative impacts reported included annoyance, mental-health concerns, stress, sleep disturbance and overall changes in health that required medical consultations. Romberger explained how her interest in the subject arose. “As an audiology student here, I have been interested in hearing and the ear for a while now, but fracking was never an interest of mine,” Romberger said. “In 2013, my audiology professor, Dr. Richburg, was asked to present at a public health conference in Pittsburgh. Our Audiology Student Association was also invited to go along. “While we were at the conference, it occurred to us that there was nothing out there that dealt with hearing loss and fracking. … That is when this project got started.” The Forum provides students with an opportunity to conduct, present and be recognized for their research before they graduate. It is also an opportunity that helps
students who are applying for jobs or graduate school stand out from the competition. “It was an honor to receive the Dean’s Award for Excellence at last year’s Undergraduate Scholars’ Forum,” Romberger said. “I had never expected to win [it] last year. I was just excited to share with people what I had been working on. “Having the opportunity to conduct research has given me a head start in the research world. I have had interviews for graduate schools, and they seemed very interested that I had already done some research.” Romberger offered advice for current students who are interested in or already involved in research. “I think as long as you believe in what you are doing and are excited about it, people recognize that and are more interested in your work,” she said. Romberger recently presented her findings at the Undergraduate Research at the Capital in Harrisburg, and she is now getting ready to graduate in May. She plans to continue on to graduate school in order to get a doctoral degree in audiology.
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A closer look at SGA presidential Center for Community Growth shows film about America’s environmental impact candidates as polls open By STEPHANIE BACHMAN Staff Writer S.L.Bachman2@iup.edu
The Center for Community Growth showed “The Power of One Voice” at the Indiana Theater Friday as the latest movie in their 2015 film series. The Center for Community Growth shows inspiring and powerful documentaries on the last Friday of most months of the year. The latest film focused on the life of hometown humanitarian Rachel Carson. It has been 50 years since Carson published her book “Silent Spring,” which awoke the conscious of America to its environmental impact and the demand for change. The documentary reflected on all that has happened since the publication while also reminding the audience of how Carson’s work is still relevant today and how climate change is still a very real issue. The impact Carson’s work has had include banning pesticides such as DDT, leading to the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency. The executive producer of the film, Dr. Patricia DeMarco of Chatham University, explained why she made the
film. “I felt her work was a lot broader than pesticides,” DeMarco said. “She reminds us how everything on Earth is interconnected for our life. Fresh air, clean water, fertile ground and biodiversity of species are all life support systems and things we cannot live without. They need to be protected. That message needs to be restated, and [Carson’s] message is still relevant to our time today,” DeMarco said. DeMarco was also present after the film for a discussion and a Q&A session. She mentioned reducing the toxic burden various chemicals have on the land and consumers using their buying power to demand to know what is in products. During the Q&A session, audience members asked questions about a wide variety of topics, such as GMOs and restarting the discussion about population growth. For the former, DeMarco compared controlled and uncontrolled GMOs. She said uncontrolled GMOs are dangerous and should be limited. For the latter, DeMarco talked about communities being more responsible as consumers and educating and empowering women.
DeMarco talked to the audience about the need to stop burning fossil fuels and being careful about how we use renewable resources. “We are destroying an atmosphere that took millions of years to form in decades,” DeMarco said. She also urged people to take action, saying the environmental fight is far from over. DeMarco said everyone has several opportunities to make small changes in their daily lives that can have a big impact, such as not accepting plastic bags or reusing materials as something else before you even put them in a recycling bin. Jennifer Zhang (junior, psychology and sociology) described her thoughts on the event and how easy it is to reduce one’s carbon footprint on a daily basis by giving some examples from her own life. “I actually enjoyed it,” Zhang said. “I think it brings attention back to what a lot of people forget in everyday life. I use bio-degradable doggie food bags. If you think about it, you can make a garden in a really sunny windowsill to grow your own herbs. When I move off campus next year, I will even make my own compost bin.”
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Three students are vying for the presidency of the Student Government Association. Elections for the top post run from Tuesday until Thursday, and links to the ballots will be sent through Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Imail system. Each candidate has several plans for SGA and the university if elected. • How do you plan on bridging the gap between SGA and other IUP students? Vincent Lopez (sophomore, English and political science): “One of the biggest focuses is going to be working with clubs and other organizations on campus.” Alex Kavounas (sophomore, marketing): “If we really improve attendance, more people will find out about SGA: what we do, how we do it and why we do it.” Hanna Beightley (junior, natural sciences): “Some students do not know that there is a student government at IUP or what being a senator entails, and I think that using CrimsonConnect can help move SGA involvement in the
right direction.” • What changes do you want to see in SGA? Lopez: “…more involvement from the senators, and have the senators actually representing something of value or a voice of a student on campus.” Kavounas: “I would like to get some of IUP’s facilities open on a later basis. Things like the library, dining halls. Sometimes you need facilities when they’re least convenient.” Beightley: “I think having a representative from different majors, ethnicities, religions and communities in SGA can help us accurately and efficiently represent the needs of all students, not just a small subset of the student body.” • If you are elected president, what immediate changes do you want to see? Lopez: “I want to be able to open up a town hall immediately to bring students in and hear their issues and what they want to see changed.” Kavounas: “I really want to implement a philanthropy aspect to student government.” Beightley: “We can [improve meeting attendance] by having more SGA sponsored events that bring the students of IUP together and also by being more involved in other events on campus.”
Stanford University reports allegations of students cheating By TRACY SEIPEL San Jose Mercury News TNS
STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford University is investigating allegations of academic cheating by students during the recent winter quarter, according to University Provost John Etchemendy. A letter Etchemendy sent to faculty and teaching staff last week pointed to “an unusually high number of troubling allegations of academic dishonesty” reported to the school’s Office of Community Standards at the end of the quarter. Winter-quarter classes started Jan. 5 and ended March 13; finals were held March 16-20. In the one-page letter to his colleagues, Etchemendy said that “among a smattering of concerns from a number of winter courses,” one faculty member reported allegations that may involve as many as 20 percent of the students enrolled in one of Stanford’s large introductory courses.
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Etchemendy said that all students entering the university are informed of the school’s honor code and agree to abide by it. “But with the ease of technology and widespread sharing that is now part of a collaborative culture,” he wrote, “students need to recognize and be reminded that it is dishonest to appropriate the work of others.” The allegations follow incidents of academic cheating at other top-ranked U.S. colleges. Last fall, up to 64 Dartmouth College students – including some athletes – faced suspension or other disciplinary action for cheating in an ethics class. At the same time, University of North Carolina employees were found to have participated in an 18-year cheating scandal to help 3,100 students make good grades with little work. In 2012, Harvard University investigated 125 students in what it called “the most widespread cheating scandal” in campus history.
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Governors seek higher education cuts By ELAINE S. POVICH Stateline.org TNS
WASHINGTON – Governors in nearly a half-dozen states want to cut state spending on colleges and universities to help close budget shortfalls, often sparking vehement opposition among state lawmakers of both parties. Republican governors in Arizona, Kansas, Louisiana and Wisconsin and Connecticut’s Democratic governor have proposed higher education cuts for the coming fiscal year. Higher education spending traditionally is a juicy target for budget cutters because schools can make up the lost revenue by raising tuition. But students and their families already are being squeezed by steadily rising college costs. In fiscal year 2013, schools got about 47 percent of their revenue from tuition, up from about 24 percent in fiscal year 1988, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy of Connecticut has suggested a tuition hike to compensate for the cuts, but the Republican governors are urging the schools in their states to find the necessary savings by trimming bureaucracy and consolidating campuses. University officials argue that past budget cuts have pushed them to the breaking point, forcing them, for example, to rely heavily on adjunct professors and teaching assistants instead of full professors. During the recession, 48 states cut higher education spending. Alaska and North Dakota didn’t. They are the only two states spending as much or more on higher education than they did before the recession, when the numbers are adjusted for inflation, according to the Center on Budget and
Policy Priorities (CBPP), a Washington, D.C.-based research group. Some critics have urged the Republican governors to roll back recent tax cuts to spare the colleges and universities. But so far the governors have balked, arguing that lower taxes have helped working families and attracted businesses. Nowhere is the controversy greater than in Louisiana, which has a complicated higher education system and a Republican governor who is considering running for president. Gov. Bobby Jindal proposed a budget that would reduce higher education spending by $141 million in fiscal 2016. In recent weeks, he has proposed offsetting some of the cuts by getting rid of some refundable business tax credits, which have a total value of $526 million. But the business community is strongly opposing that idea. That leaves the Republican-dominated legislature in a bind, forcing members to choose between education and low taxes, two priorities they generally support. State Sen. Conrad Appel, a Republican, said in an interview that if the higher education cuts Jindal proposed all go into effect, “it would be really serious” and a big blow to colleges and universities. He said he wants to scale back the proposed cuts, but wasn’t prepared to say exactly how. “If we vote to replenish, some of the cuts will be mitigated to some extent,” he said. But, he noted that the Louisiana public university system has “structural inefficiencies” that will mean more budget cuts in the future. He said he told college administrators last week that they should take steps to cut their budgets, whether that means consolidation of campuses or
other methods. “What I don’t recommend is for higher education to ignore the opportunity to fix the problem,” he said. “Either they are going to fix it or we are going to fix it for them and they won’t like it.” Robert Scott, president of the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana, said that since Jindal became governor in 2008, the number of full-time employees at state colleges and universities has decreased 23 percent due to budget cuts, and that schools have been raising tuition along the way. But now, he said, “they are about to price themselves out of the market.” He said the flagship school, Louisiana State University, “still has some headroom” to continue tuition increases, but most of the small schools in the state system don’t have that luxury. John Griswold, a fine arts professor at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, said his state is a test case for cuts to higher education. “The conditions in Louisiana were perfect for testing an assault on statefunded higher education,” Griswold said. He noted the state has a conservative governor, legislative rules that preclude cuts in most spending except for higher education and health care and an economic downturn prompted by the drop in oil prices. “Similar conditions exist in other states, so conservative politicians elsewhere can also demand deep cuts to higher ed, based on populist appeals to ‘good business’ and an end to ‘welfare mentality,’” he said. Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a potential presidential candidate who has cut state income and property taxes by $541 million during his tenure, has proposed cutting $300 million from the University of Wisconsin system.
According to Walker, that amounts to a 2.5 percent cut, but other analysts have put the figure as high as 13 percent. The fact-checking service PolitiFact split the difference, assessing the reduction at about 6 percent. The cut would be exacerbated by the fact that there is a tuition freeze in place. “Through flexibility and empowering current leaders from across the system, (University of Wisconsin) System and campus leadership will have the tools necessary to deliver a high-quality education in a strategic manner while saving taxpayers $150 million a year,” Walker’s spokeswoman, Laurel Patrick, said. Meanwhile, two Republican state lawmakers have called for changes in the governor’s budget that would lessen the cut, including raising out-of-state tuition and requiring the university to spend down reserve funds. “We will work toward a smaller, more manageable cut instead of the $300 million cut proposed in the governor’s budget,” the two, Reps. Dean Knudson and John Nygren, said in a press release last week. In Illinois, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner recommended a reduction of nearly 6 percent in direct spending on state colleges and universities. Despite the cut, Rauner argues that “this budget proposal continues to offer state support to our public universities” through contributions to the universities’ retirement system and insurance benefits for university employees. But Rauner faces strong opposition from the Democratic-controlled legislature and from the state’s universities. Senate President John Cullerton said on his Facebook page that the governor’s budget cuts will “undermine access to health services, child care, afford-
able college and retirement security for working- and middle-class families” and vowed that the legislature will amend it. While Rauner has proposed cuts in a range of areas, the education chunk is drawing the most attention. In Arizona, the Republican-led legislature went further than Republican Gov. Doug Ducey in cutting higher education, agreeing to a $99-million cut, down from an earlier legislative proposal of $104 million. Ducey had proposed a $75-million reduction as a way to pay for business tax cuts. Universities and proponents of higher education fought the governor’s cuts so doggedly that they prompted a backlash in the legislature, which upped them. Arizona State University President Michael Crow called the action a “drastic remedy to the state’s budget troubles” and one that will come back to haunt the state when it has fewer college graduates contributing to the state’s economy. In Connecticut, Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy proposed cutting $10.6 million from the University of Connecticut system and an additional $20.6 million from the state’s regional universities. Malloy has expressed support for tuition hikes, after several years of urging that tuition merely keep pace with inflation. In Kansas, Republican Gov. Sam Brownback since 2011 has pushed through a 25-percent reduction in the state’s top income tax rate, lowered sales taxes and eliminated a tax on smallbusiness income. As a result, state revenue has declined by $685 million. Brownback now is looking to make cuts in education and elsewhere in an effort to balance the books.
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Students’ art to be diplayed at Art Works By RUTH RICE
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University art students are showing what they’ve created. The IUP Spring Juried Exhibition and DDD: Three Dimensional Form Studies will be on display through May 2 at the Art Works building of Bottle Works, 413 Third Ave., in the Cambria City section of Johnstown. The 2015 installment of the IUP Spring Juried Exhibition highlights the work from graduate and undergraduate students of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Juror Adam Welch said the show boasts a contemporary display of the artistic voices being trained in studio discipline at IUP. Welch holds a master’s degree from IUP and a bachelor’s from SUNY Stony Brook University and is an artist, musician and curator who has exhibited regionally and internationally. He is the recipient of the 2009 Individual Artists Fellowship in Installation/ Sculpture from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and was awarded the 2008 Emerging Artist of the Year award by the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. DDD: Three Dimensional Form Studies also is a selection of students’ work from IUP. Three-dimensional design is an intense and rapidly changing course of study for incoming freshman in which they develop skills essential to success in the art department, as well as techniques which can be used in other fields of study. “Viewers will be treated to things they understand, like dinosaurs, animals, architecture and chairs – but presented in inventive ways and made of very basic materials,” said Steve Loar, associate professor in the IUP art department. “The dinosaurs were light-hearted abstractions that used recycled plastic as an art-making material. The birds and architecture were relatively early
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in the semester and established skills in abstracting shapes, but keeping them understandable. The chairs were the very difficult problem of taking a type of chair and combining it with an art style. Not to mimic chairs that had actually been made back then, but to create a chair that actually looks like the art style.” Loar explained that as a course, 3-D design is concerned with establishing skills, not just in building objects, but with the very salable skills of conceiving new ways of looking at objects and then using humble materials to make them look interesting. “Those who complete this course take with them perseverance, problem solving abilities, brainstorming skills, conceptual insights, knowledge of materials and the ability to get to the answer in ways others would never consider,” Loar said. “This exhibition is the result of my teaching and two undergraduate teaching assistants who are considering college teaching as a profession. “The students were mostly firstsemester freshmen in studio art or art education. Each project was a series of one-week modules that assumed they knew nothing about the topic or the material.” Form, light and shadow are integral layers of the course, and students are asked to explore these ideas through inventive use of material. “My teaching provides structure and guidelines, builds personal confidence and a willingness to take risks and allows each student the freedom to try their way of finding a solution,” Loar said. “We applaud success, and we applaud smart failures. We get students to think and explore and to make things they didn’t imagine possible.” A Curator Talk to coincide with both exhibits will be given by Welch at 4 p.m. April 18. The cost is $10 per person or $7 for students and includes light refreshments and hors d’oeuvres.
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Presidential politics on a Mountain State stage? By CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL MCT
The following editorial appeared in the Charleston Daily Mail Sunday, March 29: The last time there was a presidential debate in West Virginia, it was during the 1960 Democratic primary battle between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey. Topics included Cuban sugar quotas, anti-segregation sit-ins in the south, and whether “Red China” should be admitted to the U.N. Fifty-five years later, state and local leaders want to bring a presidential debate to West Virginia again. A coalition of groups represented by the West Virginia Commission of Presidential Debates has submitted a 200-page application to host one of the three 2016 presidential debates. “We deserve to be put on a national stage in this way. It’s a great opportunity to showcase all of the wonderful things
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West Virginia has to offer,” said LeAnn Cain, a spokeswoman for Charleston’s Clay Center, where the proposed event would take place. Presidential debates aren’t always in held large cities, or swing states. Since 2000, there have been debates in Oxford, Miss., and Winston-Salem, N.C. There were two in Hempstead, N.Y. And tiny Danville, Ky., hosted vicepresidential debates in 2000 and 2012. The Clay Center has the appropriate space and technological specifications to host a debate, and Charleston has enough hotel rooms and security resources. And what better place than West Virginia to ask candidates about some of the most pressing domestic issues facing the country? Health care, poverty, energy, the environment – all are national topics with particular relevance to citizens living in Appalachia. It would be an opportunity for West Virginia to represent a part of the coun-
try that is often overlooked. Perhaps the biggest hurdle is that a debate here in Charleston wouldn’t be held on a college campus, as most recent ones have been. The national Commission on Presidential Debates – the panel that selects locations – seems to favor sites associated with schools. But that’s at least partially addressed by the participation of both West Virginia University and West Virginia State University, which would be cosponsors. “Living here in Charleston, I would watch these debates... and I said – why not West Virginia?” said Mike Stuart, a former state Republican Party chairman who spearheaded the proposal. A presidential debate here could be worth several million dollars to the state and local economy. More importantly, it would be a learning opportunity for West Virginians, and a chance for the country to learn more about us.
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Penn EDITORIAL
School spirit is alive
How many times have you heard that IUP lacks school spirit, particularly for its athletics? Though the university boasts many successful sports programs, the recent consensus seems to have been that students just don’t support their teams as much as they should. The reasons behind the alleged lack of allegiance have varied, but the grumblings have been prominent. That belief might have been nixed – or at least temporarily so – after Saturday’s Division II men’s basketball national championship, in which the Crimson Hawks played after logging the second-most wins in team history. IUP wasn’t able to bring home its first-ever national title, thanks to a dominant outing by Florida Southern College in the nationally broadcast contest. But IUP did come home with unconditional support from a dedicated herd of fans who made the trek from Indiana, Pa., to Evansville, Ind., just to see the Crimson Hawks in action. The team may very well have captured the attention of the campus over the weekend because of its title run, but perhaps more importantly, it also attracted a flock of students, faculty and alumni to relocate states Saturday. Some embarked on a nearly 20-hour bus trip to and from the Ford Center, while others made their own travel arrangements to see IUP’s first national championship appearance since 2010. If that doesn’t represent a semblance of dedication to school athletics, then what does? Sure, there weren’t always as many fans at the games that led up to IUP’s season finale in Indiana. But the sea of Crimson Hawks fanatics – led by their beloved mascot, Norm, and complete with a waving IUP flag – were in full effect Saturday. It remains to be seen whether or not such an impassioned fan base will make itself known for the countless other IUP sports. But at least the Crimson Hawks can take pride in the fact that they do, in fact, have fans that care. If Saturday’s turnout was any indication, at least that much is clear.
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An Evening of Dance and Percussion featured both student and alumni musical collaboration By HAYLEY MORGANS Contributing Writer H.R.Morgans@iup.edu
For only one performance every two years, Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Dance Theater and Percussion Ensemble join forces to present An Evening of Dance and Percussion under the co-direction of Holly BodaSutton and Dr. Michael Kingan. This year’s performance was held Saturday in Fisher Auditorium and was the collaborative product of many artists, both part of and outside of the IUP community. In addition to the Dance Theater and Percussion Ensemble, the evening featured work of both student and IUP alumni musical arrangers, current IUP faculty, members of the IUP Chorale, IUP’s Hawkapella Choir, guest student dancers, guest military veterans and a long list of production staff and crew members working behind-the-scenes. A guest choreographer was invited to contribute to the program. Toneta Akers-Toler, choreographer and master teacher of Theatre West Virginia, choreographed “Josie,” the second number of the show. Boda-Sutton, IUP Dance Theater director and co-director of the event, explained that preparation for an event involving so many people requires a lot of time and coordination. “It takes two years to put everything together,” she said. “We start planning casting in September, and rehearsals
start usually the first of November.” The earlier preparation for the event includes finding and choosing repertoire, any guest artists and general planning. Preparation is therefore one of the main reasons why the event is held every other year rather than annually, BodaSutton said. “The scheduling is really the biggest [challenge] – coordinating schedules when dealing with your guest artists’ availability and then the availability of the other groups and people involved,” Boda-Sutton said. The IUP Dance Theater rehearses several hours per night, four days per week for the entirety of the academic year except when classes are not in session for breaks. The IUP Percussion Ensemble and others involved also spend hours of rehearsal independently and then come together for full rehearsals. Though preparation for the event is a commitment, it is worth the time and effort, students involved explained. “The whole collaboration is just awesome,” percussionist Denver Juliano (graudate, percussion performance) said. “Not a lot of departments work with other departments like we do.” Juliano said that his favorite piece of the show is “Shofukan,” the closing number of the show. “One of our students arranged it for Percussion Ensemble,” Juliano said. Danielle Stoffer (senior, music), another student performer, said she is eager to be involved in this year’s pro-
duction after being part of the 2013 production. “I was very excited,” Stoffer said. “From my first experience, it was a lot of fun, so I couldn’t wait.” In this event, percussionists did not only provide musical accompaniment for the dancers, but also danced on stage with them during certain songs. “I also did dance for 10 years, so I was excited,” Stoffer said. “Getting back on the floor was awesome.” The collaborative effort also fostered a culture of teamwork for both performers and production staff involved. “It’s exciting to be a part of something for a bigger cause, and to be working with people who love what they do,” said Charis Franco (sophomore, dance arts), assistant wardrobe manager. “It’s fun being able to interact with the dancers, getting to know them,” Stoffer said. Since An Evening of Dance and Percussion originated 16 years ago, it has given participants the opportunity to explore new ideas, cultures and styles. “We wanted to play with the possibilities,” Boda-Sutton said. The well-anticipated event brings in returning audience members as well as first-time attendees each production. Jody Michalik of Pittsburgh, mother of one of the dancers, had never attended the event before Saturday night’s performance. “[Boda-Sutton] is great,” she said. “[The show] was even better than we expected.”
(Photo courtesy of Katlynn Resides/ The Penn) Alexis Evangelista (freshman, business marketing) showed off her jacket and floral hoodie combo from H&M and PacSun, respectively, in the Oak Grove Monday.
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(Photo courtesy of Daniel Kirby/ The Penn) Cody Dunmire (senior, English) staying warm in an argyle sweater from Old Navy.
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Local salesman passes away despite raging success By ANDREW MILLIKEN Lead Wet Ink Writer A.P.Milliken@iup.edu
Gerald Earl Xavier, known to his friends simply as “GEX,” passed away silently Thursday night. GEX worked as a salesman in the area, peddling a limited variety of goods, most notably an extremely accessible selection of beers, both craft and domestic. GEX, who was known for his somewhat boisterous behavior and constant abundance of food and drink, ironically wasted away at the end, with fewer and fewer options available in the days leading up to his passing. “He used to be so full,” said a friend of GEX, who asked to remain nameless for privacy reasons. “Towards the end, he just got emptier and emptier until there was nothing left.” While GEX had an intensely positive impact on his community, he was not without faults or rivals. Sean Harris Evan Eric Thomas Zabbo was a longtime rival salesman of GEX and continues to operate right across the street from where the dearly departed Xavier used to call home. Zabbo, while reluctant to speak on the matter, did eventually express respect for his sales colleague. “He burned bright and quick, that GEX,” said Zabbo. “I’ve been selling trademarked snacks and limited gro-
ceries in the area for decades and never saw serious competition until that GEX moved in across the street.” GEX achieved a remarkable notoriety in his three years of life, touching the lives of countless residents and students in his area. “Most three-year-olds, they don’t get to do what GEX did,” said Lillie Gynn Borencic, Xavier’s manager and colleague from his humble beginnings. “Most three-yearolds are just getting the hang of walking and talking. GEX was really something special.” GEX is survived by his son, another remarkable achievement for the tender age of three, Larking Pot. “Even when we knew the end was near for Dad, we just kept that traffic flowing,” Pot said. When asked why he and his father didn’t share surnames, Pot responded: “What kind of question is that?” Though frail in his last days, GEX kept his trademark ornery personality until the very end, even closing up shop for 12 hours to avoid customers he thought were “going to be acting downright silly last weekend,” according to Pot. We’ll all miss GEX’s stable, if limited and somewhat overpriced, selection of goods. Some say the talented salesman’s panache and zing are still visible where he used to conduct business, even though his lights have finally gone out.
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Death Grips release new freestreaming album ‘Jenny Death’ By ANDREW MILLIKEN Lead Wet Ink Writer A.P.Milliken@iup.edu
Sacramento-based, experimental hip-hop trio Death Grips are back with the leak and subsequent free streaming of the long-awaited album “Jenny Death.” Since they released their second studio album, “No Love Deep Web,” for free, a move that caused their departure from Epic Records, via their website in 2012, Death Grips have been up to various shenanigans, musical and otherwise. The noisy trio have been busy dodging live performances, leading fans on Internet-wild-goose chases and even proclaiming that “we are at our best and now Death Grips is over. We have officially stopped,” in a 2014 note scrawled on a napkin. This premature breakup helped create the cyberspace buzz around “Jenny Death,” the second half of the group’s double album, “The Powers That B,” with fans smothering the web with the now meme-worthy phrase “JENNY DEATH WHEN.” Jenny Death now, for better or for worse.
The album is a frenzied, heavy examination of familiar Death Grips themes like paranoia, sex, drug use and the emotional effects of the digital age. The album kicks into overdrive right away with “I Break Mirrors with my Face in the United States,” a manic, relentless roller-coaster ride into insanity. “I don’t care about real life,” vocalist MC Ride (Stefan Burnett) bellows over and over again against the track’s incessant, glitchy production and drummer Zach Hill’s intense blast beats. The insanity of “I Break Mirrors with my face...” eventually melts away into an obnoxious vocal sample that rises in pitch to inhuman levels before becoming the beat to “Inanimate Sensation,” a loud, brutal take on social media. Death Grips continue their trip down the rabbit hole of their own minds with “Turned Off,” the album’s obligatory track about explicit, violent sex. Just about every Death Grips album boasts a track like this, an apparent fixation for MC Ride. The production on “Jenny Death” is almost the polar opposite of the first disc of “The Powers that B,” titled “N****s on the Moon.”
The album’s first half saw Death Grips slinking into an esoteric dungeon, making nearly beat-less music with dense, cryptic lyrics and frequent time changes. All of “Jenny Death,” however, sees Death Grips blending the stripped down, blown-out sound of “No Love Deep Web” with the hard-rock influences that permeated their debut mixtape, “Exmilitary.” “On GP,” a previously-released single, opens with a brooding guitar solo before the track launches into its noisetinged beat, similar to “Beware,” the opening track from “Exmilitary.” As usual, Death Grips has taken to dismantling 2015’s musical culture by creating a grotesque caricature of the quintessential rock star. MC Ride’s character, at the core, is a man driven by lust and human impulses who simply does what he wants. Is this so different from a figure like Kanye West? Just days after they leaked “Jenny Death,” Death Grips announced a North American tour, canceling their own breakup. What these three will be up to next is anyone’s guess. “Jenny Death” is available for free, instant listening on Youtube.
Rock bands perform at SXSW for the Austin Music Awards
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Above: Charlie Sexton, Steven Van Zandt and Scrappy Jud Newcomb perform in a tribute to Ian McLagan at the Austin Music Awards at SXSW Wednesday, March 18. Right: Britt Daniel of Spoon performs at SXSW Thursday.
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An Evansville ending: IUP falls in title game Crimson Hawks fall victim to Florida Southern in season-ending 77-62 national championship defeat By CODY BENJAMIN Sports Editor C.J.Benjamin@iup.edu
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Three players had double-digit scoring totals for Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the team’s second-ever national championship bid Saturday, but the Crimson Hawks season ended with a 77-62 loss at the hands of Florida Southern College in Evansville’s Ford Center. IUP (31-7) was headlined by scoring leaders Devante Chance (senior, communications media), Shawn Dyer (graduate, criminology) and Daddy Ugbede (junior, communications media), but it couldn’t muster enough production to counter Florida Southern (36-1), which opened on a 9-2 run and led by as many as 17 points in the title game. The Crimson Hawks, who finished with the second-most wins in school history and made their first NCAA Division II National Championship appearance since 2010, connected on 31.1 percent of their shots. Conversely, the Moccasins had a 50.9-percent mark and hit 13 of 25 shots from beyond the arc. Thanks to a 3-pointer by Dyer to
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leaders PPG: Devante Chance (16.5) REBOUNDS: Shawn Dyer (207) ASSISTS: Devante Chance (217)
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start the second half, IUP pulled within six points and had opportunities to close the scoreboard gap. A pair of alleyoop dunks by Tevin Hanner (junior, sociology) also helped the Crimson Hawks claw back into connection, but ultimately, Florida Southern’s efficiency was too much to overcome. IUP converted on all but three of 19 free-throw opportunities in the nationally broadcast final, but it was also outdone by Florida Southern when it came to capitalizing on turnovers. The Crimson Hawks had 12 turnovers as opposed to the Moccasins’ 10, but they also connected on nearly 20 percent less of their shots from the floor. Leading Florida Southern’s offensive attack was Elite Eight Tournament Most Outstanding Player honoree Kevin Capers, who netted as many points (24) as he did minutes off the bench. The Moccasins guard also had a game-high five 3-pointers. The 2014-15 season, however, wasn’t without success for IUP, which saw Chance, Dyer, Alec Boyer (senior, business management) and forward Jeremy Jeffers (senior, communications media) play their final game as Crimson Hawks. “My focus as I sit up here with these young men, it’s not on tonight’s loss but on the effort and commitment they gave to the program all year,” said head coach Joe Lombardi, who’s led IUP to seven straight NCAA tournament appearances. “They gave in to the process, they gave love and commitment to each other … I’m proud of these guys, and I couldn’t have expected any more.” Advancing past its fourth all-time Final Four contest in a 72-68 win over Tarleton State University Thursday, the Crimson Hawks reached the D-II finale ranked No. 25 in the nation. Along the way, both Chance and Brandon Norfleet (junior, communications media) eclipsed 1,000-point totals for their career and helped IUP capture a regional title for the second time in six seasons under Lombardi.
Florida Southern celebrates after defeating IUP in Saturday’s national championship in Indiana.
Chance, who finished an All-American IUP career as the school’s all-time leader in assists and games played, had 17 points and eight rebounds in his championship debut. As the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference West Athlete of the Year and NABC AllAmerican selection, he secured a topfive all-time points record with 1,280 since 2011-12. In his final season with IUP, Chance averaged 38 minutes per game and led the team in points, steals and assists. A co-captain and all-region selection, his assists total ranked fifth in the nation this season. A year after playing in the D-II national championship with West Liberty University, Dyer had 16 points and eight rebounds for IUP against Florida Southern. Dyer, the Atlantic Region Tournament Outstanding Player, brought postseason experience to the Crimson Hawks locker room, having won three consecutive regional titles prior to his arrival at IUP. His yearly totals (14.2 points per game, 207 rebounds) rep-
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resent the prominent role he played alongside Chance this season. Jeffers, meanwhile, hit his 60th 3-pointer of the season Saturday, finishing with career-high totals in nearly every statistical category, including points (309) and field-goal percentage (44.5). Before their Final Four victory over Tarleton, the Crimson Hawks slipped past Azusa Pacific University in a 69-65 Elite Eight win that saw five different players hit double-digit scoring marks. To cap off their run in the Atlantic Region Championships, a precursor to the NCAA tournament, the Crimson Hawks thwarted Dyers’ old team, West Liberty, from ending their season for a third consecutive year. Other notes from Evansville: The atmosphere at Ford Center was, almost literally, as fiery as the Crimson Hawks’ season, which ended on a stinging note, but also stands as one of the most productive in school history. IUP came into the finale with 11 wins in its last 12 games and got a big-stage spotlight with national coverage and flameshooting pre-game introductions remi-
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niscent of an NBA video game. *** Hats off to Chance, who appeared as devastated as anyone to leave the court without a victory. Lombardi said as much after the game, but if anyone represented IUP basketball with just as much – if not more – humility than success, it was No. 3. *** Otherworldly early-game 3-point success of Florida Southern seemed to render IUP helpless at times, but it goes without saying that the Crimson Hawks’ title bid was just a fraction of the journey that was the team’s 2014-15 season. One representation: Fans’ willingness to endure a 20-hour roundtrip to support the team. *** It’s hard not to wonder what IUP will look like in 2015-16 after the loss of not only a title game but also three core players. But Lombardi and the team were confident against Florida Southern throughout Saturday’s bout. There’s little reason to believe they won’t be next season.
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IUP’s road to championship defined by overcoming odds By MICHAEL KIWAK Lead Sports Writer M.T.Kiwak@iup.edu
The Indiana University of Pennsylvania men’s basketball team’s magical run to the NCAA Division II National Championship Game involved overcoming the odds more than once. Entering the NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball Atlantic Regional Championships, the 26-6 Crimson Hawks were coming off the heels of a crushing, lastsecond 69-66 loss to Gannon University in the March 8 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Championship game. Having won six conference tournaments since 2000, the loss against the Golden Knights was IUP’s first championship defeat since 1996. Despite falling short, 25th-ranked IUP entered the NCAA championships as the No. 3 seed in the region. The team kicked off the tournament in impressive fashion by laying out Glenville State College 73-53 on March 14. However, IUP faced stiffer competition a day later from a familiar enemy. For the third time this season, the Crimson Hawks squared off against Slippery Rock University in a contest that went back and forth. The team dug itself out of an early 12-point deficit to outshoot The Rock 55 percent to 39 percent in the second half, pulling off a 73-65 victory. Following that PSAC slugfest, IUP met last year’s national runner-up, No. 1-seeded West Liberty University on March 17. West Liberty came away with the upper hand last season when it defeated them 86-85 in triple overtime. IUP managed to administer a little payback, defeating the Hilltoppers 7774, thanks to a Brandon Norfleet (junior, communications media) 3-pointer with 7.4 seconds remaining. The victory guaranteed IUP its sixth-ever
trip to the Elite Eight. The Crimson Hawks’ challenges only grew from there, however, as they were tasked with taking on another No. 1 seed in the form of Azusa Pacific University on March 25. IUP held a lead for a majority of the contest, but the Cougars continued to claw their way back and kept things close. With 11 seconds remaining, AllAmerican guard Troy Leaf sunk a long 3-pointer to reduce IUP’s lead to one. Senior point guard Devante Chance (communications media) showed up in clutch time, though, as he nailed a pair of free throws to boost the lead back to three with less than 10 seconds to play. APU was unable to hit a gametying shot, and IUP continued past another obstacle on its journey toward the National Championship. In the Final Four, IUP locked horns with Tarleton State University, yet another No. 1 seed. Could the Crimson Hawks pull off the improbable and defeat a third consecutive No. 1 seed? For a while, it looked as though they wouldn’t. Down double digits with 10:04 left to play, IUP surged to a 12-0 run to take the lead, 51-49. IUP didn’t trail again and won, 72-68. With that victory, the Crimson Hawks accomplished something only one other team has done before in the history of the program: make the national title game. A run defined by defying the odds would have to do just that once more. 35-1 Florida Southern, the No. 1-ranked team in Div. II and a No. 1 seed, was the fifth highest-scoring team in the country, averaging nearly 90 points per game. IUP swapped blows with this juggernaut Saturday but in the end could not muster the magic needed for another miracle, losing 77-62. Despite the loss, the story of the 2015 Crimson Hawks, filled with hard-fought battles and improbable victories, will not be forgotten anytime soon.
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Crimson Hawks win second straight game in 14-12 bout with Millersville By CHRIS HAYES Staff Writer C.T.Hayes@iup.edu
In a back-and-forth contest, the Indiana University of Pennsylvania lacrosse team pulled out another victory Friday at Miller Stadium, defeating Millersville University 14-12. With the win, the Crimson Hawks boosted their Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference record to 2-1 and LACROSSE their overall mark to 4-4. It seemed as though the contest might turn into a rout when IUP jumped out to a quick 5-0 lead early in the first half. Kim Hooven (sophomore, elementary and special education) got the first goal of the game just 30 seconds after the opening draw. However, Millersville wouldn’t go down easily. The Marauders controlled play the rest of the half, and the two teams went
into the break all knotted up at five goals each. IUP came out firing in the second half, outscoring Millersville 9-2 during a stretch to take a 14-7 lead. Once again, the Marauders came roaring back. But the team’s run was ultimately too late to hinder IUP’s homestand victory. Bailey McLeish (freshman, communications) and Brittney Palardy (junior, exercise science) led the scoring onslaught for IUP, tallying three goals each. Hooven, Sara Harshman (freshman, early childhood education) and Carissa Smith (sophomore, sports administration) all tacked on two goals in the effort. Meanwhile, in the net, Angela Lontoc (freshman, natural science) saved 11 shots and logged 48 minutes of action in the team’s second consecutive win. IUP looks to continue its winning ways Tuesday, as they host Edinboro University at 4 p.m.
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Sports
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IUP garners top 10 finish at first invitational By JED JOHNSON Staff Writer J.N.Johnson3@iup.edu
Jarka Petercakova readies herself during IUP’s win.
(Nick Dampman/ The Penn)
IUP tennis captures third straight victory By JED JOHNSON Staff Writer J.N.Johnson3@iup.edu
The 32nd-ranked Indiana University of Pennsylvania women’s tennis squad has just come off a two-game stint against Walsh University in Ohio and Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference rival Slippery Rock University. IUP, with a record of 9-3, was able to defeat the 10-15 Walsh squad by a final score of 6-3 in Canton, Ohio, TENNIS Friday and topped Slippery Rock 9-0 Sunday in Indiana. Slippery Rock falls to 5-6 on the season. IUP was 4-2 in singles competition against Walsh Friday, with Jarka Petercakova (sophomore, human development and environmental studies), Sophie Butland (sophomore, kinesiology health & sport science), Luise Von Agris (freshman, management) and Rachel Wood (sophomore, criminology) coming away with wins. Doubles play also had IUP firing on all cylinders, as the teams of Tanya Timko (senior, psychology) and Petercakova, as well as Alanna McFail (ju-
nior, biology) were able to come up with wins against Walsh. Against Slippery Rock, all nine matches on the day went to IUP. Raquel Gonzalez (sophomore, management), Timko, Petercakova, Butland, Von Agris and Wood all came with wins. Only Timko’s match against Carla Moracho wound up going to a third set, as IUP seemed to make quick work holding Slippery Rock to two wins per set in all but one match, not counting Timko’s. Doubles play against The Rock also turned out to be a sweep, as the duo of Butland and McFail held Slippery Rock’s Stephanie Fortier and Kylee Woodman scoreless. The teams of Von Agris and Wood, as well as Timko and Petercakova, won their matches by totals of 8-3 and 8-2. IUP’s next match is against Mercyhurst in Erie, but that will occur prior to publishing. They will also travel to Detroit Friday to play Wayne State and Grand Valley State universities, both from Michigan. Friday’s match against Wayne State will be at noon, and Grand Valley State University will play IUP at 11 a.m. Saturday.
The outdoor track and field season began for Indiana University of Pennsylvania Saturday, and both Crimson Hawks teams garnered top-10 placement at the Oliver Nikoloff Invitational, hosted at the University of Cincinnati’s Gettler Stadium. IUP’s men’s and women’s programs both cracked the top 10, with the TRACK & FIELD men placing sixth out of 15 teams and the women placing ninth out of 16 teams. Buffalo headlined the men’s events, scoring 209 points and taking first place by 60.5 points over Cincinnati. IUP scored 39 points, finishing 170 points back of Buffalo. Cincinnati came out on top in the women’s portion with a total of 183.5 points. IUP finished with a total of 37 points. The field events, as is normally the case with IUP’s men’s and women’s programs, tended to garner more points
for the two squads than did the track events. Key contributors for the men’s program include Charles Wilson-Adams (freshman, exercise science), who placed second in the high jump and sixth in the long jump, garnering a total of 11 points, and Jeremy Claypoole (junior, kinesiology health & sport science), who came home fourth in the high jump and seventh in the long jump, bringing him to a total of seven points. Other athletes who scored points for IUP were Ricky Fayad (freshman, college of health and human services), Troy Zangaro (senior, marketing), Tim Lynch (senior, criminology) and Demetrius Timmons (freshman, computer science). Lynch placed sixth in the 3000-meter steeplechase, Fayad placed sixth in the 110-meter hurdle event, Zangaro placed fifth in the 400-meter dash and Timmons placed fourth in the longjump event. IUP’s mens squad also placed their A and B squad fourth and sixth. Eight athletes placed in the women’s program, led by Kristen Knass (freshman, education) and her third-place
showing in the triple jump, bringing her to a total of six points. Brooke Smay (freshman, safety sciences) was not far behind, placing fourth in the same event. Jada Wilson (freshman, management), Catelyn Hittie (freshman, history), Carly Petney (freshman, criminology), Kathryn Semuskie (freshman, professional studies in education), Elizabeth Coppella (freshman, kinesiology health & sport science) and Kiah Walton (freshman, human development and environmental studies) also scored points for IUP. Wilson placed fourth in the 400-meter hurdle event, Hittie placed sixth in the 100-meter hurdle event, Petney placed sixth in the 100-meter dash, Semuskie placed fifth in the highjump event, Coppella placed sixth in the pole-vault event and Walton placed eighth in the long-jump event. IUP’s next meet will be at 9:30 a.m. April 4 at Millersville University’s Biemesderfer Stadium. This meet, the Millersville Metrics, is a prestigious event 33 years running. This event will be a chance for IUP to make strides toward postseason-qualifying marks.