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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Vol. 88 No. 20
CHI SIGMA IOTA
Graduate students form counseling honorary chapter By Alex Hinton Editorial Assistant Waynesburg University’s Counseling program has been welcomed into Chi Sigma Iota, a counseling academic and professional honor society. Chi Sigma Iota’s mission is “to promote
scholarship, research, professionalism, leadership, advocacy and excellence in counseling, and to recognize high attainment in the pursuit of academic and clinical excellence in the profession of counseling.” Dr. Elizabeth Ventura, assistant professor
“...I
would love to see... a sense of cohesion of the different locations for the students to learn from one another and support one another.” Stephanie Helsel Assistant Professor of Counseling
of Counseling, applied
for
the
University’s
Counseling department to have its own chapter in the honor society Chi Nu Sigma. Ventura will be serving as a faculty advisor to the chapter along with Dr. Stephanie Helsel, assistant professor of Counseling. “It [Chi Sigma Iota] enhances learning and
the Counseling program for students who apply,” Ventura said. Ventura and Helsel are both former members of Chi Sigma Iota. The experience they gained will be passed on to 15 Waynesburg graduate Counseling See STUDENTS on A3
Health Fair to be S S Students campus-centered experience TOVER CHOLARS
By Brandon Reed
Editorial Assistant On April 7, Student Health Services will showcase their biggest project of the year, the Health Fair, in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center. The event will be taking place on Thursday, April 7, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The theme this year is “S.E.E. you at the Health Fair:” Sleep, eat right and exercise. Carol Young, nurse director of Student Health Services, is in charge of the event and wanted to make the fair smaller and more campus-centered. “We want to use resources that are mainly on campus and make sure the focus is on the students,” she said. According to Young,
there will be a local sleep clinic giving information about sleep health. There will also be athletic trainers to help with exercise, and the food bank will show students how to eat right. Other tests and screenings will be going on as well. They will provide information about substance abuse, safety issues, bone density tests and blood sugar tests. The fair is not entirely about getting a check-up. Prizes for a raffle will include a Wii donated by Wal-Mart and tickets for white water rafting. Young said that the fair always gets big prizes donated from local businesses, which
nation’s capitol By Rachel Brown Executive Editor When Missy Fox saw Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito walk into the same room, she knew she was having a once-ina-lifetime experience. “I was in awe and felt like a part of history,” Fox said of the experience. “It will be a memory I will cherish and remember forever.” Fox was one of 15 Stover Scholars who traveled to Washington, D.C. on Tuesday to meet with several high-ranking politicians and government officials. Visiting Director of the Stover
See HEALTH on A4
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Photo courtesy of Daniel Czajkowski
Waynesburg University Stover Scholars met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at the Russian Embassy on Tuesday as part of a trip to Washington, D.C.
‘Eggscellent’ opportunity: Students fill Riot charges dropped baskets for children in West Waynesburg against Bethany students involved in Oct. 24 fight
By Carrie Maier Staff Writer
On the first floor of the Stover Campus Center the Easter baskets sat, piled next to the steps around a group of students giving them away, slowly but surely. Some students walked over, inquiring and eventually signing up to take one, lessening the pile. Other students passed by, staring at the large accumulation of colorful baskets, containing only fake grass - all 144 of them. This was the “Easter
By Kaitlin Edwards Managing Editor Prosecutors withdrew felony charges against seven Bethany College were who students allegedly involved in an off-campus fight in October. The students were Photo by Amanda Rice scheduled to have a preAs part of the Easter Buddies program, students try to recruit other students to fill liminary hearing on Wednesday but decided to baskets for children in West Waynesburg. waive their rights to a Buddies” kickoff on effort to fill up to 144 and toys for local children hearing once the charges March 28, an event that Easter baskets with were dropped. launched a campus-wide candy, school supplies See PROGRAMS on A4 Initially, Waynesburg
SPORTS
REGION
ARTS & LIFE
Men’s tennis handled rival W&J for their first conference win Tuesday. See Page C1
The building housing the Colonial Bar, Hudson’s Jewelers and Lam’s Chinese Garden was torn down Monday.
New musicians must fill the shoes of senior Upper Room worship leaders.
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Borough Police charged the students with a felony charge of riot and a misdemeanor of conspiracy to commit simple assault, misdemeanor of disorderly conduct and a misdemeanor of unsworn falsification to authorities. students Bethany charged in the incident include: Matthew S. Grimard, 19, of Lowell, Mass.; Eric J. Walker, 20, of New Brighton; Jorge Laboy, 22, of New York
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