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$37.4 million construction projects continue on campus

By CASEY KELLY Lead News Writer C.E.Kelly2@iup.edu

The $27 million construction of the new humanities and social sciences building and the $10.4 million Folger dining hall renovation are continuing on schedule into the spring semester.

Raymond Wygonik, director of IUP’s Engineering and Construction Group, said the humanities building is about 60 percent complete, and Folger’s renovation is about 35 percent complete. “[The] humanities building is fully enclosed and waterproof, and interior work is progressing,” Wygonik said in an email. “The brick façade is being installed. Contractors are using temporary enclosures and heat to permit the brick installation.”

Wygonik also said the inside demolition work on Folger is complete, and mechanical and electrical systems are now being installed. The front addition to the building is scheduled to start by February. IUP students and faculty can expect the following in the humanities building: flexible, collaborative classrooms, the latest technology surrounding each classroom, two large-tiered

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seating classrooms on the ground floor, one large-tiered seating classroom on the second floor and a rooftop terrace on the third floor.

According to Wygonik, the classrooms in the new building are set up in a flexible way “where the teaching station, workstations and seating can be anywhere in the room, and the instructor can move freely about the room.”

Wygonik also said that the newly renovated dining hall will have many characteristics, including an all-youcare-to-eat style dining hall, a small retail-food area, more food preparation done “out front” and a lounge area with a fireplace and soft seating.

The humanities building will open for the spring 2016 semester, and Folger will be open for the fall 2015 semester.

After these two projects are complete in the spring of 2016, IUP’s $37 million Campus Dining Master Plan will continue with the construction of the new North Dining Commons, which will be built in the footprint of Keith Hall.

In addition to this, PASSHE’s capital budget for 2015-2016 includes design funds for a new science building. Designing the new building will take about two years, so construction will start in 2018 or 2019.

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Constuction continues on campus for a new academic bulding and an upgraded dining hall. The renovated Folger dining hall (top left) will be open in fall 2015. The new humanities building (bottom left, right) will be open in spring 2016.

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Police Blotter Alcohol Violations

• Zachary Allen Harvey, 21, of Homer City, was arrested for public drunkenness on the School Street sidewalk behind Stright Lot Jan. 5 at 4:29 a.m., according to university police.

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Student Co-op Association elects new CEO

By CAROLYN HARDING

• University police are investigating graffiti found on the first floor men’s bathroom of Stapleton Library stating, “Save a life, kill a cop” Jan. 2.

Contributing Writer C.J.Harding@iup.edu

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The Student Cooperative Association appointed a new executive director and CEO. Louis F. Garzarelli Jr., an Indiana University of Pennsylvania alumnus, has been chosen to replace former CEO and executive director, Dennis V. Hulings, following his retirement.

Garzarelli, who has worked at the Co-op for almost 18 years, graduated from IUP with a bachelor’s degree in physical education and a master’s in sports administration.

He began his career at IUP by working as the director of campus recreation.

Following his years spent in that position, he was appointed to the director of operations where he has worked up

• An unattended vehicle was struck on Jan. 21 while parked on the 00 block of North Taylor Avenue. Anyone with information is asked to call the Indiana Borough Police at 724-349-2121.

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• An IUP student received an email Jan. 6 claiming to be from the IUP IT department that stated his account was locked and that he needed to click on a link to unlock the account. The link requested personal information. This was not sent by the IT department, and university police are investigating the computer fraud and possible identity theft. Students are asked not to provide information to any email claiming to be from the IT department. Students who believe they have received a fraudulent email are asked to forward it to abuse@iup.edu and to contact university police.

Florida residents lash out at cops over use of mugshots in target practice

By CARLI TEPROfF Miami Harold TNS

NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Dozens of angry residents – some carrying poster-size photos of North Miami Beach Police Chief J. Scott Dennis riddled with bullet holes – flooded North Miami Beach city hall Tuesday night to decry the police department’s practice of using police mugshots of AfricanAmericans as targets for sniper shooting training.

Residents demanded the chief ’s resignation and called for the city to apologize for the practice, which came to light after a Florida Army National Guard member, who was at the Medley shooting range last month for training, spotted a photo of her brother laced with bullet holes in a garbage can at the range.

After nearly two hours of public comment, the council passed a law to permanently ban the practice and review the police department’s policies.

Dennis came into the chambers about an hour into the comments, but did not address the crowd.

“We need to make a statement at this level, as the elected representatives of this city, that that practice is unacceptable,” Mayor George Vallejo said.

City Manager Ana Garcia asked for everyone’s forgiveness.

“We have made a mistake,” she said.

“This is an apology from the bottom of our hearts.”

Among those who spoke was Lisa Kelly, whose son Tyquan Kelly’s picture was used for target practice.

The photo was from nine years ago, she said.

“I want the police who did this to apologize,” she said.

Before the meeting, people protested outside the police department in a rally organized by Miami-based Power U. The group spoke about racial profiling, inequality and justice.

“Black lives matter,” said 18-year-old Schanetta Scroggins, who said she had been followed by a police officer on her way to Target driving a Mercedes Benz.

The officer questioned whether the car belonged to her, said the North Miami Beach Senior High student, who said she planned to attend medical school.

“I am outraged.”

The department’s training practices faced scrutiny after Florida Army National Guard member Sgt. Valerie Deant spotted her brother Woody Deant’s photo in the trash.

Deant brought the photo lineup of African American men – which included her brother – to the department’s attention.

Deant’s photo was from 15 years ago; Deant said he spent four years in prison, but now he’s working, a husband and a father.

Dennis, speaking after the meeting, said: “I feel very, very badly. I sincerely apologized for what my department has done. This was a training program that had been going on long before I was here, and when I found out about it, I ceased it. The resolution memorializes it in law.”

Councilman Frantz Pierre, however, was not satisfied with the resolution. He called for Dennis’ resignation.

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until this point.

“I’ve always wanted to work in a college environment,” Garzarelli said.

He is following in the footsteps of Hulings, who held the position of executive director and CEO of the Co-op for more than 40 years before recently announcing his retirement.

“He is a great mentor and a great leader,” Garzarelli said. “I valued him for his ability to allow people to really do the jobs they were hired to do.”

The two worked alongside one another for 18 years, joining together for many projects, including the construction of two buildings on IUP’s campus.

In his newly appointed position, there will be more responsibility placed on Garzarelli’s shoulders. But with his numerous years of experience and knowledge of how the Co-op is run, it should be smooth sailing. He will be in charge

of overseeing the bookstore, Hadley Union Building operations, fitness center and student activity fees, as well as working closely with the other board members.

He will also focus on the liaison between the Co-op and the rest of the university community. Garzarelli has stated that he currently has no immediate plans to make major changes regarding the Co-op.

He has made a commitment to himself to evaluate things for a semester before making changes.

“We aren’t trying to fix things that aren’t broken,” he said.

The Co-op, founded in 1933, has provided students and faculty with different facilities, including The Co-op Store, The HUB Fitness Center, the HUB Computer Lounge and the HUB Rock II.

Google to enter wireless business

By MATT O’BRIEN San Jose Mercury TNS

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Google is taking a leap into the wireless business, according to reports that say the Internet giant plans to partner with Sprint and T-Mobile to sell mobile phone plans directly to customers.

“It’s not surprising. Google has limitless ambitions,” said analyst Scott Cleland, president of Precursor, a Virginiabased consulting firm and author of a book that raised concerns about the company’s growing influence. “They’re going to play Sprint and T-Mobile against each other to get a really low

price, so Google can offer a really low price.”

Citing unnamed sources, news sites The Information, The Verge and the Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday about Google’s plans to run a new wireless service that resells what is provided on Sprint and T-Mobile networks.

Google, Sprint and T-Mobile declined to confirm the reports. Google is not registered as a wireless carrier in California, according to the state’s Public Utilities Commission.

Telecommunications experts disagree about how much Google’s entrance into the wireless business will disrupt the industry, and big players

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such as AT&T and Verizon, and how much the move will bring down prices and increase network speeds.

Google’s plans are to become a mobile virtual network operator, or MVNO, which allows the company to sell wireless service using its own brand name even though it does not manage the network.

“MVNOs are cool, they’re a good way for Google to get its brand out there and offer interesting pricing plans,” said John Bergmayer, a senior staff attorney at Public Knowledge, which advocates for a more open Internet. “But they don’t really change the competitive dynamics of the wireless industry. They’re just reselling Sprint or T-Mobile.”

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Washington mulls how to boost income

By Kevin G. HALL

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WASHINGTON – The economy is growing, hiring is picking up steadily and falling energy prices mean more cash in the wallet. Yet one key measure of economic well-being remains stubbornly in neutral: the wages of Americans.

The plight of the paycheck is about to take center stage in the national political debate, from President Barack Obama’s State of the Union pitch for “middle-class economics” to signs that the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination will key on GOP solutions to a gap between rich and poor that widened on Obama’s watch.

In normal times, strong hiring like that seen in 2014 translates into a tighter labor market, one where workers can demand higher pay. But even with almost 3 million new jobs last year, the best showing since the late 1990s, wages are just keeping pace with inflation.

Average hourly earnings were 1.7 percent higher in 2014 than they were a year before, and in December, hourly earnings ticked down two-tenths of a percentage point.

By comparison, in 1999 the unemployment rate hit 4 percent in December. That year, average hourly earnings rose by 3.7 percent and average weekly earnings rose by 3.4 percent. By April 2000, average weekly wages rose by 4.4 percent compared with a year before.

Today, any additional income that ordinary Americans have earned is being offset by rising prices. It means Americans are treading water.

One explanation for stagnant wages is there’s less pressure on employers to raise wages regardless of skill level because many people who exited the workforce during the Great Recession still haven’t come back.

“We’re still missing millions of workers in the economy. Workers know it.

Employers know it,” said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal research group that coined the phrase “missing workers” to refer to Americans who’ve yet to return to the workforce.

“As the economy grows stronger, those potential workers will start to come back in,” she said. “That’s partly why we haven’t seen any movement on wage growth yet.”

By Gould’s count, there were 6.1 million “missing workers” as of December, who either remained out of the

workforce or had looked for jobs in the past year but not in the past month – the definition of discouraged workers.

December’s unemployment rate of 5.6 percent would be slightly over 9 percent if you added discouraged workers, those who’ve left the workforce altogether and the officially unemployed, a term that requires them to be seeking work in the past four weeks.

What can be done?

The most important factor is simply more economic growth. That would fuel hiring, pull more of the missing workers back into the labor force and eventually give all workers better standing to seek wage increases.

“As the labor market continues to tighten . . . I think that will translate into more decent wage growth,” Gould said.

One solution proposed by the White House and congressional Democrats is raising the minimum wage.

“The No. 1 economic crisis facing America’s workers is the wage crisis, and we will not effectively address it until we take bold and meaningful steps to raise the minimum wage to a level that . . . ensures that workers at the bottom of the wage scale can live at least as well in 2015 as they did in 1968,” said Christine Owens, head of the advocacy group National Employment Law Project.

Another solution might come as early as February, when the Labor Department unveils its plan for updating a rule, last changed in 2004, that affects which salaried workers qualify for overtime, sometimes called time-and-a-half pay.

Hourly workers are afforded this overtime pay, and the administration is weighing whether to raise the salary threshold under which workers on weekly pay are entitled to overtime.

Proponents want this number raised to $51,000, although the administration has long been thought to be in the ballpark of $42,000. Never indexed for inflation, the threshold is now at $23,660. This executive action might eventually improve pay for millions.

For Mark Perry, an economics professor at the University of MichiganFlint, the question about solutions misses a key point. Wages, he said, are not the only measure of a worker’s wellbeing.

“Looking at total compensation, the picture looks a bit brighter for workers,” said Perry, a visiting scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, a research center in Washington.

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Flaws found in Obama’s college plan

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WASHINGTON – There are at least six reasons that community college won’t be free anytime soon, no matter what President Barack Obama says.

Obama, who traveled Friday to Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, Tenn., to tout the America’s College Promise plan, said he wanted to make higher education as accessible as a high school diploma for all Americans.

But the plan has flaws that all but ensure it won’t be implemented and will serve only as a political proposal to make supporters happy. Among the reasons: The price tag It would cost $60 billion over 10 years. White House officials wouldn’t say where they would find the billions to pay for it. And the spending would have to be approved by Congress, where Republicans just gained seats in midterm elections after campaigning against more federal spending.

Administration officials say they’ll indicate where the money will come from when Obama releases his budget proposal Feb. 2. “Without details to review, this plan is more like a talking point,” said Cory Fritz, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.

The national debt In December, the national debt reached $18 trillion, sparking renewed criticism from fiscal conservatives about the increase in government spending.

Obama touted the declining federal budget deficit when he spoke in Knoxville on Friday, but he didn’t mention that the debt continues to increase.

“Why stop there?” Republican Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said. “Why not have the government buy a car and a house for everyone?”

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opt into the program. The states, which have already slashed funding for colleges and universities as they face budget shortfalls and competing priorities, would have to cut other programs to pay for the cost or to raise taxes.

The students The program would provide aid to some students who don’t need it, instead of focusing on low-income students through, for example, expanding Pell Grants or reducing the paperwork for student aid.

Administration officials estimate that 9 million students could participate if they attend at least half-time, maintain 2.5 GPAs and make progress toward completing degrees or certificate programs.

“Making tuition free for all students regardless of their income is a missed opportunity to focus resources on the students who need aid the most,” said the Institute for College Access & Success, which usually sides with the Obama administration.

The emphasis The lure of free tuition might lead some students who should go straight to four-year institutions to attend community colleges instead.

“Why support community college instead of college?” asked Russ Whitehurst, a former official at the Department of Education who now heads the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, a center-left policy research center.

The regulations States and community colleges would have to abide by certain rules to get the federal money. For example, states would have to agree not to cut higher education funding elsewhere to pay for the proposal.

Community colleges would have to offer programs that transfer to public four-year colleges or lead to degrees and certificates that are in demand among employers, and implement programs that would improve student achievements.

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Olympic host Brazil has New policy requires background checks for student employment 19 of world’s 50 most dangerous cities

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By TIM JohnSON McClatchy Foreign Staff TNS

MEXICO CITY – Forty-three of the 50 most dangerous cities in the world are in Latin America, according to a survey released Tuesday, including 19 in Brazil, which will host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.

Mexico City didn’t make the list, and Ciudad Juarez, the border city with Texas that was once the world’s murder capital, fell this year to No. 27.

But the fallen Mexican resort of Acapulco was No. 3, behind San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and Caracas, Venezuela.

This is the seventh year that the Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice, a Mexico City advocacy, has compiled the list, based on official murder rates per 100,000 residents of cities with more than 300,000 people.

The president of the council, Jose Antonio Ortega Sanchez, said Brazilian authorities would do well to take note that its cities are growing in number on the annual list. Last year, Brazil had 16 cities in the ranking.

“If the Brazilian government doesn’t wake up to confront the problem, reduce levels of impunity and corruption ... then they are going to have a very serious problem,” Ortega Sanchez said.

Neither Rio de Janeiro, the host city for the 2016 Games, nor Sao Paulo, the industrial megalopolis, is ranked among the top 50 cities. Backed by a massive police presence, those two cities and 10 others that hosted matches for last year’s World Cup in Brazil managed to keep crime down during the monthlong event.

But outside of the World Cup, many Brazilian cities grapple with high murder rates. The most murderous Brazilian cities are Joao Pessoa (4), Maceio (6), Fortaleza (8), Sao Luis (10), Natal (11), Vitoria (15), Cuiaba (16), Salva-

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dor (17), Belem (18) and Teresina (20), according to the survey. Brazilian cities ranking lower are Goiania (23), Recife (29), Campina Grande (30), Manaus (33), Porto Alegre (37), Aracaju (39), Belo Horizonte (42), Curitiba (44) and Macapa (46).

Mexico has 10 cities on the list, while Colombia has five, Venezuela and the United States four each, three in South Africa, two in Honduras and one each in El Salvador, Guatemala and Jamaica.

The U.S. cities in the ranking are St. Louis (19), Detroit (22), New Orleans (28) and Baltimore (40).

Ortega Sanchez said analysts in his organization sought to tally homicide rates in cities in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, but that data proved unreliable or below the threshold of other cities with high homicide rates.

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In order to achieve a safe living and learning environment, Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s policy has been changed so that new employees must undergo a background check before employment.

Craig Bickley, associate vice president of human resources, stated that this is a major statewide change.

“There was a new law passed in late October that took effect Dec. 31, 2014,” Brickley said in a Dec. 22 email.

“The purpose of the law itself is to better protect minors statewide.”

According to IUP’s website, several laws have been passed to ensure the safety and security of minors.

This includes a law passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature, a policy

passed by the Board of Governors and the Protection of Minors Policy, passed by the University Senate.

As of Jan. 1, any new employee, including faculty member, undergraduate student or graduate assistant will be required to undergo a background check.

New employees must report to the Office of Human Resources after their paperwork has been submitted to the payroll office.

From there, they will be fingerprinted, and a valid form of identification is required to further the background information process.

Students will need to complete a 90-day provisional appointment form that is also available in the Office of Human Resources. The background check is free for the students and the department hiring the students.

“The university has a committee

established that is in the process of revising our background policy to bring it into compliance with the new law,” Bickley said.

In order to ensure the safety of minors on campus, all current employers must report to the Office of Human Resources if they have been arrested or convicted of any crimes listed in the Child Protective Services Law. Employees were required to contact the office by Dec. 31 if they had been arrested for or convicted of a reportable offense or indicated as a perpetrator in a child-abuse report.

A written notice within 72 hours of the arrest or conviction must be provided. Failure to show proof could result in a misdemeanor of the third degree, discipline and even possibly termination. This changed policy is intended to ensure the safety of minors in a productive living and learning environment.

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Duke University suspends fraternity in light of rape allegations

By Michael Muskal Los Angeles Times TNS

A fraternity at Duke University has been suspended while police investigate charges that a woman was sexually assaulted at an off-campus party, the school announced Wednesday.

Alpha Delta Phi has been suspended while Durham, N.C., police investigate what happened at an off-campus house leased by fraternity members.

“Duke University is cooperating with

the Durham Police Department in the investigation of an alleged sexual assault of a Duke student at an off-campus private residence that is leased to members of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity,” the school said in a statement emailed to reporters.

“Pursuant to Duke’s policy, the fraternity has been placed on interim suspension until further notice. As this case is now being actively investigated by the Durham Police Department, Duke will not have any further comment at this time.”

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Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez told WRAL-TV that his department is seeking information from anyone at the Jan. 8 party.

No charges have been filed. Local news outlets obtained a search warrant that says the woman told police she had drinks at the party before waking up the next day in only a T-shirt. The warrant says the last thing she remembers was dancing with friends.

The warrant reportedly says investigators took a mattress, comforter and condom from the house.

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Professor using pop culture to teach psychology to med students

By KARA YORIO The Record TNS

HACKENSACK, N.J. – The shower scene from “Psycho” elicits many responses. They typically don’t include commentary on dissociative identity disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder, however. But that’s exactly what went on at a lecture hall at Rutgers.

Dr. Anthony Tobia uses pop culture – from comics to “Seinfeld” to “Psycho” and the other films screened in his recent course creation “Film Depictions to Learn Mental Disease” – to engage students in his field.

“Most of our students do not come to medical school believing they are future psychiatrists,” said Tobia, associate program director of psychiatry at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. “Even those that show an interest, the vast majority go on to pursue other disciplines other than psychiatry.

I direct courses that are the last chance for my non-psychiatry future residents to learn and therefore be able to employ psychiatry.”

This idea is vital at a time when the country is struggling with the ability to meet the needs of the mentally ill. The key to this education is getting medical students enthusiastic about learning psychiatry.

“We’re not going to be able to allow our family practitioners, our internists, our surgeons to uncover and then treat mental illness unless it’s learned,” Tobia said. “And it won’t be learned unless our students are engaged.”

It is important for general practitioners and specialists in other medical fields to identify mental illness and know how to care for a patient.

“The first resource that most people who either are personally affected by mental illness, or have a loved one with a mental illness, reach out to is a primary care provider,” Aruna Rao, associate director of National Alliance on Mental Illness of New Jersey, said in a statement.

“It is relatively uncommon for people to reach out to a mental health provider first. Because of this, it is necessary for primary care physicians to be educated about mental health disorders, and to refer clients to mental health experts as needed.”

So Tobia taps into entertainment to help facilitate the education. Recently, Tobia received considerable attention for a class that uses “Seinfeld” episodes to teach psychiatry. Last year he started a

different course that takes a step further out of the box and adds a social media component.

Film Depictions to Learn Mental Disease (FIDLER) has psychiatric residents, medical students and undergraduate psychology students attend movies and tweet their observations with the Twitter feed appearing on the screen.

The idea came to Tobia when he watched “pop-up” versions of “Lost,” where the screen showed insight and comments from writers and fans.

“I just thought if you can do that and change the quality of television, why wouldn’t an educator do the same thing but with very focused educated tweets?” he said.

In Film Depictions class, Tobia, the residents and students diagnose psychiatric illness, ask questions and make observations via Twitter.

It’s interactive, social and the medical issues are being acted out in front of the students.

“We’ve giving a more concrete representation of how it would appear – not just reading about it and learning about it in an abstract or conceptual way,” said fourth-year medical student Ralph Fader, who took the class last year and now helps Tobia choose films for the course.

“You’re actually getting a representation of patterns of speech or behavior that then you can look for in your patient.”

This year’s films include “The Matrix,” “Forrest Gump,” “Silver Linings Playbook,” “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and “War of the Worlds.”

At times, the Twitter feed can get overwhelming. During the shower scene in “Psycho,” tweets flashed almost too quickly to read.

After the movie, the class discusses the issues in the film. Students can also go on Twitter and search the hashtag to review other people’s observations if they missed them during the movie. Students also submit a blog of observations to Tobia, who hopes to get put on a new website soon.

The course began last year with fewer than 50 students and, this year, with the addition of the undergraduates, has between 300 and 400, according to Tobia.

“When people are having fun doing something, especially when it comes to education, you are bringing that particular area of medicine alive for them,” said chief psychiatric resident Dr. Tom Draschil, who helped create the class with Tobia and runs the Twitter feed during films.

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By chuck shepherd Name Games • Fourteen employees of a Framingham, Mass., pharmacy were indicted in December for defrauding the federal government by filling bogus prescriptions (despite an owner’s explicit instructions to staff that the fake customers’ names “must resemble real names,” with “no obviously false names” that might tip off law enforcement). Among the names later found on the customer list of the New England Compounding Center were: Baby Jesus, Hugh Jass, L.L. Bean, Filet O’Fish, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Harry Potter, Coco Puff, Mary Lamb, all of the Baldwin brother actors, and a grouping of Bud Weiser, Richard Coors, Raymond Rollingrock and, of course, Samuel Adams. The indictments were part of an investigation of a 2012 meningitis outbreak in which 64 people died.

Cultural Diversity • Two recent innovations to the generations-old Middle East sport of camel racing boosted its profile. First, to cleanse the sport of a sour period in which children from Bangladesh were trafficked to use as jockeys, owners have begun using “robot” jockeys – electronic dummies that respond to trainers tracking the races with walkie-talkies (growling encouragement directly into camels’ ears) and joysticks (that trigger a whip at an appropriate time). Second, the firm Al Shibla Middle East of United Arab Emirates has introduced lycra-style, whole-body camel coverings that are believed to enhance blood circulation and, perhaps, racing speed (although the fashions are now used only in training and transportation, to lessen camels’

“stress”). Ultimately, of course, the coverings may carry advertising.

The New Normal • “It’s not fair! There is not justice in this country!” shouted the mother of Franklin Reyes, 17, in a New York City courtroom in January after a judge ordered the son tried for manslaughter as an adult. Reyes, an unlicensed driver fleeing a police traffic stop, had plowed into a 4-year-old girl, killing her, but had initially convinced the judge to treat him as a “youthful offender.” Reyes’ mom was so enraged at the judge’s switch that she had to be escorted from the room. (After the judge’s generous youthful offender ruling, Reyes had violated his bail conditions by getting arrested three more times.)

• In Phoenix in early 2014, Kevin (last name withheld), age 5, was viciously mauled by Mickey, a pit bull, necessitating multiple surgeries, leaving him with lingering pain and disfiguring facial scars, and he still requires extensive care.

While Kevin’s trauma makes him live in gloom, Mickey has become a Phoenix celebrity after an outpouring of support from 75,000 people kept him from being euthanized for the assault. He lives now in a “no-kill” shelter, where his many supporters can track him on a 24-hour Internet “Mickey cam.” KSAZTV reported in December that Kevin’s mom had to quit her job to care for him and struggles to pay medical bills.

Great Art! • In October, vandals in Paris destroyed the large, inflatable “Tree” by U.S. artist Paul McCarthy in the city’s Place Vendome square, but not before it became widely characterized as a gigantic green “plug” of the type used for anal sexual stimulation. Paris’ news website The Local reported in December that

the controversy has been a boon to the city’s sex shops. “We used to sell around 50 (plugs) a month,” said one wholesaler. “Since the controversy, we’ve moved more than a thousand” (at the equivalent of $23 to $45, in materials ranging from glass to stainless steel to silicone).

• Overthinking It: It was billed as the first-ever art exhibition expressly for nonhuman appreciation – specifically, for examination by octopuses. England’s Brighton Sea Life Center featured the five-tank shared display in November (including a bunch of grapes, a piece of Swiss cheese and a plate of spaghetti – exhibits made of ceramic, plastic, wood and rope) that the center’s curator promised would, according to an ITV report, “stimulate an octopus’s natural curiosity about color, shape and texture.”

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• The Territorial Seed Co. of Cottage Grove, Ore., introduced a plant in 2014 that sprouts both tomatoes and potatoes, the aptly named “Ketchup ‘n’ Fries” plant. Grafting (rather than genetic modification) splices the tomato onto potato plants (to create single plants capable of harvests of 500 red cherry tomatoes and 4.5 pounds of potatoes each).

• Jihadist Toddlers: Britain’s Home Office directed in January that the U.K.’s nursery school staffs report pupils “at risk of becoming terrorists,” but gave little guidance on what teachers and managers should look for. According to a description of the directive in the Daily Telegraph, staffs must “have training that gives them the knowledge and confidence to identify children at risk of being drawn into terrorism and challenge extremist ideas.”

Latest Rights • “All I’m looking for is what’s right-

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fully owed to me under the (corrections department) contract,” said Westchester County (New York) corrections officer Jesus Encarnacion, after having drawn $1.2 million in disability salary for the last 17 years as a result of slipping on a leaf of lettuce on a stairway. When he fell, he jammed his wrist and several surgeries ensued, and when he was finally ready for “light duty” a few years ago, he re-injured the wrist on the first day and never returned. Encarnacion now seeks a full disability retirement from the state, but officials maintain that “disability retirement” is for injuries resulting only from the rigors of the job.

The Opportunist • When a dump truck and a municipal bus collided around 1 p.m. on Jan. 5 in downtown Phoenix, it of course drew the attention of the passengers, bystanders, motorists and nearby construction workers. According to a report in the Arizona Republic, an unidentified man then immediately seized the moment, ran out from some bushes to the center of the commotion and flashed the crowd before running away.

Least Competent Criminals • Not Quite Clever Enough: (1) Police quickly tracking two assault suspects in Holland Township, Mich., in December arrived at a residence at just the moment that suspect Codi Antoniello, 19, was starting to shave his head to alter his appearance. Antoniello’s now-Internet-famous mugshot shows him with a full head of hair, minus the perhaps one-fourth on top shorn by electric clippers. (2) When the wife of James Rivers, 57, of Kent, Wash., was about to bust him for his alleged childporn collection in October, he shipped his laptop to a technician to have the hard drive erased – but with explicit

instructions that if the techie encounters a “hidden” file, he must not look at the photos “under any circumstances.” The techie, of course, found the file, looked and notified authorities, and Rivers was arrested.

Recurring Themes • The most recent incident of a fire breaking out on the grounds of a crematorium occurred in December at the Innisvale Cemetery and Crematorium in Innisfil, Ontario. Firefighters put out the blaze and “rescued” the 15 dead bodies that were awaiting cremation.

• When a small plane over Lake Taupo in New Zealand developed engine trouble in January, the pilot ordered evacuation. Fortunately, the six passengers were skydivers on a training mission and landed safely, even rigging the plane’s crew members to the divers’ own parachutes so that there were no casualties (except the plane). Working skydivers also survived a November 2013 crash of two planes over Wisconsin by making an “unscheduled” jump.2 A News of the Weird Classic from June 2011 • The Belly Button Biodiversity project at North Carolina State University has begun examining the “faunal differences” in the microbial ecosystems of our navels, to foster understanding of the “tens of thousands” of organisms crawling around inside (almost all benign or even helpful).

An 85-year-old man in North Carolina may have “very different navel life” than a 7-year-old girl in France, according to a May Raleigh News & Observer report. So far, only the organisms themselves and the host’s demographics have been studied; other issues, such as variations by hairiness of navel, remain.

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Criminal Justice Training Center updates firearm training system

By Stephanie Bachman Staff Writer S.L.Bachman2@iup.edu

(Photos by Brittany Persun/ The Penn)

(Top right) Tiasia Lloyd (junior, sociology) and (top left) Iyonna Govan (junior, psychology) enjoyed hot chocolate while talking to (bottom) Lauren Watson (graduate, student affairs in higher education) from the Office of International Education about education abroad Thursday in the Oak Grove.

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The Criminal Justice Training Center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania has received a grant to get a new firearms training system for the university.

Last January, the Criminal Justice Training Center began working with the IUP Research Institute to begin the process of applying for a grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. A lot had to be done for the grant proposal in order to make a compelling argument. A plan had to be articulated of why the new training system was necessary and how it would be utilized. The director of the Criminal Justice Training Center, David Zacur, worked on the proposal and was able to explain the need for the training system.

“We have an old firearms training center on campus,” Zacur said. “It is very outdated, and we needed an updated system. The old one was 20-25 years old.”

Once the new system is in place it will be utilized to train the cadets at the police department. However, they will not be the only individuals to take advantage of the new system and get to train with it.

The criminology department will also use it with their undergraduate students, along with the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and the Indiana County Sheriff’s Department. Over time the goal is to extend the program even further to be made available to provide training to law enforcement throughout western Pennsylvania.

Zacur was able to detail some of the benefits of the program and the effects it will have for those who use it.

“The system presents different scenarios where officers have to learn to either shoot or not shoot,” Zacur said.

“Eventually, we want to make it available to civilian government. We think it is important for these individuals to understand the split-second decisions that law enforcement officers needs to make.”

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Police, army and other such personnel are sometimes put into serious, life-or-death situations that are almost impossible for which to prepare.

These are the situations for which the new fire arms training system is trying to prepare the future law enforcement agents. While these situations are unpredictable, having a system with more than 500 different interactive scenarios to train with is definitely a benefit.

Zacur reflected on some of these various scenarios that individuals will be trained on and the system itself.

“It has an instant replay which can be used to grade or critique performances,” he said. “It also utilizes a shoulder weapon and pistol for training purposes.

These weapons, which are operated on compressed air, provide accurate and realistic recoil simulation. Also, it has a hostile fire system. It has an apparatus that will shoot back that will make them think about shooting back and taking cover.

“It is a state-of-the-art system and really unique,” he said.

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Many public universities arm campus police officers

By MAHITA GAJANAN Pittsburgh Post-Gazette TNS

PITTSBURGH – Most public universities arm their campus police officers and are giving them full arrest powers, and private schools are quickly following suit, according to a new report by the U.S. Department of Justice.

The trend is reflective at colleges and universities in western Pennsylvania, according to spot checks this week by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

The Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics surveyed more than 900 four-year institutions during the 2011-2012 school year.

The survey found the number of institutions using sworn officers increased to 77 percent from 75 percent since the 2004-2005 school year, and the number of armed officers increased to 75 percent from 68 percent during the same period.

Most of the armed officers are authorized to carry an array of weapons, including firearms, pepper spray and batons, the report said.

Edward McSheffery, chief of the

California University Police Department in Pennsylvania, said self-sufficiency is important in today’s society.

“Having the ability to control situations with a quick response limits the potential for escalation,” he said.

CU has employed sworn and armed police officers since 2007, and currently has 18 full-time officers along with three full-time security guards.

The police officers are certified under state Act 20 requirements and must qualify twice a year on handgun, shotgun, patrol rifles and tasers, the chief said.

At the University of Pittsburgh, about 100 sworn and armed officers serve the campus, said university spokesman John Fedele.

He pointed to the shootings at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC in Oakland in 2012 to illustrate the effectiveness of armed campus officers. Three Pitt police officers responded after John Shick shot eight people, killing one and injuring seven.

One of the officers then shot and killed Shick.

According to the survey, the average training requirement for sworn officers

during the 2011-2012 school year was 1,027 hours before employment.

Fedele said Pitt police officers, after they join the force, have to qualify with their firearms twice a year and receive active shooter training once a year.

At Carnegie Mellon University, police officers undergo “literally thousands of hours of training every year,” said the university’s chief of police, Tom Ogden.

They train to qualify in firearms use, CPR and first aid, dealing with bloodborne pathogens and respirators, and using expandable batons.

According to the Justice survey, 92 percent of public institutions employed sworn officers, more than twice that of private institutions, which fell at about 38 percent. Similarly, 91 percent of public universities used armed officers, more than double the numbers of private universities, which were at about 36 percent.

But private universities in the Pittsburgh region fall within the minority, employing small forces of sworn and armed police officers.

Point Park University created its police force in 2011, and now has 12

sworn and armed police officers.

Point Park felt the timing was right, said Jeffrey Besong, chief of police and assistant vice president of public safety at the university.

“There was no pressure. However, parents are concerned,” he said. “The first question is, ‘How safe is the campus?’ and ‘How are you going to protect our loved ones?’”

Duquesne University, also a private school, has had police officers since “at least the 1960s,” said Tom Hart, director of public safety. Currently, the university has 32 armed, sworn officers and nine security officers.

Hart said training methods are constantly being changed, adapted and updated to employ new equipment and tactics.

“A well-trained, experienced police and security team using a number of law enforcement tactics is able to provide strategic, situation-appropriate responses as it works to ensure ongoing security and safety,” he said in email.

Police officers aren’t new to CMU, either, which also has employed sworn and armed officers since the mid-1960s, Ogden said. Currently, 23 sworn and

armed officers and 41 security officers serve the university.

“You can’t do traffic stops or enforcement without being armed,” said Ogden. “Being armed allows you to do the full spectrum of police work.”

According to the report, about seven in 10 campus law enforcement agencies had agreements or understandings with outside law enforcement agencies.

When major crime occurs, CMU relies on Pittsburgh police for backup, said Ogden.

Other campus police departments also work with city police and with each other, when necessary, the public safety officials said.

Carlow University, whose main campus is in Oakland, employs 10 sworn and armed police officers. The university has used police officers since 2002. They work with the Pittsburgh police, University of Pittsburgh police and CMU police when needed, since the campuses are so close.

“Oakland is one of those communities where if something happens on one campus, it can affect other campuses as well,” said Carlow spokesman Drew Wilson.

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New year, definitely new us According to a 2013 Forbes survey, only 8 percent of New Year’s resolutions succeed. It is the hope of The Penn staff that putting our resolutions in black and white will motivate us to follow through in keeping them. We would like to wish the IUP student body the best of luck in keeping their resolutions and hope you all have a safe and happy spring semester.

Molly VanWoert, Editor-in-chief: “My New Year’s resolution is to have a job in my field lined up by the time I graduate in May. If that doesn’t work, my backup resolution is to eat copious amounts of Kristin’s homemade cheesecake.”

Pete Sirianni, managing editor: “My New Year’s resolution is to have a strong spring semester and to become fashionable like Joseph Gordon-Levitt.”

Samantha Barnhart, copy editor: “I don’t know if any of my main life goals will come to fruition this year, but I would like to eventually own a Dyson vacuum cleaner. Then I’ll know that I’ve made it.”

Kayla Cioffo, news editor: “I definitely want to figure out what I’m doing with my life by the time I graduate. So, I think that’s my resolution. I also want to learn to like seafood. I’ve never really tried it. It seems so sophisticated though.”

Rachel Clippinger, wet ink editor: “My New Year’s resolution is to eat healthier and maintain a positive attitude.”

Cody Benjamin, sports editor: “My New Year’s resolution is to put others before myself and have a productive spring that leads into an even more productive summer.”

Katlynn Resides, photo and new media editor: “My New Year’s resolution is to have a New Year’s resolution next new year. I would also like to be sure to eat Taco Bell all day, every day, forever. Live Más.”

Kristin May, graphic designer: “This year I’m looking forward to ending my time at IUP and moving on to bigger cities. I hope to continue designing and making art while traveling. My New Year’s resolutions are to learn how to make cheesecake and to eat copious amounts of homemade cheesecake.”

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College students, claim those dollars

By CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL MCT

The following editorial appeared in the Charleston Daily Mail on Wednesday, Jan. 21: As recent college graduates struggle with the burden of student loan debt, here’s some news they can use: They’re leaving money on the table.

West Virginia high school graduates reportedly missed out on $15 million in free grants by not completing an application for financial aid last year, according to Nerd-Wallet.

Filling out forms is never fun. But the one that many high school graduates and their families are forgetting to fill out begins with a crucial word: “Free.”

More than 7,000 of the state’s high school graduates didn’t complete the

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Free Application for Federal Student Aid, also known by the poetic phrase “FAFSA.” “Obviously we’re missing some students,” Brian Weingart, financial aid director for the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, told the Daily Mail’s Samuel Speciale.

West Virginia is not alone.

Students across the country are leaving their FAFSA forms unfilled.

The national estimate is an eyepopping $3 billion in unclaimed aid.

In Florida, for example, an estimated $100 million in available Pell Grant money goes unclaimed.

“I think it’s Florida students’ ambivalence to the financial aid process,” Troy Miller, associate research director at Florida College Access Network, told the Tampa Bay Times.

Unless students are actively envisioning dollars signs, filling out a FAFSA form can be as enthralling as

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saying “FAFSA, FAFSA, FAFSA,” repeatedly.

Some students just assume they’re not eligible.

Detailed financial information is required both from students and their parents.

It’s a hassle. But one with a payoff.

“Anyone thinking about going to college – adults, high school students – should fill one out,” Weingart told the Daily Mail, “Even if you think you don’t qualify, there might be something that changes.”

Motivate yourselves however you must, students.

Think of money bags. Sprinkle flower petals on your financial aid forms and chant “FAFSA” until you’re in the zone.

Whatever you need to do, fill out that form. Find help from the College Foundation of West Virginia at www. cfwv.com.

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Broadway musical production, ‘Sister Act,’ filled IUP’s Fisher Auditorium Tuesday By andrew milliken Lead Wet Ink Writer A.P.Milliken@iup.edu

Nuns, guns and wicked puns filled Fisher Auditorium during Tuesday night’s performance of the musical comedy “Sister Act.” Based on the 1992 film of the same name, “Sister Act” tells the story of aspiring nightclub singer and former Catholic schoolgirl Deloris Van Cartier (Kerissa Arrington), who unluckily witnesses a murder committed by her gangster boyfriend, Curtis Jackson (Kolby Kindle) in 1970s Philadelphia.

Deloris immediately informs the police that she will testify against Curtis.

Officer Eddie Souther (Lamont O’Neal) tells her how dangerous this is and that she must remain inconspicuous until the trial.

Deloris is forced to hide out in a nearby convent run by the devoted, heavily traditional Mother Superior (Maggie Clennon Reberg). Personalities clash and tempers flare until Deloris is appointed as the church’s choir director.

Deloris does such an excellent job improving the choir by encouraging them to sing with enthusiasm and soul that the once-failing convent now has huge congregations throwing money at them every Sunday.

The second act of the musical sees Deloris recognized by Curtis for her choir’s newsworthy popularity around the city, Curtis hatching a plan to kill Deloris before she can testify and eventually being ousted by the other nuns, who’ve formed a strong bond with Deloris during her time at the convent.

The show opens with the showstopping song “Take Me to Heaven,” a recurring theme throughout the show’s roughly two-hour runtime. The funk and soul influences of the 1970s pervade the show’s music.

Written by frequent Disney composer and Broadway veteran Alan Menken (“Aladdin,” “Hercules,” “Little Shop of Horrors”), each song either brings elements of the ’70s or a classic Broadway sound.

“I Could Be That Guy,” a yearning love ballad sung by Eddie, samples the definitive, squishy guitar-funk sound for its intro before dropping into a pure, sexy, Barry-White-esque groove.

Menken blends these sounds with textbook Broadway songwriting, giving

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Maggie Clennon Reberg as Mother Superior and Kerissa Arrington as Deloris Van Cartier in “Here Within These Walls” (Photos by Joan Marcus/sisteractontour.org)

Arrington plenty of chances to exercise her huge voice on the high notes in almost every song Deloris sings.

The plot of “Sister Act” is predictable, but the show’s music is so much fun to listen to and the characters so much fun to watch that the feel-good vibes can’t help but be felt in spite of the way the show’s events play out.

The dense crowd packed into Fisher stood long before the show’s bows were complete, cheering more and more loudly through the entire cast’s reprise of “Spread the Love Around,” a reminder to embrace Philadelphia’s “City of Brotherly Love” slogan as a way to live life.

“Sister Act” is, above all else, a story of how two polar opposites – one a devout, traditionalist abbess and the other a sinful soul singer – find common ground through the power of music.

Breaking the barriers of race and religion wasn’t exactly an overarching theme of 2014, but with racial tension and conflict across the United States and the emergence of the Islamic State group as a terrorist threat, what “Sister Act” represents may be more relevant now than ever.

The moon normally goes through eight different phases; however, a new stage was introduced: the goth phase.

When a moon is in the “goth phase,” it looks like a full moon, but it also has a black trench coat.

Lunar phases normally last around a week, but the goth phase isn’t like any other phase.

This phase normally lasts from the 7th grade until 11th grade, and possibly into early 20s.

Scientists were able to identify this new phase by the moon’s new collection of plain, white makeup foundation and an alarming amount of Marilyn Manson T-shirts.

Also, they spotted an alarming accumulation of poetry that’s “super deep, man.”

Astronomers also noted the moon expressing criticism to the sun.

“I bet you think you’re hot stuff,” the moon told the sun. “You probably think that you are the light of the world.

You’re such a poser. You think the world revolves around you, don’t you? Whatever. Everybody knows Mother Nature loves you more.”

Astronomers, also known as skyentists, have been trying to figure out what happened that influenced the moon to enter this phase.

Some would argue that the sun is too bright, and therefore the moon wanted to take the opposite route in hopes to avoid sibling rivalry.

Others blame it on the media and

how it influences moons. Some even suggest that it is President Barack Obama’s fault.

Most people have heard of werewolves coming out during a full moon. The byproduct of a goth moon is far more threatening: teenagers with an aura of disengagement from society’s practices, also known as “Angst Syndrome.”

The symptoms of Angst syndrome are easily identified.

First, the child will begin to shut him/herself in her room and listen to music that can only be described as dark and grotesque. Second, the child will start to shop at stores such as Hot Topic. This is the point in which parents need to intervene.

Parents who feel as if their teens are starting to contract Angst syndrome should inform a doctor immediately.

So, what does this mean for the future of the moon?

Some experts argue that this phase shows a possibility for addition phases yet to come, such as “Gangster-phase,” “Stoner-phase” or, even worse, “brophase.”

Although this phase seems scary, fear not: It will soon be over.

Two of Saturn’s moons went through the same phase, and they turned out just fine.

In fact, little Phoebe just started studying to teach primary school.

We should not overestimate the gravity of the situation, as the moon has 83.3 percent less gravity than Earth.

The best thing we can do is treat the moon with respect and show it support.

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Lively Arts Executive Director elected to National Board Hank Knerr welcomed to NAPAMA. By katherine ward Contributing Writer K.Ward@iup.edu

Hank Knerr, Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Lively Arts executive director, was elected to the board of North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents Jan. 11.

NAPAMA is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1979.

The goal for the organization is to promote the best interests of performing arts agents and managers through leadership, professional development and alliances in the performing arts industry.

Knerr, originally from Coopersburg, was nominated by Eric Amanda, an agent who is the CEO for Arts Management Associates, in late December, to a board of 12 members.

Each board member is elected to a three-year term that is renewable for up to two consecutive terms.

“This is an honor that reflects so well on our program here at IUP,” Knerr said.

“It validates the work we are doing

with the great support of the Student Cooperative Association and the university. So, I was proud that the work we do has been recognized by such a respected organization as NAPAMA.” Although Knerr’s general duties on the board will change throughout his term, he was asked to assist with updating NAPAMA’s by-laws, ethics standards in the profession and governance.

NAPAMA is a working board, so each board member is expected to attend all board meetings, participate in the the annual retreat and contribute to the organization in a substantive way.

The board meets every two months by conference call and two or three times annually at selected regional conferences, as well as the national conference in New York each January.

Knerr said being on the board will not have any significant impact on the time he spends directing Lively Arts.

“My goals have always included making sure that, for the sake of our program at IUP, I remain connected to the national and international practices of presenting the best perform-

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ing artists we can,” Knerr said, “and to insure that IUP has a place at the table in these discussions. NAPAMA is affording me to advance that goal.”

Throughout his experience, Knerr would like to gain further knowledge that will benefit Lively Arts, IUP, the students and the community.

“It is a great honor to be elected to the board of any national-level organization,” said Jeffery Wacker, IUP Arts-in Education Services coordinator, “and with 25 years experience in presenting the Arts at IUP, [it] is certainly one that is well deserved by Hank.”

After receiving his bachelor’s degree in music and theater from Lycoming College in 1977, Knerr got his master’s degree in arts administration from Pennsylvania State University in 1983. He started working as the director of Lively Arts in 1989.

In addition to being a NAPAMA board member and Lively Arts director, Knerr is the president of PA Presenters, an organization that presented him with the first Presenter of the Year Award in May 2009.

He is also currently on the board for the Pennsylvania Rural Arts Alliance. In the past, he has served on the board of the Indiana County Humane Society, Indiana Arts Council and Indiana County Tourist Bureau.

As the spring semester at Indiana University of Pennsylvania starts off with frigid morning walks and snowcovered sidewalks, we also wake up to the never-ending, head-throbbing question, “But what will I wear?”

Those new class jitters are now accompanied by not knowing how to properly prepare for Jack Frost’s cold front this year.

It is easy to stay fashionable and still bear the cold with this winter’s fashion trends.

An outfit can never have too many layers. A blouse, an open V-neck sweater, a leather jacket, a fluffed-up infinity scarf, a knitted beanie and a pair of leather knee-high boots; the layers are never-ending.

Teresa Nicosia (sophomore, fashion merchandising) offered some advice on how to work a winter wardrobe.

“A great way to stay cute and warm is to definitely layer and to remember your winter accessories like hats, gloves, scarves and headbands,” Nicosia said.

“You’ll stay warm but also have people wondering how you are making winter looking so fashionable.”

While the winter wind seems to never go away, by adding a cute statement scarf and knee-high socks in your boots, you can still stay stylish while bearing the cold.

Forget about being boring this season; prints have become vibrant, spectacular and non-distinguishable. Pair an old, flannel button-up with a checkered blouse and top off the look with black leather jeggings that form to every inch of the body.

Fashion icons are customizing their

SEASON styles this year, with bold accessories such as wool, floppy fedoras and boldcolor pea coats.

“Designers have been using thicker fabrics and yarns – especially in cardigans and sweaters,” Nicosia said, “which are always a great choice during the winter months.”

Do you need a new hobby for the new year? Learning how to knit will suit this season’s obsession with knitted hats, scarves, sweaters and gloves.

To lower the cost of your shopping obsession, buying yarn and knitting your own accessories can save you that extra money you need to splurge on that extra sweater you were holding back on buying.

Adding little things to your style can make you stand out and stay warm.

Alex Seibert (sophomore, journalism) said her favorite thing about winter is the endless options of accessories.

“My favorite accessory is adding a vest to a simplistic outfit,” Seibert said.

“From long, statement jackets, furry or puffy vests to knee high socks with boots, the possibilities are never-ending.”

This winter is all about neutrals, browns, beiges, black and army green. Stay cozy in a knit sweater dress or dress up in a knit pant with a matching top.

Leather jackets and leather pants have also made a statement in the spotlight and it does not look like they will be walking away anytime soon.

This winter season is not nearly over, so as the temperature continues to drop in Indiana, don’t forget to layer up before embarking in the cold air.

Stay warm while looking fashionable in new exciting accessories of the season and embrace the new knit comfy fad of 2015.

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Hubert Cumberdale @branthemanhoran @ThePennIUP one of the better movies I’ve seen. Depicts some of the awful situations happening in the war.

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(Photos by americansnipermovie.com) Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) and his wife Taya (Sienna Miller) embrace as Chris returns home from fighting in Iraq.

American Sniper is a love story, just not the kind you’re used to thinking of

By Pete Sirianni Managing Editor P.M.Sirianni@iup.edu

Instead of boy-meets-girl and happily-ever-after, “American Sniper” instead sheds light on former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and his three priorities.

“If I had to order my priorities, they would be God, Country, Family. There might be some debate on where those last two fall,” Kyle wrote in his 2012 bestselling memoir “American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History.”

Throughout the book, and shown visually in the movie adaptation, viewers can read and see Kyle’s wife, Taya (played by Sienna Miller), struggling with raising a family with a husband thousands of miles away at war and just steps away from the doorstep of death.

Aside from Kyle’s noted love of his country, the Clint Eastwood-directed movie set a box-office record for the four-day Martin Luther King Jr. weekend with a better-than-expected $107.2 million gross in its first weekend of wide release.

The 84-year-old Eastwood creates scenes of intense fire fights during war segments that remind the audience just how intense – and real – war is.

More importantly, the Oscar-nominated screenplay follows along with the memoir for the most part, though there are just a few glaring differences added for cinematic effect and to help the plot move along on the big screen.

At times, it seemed like certain shots were created just to showcase something mentioned in the book that would have otherwise added precious minutes to the already two-hour movie.

Scenes like when Kyle was interrogated for shooting a child holding a grenade – which, by the way, was one of the plot lines that was added for cinematic effect – or when the camera pans to his cross tattoo seem like they were thrown together in the sloppiest manner, hoping that the audience would be too caught up in patriotism to notice.

However, the undeniable star of “American Sniper” is Bradley Cooper.

His rendition of the bulky Texan rodeoboy-turned-Navy SEAL is one to note during this awards season and is defi-

nitely worthy of his Best Actor Oscar nomination.

Cooper not only plays Kyle, who is credited with 160 confirmed sniper kills, but he embodies him from everything from the build and beard to the Southern cowboy accent.

Overall, the movie takes the audience on a roller coaster ride into the Iraq War and gives them a look through the eyes of soldiers on the front line.

While some things in the movie aren’t by the book – and it should be noted that Kyle has been accused of telling tall tales, and was successfully sued for defaming former Navy member and politician Jesse Ventura – Eastwood’s version nonetheless shows war from the inside.

For those that have read the book, go to the theater for Cooper’s performance in the lead role, and try to forget the differences from the text.

Others who don’t know the backstory will be treated to a solid war movie in Eastwood’s latest directorial effort.

“American Sniper” is currently showing with multiple showtimes at the Indiana Mall Carmike Cinema 4 theater.

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Sounding the alarm about caffeine powder By david templeton Pittsburgh Post-Gazette TNS

In a world craving stimulation to stay awake, function at peak levels or just feel a bit brighter, caffeine is the ready ingredient in an expanding array of foods, beverages and medications.

But 100 percent caffeine powder, the psychoactive stimulant at its purest form, may go too far. The powder is available online in bulk quantities up to 2.2 pounds, despite a recommended dose of 1/32nd to 1/16th of a teaspoon, equivalent to a cup or two of coffee.

A teaspoon of caffeine powder is roughly equal to 25 to 30 cups of coffee, which likely is lethal. At least two deaths last year were attributed to the growing use of caffeine powder.

Logan James Stiner, 18, of LaGrange, Ohio, died May 27 of a caffeine powder overdose, one week before his high school graduation. Just a month later on June 24, James Wade Sweatt, 24, of Alpharetta, Ga., died of a similar overdose. The deaths revealed the powder’s potential for easy overdosing.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and the Council for Responsible Nutrition – a trade association for the supplement industry – now recommend people avoid the product altogether.

They’ve called for retail sales to be regulated or banned.

The FDA posted a second advisory against its use in December.

Michael M. Landa, director of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Ap-

plied Nutrition, stated in his blog last month that the powder is packaged and marketed as a source of energy rather than a stimulant, prompting purchasers to overlook dosage recommendations.

Caffeine stimulates the central nervous system with impacts on the heart, brain and other organs. The FDA notes there is no easy way to measure a correct dose.

“Pure caffeine is a powerful stimulant and even very small amounts may cause an accidental overdose,” Landa said, with FDA spokeswoman Jennifer Dooren noting that “the difference between a safe amount and a lethal overdose of caffeine is really small.

“The FDA is concerned about powdered-caffeine products and is considering every legal option,” she said.

At news conferences in December, then again last week, Brown said he and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., have pressed the FDA that caffeine powder “should be off the shelves.” The senators are considering introducing legislation to ban retail sales of the powder.

“If it is added to energy drinks, it should be added at the (production) plant,” Brown said. “There is no legitimate use for this stuff, and there is no business why it is sold retail.”

The Council for Responsible Nutrition says caffeine powder is giving the supplement industry a bad name.

“Even a quarter teaspoon can present health risks to users,” said Steve Mister, council president and CEO. “We believe the FDA already has authority to act in this case and remove it from the market if it causes unreasonable risk and illness. Given case histories I’m familiar

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NutraKey, a supplement company that prominently advertises pure caffeine powder on the Internet, did not respond to an email request for comment.

Caffeine in small doses generally is considered safe, although some people are sensitive even to nominal doses.

Coffee and tea, which naturally contain caffeine, typically are sipped, providing a low, steady dose. But new products often are consumed rapidly, providing a more concentrated hit.

Consumers today may not realize the number of products that contain caffeine, creating a cumulative effect. A single energy drink can provide upwards of 400 milligrams of caffeine, equal to three or four cups of coffee. Pain relief, weight-control, stay-awake and even menstrual-cramp treatments also contain it as do various snack foods, ice creams and some yogurts.

Food products containing cocoa beans (chocolate), coffee, various teas, kola nut, guarana berries and yerba mate, all of which naturally contain caf-

feine, add to consumption levels, with other products mixing natural and added sources of caffeine.

The American Association of Poison Control Center’s annual reports show 5,238 calls, 2010 through 2013, related to caffeine overdoses from energy drinks, with 51 percent of those calls involving children 5 or younger, and nearly one in five requiring treatment at a health-care facility.

An additional 11,025 calls during that same period involved overdoses from other food, beverage or medicinal sources of caffeine. That represents a total of 16,263 calls to poison centers in four years that were related to caffeine overdoses. Numbers aren’t available specifically for caffeine powder.

Michael J. Lynch, medical director of the Pittsburgh Poison Center said his center received 370 calls last year related to caffeine exposure and toxicity, or about one a day. Several patients a month come to UPMC emergency rooms due to problems with caffeine.

“Symptoms include pain in the abdomen, vomiting that doesn’t stop, with shakiness that’s pronounced and patients who are very agitated,” Lynch

said. Excess caffeine can cause seizures and abnormal heart rhythms, with blood pressure rising then falling. The result is insufficient oxygen to the brain and other organs, which can be lethal.

Some calls to the center involved people attempting suicide by overdosing on caffeine.

But the center, he said, receives only an occasional call concerning caffeine powder, mostly from parents who found their children with it.

One of the sickest patients he treated, he said, was a young woman who overdosed on a treatment for menstrual cramps. Her abnormal heart rhythms and seizures required dialysis to remove caffeine from her system. It’s the common attitude, he said, that if one is good, more is better.

“It’s out there, part of our culture, and a lot of people use it, but I think some of these products have taken it to a new level, where you see some danger in the use and misuse of them,” Dr. Lynch said. “When used appropriately, it is probably not a danger. But when they are used inappropriately it can be deadly, so we must continue to educate people about these products.”

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‘Pale Emperor’ ushers in the return of Marilyn Manson By aUGUST BROWN Los Angeles Times TNS

Around 8 p.m. on a Wednesday night, in a candlelit, marble-plated West Hollywood hotel room, Marilyn Manson reached into his pocket and flicked open a switchblade.

“The Roman Emperor Constantius was referred to as the ‘Pale Emperor.’

He liked to dress up as a woman and (torture) men and have them dance for him,” Manson insisted. “I identify with that petulant pursuit of chaos.”

Manson’s blade (and his own rows of metallic teeth) glinted gold in the candlelight. For a moment, it seemed like he might actually be pondering something sinister.

Instead, he looked down at the knife and grinned.

“I prefer using this to eat oysters.”

Nearly 20 years after his 1996 album “Antichrist Superstar” made him America’s most infamous musician, Marilyn Manson still has the power to unnerve.

In person, however, he’s also droll and self-aware, prone to knife-twirling goofiness and Southern-gentleman affectations.

What’s even more startling is that, at 46, he just made one of the best albums of his career.

“The Pale Emperor,” released this week, is a 10-song LP that’s just as quick and ferocious as his switchblade.

The album largely sheds his trademark industrial-music howl, replacing it with slinky, glamorous brooding that evokes goth-punk pioneers like the Birthday Party and Christian Death.

After his widely praised acting on “Sons of Anarchy” (where he played a white supremacist gang leader) and a cameo on “Eastbound & Down” (where he played a schlub in orange shorts and a moppy brown wig), Marilyn Manson may be preparing for a new role: as a

(Photo by Lionel Hahn/ TNS) Marilyn Manson attends the screening of Final Flight of the Osiris.

musician at the unexpected height of his powers.

As befits his imperial album title, Manson doesn’t really have conversations.

He holds court. Within minutes of sitting down on his suite’s couch, he’s already gone over the repulsion he still feels toward his home state of Florida.

He was especially giddy over a recent gift from a friend, a copy of Goethe’s “Faust” that he said was “once owned by a very unsavory character, a German’s personal copy.”

Did he mean Hitler? “I think you can figure it out,” he said, affecting a cryptic flair.

“The Pale Emperor” comes after probably the most difficult stretch of his career.

After his then-label Interscope Records released him from his contract

(a move largely attributed to slow sales of his 2009 album, “The High End of Low”), his relationship with actress Evan Rachel Wood ended, and 2012’s “Born Villain” didn’t revitalize his career as hoped.

His once-sinewy frame began to soften from drinking, drugs and age.

Some of the hardest moments came, he said, when his mother died during the making of “The Pale Emperor.”

Even for someone as death-obsessed as Manson, when he talks about her, he curls into the couch a bit.

“It’s inevitable, I know, and I made my peace with her a few years ago when she was no longer aware of who I was,” he said.

In the record’s liner notes, he dedicates the album to her, following her dementia-related death in 2014.

“My father drove from Ohio to California to see my show on Halloween, I didn’t understand why he drove, but he later told me he was spreading her ashes on Route 66.”

Two unanticipated new relationships changed his outlook on songwriting.

The first and more personal one, with the photographer and fellow goth-complexioned muse Lindsay Usich, brought him a more stable (by Manson standards) home life.

The second, with producer Tyler Bates – the film composer behind scores for Hollywood action romps like “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “300” – helped him re-imagine what Marilyn Manson could sound like.

“He is a living performance-art experiment. He is a school bus full of children perched on a ledge, and you can’t look away,” Bates said. “There aren’t a lot of real rock stars left, and he’s one of them.”

The two met on the set of the Showtime series “Californication,” where Manson was playing himself. Bates started recording with him as a casual,

friendly collaboration, to get Manson’s head back in the game.

But the sessions (often starting with just a microphone, a digital kick drum and Bates playing guitar) soon yielded an unprecedented new sound for both of them.

“He really gave himself over to a process unlike any other for him so far,” Bates said. “For me, writing music for film is listening to the story and writing for character roles. This was a really different project, but I applied that same idea to working with Manson.”

The end result is a record that is the best possible way to imagine Manson staring down 50.

“A lot of people say the record has a blues sound to it, but ‘blues’ goes to a few core things,” Manson said. “It’s actually quite Faustian, with (legendary bluesman) Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil. So there were a lot of strange parallels on this record, like a snake eating its tail.”

It won over Tom Whalley, the former chairman and CEO of Warner Bros.

Records who had worked with Manson during his time at Interscope in the ’90s.

Whalley is releasing “The Pale Emperor” on his Loma Vista imprint, where more polite acts like Spoon, St. Vincent and Rhye now count the “Beautiful People” singer as a label mate.

Initially, a new Manson album “wasn’t something I was chasing,” Whalley admitted. He knew they’d have a difficult job convincing skeptics that Marilyn Manson was really, truly back.

Sure, Manson’s core audience will always give him a fair shake.

But the harder part, Whalley said, was “how to get people who wouldn’t think they’d like it to open up to listening.

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Between the current ’90s revival in fashion and music and an affection for occultish, drugged-up aesthetics across hip-hop and underground music, it’s an appropriate time for a Manson revival.

When Kanye West released his stomping 2013 single “Black Skinhead,” many fans falsely assumed it was based on a sample of Manson’s “The Beautiful People,” and they found the prospect enticing.

Whalley doesn’t reasonably expect to sell much more than half a million records worldwide.

But by comparison, it took “Yeezus” seven months to go platinum. “The goals are to have an impact, period, which can mean many different things.

(Fans) watch the videos and stream his songs millions of times, the social media engagement is incredible – the music will have (a) reach far beyond commercial sales.”

As Manson’s assistant, a beefy fellow with a shaved head, finally beckoned him off to other obligations, the singer invited this writer to pick the chat back up at his house later that weekend.

“We’ve already had this conversation a million times over. Maybe that’s what deja vu is – it’s just us hearing our echoes from a long time ago,” he said.

Then, he wrote down a number on hotel stationery. “This is my cell. Come by, and we’ll get some eightballs and strippers and have a long night.”

He was probably joking. Was he?

The phone number turned out to be for an unknown Uber driver with an automated reply message.

Maybe Manson was yanking this writer’s chain.

Maybe he’d found a side gig as a parttime town car driver.

Whatever the case, as the door to his hotel bedroom closed, Marilyn Manson once again slipped off into the night.

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Can computers beat critics at naming best movies? Study says maybe By saba hamedy Los Angeles Times TNS

Move over, critics: Computers are the new film experts in Hollywood.

According to a Northwestern University study released Monday, computer analysis has the potential to be as good or better at identifying significant films than human experts in the field.

Using data from Internet Movie Database, researchers at Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering created an analytical system that measured the influence a film has over its history.

Influence was measured by the num-

ber of times a film was credited in citations or attributions as a reference for other movies on IMDb. Citations between 15,425 U.S.-produced films on IMDb were analyzed.

For comparison, researchers also looked at other approaches, including expert opinions and wisdom of the crowd.

The researchers examined ratings from the late Roger Ebert “because of his long history as a renowned film critic.”

They also looked at the aggregate critic review score reported by the website Metacritic because it “provides a simple and self-consistent way to incor-

porate the ratings of multiple critics.”

They examined IMDb user ratings and the total number of user votes received on IMDb, and they considered statistics obtained from total citations and PageRank score.

They compared their findings with the 625 movies that the U.S. Library of Congress’ National Film Registry considers “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” or “of enduring importance to American culture.”

The researchers’ ranking system suggested well-conceived automated methods “can perform as well as or better than aggregation of expert opinions at identifying significant films, even when

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Their analysis of IMDb film connections revealed additional information “about how ideas and culture spread over time,” the researchers wrote in the study, to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Some films may not nab Oscar nods from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences or four stars from critics, but they can still have cultural significance.

Likewise, “significant films from any given year will be definitively known once 25 years have passed, as those films

will be the ones that continue to receive citations.”

For example, “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” was considered a box-office disappointment in 1971.

However, researchers determined the film gained a “significant following a decade later” with home-video sales and airings on cable television.

Today it’s “considered a top cult classic” even though it is not listed in the National Film Registry.

“A film’s significance should ultimately be judged on how its ideas influence filmmaking and culture in the long term,” the researchers wrote.

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Cold weather, hot start: IUP jumps to 16-3 record Men’s basketball tops Pitt-Johnstown, 88-73, to capture ninth win in last 10 games

By JAKE ENDERS Staff Writer J.G.Enders@iup.edu

The Indiana University of Pennsylvania men’s basketball team did very little relaxing during the holidays, and their hard work resulted in an 8-1 record over the break. IUP is now ranked as the No. 25 NCAA Division II team in the country, as of Jan. 21 according to the National Association of Basketball Coaches poll.

The Crimson Hawks (16-3, 10-3 Pe n n sy lva n i a State Athletic Conference) scored victories over eight consecutive conference foes before dropping a tight game to rival Slippery Rock University on Saturday at Slippery Rock’s Morrow Field House.

Guard Devante Chance (senior, communications media) continues to pave the way, leading the team in points, assists, steals and minutes played while starting every game.

After starting its conference schedule 1-2, IUP kicked off a homestand by dominating Mansfield University, 92-51, behind Shawn Dyer’s (graduate, criminology) season-high 23 points.

The next day, Lock Haven University received a similar treatment, as Brandon Norfleet (junior, communications media) had 21 points in a 92-69 win.

The Crimson Hawks then traveled to Bloomsburg and needed overtime to dispatch the Huskies, 80-70, outscoring their opponent 16-6 in the extra period.

After a short hiatus over the holidays, the Crimson Hawks finished off their cross-state road trip with an impressive 78-63 victory over East Stroudsburg University and a 84-65 win over West Chester University. Chance continued to perform impressively, leading all scorers with 23 points in East Stroudsburg and adding 16 more against West

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Chester.

IUP returned home to the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex Jan. 7 and toppled Cheyney University, 84-62, with Norfleet scoring 19 against his former school.

The Crimson Hawks turned in one of their finest defensive performances of the season three days later, holding California University of Pennsylvania to 34 percent shooting from the field and winning the rebounding battle 43-27 en route to a 69-45 win.

On Jan. 14, the Crimson Hawks played a close game against Edinboro University during which IUP led by only two points at halftime before pulling away to win 79-69.

Next came the trip to rival Slippery Rock with a season-high eight-game winning streak and first place in the PSAC West on the line. IUP exploded out of the gate and led by as many as 11 points in the first half and 42-36 at halftime.

But The Rock slowly whittled away at the Crimson Hawk lead in the second half as Chaquille Pratt’s jump shot with 1:16 remaining broke a 67-all tie and put Slippery Rock ahead for good.

IUP shot only 35 percent from the field in the second half.

Despite the loss, Chance fortified his stellar reputation by leading the Crimson Hawks with 18 points, seven rebounds and two steals.

After the spring 2015 semester kicked off, the Crimson Hawks had another wave of success with an 88-73 victory over the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Wednesday. Chance notched his third double-double of the season as part of the Crimson Hawks’ offensive attack, helping IUP secure its 16th victory of the season.

IUP currently sits in third place in the PSAC West and holds a tenuous one-game lead on Slippery Rock. IUP has 10 games remaining in the regular season, all of them conference matchups, and are well within range of a fourth PSAC championship in six years.

Devante Chance (senior, communications media) directs IUP in the team’s win over Pitt-Johnstown.

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Brandon Norfleet (junior, communications media) tips a layup into the basket for the Crimson Hawks.

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IUP races to conference-best record through first 17 games

By MICHAEL GOSNELL Staff Writer M.J.Gosnell@iup.edu

In their second season under head coach Tom McConnell, the No. 13 Indiana University of Pennsylvania women’s basketball team succeeded in making significant strides from the previous year.

IUP has raced out of the gate to a conference-best 16-1 along with a sparkling field goal percentage at .468, also a conferencebest.

For the C r i m s o n Hawks, it has all been credited to their pass-first mentality that has complemented the lightsout shooting. The Crimson Hawks lead the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference in assists at 19.8 per game.

Moreover, the team’s veteran leadership has steered the ship throughout winter break.

Leadership is something McConnell said was “invaluable, something you can’t put a price tag on.”

The Crimson Hawks breezed through Mansfield and Lock Haven universities in games that took place immediately after classes ended for the fall semester. McConnell’s squad limited both Mansfield and Lock Haven to under 60 points.

From there, the Crimson Hawks hit the road for a trio of contests in eastern Pennsylvania.

And, likewise, IUP held the opposition to under 60 points.

Against the Bloomsburg Huskies, the top team in the PSAC East Division, IUP earned production from Leslie Stapleton, who went 5-of-7 from beyond the three-point line and led the team in scoring with 17 points.

The team defeated East Stroudsburg University 84-59 and soundly defeated another quality opponent in West Chester University 76-54.

IUP held West Chester’s Dallas Ely to 2-of-9 shooting and eight points.

Anna Kuntz also posted eight points in the loss for the Golden Rams.

Returning home to face Cheyney University, IUP continued to post victories with an impressive 9-point performance against the Wolves.

In the 95-63 victory, guard Lindsay Stamp (senior, criminal justice) posted 21 points and nine rebounds.

After a huge performance against Cheyney, IUP rolled into California to take on the Vulcans, thus reigniting their rivalry.

Fouls and turnovers proved to be the downfall of IUP against Cal. Despite Marita Mathe (senior, safety science) scoring a season-high 21 points, the Crimson Hawks posted 26 turnovers and 21 personal fouls, which influenced the 73-58 overtime victory for the Vulcans.

It would not take long for the vaunted Crimson Hawks offense to help rebound the team back into the win column.

In a major test against Edinboro University, a team to which the Crimson Hawks fell three times last season, IUP shut down the Fighting Scots attack and won the game 86-60.

Stamp once again proved why she is a four-time PSAC West Player of the

Lindsay Stamp (senior, criminal justice) eludes Pitt-Johnstown defenders in an IUP victory.

Week by tallying 22 points, nine rebounds, four assists and three steals.

The guard from Erie posted excellent numbers again in the following game against Slippery Rock University.

After her 22-point showing, Stamp posted a double-double of 18 points and 10 rebounds against Slippery Rock.

Stamp and her teammates held the

Pride to 48 points while registering 73 of their own.

Now, the Crimson Hawks find themselves winding down the regular season after a home game against the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Wednesday.

Stamp and Ashley Stoner (senior, English) led the Crimson Hawks with

(Nick Dampman/ The Penn)

24 points apiece against Pitt-Johnstown, while Leslie Stapleton (junior, biology pre-med) added 13 for IUP. With nine games remaining in the season, IUP will next hit the road for a matchup with Clarion on Jan. 24, then kick off a two-game homestand that features contests against Seton Hill and California.

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Deflated debate: All sides to blame in Patriots controversy

By CODY BENJAMIN Sports Editor C.J.Benjamin@iup.edu

If I didn’t know any better, I’d be convinced that this year’s Super Bowl will be little more than the finale of a weeks-long debate over the legality of deflating footballs.

As the 2014 NFL championship draws closer, all eyes are on the league and one of its most successful franchises of the last decade, the New England Patriots.

But in contrast to their upcoming opponent, the defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks, the Patriots seem to be garnering attention for all of the wrong reasons.

That’s because they also happen to be perhaps one of the NFL’s most controversial teams.

No, I’m not referring to the discipline handed down on New England in 2007 when the Patriots were found to be videotaping opponents’ practices and in-game signals.

In fact, part of me wishes I was referring to that infamous incident, because,

at the expense of the NFL and its fans alike, the driving plot line of February’s Super Bowl seems to be whether or not the Pats were right in altering the air pressure of footballs they used in a blowout win over the Colts in the recent AFC Championship.

Speculation and reports have flooded sports headlines since word leaked that New England “tampered” with the balls they used, and initial indications were that the tactic of deflating balls gave the Patriots an edge in their victory.

Altering the air pressure, according to several reports, allowed the Patriots, particularly Super Bowl-winning quarterback Tom Brady, to have a better grip on balls.

Patriots head coach Bill Belichick said in a Thursday press conference that he had no explanation for the accusations of illegal ball deflation.

But his comments have done little to slow what’s become a rampant media storm of controversy – a story that is undoubtedly taking away from analysis of the Patriots-Seahawks showdown but, then again, is predictably and under-

standably a hot topic.

It’s hard to take a side in a situation like this, because there is so much behind the scenes that can’t be clarified.

It’s easy to heap all blame on the Patriots, a prominent team that is no stranger to controversy and would seemingly be able to get by on its own talent rather than, say, suspicious activity like deflating balls.

New England hasn’t won a Super Bowl since its 2007 videotaping scandal, and even if it finds a way to knock off the Seahawks in a few weeks, people are sure to point to “Deflate Gate,” as the media has dubbed it, as a driving reason for the Patriots’ success.

Former players such as Mark Brunell and Jerome Bettis have thrown their support behind the faction of those livid with the Patriots’ actions, claiming that someone like Tom Brady would or at least should be well aware of pre-game equipment procedures.

On the other hand, it’s difficult not to ignore the NFL’s incompetence regarding this issue.

If the Patriots’ deflating of balls is

a common, overlooked practice in the league, how can they be punished for something they are otherwise used to, or at least something that is not clearly defined as illegal?

Sure, it’s fair to question why the team would need to tamper with balls in the first place.

But if such a practice is indeed a commonality in the NFL – a frequent pre-game routine that has occurred for years, according to former quarterbacks like Boomer Esiason and Matt Leinart – then it’d be hard to throw the Patriots under the bus and discredit any of their success from this season or years past.

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If referees allowed games to be played with illegal balls, they must be factored into the situation as well.

For now, this story has captured the attention of both NFL fans and everyday citizens.

Heck, it might even reel in a bigger Super Bowl audience, as if monumental TV ratings are something the league is lacking.

But in the grand scheme of things, just about everyone involved should be held responsible for clouding the culmination of the NFL’s season with a story that, frankly, does more damage to the league’s reputation than anything else.

January 23, 2015

Sports NOTES, PREDICTIONS AND OPINIONS ON THE WORLD OF SPORTS

By MICHAEL KIWAK Lead Sports Writer M.T.Kiwak@iup.edu

Welcome back to another exciting semester of Kiwak’s Quips. I’m sure you all missed them, so let’s not waste any time. As always, there’s plenty to talk about in the world of sports.

The Quips: Just when you think the media is done putting the suffix “-gate” at the end of anything remotely controversial, they give us “Deflategate.”

The New England Patriots stand accused of reducing the pounds per square inch of 11 of their 12 footballs during the AFC Championship Game against the Indianapolis Colts.

In case you haven’t guessed, doing that is illegal, so now head coach Bill Belichick is facing his second “-gate” scandal of the past decade.

That’s probably one of the more infamous records in sports history.

In all seriousness, expect New England to face fairly strict punishment for its reportedly illegal activities.

Is it a dumb rule? Yeah.

Did it drastically affect the game?

Probably not.

But that’s not the issue. It’s still cheating, and it’s damaging to what’s left of the league’s integrity.

If I were commissioner Roger Goodell – and I’m glad I’m not – I would make an example out of the Patriots by taking away all of the team’s draft picks this year.

Or, if I really wanted to get my point across, I would suspend Belichick, restricting him from coaching in the Super Bowl.

Whatever the punishment may be, it has to show that the league will not tolerate cheating of any kind.

I just hope that this issue will be resolved in a timely manner because I’m getting sick of all the ball puns on my Twitter timeline.

While we’re on the topic of the male groin area, Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch was fined $20,000 Thursday for grabbing his crotch after scoring a touchdown against the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship Game.

On an another note, I’d like to personally ask the NFL: What have you done to the Pro Bowl?

First, you moved it to the weekend

before the Super Bowl, which means that it’s guaranteed that some of the best players are going to drop out.

Then, you decide to move it from its usual spot of Hawaii, a sandy paradise, to Glendale, Ariz., a sandy wasteland.

Then, to top it all off, you get rid of the typical conference alignment, which every other major sports league uses for all-star games, in favor of a draft system where two honorary captains select players.

Not to mention, the years-old, albeit beloved skills competition that accompanied the Pro Bowl is long gone.

The league has essentially turned the Pro Bowl, a game which is supposed to actually mean something, into a glorified high-school-gym-class-dodgeball match.

Bravo.

Forbes has released its annual list of most valuable sports franchises.

The average NBA team is worth $1.1 billion.

The average NFL team? It’s worth even more, coming in at approximately $1.43 billion.

The Twitter Follow of the Week: St. Louis Rams Defensive End Chris Long (@JOEL9ONE) Long is the definition of a great Twitter follow. He provides football insight, he seems pretty genuine, and he can be downright hilarious.

From providing his takes on pop culture, like the Amazon Fire commercial with the incomparable Gary Busey, to live-tweeting his dad Howie Long’s analysis during the NFC Championship Game halftime show on Fox, he always makes reading his tweets worth it.

Give him a follow.

“I wrapped a Goosebumps book I had already read and gave it to a chick for Christmas in 94. Pimp tight,” Long wrote while reminiscing about his childhood Jan. 17.

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Soaring on the Court

Brandon Norfleet (junior, communications media), left, defends a Pitt-Johnstown player in IUP’s win.

(Dan Kirby/ The Penn)

Marita Mathe (senior, safety science), drives for IUP.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

(Nick Dampman/ The Penn)

STAT S LEADERS

POINTS Devante Chance

289

POINTS PER GAME Devante Chance

15.2

REBOUNDS Devante Chance (senior, communications media), prepares to shoot a free throw for IUP.

(Dan Kirby/ The Penn)

Shawn Dyer

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3-POINT FGS Devante Chance

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FREE THROW % Brandon Norfleet

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An early look at the 2015 Heisman Trophy candidates

By MATT MURSCHEL Orlando Sentinel TSN

Trevone Boykin is one of several players that burst onto the college football scene with their stellar play in 2014.

The versatile quarterback springboarded TCU into the national spotlight as a possible College Football Playoff contender, and while the Horned Frogs fell just short of the prize, Boykin showcased a potential that makes him one of my Heisman Trophy candidates in 2015.

1. Trevone Boykin, QB, TCU Buzz: Since 2000, a quarterback has won the award 13 out of 14 seasons, and Boykin’s style of play fits well into the recent trend of winners. A strong-armed thrower whose mobility provides him with an added dimension, Boykin could build off a season where he combined for 4,616 total yards.

2. Ezekiel Elliott, RB, Ohio State Buzz: Elliott galvanized his spot on this list after his tremendous late-season run when he amassed three straight 200-plus yard rushing performances in the Big Ten Championship, the College Football Playoff semifinals and the National Championship.

3. J.T. Barrett/Cardale Jones/Braxton Miller, QB, Ohio State Buzz: Regardless of which player ends up starting the season at quarterback, it’s a good bet that that player

will have a tremendous season for the Buckeyes. An Ohio State quarterback has won Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year three straight seasons, and it should happen again in 2015.

4. Leonard Fournette, RB, LSU Buzz: Fournette embodies the hardnosed rusher that the Southeastern Conference is known for producing. As a freshman, he rushed for 1,034 yards with 10 touchdowns as his emergence late in the season put relentless pressure on defenses to adjust to his presence in the game.

5. Dalvin Cook, RB, FSU Buzz: Cook was another freshman who demonstrated big-game potential late in the season, helping propel Florida State into the College Football Playoff. The Miami native rushed for 1,008 yards with eight touchdowns and figures to play a bigger role for the ’Noles.

6. Dak Prescott, QB, Mississippi State Buzz: Prescott’s no stranger to Heisman hype after the junior helped guide the Bulldogs to the top-spot in the weekly rankings. However, a couple of sub-par performances late in the season against Alabama and Ole Miss thwarted any chance in 2014.

Perhaps a reboot in 2015?

7. Nick Chubb, RB, Georgia Buzz: Todd Gurley’s midseason suspension along with an array of injuries at the position thrust the freshman running back into the starting role where

he thrived. Chubb rushed for 1,547 yards including a career-best 266 yards against Louisville in the Belk Bowl.

8. Cody Kessler, QB, USC Buzz: Kessler thrived in Steve Sarkisian’s offense in 2014, passing for 3,826 yards and 39 touchdowns.

9. Samaje Perine, RB, Oklahoma Buzz: Another freshman sensation who had a breakout season after rushing for 1,713 yards and 21 touchdowns for the Sooners.

Perine led the Big 12 in rushing.

10. Derrick Henry, RB, Alabama

Buzz: Could this be the year a running back wins the award?

The last one to do so was Alabama’s Mark Ingram in 2009.

Henry could add to that legacy after rushing for 990 yards and 11 touchdowns in 2014.

With T.J. Yeldon off to the NFL, Henry’s role in the offense is sure to grow in 2015.

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Collier: Penn State shouldn’t rush to restore Paterno’s legacy

By GENE COLLIER Pittsburgh Post-Gazette TSN

Can’t say I was surprised the Penn State community celebrated heartily over the weekend on news of a settlement that would restore all 111 of Joe Paterno’s NCAA-hijacked victories.

Yet I hope that was mostly because they’ll celebrate almost anyFOOTBALL thing in State College, where, if long-term memory serves, pitchers of Genesee Cream Ale were routinely reduced to half price just to celebrate the arrival of ... Monday.

In February.

Of course, we celebrated heartily.

As it happens, the restoration of Paterno’s coaching record to its full dimensions is the correct thing to do for a couple of reasons.

Whether you think Paterno’s culpability in the Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal is damningly substantial or virtually nonexistent (as there seem to be precious few reasoned calibrations in between), Penn State gained no competitive advantage from the soon-to-bemalignant inconvenience of having a serial pedophile roam the countryside.

Sandusky’s pathology would come to mean many, many terrible things, things that won’t be mitigated anytime soon – but it never impacted the competition and it never meant, for example, that Northwestern would have avoided getting trimmed, 49-0, in Beaver Stadium in October 2002 if only Penn State’s administration not made the key to the Lasch Building available to the former defensive coordinator.

Furthermore, I would venture that a significant portion of Paterno’s 409 victories, now again the most in college football history, came against institutions this same NCAA had failed to prevent from cheating like hell.

All that said, the symbolism of 409, as displayed on the helmets of Penn State’s hockey team and anywhere else it might have turned up, is at best insensitive to the victims and at worst emblematic of a culture so imbued by the force-fed notion of Penn State exceptionalism that it remains, even after

all this, impenetrable to humility.

Athletic director Sandy Barbour first agreed to the insensitivity charge on Twitter over the weekend, was promptly shouted down by the orthodox exceptionalists, then wound up apologizing.

That’s leadership?

Unfortunately, the terms of the settlement include some language the plaintiffs would have choked on only two weeks ago, mainly that Penn State agrees that the NCAA had “legitimate and good faith interest and concern regarding the Jerry Sandusky matter.”

I don’t think that’s even close to being true.

If it were, State Sen. Jake Corman, R-Centre, and state Treasurer Rob McCord would not have sued, right?

I doubt that any legal or administrative protocols regarding serial child rape has a presence anywhere in the NCAA Manual. It’s a criminal matter.

The NCAA’s primary mission in this caper was to administer a theatrical public flogging of one of its hallmark institutions in the vain hope that it would re-establish for itself something approximating relevance.

Even before the NCAA became an agency that allows the five most powerful athletic conferences to set their own rules that train had departed.

If the NCAA thought it had jurisdiction, its internal emails demonstrated something short of full conviction, with one administrator last summer saying she was “not sure we have a good answer to that.”

No kiddin’.

By agreeing that the NCAA had standing and acted in good faith, Penn State and the plaintiffs suing on its behalf show themselves willing to perpetuate a lie in exchange for getting the correct answer to college football trivia – who’s the winningest coach?

That’s hardly worth it, even if keeping the $60 million fine in state happens to have been a worthy pursuit.

Sixty million, by the way, is another figure the NCAA pulled out of thin air (why not $600 million?) along with the disingenuous bluster choreographed by President Mark Emmert that the college presidents “want blood on this.”

An investigation by USA Today appears to indicate there was no stomach for the so-called death penalty among the 21 persons on a presidential committee considering Penn State’s punishment, with one telling the paper he

didn’t remember the exact vote, “but if you told me it was 19-2 against I’d believe it.”

In the meantime, no one in authority at Penn State is ready to talk about, much less plan, the full public refurbishing of the Paterno legacy, and no one should be.

Trials for then President Graham Spanier, then Vice President Gary Schultz, and then Athletic Director Tim Curley, aren’t even on anyone’s docket yet, inexplicably enough.

After any or all of them testify under oath on charges of perjury, obstruction, conspiracy, child endangerment and failure to report suspected abuse, after all relevant witnesses do the same, we might see some substantial portion of what has been so elusively contentious the past three years.

Namely the absolute truth.

The trials could be years in the making, as might their fallout, as might the fallout from the fallout. The absolute truth might well convulse the university community still again.

So, for now, if pitchers are half off, by all means, have at it.

But I wouldn’t be dusting off any statues.

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