04.14.11 Yellow Jacket

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51 W. College St. Waynesburg, PA 15370

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Vol. 88 No. 22

FAFSA deadline quickly approaching By Cori Schipani Staff Writer

Photos by Amanda Rice

(Above) Nursing students set up a booth at the Health Fair on April 7 to teach other students about sun safety. (Below) Nursing majors also created a station where students could create stress balls using balloons and sand.

HEALTH FAIR

All students who want to be considered for a Pennsylvania State Grant need to file the Free Application for Federal Student Aid by May 1. More than 700 Waynesburg University students receive Pennsylvania State Grants. The actual amount awarded is close to $2 million, according to Director of Financial Aid Matthew Stokan. If the May 1 deadline is not met, the Pennsylvania State Grant funding will be lost. “You don’t want to jeopardize losing that

funding by filing late,” said Stokan. Even though Caren Chamberlain, junior athletic training major, is from New Jersey, the May 1 deadline is the same, and she has been able to file her FAFSA by that date so far. “My freshman year, I almost didn’t,” said Chamberlain. “It was one of those things I completely forgot about. It was pretty stressful, but I got it in.” A common excuse students have for not completing the FAFSA by this deadline is unfinished taxes. See DEADLINE on A4

Students learn about sleep, exercise, eating right

Director of GAPS Education hired

By Brandon Reed Editorial Assistant On April 7 music resounded from Johnson Commons, attracting students from all over campus to the Health Fair. The Health Fair, which was held in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center, went off without a hitch, mainly in part to the decision to focus the fair on campus resources and student health awareness. “We really liked focusing on the students, and having the nursing students made it go much more smoothly,” said Carol Young, nurse director of Student Health Services. “The music attracted a lot of people.” Young enlisted the help of Nursing Professor Melany Chrash and Assistant Professor of Nursing Dr. Kathy Stolfer. Chrash gave senior nursing majors the part of planning the programs for the Health Fair as part of their Clinical Prevention and Population Health requirements. Stolfer’s students displayed posters on evidencebased nursing practice related to the theme of the health fair, including sleep, exercise and eating right.

By Alex Hinton Editorial Assistant Waynesburg University’s Graduate and Professional Studies programs will welcome another new face to their fulltime faculty this year. Dr. Larry Kushner will direct the GAPS Education programs starting June 1. Kushner is not new to education, though. With 35 years of work in public education, he has been a teacher, coach and principal.

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Kushner has also worked with the university’s graduate programs as an adjunct professor. When he begins his new position, he will take over for the current Director of Education Debra Clarke, who will take on another position within the English programs. Kushner thinks highly of the GAPS Education programs and faculty members. “I had been teaching graduate classes for a few See KUSHNER on A3

Senior encourages Phone-a-thon keeps tuition costs down students to end “ human trafficking By Kyle Oland Staff Writer

By Amanda Wishner Editorial Assistant At least 100,000 American minors are victims of commercial sexual trafficking and prostitution each year. This was only one of many shocking statistics shared by senior human services major Stephanie Zeek during her presentation on human trafficking. Students gathered on the top floor of the Stover Campus Center last

Thursday, April 7 for the impromptu seminar. Zeek first became interested in stopping human trafficking two years ago when the university hosted speaker David Batstone, cofounder of the Not For Sale campaign. “My heart broke and continues to break for all the men, women and children who do not have a choice in how they live See BE on A2

It costs a student $26,000 to come to Waynesburg University. Multiply that by 1,200 students, and you get roughly $31 million. Thirty-one million dollars is a lot of money, but not enough to pay for everything the University needs to function. Money donated by alumni helps pay for the rest of the costs for the school to operate. Heidi Szuminsky, director of Alumni Relations, said, “What students pay in tuition cov-

What students pay in tuition covers roughly 75 percent of what it costs to study here.”

Heidi Szuminsky Director of Alumni Relations

ers roughly 75 percent of what it costs for them to study here, so the office of Institutional Development is responsible for raising the rest.” To raise the needed money, the University

holds a phone-a-thon, which is when students call alumni and ask for financial support for the university. Szuminsky said the school sets fundraising goals each year they See PHONE-A-THON on A4

SPORTS

ARTS & LIFE

REGION

Softball sweeps Thiel in doubleheader.

The 41st annual GNP concert will be held this Saturday in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center.

The Mon View Roller Rink held its annual Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday.

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hope to meet. She said some years are better than others. “We always see a generous outpouring from our alumni,” she said. The school targets alumni who have given in the past to ask for donations. The alumni who donate range in age from recent graduates to 80 years old. Szuminsky said the phone-a-thon has been going on long before she worked for the University and will be held again in the fall semester. The phone-a-thon does not only help the

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